Cellulittle
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Hey all, Newbie here!
My health insurance kicks in from my new job in three months, and I'm going to a doctor once it does, but I wanted to see what the community thought about my situation as maybe I'm just missing something.
I'm 22 years old, not overweight, but I've gained enough to where I no longer feel healthy anymore. I feel increasingly lethargic, uncomfortable, and challenged doing things that were never difficult before.
I've gained about 13 pounds over the last two years despite what I believe to be a healthy diet and regular exercise. I'm currently at 142lbs, which I know is not much, but on my frame and in this short amount of time it feels immense.
A little about my daily habits: I pay close attention to what I eat and consume a 80-90% whole food diet. According to my heart rate monitor, fitbit, and health app I'm at anywhere between a 300-500 calorie deficit every day. I track every calorie that enters my body. I try to stay between 1200-1350 calories a day depending on my activity level. I fail to meet this maybe four or five times a month when eating out/having drinks. According to a plethora of apps and one nutritionist this is around where I should be as far as intake goes.
I work out 2-3 times a week for an hour and a half doing a diverse mix of power lifting and cardio. Outside the gym I live a pretty active lifestyle, I work two full time jobs that keep me moving and on my feet, and according to my heart rate monitor/steps etc. leave me at a decent deficit every day. I'd like to hit the gym more I suppose... but with two jobs that would be all of my free time gone and down the drain.
Despite all my best efforts starting back two years ago when I realized this was a little more than my adult body taking form, ive never lost any weight. Literally. I've never seen the scale go down once or my measurements lessen longer than a few days. Thinking back this was even true for high school when I worked out five times a week and had a metabolism like a speeding bullet. I've never lost weight.
When I've really gone at it ill double my gym time, stop eating processed foods and sugar altogether, track my macros, after three or four months of this ill notice I'm a little less jiggly but I wont see a change in inches or pounds beyond maybe a pound of water weight and eventually give up and go back to normal healthy maintenance mode.
Does this sound like any of you? What have you done that has helped? any advice would be amazing. I just grew to big for what used to be my "comfy baggy" shorts and I've had it.
My health insurance kicks in from my new job in three months, and I'm going to a doctor once it does, but I wanted to see what the community thought about my situation as maybe I'm just missing something.
I'm 22 years old, not overweight, but I've gained enough to where I no longer feel healthy anymore. I feel increasingly lethargic, uncomfortable, and challenged doing things that were never difficult before.
I've gained about 13 pounds over the last two years despite what I believe to be a healthy diet and regular exercise. I'm currently at 142lbs, which I know is not much, but on my frame and in this short amount of time it feels immense.
A little about my daily habits: I pay close attention to what I eat and consume a 80-90% whole food diet. According to my heart rate monitor, fitbit, and health app I'm at anywhere between a 300-500 calorie deficit every day. I track every calorie that enters my body. I try to stay between 1200-1350 calories a day depending on my activity level. I fail to meet this maybe four or five times a month when eating out/having drinks. According to a plethora of apps and one nutritionist this is around where I should be as far as intake goes.
I work out 2-3 times a week for an hour and a half doing a diverse mix of power lifting and cardio. Outside the gym I live a pretty active lifestyle, I work two full time jobs that keep me moving and on my feet, and according to my heart rate monitor/steps etc. leave me at a decent deficit every day. I'd like to hit the gym more I suppose... but with two jobs that would be all of my free time gone and down the drain.
Despite all my best efforts starting back two years ago when I realized this was a little more than my adult body taking form, ive never lost any weight. Literally. I've never seen the scale go down once or my measurements lessen longer than a few days. Thinking back this was even true for high school when I worked out five times a week and had a metabolism like a speeding bullet. I've never lost weight.
When I've really gone at it ill double my gym time, stop eating processed foods and sugar altogether, track my macros, after three or four months of this ill notice I'm a little less jiggly but I wont see a change in inches or pounds beyond maybe a pound of water weight and eventually give up and go back to normal healthy maintenance mode.
Does this sound like any of you? What have you done that has helped? any advice would be amazing. I just grew to big for what used to be my "comfy baggy" shorts and I've had it.
