Gym Routine Advice

Hi all,

I (155kg m) decided a while ago that I'm fed up with being overweight, and have recently started acting on it. I'm trying to eat less and trying out some little tricks like drinking more caffeine because it's a metabolizer, and I've eventually made it into the gym at work.

I still live with my parents so I don't get much of an input on what I have for dinners, just how much of it I have, and I've lost almost 10 kilos in the last 2 months.

I was hoping someone could help me refine my gym routine so I can maximize weight loss to hit my goal of 100kg by next summer.

At the moment I'm doing 15 minutes walk/slow jog to warm up, then going from 15kg to whatever I can max out on a chest press and back down again, then 15 minutes on and off boxing a bag, then the same weight method on leg press, then finishing off with a 15 minute walk/cycle to cool down.

I've talked to a few colleagues who also use the gym and they've all said a combination of CV and weight training gets the best results.

I appreciate any advice you guys can give, and hope I'll be posting back here with good news next year.

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I want to use the gym, but I don't know how!

I've just gotten really serious about my weight loss journey after trying and giving up repeatedly. I go to the gym 3 times a week, but I always stick go the treadmill and elliptical.

I know I can lose weight doing cardio, but I've heard it's easier to lose weight when you lift weights! Problem is, I don't know how to build a workout routine. I've Googled it, but I'm still confused.

Thank you in advance for any information!

TLDR; How do you build a workout routine at the gym?

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Just feel like I can’t start over again

Hi all. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I have tried to lose weight on and off since age 13. Sometimes it works, but it always comes back. Now I weigh 260 pounds as a 5 7 person and I desperately want to lose weight, but it seems like it is just hopeless. So many years of yo-yo dieting! And so many people say it isn’t even possible to permanently lose weight. I genuinely want to know if there is any hope for me. Please, please be kind or don’t comment. I’m at the end of my rope.

I deal with emotional eating due to trauma and have suffered from a binge eating disorder for most of my life. I am also a transgender man, so losing weight in my chest is basically necessary for me to exist in my body in a way that feels okay.

I tried a dietician and she was really weird to me about me being trans, so I gave up. I feel so stressed out and tired from work that I find it difficult to eat well or exercise. I feel as if I need to figure out how to make slow changes in my life, but I don’t know how. I feel like weight loss isn’t possible for me and I just want to know if any of you have been able to do it despite challenges with mental health or ESPECIALLY gender dysphoria.

Also, let me get ahead of y’all and say this before it becomes a problem: You really don’t need to be mean to me for being transgender. I promise you don’t. You can move on and do literally anything else. I’m really nervous to post this so please don’t kick me when I’m down. :/

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First Post

So I started my weight loss journey about a month ago weighing in at 277 pounds. The heaviest I have ever weighed in my life. A few years ago I went through a women's health issue and it caused me to gain more weight to my already unhealthy weight. The issue was solved then covid hit and life happens. I am 37 years old and decided that if I want to try to have a child on my own I need to do everything possible to healthy, and even if we cannot have children I could be healthier. My husband and I decided that it was time for a change so talked to our Dr. and got a referral to a weight loss specialist. I had my first appointment on 09/13 and instantly felt understood and supported by the entire staff there. They didn't just through medicine at me. They use a prong approach med, diet, and exercise. As of this morning 09/29 I am down to 266.5 pounds. I have not seen this weight since before 2019! I know this will be a tough road but it is worth it.

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Stuck at a weight loss plateau

Hello everyone. My girlfriend(23) is trying to lose weight for the past few weeks. She cut sugar completely from her diet. Initially she started with 1000cal diet and started losing some weight. Now she is stuck at 147lbs and its been the same for the past two weeks even though she reduced the calorie intake to 700 and added 30min cardio. I know its unhealthy to reduce it to such a drastic amount but we don’t know how to proceed further or break this plateau. Now we are afraid to cut calories further. Any advice is appreciated. Some background on her lifestyle. She used to eat a lot of sweets and used to be 171lbs or overweight her entire life. Only now she started losing weight. She has very low physical strength and never been to gym. Her current diet usually contains eggs, fruits like orange pomeg with some carbs like bread n rice

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Went off the rails and gained 24"

(35/f/5'2"/224 lbs)

It's truly amazing to me how such a drastic change can take place without me being fully conscious of it.

Some backstory- I have always been overweight, but in 2018 I started exercising regularly and eating well. I lost 30 pounds and felt amazing.

I just found my measurements from February 2020, just before everything everywhere went crazy. I am 8" bigger in my bust, waist and hips for 24" gained overall. Two new feet of me. Hot damn.

The positive changes I'd made became a COVID casualty. At the same time the pandemic hit, my then-fiance got stuck in the States while visiting. I was a teacher and taught through the pandemic hell. Got married. Entered the immigration nightmare. Then a career switch. I just generally found myself focusing on everything other than taking care of myself. This year I ran into

I knew I had gained 40 lbs, but that didn't quite hit like realizing how many inches I had added.

The last few weeks I have been trying to make changes- more movement, strength training three times a week, getting up to move more during my workday. When it comes to food I have a complete mental block - our diets are fairly decent and the changes I need to make aren't crazy - I just find myself unable to focus and remember to track calories and such.

Guess I'm just generally struggling with focus. Maybe this inches revelation will help. What do you guys do when you're weight loss/health building "bleh"?

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There's always something else: feeling frustrated. Feel like a freak

I've been on keto for a few years now. I got to point where I was making it work for me, eating fast food but substituting bread and tortillas for the low carb versions. I was able to lose enough that I'm the lowest weight I've been in my adult life.

Thing is, I have a B-belly. I was looking up info about that specifically and find out it's also called a hormonal belly and is affected by hormonal imbalances in the body. Suddenly, I have to also consider so many new things and, though I've been losing weight, I've still been doing everything wrong.

Ok, I know I haven't been doing everything "wrong". But it's frustrating that weight loss is still this medical mystery that's still being researched. New information is going to continue to come to light that'll result in what I'm doing now not being enough. And even then, these new revelations result in new guidelines that result in my being limited even more.

I already hate so much that I can't eat how my peers do. I hate turning down food. I already felt like a freak, and now this.

Ever since finding out all this new info I've been trying to figure out how to make that work too. In the meantime I'm eating like I used to. I feel my pants getting tighter. I'm so disheartened right now.

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