Not losing weight consistently despite being in a calorie deficit

I'm 26 M, about 5'11. Started this weight loss attempt at 264 and I'm at 253 now. My dieting method is not caring as much about what I eat, but really just focusing on the calorie intake. depending on the source, my maintenance should be around 2300 I believe. for the last couple weeks I've doing one meal a day at around 4pm. I usually eat somewhere between 1000-1400 calories depending on the meal. I kind of have a rotation of food I cycle through that are all in that range. The rest of the day I just drink flavored water and usually a single diet Dr pepper for caffeine.

Now I know what I'm eating isn't healthy foods, and I know if I'm getting food from a restaurant portions can vary. but I'm not even close to my maintenance. And I am truly counting everything I eat in that meal, condiments included if I eat any. I weigh myself daily and over the last 4 days I have gained .4 pounds. over the last 2 weeks I have essentially not moved in weight at all.

I truly don't understand how this is even possible. I'm so far under my maintenance that even if I am slightly mis calculating my maintenance and the food I'm eating, I would still be under maintenance.

Is the one meal a day fucking with me? Or maybe I need more water, I really don't know please help because I'm getting fed up

I know my diet and no exercise is not ideal or recommended, I'm just trying to not be fat and this feels doable and sustainable to me if I am in fact losing weight lol

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Trying to lose it but I'm in love with food: how does this plan look?

Hey guys. I'm 18 years old, 5'10 and 250 lbs. I've known that I've been overweight my whole life, but I haven't really ever done anything about it. I do run cross country in the fall and track in the spring, but I never lose weight in any of those seasons as I get hungry asf and eat a ton of shit after practice. I don't have a bad social life and I've never been made fun of for my weight, so those were never driving factors for change.

One day, though, about a week ago, I got tired of looking abysmal from neck down (my face is majestic though), and decided to get to work on changing some things. Last week, I went on a run 4 times. I have also been changing my diet.

My previous daily food intake consisted of: PB and J on white bread in the morning, a second one in the afternoon (love PB and Js), random snacks throughout the day, a TON of delicious dinner (whatever mom and dad are cooking up), and some ice cream or something to top off the day. Yeah, not all that healthy.

My new daily meal schedule: PB and J on gross whole grain bread in the morning OR eggs, some random vegetables for lunch, I replaced snacking with fruit (usually strawberries with whipped cream), and still a TON of delicious dinner. Therein the issue lies.

I fuckin love eating dinner man. It has gotten me through days. Is this ever going to work if I don't give up dinner and satisfy myself with smaller proportions?

And what's the MO on exercise? How often do I need to do this? I usually run but I actually really hate running. The gym is silghtly better, but it is really far and the drive alone takes an hour out of my day so I don't go very often. Can I get away with neither some days? What if I just went for daily 2-mile walks instead? I love walks. How many calories does running burn vs. walking?

Also, I'm kind of fine with eating breakfast, small vegetable snack for lunch, and splurging on dinner, fighting through hunger from 4:00PM to 7:00PM, but I've also heard that lowkey starving yourself is not good for weight loss. Seems counterintuitive.

Thanks for the help guys. I'm hoping to get into shape so that I'm comfortable shirtless by mid-summer this year. This feasible?

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How are people getting enough protein *and* fiber?

I've lost a little under 40 pounds in the past 8 months, trying to hit 135ish before switching to maintenance (I'm 5'6 and 141 currently). I average about 1500 calories daily with 70 grams of protein, 200 grams of carbs, and 50 grams of fat, plus 31 grams of fiber (generally without supplements).

I know this fits within broad recommendations but most advice and recommendations I see for weight loss encourage significantly more protein, usually around 100 grams. Whenever I see people online post high protein meals, they're low fiber, like 5 grams or less. But most of the high-fiber meals I fall back on have less than 25 grams of protein, which makes hitting 100+ grams feel impossible without adding significant calories or supplements.

Does anyone have advice for cheap meals that are high protein and also actually high fiber? Also, should I even be that concerned about changing my macros/upping protein?

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I'm finally seeing light in the end of the tunnel

I've been trying to lose 15kg since September and I've been failing MISERABLY, having lost only 2kg (from September to January). It all went downhill on late January when uni and work stress got on me and I fell into a month long continuous binge that felt uncontrollable. Luckily I didn't gain any significant amount of weight.

I hope it's not too early to be posting this, but It's been less than a week since I got back on track with my weight loss and I'm already 1kg down (in like 4 days). I know it's mostly water weight but it is what I needed. It gave me so much motivation.

Losing the 15kg suddenly doesn't seem that impossible at all. How did I get back on track?

1. I set a goal only for one day. I said to myself that I'll eat 1500 calories only for Monday. Not having a long term plan, helped me manage stress and the urge to binge. As weird as this sounds, I told myself that I can go back to binging on Tuesday. But on Monday I set the same goal for Tuesday, and so on. Long story short I haven't binged in 6 days which is a HUGE win for me.

