How to efficiently lose fat as a teenager while still eating the nutrients your body needs to grow up?

Some context: Male, 14 year old, 5'10''/1.79 m, 170 lbs/77 kg, and Asian (I don't know if this is important but a lot of weight loss websites force you to enter your ethnicity so it must be some kind of a factor).

I don't look fat on paper but I have very skinny arms (11" biceps or something, maybe even less) and fat thighs, calves, hips, and belly. I have this weird kind of hourglass shape and I hate it. I started exercising a few months ago but cannot stick to a schedule and have heard that, no matter how hard I exercise, it really all depends on what I eat so, here I am.

My dad took a vegetables and water only (I think) diet and lost 15 kg in a few months with no exercise. Now, I'm not going into this expecting those kind of results, because I know that my dad probably didn't get much protein during the diet (as it comes mainly from meat in your food) and I don't want those kind of diets; the ones that sacrifice certain nutrients. I want to grow up healthy, not restricting the nutrients my body needs while still losing weight. Are there any good diets that I can get on that don't necessarily have me ditching certain nutrients?

Also, just thought I'd mention this, I don't have a very good eating pattern right now. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. Today for example, I had no breakfast, rice and lentils at 12 pm and then a fatty meal of chicken wings with extra creamy ceasar sauce at 4 and I'll probably eat some more during the rest of the day. I usually have no breakfasts and I've heard that people see significant changes just by eating some breakfast in the morning. Is that true?

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Gained back 30lbs after major weight loss - Need advice!

My Before & After

Years ago I worked my ass off (literally) to go from 285lbs down to 160lbs. I maintained that weight for about three years with no issue. Then I was prescribed Risperidone, and I gained 30-40lbs in six weeks. My doctor told me that Risperidone is notorious for weight gain, because it lowers your metabolism drastically rather than just increasing your appetite.

I don’t fit in my clothes anymore, I feel awful and very self conscious. I worked so hard to lose all that weight and keep it off, then suddenly I’m back to 200lbs in less than two months.

I have been trying to restrict my calories even more than usual and increasing my exercise, but I cannot seem to lose even a single pound. With my extra work and fewer calories, I’m only able to maintain my heavier weight and stop the scale from climbing.

Has anyone else gone through this? How do you compete with medication? My only goal is to get back into my clothes, to lose about 30lbs.

I’m 5’ 4”, I consume about 1200 calories a day or less, and moderately exercise when I’m able to (3-4 times a week).

If anyone has any advice, tips, or even just some motivation, I would greatly appreciate it. My doctor basically shrugged his shoulders and didn’t offer me very much help or guidance to lose the weight I’ve gained back.

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Motivation lost

What do you guys do to remotivate yourselves? I’ve been working out regularly for since the end of July with the exception of the last 3 weeks. I got a personal trainer and his workouts aren’t hard they aren’t anything I haven’t done in the past and I can get through them with minimal struggling.... but when they’re over I feel awful. After our first workout a month ago I passed out and wrecked my face pretty badly. Now I get anxiety every time I walk in the gym, I feel like shit working out, I can’t find the motivation to get through it and I tap out early. Even working out alone now I wind up quitting mid way or get hit with a wave of the fuck it’s and don’t even go. I’m back up to 270 from 259 and haven’t felt this frustrated about weight loss or working out since I started. I’ve let my diet slip and I drank for the first time in months today. I have a training session @ 8 in the morning and honestly don’t want to even go. Honestly the loss of motivation it hurts like a heart break for some reason. How the hell do you get back on the horse when you’ve fallen so hard?

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Females, how do you deal with PMS/hormonal hunger?

In the first two weeks of my cycle I don’t find it too hard to stick to my healthy eating, and am not too hungry. However in the last two weeks (basically as soon as I ovulate) my appetite skyrockets, plus I seem to just adopt a more irritable, and therefore ‘fuck it’ mood. This means a) I’m starving all the time, even after I’ve eaten , and b) my willpower is just lower generally. I really feel like it’s ruining my weight loss, but on those days, particularly right before my period, it feels almost impossible to resist salty, greasy foods. I actually sometimes feel sick from hunger until I’ve eaten something substantial. Plus I’m generally more bloated and lazy, so exercise is also much more difficult.

Anyone else?

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Kinda lost all motivating to keep going to the gym and meal prep since my soon to be ex husband cheated on me...what can I do to get back on track?

I know it's not exactly a regular post but over the summer I had crafted a plan and was happy. Gym 3-5 days a week, healthy eating under ever circumstance and it was great...till my husband tells me use his computer and all the evidence was there in an open browser like a true idiot.

It's thrown me into a 3 month depression that I just don't see any way out of. I've replaced the gym with overtime, I'm eating out more again but I'm ordering healthy much as I can but it's not all the time, I've lost some weight but not much since this started and if I'm being honest what I've lost since this stated tends to go back and forth.

I've stagnated and I'm unhappy. I just don't care about anything related to my health for the most part. I'm not gorging myself in sweets food and soda like before but I'm also not cooking most of my meals currently. I stop eating when I'm full and save the rest but I'm not forcing myself to finish anything so there's that at least.

I was so happy with all my progress. Dropping pant sizes and an entire shirt size and now i just look at myself in the mirror and go "eh" this isn't how I planned for my weight loss journey to end but it seems to have.

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Who wants to lose weight together? Or good support groups available?

Same old story, I used to always be a little chubbier but as I grew older I grew bigger too. Huge stress-eater and food was my best friend for years. Then my battle with weight loss started, 2 years ago I lost 35+kg which I ended up gaining back like the idiot I am. Now I need to do that again. I know I can because I did it once. I learned from my mistakes and now know better. I recently started my pastry chef/baker studies and yes that's not really what I needed right now. We get to try every day fresh delicious things we make. Everyone in my class complains of gaining weight. I plan to limit down my calories so I can have my meals but also have enough calorie deficit to be able to try my creations without it affecting my diet. But I'd like some support too. I can support you too. Or just anyone who understands. Preferably Facebook because it's the only thing I check every day since I joined this month for my college class group so I can't ditch or forget to check it.

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How did nobody notice how big I was?

So I've been dealing with some frustration recently about people not seeming to notice my weight loss. I started loosely tracking calories around August 2017 (emphasis on loosely), and really doubled down and started taking it really seriously this summer. I don't have an exact reference for how long it's taken me to lose since the beginning was such slow and sometimes nonexistent progress, but I know that I started out at approximately 220lbs. As of this morning, I've lost 48lbs and weighed in at 171.2lbs.

This has been the hardest and most rewarding thing I've done, and I've completely changed my relationship with food and my body in the process. Most days I'm really proud of myself even though I know how much farther I still have to go. But nobody in my life has said anything about my weight loss, and it's driving me a little crazy! I know it takes longer for them to notice than it did for me, but I feel like I look so different and have lost multiple clothing sizes.

I was discussing my frustration with this with my therapist a week or so ago, and she said that if I hadn't told her how much I lost, she would have thought I lost around 10 pounds, and when I mentioned this to one of my good friends she said she felt the same way. I'm purely baffled by this - I guess I should be happy that nobody seemed to see me as being as fat as I was, but it's really cramping my style that that means I'm not getting any outside encouragement or congratulations, and it's making me doubt whether the changes I think I'm seeing in the mirror are something I'm fabricating to make myself feel like I'm making progress.

I don't know what I'm looking for with this post, maybe commiseration, or assurance that that will change as I continue to lose? Basically I want to know if anyone else has experienced this, or if there's a reason that I'm getting those comments. Help??

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