The gym sucks

I'm 1 year into maintenance. I achieved my weight loss through calorie counting and running mainly, but also some weight training a few times per month (my old condo had a gym - moved ~9 mos ago). Since then, it's just been sporadic running. I've been realizing how much the running and weights helped me maintain my weight and more importantly, LOOK FIT. I'm only 3-5lb up from my best weight (which is ok, I have a range) but I look kinda skinny fat. This time last year I got many compliments for looking fit!

Anyways my husband has tried all the gyms in our area for 9 mos and took me to his favourite this weekend when my mom was in town and could babysit. Crowded, over stimulating, social anxiety triggers with people flexing in the mirror and taking pictures and me not knowing how to use machines immediately, but worst of all was the machine hogs!! The machine that would let me do hip thrusts was hogged by one girl for 45 minutes (on her phone 75% of the time) and even getting a bench was a struggle. My husband said it was average in terms of busyness. My current home isn't big enough for a home gym unfortunately.

Really just venting and admiring all you who put up with it 😂

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New here, and excited that I've started!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to say hello and that I've been lurking the past two weeks since I started my journey. I've been through many weight loss journeys in the past that really haven't been successful or haven't been long, but I feel very confident about this one. I saw someone on here post about the Lose It! app which helped them a lot, and I've been successful in staying within my budgeted calories because of it for the past couple of weeks!

I thought I was just a little more than I really wanted to be until I stepped on the scale at the gym a couple of weeks ago and realized that I had no idea how I got to be 230 when I thought I was 205 at the most, so after a lot of crying to my partner and googling and finding this subreddit (and thinking "how could I possibly ride a horse if I get any heavier??" ... I haven't ridden a horse in 15 years), I've decided to make my weight loss journey more scientific-based, and I think that's helping me a lot. I've been a big numbers person my entire life, so thinking of it simply being a bunch of numbers has been a good mindset so far.

I'm doing a calorie deficit and weight lifting 3 days a week, and I'm walking minimum 7k steps most days, although I just got a walking pad in for when I work from home or play games on my computer, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it. I'm trying not to push myself TOO hard early on because I have a tendency to burn myself out, but as someone who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 3 years ago, I'm also telling myself that getting into these good habits now will keep me healthy for the future.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi, and I'm excited to be a part of this community! So far, around 7 pounds down, and I'm excited to see if I can hit my goal of 185lbs!

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Feeling uncomfortable

So I’m on a weight loss journey, I’ve found 1 pound per week is what’s good for me. I started at 192 and now I’m at 186 but I feel so uncomfortable. I hate being overweight and it’s taking forever to loose the weight at only 1 pound per week. I work out 5 days a week and stick to my allotted calories, I occasionally go over but I don’t count exercise into how many calories I allow myself so I think that makes up for it. If I want to loose 2 pounds per week I can only have 1200 calories per day and I’ve tried that, I usually end up bingeing because it’s too restrictive. To loose 1 pound per week I can have 1400 per day which I find more sustainable and I know I’ll get to my goal weight eventually if I keep going. It’s a life style change I don’t want to rapidly loose all this weight then gain it back after I want to be healthy, but at the same time I find myself hating my body. I’m 5’1 so 186 on me is a lot, I’m lucky I have an hour glass figure which I try to remember but I still feel so uncomfortable in my own skin. It’s summer time I want to go the beach and swimming but I just feel terrible putting on bathing suits. I also ate about 1000 extra calories the other night and I’ve been beating myself up about it since. Any tips or advice would be much appreciated I just hate feeling so discouraged when I know I’m doing things the right way.

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My weight loss roller coaster

Warning: very very very long.

I’ve struggled with my weight and self esteem for a long time. In my teens, I started gaining weight, and proceeded to move from normal range to overweight to obese over the next decade.

It wasn’t until just before Covid started that I got a frightening wake-up call: I strained my knee running for a bus, at 27 yo.

Then Covid hit, along with a job loss, which ended up giving me a clear 1 year to balance job-hunting with eating better and exercising.

At the start, I couldn’t run, but I could walk. So walk I did - 5km a day as a start. Within weeks, that went up to 7-8km. Then I started adding running, using strap-on knee braces for support. It would be short distances - 50m at a time every few minutes. Then it became 100m, then 200m. By the end of that year-long stretch, I was running 5km straight, no pauses, no knee braces. I added light weight training and lots of stretching. My daily regiment was: 90min walk/run mix, 15min stretching, 15min weight training, all every morning, and then a 45min walk every evening.