2. I utilized AI to help me. I asked it to become my "weight loss coach". I send it pictures of what I eat and a screenshot from my logs on MyFitnessPal and it assesses the food. It tells me weather I should eat less or more of something or replace something with something else. A thing that helped me tremendously is asking it before eating something that I usually binge on. Then I tell it to convince me to not binge and it works like a charm.

3. I broke my weight loss down into 3 sections. I want to lose 15kg (started on 78kg/ 170cm/ 22F). My first goal/ milestone will be 72kgs, which feels so close and doable. The next milestone will be getting down to 68kgs (which is the weight I was last year) and the last/ ending goal will be reaching 63kgs.

4. I set a goal timeline. Not a strict one but an estimation of what I would be happy with, always in a realistic way of calculating/ planning. For example I aim to weigh 69,9kgs or less by late April and it feels really doable.

The end goal of 63kgs still seems far away, but a month ago it was nowhere near to be seen and now I'm seeing a light in the end of the tunnel, as I'm saying in the title. Honestly the biggest thing for me is getting back to 68kgs and after that everything will be better. I will obviously reassess when I get there and maybe I will not feel the need to get down to 63kgs, but shall I see!

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I feel like im losing weight in the worst way possible.

I started my journey around september last year, with a starting weight of 94kg and after being on and off my "diet" I've reached 85kg. Thought I feel like im not learning any good eating habits, since my diet consist of just starving myself for the entire day, aka intermittent fasting and then at dinner I'll eat around 1500 calories or lower and thats about all I eat 6 out of the 7 days of the week, wher on friday ill eat around 2000-2500 calories.

I know ill most definitely hit my gw of around 75kg since right now im still losing 1kg+ a week, but I feel like once im done with the weight loss, ill just be stuck with a really bad eating habit.

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Sustainable weight loss

People always forget that once you lose weight you have to maintain that weight loss!! You can do hours of cardio a day, track every single calorie you put in your mouth, starve yourself for a day, avoid going to eat out with your friends and weigh out every gram of food to lose the weight, but is that really sustainable?? Do you really think you will be doing that for months and years into the future?? This is just a reminder to take your time!! You don’t have to rush and lose weight. In my opinion, the faster it comes off the easier it is to come back and the longer it takes the longer the results will last. Make sure you’re going slow enough to make and KEEP LIFESTYLE CHANGES. this will ultimately keep you from gaining and losing the same 20 pounds year in and year out.

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I... Need... Help

I am kind of at my wits end everyone, and I really could use some help and guidance.

Very very short background on me, I am an old user of this sub. Back in those days(8 years ago) I went from 400Lbs to 185Lbs in like, two years and made it to my goal weight, documenting the whole journey on this sub.

Now, I am back up to 363Lbs... I was back up to 400Lbs, but I went down to 339Lbs for the shortest amount of time last spring, but have been climbing ever since. A lot has changed since that first time losing weight: The world shut down for a couple years, I moved into my own house, I got married and had a family, and got a new sit down job with infinitely more levels of stress and responsibility(9am-5pm).

Even though it is what I just did, I hate the thought of making excuses, but good lord, a lot has happened to me in the last 7-8 years. As someone who had already had an issue with weight, it appears I just fell back in to some old habits when the going got really tough. Now I am writing this post, asking for any sort of help or advice from random people on the internet... I am desperate for something. I am currently in therapy(have been for a year and a half) and it just doesn't seem to help in regards to my weight loss, but it is helping with some other stuff I have going on... I believe I have identified my issue as mostly a food addiction, instead of stress eating or always being hungry. Now, stress does push me to start that addictive habit of eating something with tons of carbs in it, which seems to trigger my addiction and it only gets worse from there.

I have came to the conclusion that I have a food addiction just by listening to my body and mind and seeing what I am doing when I am doing bad in my eating habits. The other night, I was thinking "I want a spoon of peanut butter" and I was just about to get up, when I was like "Why???? I am in no way at all hungry". After those thoughts, I didn't get up and I just kept playing games. Within an hour, I was basically feeling like I was shaking, and my mind was racing, thinking I really wanted that spoon of peanut butter, to the point where I just wanted to go to bed! To me, that screams addiction: I did not give my mind what it wanted, so I started getting anxious and almost shaky. So, first I would like to try to start by breaking this addiction. I am thinking I may need to start a no carb diet for a few weeks, and then possibly have very low veggie type carbs for the rest of my deficit/weightloss journey/life, as that is what I did the first time I lost weight(just without knowing it). The first time I lost weight, I cut out all carbs and didn't count calories, I went down about 25Lbs, and hit a plateau and found r/loseit, learned about CICO and the rest was history. I think in that first attempt, that hard cut off from carbs/sugars and fats broke my food addiction and got me past that 1 week hump, without me even knowing it. What do you guys think?

The only thing getting in my way now, is the current lifestyle I need to maintain. I have a 9-5 job, two kids and a wife who need me. When I lost my weight the first time, if I started to crave at like 8pm, I would just go to bed for the night. That is just plain not an option now, as my kids bed time is 8:30, and after that I like to spend time with my wife.

After saying all of that... I guess I am just looking for something... I did this before under different circumstances and a different life style. Please help me...

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