Any advice for someone hitting a plateau?

I have only recently started my weight loss journey. In part thanks to those Manjuro injections (they have genuinely helped me). In my first month of taking them I have lost about 21lb.

I have kept myself on a controlled diet hitting between 1,200-1,500 calories a day. On top of taking up swimming 3 times a week. The only exercise I'm currently capable of doing due to a disability that had left me with mobility problems. So pushing for a more intense workout is not currently an option. (I have also been mucking about with a pair of dumbbells between swim days but only light reps)

But after seeing the numbers continuously go down week after week I've hit what appears to be a plateau. That despite the exercise, restricted diet and everything else the scales say the say number every time I step on them.

Was just wondering if any of my fellow travellers had any advice on how to keep those numbers going the way I want them. Or is this just a temporary flat before the next slope down?

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Need help losing weight.

Long story short, some shit happened in my life, I started eating without control, got fat as a pig and I started my weight loss about year and a half ago. My record weight was 106kg I went down to 90kg but I was unable to move form that in almost 5 moths. And I just don't know how to construct meal plan as well as a training program. In short I just don't know what to do to lose more weight. Thou it looks lot better than when I started, I still have bear belly and a lot of fat on my belly and my butt (that last one is pissing me off every time I look at the mirror even more so than fat on my belly). For some info 29 years old male about 178cm. So what do I do now, I desperately need some help?

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I'm finally motivated again.

I don't really expect anyone to read all this, I'm just posting it for me really. I just want to tell my story, and want a little accountability.

TLDR:Lost weight in 2019, covid happened, gained it back and more. I'm motivated again.

I'm the kind of person that is ashamed of my weight. I know it's the first thing people see when they see me, it's not their fault, it's my most obvious attribute. I'm 31, 5'8, and weigh 350 lbs. I "carry my weight well" so I'm told, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm ridiculously unhealthy. It's caused me so many self esteem issues, missed opportunities, lack of relationships.

I grew up overweight, with overweight family and siblings, the standard story. I'd play sports and lose a bit during those seasons, but it always came back. It's always been my diet, it still is. As a kid I blamed my genetics, as a teen my parents, in college the drinking, but as an adult I'm well aware I've given myself this burden.

If I ever did try and lose weight I kept it a secret, I hated walking in public or going to a gym and seeing someone I know. I just don't want people to acknowledge me differently I guess. I would sometimes walk during lunch at work, one day a coworker pulled me aside and said they saw me going for walks and were proud of me. I stopped doing it, I hate that attention. They meant the best but I just hated that if they saw an average sized person going for a walk it meant nothing, but for me, it had to be a weight loss thing.

But in 2019, a bunch of my coworkers stopped going out to lunch everyday and would bring in healthier meals and go on walks as a group. I didn't want to be the odd one out, so I brought a lunch and joined the walks. I felt normal in the group and wasn't being singled out, and something clicked. I was so motivated, I meal prepped, went to the gym after work, did CICO, and I started to shred weight. My starting weight then was 321 lbs, and I got down to 270. It felt amazing, and I was locked into my routine. I got fitted for a wedding suit early in the year, and by October they had to drop me down a few sizes. Having something be too big for me felt amazing, I was determined to keep dropping weight.

Then covid happened. I stopped going into work, stopped meal prepping, stopped going to the gym, stopped going on walks. I have a group of friends that started doing zoom calls and game nights, and we all started drinking a lot. My life essentially became wake up, do a little work until 5, then eat and drink what I want. Once covid restrictions let up, I started going out again. I felt starved of social interaction so I started going out way more than I ever had before. Bar with my friends almost every night. I've basically kept that pace until now and I'm 350 lbs, heavier than I have ever been.

I'm getting fitted for a suit for a wedding again, and it's so tight and uncomfortable, it just made me remember that feeling of having a suit too big in 2019. I think something has finally clicked again. It brought back memories of promises I made to myself, like "Once being fat holds me back in life I'll lose weight" and a note I wrote to myself in 2019 with reasons I want to lose weight. Yes it's for being healthy, yes it's for being more attractive, yes it's for more activities, but above all else, it's to not be a burden to anyone. I don't want to stand out, I just want to be normal.

