Please Help

Hello Everyone! This past week I had a major wake-up call to what comes with being overweight and having an unhealthy lifestyle. I ended up needing to go to the ER for an extremely infected Pilonidal cyst and will need surgery in a few weeks to keep it from coming back. What causes this? Being an overweight, inactive, white male. I have never felt the need to lose weight because I am happy and generally pretty healthy, but it seems my health is starting to catch up with my habits and I need to begin to make some changes. I have some problems with food and like to eat quite a bit even when I'm not hungry and I know that's going to be really hard to get past because it's something I've always done...but I know It's the main reason I am overweight. How can I get past this habit of eating so much and also eating when I don't need to? Also, what are some good diets/meal plans to go by during my weight loss journey? I feel like I am ready to make a change and that it's what's best for me, I just need some advice and some help getting started. I am a restaurant server, so I am moving a lot, but I have started a gym membership to hopefully help me out, just need some determination to get out regularly and work out. I am currently about 250 pounds and want to get to about 180, I feel like that should be an achievable goal with some hard work. Thank you guys and I will keep y'all updated!

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weight plateau after losing some weight

hello! I was wondering if someone can help with some tips to push past this!!

I am a 24F 5’5 started out at 235lbs (highest) and lowest weight being 183lbs I’m currently fluctuating between 185-193lbs and I’ve been maintaining my weight for the last 2 years which I take as a WIN because it’s it’s hard to do so once you feel like you look a certain way. However, I do want to maybe go to down to 150-165 and my weight has been not budging I am active and I have pretty good workouts 4-5week. I definitely feel like my maintenance calories and deficit has changed and I’m having a hard time figuring it out I want to lose the extra 15-20lbs and see how I look. I use to work with a trainer and it was amazing but we have parted ways I’m not sure if it’s me or my body has adapted to a different way of functioning now. I do know with schools my stress was high at some point so being a female it can throw my hormones off balance as well as maybe having a copper iud but I’d like to think this maybe not significant to my weight loss maybe I haven’t been eating the best either or miss workouts so to be conclusive I feel like it’s a bunch of different factors but any feedback is appreciated so much!

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Need to lose weight.

I'm currently 25 years old, weighing approximately 79.5 kilograms and standing at a height of 5'7" to 5'8". I have been feeling quite insecure about the excess belly fat I've gained over the past four years. To address this issue, I am determined to lose weight. My plan involves reducing my daily calorie intake to around 800-1000 calories and a daily walk of 5-6 kilometers. My goal is to lose around 5-7 kilograms within a two-month period. Is it possible for me to lose 5-7 KGs with this plan? Due to my strict schedule and the high temperatures in Islamabad, Pakistan, I am unable to spend more than an hour outside. However, I am considering joining a gym after a month to further enhance my weight loss efforts. I am open to any additional suggestions or advice you may have.

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I backslid and recovered

Went from 298->235 the past six months. I started out just worrying about calories and then building healthier habits slowly. The past two months I saw a big drop in my blood pressure and heart rate. I started planning every meal I eat. I have the habit of choosing the most convienant thing in the moment which is usually unhealthy. It's helped a lot to not have any excuses and my diet had been very clean.

I am dealing with a loss right now and it's brought out the worst in me. I was drinking, gambling and eating fast food for 5 days straight. It just made everything worse and made me feel like a failure. When I fail it gets easy to continue failing. I have never lost this amount of weight or been this consistent with weight loss my whole life. I have a long way to go but thinking about how far I have gotten helped me stop snowballing. I always go off the deep end once I cheat and feel like I blew it. You can start to believe it's not possible to lose weight sometimes. Well after 12 years of failing over and over I'm figuring out what works for me.

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How much weight loss does it take it affect your period?

So I’m having a mental breakdown here over this. I feel stupid, but I think it plays into my fear of now being 30 and feeling like everything is over.

Anyway, I still technically have a little more than a week until my period is due to start. However, tonight I noticed some light spotting. It could just be spotting; however, my periods usually start out pretty light so I’m freaking out that it’s a very early period.

I know that weight loss can affect periods, but I don’t feel like I’ve been losing that rapidly—maybe half a lb to a lb a week. Is that really enough to affect it? I suppose my number of calories could be doing it: I try to stick to around 1600, but that seems normal for someone my height and my activity level. I did skip a period once when I was in college and losing weight, but I assumed that had more to do with stress from exams than the weight loss. I don’t know, I’m just upset over this.

I am probably going to see a gynecologist regardless because I have a lot questions/concerns regarding my reproductive future and weight loss affecting it and whatnot. But I’m just in tears over this tonight worried I’m already menopausal and idk it’s upsetting me.

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How much can I reasonably lose in one year given I have a median caloric deficit?

I'm in no rush to lose all the weight I've gained over the years. I'm 31, inactive, sedentary, a former athlete, and injured, but I believe that eating right and trying the right activities can get me to lead a healthy and balanced lifestyle where I don't backslide as often, and I opt for the most optimal solution for myself.

I managed to lose about 70 pounds last year by just dieting. I was kinda strict about it, going at 2000 calories on days when I would track my meals, and having little to no junk food. I believe my ability to stick to what my dieting coaches told me to eat led to better weight loss adherence, but this year, I gained about 40 pounds back after introducing junk food into my diet regime and binging a lot. I won't go into binging details for the sake of focusing on more important details.

But anyway, if I had stuck to a diet where I was 20/80 and more flexible with junk food, do you think I would have been able to lose more weight over time? I hit a plateau in the summer at 276 pounds, and I wasn't able to lose anymore no matter how many small adjustments I made. I figure it was a "physical activity" plateau, or maybe it had to do with a caloric deficit losing its efficacy over time, but simply put I was at the same weight and the scale wasn't changing. Maybe my waist was, and I do need to start looking at things like body mass and waist size maybe, but the scale read the same number time and time again.

Any help is appreciated. I am 31, male, 5' 11", 325 pounds. Sedentary on most days but lightly active on some.

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I dont believe in myself [Rant but any help appreciated]

I (25F) think that’s my biggest problem in this journey.

I’ve been trying to lose weight for FOUR YEARS. Actually, four years and a half. In this time, I managed to lose and then regain and lose again a few kgs, and now I’m right back where I started.

I know part of the reason I haven’t seen much progress is my binge eating problem. Extended binges the week before my period.

I lost all confidence in myself and have absolutely no reason to believe in myself. Whenever I try to tell myself this time will be different, the rational part of me screams that it won’t. My track record shows I can’t.

The only times I managed to lose weight in these years were the few times I got very sick. Eating in a calorie deficit has never ever led to sustainable weight loss for me. I know it’s not because “my body is broken”, it’s just that I end up so so hungry that I overeat and ruin my progress. But if I try to eat more to avoid hunger, I’m back to maintenance calories.

So I have no reason to believe I can lose weight. Yet I keep trying. I want to live life in my happy, healthy and confident body again. I want my energy and effortless life again. I need something that makes me believe in myself but I can’t find it. I think of a life without binge eating and it sounds totally unrealistic for me. I can’t imagine not ever binge eating again.

Every time I try to tell myself I can do it I feel like I’m lying to myself. Been there so many times before, I know how it ends.

Now I’m 17 days binge-free. Haven’t lost any weight. I need more time, but I would want to see some progress month to month.

I don’t want to give up.

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