I've been trying to lose weight all year and I've made zero progress, I am starting to think I should just quit.

I’m 5’3” aka 160ish centimeters and 181 pounds aka 82 kilograms. I am also a 19 year old AFAB person. The last time I posted was 2 months ago and I was 183.9 pounds. I don't think this is a celebration for me because I weighed 181 back at the beginning of the year, and that was after I got my top surgery that took off the extra fat. I'm just right back where I started and honestly I think I should just quit.

I genuinely feel like I've tried everything. I eat healthy foods with vegetables for dinner and fruits for breakfast. I haven't touched anything sugary in weeks. I do over 20 minutes of exercise every single day that consist of moving around a LOT and I walk around my neighborhood pretty much every day. I genuinely don't know what more I could be doing here.

I'm trying to talk with my doctors to speak to a proper nutritionist and make a proper diet for myself, but I don't think it would work. My metabolism is slower than a turtle and even when I am doing my best to only eat the proper serving sizes, I don't know if it would work if my body is too slow to catch up.

I don't want to let myself go and gain another 20 pounds like what happened over the past couple of years or so, I want to keep on trying to work this out and keep at this weight loss thing. My doctors keep telling me that I'm perfectly fine and the only thing that's "wrong" with me is that I'm technically obese, and I'm not even at risk of diabetes. But I don't care about that. I've been trying to do this for almost ten months now and I see no changes in myself. It just makes me hate my body even more.

I want to think I'm just not doing enough, though. That I'm not eating as healthily as I could be, or my slip ups are building up faster than I think they are, or that my exercising routine isn't good enough. I want the problem to be something in my control, so I can fix it myself. There's not a lot of natural ways of making your metabolism speed up and even though I am taking meds for ADHD, I am terrified of taking meds for my weight specifically. What I've heard scares me too much for me to think about it seriously.

I really hope my doctor answers me back soon, because if I do have to resort to medication I might actually cry.

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