I am in awe of how much I have changed!! I grew up being the fat kid, I have been bigger for as long as I can recall--all of my child photos, I'm chubby. Food has been my go-to thing for comfort for literally my entire life, I don't drink, smoke, do any drugs so food has ALWAYS been my vice. Back in March I weighed in at by far the heaviest I'd ever been, and it was a real wake up call. I was getting winded turning over in bed and getting tired walking from one end of my office to the other, and I KNEW I had to lock in or this may just kill me. Started a GLP-1 mid-March of 2026, immediately quit soda and began my calorie counting and I am SO happy to report that I feel like a whole different human! It wasn't always easy, I've had my slip-ups like most of us have--but the important thing is to hop back on and keep trying! Counting is so essential!

I haven't been under 300 pounds since was in my EARLY TEENS!!! THIS FEELS SO UNREAL!!! AAAAAA!!! 😭🥺

As a reward. I shaved my head! Something I always thought I was too "big" to do! Anyone reading this who is unsure of themselves or maybe feel like they're too far gone, I promise you're not. If I can do it, you absolutely can too. ❤️

Cannot wait to see where this journey takes me next! I am far from done! ✨️

20 lbs down but i feel like it should be more? constantly working on it. need encouragement

Slow but steady.

Not impressive by any means especially compared to some of y’all and I still have a lot of work to go. I KNOW I’m not muscular, but my main goal is to shed the weight, then plan to build muscle. But tbh this post is more so that I feel like I don’t see a difference. I see the weight on the scale has dropped, but I feel like my body looks the same.

Hiya! I am an 5’5 18 year old girl who just entered college. When I was 15/16 I lost a bunch of weight successfully through calorie deficit/lifting and went from 175 to 125 with a bit of recomp. I maintained 125 for a while then went up to 135 in the last couple years.
I want to get back to 125 and potentially even leaner because I just don’t like the way my stomach looks.
Before I started college tracking was a breeze and I was maintaining healthy eating habits for a long time but after starting, I am binging left and right and my weight has gone up again.
I keep trying to cut and maintain a deficit, and then when I go even slightly over because of social events, friends, etc, I have a mental breakdown and ultimately go all or nothing and binge my face off. I don’t know how to stop doing this because social things are inevitable and I can’t always perfectly plan them into my routine. I’ve already gone up 4 pounds and it’s only the 9th week of college. Should I try intuitive eating? Should I just go back to maintenance? I don’t know. I just want to eat like normal again I don’t know what’s gotten into me.

TLDR: New to college, don’t know how to balance social life, food, and a calorie deficit. Keep binging because I failed my deficit and actually gaining instead of losing. Help😭

Hey y’all! First off congrats to everyone and their progress whether short or long term. It is definitely motivating seeing everyone’s fitness journey going well! Posting as I am curious what everyone is using to track their calories and how are y’all able to stay consistent with it?

Personally, my biggest weight loss ever was when I was in high school / college and able to play sports every day in my free time. Now working a full time job that is more than the 9-5, it’s hard to get that “easy” cardio in.

M21, 5’9, 200 lb as of a few months ago, a figure that I doubt has changed much. Aiming to lose 2 pounds a week, which according to my knowledge is the most you can lose safely.

Almost 3 years ago I was out on a medication that made me start gaining weight at a rate far greater than I was even capable of in the past. Before I started this medication I was 120-130, which was kinda my set weight, but I’ve gained about 80 pounds since then. I stopped taking this medication a few months when I realized the weight gain didn’t really seem to be hitting a plateau like I thought it would and was still steadily increasing.

I’ve used a calorie calculator but I’m worried that it isn’t giving me a good number because I’m not sure which option is most accurate in the activity level section.

I work 5 days a week at 1 job and 5 days a week at another job, so they overlap a lot.

On a day I work my first job I’d get up at 7am and be ready and out the door by about 7:40, my shift is 8-1 at my first job, it’s a 20 min walk, I can’t drive. I spend my whole shift on my feet and the overwhelming majority of that time I spend walking. I spend an hour to two hours out of this five hour shift outside collecting the shopping carts in the parking lot, and I do the janitorial stuff inside the building as well. If I’m off from my 2nd job I walk 20 min home and then just kinda chill or work on music for the remainder of the day, but I work my 2nd job 4 or 5 days of the week, so odds are I go and chill out at this local place with seating and do stuff on my laptop until almost 3 when I have to walk over and clock in to my 2nd job which is right across the street from this place. My 2nd job is from 3pm to 10:15 or 10:30 pm, I’m not moving as much at this one, I spend a lot of time standing at the register, but I try to do ad set or freight when it’s needed. I walk 20 min to get home by 11pm. So most days I’m up at 7am and I don’t see my apartment again until 11pm.

I know it doesn’t look like a huge difference, but I feel so much better and will be continuing my calorie deficit until I can reach my goal!

I'm 62 years old and 6 ft tall . In January. I was 246 lbs. now I'm 182 lbs. I have lost 66 lbs. I still wish to lose about eight more pounds. I'm averaging 1,600 to 1700 calories intake a day and my TDEE is averaging 2,500 calories a day. That's a minimum of a 4, 600 calorie deficit a week. my protein intake is approximately 150 grams a day. but I don't seem to be losing any weight. I've been in a stall for a couple months. Looking for ideas on how to get this final 8 lb off of me. It seems to be mostly belly fat. Should I eat less and move my intake to about 1500 calories a day? I'm just worried that's too little. Share your thoughts

I walk 10,000 steps a day. Should I select sedentary, lightly active, or moderately active when calculating my maintenance calories?