Not the typical question

Heyo. I have a question about a huge weight loss change that happened to me. Let me start this off by saying I am currently 18 and my max weight was 260 pounds back in 2016. I am 6 foot 2 also. I am now currently 170 pounds. I'm happy with the weight loss, but it almost seems too good to be true.

My whole life I have been the big kid. It was 2015 when I tried making a change. I joined weight training. I weighed 220 pounds. I worked out every day and never lost weight. I actually gained weight, some muscle but still mostly fat.

Fast forward to 2016 and I'm 260 pounds. I'm still in weight training class and cannot lose weight. I started only eating 1 meal a day. Wasn't proud of it, but after awhile I lost appetite in food. I never have really looked at food the same way as I use to. I became depressed that i couldnt lose weight. I also picked up smoking bud. But when spring came, everything changed.

In spring, i got out of school and got to live in a different state with a friend. Everyday I ate junk food for meals, and quit working out. The workout I got was hanging out with friends all night walking the small city. One day I stepped on my friends weight scale, and noticed I lost 15 pounds within the two weeks living with my friend. I weighed 245. It was shocking, but the thing I always wanted.

I had a family vacation in southwestern Montana. I spent everyday touring the beautiful landscape. I went white water rafting multiple times and went tubing down the river that runs through Missoula. I ended up going back to my friends house for the rest of the summer. Ate the same diet, either tacojohns or McDonalds. But when I got on the scale, I weight 215. By the end of the summer, I weighed 190. It was amazing.

I came back to school and everybody was amazed. Everybody asked how I did it, and I didnt have an explanation but hanging with friends and eating junk food. Fast forward to today, and I weigh 170. I dont know how I lost this weight. I eat 2 meals a day. Active in weight training. Quit smoking bud. And am still confused why I lost all this weight. I dont know if I should be concerned or not considering I lost that much weight that fast.

Anyways thanks for reading this. I am on mobile so sorry for format.

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Plateauing for no seemingly obvious reasons ?

So I've been on a diet for a while now but only started counting calories and weighting myself recently.

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I'm 1m69 (5'6) and right now I weight 70.9kg (156lbs). Most of that is muscle but I still have a good subcutaneous layer of fat I'm trying to lose but I'm just stuck at that weight right now (Last week was 70.7 and the week before was 71.1).

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My BMR should be around 1600 kcal. I usually walk 1 to 3 hours a day every day and run 7 to 10 km about 2 to 3 times every week. I've been holding at 1400 kcal a day, weighing everything I eat and using Lifesum to count calories but I'm still hardstuck and I don't really know what to do. I do eat large amounts of food but like 85% of it is just vegetables like salad, tomatoes, onions or stuff like that.

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Typical day:

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Breakfast => 200g of 0% fat cottage cheese (92 kcal)

=> 300g of red bean soup (150 kcal)

=> 250ml of almond vanilla milk (108 kcal)

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Lunch => 300g of lentils (228 kcal)

=> Onions, Carottes, Spinach, Tomatoe (60-80ish kcal)

=> Chicken or Fish (200ish kcal)

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Dinner => Noodles (350 kcal)

=> Bell pepper, Carottes, Cucumber, bean sprouts, onions (100-120ish kcal)

=> Eggs and/or Chicken dumplings (200-300ish kcal)

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Sometimes I eat a bit of chocolate. Whenever I walk a lot I feel really hungry so I plus one the portions to make up for the effort but always stay within 1k4 and yet no weight loss. Should I just go even lower ? My sugar levels are already kinda low and I don't really feel that hungry anymore but I probably would if I went down to 1k2.

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Thank you very much for your time reading this !

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Beginner to weight loss, really need help!

I am 18, and am sick of being overweight. I am around 5'11" and am around 200 pounds. The main problem I have with trying to lose weight is I don't know what I should be eating. I want to be on a healthy meal plan, which can allow me to shed weight. Not necessarily a strict diet but I've heard of quick and easy things like meal prepping which I need help with. I have no clue what I should be eating, so any help is appreciated. I see lots of meal prep guides to gain muscles, but in reality I'm just trying to lose weight first and foremost. Also, should I just be working on cardio for 30-45 minutes a day? Is using a treadmill or elliptical okay? Thanks for all the help on my dumb questions!

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I need help dealing with loose skin

Over the past 3.5 years I’ve gone from 5’5, 228lbs to 148lbs. With 80 pounds gone, I feel like I’m inching towards the end of my weight loss goals. I’m extremely proud of the progress I’ve made, but I’m having a lot of trouble with that one drawback of weight loss: loose skin.

Before, it was easy to tell myself “you’ll look better in ten pounds” but I’m running out of pounds to lose and I’m asking those of you who have been in my shoes: what did you do?

