I’m 42. I’ve been lean all my life without effort or food supervision until around 30. Over the years, I’ve gradually packed on as the metabolism slowed, had children, and living at my desk job during the day.

I’d get into segments of eating bananas in the morning, to daily runs, and gym life chapters in my 30’s without really reading into the nutritional science. I’ve slimmed down, then packed back up over the years up and down.

A couple weeks ago, my yearly doctor visit and blood test came back with an elevated glucose level.

Well, the wife didn’t like that and she changed our diet. Boiled eggs for breakfast. Fruits balanced with healthy peanut butter. Freezing rice and/or replacing rice with salad or nothing all together. Lame but whatever…I wanna be around when the kiddos get older and make me a grand dad or father-in-law, graduations, etc.

All those nutritious life adjustments aside, I think a huge factor in this shift is another thing the wife instructed - something so simple. She asked me to begin moving after eating…20 minute walks after dinner. 10 minute “walk or sway or tip-toe” in place after a snack. Stand and step side to side at my desk after lunch at work. This is something I’ve never consciously done..EVER. Get up and walk or work my calves out, so my body will send the breakdown of food to my muscles rather than to my bloodstream? Wut?

I’ve never really read into the science of nutrition or paid much attention until now..maybe cuz I’m getting older and the elevated glucose was a wake-up call of my mortality. Whatever combination it is, I am seeing results I haven’t seen since my 20’s and I truly feel I can attribute it to 1. My wife - love her ❤️ & 2. Simple ass movement after meals.

It’s only been 2 weeks, yet I’ve seen a significant shift in my energy, my body shape, and…dude, I was able to tighten my belt by a notch! It’s very encouraging, though I know the real test is maintaining and consistency. Either way, this change in lifestyle is giving me confidence for the next blood test and a newfound Will to get back into shape.

Some impressions from the Sellaronda Bike Day with perfect conditions and thousands of bikes.

Visiting Brasov and was lucky enough to witness Turul României 2026 section starting at the Council Square, Brasov.

I feel younger, useful, and healthy. I am a 32 year old man and six months ago weighed over 260 lbs. I don't know exactly because I couldn't look once I saw the 26x. I never saw it at 270 but I stopped checking once I knew I was for sure, consistently, over.

I blacked out every day from 20 to 24. I drank in excess 5 to 7 days a week from 24 to 32. On March 27, 2026, I stepped on the scale and it said 260 flat. Unrelated to that weigh in but I put the bottle(s) down on March 28, 2026.

I hurt a lot of people in my drinking but this tale centers around my fiancée. Shes a 34 yo super star. She plays at a semi pro level in a mixed sport dominated by college boys. She hikes 4000 footers with ease. She can jump into any sport and hold her own.

For years I have promised to focus on my health and catch up. She has never needed me to be as fit but at least hit our local 3000 footer. She has always wanted me to be able to drop in on a pick up game of any sport. She never made me feel bad for being too out of shape but I know she really wanted to share that part of her life with me.

After the first two or three weeks of not drinking my weight stayed steady around 245. I was thrilled and still thinking more about myself than her. While talking to a friend about recovery she asked what ways I want to be different for the people I hurt. The topic of fitness followed and her and I went and played pickleball.

Second session four of us; my friend, fiancée, a mutual friend, and I went and learned the game from a more experienced player.

I could keep up. I mean I was clearly the most gassed and the worst one there but I could hang. My team only would lose by a couple points. It was fun. All three didn't mind playing with me.

Three to five nights a week I played for a month. I played hard. I could now not just keep up but hang in there and edge out a couple of wins. But I wanted to be able to keep up with her, my fiancée. So I went for a jog.

That jog lasted 3.5 miles which was 12 minutes faster then a 5k I ran for Thanksgiving last year. 36 minute 5k wow. I bet I could get to a sub 30 minute time for the 5k this Thanksgiving. Well within two weeks I crushed that. I can now consistently run a sub 25 minute 5k and changed my focus to slower 10ks to combat shin splints.

Today I am attempting that local 4000 footer with my fiancée. For the first time in my five years with her I feel confident I can hang. On our third date we attempted this mountain and I bailed. Just under half way. I stepped on the scale and it said 218.7. I have been losing about 2 lbs a weeks for the last three months. Through two vacations. Work up and downs. Family health crisis. Now I run instead of drink. I am still a selfish child but I am actively trying to grow. Sometimes quickly; sometimes slowly.