At the same time, I was counting calories, not to starve, but to make sure I wasn’t overeating. I was shocked to discover, once I measured the ingredients, that one of my favorite salads was 1000 calories! And I was having that just for lunch! I swapped it with a big bowl of chili con carne that I would eat with a single slice of bread, when the entire meal came to 400 calories. I always ate the same thing for breakfast: muesli with plain yogurt, and some fruit. I made sure to maintain a reasonable calorie deficit, based on the exercise calories burnt, and the result was approx 1.5-2kg loss a month.

By the end of the year, I was down from 83kg to 65kg, and fitting into clothes I never imagined fitting into, and being so much stronger and fitter than I ever dared to imagine.

Since then, I gained all that weight back, as I was overcompensating with being unemployed and doing a lot of overtime, with no time left to cook again - the challenge was finding a rhythm that could work around my work schedule. It was very start-stop, and one time when a routine did start, it got broken because of an extended trip.

I am back to working regular hours and now have a new routine that works: morning run/walk for 45-60mins + 15 min stretching, going into office during lunch hour (hybrid work policy), plus meal prepping on Sundays. Every Saturday is cheat day, when I eat whatever I want, but always counting calories, even if they are “over the limit”. Got a cheap treadmill for home for rainy days so no excuses.

I’m down 6kg in 3 months, and I feel so much more motivated, so I think it’s sticking this time!

Sorry for the word wall, and even if nobody reads it, I’m so proud of me, I wanted to just put it out there. If it helps anyone, that’s a tremendous bonus!

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MyFitnessPal calorie goal doesn't seem to be creating a deficit

Edit: If I change my rate of weight loss goal from .5 lb per week to 1 lb per week, MFP is not recalculating my daily calorie goal. I am going to uninstall it an reinstall and re-set it up and see what happens.

I (F/60/5'4"/144) enter my info correctly and it says calorie goal is 1920/day. I am not choosing to increase my calorie goal daily based on exercise.

MFP says it creates the daily calorie goal based on a deficit in order to reach your weight loss goal: "Your daily calorie goal already accounts for your intent to gain or lose weight ... you can achieve your goal by eating the specified number of calories per day, with no additional exercise required."

Two days in a row I ate 1880 and 1900 calories, and when I hit "complete diary," it said, "if you ate this way every day, in 5 weeks you would weigh [.3 of a pound less than I weigh now]." How can I make it calculate a deficit to lose 3/4 of a pound or 1 pound per week? What am I missing? Thanks. (I know I can set the calorie goal myself, but I want the app to work the way it says it does.)

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Help setting up my workout schedule and exercises (29M) Gym+Padel

Hello!

I (29M, 114kg) am currently on my weight loss journey, from very obese (Max weight of 150kg) and my goal is to get down to around 80 Kg one day.

I started playing Padel once a week last year and have since started playing twice a week (Friday and Sunday) and currently signed up for a team training for padel on Tuesday which ends on the 8th of July.

Since starting to play I have been quite on/off in the gym but I would like to get back into on a more regular schedule and workout regime. Besides the padel and gym, I also strive for a minimum of 10k steps daily.

I have been working on my diet for a while and feel like I have got it somewhat in check as to what works for me, also in the long-term..

I work Monday to Thursday 6-14:45 and then have about a 40 minute bus ride home and Friday is 6-12 with a padel session afterwards.

I had a basic idea of about 3-4 workout days a week. Preferably not doing legs the days after a padel session as they are usually wiped out for about a day after.

As besides this I am a little unsure about how to go about the exercises, as I would like it to generally be about losing the weight, but also to help improve performance in padel, if that makes sense.

Previously I had done a basic PPL with decent success and wouldn't mind it again, with some guidance regarding the exercises, but I am quite open to ideas of the structure ☺️

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Question for my fellow short girls!

Hello! Relatively new to weight loss and I am finally committing to it for real this time! I'm just curious as I am 5'3 and weigh about 200lbs and used the TDEE calculator to figure out my deficit and it says to stay around 1500 cals a day. However when I see other short girls posting they say their deficit is around 1200 cals and that short women typically have to have a lower deficit. Am I doing something wrong by staying at 1500 cals? I'm not trying to lose weight super fast (although that would be great) I just want to make sure I'm doing this the right way so it'll stay off this time! Any advice would be great. I'm also committing to walking 7k-10k steps a day and doing pure barre 3x a week (this is all a new addition)

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