Recommendations for online trainer

Hi! I’m looking for a remote personal trainer or coach to help with sustainable weight loss and better energy.

About Me: • Office worker (WFH) • Been working out for 3 years (mix of gym/home) • Eat mostly CookUnity or simple pasta (don’t cook much) • Have weak joints, so I need workouts that are personalized and low-impact

What I Want: • Lose 30+ lbs (main goal) • Feel more energized and build better habits • Personalized, joint-friendly workouts • Nutrition guidance (flexible but realistic) • Motivation/accountability — especially with food • Female trainer or trainer that is knowledgeable about women’s hormone cycles

Budget: (flexible) • Ideally under $150/month • FSA-eligible is a bonus

If you’ve had success with a trainer or platform (Kickoff, Trainwell, Future, or others), I’d love your recs. Thanks in advance!

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Normal to feel tired and sleepy?

I started my diet and exercise about two weeks ago. I first started with tracking my calories and eating at a deficit, starting at 340, now at 332. I finally added 20 minutes of moderate exercise on my elliptical with a slight incline and more than half resistance a few days ago.

I don’t know why, but I feel tired a couple of hours after exercising. I wake up in the morning, exercise for 20 minutes on the elliptical, I’m usually sweating and out of breath. Take a shower and eat lunch. Then after a couple of hours, I feel really tired and sleepy.

Sometimes I lay down in bed and fall asleep lol. I have no idea why because it’s not like I’ve done much outside of that. I eat around 1500-1800 calories a day and use Huel to help me with tracking calories.

I’ll feel sort of sore and burning feeling afterwords too, usually in my legs. Is this normal to feel tired/sleepy this early in my weight loss journey?

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Just started again but currently in a cast and can’t walk

Ok so I have tried about a million times to lose weight but it never works. I just got foot surgery and cannot put weight on my right foot for 10-12 weeks. I am so scared of gaining a ton of weight during this time due to not moving and snacking when bored (I can’t work during recovery). I am starting weight loss again by counting calories. I am trying to eat in a deficit. I worry though this won’t help and I want to keep up with this weight loss when I can walk again too. I can’t do much exercising right now but I do move around a lot due to my restless leg and it is also quite difficult to move around in general so it’s like a mini workout. Overall, I’m getting good at the counting calories but is there anything else I can add to help my weight loss while I still can’t move? It works best if I slowly add habits rather than 180 degree change at once.

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NSV: I got 2nd place in a hot wing eating competition at work!

Yeah, you read that right, I'm counting an eating competition as an NSV. Why? Because I planned for it and still hit my daily calorie/macro/exercise goals.

I used to have pretty severe social anxiety and huge hangups about eating in public when I was at my heaviest weight. I would actively avoid eating around other people so I could go binge at home. Doing a hot-wing eating competition, with 20 other people, and in front of like 100+ coworkers in the audience was nightmare fuel for me. However, now that I'm 140+ lbs down (and sober) it was ezpz lemon squeezy!

Ok, but isn't entering an eating competition kind of the antithesis of a weight loss journey? Nope! I contacted the organizer and asked about a vegetarian or vegan option, and was informed that they would have baked Beyond wings available for those who don't eat meat. (I do eat meat, but I don't really like chicken wings that much 😬) I was able to put the amount of beyond wings into MyFitnessPal and adjusted my breakfast & dinner meals so that I could still stay within my deficit. Later in the afternoon I went and did one of the most brutal leg day workouts I've done in the past 3 months, then I walked 10k steps before heading home for a dinner of liver and onions!

For the actual competition, the first 5 wings were between 500-800k scoville, and the last one had a huge slathering of the Hot Ones last dab Pepper X sauce at 2M+ scoville. To prep for that, I went through aboula half a bottle of the stuff over the past week, putting it in everything I ate except the yogurt and fruit I have for breakfast lol. In the end, I got bogged down by chewing the Beyond wings and lost to the reigning champion by a measly 10 seconds. However, I didn't have any water or milk afterwards and didn't have any issues at all with the 6-minute "after burn" after eating the last dab.

So, while 2nd place might be the first loser, I'm absolutely chalking this one up as a win. I ate in public, I was social, I hit my daily goals, and I had an awesome time. A weight loss journey doesn't have to suck, you can still do fun food-related things, and you can be a winner even if you lose 😎

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Feeling like I'll be fat forever

So I currently weigh 324 lbs from 332 (took 5 days so it's a decent start) but I missed a workout today and I feel like a pure failure because of it. For reference I worked out T, W, and Th this week but today (Friday) I missed it because my brother backed out of our gym date at the last minute (I can't go without him, he's the main member)

For reference, I feel like this because I'm desperate to get back to the weight I use to be. I've been obese my whole life but in 2015-2017 I went from 365 to 230. It was the best feeling in the world but after a few years I gained it all back because of the depo shot (notorious for making women gain weight), four surgeries, and two kids. I can't wait to get back to 230 but my life has been so incredibly busy, it's really interfered with my weight loss journey and I feel like I'm never going to get where I was again.

I guess what I'm looking for is motivation to not feel like such a loser for getting off track so early in this second weight loss journey. I'm just terrified all of this will be in vain and I'll be stuck at this weight forever.

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Losing weight is stressful

It's driving me crazy.

I'm so obsessed with looking in the mirror now to make sure I don't look as fat as I used to look.

Not to mention food is hard.

I'm 5'3 and started my weight loss journey in January. I went from 250 and now I'm almost 180.

Food is what stresses me out the most really, even though I lost so much weight, I still get overwhelmed. I try to keep my calorie count under 1000 for my deficit, but eating over that makes me panic.

I've just been feeling so emotional and irritable with everything, I hate being anxious. I really don't want to gain the weight back, I've been doing so good.

When will weight loss stop feeling so overpowering?

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What finally got you to lose those final 5-10 pounds?

Im 30F, 5ft3, BMI 20.3 and I started my journey last year august, 138 pounds and through nothing else except loosely following CICO have managed to lose 24lbs and am down to 114lbs currently and would really love to lose the final 5-10lbs to get to my GW but I havnt been able to budge much on this goal since May. In May I was briefly able to get down to 112 but have gone back up to 114 after a 2 week vacation.

