I want to give up. I feel like I'm destined to be fat. I need encouragement.

Since last year January 2022, I've made a personal effort to lose weight. I did stair climbers every day and watched my calories, becoming increasingly stricter over time. Despite doing cardio, my weight loss stalled. I scoured the internet for answers and discovered "metabolic adaptation" so I switched to weight lifting, lost more weight, and stalled again. By August 2022, I'd lost about 30 lbs, and by January by the skins of my teeth I dropped another 10, but was still pudgy in my middriff area, and still too fat to switch to bulking and putting on VISIBLE muscle. I watched everything I ate, I sprinted every day until I wanted to throw up eating only 1300 calories. The scale would not budge. Even my Boyfriend was confused. I had a brief "giving up" period where I started a intense job, and had less time to meal prep and be at the gym. I literally gave up for like 2 months, and gained almost all the weight back I lost in 2 years. Try to be proactive, started a program, car breaks down, fridge breaks and my meal prep food spoils, I was down 5 lbs last week, but gained back 6 this Saturday. I feel like I'm losing my mind atp. I feel like all of this weight loss advice is bullshit lies. Was I just destined to be fat? Is there a threshold of happiness or bodily satisfaction I'm allowed to? Am I being punished for trying? None of this is making ANY sense. All of this hard work I've put into my body, and fitness while I watch people who aren't even as strong as me in the gym be naturally skinny. Why should I even try atp?

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Has anyone else felt a lot worse about themselves as they've lost weight?

I have lost 42lbs in 3 months. It has been unintentional weight loss, really, I stopped smoking and treating my addiction to smoking also unexpectedly helped with my addiction to food.

I am still very much overweight, because my start weight was 265lbs, but I feel like I look worse now than when I started??! The lines and signs of aging in my face are more pronounced because there's less fat plumping it up I presume, and I have new stretch marks in places I never had them before like even near my ankles!

I didn't have a problem with how I looked before, but I can feel the positive health benefits (my asthma is considerably easier to manage and I am able to walk and exercise for longer than before), however the new body image issues are really bringing me down.

Is this common with weight loss? Does it subside? I'm seriously considering cosmetic work once my weight loss stagnates, because of how I feel about myself :(

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6 month progress, down 30kg (66lbs)

https://imgur.com/a/WfW0O49

(April 2023 - November 2023)

M21

Height: 177cm (5'9)

SW: 98kg (216lbs)

CW: 66kg (145lbs)

Very proud of myself. First time ever having visible abs.

Context: Had been lazy for the past year, constantly ordering food online as I had been living at university. After coming back home I decided to make a change. As a teenager, I had lifted on and off without a real programme and caring about my nutrition, and this time I was determined to track calories and macros. I am astonished at how straightforward the process was, though I have to admit I was very close to quitting due to how long it took for the results to show. I plateaued several times, and I remember being so frustrated. But I simply kept at it.

If I had to do it again, something I would change is to make sustainable changes rather than going from 0 to 100. For example, I was barely eating at 1300 calories a day while doing a LOT of physical exercise during the first few weeks (fuck HIIT). I was dreading every single day, constantly had some sort of physical pain and quickly realised that this was unsustainable.

So to summarise, I:

- Ate in a high protein calorie deficit

- Strength trained to maintain muscle

- Did exercise I enjoyed (and therefore continued to do)

- Built sustainable habits

- And most importantly, did not give up.

Best of luck to everyone on their weight loss journey.

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How many kcal should I eat?

25m, 5'8, 200lbs

I don't do any exercise except for bicycle commuting to work. It's 20 miles total per day with an average speed of 15mph.

I've read that healthy weight loss is about 2lbs per week. How many kcal should I eat daily to accomplish a sufficient deficit for this?

Do you have any additional advice on how to successfully stick to a caloric deficit for enough months to see progress? How do you resist the temptation of over-indulging and binge eating?

Do you have any other tips on what to eat during weight loss? I've quit all forms of liquid calories such as alcohol and soda. I've also started eating oatmeal for breakfast every morning for the extra fiber. I weigh my ingredients and meal prep for the week. I cook all my food myself.

My biggest issue is lack of motivation after a few days and giving in to temptation and breaking the diet. After quitting alcohol and nicotine I have a lot of cravings for sweet and fatty foods.

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Well ladies and gentlemen, at 200 lbs, I’m officially “healthy weight” according to the BMI chart.

