Stuck fluctuating at 60-63kg

I've been stuck at around 61kg for a few months now (started at 74kg) and I'm struggling to break past the last 9kg needed to my goal. I've kept a low cal diet and stay fairly active and overall have had a really good and consistent weight loss journey so far, although as of a few months ago nothings changed. I haven't really been following any set plans or diets, just general tracking of calories, nutrition, and activity. I want to keep a decent relationship with my food and keep a healthy mindset so I didn't want to eliminate foods just make sure to eat balanced and intuitively. Although now I'm at this wall and I'm a little stuck on what to do next.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar and has an idea of what could help? I'm not against trying a specific diet although I suppose I'm just a bit tentative seeing as I have heard a lot of stories about how people regress a lot after coming off the diet when they reach their goal weight or are just generally struggle with the limitations.

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Too Fast Weight Loss?

I know this isn’t a common thing in terms of weight loss, but I’m genuinely concerned about gallstones. When my father lost a bunch of weight quickly years ago, he wound up having to have had his gallbladder removed because of the gallstones. I never thought I would experience rapid weight loss, but here I am.

My husband and I are both counting calories together, and started January at 280lb (him) and 238lb (me). We weigh daily, and he has been averaging just over a 500 calorie deficit and I have been around 700 calorie deficit. I am breastfeeding our 6 month old who is only starting to try foods (he is 20lb chunker who nurses well!).

I’m worried because we’ve both lost weight more rapidly than either of us were expecting. We were expecting not to see much progress the first 4-6 weeks followed by a flush followed by a steady loss of 1-2 pounds depending on our deficit. We would not consider ourselves active people. He works from home, I’m a stay at home mom to our 4 kids. I cook nearly all of our meals completely from scratch. We do not exercise regularly, I have a mini stair stepped that gets used infrequently. The only “regular” activity that we do is use our stairs a lot (his office, the kids‘ playroom, and the pantry are in the walkout basement but the kitchen, bathrooms, living room are on the main floor).

My husband is now 256lb, officially dropping from Class II Obese to Class I for a total loss in 32 days of 24 pounds. I’m down to 217 pounds, a 21 pound loss in the same amount of time. Our family members around have been talking already how much thinner our faces and stomachs are looking without us even bringing the topic up. Clothes are fitting better, or in my husband’s case falling off (we have to buy him new pants!).

While of course thrilling, I am getting worried. I saw my dad suffer and I don’t want to experience that or for my husband to experience that. We are not taking ANY meds, no GLP-1s or diet pills or anything like that. Just manageable lifestyle changes. The only supplements we are taking are inositol, collagen, soluble fiber, Omega-3 fish oil, and calcium as needed. There are no off limit foods, everything gets fit into our macros. Protein is set at 1.2g/kg or 0.55g/lb of our goal weights and 25g fiber for me and 30g for him. We eat out MAYBE once a week (yesterday we met friends up at Chipotle for instance). We still have our morning coffee. We are not low fat. Everything is just…in moderation.

We were expecting to see stagnation, a slowdown, or a plateau, something by now. But nope. My husband sees basically the same weight on the scale day to day followed by a random drop that then becomes his new weight day to day before another drop. Mine changes pretty wildly day to day, but just keeps trending down. Our energy is great, hydration is great, and besides the occasional gas/bloating on the days we’ve had too much finer, we’ve had no issues. Satiety is great, cravings are mostly gone and the few ones we have are easily controlled.

So what do we do to avoid gallstones?

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should i change anything about my routine?

hello! 19F here. i weigh ~72 kg while being around 1.62 cm.

i’m new to this subreddit, and i am also starting on my weight loss journey.

it’s been a week since i started, and before starting my weight was ~74kg (74.5 or something, i didn’t care much for the number after the point back then)

i’ve been mainly on a calorie deficit (not really a strict one, i ate the same as everyday but i also cut unnecessary snacks) and i also focused on doing +10k steps everyday :) i am also on the treadmill everyday for 30 mins, 12 incline and 3 speed!

a lot of people told me i also need to do strength training for losing weight, but i feel like i’m doing good with this and i don’t want to be muscular… i mainly want to have a good body, not being strong.

so, can someone tell me if what im doing already is good enough or should i also make some strength training? i’m open to listen as long as you’re not mean with it! thank youu :)

(also, im sorry for the kg and cm measurements. i am from europe, so those are the ones i use)

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Man boobs and large belly.