I started weight lifting 3x a week and around 2 months ago as a way ti supplement my weight loss and for general health. My main issue is I know all the tricks, volume eating, eating higher protein, high fibre etc, I will manage to hit all the macros I need to stay satisfied but I still cannot help but over eat to maintenance. I cannot for the life of me find the will power to go in a further deficit. If it helps I breastfeed occasionally (shes a toddler its not her main nutrition anymore), but I dont want to make excuses, I just cant seem to stick to my deficit and it feels like a willpower issue.

What am I doing wrong? It feels like my body is trying its damn hardest to stick to this weight and I cannot figure out how to move past it.

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Got data from gym, need help making sense of it

I got all the nitty-gritty data at the gym today. This is my starting out data. F,43 182.8 lbs 29.5 BMI 41.6% body fat 25.8% muscle mass Rmkcal: 1567

I need help figuring out how to calculate how many calories I should be eating in order to get my body fat% and weight down. If my Apple Watch calculates that on any given day I burn 550-600 calories based on working out and living my life, and I need 1567 calories to stay alive, does that mean I should be consuming no more than 1600 calories/day in order to lose 1-2lbs a week?

Also how long has it taken anyone to get their body fat percentage down to something healthy (right now I’m overweight skirting with obese)?

Does rmkcal decrease along with weight loss, as the body gets smaller/carries less weight?

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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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rambling: how i am dealing with food noise, cravings, constant hunger

hey guys! i just wanted to ramble here about my journey to a calorie deficit. hopefully this can help someone <3

background: i've been counting calories for about 11 years now. constantly stuck in yoyo dieting. gaining a bunch of weight. losing it. gaining it AGAIN.. and a bit more on top D: it was always because i would cut my calories extremely drastically and could never stick to the deficit long term. [i was bullied severely so i would always want to lose weight as fast as possible so those comments would stop]

i went through one of the most stressful times of my life last year and used food to cope. as a result, i lost all my hunger cues and honestly i suspect i had some insulin resistance problem as i had a) constant sugar cravings b) never feeling full even if i was eating enough calories c) binging episodes back to back d) constant food noise ....the list goes on :(

i decided to go on a calorie deficit again this summer. this time, it was going to be different. i decided, i would not race against time. if i needed 1 year to lose the weight. 2 years. so be it. therefore, i kept my deficit minimal + closer to my maintenance. initially when i started out.. i was actually struggling because i was used to eating 3000-4000 kcals throughout my college semester 😭 and it all evened out. i focused on food quality, increasing my fiber + protein. i also fixed my sleep. i have a HUGE sweet tooth.. ik too much fruit is bad for u but i'd munch on a bunch of watermelon and oranges which i think is much better than refined cookies + juice boxes id be sipping on everyday prior to this lol. these things were GAME CHANGERS to my food noise + constant cravings. (even tho i initially hated the taste of a lot of "health foods" .. ik.. i'm an adult😭 )

i've been on my deficit for about 6-7 weeks now. and have just started tapering down my deficit more after eating closer to maintenance. i finally feel full after my meals again and don't feel constant hunger! even the luteal phase hunger is gone!!!

sometimes, we aren't feeding out bodies the right things it needs. ofcourse, CICO this and CICO that. however, WHAT you eat is for your health. HOW MUCH you eat is for your weight.

i would also struggle to be in my deficit when exercising as i would get RAVENOUS (even smth as little as 10k steps). hence why initially, i focused on my food quality first as weight loss in 90% nutrition. i rly hope to just eat at my new deficit for a couple of weeks .. see how i am doing and then start to incorporate some form of physical activity.

i really hope if by making these small changes in a stepwise manner will allow me to stick to them for a longer time rather than ditching them again. and turning back to square one.

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I’ve dieted for years but the weight won’t come off..

OK, so the title is obviously Bait-ey. I have dieted for years. Calories in calories out, daily tracking. I know how much I’m eating down to the calorie. I can eyeball portions to the gram, Ive verified with a scale. the problem is not that I’m eating at a deficit and not losing. I’m not making any claim that I’ve eaten 1200 cal for the last six months and I haven’t lost a pound. The weight that im maintaining makes total sense given my intake, so the problem isn’t a discrepancy there, it’s just that I CANT. FORCE MYSELF. INTO A DEFICIT. CaIl it a willpower problem, but I get ravenously hungry with alarming frequency. I eat clean, but when I’m hungry I can’t focus at all and my mood is very poor. I will be successful with minor, reasonable deficits (I’ve tried daily deficits as low as 200 cals!) for a couple of weeks at a time, but will inevitably wake up very hungry one day and go on the most unbelievable animal like binge you’ve ever seen. I hate eating, I don’t want to think about it and would love to save money by lowering my TDEE through weight loss. but I cannot keep on with this fruitless binge cycle which has seen my focus and productivity dramatically impaired. Clearly traditional CICO does not work for me. Has anyone had a similar struggle with CICO? Have you found alternatives to reduce appetite and Decenter food from your life? Edit: if you’re going to downvote I’d at least like to know why :(((

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Who has actually successfully lost belly fat?

I know you can’t spot reduce fat, and it all comes down to calories in/calories out, but I have lost about 12 pounds and want to lose about 12-15more and my weight has not budged for quite some time .

Further, most of my weight collects in my midsection so I look like I have a beer belly (even tho I don’t drink) despite my weight loss

Was has actually worked for you? Walking 10k steps a day? Running? Eliminating sweets? Lifting? Something else? All the above? I am feeling really discouraged recently. I am a male in my 30s if that matters.

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Grandpa told me that no one will ever marry me because of my weight loss

I (27F) have recently returned from vacation and visited my grandpa for the first time in 6 weeks. My family isn't big on bodyshaming and would rarely comment on people's bodies and honestly I don't think i look too different from before i traveled. I was just happy I managed to lose weight on vacation when it's so easy to get distracted and want to treat yourself. Anyways, he pulled me aside and told me I look much thinner now and that no one will ever marry me. It wasn't until last month I was no longer "overweight" using the BMI measurements (I lost 22 pounds) and I'm not done with my weight loss journey yet. I also spent a lot of money on a nutritionist to help me manage my weight and give me my meal plans every week. Mum told me he just "finds bigger women more attractive" but it's still so heartless with all the money spent, eating healthier, working out for 5 months. I wish people knew that not every opinion needs to be said out loud.

