I finally encountered my first plateau

So, to my frustration, I've finally hit that first plateau in my weight loss. My scale hasn't budged in 3 weeks, and I'm aware of my current plan/ habits. I start my day with a core power 150 calories in this guy), one, because I can't get myself to rise early enough for breakfast, and two, because I know I need more protein (plus I'm never hungry in the morning). They work, and I don't find myself hungry when lunch hour comes around. Lunchtime I usually have half the plate filled with fruit and some kind of cheese, be it a cheese stick or a handful of crackers and cheddar, and my main entree consists of a low carb sandwich. Think a keto tortilla with some kinda lunch meat, mayo, pickle or cucumber, no cheese because I'm a nutcase according to my family. Usually it runs me between 300-500 calories. I don't drink anything but water. Dinner tends to fluctuate but I keep it in the range of 550-650 calories. Like maybe a roast with some potatoes, a bowl of whole wheat spaghetti and some sauce, etc. I'm poor so I don't spend a lot on meat, but I keep my calorie count between 1650-1750, and couple it with regular exercise. Usually only 25-30 minutes a day, or if I get carried away (Sunday night, yikes, 45 minutes and lemme tell ya I was SORE the next day) So with everything, I'm a little chuffed that I plateaued so quickly. I'm 18 pounds down, but it's been like this for weeks! I should also add that I struggle with PCOS but I am on birth control for it, so it shouldn't (theoretically) be the issue. I guess, details aside- what did you end up doing to get over a plateau? My plan has been to just keep at it, and hope for the best. I figured, eventually my body will get back with the program, right? But, I'm no expert. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter!

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Probably a silly question but what is considered not enough walking to lose weight?

I have started my weight loss journey about a month and a half ago, I had an extreme sudden gain due to hypothyroidism, and am now on medication to help the medical side of my weight issue. I have consistently every single day been walking approx. 2 miles, squats, crunches, planks, and doing a few sets of the infinity hoop, I got weighed at my doctor on June 5 and June 19 and there was a 5.2 pound loss. I felt amazing about this, but was recently told that when people lose weight they drop a few pounds fast and then it's hard? He told me that 2 miles a day was absolutely not enough a day to make a difference? I am just building my endurance right now, but should I be doing way more at this point? I'm so new to this, I honestly am not educated on fitness much at all.

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Mini revelation about keeping a diet and lifestyle change

We know that CICO is the de facto method of weight loss and gain, whichever way we wrap our heads around that and the actions we take to achieve it. I realized something that made me think about this differently and I think it will help me stay grounded when I start slipping and I hope this can help some of you as well.

I had some downtime at work yesterday and I hadn’t logged my calories for the previous 5 or so days - partly laziness, partly because I had a few days of big slip ups and I felt guilty and scared to actually see the numbers.

So I started working backwards trying to recall what I ate last week and after 2 or 3 days I couldn’t remember very well. That had me thinking, why do I keep giving into my urges for sweets and junk if I can’t even remember it days later? There is no lasting positive effect to be had from eating like that. You will feel gross afterwards and put yourself in a calorie surplus and gain weight (although I know a day or two over the limit is marginal - but habits add up).

Eating clean and within your parameters does have a lasting effect - weight comes off, you feel strong, energetic, confident, and you are building lifelong healthy habits.

So I’m trying to move forward with this in my mind: my brain is not going to remember what I ate 3 days ago but my body sure will, so I might as well only feed it in ways that will keep me moving towards my goals. Focus on winning the day and no need to look further than that.

I know this has been said over and over in many different ways: take it one day at a time; healthy eating makes you feel so much better; sugar addiction persists every time you eat it; and so on. But something about having to rack my brain to remember the junk I put in my body made all these things really start to click like: huh, what did I even do that for?

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My figure has improved drastically over the year. Hoping to keep going with it.

So, the last year has been crazy. I (19Ftm) started at 215, went down to 175, then leveled out at about 185. However, I look way different than I used to.

When I lived with my parents, I was usually fed high calorie foods, and would get harassed when I didn't eat. (I had an ED for a while, and I guess they were worried about me not eating.)

But bottom line, I had a lot of fat on me. My clothes would fit weird and my stomach would always pudge in ways I hated.

After I moved out, I started working my ass off and got a gym membership, and actually started eating food I liked. (I'm not a fan of cheese or high carbs. I prefer the taste and feel of eating healthy food. Less processed/whole foods) For a while, my weight dropped off drastically, but I started a job that was significantly more physical and started gaining weight. For a while, I was worried, but realized even as I was gaining weight again, my clothes were still bigger on me and I was still slimming down and getting a decent figure.

Now, I'm at a space where I'm still overweight, but I'm much farther than I used to be in terms of health. I feel healthier and being physically active isn't an issue for me. I do plan to start rock climbing once I get my next raise, which I'm ecstatic about. I love rock climbing.

One thing that is unfortunate is that I can't wear dresses anymore. My upper-body has progressed a lot, and I have broad shoulders. So basically, I'm curvy up until my shoulders, then have massive man arms. It's pretty funny, but I don't mind since I prefer to look masculine. (Just like to feel pretty sometimes).

Overall, I'd still like to progress in terms of weight loss. I'd like to lose some of the stubborn fat around my tummy. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be, and doesn't turn into rolls anymore, but if I wear low rise pants, it's noticable. Right now, I'm happy with my figure and overall physical health, but plan to keep exercising and eating less processed foods. I've dropped sodas for the most part (used to drink a coke nearly every day. It was BAD). Now I drink about 4-5 bottles of water a day.

