Treating myself once a week helped me lose 30 pounds

During this weight loss journey, I allow myself one meal a week, usually takeout, where I eat whatever I’m craving without counting calories and just enjoy it freely. Honestly, it’s what gets me through my week and gives me something to look forward to, I can’t help but get excited about it. Even with that, I’m still on track and have been consistently losing about a pound a week, for a total of 30 pounds so far. It sustains my personal motivation to keep losing and tracking without going crazy.

I believe you can still enjoy food and the things you love, as long as it’s in moderation and you’re intentional about it. Which should be obvious but we can forget that and go a little too overboard in both directions of the spectrum at times, either too restrictive or too indulgent. I used to “treat myself” every time I had a bad day, telling myself I deserved it to feel better, and I was doing that wayyy more often than I realized 😅 I think this approach is a lot healthier and more balanced for me. This is really just a memo to myself but I’d like to share it here if it can resonate with someone else.

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Struggling to lose weight despite low calories – cortisol high, IGF-1 low, looking for advice

Hi everyone,

I’m struggling with weight loss despite being very consistent with my calories and was hoping for some insight or personal experiences.

I track my food carefully and usually eat around 1,000–1,400 kcal per day, prioritizing protein and keeping carbs moderate. Despite this, my weight often stalls or fluctuates a lot, mostly due to water retention, even when I stay consistent for weeks.

Some lab values stood out and made me wonder if stress and hormones are playing a bigger role than calories alone. My morning cortisol was 23.5 µg/dL, which is above the reference range. My HOMA index was 2.9, suggesting mild insulin resistance, and my IGF-1 was 108 ng/mL, slightly below the normal range. From what I understand, high cortisol and low IGF-1 can both make fat loss harder, especially after long periods of dieting and stress.

I’m wondering if anyone here has experienced something similar and what actually helped. Did focusing on stress reduction, sleep, or eating a bit more for a while make a difference? Has anyone successfully improved these kinds of values through lifestyle changes or supplements, and did that eventually help with fat loss?

I’m not looking for extreme solutions, just trying to understand how to get my body out of constant stress mode so weight loss becomes possible again.

Thanks so much for any advice or shared experiences.

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Fat texture changing

I am about 20ish lb(start:205lb. current 185. goal 165lb).into my weight loss, and I noticed this first in my thigh, and now my stomach which are both what have held a lot of fat,

the fat itself feels very weird... Sort of cottage cheese mixed with those orbeez things which it never used to feel like.

Well, I put my hand on my stomach earlier, just sort of squishing around curiously and my stomach now feels the exact same way, which it also didn't feel before, perhaps even a month or two ago (I don't feel my stomach that often I guess??)

I was wondering if other people had experienced this as well,. I looked some stuff up about what this could mean, evidently it's not super uncommon, but no one is sure what it means or what it means for their body. Any thoughts? Did something bizarre happen when you had this happen? This one guy said his fat changed texture and suddenly he had a huge decrease in size which sounds wonderful but also like a Christmas miracle lol.i also been stuck at 185-190 in between that for a week or 2.

sorry for any misspell

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I’m a teen. (I’m trying to abide by the rules)

I am NOT here to talk about a calorie deficit or any other extreme weight loss methods. I’m making this post to (hopefully) abide by all sub rules here.

If I do Not abide by subreddit rules please get a moderator to tell me and I can adjust the post.

I used to be 10 stone 11 pounds at 12. This was in May 2024.

I am now 8stone 8 pounds at 13 in December 2025

I am now 13 and 5,4

(Male)

I have noticed a change in the 30lb I’ve lost.

I’m writing this because I don’t know what to do now.

I do NOT want to go into ED territory or anything like that. I still get comments by people about me being fat.

I believe I’m in the high end of Normal. Personally I think I need to lose more weight but I do not want to do it if it’s potentially dangerous.

Before I get any comments about seeing a dietitian, I cannot as my parents do not approve and do not know the full extent of how much weight I have lost.

So what I need to know is, is this a normal weight range and do I have room to lose before this turns very unhealthy.

Thank you.

