Hi everyone,
I'm on a long delayed (re-weight loss journey) about 10 years ago I lost 115 lbs and kept it off until the last year or two where it's kept back up and now I found myself at 240lbs (previous high was 294). So anywho, I'm on day 4 tracking calories again and I was disappointed this community is inactive. I went back to Reddit for the first time in over a year and the reddit app is so bad. Ads everywhere.
So anywho, if anyone is interested maybe we can restart this community or start a new one if the mod here is gone. If anyone is interested let's share or stories, successes, tips and failures.
Edit: so cool to see all the comments! Thanks y'all.
I'd like to see it more active. Long-term maintainer here. 115 lb loss. Kept off with little variation for over two decades. Life events impacted my equilibrium over the last 2 years and I've laid on ~15 lbs I can't afford to carry for health reasons. It is coming off, just slower than I'd like. Welcome support and happy to share experiences.
I am restarting as well. I was a pandemic weight loser, from the end of 2020 to the beginning of 2023 I went from 470 to 180 and over the last year I've gone back up to almost 300 and have mostly abandoned my exercise routine. I've been working for a couple weeks to get back to exercising and get back under 200.
Looks like one mod hasn't posted for 7 months and the other posted 2 weeks ago but is very infrequent.
Is there anything in particular that makes keeping that weight loss difficult?
It is indeed a shame that this community is inactive, but maybe c/fitness or c/self_improvement on Hexbear could be of help?
Keeping it off for a decade id consider I win. What's changed is, I work from home now and have a toddler. Which has changed my entire life. Bit of depression mixed in and bam. 30lb gain in a year.
Luckily I already know how to lose weight and finally getting my head in the right place to get started with Ernest effort
Seems to me that weight maintenance is inherently difficult. Given that such a small percentage manage to preserve a major weight loss. It's something that requires daily mindfulness that is difficult to maintain in the stresses of life in this era.
I mean, I understand the difficulty conceptually, I've even seen friends struggle with it, but "understanding" is a whole 'nother ball game. I've had more struggle in the other direction, perhaps that's why.
I know there's been a few people talking about weight loss stuff on the Hexbear megathreads, you'd surely be in good company.
I'd love that. I've been trying to lose weight, too. Was doing pretty well for awhile though but now I've been stuck on a plateau for months now. I know the problem, too. (Will go crazy every now and then when I get cocky from losing a pound or two lol). Let's see if we can get this community going again!
I'm here! I am not on reddit anymore, and I drop into the community once a week or so, but I usually read all the posts here.
I started tracking my calories again about 3 weeks ago. I've always been aiming for 0.5-2lb/week loss, but I always ended up cutting too much when I hit a plateu, or drank too much water the day before weighing, and it wasn't sustainable.
This time around, I've been only going off a weekly moving average for actually comparing my weight. Even though my daily weight can look really noisy (±2lbs sometimes) it's showed I've been tracking about 1lb loss per week pretty closely. I wish someone told me this sooner, I devoted way too much energy trying to lose 0.14lb/day
My recommendation for anyone looking to lose weight: Download MacroFactor, give it your weight daily, log everything you eat and eat the macro split that the app tells you. More than likely you're getting too many carbs/fat and not enough protein like most westerners.
You have to pay for the app but it but it's worth it. Take heart! This is a solved problem. Just take your time, Rome was built brick by brick, one pound a week and you'll be where you want to be in no time.
I lost about 60 lbs in 2021 for health reasons after I had gained a bunch during Covid depression. Last summer I regained fifteen pounds while trying to patch up my relationships with my people.
It’s been tough to accept that I will always need to track my CICO to maintain because it is too easy for me to slide in too many calories thinking it wasn’t that much.
