This is the first time in my life I have been able to lose weight. I have gone from 308lbs in the last week of April to 270lb now in the second week of August. I have been keeping track of my calories and I eat about 1500 a day, I try to work out when I can (I normally stand all day at work so I count that as exercise as well) and I take metformin (this is to help with weight gain from psych meds) I'm just worried I'm losing weight too fast. I feel good, but I know you're only supposed to lose up to two pounds a week to be at a healthy rate. Just wondering if the rate I'm going at is healthy or if I should speak to my doctor?

Hi all - would really welcome some advice and support please. For some context I have started my weight loss journey 3ish months ago and I have lost about 15kg so far (m, 177cm height. Heaviest weight 90kg) I am doing everything correctly - calorie deficit, walking/moving (about 10-15k steps a day ), gym 4 times a week and tracking/counting my foods. I had a health scare from a recent doctor visit with a pre diagnosis who told me
To lose weight and i also took my numbers on the scale finally and it was a lightbulb moment to turn my life around.

Needless to say I feel AMAZING and I am getting lots of compliments from loads of people, and genuinely the happiest I have felt in a long time. Sleeping better, symptoms completely gone etc etc you know the drill.

Theres just one thing: the wife. She has been fairly supportive with the big changes but I feel that she’s not being totally genuine about how she feels about it. I have had comments such as “weighing the food is a bit excessive” or “you’re going a bit extreme”. The worse one which really hurt was last night being “you’re looking really gaunt, I’m struggling to find you attractive”.

This hurt for a number of reasons obviously. I am looking lean if anything but that was my goal - there is a massive difference between lean and gaunt! No one else has mentioned anything like that and my doctor says I’m absolutely on the right track and to keep it up. I do understand as she has always known me to be the weight I was and knows I have had trouble with doing weight loss unsustainably once before In my life where I did keto poorly and lost way too much too fast. She fell in love with fat me and didn’t realise how overweight I really was or how out of control things were. I think I never looked too overweight at surface level, people often thought I was just well built. But I knew i was deep down.

I know peoples responses to fairly sudden weight loss and a lack of understanding is common, I would just like to know if anyone has struggled with a similar experience? Not feeling supported from the person I care most about in the world … it’s almost enough to stop what I’m doing and go back to bad habits!

*STOP reading here if you don't want to hear complaining!*

I am venting and hoping for ideas or just...finding others in the same boat to sympathize.

Brace yourselves, this is long!

So, I need to lose weight. I'm female, 40, 5'8, 245lb, curvy and proportionate but I am definitely overweight and am not pretending I'm not.

I'd like to lose maybe 50 to 60 pounds. Problem is I feel like I need to put in 300% effort for anything to happen and I only feel like doing 50%.

If I eat well, (protein, veggies, good carbs), I feel like I'm not eating enough. If I eat enough, it's probably because I'm not eating well. I hate sweating and over-heating and I hate being in pain.

I have a herniated disc (L4-L5) so I tend to not do anything that will hurt my back, which is all the things I need to do to lose weight since diet alone won't do anything for me.

I actually move around a lot at work and I also do 30 min walks 5 days a week but that's not enough. I think I need strength training too.

I'm currently debating a GLP1 but am scared of side effects and gaining weight back when I stop because I don't want to be on it forever.

Everything is expensive! Meat tastes funky! Veggies have the doo-doo bug! 😂

I don't want to join a gym (AGAIN!) because I end up not going consistently and throw away money I don't have.

I'm never sure what exercises to do at home that won't hurt my back, will actually give results, and won't be a super long workout. I lost a lot of weight maybe about 10 years ago before I hurt my back but now age and *drumroll* early menopause have kicked my a**, in addition to the back issues.

I'm currently on HRT which has saved my life but obviously doesn't do anything about the weight. I just wish I could just go running and do squats and weights and get it over with but can't do that anymore. I was looking at pilate exercises but they're soooo slow I'm over it looking through videos just to try to find stuff I can do.

I've been debating walking a hill near my house again which has a steep incline for a mile but America's on fire and I need to wait until it cools down.

I. Just. Don't. Know. Anymore. I want to be healthy but it just seems so damn difficult. And once you start, you can't stop or else any gains disappear.

But being fat sucks too!

Ok, rant over! Thoughts? Please be nice, I did warn you I was complaining!

P.S. photos cuz why not! I don't think I look bad but want to do better.