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Popcorn Seasoning (theory)

hey everyone! so over the past two months i’ve discovered the magical land of Orville Redenbacher popcorn seasoning. the issue is i’ve noticed the scale has been trending at a higher number. it’s been driving me insane bc my diet has remained unchanged after a 220+ pound weight loss.

i’ve been going nuts bc if my diet hasn’t changed, workouts remaining consistent how could it possibly be trending higher? then i looked at my intake and realized everyday for dinner i have my favorite meal, a low carb wrap with chicken cheese and lettuce with green beans slightly air fried with no oil that i dip it a low calorie sugar free ketchup. but here’s the thing about me i eat ungodly amount of vegetables as a volume eater.

this being said, the popcorn seasoning on said vegetables as been AWESOME i make my green beans taste like white cheddar popcorn lol, but i go ham i mean HAM with that seasoning. i faded out using ketchup and literally have been just drowning the green beans in nacho cheese or white cheddar popcorn seasoning.

i think this weight “gain” is coming from the extreme salt content in the popcorn seasoning bc if you look at the “calories” its like 40-80g of sodium per 1/4 teaspoon which is like the size of ur nail. and im DUMPING that stuff on.

so my reason for this post is do you think this is why my weight has suddenly been trending 2-3 pounds higher the last two months? is it truly the water retention from the popcorn seasoning? bc i do only have the seasoning at my last meal of the day which is typically around midnight to 3am (i work as a first responder so this is my usual dinner time) and i weigh myself 2-3 times a week at like 1pm, so im not really allowing time for water retention to fall off.

just curious to see what people think in here, bc i thought it was interesting about body chemistry and would also love to know if maybe i should be cutting out all that salt bc it must not be good for the scale or my overall health.

TIA!

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my friend lost weight and the way she talks about body image has completely changed??

my friend and i have been weight loss accountability buddies for the past year and a half. We cheer each other on and encourage healthy habits, go grocery shopping together etc. It was honestly a great system and part of what made it great is that we both started pretty body neutral. we just wanted each other to move more, drink more water, make healthier diet choices etc. It wasn't really focused on how we looked because we very actively aimed for a mindset about being generally content with our existing aesthetics/bodies.

But over the past year we both saw changes in our bodies and I'm getting more and more worried about how this is affecting my friend's rhetoric. The way she's talking about her body, food and self image has taken a 180-turn.

She's at the lowest weight she's ever been as an adult and is now talking a lot about clothing sizes (which for women are kind of notoriously inconsistent among brands) and scale numbers as benchmarks. She complains regularly that she's still "not skinny yet" and needs to put in more effort to be a size 2 or a size 4. She says that she can finally start dating in "a hotter bracket" now that she's better looking, and go to the beach without feeling insecure. This is very different from the person I knew before, who didn't really see aesthetics as that important in dating or beachgoing, but maybe that's how she always felt??

And the way she treats food now is like she's in a constant competition to eat less and less. We split a bowl of pasta for lunch last week and she had I kid you not 3 bowtie noodles before begging off. She talks incessantly about how easily she feels full now due to her meds and how little she eats. She jokes about being malnourished but doesn't want to address it until she's at her goal weight/look.

She says she doesn't have an eating disorder because she's checking in regularly with a doctor that prescribed her meds, but a lot of this sound eerily like what my eating disorder support group said at our worst and I don't know how to address this. It's frankly really triggering for me and I find myself dodging her messages. Maybe I can't relate because my own weight fluctuates quite a bit and I haven't really had the linear experience she does??

(Also, this is not about GLPs or shaming their users or anything like that. I'm more interested in discussing how pretty extreme weight loss or body changes alters self-talk or image issues.)

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Insatiable hunger after weight loss

I (20m) lost about 30lbs this year purely for aesthetic reasons, I went from 170-140lbs at 5’11. I have since gained 10 lbs back in the last 2 months from binge eating, but it doesn’t feel like that insane loss of control that lots of people have experienced? I genuinely am just always starving, nothing satisfies me. I get my protein and fiber in, I drink plenty of water. I’m not super worried about where I’m at right now, I just don’t want to gain ALL of it back. I’m quite active, which I imagine contributes to some of it but I’ve never quite felt like a bottomless pit before. Anyone else ever experienced this?

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