Need weight loss advice

Hi everyone. I need a little weight loss help. It's been months now and I havent lost 1lb! I'm 165lb, 37yr female 5'4''. I eat pretty healthy and track my macros and calories everyday. I aim for 1600 calories. Ive been told by my trainer at the gym that I'm not eating enough. I dont drink,much water, maybe 32oz a day, but I cant imagine water is the reason I'm not losing. I work out usually 4-5 times a week at a boxing gym and lift weights 1x a week. I'm not really sure how its possible that I'm working out so much, eating healthy, and eating do well. Any advice would be appreciated! Maybe I'm just missing something right in front of me.

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Help with a full time focus on weight loss?

I work from home and turned my second bedroom into a small gym.

Simple stuff, bike trainer, flat bench, dumbbell set, kettle bell set and other odds and ends until winter is over.

I've got 7 months till a particular date and my business is on a planned down swing. Aka fitness will be full time. I'd like to only focus on that.

What would that look like?

Like, if you just had a 40 hour work week dedicated to fitness and cooking meals.

I do keto and IF (16 8) and already know what excersises to do. I'm not a beginner but this is my shot at 100% focus. However I haven't lifted in years, so "newbie gains" would happen.

What I dont have is a daily/weekly schedule for full time healthy living.

You may see that dedication on biggest loser, I'm not that size. I've got about 70lbs of fat to shed and ideally 20 lbs of muscle to put on for my goal.

I've got time to cook, exercise, and rest all day every day for 7 months. Anything out there I should read?

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I have a really weird (gross?) goal...

28F/69”/175lbs

I lost about 60lbs in 2018 after my third pregnancy. Went from 210 to a little under 150lbs using 1200 calories daily and walking like crazy! We moved fall 2018 and bought a house nowhere near my regular walking trails and lost the 2nd bathroom option we had in our apartment.

My weird weight loss and healthy diet goal ... is to only poop once a day. Yeah. One bowel in the morning and the rest of the day no fighting over the bathroom with 3 kids and the hubby. I remember when I was way thinner that my movements were regularly like this. I’d wake up, have tea, go to the pot, and get on with my life before the kids had even gotten up. Lately, with holidays and overeating I’m finding myself in the bathroom at inconvenient times feeling overstuffed and irregular. I want to get back to 150 and one poop.

Anybody with me?

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People who've successfully lost 50+ pounds, was the last 10-20 pounds more noticable than the first?

I'm a 6'2 male weighing around 183lbs and probably started over 220. However, while I've definitely noticed a change and others have commented on it, I feel further from my goal appearance-wise than I would've thought being just 10-20 away from my GW. Obviously I'm not expecting to be shredded the second I hit 160 but I feel like I have a farther way to go than 20 pounds of fat when looking in the mirror. Does weight loss become more noticable pound for pound as you get lower in body fat% or is it pretty linear throughout the journey? What experiences have you had with the final few pounds.

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SV: I've lost almost 10% of my body weight!

Before and After Photo

So the before photo was not at my most heaviest. Actually my most heaviest was several kgs heavier and a tonne of shame more to the point that I couldn't log my weight, let alone take a photo.

As an estimate:

OW 77kg (169.8 lbs), OBMI 28.3

CW 69.9kg (154.1 lbs), BMI 25.3

I still have a bit to go before I'm in a healthy BMI, but here are five things I'm most happy about:

1. My legs have slimmed down, A LOT
2. The flabby back I'm most self conscious of is all but gone.
3. I CAN WEAR A BRA WITHOUT IT HURTING AND DIGGING INTO ME
4. The sides of my stomach area have really hollowed out (and I actually like what I see in the mirror)
5. As of today I can fit in the first pair of Aus size 12 pants I couldn't fit into as I first started gaining this weight. It's been over a year since I've put them on.

Things I have learned so far:

• Linking your fitbit to MyFitnessPal so it gives you extra calories to eat as you take more steps is the biggest mistake. Normal walking isn't gonna give you the extra calories you need to eat more. Don't fool yourself like I did (I have given up so many times in the past due to reaching a stalemate for this very reason). Use the TDEE calculator and STICK TO THE CALORIES IT SAYS. Don't adjust your intake each day based on your activity.

• Keep an eye on your heart rate as you exercise. For me, I need to be over 97.5-136.5 BPM to be doing moderate exercise. Work out your heart rate needs here. Get your heart rate in that zone for 30 minutes or more to get a good workout.

• Maintenance weeks can help you lose weight. After 2 months of eating right I started going off track and started slowly gaining. I switched to maintenance calories for a week, and rather than a free-for-all I watched my macros and ate a lot of protein. After switching back to cutting I had a steep decline in weight before then settling back into a steady decline. I felt great for it too.