Yesterday I brought a lunch, I skipped the bar me and my buddies meet at. I was going to go for a walk but it was so hot out I was talking myself out of it. I said "Oh, well I'd go to the gym if I had gym clothes with me." Then I remembered, I still had a bathing suit and a t shirt in my car from the weekend. Screw it, I went to the gym for the first time in 6 years (been paying the membership the whole time...) I did 45 minutes on the treadmill in my bathing suit, office shoes, and no headphones. I felt so accomplished after. I went home and had a light dinner, and now I'm writing this after my 600 calorie lunch. I'm going to the gym again today. I feel motivated again. I want a suit that's too big in September.

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Weight loss questions

Hello, So I came back from vacation June 22. From a 6 week vacation. From, that day I came back I was 169 on the 23 and 167 on the 24th. From that day I have worked out 4 days a week upper/ lower did about 10k steps walk. Ate close to 1700 calories. Had 3-4 days of not getting 10k steps and of cheating but those days I ate so can’t say accurately but def not have an avg over 2300 of those days. But my question it now be jul 15 I only weigh 166.4. What’s happening and should I be worried. I measured my calories accurately fs other than those 3-4 days .

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Help

Alright this is gonna be long here we go…

Hw: 390 CW:320 GW:150 All my weight loss life I’ve tried keto. Never anything else. It was always keto. But I’d loose the weight & gain it back. I’ve felt that keto was the only thing that would ever work for me. & Lessing my calories. At the moment I did 1570 calories a day & 20 net carbs. The thing is last week I cheated on it. The funniest thing was is that the only thing I wanted was some fruit nothing else (I really really love peaches) sadly on keto you can’t have fruit like that. But I’m thinking…is keto really the best diet for me. Or can I actually loose the weight from calorie deficit?? I’m sorry. I’m not very good at knowing stuff like this. So don’t roast me. Please give tips, I really need help (I’m a 5’8 woman, my exercise is moderate walking for 40 minutes a day & slow weighted workouts for five days a week

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Stage 2 update

Currently I’m at 271.1(61lbs down). I’m 1lb away from completing the step 2 portion of my weight loss which is pretty exciting. I was off by about a month and a half but I did have a maintenance month so let’s say 15 days off lol. Let’s go over some changes or things I’ve stuck too since the last one:

1. Stats- I haven’t come close to beating the streak of 53 days without being in a caloric surplus, but that’s ok. That’s never my intended goal and life started lifeing itself. I’m currently 176/196 days in being in a deficit for the year and 215/235 days since the start of my current weightloss push. In 33 weeks, I’ve lost an average of 1.84lbs a week and that includes one maintenance month due to a limited time double job and multiple events. I think I did go perfect in may though lol. Once again, most of the surplus days involved eating with friends, but I have since been able to even manage these days with how the last week went where me and a friend worked the fair and I didn’t go over once(tons of walking as well).

2.Nutrition- combining 2 and 3 of my last update because it’s really molded into something where all the food is the same. So, I used to eat breakfast mainly by cooking or a snack here or there or eating out here or there. I’ve since been integrating any type of food into my day to day. Frozen food, eating out, cooking, fruits, veggies, it really doesn’t matter to me. Carbs especially have gotten consumed more than any other macro and we’re talking about soda, candy, along with fruit or potatoes. Literally ate a burger, with a soda and a vitamin water, and I’ll probably have a snack later, a game to play, and dinner. I’ll go into why it doesn’t matter later. My goal here is to take control of all food rather than avoiding something because someone calls it “bad” or “unhealthy”. I treat food as “low performance” or “high performance” but even then simple carbs can be a valuable thing for someone heavy in cardio. This is something I will stick to u til my goal changes to eating for fitness reasons rather than weight loss.

3.Exercise- As I said above, exercise I do is all cardio but I could be walking, sprinting, etc. I play a lot of basketball so the high MET is really putting my caloric burn up a ton, especially since I’m playing for 1-2 hours as a runner. I still have the same knee issue and I’ve even gathered a couple more unique injuries I’ve had to deal with probably from the lack of muscle maybe, but I’m doing my best to adjust and stay healthy: however, given last weeks deal where I was only able to walk, I feel much more confident I can lose weight without the need for it. I’ve come to the conclusion that I will start lifting at the 210-230 mark with my brother or my friend so I can really turn the heat up, but for now it’s just weight loss.

1. Motivation- no real change here. I don’t need motivation at all, but if I do feel there’s something off because you know emotions can take over, I always look over my data to keep me focused on the overall progress. I know, it’s never easy when you see the scale and see it don’t move, but with each plateau passed, it makes this much more easier the 2nd, 3rd, and so on time.

