I need advice to lose weight

I just turned 30 and I’m getting really frustrated with my weight loss journey. Losing weight will help control medical conditions I’ve been diagnosed with but I can’t seem to find help on how to get there.

For clarification I have POTS and Insulin resistant PCOS. I’ve heard GLP-1s can be helpful with PCOS weight loss but it has a dangerous effect on POTS symptoms. I have tried diet and exercise for years and I lose 10-15 lbs before it stops completely, and not like a plateau stops, but stuck at that weight for months on end as I’m furiously tracking my calories and making sure I’m getting in exercise and that number refuses to go down.

Can anyone else relate to this? What advice can you offer? I just want to be healthy again.

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5’7”-F-220lbs-15m postpartum-25 years old

Okay, so I used to struggle with eating disorders and was 100-110lbs a few years ago.

I realized finally how unhealthy I was during an Easter event where we did family photos and I could see all of my bones protruding out. That was the day I realized the mirror and my brain had been lying to me. I decided to gain weight.

It was difficult emotionally but I did gain weight. Not healthily, though. In my mind, if you want to gain weight, you eat more. So I’d eat until I was full to bursting. I got to 150 and still wasn’t happy. So I continued. I got to 170-180 and was happy with my appearance.

It won’t let me post photos (otherwise I was going to post my current “before” photos) but weight has always gone to my stomach last as I have an hourglass figure. I also did construction and worked on vehicles on the side, so I was able to balance at 170-180 for a while despite it being difficult to stop eating now. Went from one extreme to the next.

I did slowly start to gain weight once I stopped construction and ended up at 210, and then got pregnant. I had a high risk pregnancy and by the end I was 245lbs.

1 month postpartum I dropped to 200lbs, but honestly only because I was breastfeeding as well as neglecting myself. I wasn’t eating much at all and my first priority was just taking care of my little girl.

Over the last 6 months, I’ve gained back to 220. I can really see it in my arms (always been self conscious about them) and in my face and stomach now. I want to lose weight healthily. I did find out last month that I have hypothyroidism and also have to get tested for hashimotos (family history).

I’ve since started medication and also going on 30-60 minute walks 3-5 days a week. Just within this last week, I started also going to my apartment gym, because the walks weren’t cutting it for me anymore. They have weighted balls, dumbbells, an elliptical, bike machine, and a machine that’s meant to work out the entire body with adjustable weight levels.

I’ve been going on the elliptical for 10 minutes, working out my arms with the machine and dumbbells, doing some squats, and ending with 10 minutes on the fat burn cycle of the bike machine.

I have for the most part stopped snacking or binge eating and am trying to incorporate healthier foods into my diet.

Are there any recommendations y’all have for losing weight and workouts to do?

I really want to tone my body, especially arms, stomach, and legs, while losing the weight to 180 (40lb weight loss goal)

Im not purchasing a scale because I don’t want to become obsessed with it again, but I am taking photos and checking in on how I FEEL and look instead with weight checks periodically at my doctors office.

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Suggestion for calorie counter app?

Hi all, I'm starting a huge weight loss journey (I need to lose like 40kg) and I am looking for suggestions for a good app for tracking calories?

I used to use yazio when I lost weight before, but now it has so many ads and takes like 10min to be able to track the meals and the annoyance makes me not track at all.

Any good suggestions? Preferable something where I can add myself, I don't like the ones where you take pictures of meals as the calories are not accurate imho. Also a + if you can track the weight and bmi in the app :)

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Plateau help!

Starting weight: ~280lbs Current: 233 lbs Goal: 200

34 years old, male. i essentially crash dieted for 2 months and now trying to fix what i have done. i am very dedicated very disciplined. i quit drinking in april 2025. starting dieting in october and was eating roughly 1k-1200 calories a day. november i started TRT. for a month now weight training consistently and i eat pretty clean, but also not enough. i have been stuck at 233 for like 2-3 weeks. i know the answer is i need more calories and protein but my brain is telling me less food equals weight loss. i was 198 lbs and stacked about 10 years ago but life happened and i let myself go. now im trying to relearn everything and im just lost. is 2200 calories a day with 190g protein efficient and will i continue to lose weight?

