Still walking for weight loss

25F I’ve been a big person kind of most of my life. I’ve always had a belly and a chubby face. I lost weight in high school and got down to a medium t shirt size. That was sophomore year. Around junior year, i ballooned up. That’s when the weight gain really happened. I wanted to move out of my home town, I got to college and got comfortable, worked out a little bit, but being young, eating whatever you want, and hanging out with your friends is more fun than eating vegetables and making time to work out.

When I graduated college at 23 years old, I looked in the mirror and realized something had to change. I was the biggest I had ever been. 290 pounds. I was thankful that I wasn’t at 300, and since I wasn’t, I knew that I didn’t have to get there.

All I have down to lose weight is go on walks, weight lift occasionally, and do at home workouts. I gain most of my weight in my thighs and lower stomach. So anything with squatting or lunging isn’t my favorite activity.

I am now 60 pounds down and standing at 230 pounds. My next goal is to weight 200..then 175…then depending on how I like my body 150.

I think I may have high cortisol. I’m working on my sleep schedule but I have stretch marks, dark under eyes, grow facial hair, and use to have a very serious Buffalo hump.

They say don’t do HIIT, running, or weight lifting for high cortisol because you’re body receives that as stress and releases more cortisol.

Walking is the best happy medium. I walk 5/6 days a week for 2-3 miles. I’m thinking of moving it to 2x a day. Im not the best with lifting weights. It’s too stagnant for me. At least with walking I can get up and move as I please and see way more.

Needless to say, Will keeping walking as my weight loss regime help as I continue to lose more? My thighs are too thick, and I feel like I’m too big to be putting all that weight on my joints especially if I were to run.

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Back on the Weight Loss Wagon after losing 90lbs and then gaining it all back. After losing weight again Im starting to battle depression.

I got on seroquel and honestly, it’s the best and worst thing that ever happens to me. I got on it during 2020 because my mental health took a giant nosedive along with the rest of the world. Before that, I had managed to lose 90 lbs. And then, while it seemed like all my friends and co-workers were losing weight, I was gaining. I ate everything in sight. I was hungry constantly.

It got to the point where my cholesterol was bad, my blood pressure was bad, they wanted to put me on a sleep apnea machine and honestly, I’m too young for that shit. So I put my foot down, got on the Found weight loss program, got on 1000mg of Metformin per day, and I dropped 10 lbs almost immediately. It finally pumped the breaks on my appetite. I’m starting to feel like I’m going in the right direction.

But lately I’ve been letting the intrusive thoughts win. “Even when you lose the weight, your body is going to look awful. You’ll have all that loose skin. You’ll need surgery… maybe you should just stay fat.” Or “So you’re going to try and fail for the umpteenth time? You know how sick your whole family is of you losing and then gaining weight? How many times are you going to disappoint them?” Stuff like that. It seems to come and go whenever I’m in a calorie deficit. I have more energy, my clothes are fitting better, I don’t know why my mind has to constantly sabotage me.

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Its been 1 year... (rant)

I've tried everything from working with a dietician, eating 1700cal a day for a few months (weighing food also), being told that's to little for me to upping it to 2000 for a few months and a bunch of alterations. I used loseit quite religiously for 8-9 months.

Almost completely cut out junk food. Also cut out most processed foods. For the past 15-20 years i literally ate fast food, ever single day. Sometimes even twice a day if i would grab breakfast. I cut that out to ONCE a week, and choosing healthier, portion controlled options

I quit drinking soda.. i lived off of soda. Now i drink just water (Most days 128+ oz)( and on some mornings coffee. Only exception is if i have my Jim Beam and Coke, but that's maybe once every 2 months.

I've lifted weights, religiously 3x a week. I've tried incorporating heavy bag for cardio but kind of let that go as it wasn't doing anything with the scale. I've had low testosterone diagnosed and been on injections for 3-4 months now. I was really hoping that was the reason for the difficult weight loss but i don't think it was because here i am 4 months later with no loss.

Ive focused on getting 7.5+ hours of quality sleep a night, i use to get 5.5 to 6.

I started at 282 last July, hit 265 by September, 260 in October and i have not been able to drop below 255, in 9 freaking months.

I've been very dedicated to this, wanting just for one time in my 37 years of life be skinnier and in good shape.

This week has been really hard for me and i feel like giving up.. sure my body has had some re-composition, smaller stomach, my arm veins bulge out now but i should have lost actually weight in 9 months of healthy, portion controlled eating and exercising 3x a week.

I just don't get it.

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Is the Whoosh effect even real?

I’ve been doing keto for the past couple months trying to lose some fat and weight. I’ve recently stalled on weight loss a bit staying the same for the last couple weeks.

In some other posts people say there’s a whoosh effect where you lose fat and the fat cells fill with water but eventually will shed the water in the cells as well and you’ll lose some weight.

Is this actually a thing? Are there any studies that show this actually is what’s happening to explain weight loss that slows and speeds up?

If anyone knows any studies that explain this can you link them in the comments?

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Unable to celebrate weight loss

I (26,F 5’3) have lost 45lbs since January (6months) I started at 230lbs now 185lbs. I still have a long way to go till I reach my goal of 130lbs but im still pretty happy about how far ive come since it’s been a journey of putting myself first (Im a mom of two toddlers/gained the weight through pregnancy). But everyone around me seems kinda annoyed when its brought up it’s kinda like yeah you lost some weight but you aren’t skinny yet kinda thing. It’s really affecting me and I want to get out of feeling like my weight should stop me from feeling proud of myself. How can I celebrate my weighloss and continue to feel proud of myself through this journey while still feeling like the fat person in the room/ getting rude comments from people. What has worked for you?

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Brain fog / Nihilism due to prolonged dieting?

Been dieting since Jan/Feb, at first just started by walking ~ 1 hr per day, lifting 3-4x per week, and doing OMAD without counting calories really. I've lost ~66 lbs total, in the past month or so my weight loss slowed down so I decided to count calories and brought myself down to OMAD with ~1250 - 1500 calories, I also now probably lift 5x per week and do 1.5-2 hours walking daily. I've recently gotten some of the worst brain fog/nihilism/cynicism in recent memory. Nothing is interesting, everything seems pretty pointless, idk what is going on but I can barely focus at work. Anyone experience something similar before? I guess I have to try upping the calories but I do have higher calorie days here and there and it doesn't seem to go away from that.

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Surprised how much weight loss is shown in the face

I (m 49) Have managed to lose around 13 kg over around 6 months, though as I have been seriously working out the whole time body comp means I may have added muscle.

Anyway, I’m happy with myself for what I have done as getting to within around 5 or so kg’s of my goal.

I have fielded several compliments now about looking slim but to be honest have been surprised by comments on how my face looks different or slimmer.

I never really considered myself to have a fat face but do notice now that my cheekbones are more pronounced.

I suppose people look you in the face do it’s what they notice?

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