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Demotivated at gym

Hope it’s okay to post this here. I’m hoping to hear some positive experiences with gaining muscle definition so I don’t lose all hope.

I train 3-4 times a week and do dumbbells/kettlebells and treadmill. I’m not amazing at it, I can’t run but I’ve been pretty consistent for the last 6 months. I currently lift 6kg dumbbells which sounds pathetic I know but I started the year with 3kgs so at least that’s progress. I know that my muscles are getting bigger, I can feel the difference in them especially my triceps. But my body fat according to my scale is 38% (down from 40%, again pathetic but it’s took me 5 months just to lose 10lbs). So I feel like I’m doing this work and no one can see it as I’m just a whale. I know I have to lose the fat first so am I wasting my time building muscle and should I just focus on losing weight? But I also know that resistance training is good for weight loss, I’m so confused. FYI I’m 150lbs & 5ft.

And then I get super jealous when I see slim women that I know don’t go to the gym and they have biceps, like lovely toned well defined arms and they don’t lift. And if I tell people I lift they probably think I’m delusional as my arms are just enormous. And there’s no chance of anyone seeing the quads in my thighs.

Eurgh I hate it.

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20lbs down because I forgot to cancel the free trial

I downloaded the lose it app, just to give it a go after every other weight loss attempt failed.. didn’t really use it and then forgot to cancel the free trial and was charged for it. My brain can’t cope with spending that money and not using the app.. so I started tracking everything.

I’m f30, 5’3, started at 153lbs, now 132lbs since the start of May. I also started eating more protein and being a little more conscious about where my calories are coming from. Have otherwise not changed my diet much, which has been key to this being sustainable for me!

Loving fitting into my clothes again and feeling more like me!

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Tdee?

Hello! I was wondering if maybe someone could help me figure out what my tdee is. I am 78kg, 164cm and 22F.

I walk 25k steps every day (at a pace of 5- 5.2 km/h). My Samsung Health app puts my TDEE at 2200.

I feel as though thats a bit low and whenever I go to online sites to figure out my tdee im not sure what my activity level is.

I remember this one site, i think it was health calc, that put my tdee at 3200.

The other ones put me at 2500 which I feel is the most accurate.

I'm not sure what my BMR is, but the one time i went to a nutrionist she told me I should eat around 1326kcal to see a weight loss of 0.5kg per week + minimal activity so 30 mins x 3 days a week. Online calculators tell me mine is 1500.

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First weight loss milestone: achieved!

Hi y’all! Just wanted to share my happy dance! As of this morning, I weigh less than 200 lbs for the first time in 10+ years!

Since mid-May I’ve been exercising 4-5 days a week, filling up on less calorie dense foods, tracking calories and macros with Noom, and taking Metformin (also through Noom).

It has absolutely felt like a lot of work, but I also feel better than I have in a long time which is highly motivating (along with the scale moving and my clothes getting loose of course).

I still have a long way to go to reach my long term goals but it feels doable for the first time. And I keep reminding myself that I didn’t gain the weight overnight so it’s totally normal and okay that it takes awhile to lose it.

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Is it safe?

I’m 13, 5,3 and I’m 58kg. 7 weeks ago I was 64kg. I know it’s fast but I just don’t know if it’s safe to lose 6kg in 7 weeks. I’m gonna be trying to lose more weight when I get of school for 6 weeks but I wanna pace it so I don’t just end up putting it back on if you know what I mean? Is 6kg a safe amount to lose in 6 weeks.

Also, the reason I’m saying this is because the weight loss from before is about 14 pounds I think. I just wanna be safe and healthy. I’m not rushing anything and no I’m not an utter freak about food. I don’t calorie count or anything like that. Just eating more healthy ( hearing the stories of people getting ED’s and stunted growth definitely scared me) so I just want to be safe.

Mods, I know you’re not allowed to let people give advice to minors but I’m only asking the yes or no question.

Cheers

Edit : Also to people saying I’m at a normal weight, I checked the NHS bmi scale for teens. I am NOT at a healthy weight.

Also I cannot speak to a trusted adult or a doctor!

Also I’ve been… heavy all my life. 60kg at 10 is not healthy

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★OFFICIAL DAILY★ Daily Q&A Thread July 12, 2025

Got a question? We've got answers!

Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small.

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Advice on food boredom?

If I eat one more chicken breast or hard boiled egg I will throw up 🤢

I tend to hyperfixate on meals and solely eat that meal for a couple weeks straight. Which has worked great for me! I’ve lost 7 lbs in 40 days. (Around 1.2 lbs a week) doing a 500 calorie deficit (1.2k cals - 1.5k cals averaging)

The typical WIEIAD would be 2 eggs, 400g chicken breast, 1 apple, 1 banana, 125-300g quinoa mixed with brown rice. I ate that almost everyday until I became sick of it.

So far the foods (off the top of my head) I have gotten sick of are:

• chicken breast
• rice
• broccoli
• potatoes
• tomatoes
• whole meal bread

Basically just every healthy food 😭😭

Once I got sick of chicken breast I moved onto potatoes because I learned they rank no.1 for satiety so I ate them for a week then got sick of them. Then I used boiled eggs for my protein source and got sick of them too.

But for me it’s not even to the point that I enjoy the food. I understand not all food has to taste good - however for me, I can’t stomach those foods anymore. Physically I cannot eat them

For me it’s not just about weight loss I’m also focusing on nutrition ensuring I get good protein so my muscle mass doesn’t decrease and also fibre so I don’t end up getting bowel cancer by age 40.

Is this just a me problem? Any advice would be really greatly appreciated

I know this is such a silly post but I genuinely don’t know what’s wrong with me and why I suddenly have the ick for every food

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Maintenance tips please for a chronic yo-yo dieter?