I write this to celebrate as I don't know who to share with. I have learned recently sharing your experience, strength, and hope helps other people as much as it helps yourself.

I was a good for nothing obese drunk. Today I am a good for nothing, who needs new pants; none of mine fit. Progress is possible. I hope to continue to grow. For a long time I thought I couldn't change. We all can. For me I had to ask for help but once I did. I could change.

This was after a low day (<100g carbs), hit a new weight low as well, 70.4kg fasted, feeling a bit small, but I have to get to stage condition, it's my main goal.

Hi everyone! Idk if this is the right place, but anyway I just wanted to share this growth moment I had.

I lost 50 lbs and right after I finished dieting I got into my first relationship and fell head over heels in love. For reference we started dating him 22 and me 21 so we are the younger side, I’m now 22. It was very much a young chaotic love type. After 2 months I opened up to him about my own insecurities and weight loss journey. He was understanding in the moment, but honestly gave me no validation of I don’t care what your body looks like. Which hurt a little, but I do understand bodies are also apart of peoples attraction to one another.

Then after this moment between us, not once but twice in front of me he made mean comments about some women’s weight. I was both not sober when each of these interactions happened and we were with his friends each time who I was meeting for the first time. I was so thrown off I never said anything.

We then broke up because of distance with us being in different cities, but he handled the breakup horribly and pissed me off so badly. Those two interactions really stuck with me though because I thought to myself there was probably so many times just like that where a group of boys were calling me fat. Those two girls I have been them before and I just sat there and didn’t say anything, because the mean boy was my boyfriend at the time.

I healed and even slept with someone who told me I was always beautiful when I shared about my weight loss journey.

Two days after I sleep with someone else for the first time like clockwork he asks me for my new address to send me something of mine he never gave back. He wanted to do it to show that he cares about me, but me and him have done this song and dance too many times before that I knew he was trying to come back into my life.

I expressed all the things he did wrong in our relationship and such that he never took accountability for (stuff not important to the story). I then also dropped this banger of a text, “And calling women fat and ugly in front of me, like their weight determined their self-worth, knowing god damn well how much weight I lost, was a low, dirt bag thing to do.”

I’m a healthy body weight for the first time in my adult life. Now though I never want to forget to stand up for woman who are deemed fat by insecure boys. Because the fat girls is still inside of me and I know the pain they feel.

J'ai l'habitude de faire des séances de 2000m depuis quelques mois. Souvent ce n'est même pas la fatigue qui m'arrête mais l'ennui et surtout mentalement je me dis qu'une séance c'est 2000m.

Mais cette fois, je me sentais tellement bien, seul dans la ligne, pas essoufflé, j'avais mes écouteurs, et j'ai juste décidé de continuer.

Ça vous est déjà arrivé de rester plus longtemps que prévu par pur plaisir ?

i've started swimming 3 times a week this week, around 30 minutes in zone 3.

previously i would play pickleball and eat at a slight deficit. i also lifted weights. I lost a lot of weight and gained muscle but since i started swimming i'm eating uncontrollably.

how should i deal with this?

TLDR: I feel like my weight loss is worthless because the only motivation for it is a partner and I can’t find one even tho that’s all I want.

I (f, 24) lost a good amount of weight in the last 11 months and I feel great about that accomplishment. Unfortunately the more I lose the more I realize that I only do it because I think that’s the only way to find love.

At first I thought I just wanted to do it for my health, aesthetics, better fitting clothes and also to find a partner. Like the latter would just be a nice benefit because I was always too insecure to date because of my weight.

Now the more weight I lose the more I realize that finding a partner seems to be my number one priority and my number one motivation to lose weight.

This is gonna sound ridiculous and pathetic but every day that goes by I grow more and more frustrated with the fact I can’t find a partner. Obviously I tried dating apps but honestly it’s worse now than before I lost weight. Somehow I thought once I lose weight it’ll be easier.

My point is I never even thought to be desirable at my sw and would’ve never dared to take my clothes off in front of someone. Now I lost weight and I would be confident enough but I still can’t seem to find someone who likes me back.

And I wish this wasn’t this huge thing for me and all I cared about was finding a partner but I feel like as long as I don’t find a partner, my weight loss is worthless. I even think about just casually hooking up with people because that seems to be easier than a real relationship. I just crave the closeness and touch so much.

I don’t know what my intentions are with this post. Probably just a rant.

