should I just give up on exercise lol
im 17, male, I was working out for five months, lifting weights at school. second semester rolled around and I didn't have a weights class anymore, so I started at my home gym which is a treadmill, bench, an EZ curl bar, and 2 dumbells, and some weights. I dont have that many weights, so I cant really progressive overload, which is frustrating. im trying to lose belly fat and look more lean, and finally have abs. I have a good chest, good triceps, but my biceps are lacking and nothing is super defined. I look kind of skinny fat but I have more muscle. I have mental health problems that keep me out of working out, and it affects my motivation to, as well. im working through it, but thats not what im trying to talk about. ive been out of working out for three months due to depression and frustration. i tried calorie deficit, but im really bad at it, and I want to keep going, but I dont have a standard maintenance calorie count so I have no idea where to start. my belly fat just stays and so do my love handles. and the complexity of working out demotivates me.. like I have to do all these different lifting routines and workouts to target all these different parts of each muscle to make them look better, progressively overload them, get 10k steps in to lose belly fat, do this, do that, its so frustrating. There's so much more but I cant think of it right now. Point is, theres so much depth and complexity to losing fat and looking shredded or atleast lean and defined, that it ends up demotivating me and I cant stay consistent anymore. I really like working out but I dont have the get up and go anymore and I can't make it a habit.