Hi Lose it Friends,

This chart shows my weight ups and downs since Nov of 2018 until now, July of 2025

https://imgur.com/a/1yzdHDj

As you can see I yo-yo quite a bit with my weight and this doesn't even show all of it.

In high school I was about 165lb, then in my late teens I ballooned up to 260 lb. Over about 10 years I lost down to 147 lb by my late 20's, early 30's.

Then I ballooned up again to 286 in 2016, then down again to 190 with a severe diet. Then up again to 255, then slowly down to 210 lb with a lot of hiking. Then up again to 280.

I have a point here, although it might not seems like it.

I am now 220 lb, which might seem heavy to some people but it's actually pretty good for me. I want to lose a little more weight and then MAINTAIN!!!

I think if I really want to keep the weight off permanently I will have to continue tracking on myfitnesspal and also using the lose it subreddit. Lose it has been very helpful for me, especially Mountain Lioness's daily posts for usa accountability.

My question is, does anybody who has successfully maintained a big weight loss have any tips for how to maintain it? I want to lose a little more but I'm getting close to a weight I would want to maintain.

I have a bad habit of gaining and losing and this time I really want to find a set point and stay there. For one thing, it's really really annoying to have clothes in a bunch of different sizes and have nothing fit. Clothes are expensive!

Thank you if you read all of this, and please reply with tips on maintenance, those who have successfully maintained your weight loss for about 2 years or more.

Also, it is worth mentioning that I also have bipolar disorder and my high weights can sometimes coincide with my bipolar manias.

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Sometimes I wanna give up and stay fat and ugly.

I 19F have been in a weight loss journey for 7 months now, lost a lot. But it just gets so hard. Today was a particularly hard day. I got my workout in, my steps, stuck to my calorie deficit. Yay. But the dread and depression really too over I guess

It’s great, but sometimes I feel like giving up. Food was such a big comfort in my life before I started this journey because I’m already ugly, I lacked romantic relationships and had people treat me badly.

It’s just so hard because I was very depressed and this might sound sad, but the only thing that Truly made me happy was binging on good food. And for seven months that Joy has been taken away from me because I had nothing else really. No friends constantly feeling hideous every day.

I’m not gonna give up. I can’t. But I just wanted to vent here because some times I have this voice in my head that wants me to stop and accept my life of loneliness accept being an ugly girl and accept being a fatty. Because maybe I’m just not meant to be a pretty girl maybe I’m just meant to be alone maybe I was put into this world for food to be my only company.

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Do I need to slow down?

I’ve been on a weight loss journey for about 6.5 weeks now and have lost 42 lbs. I am trying to follow the 1% rule as I know it is best for my health. I currently eat around 1900+_250 calories a day which puts me in a 3 ish lb deficit. I usually get arround 120+ g of protein per day, averaging 14,000 steps and drinking at least a gallon of water a day. I am tracking most my food with a scale and the rest estimating.

Why am I losing so much weight, it can’t all be water weight this far in. Is there a reason for this loss and is it a bad one? Should I increase my calories to 3000 to try and reduce my rate of loss even though I feel completely full from my current consumption. I’m scared that if I do this I will regain my old eating habits and fall back off the wagon.

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Bupropion.hcl xl 150mg weight loss

For those of you who lost weight on bupropion.hcl XL 150mg, what manufacturer are you using?

Rising has been working good but not necessarily for weight loss. Recently my mail order pharmacy sent me Lupin Pharm mfr And i had a nasty side effect. So im going to try a new one that my mail order pharmacy will be sending but I am a little nervous about it.

I know people have lost weight using this med and I know not everyone will have that side effect but if you could share which manufacturer you use, that would help me out tremendously.

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my mom shamed me for wanting chocolate today.

F21 SW: 174 CW: 154 GW: 140

since may, i’ve lost 20 pounds without my family’s intervention. as of today, i am no longer overweight. i just don’t eat a lot of sugar, walk semi-regularly, and eat more mindfully and slowly. i feel great, except for right now. i’ve been menstruating for nine days because of my IUD. today, my iron loss is so severe that i’ve been left consistently fatigued. i have even been getting black spots in my vision when i stand. so i decided to treat myself with some dark chocolate to get some iron in my body and fulfill the craving i’ve had for a few days.

since it’s 90 degrees fahrenheit outside and i don’t have a car at the moment, i asked if i could borrow my mom’s car. she said no because the convenience store was so close. i proceeded to say that i planned on getting dark chocolate to help with my iron loss from menstruating and didn’t want it to melt, and she immediately rebutted with “well it also has a lot of fat.” she then proceeded to look up iron-rich foods to replace it and lectured me. by the way, it’s very rare that i eat processed sugar, except for the occasional dessert when i’m out with my boyfriend. i haven’t bought a chocolate bar since april. and frankly, i don’t think she has a right to shame me for wanting dark chocolate ONE TIME, when she is overweight, when her weight is consistently increasing and half of her diet is candy and pretzels.

maybe i’m irrational to be so annoyed about this. but why should i follow weight loss advice from someone whose past weight loss attempts have all failed? is it really that wrong to fulfill a menstrual craving here and there?

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"Pour and pray" home cook - what's the best way to track calories?

Hello! I cook the majority of our meals at home from scratch which can be a fantastic tool for weight loss. I'd like to be able to track calories but the major issue I'm running into is that I'm not a recipe kinda person. Recipes are, at best, a suggestion or loose guidelines, except when it comes to baking which has a much lower threshold for improvisation.

Sure, I have a rough idea of what goes into a recipe, but for the most part, it's some of this, a bit of that, some slow moving leftovers that get a makeover, a splash of this sauce, a bit of that spice, and whole lot of "Eh, just keeping adding it til the ancestors say 'Oy, that'll do, that'll do" because I have a good intuition of what will work and what flavors pair well with each other.

Since weighing your food and being able to accurately know how much of something is composing your dish is essential to accurate calorie counting, but is the antithesis of how I cook, I could really use some suggestions. I've got ADHD and really enjoy cooking, and I'm afraid my spicy brain will just flip the middle finger at having to follow an exact recipe or faff around with measuring each and every little thing.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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What should I expect moving forward? 80lbs down, 30lbs to go.

