Weight Lifting OR/VS Cardio

Has anyone who's ever had to loose 50+ pounds do it by focusing on weight lifting more than cardio? I feel like most people who have lots of weight to loose focus on cardio more and then do weight lifting after. I'm 18, 5'5 I started at 260lbs, dropped down to 244 and went back up to around 250. My short-term goal is 200, long-term goal is 140.

I'm confused about the weight lifting vs cardio debate. I personally started my weight loss journey doing a bit more cardio than weights and it took longer to like feel the body changes and it took 3 months to loose 12 pounds. I gained like half of it back over the summer due to just personal reasons and being at home and not having control over what foods were available and etc. Now I'm back on campus doing weight lifting 3 days a week and HIIT 2 days a week and I've noticed how fast it is for me to feel the physical changes in my body: clothes are looser etc. It's only been 24 days since I got back on track. I worry that the scale will either not change and my body will or that the scale will go higher just a bit because of the muscle and I don't want my doctor to think I didn't put in any work to loose weight. has anyone focused on weight lifting more and lost a lot of weight or i'm I doing something wrong?

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Self esteem boost

I started out my weight loss journey around 183 the beginning of August (I’m a 5’4” female). Got into a bet with someone I work with and I’m now down to 168 and still losing. I haven’t weighed this much since before I had my daughter in 2014 so it’s a pretty big deal to me. I had brought it up at work that I was at my pre pregnancy weight and the comment was said, “yeah 6 years later”. And that it was a participation trophy since it’s expected for moms to lose the weight rather quickly after having a baby. So that was a complete confidence killer.

Went out last night with my family and me and my daughter dressed up since she loves doing that. I wore a sort of form fitting red dress with black heels and she wore a floral blue dress with white heels. As we were being seated a waitress (not ours) was waiting for her table to be cleared off. She made the comment in our direction, “You look so cute!” I turned to my daughter and said, “Tell her thank you”. The waitress then said, “Oh I was talking to you ma’am, but she looks super cute too”.

Might not be much but it was the confidence booster that I needed!

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More workouts - more hungry. Any advice?

Hey reddit people! Recently I have upped my workout game from 3 to 5 days a week (3 weight trainings; 1 swimming session and 1 cardio boxing). I am doing it just because I enjoy it, not as a weight loss tool.

I am super hyped about finally being able to consistently do and enjoy sports, but it leaves me ravenous! So, I was wondering, since fat loss is still my goal, how do I maintain a calorie deficit while keeping the new workout intensity? 1500-1700kc just isn't enough anymore, I feel like I always want to eat more.

For reference:
Sex: Female
Height: 5'2
Weight: 138lbs
Age: 24

Thank you for your ideas!☀️

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Weight loss journey

Hello everyone!

I’ve never posted anything on this subreddit before but I feel like its finally time.

My weight loss journey has been a rollercoaster all throughout my life. It all started when I was in the second grade and I went to the doctor one day to find out I weighed 160lb. They said I had to lose weight immediately or I will face many complications in the future. I still remember that the only difference they made in my behavior was to cut out orange juice. Simply by doing that, I lost 8lbs! It was crazy how much juice I used to consume and the amount of sugar in it. However, that wasn’t the only thing contributing to my weight. I had a routine of eating a McFlurry after every session of my karate class because I always thought I deserved a reward for the hard work I put in the class. I had karate classes almost everyday so I was gulping down a cup of sugar with m&ms everyday. But I kept going back and forth with the weight for a few years.

Fast forwarding to the summer between middle school and high school, I went to visit my close family for a month in India. I used to visit them every summer with my parents, but this was the first time I went alone. For some reason I just wasn’t enjoying food anymore and decided to eat when I felt like it. I ate a total of 5 meals in 1 month. I went from 160 to 120 pounds. When I got back home my parents didn’t even recognize me. However the strangest thing was that my parents took me to my favorite restaurant and I took a bite of the food and immediately threw up. By having an aversion to food for a whole month, I couldn’t even eat my favorite meal.

Throughout the next year I slowly gained that weight back until I got to 150. However with the rapid fluctuations in weight I developed gynecomastia (male breasts). You can imagine how difficult high school must have been with that. I remained at that weight for the next 5 years until the worst year of my life started. I developed schizophrenia in college from a sequence of events I don’t want to elaborate on. I was hospitalized and put on medication. As some of you know antipsychotic medication makes you gain weight like crazy.

