Struggling with new lifestyle - petite weight loss

Hi everyone, I just wanted to vent about what I’m experiencing right now and hopefully this community will help me or understand.

I’m 22, 5’2”, and I weigh 215lbs. This is the most I’ve ever weighed and I’m really trying to get myself under control. I’ve lost and gained weight in the past, and at my lowest I was 130 in high school. I know that my weight has gotten out of control but I’m really struggling to keep it together and stick to it.

Right now, my daily caloric intake is 1300, in an effort to lose 1.5-2lbs a week. I have a very sedentary lifestyle as I work on my computer all day. I try to get up and active but I admit that I probably don’t get as much exercise as I should. I’ve started CICO again, monitoring everything I’m consuming and making low calorie, healthy alternatives to my typical meals.

Here’s where I’m struggling. I constantly feel hungry, and I can’t figure out how to make it stop. I remember reading that for petite women, if they overeat even 38 calories a day, in a decade they can gain 30 pounds. I’m keeping my calorie intake very strict because of this, as I desperately don’t want to gain any more.

I’ve always struggled with body image and I just feel horrible all the time. My partner is very tall and lean and he seems to eat anything he wants and not gain a pound. I want to be able to enjoy meals together but because we have such different food needs, it makes it difficult. Either he’s left crazy hungry, or I go over my allotted calories for a specific meal.

I’m just feeling disappointed and overwhelmed. I want my body to change, I want to have a healthier lifestyle. I’m finding that losing weight as a petite woman is extremely hard, and I’m worried that I’ll be fat my whole life. I don’t want to spend my younger years hating myself, but I also don’t want to spend them meticulously counting calories for months on end with no progress. I’m honestly at my wits end and considering liposuction just to make it easier for me.

Any advice or thoughts you guys have would be very helpful. Just wondering if there’s other petite women out there who have struggled with a similar thing. Thanks everyone.

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Is weight loss purely CICO?

I was sleeved in march 2022,at my heaviest (night of the surgery) I was 150kg,now I am down to 94kg. I was following the diet program that my surgeons dietician gave me and it has very low protein but very effective in reducing weight,after a while I started reading about the importance of protein and weight lifting and all that,so I started altering my diet and started tracking protein and calories which ultimately ended in failure,I stopped the diet and went on a binge eating spiral,now I want to start again but I have 1 question,is it okay to follow my surgeon’s dietician program of very low protein and low calories or should I start modifying it on my own?what are your suggestions?

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i cant stick with it and i can’t figure out why

i’ve been trying to lose weight for almost 2 years now and im so frustrated that i have made it nowhere. no matter how hard i try or what i try, i can’t stick with it.

i thought that maybe my adhd was the cause of it. i was constantly snacking even when i wasn’t hungry and it was like a stimulation thing. but i got medicated and got my adhd under control, but im still eating nonstop.

i thought maybe i was just eating emotionally. but i started medication for my mental health issues and started feeling a lot better. overall im not doing terrible. i feel decent. i eat whether i feel happy or sad or mad or even when i feel nothing/neutral. so i don’t think it’s my emotions.

i’ve tried fasting. i’ve tried sticking to a deficit. i tried eating a maintenance to start out with. i tried eating more protein. i tried eating my favorite foods in moderation. i have tried so many things. but i can’t stick to a single one.

i feel very hopeless in terms of my weight loss. at this point i feel like i will never reach my goal weight. i feel like something is wrong with me. i see so many successful people and i can’t help but compare myself to them and feel like a failure. why can’t i do it?? i can go maybe a week at the most and then i just fall off. i want this so bad. i really do. but no matter how bad i want it, i can’t get myself to work for it. i feel like as time goes on i just get more discouraged and feel worse about myself.

does anyone have any advice on how to get past this? what finally worked for you? if anyone has any advice at all i would appreciate it so much

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Surgery or lose more?

Pretty self explanatory as far as the title goes This is me right now

Three years ago I started a weight loss and fitness journey that saw me (M29 5’9”) go from 235 to 135 pounds. I reached that through CICO and permanent lifestyle changes that drastically increased my physical activity. I’ve been in the 130s for over a year now, and I am feeling confident about not gaining the weight back at least.