2. Hunger Levels- anytime I’ve had issue with hunger, it’s when I don’t eat periodically enough throughout the day. Mostly happens when I have a pretty heavy breakfast from eating out somewhere cause my fam wants like a breakfast burrito or something like that or my own doing eating too many times before work and having to survive. I do treat it as a warning rather than needing to eat so it’s pretty easy to ignore it. However, I will just eat something small once every couple hours to manage it mostly in the form of a serving or two.

6- water intake- probably my biggest issue here. Not because I hate water or anything. It just feels like a chore to me lol. I have been trying to get in more and I know I do need it when exercising but just have trouble reminding myself to drink do something. I think Itol be easier when I’m in the maintaining stage so I’m not subconsciously worried about the weight since I know it doesn’t mean anything regarding that.

7-body measurements- my waist has dropped to a fluctuation of 52-50.5. That’s the only one I really focused on but yeah it’s about a drop of 4-5.5 inches since the last one. I think my arm dropped 1.5 inches, my leg still looks the same, but maybe there’s some change there. My neck lost an inch or two. I think I have a pretty good idea about how long it will take for there to be a change in inch, so I can start preparing for what clothes are gonna probably have to go.

8-clothing- which brings me to that. Kinda crazy. I have 114 on my sheet, and only 26 are left that can’t fit good for normal purposes. I’ve already gotten rid of multiple hoodies, I’ve added about 7-10 shirts to my gym wear, and I’ve modified the ones I was currently wearing. If you have seen my last update, there was this one flannel shirt hoodie I mentioned that I really wanted to fit in and I was shocked that I’m actually only about 1 inch away from it being a complete comfy fit. I had leave the bottom button off but other than that, loved it. Of course, I’m looking to fit into the other clothes, but not really sure where to go from there. If my trends are correct, I’m gonna have more clothes that don’t fit than clothes that do going the other way which will be bittersweet, but the clothes I like getting will be much more attainable. I really have an issue with shorts because I only have one pair that is pretty small when I get down while the rest of them will make my legs look like toothpicks. Time to look around lol.

9-mindset- this will be a new one I’m adding, but it will be more or less the same. I’ve now changed my mindset to a longterm life goal of how I want to navigate my body composition for now, later, next 10 years, and life. It could change but the habits I’ve now established will be implemented regardless of the mindset. The mindset being I don’t take food out of any of my diets unless they don’t support the goal I’m planning. So, for losing weight, I don’t need to take anything out especially with cardio, I just need to shorten serving sizes. Because basketball is prominent in the exercise, I’m afforded more forgiveness to simple carbs. If I were to take on fitness bodybuilding, I put more emphasis on protein intake and I will probably have to up my serving sizes for “bulking stages” and lower my sizes for “cutting stages”. If I were to get old where high intensity sports become a pastime to me, then I’ll look to eat more clean for the goal of longevity, but that’s how I’m gonna operate from now on. As I get used to each stage, it will be clockwork, but the way I eat will stay the same give or take.

So there’s my update I’ve added a couple changes to my current goals

Stage 1:300lbs✅

Stage 2:270lbs(1.1lb)

Stage 3:240lbs(31.1lbs) EST:11/25

Stage 4:210-220lb(51.1lbs-61.1lbs) EST:03/26

Stage 5:maintain/optimize fitness(foreseeable future)

Any questions about things I do in detail, you’ll see me in the comments 👍🏾 until the holidays

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Should I lose any more weight?

so i have been on weight loss journey for 4 months now, I am 5'3 my starting weight is around 180 pounds, i gained a lot of my weight due to relationship weight and birth control, my previous weight before 180 pounds was around 125-127 pounds. i was pretty acitve person, but since i gained almost 50 pounds i stopped being active, but in the begining of the year i started going to gym for the first 2 months but didnt limited my diet that much. On march i started to properly eating in a calorie deficit, and after 4 months, i dropped more than 50 pounds, my current weight is around 128 pounds.

I dont know why going into this, my goal weight is always 120 pounds becuase this is the goal weight even before i gained the weight (like when i was around 125-127 pounds). But i looked at my pictures when i was around 125 -127 pounds like years ago, even though i am a couple pound heavy, i looked way skinner.

Heres are my current measurment:

my waist is 63-64 cm (around 25 inches)

Hips is 37 inches

Thighs: 19 in

Neck: 30 cm (11.8 in)

Bust: 92 cm (36.2 in)

So i dontk now if i should keep losing weight to 120 pounds or start maintaining now cuz i also dont want to look just skinny i have decent amount muscle as well and some abs definiton and i certianly dont want to lose my curve??? any advice would be helpful!

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