I know 185 is still a lot of weight, and not considered healthy (I'm 5'6"), but most of my body weight is muscle now. I regularly lift/move between 1,000 and 3,000 pounds of cans a night. (4 nights a week) On top of staying on my feet/walking roughly 9 hours a night when I work. I'm still seeing changes and hope to see residual fat start to edge off my body as I progress through this year. I'm going to head to the gym and check my fat percentage (they have one of the body mass scanners) tomorrow, and probably update with that information.

I don't want to go hardcore with dieting, but if anyone knows any cheap whole foods I can get into, lmk. A salad alone is almost $5 nowadays, and meat is also expensive. (I'm a broke college student) I've been eating a lot of eggs and tuna though. (Love tuna). Or if anyone has any decent cheap recipes that I could eat on, then that would be appreciated too. I know a good part about getting healthier is staying healthier.

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Am I just moving pounds around?

42, M, 5’6” 267 pounds. 2,000 calories/day (could be closer to 1700 some days, 2100 others).

Since Sept I’ve been really working on losing weight - about 35 pounds. In April, I started working out in earnest (30 mins cardio 1/2x a week and lifting weights 2x/week (45 mins with a 15 min cardio warmup). Since then, I haven’t noticed a drop in the scale as such. It just kinda floats around the same number. My question: am I gaining muscle and losing fat in similar proportions? Basically is my muscle gain canceling my “weight loss” on the scale?

I feel more fit and I think I look good, but I want to lose about 70 more pounds and be scale doesn’t budge.

Thanks for your time! Insights and advice are appreciated!

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Will the hair grow back after eating normally (at maintenance or surplus)?

I [26M, 5'9"] lost A LOT of hair while dieting, and I'm scared that it's not coming back. Basically, I lost a little over 20 lbs. in 3.5 months over the fall (from 179 lbs. to 158 lbs.), gained about 11 lbs. over the winter (in large part due to holiday gorging), and then lost 9 lbs. again over the next 3 months. For reference, I was eating 1700-1900 calories per day, not counting cardio, then went on a binge week once during the fall weight loss period and once during the spring weight loss period. I noticed increased hair shedding (nothing shocking like hair falling out in clumps or onto the pillow - just more hair ending up in the shower/sink and on the floor than usual), particularly during the fall weight loss period, and I continued to lose hair when resuming the diet in the spring. My hair is noticeably thinner to both family and the hairdresser (not just me), and I think I lost probably a third (maybe even half) of my hair volume. I've been eating in a small surplus (for bulking/muscle gain) for about a month now (starting from 161 lbs.), and I can't tell if anything has improved or if I've ruined my hair permanently and put myself on the road to baldness. I'm starting to regret having dieted in the first place, and I'm wondering if I need to gain all the weight back in order to get my hair back (and if so, I'd rather gain the weight back), or if there's a way to save both, or if I'm just screwed at this point.

(Also, if it makes a difference to recommendations/interpretation here, I have very low natural testosterone levels and have been on prescription testosterone for several years now, and over the past year my blood testosterone levels had mysteriously spiked to double the male average despite injecting the same dose. After talking to my doctor, I've cut down the dose substantially in the last couple of months, but I don't know how long it takes to see any hair-related changes).

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Comments on my weight loss make me uncomfortable - how do you deal with them?

Hi everyone! Here is a 26F who managed to lose 11 KGS in the past months A bit of context: my whole life, I had always been overweight and had at times suffered from binge eating. I had a rather disordered eating structure (?) and had been dealing with some digestive issues for most of my life.

To Long to Read: I (happily) lost weight and hate people commenting on it.

In January I decided to go and see a nutritionist, who provided me with a calorie deficit custom plan - whose main aim was trying to ease my digestive issues and see if a structured eating plan could help. Combined with increased physical activity, I soon started to also lose some weight. 6 months down the lane, I have seen a general improvement in my health, I feel and see myself better and I have a much healthier approach to food. I personally think that my main achievement has been managing to learn how to eat nutritious, balanced meals, yet all people seem to comment is that I have lost weight and "look soooooo much better!". Now, I am not naive: I am also happy about the weight loss and I know other people have no way of knowing was goes on in my brain in terms of achievements and goals hahah But these comments are making me SUPER uncomfortable especially because 90% of the time they come from co-workers, with whom I had never shared anything neither about my weight nor about my 'health journey'. You can see them staring at you, scanning your body and going "Omg! You lost soooooo much weight! You look soo much better!" or " Did you lose weight?! You really look fit! Are you following any diets?". I understand people are always going to judge other people's bodies (even unconsciously) and that the lost weight is the really tangible measure they have visually (since I don't share anything about my health status in general). What I don't understand and what makes me the most uncomfortable is how easily people are ready to comment on other people's bodies without knowing what one is going through. I can only imagine what it would feel like to hear such things, had I lost weight beyond my control (stress, diseases, etc..). To me, it feels like they are implying that my previous body was not okay according to their standards and now that I lost the weight I look SOOOO much better. It's probably the emphasis most people put in the compliment that pisses me off the most hahah I was fine with how my body looked before and never know how to react to these comments. On the one hand, I cannot deny the obvious- I clearly have lost some weight - but I can't and won't thank people for the "you look so much better" part. I really can't.

What do you think? Has it ever occured to you? Before losing weight, I would have never guessed that I would react like this to such comments.

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