Let’s talk about belly buttons lmao

27F here! I’ve lost 100-150 pounds or possibly more (because I’m not sure of my highest weight.) My skin is starting to sag all around where my stomach used to be so full of fat. I feel like the more I lose, the further it hangs down and it’s driving me crazy. But even worse, my belly button. It’s so long now because the skin hangs down and it’s just a gross mess in this summer heat. I work mostly outside during the day and by time I get home my belly button is wet, red, swollen and it’s pretty painful sometimes. It also gets a gross gunk when I try any products around the area. The fold between my stomach where it now hangs also gets red and rashy. I’ve tried deodorant and powder and baby rash cream. It just makes both areas more red or gunky. Also even grosser.

Has anyone that had this problem found anything that helps? I’m tired of feeling gross and it stinks lol! It’s so sad because I want to enjoy the fact that I’ve lost so much weight and it’s just a hassle everyday. I’ve also noticed that I actually have so much lose skin. I know I’ll need surgery because there’s so much. Any advice on how to not be so scared about the idea of getting surgery so that I can live more comfortably now? I never even thought it would ever be a possibility!

I’m so excited that I’ve lost this much. It was mostly by walking all day for work which also involves some heavy lifting. I know you can make some skin better by weight training and I have a gym where I live but I’ve never gone inside because I don’t know where to start!

-thank you from a girlie who wasn’t expecting to actually ever lose weight

TL;DR: I lost a bunch of weight and am looking for recommendations on skin issues from said weight loss.

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What Are Cheap, Non-Perishable Meal Prep Ideas? (Especially Protein for Vegetarians?)

So I'm noticing that I'm off the weight loss horse via not wanting to cook. The meals I usually make are pretty easy, but i always resort to already made meals that are packaged and belong to my family. (And I feel guilty about it because I'd never buy it myself due to budget.) I'm guessing this is because of convenience, but also because I don't like the weighing of food an inopportune times every single time I want a meal. I also noticed I forget to eat and end up binging in the late evening/night on absolute crap like lavash bread. Just plain lavash bread.

Currently, I have a collection of:

- A lot of eggs.

- Low cal cheese for omelettes.

- A reliable supply of tomatoes. (Borrow from family.)

- A variety of hot sauces.

- Frozen veggie mix.

- A collection of protein powders packets (self made,) I usually combine with ice cream to make a diet ice cream shake. (For emergency binge situations.)

- Frozen berries that I layer with ice cream. (Problem here is I don't usually stop with the plain ice cream sometimes, but ok if I don't touch it from the get go.)

- Some popcorn packets. (That are a bit to small and the other nice brand is somehow less quality. I'l have to buy that in another area soon.)

- Protein rich peanut butter.

- Ingredients for seitan, but no functional oven. I do have a mini oven and an air frier though. Just not sure if its worth using materials on.)

Aaaand...I think that it?

For reference I eat 1,200 Cal a day and hence distribute my meals by max 400 Cal. Keep in mind that sometimes I use a collection of snacks as a meal, especially something like popcorn, where the volume is satiating. The other part that's important is some protein since I struggle with that one. A combination of protein and volume would be great.

Anything you would recommend to buy or make that is generally cheap and can last at least 3 days? (Maybe a week if Im ok on skimming quality?)

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Healthy Summer Road Trip Goals

Hey all! I have a two week road trip planned and I'm hoping to make it a healthy one, where I more or less stick to my exercise and nutrition goals. Even if I lose no weight, but avoid weight gain, that would be ideal.

Often, for road trips I would aim to eat all sorts of food like fish and chips, since we will be by the ocean, and drink beer from all the local breweries. Here's what I think I could aim for on this trip instead:

• Go for a run in as many new and beautiful places as possible
• Try lots of different coffees
• Visit a Japanese teahouse
• Buy fruit from the roadside fruit stands
• Stop for disc golf at lots of different courses. ( My husband plays seriously; I usually just walk around and look for interesting mushrooms to take photos of.)
• Try to walk as much as possible in place of driving.
• Order local seafood: oysters, sushi, seared fish, shrimp. Skip the fries.
• Buy healthy breakfast groceries so we only need to eat out for dinner. This should leave me more time to fit in a run in the morning.
• Stop at a brewery now and then, but split a flight of beer with my husband. It ends up being about 8oz of beer each, and you get to taste 4 kinds.

What fun things do you guys do on a vacation / road trip that also happen to support your weight loss and maintenence goals?

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Scared to quit smoking due to potential weight gain.

34, F. I started my weight loss journey on June 10th and have managed to reduce 6 kilos (SW: 184 pounds, CW: 170, GW: 143, height: 5'6/168 cm). I have been overweight all my life due to my own birth complications, hormonal issues and an extremely abusive childhood. It doesn't take much for me to gain weight and is extremely hard to lose. However I started taking care of my diet and physical activity around 13 years back. While I came down from the obese category, i have been my SW since the last decade.

I am so proud of myself for having resolved all my childhood trauma, have a wonderful partner and financial stability. However, addiction runs very deeply in my family. My paternal family is addicted to alcohol, and my maternal side is addicted to sweets. My brother and I have become addicted to smoking. I started in 2019. And I just can't stop. I can easily finish a pack a day. I bought nicotine patches, joined online support groups, apps, nothing worked. Plus smoking really helped me suppress my appetite as well.

This year's blood report was a wake up call. I have extremely high inflammation in my body amongst other things. ADHD, bipolar 3, chronic anxiety, being a high school teacher - my only relief has been to smoke. Now I finally took the plunge and enrolled under a nutritionist and she is encouraging me every week to stop smoking. With all the healthy changes I am making in my life, it's so beautiful to see the numbers drop after a decade. But the inability to stop smoking overshadows everything. And one of my biggest excuse is - what if I stop smoking and gain all of this weight back, not just the past month's but the last decade's? What if my metabolism decreases?