• Protein is a lot harder to eat than I thought. When I started paying attention to macros I was surprised at how little protein I ate (despite eating meat at lunch and dinner), and how many carbs I consumed. Wholly Dooley carbs are in everything. Changing my focus to getting my protein up has actually helped my weight loss.

• Having an accountability buddy (especially someone who knows about macros, calorie counting, exercise etc) is really helpful. I was scared of accepting my friends offer to be an accountability buddy in the past because I was worried about comparing myself to them, getting overwhelmed by them pushing me too hard, failing and feeling ashamed, and a billion other thoughts and feelings. I was scared. I took the plunge and accepted, and all the times I have given up in the past have been and gone thanks to them. I have never made it this far before.

• Write down your reasons for losing weight and look back over them for motivation. Doing this has helped me get the jumble of reasons out of my head, and easily accessible when I need them most.

• Write down your goals. No, not just your end goals. Each week I write down my process goals to do with step counts, calories, types of food I eat, self esteem goals, and anything else that may help in my journey of change. It's not just about losing weight, it's about forming new habits. Writing down your goals and doing little checkpoints to tick off throughout the week has helped me stay motivated. Focus on one a week to start with. I've now moved to two a week and one longer term goal (e.g. minimum of one month, such as exercising twice a week for 6 weeks etc).

• change your daily step goal to a weekly one, that way if you get less than you wanted to one day you can stay motivated to catch up by the end of the week.

• start small. If my accountability buddy tried to suggest exercise one month ago I would have resisted. I wasn't ready. She's been slowly giving me more information, which has helped me increase the "difficulty level" I've been working at with losing weight over time. No way would I have looked at macros, exercised, or worked on three process goals at once when I first started. If I had tried to I would have fallen off the wagon from the pressure.

• the biggest reason I have failed in the past is the fear than I will fail. Self fulfilling prophecies are a thing, and I constantly have to keep my inner fear thoughts in check as I go along. Focus on the reasons you are losing weight, and the small improvements that happen along the way (like the five I mentioned above).

This is a bigger post than I expected. I am not an expert, I'm still learning. Hopefully I have more learnings to offer in another couple of months time for you all. Stay strong, we can do this!

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Training for the Military with Hypothyroidism

21F | 5' 2" | HW/CW: 180 lbs | GW: 135-140 lbs

Hi all!

I am kind of sort of at the beginning of my weight loss journey. I've done CICO several times in my life, sometimes with minimal exercise and sometimes not. Recently though, I've made the decision to join the US Navy which means I have to lose weight and get down to military standards. At the same time, I have also been monitoring my thyroid for the past year because many of my family members have hypothyroidism/Hashimoto's, and I wanted to get a jump on it if it was going to be a problem in my life.

I started really preparing for the Navy at the beginning of December after going through processing and being temporarily disqualified due to my weight. I currently work out six days a week. Two days I work with a personal trainer at a local YMCA and the other days I practice distance running on a treadmill. I also am at a calorie deficit eating around 1200-1500 calories a day. I haven't lost a single pound (even gained a pound or so some weeks), and talked to my doctor about it possibly being due to my thyroid. My blood tests came back last week showing some signs of hypo, so she put me on a low dose of medication to see if it changes anything

My main questions are: what kinds of workouts do you do if you have hypothyroidism? What foods do you purposefully eat and don't eat to help with weight loss and hypo (I've seen a lot of avoid this and eat this online)? How long did it take to get down to your goal weight with hypo making it difficult?

Sorry for such a long post for only a few questions! I figured some background info would be helpful. Thanks for reading!

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Remember to focus on other life goals alongside weight loss, not after

I'm approaching 1 year of weight loss come January and in that time I've last around 85 lbs! I'm incredibly proud of myself and my accomplishments. In 2020 I plan to hit my goal weight of 175lbs, lose any additional weight I decide on and to continue on my path of getting fitter and healthier. I've genuinely never felt better both mentally and physically in my life. But I have some glaring issues that I'm still struggling with.

I'm 19 and I've been overweight since I was a kid and I do NOT have a nice body. Because of my self-confidence and body issues, I've not truly been in a real relationship, I've always held myself back. The thing is I thought that losing weight would fix that, and truthly i guess it could because I still have 40+ lbs to go but I have this gut feeling that the issue is deeper than that.

It might not seem like a big deal given my age but to me, it's like half of my life has been deeply affected by my bad lifestyle. Despite the fact the past year has been tuned to improving that lifestyle, I still haven't conquered those issues and I'm really scared I'll be writing the same thing this time next year. If you're looking to lose weight, please remember to treat any other issues you have alongside, don't assume weight loss will fix them, because while it might, or at least it could certainly improve them, it's also very possible it won't affect them at all. Heck in my case, the lack of physical changes despite big numbers is almost furthering my issues.

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