2026 Weight Loss Thread

[Ashy Larry]

It’s winter. They’ll notice a lot more in shorts and a tee.

 

[North of 60]

Very good efforts here.

Suggest adding a slightly different focus toward lifestyle change to feel better and be able to do more vs. only weight loss. Maintenance is about lifestyle change.

This is coming from someone who lost 55 pounds and kept it off through lifestyle change for several years.

 

[N8H]

A little late to the party, but around Christmas I got on the scale and was surprised to see 235, heaviest I've ever been. Haven't felt great for a while, but now it's compounded by the birth of our daughter in May, which still has us reeling and trying to get in some semblance of normalcy. We both (wife and I) have been in survival mode for a while, and I feel like we're slowly clawing our way out.

The reality is that I have a serious food problem. To say I eat to excess would be an understatement, and that my eating habits are poor would be putting it lightly.

We're not doing some extreme lifestyle change, with lofty excersize goals. I've never really been to a gym for more than a treadmill, and I'm not planning on starting yet. I'm just doing what I usually do, but counting my calories.

Dec. 26th I weighed 235, yesterday I weighed 224.

I can be disciplined when I want to, having an app to keep track of things helps a lot, accountability to the wife adds some, and now a bunch of random strangers on the internet will see as well.

 

[WRO]

Mines only to keep mine off.

285+ 2 years ago, 212 this morning.

Hoping to hit 205 by July and keep adding muscle.


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[kparrott]

Monday weigh in— 207lb last week. 202lb today.

Got 5 workouts in last week, Monday through Friday. Cleaned up and started tracking my eating. Had one rough day on a work trip eating BBQ.


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[270quest]

Saturday weigh in:
2/7/26 - 246.4

Body has seemed to settle in that 2-2.5 pounds lost per week. Like to be closer to 3-3.5. May have to adjust my calories and up the cardio a bit more.

 

[kparrott]

Monday 2/9 weigh in— 202lb

Same weight as last week. Got 5 workouts in last week. Tracking food on MyFitnessPal is showing I’m getting too much fats(highest % of my diet). I’m looking to clean that up this week and add 30 minutes of cardio on top of my MTNTOUGH workouts.


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[doc holiday13]

In addition to loosing weight are all you guys doing bloodwork to track testosterone and vitamin D ?

I strongly feel like i've dropped out of metabolic disfunction. The last 8 years i've been up in the 230's on weight. My testosterone was low. Barely 400 and dropped down to 225. Started going for weight loss and dropped down to 220 as my upper weight limit. Just did blood work 2 weeks ago and up to 498. I feel better and i feel like the body is responding to lifting more. I'm going to try to loose 10 more pounds and improve my cardio. Hopefully that pushes the bloodwork even further into the positive. I'm 6'4" and I don't want to drop below 200 simply because I'll be waaay skinnier than I want to be.

My vitamin D was pretty damn low 2 years ago. I started supplementing and getting more natural sun. Finally into a good range and I've noticed I almost never get even a little sick. All these little steps are adding up

 

[Teaman1]

I haven’t checked bloodwork, but have a physical coming up in March. Might look into that then.
I started with a lower carb diet, but been inconsistent with some traveling and unplanned hours at work.

Just going to keep the sugars out and do Whole Foods as much as possible.
Upper lower lifting split (5/3/1) in the mornings and a half hour cardio during my lunch break. Will give it 4 weeks and look at diet again.

 

[North of 60]

In addition to loosing weight are all you guys doing bloodwork to track testosterone and vitamin D ?

I strongly feel like i've dropped out of metabolic disfunction. The last 8 years i've been up in the 230's on weight. My testosterone was low. Barely 400 and dropped down to 225. Started going for weight loss and dropped down to 220 as my upper weight limit. Just did blood work 2 weeks ago and up to 498. I feel better and i feel like the body is responding to lifting more. I'm going to try to loose 10 more pounds and improve my cardio. Hopefully that pushes the bloodwork even further into the positive. I'm 6'4" and I don't want to drop below 200 simply because I'll be waaay skinnier than I want to be.

My vitamin D was pretty damn low 2 years ago. I started supplementing and getting more natural sun. Finally into a good range and I've noticed I almost never get even a little sick. All these little steps are adding up

Good point on raising awareness on the importance of higher vitamin D levels.

Most functional medicine docs will recommend a vitamin D level of 60-80, and to keep it under 100. I like functional medicine docs because they are more focused on prevention and achieving/maintaining wellness than most regular docs.

For folks supplementing vitamin D be sure to ask to get labs done to while finding what range you want to be at. It varies by person.

2000 IU a day won't get most folks to 60-80. With my particular individual biochemistry/absorption, it takes 15,000 units a day gets me to 75-85 when checked every 6 months. Others probably less.

Relying on the sun for vitamin D is insufficient for most people, and there are few good reasons to increase risk of skin cancers (basal, squamous, melanoma).

If you supplement with vitamin D (especially higher levels), also consider vitamin K2 to help get calcium out of the arteries. And if you also take a form of magnesium (e.g. threonate, glycinate, malate, citrate), you may find you don't need quite as much supplemental vitamin D to raise your levels.

 

[doc holiday13]

Good point on raising awareness on the importance of higher vitamin D levels.

Most functional medicine docs will recommend a vitamin D level of 60-80, and to keep it under 100. I like functional medicine docs because they are more focused on prevention and achieving/maintaining wellness than most regular docs.

For folks supplementing vitamin D be sure to ask to get labs done to while finding what range you want to be at. It varies by person.

2000 IU a day won't get most folks to 60-80. With my particular individual biochemistry/absorption, it takes 15,000 units a day gets me to 75-85 when checked every 6 months. Others probably less.

Relying on the sun for vitamin D is insufficient for most people, and there are few good reasons to increase risk of skin cancers (basal, squamous, melanoma).

If you supplement with vitamin D (especially higher levels), also consider vitamin K2 to help get calcium out of the arteries. And if you also take a form of magnesium (e.g. threonate, glycinate, malate, citrate), you may find you don't need quite as much supplemental vitamin D to raise your levels.

All solid points

My Dr. had me supplementing vitamin d with K2 at 10K IU a day for a while. Now that I'm normal I'm at 2000iu. Summer time I supplement way less. I'm mostly an office body so natural daylight is a rarity in my life

Metagenics is a great single source for supplements like vitamin D, Magnesium, Fish oil, berberine, etc.
Plus if you have a Dr. perscribing all these supplements, they are a qualified medical expense, so cost of the supplments are tax deductible