Under eating unintentionally

Hi, so I just started my journey (for probably the 10th time) 2 weeks ago and am trying to do things right this time around. I use MyFitnessPal to track my calories, and I use a food scale to make sure what I’m tracking is accurate. My biggest issue is by the end of the day when I’m logging my last meals/snacks into MyFitnessPal, I’ve been consistently anywhere from 400-700 calories under my daily goal (1700 cals). I know this is not good. I’m not doing it on purpose, like I said I’m trying to do this the right way this time around (my previous weight loss attempts were always me just starving myself). So seeing myself so under on my calorie goal is bumming me out. I think the main reason this is happening is because I am pretty busy during the day and rarely at home. In the past I’d stop somewhere and grab something to eat but since I’ve been tracking calories and weighing my foods, I stopped doing that. Trying to make all my foods at home. I avoid anything I think might be high cals or considered unhealthy so if I don’t have anything that fits into my current diet goals around to eat, I just don’t eat until I get back home. I know I could carry snacks with me, but I really prefer to save my calories for real meals (I enjoy whole meals wayyy more than snacking). Is there anything else besides carrying snacks with me that I can do to make sure I’m reaching my cal goals for the day? Should I eat a bigger breakfast and dinner to make up for the midday calories being missed? I’m already pretty full though with the amount of food I’m eating for those two meals already though. Anyone else ever have this issue? What did you do? Any advice is appreciated.

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Help or just general advice with binge eating? (Really specific)

18F and Ive been trying to lose weight since I was 15. It started with me cutting my meal portions and it worked pretty well for a year or two, where I gradually lost weight. Eventually I reached the dreaded plateau and that's when I started really looking into nutrition and dieting and everything. I started doing intermittent fasting around 6 months ago (before that I just kept going with the extremely slow weight loss plus started walking a lot more).

Ever since I started intermittent, I've been completely obsessed over food. I know it's stupid but unconsciously I started feeling like, "I only get 6 hours to eat so I need to load up on food" which completely cancels out the entire point of this. Plus at some point I had started making one hour walks after meals mandatory for myself (I'm free these days) so that made me start to feel like since I'm already walking I might as well just eat one huge meal and walk 3-4 hours afterwards. This kept spiraling and now I'm at the point where I eat a lot, walk a lot, get immediately distracted during the walk by "I could eat something rn to make the walk count" and the cycle continues like that.

But the thing is I'm not even hungry when Im making myself eat all this. On days I have to be outside I can eat just maybe a carrot and find myself completely satiated for lunch. I find it easy to control myself when I'm around others. It's just the time restriction actually makes me want to eat more than I need by making myself think that I'm not "extracting the full value of the time I get". The entire urge to eat at all completely shuts down after the allocated time. It's eerie. Why am I able to somehow control myself in one aspect but completely give up all semblance of level headedness during the six hours window? I feel like if I give up intermittent, I can give up the obsessive walking to burn off the food, and the all consuming thoughts of food. But intermittent lowk gave me the best results so far and idk if I could take it if I started gaining more weight (I hit 48 kg as my lowest but today it's at 51 again)(48 was during the times I only ate one huge meal a day but I don't even have the self control for that anymore)

What should I do? Please

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Unwarranted advice regarding weight loss (rant)

My husband and I have been dieting (protein, fiber, minimal carbs, and no soda and beer) for months now. He has picked up free lifting and I just started resistance training! He has lost 50lbs and I have lost 30lbs. Things are going really well and working out together has been fun. People are starting to notice our weight loss which I don't mind. But we've had a few instances of people giving us "advice" on how to lose weight. Such advice includes;

"The only way to lose weight is cardio. Anything else is a waste of time."

"Cut out carbs completely" (have tried strict keto. Definitely worked, but wasn't sustainable for us. When we explained that, they doubled down and said that's what we would have to do if we wanted to reach our goals)

"Just eat less!" (Not less calories. Not less junk food. Just, less in general)

"You don't need to change your diet. Just walk for 30 minutes every day after dinner"

"Oh just go on GLP1!"

