I WAS feeling good about my twenty pound weight loss

For context I take a medication that causes hunger and weight gain. I’ve been bigger my whole life but at the beginning of this year I was at my heaviest. 308 pounds. I was wearing a 3xl shirt and size 42 jeans. So, I quit drinking alcohol, and soda. Almost never go out to eat, and gave up processed sugar altogether. In June I started working with a health coach through my medical insurance. Now I measure all my food and track calories in and out. I’ve started walking three times a week as well.

Well as of last Saturday I was at 287. I can fit my 2xl shirts again. My jeans are loose on me. I’ve been feeling really good and also feeling inspired to keep going.

So today I was walking to the store to get a sparkling water as a treat on my break at work. As I’m crossing the street a car drives by and the passenger yells “hey fat ass!”. Let me tell you my high on life feeling came crashing down. I got my water and slowly walked back to work. I dwelled on it for a while, feeling bad.

About an hour later I decided not to let it get to me. I knew I had to get stuff for meals for my family and myself for the next couple days, so I made out a list. When I left work I stopped by the store and got only things on the list. When I got home I weighed and portioned my snack for the next few days and made a big instant pot of steel cut outs to meal prep breakfast for the next week.

I stopped feeling sorry for my self and I feel empowered, at least at this moment. I’m not sure of the purpose of this post. It’s my first one here but I’ve been lurking for a while. I hope I can encourage someone else to keep doing good as well.

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How long does water weight affect the rate of weight loss?

F22, 5'6", SW160, CW147, GW13X

I am an experienced weight-loser (previously did 200->150 in 2020) but I am not good at being healthy about it.

When I follow the steps to calculate TDEE, I usually get ballpark 1700 to 2000. I have a boring desk job, I do 30mins of cardio 3x a week, and I get 15-20k steps a day. To give myself a decent margin of error on underreporting calories, I stick to 1200 calories a day and I am very good at it. Over the past 23 days of data, my calorie average has been 1246. Perfect, right?

Except I have been losing weight wayyyy too fast. In 23 days, I have lost 8.2 pounds. Much above 1% per week. Based on my calculations, this puts my TDEE at around 2400.

2400 sounds insane to me. That's the "heavy exercise" category on TDEE calculators for my height. It doesn't make sense, IMO.

I'm wondering if water weight is coming into play. I lost a few lbs "casually" before this 23 day logging stint (160->155) which I think could have been most of my water weight. My weight loss in this 23 day stint has been fairly consistent (I weigh every day).

I know I need to increase my calories, but going up to 1900 just seems nonsensical to me. Even though it's what the data implies. What confounding factors could be throwing off my calculations?

(I am a mathmatician, I have a spread sheet, I know at the bare minimum my arithmetic is correct)

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135lbs, 5'6, 23 Female. A bit confused about what course of action to take in the case of being "Skinny fat"

I probably have a few misconceptions about weight loss since all this information is new to me. So feel free to correct me.

Most of my teen and some of my adult years I have been 115 lbs and have been told im too skinny and I was. Around the pandemic i gained weight but I did not notice till people said it. I did not really monitor my weight because I have been the same weight forever so it has never been an important aspect I guess. I never tried to gain or lose weight purposely so i never monitored too hard once I realized I was the same weight forever (or so I thought lol)

Now I am noticing the weight but it is only in my stomach and face. My legs and arms are still as skinny as ever. My neck is still skinny, it’s weird because i still have a defined hourglass shape but the stomach is just fat and lumpy. I look very disproportionate because its only my stomach and love handles that is large.

So I understand I need to burn more calories than I am taking in. And the calories should be healthy and not straight sugar. My main confusion are these things

1. I do not know what my weight goal should be because I have only ever been super skinny or the weight I am now. If I lose weight I will be closer to being underweight but the weight I have now just simply does not sit the way I want it lol (this leads to my second confusion). Should I lose weight even if that means im closer to being underweight? I feel like if I lose a small amount of fat then I’ll still look the same but if I lose too much then then I’ll be underweight.

