Seeking weight loss advice! At a plateau

Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking here for a few months but wanted to finally post to seek advice from those in the process of losing weight who have seen some success. I’m in my late 20s and have gained weight in the past two years to put me at about 20 lbs over my goal weight where I feel happy and healthy (~135 lbs). I’d lost a few lbs and I’m currently at around 148-149 lbs, but it seems like my weight loss has stalled in the past couple weeks. I had been losing steadily around 0.25-0.5 lbs per week and I was happy with that pace, but now am feeling dejected that the mild progress has stopped. I’m counting calories on Noom, burning probably around an average of 500-700 calories a day with workouts (typically stair climbing, dumbbell exercises, and walking), and eat around 1900 calories a day. This had been helping me lose, but I’m wondering if it’s time to cut calories down a bit more. I typically find I get considerably hungry below that and I’m more prone to craving fast food and junk food at night, plus I’ve always had a difficult relationship with food and my weight and have dealt with a lot of disordered eating in my teens, so I’m wary on dipping calories too low. Any advice appreciated. :) thank you!

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I have never considered dancing before in my life

29M SW:310 CW:275 GW:240

I've been either obese or extremely overweight my entire life but the last few months I've been getting really into fitness and weight loss, I'm playing ring fit a lot, I worked out at the gym 3 days a week but switched to a PPL 6 day a week routine and have been building nice muscle, and yesterday I noticed my belly shaking is reduced by A LOT when I do certain exercises I used to be embarrassed about and I'm feeling really confident in myself

I totally forgot that my wife loves dancing but kinda gave it up after we had kids, didn't have the time and I probably wasn't much of a help since I was always too embarrassed about my body to even try. But I was talking to her about bodyweight fitness and the sports I want to try and I mentioned hiking and rock climbing and swimming and she asked if I would be interested in dancing and you know what.... I never considered it a possibility but damn it sounds fun and I want to make a fool of myself while finally trying to learn!

It gets better everyone! Sticking to health and fitness has a lot of good benefits! I'm finding new ones all the time!

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they fit?!?!?

About a year ago, I bought some new clothes online from a plus sized shop. I already had a pair of pants from there so I bought a different cut in the same size (2 pairs)

I got them in and they were impossibly tight. I could barely button them. But because of the sale they were having and the rewards system, a return was basically pointless. Whatever. Gave a pair to my mom and threw the others in my drawer telling myself "maybe someday id lose weight".

I have some kind of curse where whenever I hold onto something thinking "it'll fit again someday" I gain MORE weight. And that's what happened here....by October last year I weighed in at 250lbs.

Mid-January rolled around and I decided I'd give weight loss another shot. I told myself it's be different this time and I wouldn't stress over losing like I have in the past. I'll keep a goal calorie range, treat myself to a cheat day once a week (sometimes twice), and just try to make better choices overall (goodbye rockstar punched and code red).

This morning I stepped on the scale and I'm down 30 POUNDS since I started (possibly more; I used the October weigh in as my start since I didn't have a scale at the time, but I'm positive I gained more between October and January due to the holidays).

Feeling proud, I started getting dressed for work and saw the sale pants sitting in the drawer. Figured I'd test my luck.

GUYS.....THEY FIT!!!! they went on as smooth as warm butter on toast and buttoned EASILY. I almost need a BELT with them!

I've still got a long way to go on my journey; my goal was 100lbs in a year to my "goal weight" which will still put me overweight, but I haven't weighed 150 since my college days. But today, I'm celebrating this little win!

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Am I overreacting?

Ok, so I could just be super sensitive because of how insecure I am over my weight. Please chime in and let me know.

There's this girl who is in the same group workout I go to. She's done amazing with her weight loss, I've tried talking to her privately about what she's doing to drop weight so fast but, she's pretty much given me vague answers so I stopped asking.

Tonight she came up to me in the gym infrint of everyone while we were getting our dumbbells and said...

"Hey I have a bunch of clothes that are way to big for me now since I've been losing so much weight, would you want them"

I felt my face get hot with embarrassment, and my eyes fill up with tears. I was so embarrassed and keep wondering how could she not have known that might be hurtful? She could have asked me privately.

Idk it's stuck in my mind and I keep thinking about it. Can't get it out of my head....

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my body dysmorphia reversed?

when i was at my heaviest weight, i knew i was fat, but i was in denial about how fat i actually was. i avoided taking pictures of myself and looking at my full body in an attempt to ignore it. i didn't see myself as as big as i actually was, in my mind's eye i just looked kinda chubby, but then someone else would take a pic of me and i'd be smacked in the face with reality. you know, the "holy shit, is that really how other people see me??"

now, after having lost the weight, it's become the opposite. i look in the mirror and still see a fat girl. it doesn't matter that i can see the evidence of the weight loss on the scale, in the way my clothes fit, and in the comments from other people - i still perceive myself as fat in everyday life. the picture rule still holds true though; my sister will send me snapchats she takes of me when i'm not looking, and every time i'm like "wtf that's not what i look like!"

who else has experienced this? does it ever get any better?

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[Beginner] Dumbbell only workout OR Cardio for weight loss. Help!

I'm 28 (Male), 6'0 and weigh 250 lbs. so basically I'm obese. I had gym subscription but due to long distance it is extremely difficult for me to travel. Eventually the subscription ended. So, I was thinking if I could buy a set of dumbbells with an adjustable bench and start working out at my apartment. I am planning to workout 5 days in a week (with only dumbbells focusing on chest, back, should, biceps/triceps and legs) with a daily intake of 1800 calories. Additionally I'd add some mild cardio exercises (like jumping jacks) to the routine. Does it sounds like a decent plan? Need some advice on this.

Today I had a discussion about the same topic with my friend and he is not advising me to lift weights and instead telling me to focus on cardio. He says when you're obese, you shouldn't lift weights in the beginning because it will create muscle under the fat. But as far as I know, lifting weights does burn calories and cardio doesn't helps you in gaining muscle. I'm confused so it would be great if someone could shed a light on this topic. What should I do? Is he right?

Should I get the dumbbell set and start lifting weights? or should I focus on cardio (as suggested by my friend) ? - with the daily intake of 1800 calories either way.

Thanks :)

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how to get metabolism back to normal after weight loss

Hello, I have read on a book and through some studies that when someone gets into a calorie deficit - consuming less than what your body burns - your metabolism compensates by slowing down and burning less calories. This makes sense when you take into account the evolutionary standpoint, since food was limited and the body needed to prioritize alimentation over everything.
Nowadays though, when trying to lose weight (all numbers here are arbitrary for the sake of exemplification), let's say you have a daily calorie burn of 2000 cal, and you start eating 1500 cal a day, thus a 500 calorie deficit.
After a few weeks, following the previous model - again, this is arbitrary - your metabolism slow down, only burning 1500 calories, in this case, you would either need to add some sort of physical routine or simply eat less, which would again reduce your calorie burn.
This fact by itself doesn't really bother me, but what would happen say, after achieving the desired weight. In this case, you would probably want to get back to your normal diet, eating 2000 cal to maintain weight and, but this time around, since your metabolism is slower than normal, you will start to regain everything back.
Am I misunderstand something here, is there something you can do to get it back up? Or you will be forever limited in your calorie capacity, having to eat less than earlier, even though the previous portion size was healthy?

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