Is weight loss different when you’re bottom heavy?

I’m 5’6” and 160 and my weight loss has stalled so much since my body composition changed. When I was much bigger I held weight pretty evenly, I was bottom heavy then too but overall more even.

Since losing weight I carry everything in my butt, legs, lower belly, and thighs. I have completely flat breasts to the point where I can’t even wear a dress without straps. I feel like my body is holding onto the weight so much harder now. Even if I keep a deficit for a week, by the end of the week my binge urge is super strong and I blow it.

I used to run and weight lift but I stopped bc I noticed that I would be much hungrier after but it’s been a month since stopping and I’m still the EXACT same weight. I’m starting back because it was good for my mental/physical health even if it wasn’t helping with my weight loss.

Is there a different eating protocol (like low carb or something) that is better when you carry your weight in a certain area? I really do need help. I even stopped following one of my passions in order to lose weight. I’m starting to get a lot older and I know I’ll die being very angry with myself if I wasted my most beautiful years being overweight/high weight.

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I’ve been trying for almost 5 months and have only gained weight

I’m getting really exhausted and becoming very discouraged. It all started when my partner not so gently told me that I put on quite a bit of weight since the pandemic started. For starters, I used to weight 246 lbs when I was younger then dropped to 128 due to chronic illness and not being able to eat. I am 5’7 so 128 was not the healthiest weight for me to be at. I got an iud shortly after reaching my lowest weight, then the weight started coming back. The first year I only gained about 15 lbs which I was totally fine with because I was so small. But 3 years have gone by and I’m now 186 lbs. I started calorie counting eating approx 1400 cal a day starting in January. I also cut out all sugar that wasn’t fruit. On top of that, I started going to the gym 3-4 times a week. That didn’t do anything so now I’m on a very restrictive Standard Process diet and that’s not doing anything either. I feel like I’m doing everything right but I’ve gained about 15 lbs since stating my “weight loss” journey. I really don’t know what to do anymore. I just wanna curl up in bed with a cheeseburger and give up.

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Finding clothing sucks

Hello all! Last year I had gone through a dramatic weight loss (in a healthy way just by eating better, sleeping, etc) and it wasn’t planned, didn’t even notice because I wasn’t going on the scale or looking at the mirror too much because of the pandemic. I also restored to wearing sweats all the time because I was working from home and didn’t care about what I threw on so I didn’t notice the weight change.

Now that the worlds opening up again, I decided to try on some nicer clothes so I can go out and low and behold, everything is way too big and nothing fits.

I know I shouldn’t be depressed about it, but I am. I’ve just been rewearing the same 25 pieces of hoodies and sweats so it never occurred to me how much I lost but it was a dramatic shift in my sizes (especially because I liked the oversized look before). I’ve gone from having medium and larges to not even fitting in a small and I feel unable to move past this hurdle when I look at my closet. I feel like I don’t want to buy new clothes in my size because smalls don’t even look good on me because they still look too big, and I don’t want to give away my old clothes. I can’t even hang up any of my old clothes, they’re just in a pile on my closet floor because it just feels like a roadblock.

I just don’t have any motivation regarding it, do you have any advice about what to do?

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How do I do this properly?

I’m currently at my highest weight (263.5LBS) and haven’t gained any weight since October of 21’ (i don’t know how?) Im currently looking to be down at least 40LBS to 50LBS by the end of august. I thinks that’s achievable. I suffer from PCOS (hormonal issues) that have made weight loss extremely hard and exercise itself is painful as fuck for me as well but I rlly wanna try. I’ve done keto in the past and it was a horrible diet, it got me sick VERY sick so I don’t wanna starve myself like that again.

I’ve read so much about calorie deficits and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. What is it? and will that actually help me lose weight? I don’t wanna be eating over 1,200-1,400 calories a day tbh. And calorie counting is most of the time rlly hard since some of the stuff I eat I can’t quite find on apps so :/ Is there anywhere I can find meals with in that calorie intake? I might be wrong, VERY wrong but I feel like the more calories I eat the more harder it’s gnna be for it to burn them off

I also, for the first five months of my weight loss, wanna focus on cardio exercises and bottom half exercises (legs and butt lol, my legs and thighs have gone flabby and my butt went flat after gaining weight so I want it BACK) like jump rope, burpees, walking/running (when I reach enough stamina ofc), stair master, bicycle (maybe once or twice a week) then move onto weights after some time. I wanna burn the fat off not only focus on calories in or calories out, that’s not enough

Please help me out, any suggestions, meal ideas, subreddits to look at ANYTHING will greatly help

Thank you in advance

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tips on quitting smoking while losing weight?

I wanna lose weight and quit smoking because I'm just unhealthy. The problem is when I've lost weight in the past smoking actually helped cause it curbs my cravings and i forget about food. Whenever I wanted a cheeseburger I'd have a cigarette instead and i would feel satisfied. Without cigarettes idk how i would have gotten through my weight loss. Idk they helped a lot. But now i wanna quit smoking and lose weight. But idk how to do that without using smoking as a crutch to stop my oral fixation. I feel like whenever I also try to quit smoking i eat more cause when I want a cigarette I'll eat a cheeseburger or something. Has anyone else had experience quitting smoking while losing weight? Or should I try to do one thing at a time and quit smoking first then lose weight or lose weight then quit smoking. Any advice?

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Body looks awful after weight loss

I have been so depressed lately over how my body looks like. I’ve gain a lot of weight and lost it twice now. Both weight gains were due to health issues. It was rapid and my body is covered in stretch marks. Now that I’ve lost all the 50lbs from the last weight gain my skin is sagging everywhere. And I don’t mean a little pouch here or there. I’m in my 30s. My body looks like it’s in its 130s.. not only I have a bunch of skin on my stomach and arms but the stretch marks make it look so wrinkly on top of all that. My boobs don’t exist anymore. They aren’t even pancakes. They are flat out wrinkly crepes. Just two lumpy wrinkly empty sacks. I’ve noticed how wrinkly my hips and butt are today. And I’m about to cry. Everybody is keep complementing me on my weight loss and I hide this hideous body under the clothes pretty well. No one knows that underneath there’s a body of a 90 year old. Heck, I’ve seen better 90 year old bodies. I feel lost and so insecure. I hate that I’ve worked so hard, fought my health issues at the same time just to look like this. I can’t imagine the reaction I’d get from any guy that I undressed for. I can’t and won’t be able ever to afford the surgery to ‘fix’ it. I seriously feel like my romantic life is over. I want to and need to ( health again ) to stay in the healthy range of weight. But all I want to do today is just load up on junk food to fill up that skin again. How do you cope with this? Have your skin improved at least a little bit free awhile? Do you get people run away from the bedroom after you take your clothes off? I’m a pretty confident person, I get hit on and asked out. But the more weight I was loosing the less comfortable I feel getting to know anyone. I’m so terrified of being naked with anyone. I love the skin on skin feeling but I feel like now I’m doomed to be always covering half of my body if I even opened myself to the idea of just giving a try with someone. It’s literally ruining my life atm. I’m in my 30s and fear I’ll be alone until I’m 90 so my body matches my age .. How did you guys coped with that? What is your experience? Does it ever get better?

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stuck at a weight loss plateau since I quit smoking

When i was smoking i was about 145-150 lbs. , then i decided to quit to get healthy and my weight went from that to 179-184. My height is 5.7. I been trying to lose weight like 15 pounds. I make all of my food fresh for the most part. I have a hard time taking down vegetables due to the fact that they all make me gag. I have tried to increase protein , fasting , calorie counting , smaller portions. I exercise daily to no effect. Hoping i can get some helpful advice ?

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