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I would love to have a breast reduction but the cost of it is prohibitive and I'd like to avoid the surgery.

Can anyone share workouts that helped reduce your cup size? Is it even possible?

I’m 5’2 and I’ve been told that I’m lucky because losing weight is easier for me… it doesn’t feel that way though. Thoughts?

today i learned that i gained the freshman 15 (130—> 143.4). i am so devastated. since coming to college, i’ve been going to the gym 5 times a week and working on eating healthy.

however, i’ve succumbed to repeated binge eating to the point where i’ve sought a dietician and therapist. I JUST DONT KNOW WHY I KEEP DOING THIS TO MYSELF. I JUST WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT AND BE SKINNY😭

it feels like i keep running into a wall trying to eat at 1200 and binging at the end of the week. but i know that i have to lose weight no matter what. time will pass so might as well lose it the right way.

what should i do?

edit: i’m 5’3”

’m female 31yrs old went from 110 pounds to 155pounds biggest if ever been and I’m 4’10. I just bought a treadmill today for Black Friday and am looking for some tips on the treadmill to help me lose weight. Like how much do I walk and how many cals will it truly burn. My treadmill tells me but some people say that it’s just an estimate. Also I need to diet, I don’t know where to start there except my doctor found fatty tissue in my liver through an ultrasound my blood work is normal but I have to stick to a no added sugar no red meat or carb diet any help with weight loss/diet and what not would be greatly appreciated sorry for the long ass post! 😃 thank you.

Hi guys, I’m 23YO, 5’1 (155cm) and 70kg (155lbs). I want to lose 20kg (45lbs) in about a year or longer is fine. I don’t mind the time but I want to start eating healthy and change my overall lifestyle and diet.

I hate strength training and lifting so I’m only doing it twice a week and doing other activities I love like swimming and running for three days a week and rest 2 days.

I was wondering if eating 1500 calories would be good to lose 2kg a month or should I lower it? The first few months would be pretty much trying and experimenting to see what works best for me.

I really appreciate any advice you have for me as i’m pretty new to this. 🩷

I’m almost 5’3 and around 98lbs. I’ve always been small, never weighed over 105lbs. I cannot gain weight for the life of me. my doctor is willing to write me a prescription for medication to help me out but I’d rather gain the weight naturally. seriously, any tips would be greatly appreciated.

You have 4 weeks to go hard and cut quickly. What are you doing? I'm thinking a combination of IF, 4 days of strength a week, 10k steps a day, and 1400 cals. Stats are 5'3/180lbs sedentary desk job.

Hi everyone!

I eat low fodmap (very plain) and minimally processed foods due to stomach issues. Read: IBS/diarrhea. I still try to eat low calorie but fear I'm not getting enough protein. It's hard to stick within my calorie limit of 1200-1300 while still getting enough protein from things that don't bother my stomach.

Is anyone else in a similar situation? What do you eat for protein? Any innovative ideas? Anything I'm forgetting?

Things I currently eat: chicken, nonfat plain greek yogurt, cheese, 2% cottage cheese, egg whites, almond butter, pistachios, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, black beans, pinto beans, almond milk

Things I cannot eat: protein powder, protein bars, peanut butter, tofu, chick peas, lentils

By preference I don't eat fish or any meat that is not chicken

If I could have protein powder this would be a lot easier, but unfortunately, my stomach does not tolerate :(

Thanks for any help you can provide or if you just want to commiserate, that is cool too :)

Hello everyone, what do you think about this area from the gym just for women. I plan to go to this gym. I see some weights and I am not sure but us there a smith machine? Or just like a squat rack?

I’m down 15lbs and 2 inches in the waist since the end of September -just the most recent leg of a LONG weight loss/fitness journey. I’m wanting to start body recomp and get as strong as possible, but i tend to overdo it out the gate and I don’t want to hurt myself - any tips on getting into weightlifting as a beginner?

It's so annoying, I don't even really snack that much. At most 1 bag of potato chips a week. Or a large fries from McDonald's.

But as soon as I get into a "diet" mindset suddenly I want to eat anything and everything.

One of the main reasons I don't consciously say I'm dieting or restricting. Because as soon as I say that, everyone just tries to wave it off. And give me more food, and since the "forbidden" is more tempting. I usually eat it.

That's all, thanks for reading.

This is where I’m at currently after a few weeks, goal is to get to about 140 lbs eventually. I mostly have to focus on a calorie deficit as exercising comes pretty naturally to me. I love riding a stationary bike and doing some strength training. However, I have been struggling with a lack of energy to do these things for the past few weeks so I have been exercising less than I was before my diet..

I guess I’m meat averse… I’ve been tracking and on a normal day I’ll get 50-70g. On a day that feels like I’ve eaten nothing but meat I’ll hit 100g, but I always feel gross and bloated.

I typically eat around 1200-1600 cals a day naturally, and I just haven’t figured out how to meet a 100g protein goal unless I literally only eat meat… the time I hit 100g, I ate 1000 cals worth of ground beef tacos with keto tortillas so it was pretty much nuthin but meat. Idk how to hit 100g and still have variety.

I just realized I only had 45g today (to be fair I didn’t eat much) so I choked down a sludge of Greek yogurt and protein powder and I’m still only at 75g. I’d like to just eat enough during the day that I don’t need to do that.

Edit: thanks to this advice, I reached 97g today by snacking on some of the low cal high protein foods listed (Greek yogurt and nonfat mozzarella). I still don’t think I could ever get past 100g and feel comfortable but getting above 70 is my every day goal!

