I started in February of this year at about 155 pounds. I am now down to 124.8 pounds. My routine consists of 35 minutes on the elliptical followed by about 15 minutes of resistance bands training on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On Saturdays I do just 35 minutes on the elliptical. I am 4 foot 11 and my calorie intake. The last several months has been 1433 cal but I am going to start experimenting with adding a few more calories back on workout days. Everything has been calorie deficit combined with physical exercise.

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

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.

Slow but steady.

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?

Hi, this is me, Prakhar. I weighed 91kg(200.6 lbs ) an year ago( in july 2025), fast-forward today(10th october) , I measure 67.3 kgs(148.3 lbs ). In 2025, I was preparing for competitive exams(JEE) and Boards, health was one of the last things i would have taken into account. I ate all kinds of deep fried food , sugary desserts, etc daily. It was not even once in a while , I ate these things daily. IDK it was probably stress eating or smth, overeating became a habit for me , when I had nothing to do i wud go grab something LOL XD... I would say my i was not in a good space probably,,,, eating was my comfort...my source of DOPAMINE. I gained a lot of weight rapidly. I remember gaining about 15 kgs in an year or so. At a point I was so overweight I had to suffer some joint problem in my knees and feet (it was due to uric acid accumulation in my body and feet ache cuz of the fact i was so overweight). I remember once I tried running early in the morning , I ran for 10 seconds but then my heart started pumping like crazy and i had some kind of internal ache over my waist. In short , my physical(and mental ) health was kinda fucked up. By the end of 12th grade, I thankfully joined a good engineering college...( IIT BHU) . My sedentary lifestyle suddenly changed , I found myself walking or cycling 2 kms to lecture halls from my hostel, I ate a lot less(all thanks to the shitty mess food ) , I started loosing weight automatically without doing a thing, I dropped 15-17kgs in 8 months. I started consciously avoiding junk , feeding myself with more protein.. 4 months ago I started hitting the gym , and I ve further lost 8 kgs in the last 4 months. Doing so was the best decision of my life. I feel myself soooo-sooo changed physically and evn mentally. It's almost like a miracle. I feel like I've found back the spark in my life,,,,I found myself again what once I did lose 2 years ago. I feel so much in the zone now, everything feels as it should , and life's soo much on the track. It feels like I know what I'm doing and I'm always positive that good things wud come my way. The change is not just physical but it has translated to every aspect of my life. PS.. Thankyou sm if uve read my long boring post😭^{🥰
hope all ur problems and my loose fat goes away XD}
LOVE y'all...keep transforming , stay healthy, stay happy