Why can‘t I lose weight?

I am a 16 year old female. I'm about 5.4 feet tall (165cm) and at the moment I weight about 130 pounds (58-59kg). I don't tink that I do much exercise. I walk about 9-10 000 steps a day, do some squats almost every day (to keep that booty growing) and play volleyball ~5 times a week for ~3 hours. I'm trying to control what I eat (I try not to eat sugars although I buy hematogen a few times a week), I don’t eat pies, cakes, noodles, buns (stuff that contains a lot of carbs) and I try to minimalise my portions. For breakfast I usually eat homemade banana-strawberry-vanilla soya milk smoothie, and one bigger and one smaller meal for dinner and supper. I have been doing this for a couple of months now and I lost about 13lbs (6kg) so far. I certainly haven't gotten fatter, in fact, my belly is smaller, I don't have any back fat anymore but my tights and arms still feel pretty big at the moment. What can I do to improve and make my weight loss faster? Am I doing something wrong? Bikini season is here and I just want to have a body I am proud of...

°English isn't my first language so I apologise for my mistakes. 

°And no, I don't have the ability to go to the gym. I was a professional horse rider but a year ago I had to take a break. I will start taking riding lessons next week so that's another sport that will maybe help me improve my current condition.

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Sticking to nutrition goals when your partner eats poorly?

I've gained quite a bit of weight in my adult life (stopped sports, started a sedentary desk job) and for the past year or so have really been struggling to lose weight and yo-yo-ing pretty consistently.

I've recently gotten back into athletics which is great, but of course we all know you can't out train a poor diet. I've always struggled with self-control with food, whether it be portion sizes, junk food, snacking etc., and have always had a rocky relationship in general with food with an on and off relationship with binge eating.

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I live with my significant other of 5+ years who knows about my struggles with weight loss and food, and is also overweight himself. However, my big struggle with yo-yo-ing comes back to my self control issue, which is heavily, heavily tested by my significant other. While I'm trying really hard to home cook healthy meals, and eat healthier and appropriate portions - I'll come home to takeout I would obviously much prefer to eat...pizza, Thai, burgers, you name it. I'll always be fine, while annoyed to start, but then eventually I feel like I just fold and eat poorly for another period of time.

I've tried talking to my partner about this, and while he says he understands, nothing really changes. I just feel frustrated and defeated, and am wondering if anyone else deals/has dealt with this kind of situation, and what I can do to try and make my health journey easier in this regards?

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How long are you lasting?

Background: I'm two years in, down 50+ lbs - sometimes losing the same few pounds, but differently due to exercise (example, I was the same weight last year and ecstatic to fit into mens XL shirts and women's L shorts, now at the same weight, I fit into size men's S shirts and Medium/Small women's shorts.) The plan previously was to get to medium then go on maintenance for a few months, then get to small. Instead, I got to medium and kept pushing hard until my body was like, eh, no. I got the flu, lost 10lbs, gained back 20 during recovery and I decided to slow down a bit. Which put things in maintenance, as I tried different things to make a new cutting meal plan.

I got a plan I could enjoy and started my cut in late Feb, and I've lost 18lbs so far. The plan was to lose 20lbs by August, each month adding a new element to keep things moving.

The last two weeks I've stalled, so I had a refeed day yesterday. I notice I tend to break plateaus by drastically upping calories for a day or two. I want to keep going through August, to see what kind of weight loss can be achieved with this meal plan that has been working the best I've seen of all I've tried thus far.

After August, I plan on going on to maintenance through October, go super aggressive in November to prepare for the five pounds people seem to inevitably gain in December. In January, start again with this same meal plan I'm on, but switch up my workout mix through March, after which I'll review and figure things out from there.

I remember a time when I was meal to meal. Then day to day. Exercise wise, it started a few minutes to a few minutes, then workout to workout, then week to week, then months at a time. Nutrition only recently started to work for me week to week. Then I notice I could go month to month, and now I'm thinking ahead to March of next year, which is nine months from now, and a year since I started my new meal plan. I can't even begin to explain what a mental shift this is from the days of meal to meal.

How long are you lasting? Hour by hour? Meal by meal? One workout at a time? One athletic season at a time? If you go a long time, where did you start?

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[90 day challenge] Day 4: 142.9 lbs

Hi everyone, my weight loss is slowing down, I said on my last entry how today is a holiday for me and I’m not going to be able to keep up with my diet today. My goals for today is to not eat any sweets.

Current progress: 142.9 lbs, BMI: 25.3

I’ve been eating roughly 1000 calories each day so far and that’s been working fine for me, it fills me up but today I’m probably going to reach 2000 calories really quickly.