"Diets don't work. Its determined by genetics"

"Just do OMAD! Then you can eat whatever you want and as much as you want. You just have to fit it all into one meal"

Honorable mention; "why are you trying to lose weight? You looked fine before!" (Back when I was the heaviest I had ever been in my life)

I'm not even saying these suggestions don't work or help (depending on the execution), but we have chosen the diet and exercise that works best for us and that we find the most sustainable and those reasons apparently aren't good enough. They just act like we're wasting our time by not following their advice even though these same people either haven't been able to stick to the diet long enough to actually reach their goal, or yoyo diet constantly.

I wouldn't mind as much if they didn't double down after already explaining what's sustainable for us or reminding them that we're already seeing results. Or if it wasn't said so condescendingly. I just don't understand how you can see that someone has lost weight, ASK THEM how they did it, then tell those same people that the way they've been doing it doesn't work

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My mom has became the hardest part of my weight loss journey

I’ve still been staying on track but my mom makes it harder than it already is. When we go shopping, once in a while she’ll complain about me getting the same foods for myself. When I bought a food scale to weigh my food, she calls me obsessed and says it’s unnecessary. A few times a week she’ll ask me what did I eat and it gets tiring saying the same similar meals over and over again for her to make some comment about eating something else. She literally said “ you don’t have to do your diet” and “ if you keep doing that diet it’s gonna become a habit” it’s just so annoying. She’s just so anti diet for some reason and thinks dieting is weird and unnecessary idk. I’ve been able to ignore it for the most part but it still makes everything feel harder.

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Am I misunderstanding how BMR works, or is it possible that limiting calories to my BMR isn’t enough to lose weight at a reasonable pace?

My understanding of BMR is that this is the least amount of calories your body needs to sustain healthy function. I recently got an iHome scale that told me mine is 1,404 calories. This isn’t far off from calculators I’ve used. But the only weight loss goals that would have me eating more than this are 0.5lbs/week or maintenance. I have 45lbs more to lose, so the idea of this taking 2 years doesn’t sit well with me. My goal is currently set to 1lb/week and my calorie limit per the app is 1,270.

Am I not understanding how BMR works, or is it unreasonable to try losing 1lb/week with that BMR?

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Back to it!!

24 F 5’3 SW: 175 CW: 140 GW: 125

Well. With the help of GLP1s and Lose it I went from 175-125. I maintained 125 without GLP1s from May 2024 to December 2025. I started spiraling again recently due to my anxiety.

Here we go again! I don’t think i’ll use GLP1s again due to the muscle wasting. This time around will be a straight calorie deficit and the gym. I’m mad at myself for letting it go this far again but we will get back to it.

It’s a big year too. My boyfriend is proposing at some point so 🤞🏼 I get to my GW before that happens. He’s on his weight loss journey too but he’s using GLP1s. Time to lock in and snoop this sub every day for motivation again!

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Massive water retention? Stalled after losing 8kg

So I’ve lost 50kg before due to health reasons with just dieting. Because of stress eating, and psychiatric medication, I’ve gained 30 kg back (after 6 years of maintaining).

I started my diet accidentally per se, as one of my meds suppresses my appetite completely (not weight loss meds) and I’m averaging 800-900 kcals a day (before anyone says it’s too little - I’m aware, but I cannot stomach more). I’m eating healthy, weighing EVERYTHING, I don’t exercise because I don’t have the time - but I’m eating as much as I did when I lost the weight and I’ve only lost 3,2kg since April 2nd and I’ve felt bloated as hell, like my period is about to come (which is possible - I have not been tracking), but this stall over 5 days doesn’t make any sense - it’s like I’m retaining all of the water I drink. It’s impossible that I haven’t lost any weight in 5 days, I have not consumed anymore sodium than usual, just more liquid.

I plan on starting the gym and increasing calorie intake, but not yet due to my job. But this doesn’t make any sense. I lost 8kg in 1 month and it just stops? Any advice? Am I eating too little? Not moving enough? I sit down a lot for my job but I also get up and walk around too.

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