Hey Champions!
I am a 20 year old male. I am as you might have guessed overweight, obese.
My SW was around 260-264 lbs, I am currently at 257 lbs (was at 253 for a day after losing a lot of water and doing 34k steps). My long time goal is around 187 lbs, but I would be happy if I could drop down to 220 lbs by the end of the year or by January/February. I have an office job and I go to Uni which is like the worst for my health. I do CICO (well mostly just eating less and being conscious about the serving sizes at home) and skip breakfast so intermittent fasting 16/8 I guess. I go to the gym 3 times a week, 1 day of using weights and a bit of cardio (4 miles per hour walking, 30 minutes), 1 day of only cardio (60 minutes or more), and 1 day of using weights only, but it doesn't feel like much so sometimes I go for cardio too on that day.
My problem is that I lost a lot in the first 3 weeks or so (losing water probably), and now that it slowed down it is not as motivating. Also it fluctuates, like for a day I could lose 3 pounds but gain it back in a day (I know a lot of it is water). Now I do not feel as motivated as when I started.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I right that it is not a linear journey, it's something like a stocks graph like there are some ups and downs even if it is slowly decreasing/increasing. How can I stay on the path? How fast should I lose weight?
(If everything goes well I might have a gym buddy in a few weeks and also I feel like my arms are stronger so maybe that's why I didn't lose that much?)
Sorry for this being all over the place I am bad at structuring posts and thoughts.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/ikh5v9/struggling_probably_mental/
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