How do I be patient with my weight loss journey?

I’m 5’4 and weigh in at 155 pounds. My shoulder and stomach fat is honestly getting to me since I feel so uncomfortable in my body wearing tight clothes and how it looks on me. I recently started a calorie deficit, consuming roughly ~1,500 calories a day and although I know the weight loss journey isn’t supposed to be perfect, I just can’t stand being in my body for one more day, as dramatic as it sounds. I hate how my weight fluctuates, as I was 150 lbs a few days ago and now I’m 155, and it makes me feel like I’m earning no progress.

I’ve started walking a minimum of 10,000 steps a day, and just purchased a food scale so I can be more accurate with my food intake, along with cutting down on sugary drinks (which I often indulge in). What are some things I can do to be more patient with the process? I know it’s going to take half a year to a year to get to the goal weight I want to be at, but it’s genuinely eating me alive having to commit to these limitations daily in order to achieve my goal physique.

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Does your body adjust to the calorie intake you are at and require less calories to keep losing?

So I have recently started weighing my food and tracking calories after a failed attempt at losing weight with the carnivore diet. It became pretty apparent that I was obviously over eating and that’s why I wasn’t seeing weight loss but I am now starting to see weight come off. I am currently eating 1,600 calories a day as a 25M with very little physical activity due to my job. My concern is when I hear about plateaus in weight loss. My question is if I’m seeing weight loss at 1,600 calories is it possible that my body adjusts and stops losing weight and requires me to eat less calories? 1,600 already seems pretty low and I have lost 4lbs in 2 weeks so it seems like it’s coming off quick but I worry that if I have to eat less at some point I’m going to be really malnourishing myself to reach my goal. What’s your experiences with this if you were tracking calories? Did you find a calorie range that worked and kept losing or did you have to keep dropping?

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Only seeing the weight loss on the scale?

Hi all, I have a question just to see if anyone is on the same boat.

I started my journey April 18th at 81.1kg I've been slowly and steadily losing weight, at least according to my scale and family members. Today I'm at 62.4 kg.

I'm happy, kinda? This was the lowest I've been in since 2018?

But all of my current clothes still fit? I mean all of them, haven't lost a pants size, bras fit just moving the hook from third to second instead and a Medium shirt that I had still fits me just as snug as it did before.

The clothes don't fit me any looser they fit just like normal? The only difference to me is that my collarbones are a bit more visible.

Obviously the scale and the people telling me I lost weight can't be lying but I guess the weight I lost are from my boobs and butt cause it's not showing on my clothes 😭

Anyone else? I'm sure my hands to my elbows are slimmer but my shoulders still bulge out in my t-shirts.

*I'm only walking, and will continue swiming and suba diving in October as thats my job and I can't do high intensity workouts/strength training due to a recent injury and subsequent surgery.

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Struggling with meals for entire family

I’m on my weight loss journey, counting every calorie that passes my lips. My husband could give two shits about what he puts in his body and my teenager is trying a new meal plans every other week it seems like, mostly to “bulk up”.

Every time I make a plan for dinner someone is unhappy. If my husband makes dinner, I typically can’t eat it because it’s too many calories or I could have a tiny bit but still be hungry afterwards.

I’m at my wits end making multiple meals to appease everyone or arguing about it every damn night. My husband makes me feel like shit about what I’m doing to try and get healthy. He’s naturally thin, eats junk, and drinks beer and stays the same size. I am beyond frustrated.

What are some easy meals that are low calorie but don’t taste like it?

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Help with weight loss plateau

Hi folks,

as the questions states, I've been in a weight loss plateau for what I consider to be about 4 months now.

For reference, I'm a 24 year old Male, weighing 176-180lbs. My ideal weight is around 167lbs but I cannot push below 80kg.

Previously I was weight training 4x per week: push, pull, legs, full body. With 20-40 mins of moderate cardio (usually cycling), 10k steps daily. I got down to about 74kg following this. My caloric intake varied depending on a work/rest day but was typically 1400 - 1800 kcals (I bloat and maintain weight easily, so this was advised by my online coach at the time.

Now I weight train 3x per week: Push, Pull, Legs (progressively overloading weight and making consistent strength improvements) 20-30mins of cardio on training days. 40-60 mins on off days (expect for 1 day per week), 8k-10k steps and a bodybalance class on Wednesdays followed by cardio. Kcals within this range.

I eat a high amount of protein (40g proteinpowder serving with breakfast, typically 35g of oats and 100g of berries w/ water)

Lunch 150-200g chicken breast (seasoned but not with pre-made sauces etc so low cals), mixed salad (beetroot, cucumber, onion, lettuce, sweetcorn, about 100g)

Dinner 150-200g chicken breast, 150g of same salad or mixed frozen veg, sometimes 40g brown rice.