I have a bunch of questions for those who have lost a substantial amount of weight.

For context, I'm (26F) 5' 8", I've lost about 80lbs this last year. My starting weight was in the 250lb - 260lb range, and today I am currently hovering around 174ish lbs with a 33" - 34" waistline.

Since February of 2024, I've undergone a massive mental (and physical, obviously) transformation where I really became disciplined about my health in all aspects. Long story short, I started eating whole foods, reasonable portions, and started walking - cut to today where I eat balanced meals without even thinking about it and exercise daily. I don't count calories regularly, but I do once in a while just to make sure I'm still on the right track with portion control.

[Before you say anything - yes I understand CICO and know that this is literally how fat loss works - tangentially, I have been calorie counting on and off since I was a teenager, it is not something I am interested in doing everyday as an adult. As someone who has worked hard and long on healing her relationship with food - I can confidently say that I have a good grasp on portion control and an informed understanding on the basics of nutrition, so please bare that in mind when offering feedback]

The thing is, my weight loss has slowed considerably. My waist has been stubbornly sitting at the 33.5" ish mark since May, and lately I get frustrated to measure at all. I am more active than ever, averaging around 10k steps a day this past month, and I am about 3 weeks into consistently weight training - about 30-45 minutes of lifting 3-4 times a week. While I love being active, and I feel nourished by the food I'm eating, I can't help but feel slightly discouraged that my body isn't changing more dramatically. I feel great, and I can't help but feel like my clothes are fitting better, and that I look stronger, but I'm thinking that may just be placebo.

I've always thought I had a larger frame, because I've been overweight my entire life - but now that I'm slimming down I notice that I still have a considerable amount of fat on my body. I know that feasibly, to achieve the lean physique I want, I need to lose another 30-40lbs of body fat. That being said, I have not been below 170lbs since my senior year of high school, so maybe my body is just being stubborn?

Lastly, loose skin. I have a pretty considerable amount, especially my stomach, and I may even be underestimating how much I actually have considering I still carry a decent amount of fat in my torso. I take excellent care of my skin, in addition to taking collagen peptides daily, but I know it's inevitable, which I'm quasi at peace with (it's complicated), but maybe my body is trying to tell me something, to slow my weight loss a bit - focus more on maitenance/building muscle?

My questions are for those who have had, or are on similar journeys: is it normal to see slower progress the closer you get to your goal weight? Is there anything I should be doing differently? How much time should I realistically give myself to start seeing real results? When should I notice another big shift in my waistline? How much should I be training/lifting for fat loss? Any advice is appreciated.

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Need some advice on how to resist snacking.

So I’ve been on my way trying to get back to a healthy weight and I have made some good progress so far. My strategy has been mainly dietary, as I switched to healthy and balanced dishes while also cutting out a lot of unhealthy snacks; with the exception of one or two that I am able to eat in moderation to fit my calorie deficit.

Now that I moved in with my family a couple months ago, it has been difficult to maintain this strategy. They are aware that I am on a diet and they have been supportive (even joining me on a weekly walk to become more physically active), but they often get a lot of snacks and junk food that has me fighting temptation all the time versus before when it was just at the super market where I would have to remain vigilant.

I try and tell myself that it isn’t my food and I don’t pay for it, so it is off limits, but because my family does sometimes share meals with me I have difficulty sticking to that argument. It bothers me too because most of the time I am not actually hungry, it’s just boredom eating or ‘I had a hard day so I deserve a treat’ mentality. But it’s hard to ignore those thoughts when I pass by the pantry and it’s fully stocked with all my favorite junk.

I was having some trouble adjusting when I first arrived so my weight loss did stall a bit, but I am just worried that I won’t be able to lose the weight if I keep falling back on these bad habits.

If anyone has any suggestions or tips I would appreciate them.

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Need Help Losing Weight – Obese, Cravings, Injuries, Vegetarian – Feeling Stuck

I’m 27 years old, currently weighing around 126 kg, and I’ve been trying to lose weight for a while but feel completely stuck. I had dropped to 120 kg earlier, but after a serious accident (fractured right hand with plates, and ligament injuries in both knees), I became sedentary and gained weight again. I now struggle with intense cravings, high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar. I follow an Indian vegetarian diet and haven’t been able to return to consistent workouts because of my injuries. I really want to get back on track, lose weight safely, and improve my health. Any advice on low-impact exercises, craving control, and a vegetarian weight loss diet would really help. If you’ve overcome similar challenges, I’d love to hear your story. 🙏

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Is this body recomposition or something else?

Hi y'all, I'm a 25 year old female and experiencing confusion on my weight.

In late 2019, I was put on a psychiatric medication that shot me up by 60 pounds in 3 months. It's the heaviest I've ever been... 200lbs at 5" 6'. In the last three years, I've been on a weight loss journey, with some on-and-off in between lasting maybe a couple weeks each time. But this is the last time. I've been going strong for 6 months, and I'm making sure to set foundations for success in a lifestyle change, not just temporary weight loss. I've lost 35 pounds in those 3 years, by no means has it been quick but I've been learning.

With the context out of the way, I'm confused about my weight. I've hovered around 165 pounds for the past three months. Changes to my lifestyle include occasional walks, going to the gym maybe once every two weeks, and tracking calories to about 1,400 a day. None of these things really scream "muscle gain" to me, but instead of losing weight, I've been losing inches.

Over the past month and a half, I've lost 2-4 inches from every part of my body that you can wrap a tailor's tape measure around. I think that's supposed to come from body recomposition, but I haven't exactly done anything to make that happen. Does anybody know what's going on, or if this is a good thing?

TLDR: I've lost some weight, but it has plateaued. While hovering in the same 5 pound range for months, I've lost 2-4 inches circumference around arms, legs, waist, etc. I don't work out hard enough to justify calling it body recomposition. Does anybody know what's happening?

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Opinions on/experience with calorie cycling?

