How do I deal with this type of person?

17F and I've lost 20lbs in the past few months, almost halfway to my goal. Lately I've been encountering a lot of people who, when I mention I've lost 20lbs, brag about how they've never had to lose weight. How they've always been a healthy weight. For years I've fought with myself, "why can't I just be normal?" "why don't I look like my friends?" "why can't I stand pictures of myself?" - so hearing someone say these things to me is honestly heartbreaking. There's absolutely no need to put me down for trying hard to improve myself and reverse years of neglecting to learn nutrition.

But I've also found myself become defensive, having thoughts like: "Well I'm better than you because the experience of losing weight is teaching me all about health and I'm learning more about my body than ever before, while you'll probably grow old and fat because you never learnt". I have to stop myself because that's really gross and negative. I'm not better than someone because I have to work for my body, or because I've had to endure all my life feeling horrible about myself because of my weight. Though I know I shouldn't think it, I don't have a lot else to be proud of. This weight loss is something I thought I'd never achieve but I'm really doing it, so this irritates me a lot.

So how do I deal with those types of inconsiderate people and how do I stop thinking this way about them?

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I did it again!

After returning home from vacation, I’ve been finding it really difficult to get back into my weight loss routine and diet. Ive been telling myself I’ll start tomorrow for the past 3 weeks.

Yesterday I decided that Ive wasted enough time procrastinating. I ate a healthy breakfast, a healthy lunch and dinner. Didn’t get the opportunity to exercise yesterday.

Today, I ate a healthy breakfast and lunch . Drank a lot of water too. I’m planning to go for a 5km walk later in the evening to ease myself into my daily exercise routine. Planning to eat a healthy dinner too.

I know these are just small little things but I kinda feel good that I did not eat anything unhealthy the past 2 days. I hope I can continue this and hopefully not have to go through another cycle of failing

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Not mentally or emotionally used to getting attention after my huge weight loss.

I feel really bad because I've never in my life have gotten peoples attention. Recently I have been getting hit on or get those looks by a few people (never have been hit on in my entire life) and idk its just kind of new to me. I honestly feel super uncomfortable and being overweight most of my life I'm used to not talking to anyone or getting ignored so this really has me feeling super uncomfortable and part of me is kind of annoyed that now people want to socialize with me. anyone is going through the same thing? (Weighed 300 now down to 190)

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Not losing weight if I exercise and diet but drop lbs quick if I only diet.

6’3 209lb Male

I’ve noticed many a time throughout my long and stressful journey of fat loss that exercise paired with my rigorous diet leads to very little if at all any weight loss. However, skipping my workouts and just focusing on the diet (keeping everything the same), I lose a lot very fast.

My gym routine consists of,

Cardio: 5 MPH 30 minutes on a treadmill

1 hour - 1 1/2 hours of weightlifting

I have used dozens of calorie/weight loss calculators online and all of them indicate that paired with my gym routine, I need ~2.3k calories to lose 2lb a week.

I eat around 1.0-1.4k calories a day. Basic stuff, chicken, egg, canned tuna, broccoli. Majority of my sugar comes from Greek yogurt which I have one serving of a day (9g of sugar). No bread no cheese. Only water (~3L a day). I use light seasoning to keep my sodium intake low. Progress has been so, so very slow and I’m beyond frustrated.

What I described in the title is something I’ve experienced many times for the past few years, but here is a more specific example.

For four days I went on vacation for July 4th holiday. I didn’t exercise one bit and lost 2.5lb in that short time frame.

When I returned I went back on my normal physical training regime. Two weeks later to the day, I have lost a grand total of:

0 lbs. I’ve lost nothing. I’m starving everyday. I go to bed mind numbingly hungry. I have zero energy to work out but I give it everything I can anyways and still no progress. This has been going on for a long time. I don’t understand how this is physically possible and am looking for some advice.

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Lost a full stone! First time weight loss attempt!

35F/163cm. SW: 66.2kg; CW: 59.5kg; GW: 52kg.

I realised today I lost an entire stone! I'd had a major operation (hip replacement) that went really wrong back in March and I ended up nearly dying and was in hospital for several weeks. I recovered fully but my brush with death gave me a newfound appreciation for my health, and also was told by my surgeon that I had to get in shape and lose my belly fat to protect my new joint for as long as possible. So I set out on this journey not really knowing what to expect but I reduced my meals down to 2 and swapped unhealthy snacks for healthy ones (but otherwise not doing much - still probably eating too many carbs and cheese lolz), and the major change was my ability to exercise with my new hip. I was fully sedentary before because of the arthritic pain and now I can walk miles and swim again, even if I will never be able to run (no major loss for me!). And that's caused me to lose an entire stone. I really didn't even believe it would be possible just from the little I've done, but it's made a huge difference. Still got that stubborn belly fat but I still feel such a sense of achievement!!!

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I no longer dread the gym since I swapped to weight training.

So as the title says basically i have been going to the gym for years as an overweight man in his late twenties. I have mostly concentrated on cardio and absolutely dread it every time I go. I recently started doing weight training, push, pull, legs and an full-body workout day. Each workout has a 20 min cardio session at a moderate difficulty.

Before this i was going to the gym for an hour and doing a 5km run or 30-40 minutes on the rower. I hated it. It was a slog. Always felt absolutely amazing afterwards but getting there was always a problem. During the workout i just wanted to stop. I know that progress comes from putting yourself in uncomfortable situations and I know it would pay dividends eventually.

But this past month I have found doing weight training so much more enjoyable. It isn't a slog when I'm there, it isn't painful. Its tough but i feel like i am accomplishing something, I can feel my muscles stretching. Then the next day when they are sore, I know I did good. I can do X amount of reps then rest which is nice. My main goal is weight loss and the best thing is doing weight training is amazing for fat burn. Of course cardiovasular health is important so i do try and hit it as hard as i can at the end of my weight session for 20 or so. But i always find it easier to do that after having a good session in the gym.

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Has anyone else found this to be the case for them? Would love to hear your experiences

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Beginner weight loser here, A few questions I need answering

i’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask questions, i looked online and they don’t give me straight answers, so i’m 18m, weigh in at 99kg at 6ft. i consume 2000kcal a day, i plan to drop to 1800 once i get the hang of controlling my hunger + urges.

do carbs really matter? i track my calories for the first week, my carbs have always been over 200g, as well as my fat being above 60g and my protein sitting at 50g, do these numbers matter or is it solely calories?

my diet consists of chicken, fish, rice, pasta, whole meal bread, very few processed foods (fish cakes, fish fingers etc), i aim for 2L a day, do i need to change or improve on this?

last but not least, exercise!! (yay…) i don’t do much of it, a walk a day? 30 mins if that, does exercise matter?

sorry if this post annoys some people, i see this sub full of veteran weight loss people, so i thought i’d ask here, thank you for your time and answers

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