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Hello is my current progress too quick?

So I’ve been losing weight from October 29 to Today (December 8) and I’ve went from 104KG and 91.4KG at 1.77m. The first couple of weeks I lost about 3KG per week but I’m guessing due to the initial water weight loss and currently I’m losing around 1.4KG per week with a diet under 1600 Calories per day, while maintaining 140G protein, on a 7 day average this week from Cronometer.

I heard online that I should be aiming for 4KG in a month so I’m guessing that’s 5KG in 1 month and a week, but currently I have lost about 13KG in that span. Is this normal? I don’t feel nauseous, and I work a physically demanding job walking about 20K steps a day and climbing 13 flights of stairs per shift. (4x a week) and I work out 3x a week cardio and weight lifting.

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Diet and Workout situation

I want to come on here to ask about both protein/diet as well as exercise. For background, I have always been athletic to some extent though never toned and conditioned. I am currently 22 years old and standing at 5'10" (Female), and I am a senior in college. My current weight is 181ibs. When I was in highschool I did basketball and soccer and was skinny as a rail (in a fit way). My senior year of highschool I had a major loss in my family, which led to me eating bad every day. On top of this, because I stopped playing sports due to graduating, I ended up gaining about 30 pounds, making me in the overweight category by 30 pounds. In college, I began to work out in the gym, lifting heavy, almost five days a week. I was also eating a calorie deficit while cramming protein. I dont like meat really, so it was often reached through yogurt, eggs, shakes, etc. Though this did slim me down a bit, it was never extremely noticeable.

Fast forward to this past summer. I was eating whatever I wanted in moderation and doing strength training classes every week at my local gym. I felt and looked stronger but still puffy and large.

Now, this year I am currently in a larger calorie deficit, im talking around 1200 calories a day, maybe more maybe less, having salads or a protein bar for lunch, and then a normal dinner with real protein integrated into it. I have also cut out sugary drinks for the most part as well as desert (changed from Ben & Jerry's to a low calorie option). I have also been doing the stairmaster or tredmill five days a week with an arm workout or leg workout in there occasionally. With this, I have lost about 10 pounds in about three months on the scale, but I am not sure I notice a difference like before.

MY PROBLEM IS I have been researching online and it says that this way of losing weight is not effective for long term results, as low calories and only cardio will be you "skinny fat" and ruin your metabolism so the second you stop eating so little calories or stop doing cardio you blow right back up. Additionally, its said that consuming close to only 60 grams of protein a day and doing cardio primarily is not going to help me look lean and toned like I want.

SO MY QUESTIONS ARE:

- Is the weight loss I am experiencing muscle?

- Do I actually have to consume a ton of protein to get toned? I know the rule s usually 0.8ibs of protein but as a broke college student who hates the protein her school provides its hard to reach even 100 a day.

- Am I ruining my metabolism?

- Is what I am doing correct and will it give me the results I want?

Please help me out and provide suggestions! I really need a genuine and straight forward answer from people who know what they're talking about or share a similar experience. I just want to be slimmed and toned and am tired of being wide in certain areas. Online has so many differing opinions so I feel lost.

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Struggling to lose weight, think stress might be holding me back?

I’m really struggling with weight loss at the moment and just needed to vent/see if anyone relates. I feel sluggish and heavy most days. I see a PT twice a week, go to the gym twice a week, and usually get around 10,000 steps on work days. I’m on my feet all day teaching, so I feel like I should be doing okay but the scale barely moves.

One thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m out of my normal routine and actually enjoying myself, I feel so much better.

I recently went on holiday for 2 weeks. I exercised the same amount as normal, spent a lot of time relaxing by the pool, and honestly ate a lot (it was all-you-can-eat, so I didn’t hold back). When I got home I was down around 2.5kg felt lighter and generally felt good.

Meanwhile, at home I rarely even feel hungry, but I feel tense and heavy all the time. I’m starting to think stress might be a big factor. It’s like my body is constantly in fight-or-flight mode during term time, and everything slows down. On holiday my whole system finally chilled out.

has anyone else experienced something similar? Can stress really make such a big difference?

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