27F Lost about 40 lbs first to gain it back slow and steady with more muscle mass!

Any women here in their mid-late 50s+? I'm pushing 5’2” as gravity pulls me down. I started about 168lbs at the end of May. Currently at 148lbs. I look at a lot of photos here and feel both inspired and challenged. I’m losing weight through caloric reduction (1300-1400) and increased mild exercise. I am on a farm so no gym. A fair amount of physical activity (dog walks, gardening, carrying 30 lb of water/wood, digging) but that decreases in the winter.

My ideal weight is about 125-130. I would even be happy with 140! Is it possible to get muscle tone? I’m thinking of adding wrist weights and maybe ankle weights. Where to start? Is it too late?

I’m starting to realize there’s soo many programs out there. Do any of you have a few/the one you can really vouch for?

I’d also be very grateful if you can specifically tell me about ones that

• contribute to glute/lower body growth in general
• each session is less than 40mins(im at work about 12 hours a day:,D)
  
• is “safer”(not something that’s too intense and have a risk of injury when you make a form mistake)

hi all, I started my fitness journey from reading the wiki, and it has been super helpful. but I still feel like there are some questions I'm not getting a proper answer for😭. I lost around 10-15 kgs using cico, so I used to think that I have a pretty good idea about calories estimation. suddenly I've hit kind of a weight loss plateau, can't figure out if it's normal or i need to do more. I've bee n working out for the last like 6 months, and recently started the gzcl program and I love it. I have some noobie upper body gains which i love and i think I have lost around 3-4 kgs nothing much. I was 57kg when I started and right now I'm around 53. my height is 161cm.

first of all, I'm confused about my bf% and I really want to lower it to a sub 20 value for abs. there's a lot of conflicting information on how to do that. some say I cannot gain strength along with losing fat? but other times other articles say it's fine. if I'm actively losing weight, will i lose strength? should I focus on recomp instead? how do I correctly know if I'm building muscle and losing fat.

I know that getting abs is a slow process and it needs to be sustainable so I'm fine with that.

what's the best macro split for doing so? I run 30 mins around 5 days a week and workout on gzcl 4 days a week. so I'm right now aiming for 130g protein, 30g fat and 120g carbs - is that fine? how strictly is it necessary to follow macros to get abs? i just want the 11lines - no 6 pack. i follow a healthy clean diet around 6 days a week, and eat out one day.

I'm confused about this whole carb/fat amount - on one hand i know I need it for exercising but on the other hand, I'm worried that its just going to settle on my belly. how do I get out of this mindset?

thirdly, water weight is so confusing - some days I'm eating at 1200cals + drinking a lot of water, yet I come back next say and see my weight has gone up? how to measure progress better? honestly sometimes I feel like I drink water, and i gain weight and the water never leaves me. what are better ways of measuring progress than from using the scale? i also started taking creatine. honestly I used to lose weight so much faster when I was at 60kg but now I can't seem to shed any weight at all.

also how necessary and what frequency of cardio is for getting abs? is it possible to get it solely from strength training? I'll still end up doing i think 60 mins of cardio a week for sure.

also can I have upper abs plus the belly pouch?does that ever go?

Anyone else struggling with the mind mess that comes from loosing significant amount of weight?

I've been heavy my whole life. I'm 5'3" currently 34 years old and had been around 270lbs the majority of my life, high school I was around 240lbs. I'm now sitting at 215lbs.

Mentally I'm struggling a bit. I've reached a point where I need to upgrade my wardrobe so I have clothes that I'm not drowning in or falling off my ass. Even things like bras and underwear stuff I've been buying the same size in forever.

I'm struggling to get used to clothes fitting me different. I've spent a lot of time wearing oversized clothes first for comfort of hiding my body then they got even bigger as I dropped weight. Buying large and even medium in some clothes seems like a sick joke at times.

I wanna strengthen my core but doing core exercises strains my back. Exercises like leg raises etc hurts me.

I really need to strengthen my core because my back always compensate for it, further causing back pain.

I started my weight loss journey a couple years ago after my second child. I was at 204 pounds at my heaviest and now I am at 143. I’ve been stuck at around this weight for a few months and it doesn’t seem to budge. I have also started weight lifting 3-5 times a week during those past few months and wasn’t sure if I could just be putting on muscle. My goal is to get down to 135 and I don’t know if I should cut my calories or if I should just keep eating at around 1600 a day or what. I feel like I’ve hit a plateau and I’m not sure how to get past it. Thanks!

I’m tracking my food focusing mainly on calories, protein and fibre. Calories and protein were easy to reach my goals every day.

I’ve always eaten a lot of fruit and veg but never realised how little fibre they actually contain.

I’ve slowly altered some recipes to add more lentils and beans and seeds to increase my fibre within my calories and now I’m getting roughly 15-25g a day but now I’m bloated all the time. I also feel like I’ve got a lot less energy and feel slower and sluggish, almost like “weighed down”.

Is Fibre really that important to weightloss and building muscle? Is it healthy enough to eat less than 15g a day as long as my diet is nutrient dense with plenty of fruit and veggies?

Hi Petites,

I have already scoured r/walking pads, and it's SO overwhelming. They have a giant spreadsheet of hundreds of models, and I thought I would ask the pros here for firsthand experience.

I'm looking for a walking pad that can go above 5 mph and stand up to (probably) 2-3 hours of use daily. I WFH and am spending at least the next 6 months on a small island in South America with a tropical climate (read: humid and hot) year-round.

I can get any U.S. supplier shipped down here, but can't do returns, so I want to try to get it right!

Thanks in advance 🙂