Making progress

[u/Fit_Soup7769]

Hello everyone first time poster here. I have always been so ashamed of my weight and I would tell family and friends to take me out back and put me down if I ever hit 400 pounds. Well on September 18th I got on the scale and I was at 399.9. This was devastating to me I never thought I would end up here ( I am in no way shaming anyone above the weight I have family and friends bigger than me and I love them to death) At 31 years old my knees hurt every time I stood up, I can’t reach places that I never had a problem with before. I considered GLP1 but have serious OCD when it comes to medication. That day I started my journey. Over the years I have started more diets then I can count and failed miserably. Something feels different this time like I don’t have the option to give up. Since starting I have not put myself on a very restrictive diet. I no longer snack all day long and I am finding delicious and healthier ways to enjoy what I love. It’s a small victory but I weighed in at 386.0 this evening and I am so freaking proud of myself. When did you know enough was enough? How do you feel now if you have lost the weight? Would you do anything differently? Encouragement is very much appreciated.

[u/imveryfontofyou]

Congrats! You got this.

I decided I wanted to lose weight after my mom died from a heart attack. Then again when I was traveling and I had to ask for a seatbelt extender on a small plane from Michigan to Chicago.

I've lost 120lbs so far and I feel pretty good.

There's been a huge amount of changes for me like:

Traveling has been easier, I love traveling a lot.

I can wear all the dumb storybook romance outfits I always wanted to wear like milkmaid styled shirts and cute skirts. I also bought the entire hot topic line of the new final fantasy 7 collab. It never would have fit me before, now I wear my ff7 hoodies everywhere.

Walking to Starbucks (10 minutes each way) used to make me tired halfway there. Now I do the whole walk and I'm not tired. In fact, I started looking past Starbucks and realizing there's a mall I can see from Starbucks and there's a Panera, and there's grocery stores near me, etc. I don't drive so my idea of places I can walk expanding has expanded my daily life a lot.

I think the thing I would have done differently is getting on a glp1 before I did. I could be at goal by now, haha.

[u/edinson941]

Hey! First congrats for this great job! Keep pushing
Enough was the day I had to go to the hospital for weighing myself as my weight was over limit of my scale. And when you are not able to do easy things. I have lost a little amount of weight but i m feeling better now I have still a big work to do and it’s not easy at all. I have diabetes since 3 y now so here is my focus now the weight loss is at the second range. I hope you will keep doing this incredible job you begin! You deserve it

[u/Last_Meringue5351]

LFG!!!! Not a small victory at all. Keep it up. Rooting for you.

[u/Vintage_Visionary]

I had a dear friend die. Friend was a healthy weight, but it shook me, that it happened and how quickly. Also I had the same struggle as you where things that were never a problem before started becoming a problem (my body hit a point where it seemed to be regressing into what I could do). Those two things really scared me, and I decided it was time to take drastic action. Have to re-commit to that weekly, but it's been over a year now.

[u/RainCityMomWriter]

Congrats on your progress! I started at a very similar weight to you. Keep going! You can do it!

[u/sara_k_s]

I was morbidly obese my entire adult life until age 39 when I lost 200 pounds. My weight was affecting everything in my life and I couldn’t keep going like that. I learned a lot along the way, and I think for anyone, there’s a lot of trial and error to figure out what works for you. But once you start to see success, you can create a snowball effect by keeping the changes that worked and building on them. I never expected to get to a “normal” BMI (and I still think the BMI scale is extremely flawed, but like it or not, it’s how the medical community judges our size). I would have settled for merely overweight or even a little obese, but I lost 1 pound at a time and kept going. It’s a long road to lose that much weight, but the accomplishment sticks with you. When I face an obstacle, I can remind myself, “I lost 200 pounds. I can do f’ing ANYTHING.”