My mental health has improved tenfold, and I’m in the best shape I have ever been. A month ago, I climbed a small 5,000 foot mountain in Alaska, which had been a dream of mine for several years. Something like that would have been impossible for me prior to my weight loss. I’m extremely proud of what I’ve achieved so far.

However, looking in the mirror and seeing what I linked above is very difficult to feel positive about. No matter what I do, that flap/fold/belly hang will not disappear. I can see the outline of my ribs under my chest. I can feel my hip bones. But that area on my gut makes me basically never want to take off my shirt. When I bend over, it droops forward in this horrible sort of wrinkly mass. I just hate it.

I know that there’s loose skin. And I also know that there’s some stubborn subcutaneous fat as well. But at my height and weight, I’m beginning to feel like surgery is the only way to flatten it. Tummy tuck and lipo seem to be what would be most effective from my research. So my question is if there is any way to naturally fix this, or does my stomach look like I’m to the point where removing the loose skin is the best option?

I’m tired of feeling disgusting in my own body after working this hard to be healthy. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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First cut - advice?

First cut - advice?

First time cutting, any advice?

Stats: 24 years old male 6’2” Around 105-110kg 20-24% bodyfat 36-38” waist

(was 32”-33” 86KG-90KG 10-12%bf pre covid - got away with binge eating when I was younger without gaining weight)

Pre working out my diet consisted of constant fast food and very little exercise- way below my recommended steps due to a office job

I started my cut this week. 40-45 minutes intense high rep lifting and 30 mins cardio - sometimes additional cardio if I’m free. Usually a cycle or speed walking at an incline. All 5 times a week 2 days rest

I currently do PUSH PULL LEGS PUSH PULL

The issue I’m having is with calories. My every day diet more or less is

Breakfast: 4-5 eggs

Lunch/dinner: chicken rice broccoli or salmon rice broccoli. Macros for the lunch / dinner are around

330 calories for the fish 32g protein 27g carbs 8.7g fat

505 calories for the chicken 50.7g protein 30g carbs 13g fats

Following my two meals I usually just have a small snack like a protein yogurt or a banana and go sleep. 2.5L water a day along with creatine, D3, Zinc, Magnesium and Boron

Is that sufficient for weight loss? Or am I heavily under-eating? I don’t feel overly hungry and my energy levels don’t seem to have dropped too significantly but I’m not sure if this is sustainable long term. I was planning on doing this for 4 months as I’m going away on holiday in February and wanted cut before hand

Any advice?

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weight loss & fitness advice

hi! i’m trying to reprioritise my health and weight loss after a mental health break (and some weight gain), but i’d like to do it differently this time and am looking for advice.

i’m unable to own a scale, but based on experience and my measurements i’d approximate that ~160lbs, i’m also 5’3, 19, and very sedentary. most calorie tracking apps estimate my maintenance to be around 1750-1900 calories.

last year i was losing weight at a weekly average of 1200-1400 calories, but i wasn’t exercising at all.

this time i’d like to prioritise my fitness and strength, so i’ve started trying to do 30 minutes of cardio most days as well as bodyweight strength workouts on youtube to (hopefully) stop being completely weak.

i’ve stuck to 1200-1400 calories again this time but feel weak, lightheaded and foggy constantly. should i adjust my calorie intake to account for added exercise? will i continue losing weight? will a smaller deficit make exercise easier? is it impossible to know what to do without access to a scale?

thank you for any advice you’re able to provide :)

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I’m close to my weight loss goal, but have lost so much of the motivation I started with… need advice

Hello, I have about 20lbs left that I want to lose. I started at a little under 330lbs and am now at 200lbs. I’m 6’4, and want to lean down to about 180 before possibly bulking. I just have been losing the same couple of pounds, and then gaining then back as I get too comfortable. Almost like I can’t focus or control my impulses. I know that sounds odd based on how much weight I dropped in the past year. I’ve always been locked in in the goal. To this day, I still haven’t touched soda or juice in a year, I haven’t had chocolate or any candy, fried chicken, etc. For the past 2 months, I have been… almost distracted from my goals. Going down to 195lbs, then back to 200lbs when I stop focusing and tracking. I still work out daily, whether cardio or lifting. I know that isn’t going to change, it’s a part of me now.

I need some help from yall. What did you do to get your motivation back when stuff like this happens? Does it only happen to me? Any advice or tip welcomes.

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