I think I should clarify so there’s no confusion, my goal weight is just what I want to achieve overall. If I don’t get to it by the end of 90 days it won’t be discouraging, but I do want to get to 120 at least by then.

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Starting weight: 146 lbs|Goal weight: 110 lbs|Current weight: 142.9 lbs

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Scale doesn't move - should I try meal replacement shakes?

I started my weight loss journey about one year ago at 185 lbs. In three months, I lost 22lbs but unfortunately I've gained 10 lbs back. Now I weigh 170 lbs. My goal weight is 130 lbs.

Over the past two weeks, I've been getting back into the game again: cardio 4 times a week (swimming, spinning, kickboxing, etc as well as some light lifting) while eating about 1400 calories a day. Over the course of these past two weeks, the scale has not moved at all, while I usually lose weight quite easily. So I've been thinking about replacing two meals with a meal replacement shake for like a week to kickstart my weight loss. Of course I would eat balanced and healthy after that week. Has anyone had any experiences with this? Is it a good idea?

Any advice would be appreciated!

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How to deal with friends who are also "dieting."

Hi all!

A friend and I decided we wanted to lose a bit of weight. I had previously lost about 20lbs doing CICO and then gained most of it back during a stressful life transition. When my friend asked me how I originally lost weight, I told her the very simple truth: I ate fewer calories than I burned.

Here's the thing: we have another friend who eats based on macros and his argument was that you should try to hit a certain level of macros each day and not care as much about calories. He also does a lot of exercise.

First question: When do macros come into play? Is it just if you're trying to build muscle? Reading this sub, I always thought CICO was for weight loss and that the macros of it didn't matter in terms of results (though obviously we all need protein and other nutrients).

Regardless, she tried CICO for a month and didn't see any results. The things is, she didn't use a food scale and she is also tiny to begin with, so I think it'd be nearly impossible for her to lose weight quickly. Cutting 500 calories a day, for example, would put her below her BMI.

Now, she is trying a diet and has seen results. I'm thinking it is either a whoosh since she started working out about 6 weeks ago or she is now actually eating 1200 calories a day.

Second question: Is there any scientific backing to diets like keto, awaken, atkins, low-carb, no-carb, low-sugar, low-fat, high-fat, etc? Or are they all just methods for CICO? For example, the diet she is on doesn't let her eat things with tons of sugar. This means things like berries and tomatoes are not allowed on the diet. That seems odd to me.

And my third question: How do you handle incorrect information when your friends share it with you?

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I'm five pounds away from my original goal weight! 20 Pounds from my final goal weight! Someone hold me accountable...please?

Alright guys, so here we are again. Stuck on a plateau. Trying to push through. I need to be held to account and I need to re-focus. You ever get to that point, where everything has just become routine and normalized? I have been there for the past couple of months. I've lost 130 pounds at this point and become very physically active. But I got a little lazy with my pursuit of my goals. I no longer have clearly defined milestones. I'm feeling really re-energized today though, because I did two things that really pushed me outside my comfort zone this week. I ran a Spartan race on Sunday and I posted pictures of my weight loss on r/progresspics. There was some reasoning behind this. I've noticed in this journey of weight loss, that there is a strong correlation between accountability and success. I've made verbal contracts with the universe (I've found that speaking things out loud or writing them down really helps.) The universe, though, is oddly quiet when you do something that is not in alignment with your goals. I have, up to this point, had my family to hold me accountable. I state things to them and ask them to hold me to it. Family though, are the most forgiving of people. Especially when they are not on the journey with you. They are extra forgiving when they are not also interested in pursuing similar goals. When they want to eat cake, it's really easy for them to justify your eating cake as well. It just seems like, the closer that I get to my goals, the more I slip, the more I justify behavior that looks remarkably similar to the old me. The harder that I work in the gym, the easier it is to justify 2 cheats a week, then three, then every day. And so, I've become stagnant in my weight loss.

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Several months ago I joined reddit, then I started following r/loseit, then I told all you good people about my weight loss. Then I got together with a group of guys and committed to doing a Spartan race. This held me accountable for some of my fitness goals. I've posted my weight loss picture to this point online (to be honest, a little bit for the back pats, a little to hold myself to account). Now, I am making a written declaration and asking for the good people of r/loseit to hold me accountable. I will reach my weight loss goals before December 31 of this year (2019). I will not have 3 cheat days a week. I will not have 2 cheat days a week. I will stay within 5% of my daily caloric goal of 1770 from now, until I reach my goal weight. If my finances and work will allow it, I would like to complete the other 2 spartan races that make up a trifecta. This means that I will have to train to run 8+ miles, then 13+ miles with obstacles. I will do cardio, not just lift weights. Someone, hold me to account...please?

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