Guidance need in losing weight.

So a little background, I started going to a personal trainer last July when I realized that I weighed 397lbs, a full 50 lbs over where I thought I was. My diet was really consisted of 1-2 meals a day of not the best food. So I've been working with him regularly and I'm stronger than I've ever been (even when I played football in high school!), but the weight still isn't coming off. In addition to going to gym 2x a week with him, I walk my dog 4 miles a day and study filipino martial arts.

So I made an appointment through my insurance to meet with a nutritionist and he gave me a 2200-2500 calorie a day guideline to work with. And working with that, I was able to lose 10 lbs last month between doctors appointments (yay me!).

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But the last couple weeks, I've been stuck in the 365 range. I want to be more serious about my food intake and calorie counting, so I can lose weight more consistently (but still safely), so I started lurking this sub where I learned about the app Lose It and BMR and TDEE.

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Lose It put me on 2900 calories a day and when I calculated out my BMR it came to 2726 and my BMR 4158.

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So my questions are (and thank you in advance for anyone that can help me make sense of all of this)

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1. Am I being unrealistic in expecting more of a weight loss, while at the same time doing so much weight lifting and HIIT?
2. Should I aim for the 2900 a day budget Lose It gave me, or should I aim for under that? And how does the exercise bonus factor into this?
3. I have the hardest time eating 2900 calories a day. What are some ways to bump up my calorie count healthily?

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I want to lose weight

Hello,

Due to the nature of my irl situation I am bored and lonely most of the time. Which leads to me eating. As a kid I've always been a bad eater. I would hardly eat any vegetables and i hardly ever liked anything.

Now a fast jump forward to now. For the past years I have been very reckless with my eating. Especially the first years I gave no f*ck." I will never get fat" I thought. Needless to say I did. I am a big fan of junk food and I like to order food from these places and have them delivered to my home. I also often go to supermarkets to buy many sodas, colas, energy drinks and buy cookies or candy or whatever I feel like eating that day.

The stats: I'm male, 22,170 cm (5''7?) and today I was 87,7 kg (193 lbs) i have been swinging between 85-88 kgs for the past year atleast. I check my weight daily and freak out when I am 88 kg and then I would drop to like 85 and be like "I can order some food now'' and then after that meal I'll check again and I'll be like 87 and be like" oh shit better start loosing it again" this is basically me right now. Now as I have understood it weight doesn't mean all right? With this lifestyle my weight might stay roughly the same but my body keeps storing more fat right?

My ideal weight goal would be to drop to healthy bmi, which is I believe 72 kg. But my dream weight would be under 70 kg even. This would mean I have to lose 18 - 20 kg (39-44 lbs) that is for weight, I also want to look thinner again. I often look at pictures of me from before I gained weight and it makes me really sad and makes me believe I will never look like this. But how can I say that without even trying?

Problem is that I just don't know how to tackle this.. I read the wikis on this reddit and I get a general idea but the main thing that scares me is how much I love this food. Whilst I think about how bad I feel about being fat at the same time I'm thinking about what my next order is going to be or what I feel like eating it's almost comical how contradictory my mind is. I honestly think I have a food addiction and I was wondering if people relate to this and how they dealt with the urge to eat food.

I also have a question about exercise, I have a no contract gym membership which basically means that I pay as I go. I don't go to the gym often. Essentially maximum 1 day a week where I would go for 1-1,5 hour and dip. There's a small area where you can do spinning with a pre recorded video and I found out I quite enjoy it and it seems effective. It's heavy, but its working. But I was wondering, is this enough to maintain muscle and lose fat? Cause you don't really train any muscle other than your legs, can you maintain muscle and strictly lose fat by doing just spinning and cardio? Or do I really have to start lifting and other muscle training exercises?

I guess this also means that this will be day 1 for me. I kept thinking "just 1 more order and I'll do it" or "the year is almost over I'll just make 2019 my year. December is a month of cheating anyway '' but that is stupid. I've made these excuses too many times and they made me to what I am today. An unhappy lonely guy who is now also fat.

Tl:dr: I love junk food and I have gone severely overweight. Unsure how to battle weight loss and hoping to get answers to these questions; When having a bad diet whilst trying hard to maintain the same weight do I still get physically fatter? Advice on how to deal with food addiction? Can I do just spinning+cardio to maintain muscle and strictly lose fat or do I have to start lifting too?

This is the start of my weight loss journey and I'm nervous.

Ps. These questions might just be the most standard and obvious ones to find answers for so if my post is bad please let me know..

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50 lbs down, face gains are making me feel confident again!

Here is my face progress picture.