I did not achieve this in the healthiest of manners, but I did it anyway I’m proud of myself. Very impressed with my discipline and willpower.

I’m a male, 6’4 feet tall, and 25 years old. 26 very soon.

At the last week so of August I was 224 lbs. Got out of a relationship at the time. I’m guilty of pigging out when I go on dates, relationships especially. Always for for the appetizers and the big plates when I go to lunch or dinner with somebody. And my ex had decent food taste so we were always eating out.

But we broke and took advantage of the fact that I was single. (Admittedly, I was even more motivated to lose weight when I was getting many matches on Tinder as I used to a couple years ago).

Well, 2 months later, I’m down to 200 Lbs. Averaging 1800 calories a day since I started. Most of the time I wasnt exercising. Just ate less. (But now I do, not to help with the diet but just to get the heat pumping and keep the body healthy. Nothing major, 20 minutes on the elliptical machine 5x a week). Again, didn’t do it in the healthiest of manners.

For one 24 lbs in 2 months apparently is extreme weight loss. Apparently 16 would’ve been considered safe. But I don’t really feel low energy or tired so I was able to push through.

Second, I still ate lots of fast food. Every day actually. Just lower calorie stuff. My lunches were always in the 1000 calories. Like

• 10 bone in wings with fries from BWW

• Two triple cheese burgers from McD’s

• 20 nuggets and fries from CFA

• Two bean and cheese tacos with sirloin (corn tortillas)

• 2 chicken thighs 1 leg with frijoles charros

• huevos rancheros plate with potato and refried beans

• double teriyaki chicken with chow mein (only ate half the mein) from panda express

Then my dinner would be in the 500-800 range and there I would often eat at home. Like

• Tilapia filets with rice

• chicken thighs with rice

• scrambled eggs with any combo (bacon, wieners, chorizo)

• homemade burgers, lean ground beef

• chicken or turkey meatballs.

Never had any vegetables or fruits in my diet.

My goal now is to continue losing more weight. Only eating healthier stuff and expand the dishes I cook. Not just health wise but in general because really those things I listed is all I cook haha.

What would be ideal weight to push toward to?

Another cool thing, I was 199 this past weekend. But had a pretty major cheat day on Tuesday. No biggie, happens. Did good yesterday and today so far. Just wanted to say I’m sure I havent been under 200 lbs since high school.

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I'm an actual idiot - calories per 100g vs calories in one pack

Just. So. Stupid.

I've been eating (I thought) 2000 cals a day. Of which 500 were a box of cookies I'd eat in the evening, which was my treat/Cheat meal of the day. I thought they were 500cals coz the nutritional label said so.

My maintenance is 2400, and I burn 400-500 cals in cardio+strength training daily. And my weightloss the last month (since I've been having the cookies) has been deathly slow, for a supposedly ~1000cal deficit.

Well, just saw there's this TINYYYYY font text that says 'Values given are for 100g'. And the bloody box is 200g. I've been eating an extra 500 calories daily and wondering why I'm not kidding any weight. I mean it makes sense. 8 giant delicious sweet chocolaty cookies, no way they're 500 cals.

What ridiculously dumb thing did you do during your weight loss?

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Could drinking loads of green tea help me drop water weight in two days?

I have an annual dinner on Saturday with friends from my sorority. Now that we’re all in our thirties, we have our own lives and many even have a family, so we don’t see each other much anymore. Every November, we have drinks an dinner together and everyone dresses nicely for the occasion.

I haven’t seen most of them since last year’s dinner, but my figure has changed quite a bit since then and I want to show off. These people have seen me at different sizes, but always very obese and though I’m only halfway on my weight loss journey, I’m really happy with how it’s going. My waist and legs are much smaller and earlier this week a friend mentioned my face is getting slimmer too. I bought a jumpsuit for the occasion because I want to feel pretty. I even had to get a smaller size than I initially ordered! I tried it on yesterday and it was a little tighter than before even though the numbers on the scale went down this week. I’m thinking might be retaining water, so I want to drop it before Saturday. That means I have a day and a half to go (my timezone is GMT+1) and I read very different things online, even on this sub. That’s why I’m asking you lovely people. 😇

For the next 48h I’m planning to drink lots of green tea, limit salt and sugar intake and get enough exercise and sleep. Would that work? I don’t have a specific number in mind to lose, I just want to look my best in that jumpsuit. 🤞

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