After 3 years on the medication I just decided to stop because I had gotten too big. That was now a year ago. I am currently 23 years old, 5’8 male that weighs 180lb, the highest I’ve ever been. I have been lifting weights irregularly for the past 6 months and think I have built up a good amount of muscle. Now the trouble is losing the weight as well as trying to reduce the gyno without surgery. My goal is to reach 155 with the amount of muscle I have and not lose any strength. I tried CICO for a few weeks but my weight just fluctuates too much between days I lift and don’t. I calibrate my calories intake for what I’m doing that day, but one slip up and I’m right back to where I started. I know consistency and dedication are the biggest contributing factors to weight loss but my family makes it very difficult to have self control and restraint 24/7.

Any recommendations?

TLDR; -Weight problems since childhood. -Was anorexic for a little while. -Developed gynecomastia. -Gained a lot of weight from antipsychotic medication. -Now trying to lose fat after gaining some muscle. 23yr male 5’8 SW:180/GW:155

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Crying with relief and rethinking my maintenance calories

Back in Feb I started a weight loss journey at 88kg. I got down to 74kg in June, but then got very stressed and fell off the wagon. I was no longer counting calories, and eating whatever I fancied (takeaways, snacks, ready meals, restaurant meals), but with a bit more restraint than before because I realised back in Feb how much I was underestimating the calories I consumed. I was blown away when I started to check the back of packets lol.

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I finally got the strength to start again 2 days ago, and weighed myself - 75.2kg! I was convinced I had reached at least 78kg again because I felt so heavy and bloated. Started on the same diet I used last time (800-1000 cal a day, with lots of vitamins and allowing myself to have a glass of diet soda everyday so I don't get miserable) and this morning I was 74.4kg! So excited, I didn't do the damage I thought I did. I was so demoralised and angry with myself that I've have to start back at a higher weight and lose again (going from 78kg to 74kg was harder and took longer than 88kg to 78kg, for some reason). But I'm not back at square one! I cried when I saw the scale.

It also has made me wonder if my maintenance calories are higher than I thought. I'm 5'2", 26F. Online calculator said my maintenance calories were 1400 back in Feb (sedentary lifestyle).

I wasn't able to exercise properly from March 2019 to a few weeks ago, when my gym finally lifted restrictions and let us have classes properly again. So I've just been back exercising for a few weeks, before that I was just eating whatever I wanted and no exercise except for dog walking. I lost the weight Feb-June with a restricted calorie intake and walking my dogs everyday.

The online calculator says my maintenance is now 1700 with 'light exercise' (2 sessions a week). I don't think this really can be increasing my maintenance by that much? How is 2 1hr sessions a week going to increase it that much. When I was younger I used to go for 45 min runs, eat a mars bar and realise I'd just cancelled out my run. So I don't really trust the calculator. But then if my maintenance wasn't higher than I actually thought, I would have gained more weight! I'm so confused and wish our bodies came with an inbuilt, accurate calorie intake/output counter, because I get so frustrated with 'estimating' and then waiting to see if my efforts actually had any effect.

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My boyfriend isn't really supporting my weight loss

So I (18 f) and my boyfriend (21 m) and I have been together for 3 years and during that time I've gained around 40 pounds. This was for a few reasons, depression (covid really took a toll on me lost my job, sister moved across the country, lost a few friends ect.). Also I have PCOS, so weight was always an issue for me but before I was on a strict diet to manage symptoms including weight gain. The last few months I've been consistently losing weight, I've been extremely happy about this, but my boyfriend hasn't really. He doesn't say I'm looking too skinny and he says I'm beautiful ect. but he doesn't want to change anything about his lifestyle to support. This meaning like instead of going out to eat every time we see each other, going for a hike or walking around downtown. He has absolutely refused. Now here's the thing he is a big guy (around 350lbs, and 6'2) and everytime I mention my weight loss he acts like it's a personal attack on him, I love him but it's starting to annoy me. I said to him that I love him no matter what and I'm doing this for me not for anyone else but he somehow turns the situation on himself everytime and it's starting to bother me.

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Hitting little goals

I just wanted to share my progress as a way to keep motivated and to hopefully motivate some others.

I truly started my weight loss journey at the start of June this year at 238 pounds. I started with about an average of 2000 calories per day and I’m now at around 1700-1800 per day. I’m just about 10 pounds away from being under 200 pounds which I haven’t been in probably 10 years. I’ve tried losing weight throughout those 10 years with varying results but THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT! I know I’m going to reach my goal because all I have to do is keep doing what I’m doing.

I haven’t bought new clothes yet and my first “treat” goal is to buy some new clothes once I get under 200.

Every 10 pounds is a new goal, a new milestone, and more motivation to keep doing what I’m doing.

Anyone can do it, all it takes is discipline. We got this!

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