2. I was thinking perhaps I need to workout and the fat will just simply convert to muscle (not quite literally but moving from fat to muscle in that general area is the idea) but i read that it does not really work like that since you cant spot reduce fat and I would need to lose weight in general. So doing sit ups or planks or whatever, it wouldn’t make me lose weight even if I built muscle, and if anything I’d risk looking bigger

Soooo I am just confused. Should I be focused on losing weight and not be worried about being closer to be underweight or do I workout for the purpose of muscle and lose weight from that? Idk what I should be doing really

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Has anyone else lost weight but not clothing size?

I’m down m 37 lbs since February (234 - 197 lbs) but all of my clothes still fit me. I went to the store and tried on a smaller pair of pants and couldn’t get them past my thighs. I do workout about 3 times a week so I don’t think my weight loss is from muscle. I also don’t look too different than I did 37 lbs ago (friends and family haven’t noticed) but I’m wondering if this has happened to anyone else? Is there a certain mark where things should really start changing in terms of dropping clothing sizes and appearance being slimmer?

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[22M] Developed harsh sagging on butt after losing the most recent 20 pounds

Yo! I'm 22M, 6'2", 215lbs. I started my weight loss journey in June 2022 at about 305 pounds. I have noticed that I've developed bad rolls on the bottom of my butt and its really messing with me. I recall my butt looking nowhere near this bad 20 pounds ago.

Is there any way to go about fixing this quickly? I have the goal of dropping another 15 pounds. I would consider myself fairly muscular (even at this weight, I have faint abs), and I have lift pretty heavy on my lower body. I hardcore trained my glutes throughout this last year as I've lost weight because I've always wanted a nice butt, so this is really not a fun sight to see.

Is this just loose skin causing excessive sagging? It kinda feels like its sagging towards the center, in between my thighs and under the bumhole. My butt isn't flat (IMO it looks great in underwear). After it curves, the skin just flattens and sags where my ass meets my hamstrings. It feels like there's fat in the folds formed by the sagging as well, and there's still sagging even when I bend over at the waist (like I'm tying my shoe).

Would surgery be my only option (are there non invasive types?)? I also was wondering if maybe loosing another 15 pounds will (hopefully) take away the fat from the folds, or if it'll just make it worse. I know one answer may be to just train and build muscle there, but I feel muscle in my ass, its lifting it, it's just a shitton of fat sagging on the bottom. Plus, this is bad enough that I'm not exactly willing to wait the possible years in may take to train enough muscle into them.

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How did you lose your weight when your partner brought home all the foods you find irresistible?

I was steadily losing weight, maintaining 2lbs a week. I was so proud of myself at my first 10lbs! Then my husband brought home a big bag of my favourite chips. Then a couple days later bought a box of chocolate bars being excited that it cost him 2 bucks. This kind of thing happened every time I was proud of losing the weight loss. I stopped talking about it, and then he started making super calorie rich foods that are delicious. Then I broke my foot, and have completely fallen off the rails, and suddenly the "thoughful treats" stopped coming.

I know, I know, take responsibility, blah blah blah. But I could really use some tricks to help me stay on track. What did you do?

I'm all healed up and just struggling to find the motivation to start dieting again.

I've tried talking with him about it many times over the years, and he will not get on the same page. I accept him at his weight, and love him regardless. But I really wish he would help me rather than hinder me.

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Hypothetical question on intermittent fasting

Say someone eats the same lunch and the same dinner every day. And they start lunch at 11AM and finish dinner at 6PM. Same physical exertion each day just to take all other things out of the equation.
To the question, if one day this person cuts his fast short and starts a breakfast at 7AM and finishes lunch at 2PM, then returns back to normal the following day with lunch at 11AM, how do these time frames compare for fat loss, weight loss, calorie deficit etc etc? Will the short fast and the long fast basically balance out compared to the person's typical fast, or would the longer fast be exponentially better, or the short be exponentially worse?
Just a hypothetical I am curious about.

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