Snacks are: bourbon biscuit, Bombay mix, ice cream (Not all in the same day of course, typically 1 bisc, 30g of bombay mix, or 75g ice cream.

Typically, I will go to the higher end of cals on a training day, and lower on cardio/rest days.

With this output & calorie levels I question why I am stuck in a plateau, unless I am missing something super obvious? Naturally, the first place to look is calories, which I do. Regularly track, keep a particular eye out on weekends etc. I'm very good at saying no to things.

Training, I do feel challenged, each day I am pushing my upper limit, working with strength & hypertrophy ranges, aiming for the higher end of rep ranges before increasing weight.

Cardio I get my heart rate between 140-160bpm.

So, yeah.

I just wonder, with this information is there anything I'm missing? I'm sick of seeing love handles and a pouchy stomach and have lost the weight before. Any help would be grand.

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-10lb. I didn't realize I'd been doing this for an entire month until I checked the date ??

I've made and deleted a couple posts about the start of my weight loss on this subreddit, mostly from either self consciousness or overall just not knowing what to even say. My journey is uniquely mine with its own challenges that others might not face or find very trivial by comparison, so it's been really hard for me to broach the subject of weight loss. For the past month, I have basically done it all on my own with no community of any sort - besides YouTube videos and lurking here. My parents have an idea of what I'm doing because of my health decisions and the fact my father and I go to the gym together, but besides that I don't have any other friends who are also going through this process, and none who have gone through it in the past. Basically I'm kind of alone in that sense lol

However, I do have some really great news, and I wanted to share that with you all today! I checked the scale today, and I had a big "whoosh" (Is that what it's called?) from 309 to 305.4, meaning I have officially lost my first 10lbs - and technically a little bit more than that! What's insane is that I've been going at this week to week, comparing the start of my week to the end of my week and nothing more, not paying any mind to how long I've actually been doing it for. So, when I checked my Samsung Health app and saw that my caloric deficit started nearly a month ago, I was in awe - I had just pushed through an entire month of a caloric deficit, I didn't restrict what types of food I've been eating (However I've been trying to do anything I can to put more protein and vegetables in my diet), and considering my height and starting weight, I'm comfortably able to have about a -1000 calorie deficit and not feel any loss of energy, performance in the gym, or anything. If I do, I will 100% try and insert a couple days of maintenance to keep myself sane, I wouldn't push through something uncomfortable just to ruin myself in the process.

Over that time though, I have almost completely undone my preconceptions about myself and started to see things in a new perspective! I used to think I was destined to be this weight, and I could never be thin and that I was just genetically "inferior" to people who were thin - In a way it is true from a mental standpoint, my relationship with food and the way I experience hunger was/is very strange and I often had no self control when it came to eating. What's weird though is I would never feel "full", only bloated when I started to eat way too much (Probably how I got to this point in the first place), but conversely I have also never felt real hunger. Even now, I still have to eat based on pure math/logic, and not based on signals from my body. I kinda have none. Regardless, this has been an incredible journey and I'm so happy. Regardless of how little change in the mirror I've seen this month (I know allll about the paper towel effect), I know I have at least 11 months more of this to go until I hit a healthy BMI, and until then I'm going to do it strictly for the love of the game, and not to rush straight to the finish line. I've felt so much better since starting mentally, and physically.

I don't know why or how I got the motivation to start (I seriously just got up and started doing it after a lifetime of asking why I haven't yet) and I haven't stopped. It was like a lightbulb just turned on in my mind, like some sort of divine inspiration lol. But if you can help it, please don't wait for a massive mindset shift and try and create that within yourself. I wish I had done this 5-6 years ago before it became a problem. Especially since I've been on hormones for 3 years now, and now that I have female hormones it is marginally harder to lose the weight I've gained now + retain the muscle by working out in the gym. But I won't let that stop me!

Have a great day everyone! And I hope to check in with you when I've hit yet another new milestone 💖

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The last ten pounds

I weighed 216lbs in 2022. Lost around 40lbs and hovered around 175lbs for much of 2023. In Feb/March this year my weight was at around 187, but since getting back on track with counting calories and focusing on a deficit (was consistent at the gym throughout) I'm now down to 164lbs.

I'm aiming for 154 lbs, do I need to reduce calories even further? I usually eat around 1800 calories per day (48F, 5'9") but as my weight loss is slowing down a little I'm thinking to reduce to 1700. These last ten pounds are hard work!

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