I am a 38 year old, 5'9 male. I started at 340ish lbs. I was hoping when I got closer to my goal weight I would have more or less the same body I had when I was in my 20's. I was about 180 back then, bit there was no way my man boobs and belly were this embarrassingly saggy and nasty back then. It's really discouraging because I was hoping to get back into the dating scene at some point. The rest of me looks great. I have been doing 1.5 hours of weights, 30 minutes on core, followed by an hour of cardio every day, sometimes twice a day. I have strong toned features, everywhere on my body, and I actually think I look quite good with my shirt off. But I worry about what "she" would think. I hate my floppy boobs, huge ripples and large stomach. Why does it have to be this way. It's way too unfair after having worked so hard to put off 150 lbs. I guess I'll have to be upfront with any dates about my weight loss and nast my fat midsection. It discourages me and makes me want to give up.

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Weird Weight Loss Things

I’ve lost about 90 pounds over the last ~14 months, and one thing that’s surprised me is how many day-to-day physical changes came with it that people don’t really talk about. Not the obvious stuff like clothes fitting differently, but the smaller, weirder things that affect how your body actually feels moving through the world.

For example, sitting feels completely different now. Chairs get uncomfortable much faster, my hips and tailbone get sore, and a bed that used to feel too soft now feels too firm as a side sleeper because there’s less cushioning. Running and certain movements also feel stranger than they did at a higher weight, almost like my body is still catching up to itself.

I’m curious, for others who’ve lost a significant amount of weight: what are some unexpected or “weird” physical or day-to-day changes you noticed that don’t get talked about much?

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When will my arms get smaller?

(F22) I’ve been in a calorie deficit for about 6 months and focused on getting in enough protein, and I’ve cut down on sugar. I’m a busy student so I don’t hit the gym but I do walk as much as I can. I’ve lost 10 pounds so far and I’ve noticed the loss in my abdomen and face but my arms haven’t changed much, I’m assuming due to genetics. A few years ago my arms were a lot skinnier and got bigger when I gained weight, and now I’m trying to get back to those arms. I know you cannot spot reduce fat, but I’m wondering how or when I will start seeing a change in my arms to match with the rest of my weight loss.

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Weight Loss / Recomp with Muscle Memory Effect

Hi All,

Curious to hear about people's experiences with weight loss in the setting of muscle memory. For those who aren't familiar, the muscle memory effect is a cool phenomenon that allows your body to very quickly regain muscle you once previously had. So if you were jacked and then lost all your muscle from a hiatus, if you started up again, you could regain your muscles in 2-3 months, even if they required 10+ years to gain initially.

Anyway, while I've lost weight many times in my life, this is the first time I'm going at it with the muscle memory effect. Granted I was never that muscular, but I've probably lost around 5-10 lb of muscle from a few years ago when I got into weightlifting.

Now that I'm back in the gym lifting heavy again, I see my strength and muscle coming back very quickly, and that's while I'm in a caloric deficit of ~300-500. I'm also not feeling as tired as I usually feel during cuts but that could be because I'm in ketosis.

As far as my weight loss, this past week, I was 129.6lb on Monday and already I've lost 3.2 lbs. I'm 36 yo man at 5'4 (~20% BF). And FYI, I've already lost my initial water weight weeks ago and have been in a state of ketosis for a while now -- so the 3.2 lb drop is probably not mostly water weight.

On top of this, due to muscle memory, I imagine I've also gained some muscle right? I mean I can visually see a difference in size, even in my low glycogen state due to keto. So that means I've potentially burned even more fat than the scale shows.

I'm kind of at a loss here. I know it's healthy to aim for 1-2lb/week but maybe this isn't so abnormal when you have muscle memory on your side? I wonder if the crazy initial boost in muscle is increasing my metabolism, increasing my testosterone levels, and that's allowing me to persevere without much fatigue.

Would love to hear from other ppl's experiences

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