Height: 5’2” SW: 218lbs CW:168 GW: 128

I’ve started the weight loss process for a year now and it doesn’t seem like 50lbs is a lot, but that’s 50lbs less I’m hauling around! I’ve plateaued for a few months but I’m getting back on it.

I try to exercise 3-5x a week, eat 1500-1800 calories a day and sneak in as many veggies as I can. I had some trouble with depression and anxiety, but as soon as I found the right medication and therapist, I became myself again. Determined, hard-working, and caring. If you have either of those, I highly suggest finding someone who can help you. It can help you immensely.

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Is MyFitnessPal wrong?

So I've been starting my weight loss journey for a few weeks now. Basically starting one thing and then working in other parts of the diet.

I started with the intermittent fasting, doing 8-10 hours of eating then fasting the rest of the time. I would like to cut that down to a solid 8 but that's going to be hard due to my work and sleep schedule (40 minute commute and a 5 month and 2 year old). So far that's going well.

I started calorie tracking with MyFitnessPal and the app suggested that I needed to consume 1900 calories a day to lose 1 lb a week. That can't be right can it? I work at a desk with very little movement so I'm just skeptical. I've been tracking about 1300 calories a day and not been hungry. I figure I'm actually above that because of the two year old always giving me bites of his food. But there's no way the 1900 a day would really help me lose a pound a week would it?

Once the 5 month old starts sleeping better I hope to start working out.

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How can I lose fat while gaining muscle?

I am really trying to get more fit and was inspired by this buzzfeed video where the employees decrease their body fat percentage. Which influenced me a lot on how to look towards my weight loss goal and how to handle eating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNQ8ZKq9QQo&t=544s

However, I am confused on how to achieve this since I don't know how much protein, carbs, and fat I should be eating while trying to lose weight. I was hoping to do keto but I don't have access to a kitchen in my dorm(just a microwave oven) and was wondering if anyone had any sort of advice. I have also started working out recently and really enjoying it so don't really have a problem in that department.

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junk food, redbull, coffee and cigarettes, dangerous weight loss

basically this is all I have been consuming for a while, like month or two, I kinda started to loose weight when I stopped using antidepressants, benzos etc stuff. But now it's getting pretty scary, I eat almost every junk food, few weeks ago I was eating only mcdonalds, drinking coffee, redbull and smoking 2 packs a day. A couple of people been telling me I look skinny and now I kinda see it. It's not healthy, somedays I feel like shit because I am kinda addicted to caffeine now, but I am also starting to worry that I might have some kinda of cancer or something.. It's scary, jeans that used to be good 3 months ago now are falling off even with belt...

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How to deal with annoying co-workers?

I had a really uncomfortable situation with a co-worker today, we’ll call her ‘Jane’. So Jane has somewhat of a reputation for being quite loud and abrasive and many of my other colleagues have complained about how annoying she is. For context she is a normal healthy weight, and about 16 years older than me (which she frequently points out to me). Anyways so I went over to Janes desk today to ask her something work related, and she literally took one look at me and shrieked and exclaimed (so that everyone in the vicinity heard) ‘oh my god you’ve lost so much weight!’ I smiled and said something like ‘oh yeah thanks I have lost a bit yeah.’ She then got this really weird look and continued: ‘no no you’ve lost so much, and way too fast. Too much, too fast!!!’ I said that I hadn’t lost very much, and that it’s taken me over 5 months; all the while trying to diffuse the situation as Jane was basically shouting and causing a massive scene. I kind of just shrugged it off, and tried to change the subject to a work issue which worked for a few minutes and then she just goes ‘I barely recognise you, you’ve lost so much weight.’ I pointed out that we see each other nearly every day in kind of a jokey way, and then she just goes ‘okay but don’t lose anymore okay?’ in a kind of fake concerned tone. I kind of just smiled and changed the subject back to work again, and then managed to escape back to my work area.

Besides the fact that this whole scene was pretty embarrassing for me, it’s the last comment that really pissed me off. How can a normal weight person (or anybody really) tell an OBESE person to not lose any more weight? That’s so fucked up…I really wanted to tell her that my BMI is 31 and that I need to lose more weight for my health, and that it’s not a vanity thing but the whole thing was so embarrassing I just wanted the whole conversation to end.

I know it’s going to come up again, and she’ll probably cause another scene as I still have about 40 pounds to lose before I’m even at a healthy BMI. My question to you guys is have you dealt with similar situations with colleagues/friends/family members and how do you deal with it? Do you explain your weight loss journey or just shrug it off or what? I just can’t get over how messed up it is to tell an overweight person to not lose weight. Why would she say this?

TLDR: co-worker made a massive scene at work about my weight loss and then told me (an obese person) not to lose any more weight. How to deal the next time she does this?

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