Working out and weight loss?

Has anyone actually seen weight loss while working out? All of my weight loss has come from cutting calories with great success. I have about 15 more pounds to go until I hit my goal so I thought that adding exercise would help. However, it has been about three months and I have seen no weight loss. I know that part of the issue is that I’m so much hungrier bc I’m working out. I know overall I need a calorie deficit which is not currently happening.

Should I start working out so I could see the drop in weight? Should I up cardio and stop doing strength training? I already do on average four days a week, should I do six?

Looking for advice, guidance and success stories.

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how to get back into the workout/weight loss mindset?

some background: i (21f) have gained a lot of weight since starting college. in high school i was a varsity athlete and stayed at a pretty consistent 125-130lbs. but four years later, i’m about 160lbs and only 5’3”. i hate the way i look carrying this extra weight, and i know it’s not healthy. this past summer while i was home, i joined a gym and was working out 4 times a week for 1-1.5 hours each time and i lost 5 pounds and felt great, but at the end of the summer i got severely sunburned and was forced to take a couple of weeks off because it hurt to move my arms and legs. then i went back to school and never got back into the gym. at this point i’ve definitely lost all progress i made from the summer and i’m feeling pretty bad about myself again.

how do you motivate yourself to get back into the gym after a long period of time? over the summer it was easy because i drove past my gym on my way home from work so there was no excuse not to go, but at school i don’t have as consistent of a schedule each day and for some reason that messes with me.

i’d also love some advice on eating healthy on a college budget - i’m a picky eater and have found some healthy meals that i enjoy, but i have a pretty small grocery budget and limited fridge/pantry space in my shared apartment. it’s also SO easy to eat out in a college town (not to mention, drinking with friends every weekend...).

EDIT: i should mention that i have free access to my college’s rec center instead of paying for a gym membership like i did over the summer, so the “if you’re paying for the gym just go” argument doesn’t motivate me at the moment lol

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Two-part weight loss problem

A little background: 27 year old male, 6'1", started losing weight using CICO, and have gone from about 206 lbs to 185 lbs since April. I try for about 1500-1700 calories a day while exercising 2-3 times a week after getting off work at 5pm (usually boxing, lifting weights, or jogging). However, I now have a two-part problem

1. My weight loss has slowed to a crawl. Before, I was losing 1-1.5 lbs per week, now it's more like 1-2 lbs per month! Now a simple solution would be to just reduce my calorie intake even more, right? Except...
2. As I've lost weight, I've felt increasingly more tired in my workouts to the point where I conk out sooner than I used to. I usually don't eat too much before a workout because a.) I don't want to throw up, and b.) I try to save as many calories as I can for evening meals because my body is craving nutrients like crazy post-workout. My doctor has advised me however that I should be eating MORE before a workout because my body isn't getting enough fuel. I don't want to do that because that means consuming more disgusting calories on a daily basis, which will slow me down even more!

So you see my dilemma here. Is there a solution to this that doesn't involve me eating more?

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Was I really that big?

Hey everyone!

I just started losing weight in September, and have since lost just about 20 lbs. It isn't much, but I've been struggling with my weight my entire life and I've never managed to lose this much before (the classic "oh man, peanutbutter is supposed to be healthy for you, right? So I can eat a bunch of it and not worry, right?" coupled with hereditary hypothyroidism) so I'm pretty darn proud of how much easier it is for me now! That's the good news. Now onto the bad news.

Despite finally knowing what I need to do in order to lose weight I'm feeling really... sad, I guess? I'm sad because I had no idea I had let myself go that much (I hadn't weighed myself for a whole year, and when I did weigh myself I had gained like 40 lbs), and because even if I give it my all right now and hopefully keep losing weight my body will forever have the loose skin, stretch marks and whatever else as a nagging memory of what I ended up doing to myself. More importantly though I'm just so freaking frustrated with not being able to see my body for what it is.

