★OFFICIAL DAILY★ Daily Q&A Thread July 20, 2025

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Recommendations for online trainer

Hi! I’m looking for a remote personal trainer or coach to help with sustainable weight loss and better energy.

About Me: • Office worker (WFH) • Been working out for 3 years (mix of gym/home) • Eat mostly CookUnity or simple pasta (don’t cook much) • Have weak joints, so I need workouts that are personalized and low-impact

What I Want: • Lose 30+ lbs (main goal) • Feel more energized and build better habits • Personalized, joint-friendly workouts • Nutrition guidance (flexible but realistic) • Motivation/accountability — especially with food • Female trainer or trainer that is knowledgeable about women’s hormone cycles

Budget: (flexible) • Ideally under $150/month • FSA-eligible is a bonus

If you’ve had success with a trainer or platform (Kickoff, Trainwell, Future, or others), I’d love your recs. Thanks in advance!

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Normal to feel tired and sleepy?

I started my diet and exercise about two weeks ago. I first started with tracking my calories and eating at a deficit, starting at 340, now at 332. I finally added 20 minutes of moderate exercise on my elliptical with a slight incline and more than half resistance a few days ago.

I don’t know why, but I feel tired a couple of hours after exercising. I wake up in the morning, exercise for 20 minutes on the elliptical, I’m usually sweating and out of breath. Take a shower and eat lunch. Then after a couple of hours, I feel really tired and sleepy.

Sometimes I lay down in bed and fall asleep lol. I have no idea why because it’s not like I’ve done much outside of that. I eat around 1500-1800 calories a day and use Huel to help me with tracking calories.

I’ll feel sort of sore and burning feeling afterwords too, usually in my legs. Is this normal to feel tired/sleepy this early in my weight loss journey?

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Just started again but currently in a cast and can’t walk

Ok so I have tried about a million times to lose weight but it never works. I just got foot surgery and cannot put weight on my right foot for 10-12 weeks. I am so scared of gaining a ton of weight during this time due to not moving and snacking when bored (I can’t work during recovery). I am starting weight loss again by counting calories. I am trying to eat in a deficit. I worry though this won’t help and I want to keep up with this weight loss when I can walk again too. I can’t do much exercising right now but I do move around a lot due to my restless leg and it is also quite difficult to move around in general so it’s like a mini workout. Overall, I’m getting good at the counting calories but is there anything else I can add to help my weight loss while I still can’t move? It works best if I slowly add habits rather than 180 degree change at once.

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NSV: I got 2nd place in a hot wing eating competition at work!

Yeah, you read that right, I'm counting an eating competition as an NSV. Why? Because I planned for it and still hit my daily calorie/macro/exercise goals.

I used to have pretty severe social anxiety and huge hangups about eating in public when I was at my heaviest weight. I would actively avoid eating around other people so I could go binge at home. Doing a hot-wing eating competition, with 20 other people, and in front of like 100+ coworkers in the audience was nightmare fuel for me. However, now that I'm 140+ lbs down (and sober) it was ezpz lemon squeezy!

Ok, but isn't entering an eating competition kind of the antithesis of a weight loss journey? Nope! I contacted the organizer and asked about a vegetarian or vegan option, and was informed that they would have baked Beyond wings available for those who don't eat meat. (I do eat meat, but I don't really like chicken wings that much 😬) I was able to put the amount of beyond wings into MyFitnessPal and adjusted my breakfast & dinner meals so that I could still stay within my deficit. Later in the afternoon I went and did one of the most brutal leg day workouts I've done in the past 3 months, then I walked 10k steps before heading home for a dinner of liver and onions!

For the actual competition, the first 5 wings were between 500-800k scoville, and the last one had a huge slathering of the Hot Ones last dab Pepper X sauce at 2M+ scoville. To prep for that, I went through aboula half a bottle of the stuff over the past week, putting it in everything I ate except the yogurt and fruit I have for breakfast lol. In the end, I got bogged down by chewing the Beyond wings and lost to the reigning champion by a measly 10 seconds. However, I didn't have any water or milk afterwards and didn't have any issues at all with the 6-minute "after burn" after eating the last dab.

So, while 2nd place might be the first loser, I'm absolutely chalking this one up as a win. I ate in public, I was social, I hit my daily goals, and I had an awesome time. A weight loss journey doesn't have to suck, you can still do fun food-related things, and you can be a winner even if you lose 😎

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Feeling like I'll be fat forever

So I currently weigh 324 lbs from 332 (took 5 days so it's a decent start) but I missed a workout today and I feel like a pure failure because of it. For reference I worked out T, W, and Th this week but today (Friday) I missed it because my brother backed out of our gym date at the last minute (I can't go without him, he's the main member)

For reference, I feel like this because I'm desperate to get back to the weight I use to be. I've been obese my whole life but in 2015-2017 I went from 365 to 230. It was the best feeling in the world but after a few years I gained it all back because of the depo shot (notorious for making women gain weight), four surgeries, and two kids. I can't wait to get back to 230 but my life has been so incredibly busy, it's really interfered with my weight loss journey and I feel like I'm never going to get where I was again.

I guess what I'm looking for is motivation to not feel like such a loser for getting off track so early in this second weight loss journey. I'm just terrified all of this will be in vain and I'll be stuck at this weight forever.

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Losing weight is stressful

It's driving me crazy.

I'm so obsessed with looking in the mirror now to make sure I don't look as fat as I used to look.

Not to mention food is hard.

I'm 5'3 and started my weight loss journey in January. I went from 250 and now I'm almost 180.

Food is what stresses me out the most really, even though I lost so much weight, I still get overwhelmed. I try to keep my calorie count under 1000 for my deficit, but eating over that makes me panic.

I've just been feeling so emotional and irritable with everything, I hate being anxious. I really don't want to gain the weight back, I've been doing so good.

When will weight loss stop feeling so overpowering?

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