For additional context: I’m 23 years old, I drink water like I think I’m going into the desert for the foreseeable future (I always see that water and being young should help skin elasticity).

I’ve just started using mederma to try to lighten the stretch marks. I definitely don’t do as much ab work as I should- would that help? I don’t have enough skin to consider surgery, just enough to fuck with my body image a bit!

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Confusion and Inconsistency

Hello; Ive been a reddit reader for a long time but just got around to making an account a few days ago.
I think that r/loseit is an amazingly supportive and motivational group of people, and so maybe Ill get some insightful feedback by sharing this situation.
I am currently 25 and have always had problems with my weight. I was a skinny kid until around 10 or so and then just kept ballooning out from there. The worst was in grade 8, just before heading to high school where I was around 180 - 190 lbs. In highschool I got severely depressed - weight being a large factor. I started fires, was aggressive, and socially isolated myself. Eventually I stopped going to school and just stayed in my room. No one in my house interacted with eachother in a positive way. No one noticed I stopped going to school or even leaving my room. I think I ate the equivalent of one loaf of bread over the course of 1-2 months. Went to a new school in grade 11 at 111 lbs (I hadn't noticed the gr 11 / 111 lb til I wrote this teehee) and was proud and guilty at the same time for losing the weight. I have never done any sort of upkeep on my health. The food in my house was all artificial crap and Id been responsible for making my own meals since I was 8-10 yrs old. I never really learned proper nutrition - I was interested in sports / exercise for a bit but gym teachers kind of quashed that for me by making me the fat example ''don't do it like this'' *points at me* lol... Anywhoo I`m 25 now, and have been slowly gaining weight since I initially dropped it all at once. I stuck around 130-140 for a while - but I weighed myself the other day and was really just shocked to see Id hit 180 again (i don't own a scale and was curious when i saw one - i don't habitually weigh myself). I worry that my spouse is growing disgusted with me, and In the last couple years Ive tried on and off to build healthier habits but they end up tapering off and being forgotten until i get a new rush of enthusiasm and then i restart.
I don't just want to lose weight - I want to be healthy. I want to be able to lift things, and run. I have some physiological problems where Ill get frequently subluxation of the patella causing dislocation from things like i put my foot down the wrong way while walking upstairs kind of thing. So Im confused and apprehensive about the types of exercise I need to do and maybe have motivational issues? r/loseit seems to be more for pursuing dietary weight loss , if there are any other subreddit suggestions Id like to hear it. I guess Im a little frustrated because my "easy" options for weight loss are already being done (i think / as far as i know). I try to avoid processed food, excessive sugar, unhealthy fats. fast food isnt a financial option for me and i don't really enjoy it. I try to eat a can of fish a day and take a multi vitamin and a wild salmon oil supplement (lots of fish oil needed for joint health). When in the past i have tried a food diary or counting calories, I rarely went above 2000 with no effort, and averaged around 1700. recently Ive resumed my diary and am aiming for <1400 cal / day (my resting consumption is around 1450).
I guess Id just like to hear the thoughts of this community on this - I am very much open to criticism and would appreciate it framed in a way i can learn and work from.

cheers

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Need advice! Calorie counting during pregnancy / losing weight while trying for a baby?

So my husband and I are going to start trying for a baby. I'm actually not at the weight I wanted to be, though I already lost a lot of weight compared to when we got together (lost like 77 lbs, am now at around 185lbs).

Now I know during the pregnancy, weight loss is not what I will aim for. But I'm also afraid of gaining a ton of weight during it, so I want to continue counting calories just to keep control of my habits. I read that you only have to raise the calories above maintenance about 250 or so and only after the 6th month. So I'm gonna go with maintenance for starters.

But until I'm confirmed pregnant, can I go on with my calorie limit of between 1200 - 1500/day? Or could that be potentially harmful to a baby that I don't know exists yet? (btw I do not restrict what I eat, I only count calories)

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No weight loss

Hello everyone, so I'm M | 160 CM ( 5'3 ) | 85 KG ( 187 pound )
I started a diet at 9/20/2018 and I've been eating 800-1200 calorie since then. I have a very severe sedentary life style, I Work from home and I sit over 10 hours on my chair.

since then I've lost roughly 2 Kg ( 4.5 pounds ) in 2 weeks, but for the past week and til now, my weight is literally not moving below 85, sometimes it goes up to 86-87 for a day then drops to 85. I'm pretty confident with my calorie counting, I usually add some extra calories to my counting so I can be sure that I'm not overeating. I drink plenty of water, sometimes 3 liters a day, but never below 2.

Could it be that 800-1200 is too much for me? since I barely move? Should I eat less? I really don't know what to do now, I feel like I've hit a wall and I have no idea how to overcome it since I don't know what's the problem.

Thank you!

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