Lost 85 lbs, struggling to lose the last 20 and seeking guidance

Hi everyone

This year I’ve lost 85 lbs (230-143) after having the gastric sleeve in February. I’m 5’0 so I’m aiming to get to 125 because I still feel like I am fat. But I’ve been bouncing between 142-148 since October.

What I currently do: I play tennis 3x a week since August, recently added in F45 and been doing that 5x a week and tennis 2x. One rest day a week.

I eat(what I consider) little so it’s not as easy as just eating less. One protein shake, one egg and one bacon, 2 servings of fruit, dinner I usually have chicken and a carb and veggie at about 500 cals. This puts me even being generous at 1,000 cals most days, maybe one day a weekend where I have sweets so I’m at 1,300.

What else can I do to kick start my weight loss again? Should I start tracking macros? More calories? Less carbs? Do I bite the bullet and get a trainer/professional help? I’m so close to my goal weight I’d love to be there by my 1 year surgery anniversary in March.

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Magic formula

Hi everyone, I just to want to share my personal experience.

Im on a lose weight journey since almost a year.

While I was trying to lose weight I continued to hang out with friends at bars almost every night, trying to limit alcohol cocktails and avoid binge drinking (that I was used to do before my decision to lose weight).

38M SW271 - CW220 - GW190

My weight loss was not constant during the journey and at the beginning I tried only to keep my calories tracked on my phone, I tried some fasting, I started to cycle few days a week with a friend during this summer.

Then I subscribed to this reddit, reading posts in my spare time..

I slowly felt that was on the right way to lose weight but everytime my balance was going down after few days everything was going up again.

I felt I was stuck and couldnt do anything about.

Then something changed.

I started to hang out with this beatiful girl, that after a while rejected me, then I felt miserabile and alone again, in the bar drinking for no reason.

Then I quit everything was a bad habit for me (also negative people) and started to focus on myself and nothing/nobody else.

I started going to the gym and quit alcohol, going to bed everynight at 11pm and waking up at 7am. Then I started to noticed few changes (few lbs off, my upper body in the mirror looked a bit differenti). I was still afraid that the journey ahead was too long and difficult due quantity of fat I had to lose. My motivation was still low.

Then I felt very bad as my habits were still very poor due the sedentary work that I do (office job).

Then one month ago I dropped everything for a bikepacking trip for 20 days. I cycled 900km through France and Spain, 15 effective biking days, 40 to 80 km a day, 3 to 5h of biking everyday.

That was a game changer. I lost my last 11lbs but the funny thing was that biggest change was not on the balance but in the mirror. I realized that those days actually did a lot. (Most of the routes were offroad or steel roads) so very intensive sessions and I was mostly rating only a Little breakfast and a normale dinner..

Now Im not afraid anymore about my journey cause I know where Im heading to.

The magic formula is get out of your current lifestyle and all its bads habits. No excuses. Focus, discover and respect yourself and workout hard to stay happy and strong! The goal is right there between your hands!

Thank you everyone.

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I’m not overweight, but my dad is struggling with weight loss and I’m worried

My dad is 6’0, 48-years-old, and weighs around 270 lbs.

He carries most of his weight in his stomach in the form of hard fat, which is very unhealthy.

He has a lot of medical conditions that affects his heart, and I’m really worried that being overweight isn’t helping.

He’s been trying to lose weight for years now but can’t seem to keep the weight off, he also thinks he’s retaining a lot of water weight.

He loves cooking and eating unhealthy foods (ribs, pork, etc), is there any good methods for him to lose weight that don’t involve fasting?

He’s tried fasting and skipping meals, but it just leaves him hungrier and then he eats a bunch of food.

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Finding weight loss impossible since August, help please

160cm, 63kg (down 4kg since May) - first goal weight is 59kg. Asian so aiming BMI 23.

I've plateaued for 4 months since Aug, I'm just so upset. I calculated my calories (based on logs) and my current maintenance would be 1400!!!! Despite lifting + light cardio 2x/week. No non-scale changes since either. So upsetting! I do suspect I have PCOS which would affect CO. (edit: basically, I've been eating on average about 1400kcal/day since Aug and have also maintained 63kg despite working out)

I'm struggling to stick to 1200 kcal, mainly on work heavy days - I just get so burnt out then I want chocolate, the sweet dopamine hit and end up eating 2000kcal/day. I do wonder if this counts as binging behaviour at times? I eat protein heavy (>100g basically every day) and try to incorporate at least 15g fibre.

I wanna cry 😭

Any suggestions??

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Maintaining is... Good??

I started my weight loss journey at the beginning of this year at 290~ and have had a rough mental year. I was doing great and eating well and hitting the gym when my depression snuck back up on me.

I am unfortunately an emotional eater with OCD so sometimes the thoughts I have just make me want to BINGE. I've done well managing NOT binging, but I haven't been eating the best.

This is just the first time in my life that I'm not gaining, and I wanted to share this. Anyone have any tips for getting back on track? The idea of re-entering the gym is daunting and meal prepping again.

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Bored at work tips? Avoid Boredom Eating

The only thing stopping me from weight loss goals is boredom.

I work at a restaurant, and it's the slow season. So when it's dead and there's nothing to do, I think about food. Until I can't take it anymore and eat, whether it's ordering something, or snacking at the employee break room. Or even having a big glass of milk, since it's free.

When it's dead at work, there's literally nothing to do except pace, or talk to co-workers(and I'm not a big talker). I've tried doodling here and there for a couple minutes to keep myself entertained, but I got questioned by management about it and was subtley told to stop.

I do have a story I could work on brainstorming / writing. I could bring a notepad, and maybe if I'm writing letters instead of drawings, surveillance won't notice and rat on me.

But does anyone have any tips for what they do at work to avoid boredom eating?

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Genuine question, could my haircut have resulted in weight loss?

I wasn’t thinking and got my hair cut a couple days ago. I usually weigh myself Monday mornings but for some reason I weighed this morning (only 3 days after my last weigh in) and found that I’ve dropped 3 lbs since Monday. I was shocked until I remembered I got my haircut after my Monday weigh in.

I got about 5-6 inches cut off and I’d say my hair is decently thick. Now I’m trying to figure out how much is actual fat loss and how much was hair. I track my macros and adjust them weekly depending on my fat loss so I really don’t want this to mess me up this week :(

Could that hair be accounting for a majority of that 3 lbs?

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