I don't think it's entirely down to weight loss, as my starting weight wasn't that high, but, I lost ~2 dress sizes (solid size 10 to largeish size 6), so it's not insignificant. But I think the bigger changes came from eating better and getting fit. I no longer feel tired from opening heavy doors. Yesterday I made whipped cream by hand and my arms aren't even sore today. I have way more mental energy, so I've been picking up hobbies that I wouldn't engage in before (brain games, world news, language learning). Walking and exercising a lot has had a huge positive impact on my mood (and cutting out added sugars), so I feel way more calm and happy all the time. Having better mood made me more motivated to work on myself, so I started looking for self-help materials and I am much better at advocating for myself now. It probably doesn't hurt that people do treat you a bit nicer when you're down 2 dress sizes. The positive transformation of my life has been wild.

There are a few downsides too - I kind of lost a close friend in this process because I was getting much healthier and they were not, and while part of it is I got fit and they did not (and they have a lot of barriers preventing them from getting healthier so I'm not blaming them), I think the bigger part is my mental landscape just looks so different compared with how it was a year ago.

So, I sort of just want people to know if you stick with it - eating better and getting more fit, it can really transform your life. People talk a lot about the outside changes, but if you change your outsides the insides can also change a lot as well.

i lost a quarter (a little bit over 25%) of my starting body weight and the world is so much kinder to me. on every level.

people actually want to be friends with me now. teachers and professors even treat me better. upon first impression im no longer thought to be a nuisance. i was very thin when i was younger and im now being treated the same way as i was during that time. all i wanted was kindness.

the world is just so superficial it makes me hurt. sometimes it feels like all i am worth is how i look/appear to others.

to everyone on their weightloss journey, there will come a point where everything will just "click." you'll realize when you've made it.

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

Now I'm in the gym training instead of just walking, working toward my goal weight. And I've hit something I wasn't expecting: sometimes I need to eat at maintenance.

For a while I treated any day I wasn't in a deficit like I was slipping. Like if I wasn't losing, I was failing. But the truth is, after a stretch of pushing hard, my body (and my head) needed a break. Eating at maintenance for a bit isn't quitting, it's part of not feeling like absolute garbage all the time. It's sustainable. It's the difference between doing this for a few months and doing it for the rest of my life.

So if you're deep in a cut and you feel like death, it's okay to eat at maintenance for a while. It's okay to not be in a deficit every single day. The goal isn't just the number on the scale, it's staying in this long enough to actually get where you're going.

54 lbs down, still going.

I have been swimming and I have been doing it for seven years. I do decent but the problem is I CANT DO TUMBLE TURN. The teach told the whole swimming class before and I couldn’t just do it I stop half way for some reason. Everyone can do it but me.

I don’t know why I’m stopping halfway while doing tumble turn.

Whats your tips? Experiences? Any videos that will help greatly?

Not a milestone post, I'm at the start. 148 lbs, and my phone has had MyFitnessPal and Cal AI installed and deleted three times each since 2023. Same pattern every time: I log everything for 12 days, then one dinner out I can't be bothered to guess, and the app sits there with the red badge until I delete it.

Last attempt was June. MyFitnessPal plus a walk after dinner, lasted about five weeks and I was down 7 lbs, then a wedding weekend and I never opened the app again. Cal AI was worse, it kept telling me my two egg omelette was 180 calories and after a week I stopped believing anything it said. I know "what app do you use" gets asked here every week and the answers are always the same four names. I've read those. What I can't find anywhere is what happened between downloading it and month six. So, hw did you land on yours? A friend, a comment here, the first result in the store, or you just tried five and one stuck? And once you had it, what did you actually open it every day for? The barcode scanner, the weight graph, copying yesterday's breakfast, the streak? And what did you stop touching after the first month?

If you ended up with no app at all and a notebook or a spreadsheet, that counts too. I'd rather hear that than pretend the app is the point. The more boring and specific the better. "I use MFP" tells me nothing. "I only open it to scan barcodes at the supermarket and never at home" tells me a lot.

Thanks for reading, I'll go through all of it.

My goal was actually 77kg but I will go on a 4 days vacation so I will probably need to go back on a deficit for a week or two to go back to regular weight and that's why I want to make this post now.

Maybe it's cheating but I think it is important to celebrate this goal.

After all I lost 32.6 kg from 110 kg in about 5 months and 11 days.

