Hello everyone!
This is my first time ever posting anything in a forum so I hope I'm doing this okay. Before I get to my actual question, I'll tell you a bit about myself. My name is Salma and I am 19 years old. I started my weight loss journey about a year ago. I am 5'4 and started at 197lbs. I didn't know much so I began with intermittent fasting. 20:4 with around 1000 cals every day. I did this for a few months and eventually learned that I was pretty dumb for that. I started then tracking my macros and doing a regular calorie deficit of 1800 cals. after about 5 months I plateaued, upped cals for a bit (still within the deficit) and then did a deeper deficit.
While all this was happening, in the beginning i was working out consistently, doing a mix of crossfit and weight training. But at that point my nutrition was all over the place so as you can imagine it wasn't too great all together. During the calorie deficit, I was stuck at home with no equipment so I did a lot of cardio.
It was only until the last few months I got a pair of 5's,10's and 20's that i started trying to incorperate more strength training. OK so as of now (finally), I went into a deeper calorie deficit, am strength training and eating well. Generally, for macros, I was doing 40%C, 30%F and 30%P. Just for the past few days I'm trying a low carb diet, just to experiment (20% C, 40%P, 40%F). My cals now are 1548 daily.
Overall everything is going okay but I'm becoming frustrated. I'm at 140 now, my BF% is around 19%. My goal weight is 127-130 lbs.
Thing is, I've been overweight my entire life. so now it feels like im stuck with this lower belly and some loose skin which i can already see start to develop.
Now i work out at home 5x a week, 2 upper body days, 2 lower body days and 1 full body day. I do circuit training. Seems the most practical given I'm at home. I do usually 8 mins of core at the end of all my workouts and always try to incorperate some kind of cardio in at least one of my circuits.
I have no heavy weights and I'm just doing what I can, being the caloric deficit and making my workouts a tiny bit more challenging over time, upping reps and using bands etc...
The reason I'm becoming frustrated if because I feel like these last lbs wont come off, and for some reason, I feel like when they do, my stomach is just not going to leave. I see all these transformation pics and peoples lower stomachs seem to have left and i feel so behind everyone no matter how hard I try. I'm just so angry.
I don't know, maybe this is just word vomit, I honestly don't expect anyone to actually read all of this. At least for now, this is my story. its january and i hope to lose the last 10-15 lbs by may. With my experience i think that makes sense. Whoever stuck around till the end of this, thanks for reading, let me know if you have any tips or any kind of similar experiences.
Wishing you all well
-Salma
This is my first time ever posting anything in a forum so I hope I'm doing this okay. Before I get to my actual question, I'll tell you a bit about myself. My name is Salma and I am 19 years old. I started my weight loss journey about a year ago. I am 5'4 and started at 197lbs. I didn't know much so I began with intermittent fasting. 20:4 with around 1000 cals every day. I did this for a few months and eventually learned that I was pretty dumb for that. I started then tracking my macros and doing a regular calorie deficit of 1800 cals. after about 5 months I plateaued, upped cals for a bit (still within the deficit) and then did a deeper deficit.
While all this was happening, in the beginning i was working out consistently, doing a mix of crossfit and weight training. But at that point my nutrition was all over the place so as you can imagine it wasn't too great all together. During the calorie deficit, I was stuck at home with no equipment so I did a lot of cardio.
It was only until the last few months I got a pair of 5's,10's and 20's that i started trying to incorperate more strength training. OK so as of now (finally), I went into a deeper calorie deficit, am strength training and eating well. Generally, for macros, I was doing 40%C, 30%F and 30%P. Just for the past few days I'm trying a low carb diet, just to experiment (20% C, 40%P, 40%F). My cals now are 1548 daily.
Overall everything is going okay but I'm becoming frustrated. I'm at 140 now, my BF% is around 19%. My goal weight is 127-130 lbs.
Thing is, I've been overweight my entire life. so now it feels like im stuck with this lower belly and some loose skin which i can already see start to develop.
Now i work out at home 5x a week, 2 upper body days, 2 lower body days and 1 full body day. I do circuit training. Seems the most practical given I'm at home. I do usually 8 mins of core at the end of all my workouts and always try to incorperate some kind of cardio in at least one of my circuits.
I have no heavy weights and I'm just doing what I can, being the caloric deficit and making my workouts a tiny bit more challenging over time, upping reps and using bands etc...
The reason I'm becoming frustrated if because I feel like these last lbs wont come off, and for some reason, I feel like when they do, my stomach is just not going to leave. I see all these transformation pics and peoples lower stomachs seem to have left and i feel so behind everyone no matter how hard I try. I'm just so angry.
I don't know, maybe this is just word vomit, I honestly don't expect anyone to actually read all of this. At least for now, this is my story. its january and i hope to lose the last 10-15 lbs by may. With my experience i think that makes sense. Whoever stuck around till the end of this, thanks for reading, let me know if you have any tips or any kind of similar experiences.
Wishing you all well
-Salma
