Ahh so glad to have found this thread! Thanks for sharing your tips and stories it’s been really great to read through.
I’m on a weightloss journey that I started end of last year. I’m 5’10 and my highest weight was 230 lbs so about 16 and a half stone. I’ve always been slightly overweight my whole life, but as an adult I mostly sat between 160lbs and 185lbs so 11 and half stone to 13 stone ish.
I have been a habitual slight over eater since I was a small child. So I’m not one for huge binges per se, but if I’m fairly sedentary then my intake should probably be 1700-1900ish. But I will eat 2000-2500 daily instead. And then sit for 8 hours at a desk job, then sit watching tv or scrolling on my phone in the evenings. A recipe for disaster basically!
And then with pandemic weight gain and going on a medication that made me ravenous constantly - that pushed me beyond averagely overweight (maybe one stone or so) to where I was in 2021.
I’ve since lost two and a half stone, but gained half a stone back after a depressive episode that lasted from August till now. I’m not gutted though as I kept tracking my calories the whole time even though I ate crap nonstop, and with my sedentaryness the maths did all add up which was weirdly reassuring?
So now that I’m feeling better I’m ready to kick the rest of this years ass!! And the months beyond ofc! I wanna get back to where I was at the start of August by next month (fingers crossed.) Then I’m pushing to hopefully get to a healthy weight for my height (12 stone) and then reach my GW before summer. (fingers crossed again, haha)
This might sound extreme but I’m aiming for around 9 and a bit stone so 130lbs. Even if I can’t maintain it for long and end up settling around 145-150ish (10 and a half ish stone) I honestly just want to experience life as a thin person for the first time ever.
I’m currently a clothing size 16 and I’d love to be an 8-10, even if I can only maintain that for a few months haha. And if I settle at a 12 and maintain that hopefully for the rest of my life I’d be chuffed!
My plan is to go back to calorie restriction. And aiming to get around 12-20k steps a day. I want to just get the weight off before I shift focus to gym and strength training. I want to prioritise protein and fibre, but otherwise I’m just focussing on calories rather than a specific diet. It was working for me for the first 6 months of the year before I fell off the wagon, so I know it’s a relatively stick-with-able plan. Best of luck to everyone else on their journeys!!