What finally got you to lose those final 5-10 pounds?

Im 30F, 5ft3, BMI 20.3 and I started my journey last year august, 138 pounds and through nothing else except loosely following CICO have managed to lose 24lbs and am down to 114lbs currently and would really love to lose the final 5-10lbs to get to my GW but I havnt been able to budge much on this goal since May. In May I was briefly able to get down to 112 but have gone back up to 114 after a 2 week vacation.

I started weight lifting 3x a week and around 2 months ago as a way ti supplement my weight loss and for general health. My main issue is I know all the tricks, volume eating, eating higher protein, high fibre etc, I will manage to hit all the macros I need to stay satisfied but I still cannot help but over eat to maintenance. I cannot for the life of me find the will power to go in a further deficit. If it helps I breastfeed occasionally (shes a toddler its not her main nutrition anymore), but I dont want to make excuses, I just cant seem to stick to my deficit and it feels like a willpower issue.

What am I doing wrong? It feels like my body is trying its damn hardest to stick to this weight and I cannot figure out how to move past it.

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Got data from gym, need help making sense of it

I got all the nitty-gritty data at the gym today. This is my starting out data. F,43 182.8 lbs 29.5 BMI 41.6% body fat 25.8% muscle mass Rmkcal: 1567

I need help figuring out how to calculate how many calories I should be eating in order to get my body fat% and weight down. If my Apple Watch calculates that on any given day I burn 550-600 calories based on working out and living my life, and I need 1567 calories to stay alive, does that mean I should be consuming no more than 1600 calories/day in order to lose 1-2lbs a week?

Also how long has it taken anyone to get their body fat percentage down to something healthy (right now I’m overweight skirting with obese)?

Does rmkcal decrease along with weight loss, as the body gets smaller/carries less weight?

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Any advice for someone hitting a plateau?

I have only recently started my weight loss journey. In part thanks to those Manjuro injections (they have genuinely helped me). In my first month of taking them I have lost about 21lb.

I have kept myself on a controlled diet hitting between 1,200-1,500 calories a day. On top of taking up swimming 3 times a week. The only exercise I'm currently capable of doing due to a disability that had left me with mobility problems. So pushing for a more intense workout is not currently an option. (I have also been mucking about with a pair of dumbbells between swim days but only light reps)

But after seeing the numbers continuously go down week after week I've hit what appears to be a plateau. That despite the exercise, restricted diet and everything else the scales say the say number every time I step on them.

Was just wondering if any of my fellow travellers had any advice on how to keep those numbers going the way I want them. Or is this just a temporary flat before the next slope down?

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Need help losing weight.

Long story short, some shit happened in my life, I started eating without control, got fat as a pig and I started my weight loss about year and a half ago. My record weight was 106kg I went down to 90kg but I was unable to move form that in almost 5 moths. And I just don't know how to construct meal plan as well as a training program. In short I just don't know what to do to lose more weight. Thou it looks lot better than when I started, I still have bear belly and a lot of fat on my belly and my butt (that last one is pissing me off every time I look at the mirror even more so than fat on my belly). For some info 29 years old male about 178cm. So what do I do now, I desperately need some help?

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I'm finally motivated again.

I don't really expect anyone to read all this, I'm just posting it for me really. I just want to tell my story, and want a little accountability.

TLDR:Lost weight in 2019, covid happened, gained it back and more. I'm motivated again.

I'm the kind of person that is ashamed of my weight. I know it's the first thing people see when they see me, it's not their fault, it's my most obvious attribute. I'm 31, 5'8, and weigh 350 lbs. I "carry my weight well" so I'm told, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm ridiculously unhealthy. It's caused me so many self esteem issues, missed opportunities, lack of relationships.

I grew up overweight, with overweight family and siblings, the standard story. I'd play sports and lose a bit during those seasons, but it always came back. It's always been my diet, it still is. As a kid I blamed my genetics, as a teen my parents, in college the drinking, but as an adult I'm well aware I've given myself this burden.

