Early 20s girl here who has been fat for most of my young adult/teenager years. Sometimes I really wish I could stop losing weight or obsessing over calories since statistically, 99% of people who were fat as teens are going to be fat as adults. But I really hate my fat body, and having a roommate this summer who used a CPAP machine because she was 320 pounds really scared me into losing weight. Having her as a roommate was nice in someways (I lost a lot of weight since she would eat all of my snacks), and not so great in other ways (I became extremely fat phobic and now somewhat resent fat people).
I'm currently 5'6'' and 160 lbs. Back in May, I was an astonishing 187 pounds, but since Memorial's Day, I've lost 27 pounds in the past 12 weeks. My mom (who barely eats and is very skinny and works in fashion advertising) has been fat-shaming me since I was 16, which was when I put on a ton of weight very suddenly as a junior in high school.
My mom told me last night that she was "so proud of me for losing weight" and "not being a disgusting pig anymore," and that she was really proud of me for embarking on a weight loss journey. However, she told me that I need to lose 20 more pounds by the end of the year -- or else she would kick me off of our family health insurance plan.
I told her that losing 5 pounds a month for the next four months will be really hard since I'll be in college full-time while working part-time and living with a few roommates in a house off-campus. She told me that 5 pounds a month is a very reasonable weight loss goal, and that if I didn't reach 140 pounds by New Year's Eve this year, she would force me off of our healthcare plan since "I was obviously being an unhealthy and costly burden on our family by being fat."
Is 5 lbs/month of weight-loss too quick after losing 27 pounds in the past 3 months? Granted I started off weight-loss pretty unhealthily (only ate 1200 calories a day for the whole summer while working out for 3 hours a day), but I want to make weight loss sustainable. My ultimate goal weight is 130 pounds (which is a BMI of 21 at my height).
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