30M, 5'6', SW: 305, CW: 300
So I've been obese for as long as I can remember. In 2021 I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic, but thanks to ozempic and managing my food better my a1c dropped from 9.9 to 5.6 and is staying there!
Anyway, A few months ago i started seriously eating better, and eating around 2k calories a day, sometimes a little less (mostly sedentary lifestyle), but almost never more. Paired with the side effects from ozempic things have been going pretty well, and I've been slowly but steadily losing weight.
about 5 weeks ago I came back from a cruise, and we all know how easy it is to gain a bunch of weight on those, so I weighed myself to see the damages, and to my surprise I was actually DOWN in weight, to 278 to be specific, when I'd been stuck at ~285 for a while and losing hope.
Needless to say I was more motivated than ever and actuality started moving more and cut out things like sugary coffee in the mornings.
Well, out of nowhere I went back up to 285, and then just kept going up, despite me changing nothing other than less coffee, and in the past 5 weeks I've gained ~22lbs, this morning i weighed in at 300, and I seriously have no idea how!
A quick calculation says I'd have needed to eat an average of like 5k calories a day over that time, and that is absolutely NOT the case, I track my calories in my fitness pal and I actually only went over 2k once, and that was 2100. Some days I even ate as little as 1500 (thanks ozempic).
I'm at a loss, I'm beyond frustrated and demotivated, I feel like while I may not be doing everything right, I'm not doing things THAT wrong.
For those wondering what I eat: I'm not able to cook at the moment (my stove is broken) but I have an air fryer that I use occasionally for healthier meals, but for the most part I have to eat out, but I go out of my way to eat as healthy as I can ( no fries or soft drinks, ill get a plain burger and eat it with 1 bun, salads, etc.) So while I could be doing better there, I am by no means splurging daily on high calorie garbage. And I log literally everything I eat every day.
Any advice would be super appreciated, I'm at a loss and I've never felt like this much of a failure in my life
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/13qj67t/beyond_frustrated/
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