Stuck and slowly gaining... Advice?

Hey friends, just posting for some advice. I feel stuck and very defeated.

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Due to a very deep depression in the end of 2017/start of 2018 I was absolutely immobilized by depression and I put on 45 pounds. My normal weight is a muscular 120-125 pounds and I'm 5'2'' for reference so for someone of my size, it's a significant amount of weight to gain. Before that I was in very good health, active, eating well etc.

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It was awful, but slowly I came out of my depression and over the course of about 7 months of stop and go dieting (CICO, OMAD) and exercise (cycling, walking) I was able to lose about 25 pounds. I would be on top of things for a month and then just... fall off... spend three weeks eating way too much and not really working out at all until I would snap out of it and get back on track.

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It took me FOREVER to get below 140 but I eventually did, and weight loss slowed down. By then it was around the holidays and I was also preparing for a big move (to a different country) and I just kind of stalled under 140.

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It's been almost four months here in my new country of residence and I just can't seem to lose the last 20 pounds (I gained about 5 back). I joined a gym and it's been fits and starts again, cardio... eating well and then just completely falling off. It's been about two weeks now of just really poor eating habits and very low activity and I am just terrified that I won't get back on track and that I am going to gain all of the weight back.

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The most frustrating thing for me is that the progress at this point is just so S L O W. It's so hard to go to the gym everyday and be really mindful of what I am eating only to see the scale move like... a half a pound in two weeks. It just doesn't add up... and so after a few weeks of really being healthy and active I slip up with some pastries or something and then it's just all downhill from there.

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I know I am capable of losing weight, I have done so before but as it stands right now my motivation/discipline is shot. This is probably a very repetitive post but, I'm just hoping someone out there might have some advice. I'm so glad that this community exists because even when I am at my lowest, I still can come on here and have hope :)

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Any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks :)

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Dealing with anxiety after huge weight loss

Hello /r/loseit

I've been losing weight and getting into shape for the better of 3/4 years on / off, over this time I have gone from my max weight of 158KG to currently at a nice healthy 85KG.

I feel amazing, I've been getting much better sleep, I can breathe, I can run for miles now, last Sunday I did had a nice Little walk which I could not even do 1/2 miles before, life is amazing!

Heres the kicker, I am now getting much more attention than I previously got which is great and all but I'm finding social interactions harder now I've lost weight. When i was large I had pretty good confidence talking to people because I had more of a "I don't give a fuck" attitude towards everything, now I don't know how to handle social interactions since I've started to care about myself. it's really annoying me as I want the confidence of fat Jaxiki but not the body of Fat Jaxiki.

Heres a comparison not sure of the weight on the left.

I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, how did you all deal with it?

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I restarted my ‘daily boogie’ today and it feels amazing

So I’ll put this out there - I’m not the biggest exercise fan. I do a pretty active job (cleaning) so I feel this offsets any lack of exercise I do when I’m not at work. I like walking and stuff but don’t do any gym or running sessions. However, most mornings I used to enjoy a bit of a dancing session in my kitchen which I called my daily boogie.

I haven’t done this for a while and noticed my weight loss slowing down to about a pound a week for the last month, whether my daily boogie helped or not I don’t know - but it can do no harm so this morning I started again and getting that early boost of ‘exercise’ really hyped me up and made me feel good. I’m going to keep going and hope it has a positive effect on my weight loss journey

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Overcoming binge eating advice?

Female, 18, 5'4, 130-135 lb

I am not overweight but I would still like to change my eating habits. I used to be less than 110 pounds and have a relatively good relationship with food; after unnecessary dieting due to insecurity (which now amazes me because I was already fine before, what was I thinking?) my weight has increased. I am trying so hard to overcome binge-eating. I don’t know if mine is severe but I often eat until my stomach physically hurts and I’m close to throwing up. It has caused me stomach discomfort, acid reflux, nausea, and just really makes me feel bad overall; I eat out of boredom and I turn to it for comfort when it is the very thing that makes me uncomfortable! I really hope I can just regain my healthy relationship with food and overcome my obsession. I think a little bit of weight loss would come naturally with ending my binge-eating, but that is no longer my main concern. Any advice would just be great!

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My weight loss goal is really helping me feel productive while I'm working through some tough personal issues.

I've been on my weight loss journey for almost two weeks and have had an almost perfect run of 8/16 intermittent fasting days. My weight went up when I began Seroquel back in 2014 and, while it saved my life and it works wonderfully with Wellbutrin (after 20 different med combos didn't work), it also ballooned me up to 235 pounds at my worst. I'm currently at 205 pounds, down nearly 10 pounds from two weeks ago (and down 30 pounds from my worst in 2016). Also, after taking two weeks off from the gym to get acclimated to intermittent fasting, I'm going back on my workout routine tomorrow. It's all cardio (I can't lift because of a bad neck injury I had years ago) and I love it. I've been stuck at 210-215 for the past year and being at 205 is really encouraging.

What sparked me to finally get serious about getting back to my goal weight was that I've had a bunch of really shitty things happen recently and I am trying my best to do everything humanely possible to get back on track and get my physical and mental health in good shape. I had been working full time as a drug and alcohol counselor and left last month due to an unsafe work environment and horrible management. It's not a huge deal, I found a part-time gig the same week and am enjoying the new job until I begin grad school in the fall. Grad school had always been the plan, it will just be the full time plan now instead of part time with a full time job. I have not received the result of my admission yet (they decide in May) but my grades were awesome, GRE was solid, and I was in a bunch of honors organizations. I went back to college at 31 and got my BA in Psychology last year and want to be a licensed therapist.

Leaving the full time job really hurt and I've been battling a huge depression spiral. I've been doing everything I can to fight it - I have a new therapist, new psychiatrist, going to 12-step meetings, starting Tai Chi in a week, have numerous friend groups I'm being social with, am an active member of a really good church, I'm working on creating music and will be recording in a few weeks, being an awesome owner to my dog, etc.

With most of these things, the results are really hard to quantify. The fact that this weight loss journey is totally numbers is really helping me know that every day, even if everything sucks, every day I stick to the diet I am losing weight and feeling better physically.

I am really grateful to this community. I hope to be at my goal weight by the end of summer when I begin grad school!

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3 months of progress! M, 5’6”, 150lbs -> 140lbs

Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/EN8OV7L

As I’m sure you can tell, most of my transformation has came from muscle gain rather than weight loss. I have never really been an athletic person, but I realized this was the root of my poorly shaped body. I wasn’t happy with the way I looked out of a shirt even though I have always been a decent weight.

After doing some research of my own I realized I was what is called “skinny fat”. I started reading books on nutrition and studying how to workout and what workouts to do. I ended up following strong lifts 5x5 and counting my macros. To this day, that is all I do [with a bit of running here and there] and I am loving the results.

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