Struggling despite putting in effort

Long story short I’ve been working out every day for 1-2 hours, I’ve been eating balanced meals and I’m in a calorie deficit and I’m still not losing weight. I don’t know what to do anymore. I hate my body and it’s only gotten worse over time. I’ve never weighed 300 lbs. before but I’m almost there. It sucks. I’m tired of feeling this way. I’ve been told stress plays a big role in weight loss so I worry that’s what it is is but I don’t know what to do to prevent it. I’m so tired of trying ans getting no results….

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Am I Skinny Fat? If so is Body Recomposition my best course of action? Please Help me get unstuck.

Hello all,

I posted a while back on here in regards to a plateau that I seem to be beating currently and eating well. I’m just curious if I should be losing more weight or focusing on body recomp or potentially doing both at the same time with a smaller calorie deficit perhaps.

I am currently at 6’3 204.6 lbs & 21 years old. My biggest goal is simply to get to a flat stomach with the slightest hint of ab visibility to begin to show. It’s all I’ve wanted.

I’m just curious if I should cut to 180 or (190) and then my abs will begin to show or to hover at 200 and get on a training regimen until I build enough muscle where the body fat will get burned away.

I went from 260 to 204 which is why I’m curious if more weight loss is needed (I presume there is but don’t know how much more.)

Pictures for reference: first photo is me 3 months ago at 205 post pump + after sauna second photo is same weight a few weeks back without a pump/bloated/no sauna.

Third pic is just me at my worst and then back to what my current best shape is/was looking like. I slacked off the gym from midterms to finals which was like 6 weeks ish but I’m back at it now. Diet didn’t change though.

Here are the pictures

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Meal plan/grocery list advice

After manyyy failed attempts at weight loss, I think my biggest obstacle is just knowing what to make for each meal, and having a grocery list for those things. At this point, I don’t even want to shop in person because I always get junk. I need like-eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…and have it be within calories but also having the right amount of protein, fiber, etc. I’ve always been bad at planning. Like, just in general life lol. :(

Does anyone have any good resources for this? Seeing a nutritionist or doing any doctor things has been impossible with my insurance, which is why I’m asking here.

Any advice/pointers appreciated! :)

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IM UNHAPPY WITH MY BODY AND I WILL BE MORE UNHAPPY AFTER THE WEIGHT LOSS

First of all I'm not a native English speaker so ignore mistakes.

Hi, I'm 330lbs (150 kgs) right now and 6'2ft (187cm). I gain 120lbs (50 kgs) in 2 year because of COVID and depression. It may take a long time but here is the story and problem.

2 years ago i was about 200-210lbs (90-95kg) and i was happy about my body (not much because i had big butt, big legs and some chest fats). after quarantine and my toxic online girlfriend i was about 240lbs (110kgs). I was really bad that time and i ate everything i find (also i drank a lot of latte with sugar that time) . after the breakup i was happy after couple of weeks but i kept gain weight over and over. 1.5 years later here i am with tons of weight.

I told you my story so here is the problem. I'm living in a small city in Turkey and i'm going to study at a one of the best university of Turkey in Istanbul. I always thought i don't like my life and where i live, when i go to the university i want to be a whole new person. Whole new body, whole new mindset, whole new feelings, whole new style. ( I changed everything for the better except my body) I was planning to start this body transformation journey on yesterday (I have 9 months to become an university student) but i looked at the mirror and i thougt i'll probably have loose skin (maybe i don't because i have muscle too and i can't say anything but i have to lose whole 100 or 110 pounds) and i felt so bad. I'm depressed now because my whole future won't mather. I always dream about my university life and it was the only thing that make me do something or doing things harder. I have been studying for 2 years and now i feel so bad and depressed about it. because i won't talk to girls i like with that body i'm sure and i don't have other plans. I'll talk to dudes, friends but it isn't special to me I'll want to date with one of them but i don't see any future now. I really searched what can i do to my loose skin except surgery and i'll have some answers but they do not guarantee it. It may seem worthless to you but I feel hopeless now. It's like my whole childhood dream is gone and i can't do anything about it.

You say ''Do weight training and fill the space with muscles.'' Yes you're so right and i want a muscular body too but not that big. I don't wanna be a huge guy with full of muscle because it will take long time and i can't wear anything i want. It is the same thing being fat and being a big muscular guy when it comes to the fashion industry because you rarely find things that you like and can fit it in.

I'm saying again. Sorry for my mistakes, please ignore them

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Really unhappy with the result of my weight loss

For reference, I'm 23 m and 6' tall. I started out at around 250 lbs, went down to 145 several years ago, and am now at 170 and much more muscular after hitting the gym hard for the past few years.