When I started this journey I was just about 200 lbs at 5'5, classifying me as level I obese, but when I look at the body I had at that time that isn't what I see. Sure, I've always known that I'm overweight, but I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined that I'd be considered obese, and when looking at pictures I took about a month before I started all this I still don't see an obese body. Frankly I see the same body on that pic as I see when I look at myself in the mirror now, 20 lbs lighter, and if it wasn't for my stomach feeling flatter and the scale saying so I wouldn't have thought that I've lost anything. I've always been fairly active, but I've never been strong by any means, so it's not like I have a crazy high muscle % that can explain it away either. Honestly I'm starting to feel like maybe I was subconsciously super into the whole "healthy/beautiful/what-have-you at every size" movement, and maybe that's why I'm in denial about having looked "bad" before? I don't know. I will continue on my weight loss journey anyway because ultimately I know that that'll make me both healthier and happier, but I don't know when or if this feeling will really leave me. Have any of you had any similar struggles? And if so, how did you deal with it?

Thank you for listening :')

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(pic from the end of July '19 if anyone is interested: https://imgur.com/a/4RWkReE - sorry for the baggy pants, I always wear them haha)

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gained almost all my weight back

Hello everything, this is my first time posting here and I am happy to find a weight loss community on reddit. I'm hoping I can get to my goals with the support of other and hopefully help along the way!

I lost 80 lbs by doing calorie counting 5+ years ago and gained 70 of it back recently. I never thought I would be in this place again and gained most of the weight in only a few months just by eating too much of my favorite foods. I feel bad because it appears I was not able to control myself and it just packed on so quickly. I know how much hard work it took to lose it and I gained it back so easily that I am feeling a bit discouraged.

One of the things that I'm not looking forward to is the calories counting. It was really hard and while it worked, I felt extra focused on food the whole time. I'm short and obese so I don't have much calories to use. I dont think there is a way for me to ever feel fully satisfied on the amount of calories I need to lose weight. I know people are probably gonna think that you get used to it or you're not eating high volume foods, but for some reason I always felt hungry. Just thinking about going back to counting calories while also feeling hungry is making me feel pessimistic and nervous about starting again. I was able to keep the weight off for a few years after I gained for the most part. I gained 20 lbs over around 3 years after I lost which I was fine with, but then i ballooned up in only a couple of months recently and feeling discouraged about what I'm going to have to put myself through to lose.

Are there any other ways to lose weight that aren't so focused on counting calories. I've seen stuff about fasting, but I'm always hungry in the morning and eat a lot of small meals and snacks and cant really imagine sitting there and not eating when my stomach is aching of hunger

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Need some help/motivation

Hello fellow redditers! Im a 17 y/o female who currently weighs more than her mom, dad, older sister, sisters bf who is a weightlifter and pretty much all my friends. At 199 lbs, I can barely fit in my old clothes and feel low quite a lot. When my friends are around me and they call themselves fat I feel an extreme anxiety, because I weigh almost twice the amount they do. I’ve wanted to lose the weight for quite some time but just haven’t gotten the motivation to. In 2016, I lost quite a lot of weight with my sister when I had someone but unlike her, I gained back 40 lbs (was 170 -> 150) and she weighs about 145. Last year I grew very ill and gained a lot more weight due to steroids the doctor had me taking. I lost about 10 lbs from fast dieting, but eventually gained it all back. Recently, I have really been overwhelmed in terms of personal life in my academic career with stress from college applications which has become a cycle of stress eating as well. I work at a gym and have membership there but even with this, I have a very low motivation to actually do something. I am just tired of being this way and really want to bring some change in my life but am just confused on how I can. Could anyone give me some pointers? Is there anyone who’d like to partner up and begin a weight loss journey together?

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Should I reduce my cardio?

Stats: 17YO | 178CM | SW 120.1KG | CW 80KG | GW 70/75KG

Hello!
I've been losing around 40kg so far in a little bit over a year and now I'm trying to build some muscle. Currently, I'm eating about 1600 to 2200 calories, and I run 5K every training session. I train 3 to 5 times a week.

At this point, I wasn't sure if I should increase my calorie intake or reduce my cardio. I don't know what stopped my gains, It's been around 2 months I've been doing this and I did progress with my weight loss but not with my muscle growth.

Oh ya, I have also been increasing my protein intake to 1.5x or 2x my body weight.
What do you think? I hope I can get some answers here.

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