I’ve been on a 1400 calorie deficit most days. I know that’s on the lower end, but it’s been working well for weight loss, and I still feel pretty satiated/energised physically. I’m down my first stone now. High protein and fibre are my main macro goals, and it tends to all be pretty low carb/low fat as a result. However, I had my first binge yesterday. The day before I was feeling pretty run down- not energy wise, but mentally. I had a lazy day of supermarket snacks and picky bits- but still stayed within my calorie goal and macros. Yesterday was my first day off after a pretty long week and I truly couldn’t be bothered. I just ate what I wanted and counted it retrospectively, which came to about 2100 calories. Not a huge binge, I know, but I still felt guilty about it.

However, despite that, this morning I woke up and I have lost weight after a bit of a plateau. So now I’m wondering if this sort of cycling could actually be beneficial. Has anyone got experience with calorie cycling long term? Has it hindered your results at all or made it hard to get back on track for lower calorie days?

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Why does it take so long to lose face fat

I’m just ranting really. I started my weight loss journey at the beginning of this year.

I’ve had many starts before this year but I decided that I don’t want to hit 26 years old still looking at myself in the mirror and feeling disappointed.

And I think it’s going pretty well. I think that this year might actually be the year I hit my goal if things keep going as they are!

I can see the weight loss in pictures but not so much in the mirror and especially in the face. I feel like my face looks the exact same as it always has. Does it normally take awhile to see it in the face? External beauty has such a hold on me lol I’ve never felt beautiful and I want to look at myself in the mirror, smile and nod, and be like “ Hmm, I look pretty nice”

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Two random and unrelated complaints

I literally just want to rant a little, it doesn't matter if anyone reads this

First is the fact that I've been eating consistently 1500 calories (average) for nearly two months now. That's been great, I've lost tons of weight, my complaint is that I basically lost nothing in the last two to three weeks. It's fluctuated up and down quite a lot but right now I'm basically the same point I was 2 and 1/2 or 3 weeks ago. For my weight and activity that should be a nearly 1500 to 2000 calorie a day deficit depending on who you ask. And yet, nope.

And before you ask, I'm definitely counting accurately. I mean I skip a few things like cooking spray and gum but there's no way I'm eating even a hundred calories more than I'm recording and even if I was eating 500 calories more I should still be losing upwards of two pounds a week.

But let me finish by saying that I know this is probably just some weird plateau and water weight being weird but damn is it annoying. It has no actual effect on my resolve. If anything I would eat less except it probably isn't healthy to do so.

The second and completely unrelated thing is that I recently went to the ER, unrelated to weight loss, And while I was there The doctor took a minute, probably too long, to talk to me about health. I had mentioned that I've lost a good bit of weight in the last few months. He asked how and I said just counting calories.

Here's what annoyed me, he said counting calories is fine but then suggest that I look up some YouTuber for better health in my diet. Even though I immediately was suspicious, even doctors have little education on weight loss, I checked it out and yep. Basically one step short of liver King. You're allowed to eat fruits but vegetables are evil and will kill you apparently. Also you absolutely need to be eating more beef organs.

My only real rant here is that a medical doctor basically told me not to eat vegetables. Why is it that when I tell people I've had great success (with the exception of the last three week) counting calories they suddenly want to tell me about every asinine diet they've heard of.

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Alternatives to walking?

5'3, FTM, SW: 315, CW: 255, GW: 150

I live in Phoenix, AZ. That's probably enough said as is but I'll continue. Almost every day for the past several weeks has hit 100. Even at night, it's hot as balls. And it's fucking ugly. It's an ugly city. It's an eyesore, I hate every moment of walking here. At least people walking in the Midwest have like, animals on farmland or woodland areas to look at. You probably have something significantly more scenic than Phoenix near you. All we have are crammed, polluted roads or sprawling, endless southwestern flavored McMansions and I don't like looking at either.

I don't want to go hiking because of the aforementioned heat. Combined with my weight and asthma issues, that's a recipe for disaster, and hiking in the dark (when it's still very hot) sounds just as bad.

I'm looking for literally any alternatives. I have a little stepper thing (you might've seen one in the first episode of breaking bad when Walter starts having an internal conniption). That's okay but it's a lot more draining than walking is. Don't have room for a treadmill. Don't have a gym membership at this point. I have been asked by my family to stop pacing around the house.

I need this. I need to get to 150 so I can finish my transition and get bottom surgery. That's what like, 80% of this is for. I've been really fucking good about my diet but lazy about exercise and my weight loss has stagnated for two months at 255 lbs.

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People who started dating after weight loss, how's going?

I know that there are lots of similar posts to this, but I feel like a lot of people replying are those that were in relationships while losing their weight.

I have lots of loose skin and fat in the wrong places after a 50 pound weight loss, which I'm working on with the gym right now. I still have about 10-20 pounds of fat to lose, but building muscles is the main focus right now. I also have very visible scars on my chest from a reduction surgery last year.

It will take a long time before my body will stop looking like whatever it's looking like right now. I'm 24 and I hate feeling like I can't date because of my current body. I have had interests but I keep declining them due to my insecurities.

How did you lot get over your insecurities and start dating? Did/do your partners overlook your loose skin, handles etc?

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How to keep up the weight loss when living with an injury?

I (33/F/227lbs) have been trying to turn my life around for the past couple of months now, and was doing super well until I got too cocky and did way too much running before I was ready 😅 Tried it once on a whim, was pleasantly surprised when I could actually do it, so kept going. Both knees vehemently disagreed with this and now, on day 11, I can still barely walk 😭 (Yes I’ve seen a doctor and a physio, both prescribed Naproxen and the RICE method.)

Because of this I lost motivation and have been eating junk for a few days, definitely a ‘fuck it all’ attitude and I want to snap out of it. Has anyone else been through similar, and if so, any tips for getting back on track?

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Why can't I not loose weight and gain it back quick

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my situation and see if anyone can relate or has any advice. For the past 3 years, my weight has basically stayed the same, no matter what I do. I’ve tried dieting so many times — I’ll be super strict for a while, lose maybe 3–4 kgs (around 6–8 pounds), but then I regain it so fast once "I fall off".

I know a big part of my problem is discipline and consistency. I’ve been on and off so many “cuts” — sometimes I’ll do extreme things like only drink coffee and eat 3 boiled eggs for the whole day. It works for a bit, but obviously it’s not sustainable and I end up binging or slipping back into old habits.