I desperately need to know how leaving smoking affected your weight loss journey?

• a person trying to take back control

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Achieved my last milestone before my goal weight today!

I’ve lost 20 pounds! I’m so happy I’ve made it this far. This subreddit inspired it all. I was unhappy with being overweight, tired of continuing to buy larger and larger sized clothing, and I just didn’t even know how to start. I’d try exercising and see 0 results and completely give up. It was this sub that taught me all about TDEE and CICO, and the rest was history. I always knew it was eat less, exercise more - but CICO gave me actual numbers, a real road map to follow. I took upon this weight loss journey like a science experiment. Like alright fine, if it’s as easy as eating at a deficit, then this should work. It’s math. And what do you know, it worked!! I started March 12th of this year and am now 3.2 pounds away from my goal weight. I know these last few are going to be hard to lose, but I trust the math! We’ll all get there in the end if we follow the math. And the Lose It app makes it all so easy to keep following. Thank you people of this sub for sharing “the secret” to weight loss. Being here is the healthiest thing the internet has done for me!

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Coping With Weight Gain

I landed a great job. We moved to the city we both wanted to move to. I started off strong, waking up at 7 every day and going for a run. I was meditating. Not drinking alcohol. I rocked my new job for the first couple weeks. Then I had a beer after a good week of work. Then I stopped doing all those things from before, and I let the stress get to me. I exercised only occasionally. Stopped meditating. Started having beers at the end of the day to unwind. I gained some weight but nothing I hadn’t experienced before. My contract ended (my work was as an independent contractor so this end date was expected). It was a really stressful contract but I did it, and I did it pretty well. Winter hit and I was looking for a job. More stress as now we had to establish ourselves in our new city after 6 months of being here. I didn’t exercise hardly at all for about two months. Lots of beer and wine, and frequent Taco Bell deliveries almost nightly for at least a month. I knew I was gaining weight but thought it must have maybe been around 10 lbs heavier than the heaviest I’d ever been. I landed my long term job which was what we were stressed about for 6 months. I could barely breathe when I put on my slacks for the interview, and I couldn’t button my suit jacket all the way but I could pass as professional. Got the job and decided to aggressively lose weight. I ate at an aggressive calorie deficit and hit the elliptical almost every day for 8 weeks. I showed progress and thought I must have lost that 10 pounds, putting me at the heaviest I’d ever been but hey, not 10 pounds heavier than that! All this time I refused to get on the scale. Started watching what I ate and either hit my maintenance calorie level or below. Started picking up the elliptical a little more. A few months later around the one year mark of living in our new city and I decided to finally get batteries for the scale and step on it. Thought I must be back to a normal weight with about 20 pounds of weight loss to go before hitting my goal. I t thought I must have been around 190 pounds at 5’10”. Before I stepped on the scale that day I looked in the mirror and said, “No matter what weight you are, you are beautiful. I am so proud of you.” I was ready to see if I had 20-30 pounds left to hit my goal of 170 pounds. When I stepped on the scale it is no understatement to say I was stunned to see the number 219. If I had lost the ten pounds I was sure I’d lost, that means that at my heaviest, I was about 230 pounds last winter. 20 pounds heavier than I thought I’d reached, 30 pounds heavier than the heaviest I’d ever been, and after about ten pounds lost, still a full 50 pounds away from my goal weight. I’ve had a very hard time coping with seeing that number. I’m still holding out hope that the next scale I step on will reveal this one was off, but I know that’s probably wishful thinking. I know I’ll keep leaning into cardio and calorie counting and I’ll get there eventually. Just having a tough time coping with this weight gain, and the guilt of having turned away from those healthy habits last year. I will lose this weight, and my resolve is there. But I could use a pick me up/encouragement if anyone has the capacity to pass some along. Love, An Aspiring 5’10” 170 lb guy

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Really struggling with weight loss

Hi everyone, I need some help or advise. Just for some context I am a 21 m, 6ft, South Asian American, and 230lbs now. I first started going to the gym when I was 17, 4 years ago, and I was about 230 lbs back then. I was able to drop down to 178lbs at my lowest. That took about 9 months. Soon after than I gained my weight back slowly and was 220lbs in March of 2022. I was able to lose about 20 lbs again and drop to 200lbs and since then I am back to 230lbs. Basically when I stop working out seriously and give up my diet I gain weight, as expected. I will say that I am fairly muscular, and I am pretty athletic but I have probably a solid 30-40 lbs that I wanna lose. Both times that I lost weight I literally had to starve my self. I would go to the gym, life for 40 mins and cardio for 40 mins ( 3 speed, 15 incline) but would eat only 1 meal a day. So about 500-600 calories a day. I literally don’t lose weight unless I starve myself. And I started going to the gym again since May, and I gained 10 pounds (220 -> 230). From May to July I tried to eat around 1000 calories because my old diet was obviously very unhealthy. But I j seemed to gain 10 pounds. Now since July I tried going back to the extreme. Same amount of exercise as before, 40 mins weight lifting and 40 mins cardio, but less calories. Now I only drink a cup of coffee in the morning (100 calories) and 5 oz of Pasta with marinara and 5 oz of grilled chicken with a 84g of reduced fat Walmart Mexican blend cheese. I also take 5g of creatine everyday. That’s roughly 500-600 calories a day. But I am still 230 lbs. the main areas of my fat are my belly, thighs and butt. If I could lose anything I would love to lose my butt, it looks so unnatural, especially for a guy. Any advise would help. If you need anymore info please let me know. Thanks for reading my rant.

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