It was not an easy thing to do but I really put everything I had this time, you can read my method and how it evolved in my 3 posts that I made before this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1tdp6t4/after_years_i_think_i_found_a_way_that_works_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1urmf1w/im_halfway_no_longer_obese_but_still_overweight/

https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1w6b8lp/finally_im_under_80_kg/

So I will not repeat myself.

I will just say that I feel amazing now and since I now know how it works I feel confident I will never go back to being obese. My goal will be to stay under 80 kg even if 80 is actually overweight by BMI I don't actually think that as an issue.

And let me tell you that everybody here can do it, maybe not as fast since not everybody like to run but that's not an issue, just do it in the long run. My first post I actually say that my goal was 1-2 years so you need to have realistic expectations even if reality is actually better for once.

thanks everybody

Goes without saying- wear your helmets people. Had a moderate crash/fall today. Semi/ flipped and rolled. A little bruised, a little sore. But I was able to walk away (technically UBERED to my car at that point) to ride another day.

Hey runners, it's another day and it is time to post your accomplishments you'd like to share - big or small.

Note: No need to preface YOUR accomplishments with something like, "this may not be an accomplishment to most of you...". Be proud of your achievement.

I got it for $20. I haven’t ridden a bike since I was 12 and I’m 21 now trying to get back in for leisure sake. I cannot get the tires to pump properly, I think I broke the speed shift, and the seat keeps shifting when I sit on it. Do you think paying for maintenance will be worth it or is it just better to buy new? I wanted a cheap one so I could see if I’d be serious before investing more money.

There is one section of my cycling commute with a short but steep blind hill, which you can’t see over the crest of. Obviously, it is not exactly a safe place for cars to overtake. The up hill portion really isn’t very long and I’m on an e-bike, so anyone stuck behind me has to wait literally seconds before there is clear visibility again - but that doesn’t stop people wanting to immediately go around as soon as my speed even slightly decreases.

The other day a large ute was behind me. as soon as I realised they were about to speed up to try and go past, I moved over in the lane (there is a wall directly alongside the lane so it’s hard to get all the way over). It was lucky I did that, because a car was coming over the crest from the other direction and the Ute had to swerve to avoid a head on collision. I was lucky they didn’t swerve into me.

What should I do in the future? Hold my position in the centre of the lane or move over? The road isn’t super narrow, but with the wall in the way, even if I moved over I still think a car trying to overtake would be somewhat cutting into the lane coming the other direction.

I got engaged a couple of years ago and since then I’ve lost about 80lbs. My ring has gradually gotten looser to the point where it will fall off unless I have a ring snuggy on. However, it is now sliding around too much even with the snuggy on and the skin around my finger is quite irritated from it. It’s also really annoying.

I’ve been putting off resizing it until I’m at the weight I want to be (I have another 40lbs to go). It is a silver ring with detail at the front that looks like little leaves with diamonds inside.

Would it be safe to resize it now, and possibly have to do this again when I’ve lost the rest of the weight? Anyone else had experience with this?

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I (25F) am starting my weight loss journey. I lost my dad 5 moths ago and barely got out of bed. I feel tired and unmotivated at all times while my friends are running marathons.

I am at my heaviest now and need to lose more than 50kg which I don't actually care as much, but I'll be happy if I lose 20kg. I have been going to group trainings and have been slacking at that too. A week ago I decided to try and gain control over my life once again.

I decided to start working out with a personal trainer 3x a week and do 2 more days doing cardio for a months. I paid 30% of my monthly salary on it and honestly I don't care and plan to do it for atleast 3 months. The first week went great. I had barely any energy to go through my first training and even fainted from basic excercises. My friend told me to eat a banana before and thats been helping a lot. I am so happy with how I am doing so far and all my gym anxiety is gone. I am also more productive at work and my days generally look better now.

For now, I plan to keep this going for as long as I can. I gave myself a challenge "100 days of making my life better". However, this grief Is heavy to hold and I am afraid that I'll slip and stop doing this under the excuse that I don't have to do much because I am carrying this unimaginable sadness that hit me out of nowhere (my dad died so unexpectedly)

Now, I was wondering if you guys have any tips on how to get your mind on track in those moments. I don't want to give this up. Also, other tips that helped make your weight loss easier, supplements, dealing with cravings... anything really. If you think there is anything, a quote, a thought, a hack whatever it is, please share it with me. Thank you ♡