When I was first losing the weight and started getting into the normal range, I was disappointed that I didn't look like a 'normal' person at that weight (that is, someone who had never been overweight, sorry can't think of a better way to say it). I had a lot of loose skin and had this very saggy and fluffy look, which people at my height and weight who had never been overweight didn't have it. It was a very clear difference. I told myself that it was just because I had still had a high body fat % because I didn't have a lot of muscle, so I switched from /r/loseit to /r/gainit and got to work building muscle.

Years later, and now I am much more fit and muscular, have a lower body fat %… and random people who see me shirtless (eg at the pool or whatever) still ask me about the weight loss because it's obvious that I used to be fat. I still have that saggy/fluffy look, and I still look totally different from people with similar body compositions who were never fat. Despite all the work that I've put in, I still look bad with my shirt off. And I can't keep telling myself that I just need to do one more thing and then it'll get fixed; it's clear to me now that I'm just always going to look like this.

This has honestly destroyed my confidence. I felt better about my body when I weighed 250 and had no muscle than I do. I actually never had a big problem taking my shirt off at the beach when I was fat, but now I do! I have been really really upset lately about the fact that I'll never have a "normal" looking body, and have had a very hard time accepting this. I could write about this at much greater length but I think it would just sound the same as this. It's really hard to realize that, after all the progress, there are just some fundamental limitations that you cannot overcome (I am not willing to consider surgery). I would appreciate advice from anyone, especially anyone who's come to terms with this themself, or just some cheering up. Thanks

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Struggling how to start weight loss journey.

Hey! I’m 21F my current weight I’m just going to round cause it’s been fluctuating back forth to this number for the last month but it’s 230 lbs. This is the highest weight I have ever been. All my life I have been pretty active I was even on the swim team but was still overweight from whatever was like the actual weight for my height and age I have been 5’2 for a minute but I think right now I’m 5’3 lol. Anyways so Iv struggled with weight for a long time and have always been a little bigger then everyone not like insanely big but in high school my highest weight was 195-200 by the time I was in the beginning of my senior year, this is when I knew I had to lose weight as I hated every picture I was in and just got extremely depressed. So I lost a crazy amount of weight in three months I think I went down to 160 and I was so proud of myself but people started to say I looked sick and tired probably because I was eating at most 1000 calories a day sometimes less then 500. At first it felt so good to be complimented that j lost weight but then it hurt when people said I was still fat or that I just didn’t look good. For me I knew it was unhealthy and then after winter break I started eating normal again and gained weight but I think I sort of hit a plateau cause I was exercising normally and not over exercising, but I was like around 175 to 180 this is sort of where I stayed towards my end of my senior year I was like maybe 170 I felt a lot better and still felt slightly more confident but knew I had to lose weight. So after I graduated high school, in college I was like around 180-190 lost weight again this time more healthily and then dropped all the way down to 160 and then kept fluctuating from 160 to 170. I went on vacation in my second year of college to another country, my starting weight going was like 175, there my weight also fluctuated but I actually lost a lot of weight and went down to 160 coming home. Around the time I came back from vacation and started my sophomore year of college, one of my siblings passed away and this really effected me I didn’t eat and then after two weeks of not eating I just started to binge eat this was around the end of 2019. then in the beginning of 2020 this is where everything just started to get off the rails with my weight gain I started the year at 200 pounds started to gain weight rapidly and stayed around maybe 210-220 and then corona hit as well so I just didn’t workout and diet. 2021 came and the same thing didn’t workout and didn’t diet. When I returned to school I started to work out with my friends again but I still didn’t lose weight I think this has more to do with my relationship to food cause I was still eating more or less bad and not being consistent as well with what I did for a workout. This is sort of the end of my like my struggle with my weight but the whole thing is that I just don’t have motivation anymore but I know I have to lose weight my goal for now is just to get to 170 or out of the 200s soon and I just need help. Everyone keeps saying I just need a calorie deficit and all that but I feel like that doesn’t help me when I’m legit addicted to food and binge eat a lot, I also don’t really have a workout structure and would really appreciate if anyone has one they would like to share with me. I am in desperate need of help and hopefully the community can help me with this journey. Sorry if a lot of this didn’t make sense I just started to go off in my notes app and am posting it lol. Thank you!

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Subcategories/subtypes of Obesity

Hi all,

For a research project, I'm trying to categorize people with obesity, and how different circumstances influence peoples eating and weight. I guess I'm looking for things like how:

• your geographical location may affect your obesity/weight
• people with very high BMI are different in behavior than people who are borderline obese
• People who have ADHD with obesity and how that influences weight loss
• People who have tried in the past and failed to lose weight
• People who are trying to lose it for the first time
• Age groups and how they affect obesity
• How menopause uniquely affects eating and obesity
• How obesity may affect your mental health and fertility

I'm trying to do something similar like what NoCD has done for OCD subtypes: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/category/ocd-subtypes

If there's a social subtype of obestiy that you know about, please tell me!

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