If I ever did try and lose weight I kept it a secret, I hated walking in public or going to a gym and seeing someone I know. I just don't want people to acknowledge me differently I guess. I would sometimes walk during lunch at work, one day a coworker pulled me aside and said they saw me going for walks and were proud of me. I stopped doing it, I hate that attention. They meant the best but I just hated that if they saw an average sized person going for a walk it meant nothing, but for me, it had to be a weight loss thing.

But in 2019, a bunch of my coworkers stopped going out to lunch everyday and would bring in healthier meals and go on walks as a group. I didn't want to be the odd one out, so I brought a lunch and joined the walks. I felt normal in the group and wasn't being singled out, and something clicked. I was so motivated, I meal prepped, went to the gym after work, did CICO, and I started to shred weight. My starting weight then was 321 lbs, and I got down to 270. It felt amazing, and I was locked into my routine. I got fitted for a wedding suit early in the year, and by October they had to drop me down a few sizes. Having something be too big for me felt amazing, I was determined to keep dropping weight.

Then covid happened. I stopped going into work, stopped meal prepping, stopped going to the gym, stopped going on walks. I have a group of friends that started doing zoom calls and game nights, and we all started drinking a lot. My life essentially became wake up, do a little work until 5, then eat and drink what I want. Once covid restrictions let up, I started going out again. I felt starved of social interaction so I started going out way more than I ever had before. Bar with my friends almost every night. I've basically kept that pace until now and I'm 350 lbs, heavier than I have ever been.

I'm getting fitted for a suit for a wedding again, and it's so tight and uncomfortable, it just made me remember that feeling of having a suit too big in 2019. I think something has finally clicked again. It brought back memories of promises I made to myself, like "Once being fat holds me back in life I'll lose weight" and a note I wrote to myself in 2019 with reasons I want to lose weight. Yes it's for being healthy, yes it's for being more attractive, yes it's for more activities, but above all else, it's to not be a burden to anyone. I don't want to stand out, I just want to be normal.

Yesterday I brought a lunch, I skipped the bar me and my buddies meet at. I was going to go for a walk but it was so hot out I was talking myself out of it. I said "Oh, well I'd go to the gym if I had gym clothes with me." Then I remembered, I still had a bathing suit and a t shirt in my car from the weekend. Screw it, I went to the gym for the first time in 6 years (been paying the membership the whole time...) I did 45 minutes on the treadmill in my bathing suit, office shoes, and no headphones. I felt so accomplished after. I went home and had a light dinner, and now I'm writing this after my 600 calorie lunch. I'm going to the gym again today. I feel motivated again. I want a suit that's too big in September.

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Weight loss questions

Hello, So I came back from vacation June 22. From a 6 week vacation. From, that day I came back I was 169 on the 23 and 167 on the 24th. From that day I have worked out 4 days a week upper/ lower did about 10k steps walk. Ate close to 1700 calories. Had 3-4 days of not getting 10k steps and of cheating but those days I ate so can’t say accurately but def not have an avg over 2300 of those days. But my question it now be jul 15 I only weigh 166.4. What’s happening and should I be worried. I measured my calories accurately fs other than those 3-4 days .

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Help

Alright this is gonna be long here we go…

Hw: 390 CW:320 GW:150 All my weight loss life I’ve tried keto. Never anything else. It was always keto. But I’d loose the weight & gain it back. I’ve felt that keto was the only thing that would ever work for me. & Lessing my calories. At the moment I did 1570 calories a day & 20 net carbs. The thing is last week I cheated on it. The funniest thing was is that the only thing I wanted was some fruit nothing else (I really really love peaches) sadly on keto you can’t have fruit like that. But I’m thinking…is keto really the best diet for me. Or can I actually loose the weight from calorie deficit?? I’m sorry. I’m not very good at knowing stuff like this. So don’t roast me. Please give tips, I really need help (I’m a 5’8 woman, my exercise is moderate walking for 40 minutes a day & slow weighted workouts for five days a week

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