It’s really frustrating because I do want to change. I’m tired of feeling stuck in this cycle of losing a few kilos (pounds) and then putting them right back on. I think I need to learn how to build healthy habits that I can actually stick to long term, but I genuinely don’t know where to start.

If anyone has been in the same boat and actually managed to break out of this loop, I’d love to hear how you did it. How did you build discipline and consistency? How did you find a diet or routine that didn’t make you miserable? Any tips for sustainable weight loss, meal planning, or even mindset shifts would be really appreciated.

Or should I get it checked out like medically thyroid, or something I'm not really sure

Thanks for reading — I really hope someone out there can relate and maybe share something that helps!

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Another thing nobody talks about with weight loss: Dudes and chicks trying to pick up your partner now that they have lost so much weight. I've even had it happen right in front of me!

Y'all, I don't know what to do here. I've now had 3 different people try to pick up my wife even though I am right there with her.

Look, I understand that she's tiny now, but that doesn't mean you can just pick her up and carry her around like some kind of person-shaped ruck pack! I'm smaller now too, why don't they try to pick me up :(

lol, but seriously though, it seems like the first thought people who haven't seen her in a while is to pick her up and carry her around. 3 separate people who don't even know each other have had the same reaction. She thinks it is kinda funny, but also pretty annoying. Just to prove a point, I carried her halfway around the block like a backpack while we were on our walk to get 10k steps. We even jogged part of the way, which is something I haven't done in like 20 years!

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How to talk to people about weight loss

I’ve started on a health journey for myself recently, which I’ve done and failed many many times in my life, but something about this feels different. I have a plan, I know what I need to do, and I mapped out a ton of mini milestones for myself so hopefully I’m never going more than a few weeks without having something to celebrate. And I’ve been sticking with it which is its own cause for celebration.

The one thing I think I’m missing though is emotional support. For various reasons most of the friends and family I would talk to about big changes in my life have their own triggers around the topic of weight and I want to respect their boundaries. But I have no one to share struggles and wins with. I also don’t want my own weight loss to seem to come out of nowhere for them because that could spark problems for them as well. But if I do what I want to do it’s going to be a very big deal.

I don’t know if I’m making any sense, but has anyone else struggled with this? Not having anyone to talk to about weight issues and losses? Any advice?

ETA: I’m not looking for accountability partners here to be clear. Just advice for how to talk to people in your life about your journey.

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Obstacles during weight loss

I'm not sure if this is a common experience because I haven't really seen anyone talk about it. But bloating during a diet or during a calorie deficit. I mean I've had some issues with my digestion for a few years now, but it really started when I began my weight loss journey. I go on a diet and I cannot for the life of me poop. So I'm bloated and uncomfortable constantly and the only thing that works for me is laxatives, and since I'm not seeing any changes on the scale because of my bloating, I lose the motivation to continue my diet and lose weight.

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Loose skin after weight loss

This is probably a stupid question but one of my bigger goals in my weight loss journey is not having a bunch of loose skin after because i wouldn't be able to afford skin removal surgery. I'm 22F, 5'7 and from what I've seen on here this is the perfect age for me to be losing weight since my skin should "bounce back" pretty well if i don't lose the weight too fast. so far I've lost 26 pounds in the last 4 months and i was wondering if that's an okay pace for my goal or if i still have some leg room to increase my deficit? My starting weight was 257lbs for refence with my goal weight being 130lbs and I've been doing a 300 calorie deficit so far. I haven't added heavy exercise into my routine yet, that'll be when I hit 180lbs so it's less stress on my joints.

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Is losing 10lbs in 7 weeks a good weight loss rate?

I am M36 and 5ft 9, I was 177 lbs at the start of my dieting less than two months ago, I'm now 167lbs. Hoping to get down to around 160lbs if I can.

I've been tracking everything I eat on an app, and try to stick to under 1500 calories a day; lots of chicken, salads, replacing white bread with brown, avoiding caffeine and fizzy drinks. Lots of water. No alcohol. I'm exercising quite regularly, biking or treadmilling every 2-3 days and doing floor exercises and lifting 2 & 4kg weights daily.

Is this a good and healthy/sustainable rate of weight loss and overall routine? I've always struggled to maintain dieting but I think I've found a routine that works for me.

I was just curious your thoughts. Thank you kindly.

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disappointment in new body after losing weight, anybody relate?

hey all! i lost a significant amount of weight (was 215 at my highest last year, now i’m 116) and i lost a significant amount of my BOOBS with my weight loss as well. most of my life i’ve been chunky and had a full chest and this is the first time i’ve ever been this tiny and although im happy being able to find cute clothes and dress cuter without hiding, im kind of ashamed of my new body. my boyfriend got with me when I had triple D’s and now Im probably B cup so im kind of embarrassed, although he doesn’t shame or make me feel bad about it. does anybody else relate? how do i navigate trying to love my new body?

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How long should the initial water weight loss last?

Hi! 34M, currently 229.2 pounds, looking to get down to 180. For the last 3 weeks, I've been eating a calorie restricted diet and doing cardio 5 times a week.

I've been averaging a half a pound to 1 pound a day of weight loss. There are days I don't eat enough to hit my calorie goal (1800), and I know that consistently being too low is an issue, but there are also days where an event or something is happening and I blow right past it... and still seem to be right back to losing a day or two after that.

I know the initial loss is water weight, and I also know 1-2 pounds a week max is what's safest. I guess my question is, how long is this rapid weight loss expected/normal, and if it doesn't stop soon, when should I get worried/adjust my calorie goal up a bit? I'm worried about sustainability and loose skin.

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Feeling stuck

Female, 5”6, 25yo, CW: 185lbs. HW: 250lbs. Weight loss journey for about 2 years. Lost 30 in the last 11 months. I’ve been stuck at 185lbs for a few weeks now and feeling frustrated. I’m trying to get down to about 150lbs. I understand the basics of CICO (clearly,) but feel trapped. Do I just move more? Is it that simple? I walk roughly 6miles a day, eat within 1300-1800 calories a day. Swapped my faves for low carb, low or zero cal. Sweeteners don’t spike me (something I learned during pregnancy with GD lol.) Please help. I’m feeling like a failure almost. Been prioritizing protein but it’s hard, I cook for a toddler and myself nightly and she’s not super picky but obviously I have to cater many meals for her. I aim for at least 20g protein per meal.

Would weight training help? Going to an actual gym is a no go at the moment (mom, work full time, in college starting August) but I have some weights at home.

Edit to add: I don’t have the funds for personal trainers or diet coaches. I don’t have the funds for building elaborate in home gyms or anything of the sort. I can afford to spend more time exercising BUT at home. Thanks again.

I just want to finally break the “180”’s. I’ll have immense pride in myself once I do that. I’m tired of being 190 to 180-something. I haven’t been under the 180’s since I was 20.

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I don't know how to stop crashing out on food?

Hello folks, I (M, 25, 142kg/313lbs) don't know how to stop crashing out on food. By that I mean I find myself using food as such a volatile emotional crutch I find myself eating for the sake of the feel of consuming food. Particular and mostly saturated food (Carbs, sugar, fats, dairy etc.). I've had bouts of success in weight loss but it's so short lived, all it takes is one crash out and it kick-starts weeks of poor eating even if I've been eating good for a couple months prior. Everytime I just chalk it up to poor self discipline and beat myself up for it...but that doesn't work either it just makes me care even less about my health. Never been to therapy, doctor or received medicine for it (UK health care) and I don't know if I need to, I don't know if I might have BED, I don't know what really to do. I don't know how to stop using food as such a major emotional response, I have hobbies and go to the gym at least a couple times a week (a bit touch and go tbh) and see friends consistently. I enjoy my work despite the stress it causes (pub manager) and my job keeps me fairly active (20k steps a shift minimum). I don't drive so I walk everywhere, and yet I still find myself consuming 4k cal of food just for dinner because I need to "feel" it.

In short, if anyone has advice, or words of encouragement, it would be appreciated.

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Seeking Weight Loss Advice (PCOS + Exercise Intolerance)

I’m an 18-year-old female, 5’5” and currently around 160 lbs. Over the past year, I’ve gained approximately 40 pounds, largely due to a medication I was previously prescribed. Since stopping it, I’ve struggled significantly to lose the weight, despite efforts to change my diet and lifestyle.

I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which I know can make weight loss more difficult due to insulin resistance and hormonal imbalances. On top of that, I have cardiac issues (possibly POTS I'm currently in the process of getting a diagnoses ) that cause exercise intolerance, making physical activity very challenging. I often experience symptoms like fatigue, extreme shortness of breath, a rapid heart rate (190-220 BPM), and sometimes even blacking out with even mild exertion.

This combination has made it incredibly frustrating to manage my weight. I’m hoping to return to a healthier baseline, both physically and mentally, and would appreciate any science-based advice or personal experiences especially from others who’ve dealt with PCOS or medical limitations that affect physical activity.

Any recommendations for effective low-impact strategies, nutrition plans tailored for hormonal conditions, or even medications/supplements that have worked for others in a similar situation would mean a lot. Thank you.

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I never thought weight loss would be possible for me (mention of diagnosed binge eating disorder)

I won’t get too much into it, but my binge eating was something I could never control. I’d get depressed thinking it would be impossible to lose weight.

This year after an intervention held by my friends, I decided to restart therapy. I had poor experiences with past therapists and was afraid of going back, but my friends helped me realize that I can’t let that fear hold me back.

It took a long time to find someone, but I eventually started to work with a good therapist. I was able to unpack a lot of things I kept inside, and in turn I am sometimes able to control my stress eating.

I took advice from this subreddit as well as other related ones! I focused on hitting my protein and fiber goals instead of calorie counting to avoid obsessing over things. And I did my best to not restrict foods to avoid triggering binges. If I wanted a cookie, I would eat a damn cookie.

I started doing other things as well, like going for walks to clear my mind when I get the urge to eat again. I won’t lie and say things are perfect or that I’m 100% “cured”, but the few weeks I’ve been able to open up about my issues makes me feel a bit lighter.

But anyway, in January I weighed 242lbs/109kg. Yesterday I weighed 234!

I know my weight loss isn’t as impressive as other stories because I lost the eight pounds over the course of months rather than the weeks it takes other people. But I’m still happy for myself. I feel like I’m on a decent path to mental and physical success and I am excited to see where I end up.

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Gotcha, I was the problem. All those years.

The woman who was convinced she had a particular illness that was preventing her from losing weight? Me. The woman who made fun of the “2 portions” label on ready-made products or in recipes? Me. Why do potato chips have an expiration date? Yep. Me.

I spent so much time trying to find reasons why I was gaining or not losing weight. Because it obviously couldn't be because of my eating habits. I cook fresh. That portion of pasta would feed two people? Oh nonsense, that's what I always eat. Did I realize that was exactly the point? No.

Yes. Okey. I finally got a diagnosis in April that explained a lot: ADHD. I had to have blood work done. My doctor asked me if I had ever thought about the weight loss injection. I weighed 120 kg, as a woman of 1.80 m.

Cheeky of him to ask that. I wasn't that fat, for sure. I was given my ADHD medication in May.

And suddenly I realized that I no longer wanted to eat all the time. Not thoughtless snacks all the time. Not chasing dopamine. I cooked myself food and suddenly the portions were too big. I didn't want to eat anymore, even though there was still something on the plate.... Is this what being full feels like? The bag of potato chips will now last me a week. I found an opened packet of cookies in the cupboard that I forgot about. My meal prep now lasts for two days instead of one.

Yes, I have an illness. But not in the way I thought. Now I know what you're always talking about here. Now I know what normal eating feels like. Being full. Being able to say no. Not feeling cravings. Being satisfied.

No longer living between the three apocalyptic questions: What's for breakfast? What's for lunch? Dinner?

Normal amounts of calories. Normal portion sizes. Wow.

I'm now at 112 kg. Guess what, it depends on the calories you put in.

Nevertheless: people, be vigilant. Maybe you really do have a problem that is preventing you from being honest with yourself. Get some help. We can make it.

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