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hi everyone, I need some advice on losing weight. I am 30 years old, weigh 124kg and am 164cm/5'4. This leads to a bmi of 46. As a kid i was always on the chubbier side, but my mom kept me in check and ensured i was never obese. She made sure i didn't eat too much and spent time with me coming up with diet plans and learning which foods were fine to eat and which might best be minimized in order to lose weight. All this meant that i usually ate less than my classmates but was somehow still a little heavier. When i left to live on my own i got fat quite quickly. Of course, i wasn't as rigid as my mom when it came to eating and also to be fair enjoyed the freedom to decide for myself what i wanted to eat. I think i gained about 30-35kg over the course of a year.
Since then i have made multiple attempts to lose weight, some more succesful than others. Over the last 8 years i have succesfully lost about 10kg three times. After which I can retain the loss for give or take 2 years and then let myself go a bit too much to the point where i regain the 10kg. The first two times were done using very restrictive diets of between 800-900 kcal a day. After the weight loss i would then pretty much retain the weight by eating normal/what i want (including fast food on some nights) for 5 days a week and then restricting myself for the other two days. This worked fine for me and i was pretty happy doing so.
Now i have lost about 13kg again while being less restrictive because i don't really think such a large calorie deficit is healthy and i remember feeling fatigued when i did it. This 13kg has been lost with a diet of about 1300kcal a day (and eating enough protein). However, i would really like to lose more this time around. I have set my sights on a weight of 100kg, which is still obese of course but would already be a big deal for me and who knows if i can then keep it going.
The problem is that i feel like the progress right now is too slow. I thought 1300 kcal was still definitely a deficit, because my base metabolic rate should be around 1966kcal. 1300kcal should make me lose over a kg a week. but often that just isn't the case. progress is slow with quite a few days where i just dont lose anything at all. I also notice that whenever there is any notion of going out to eat i instantly gain roughly a kg that day. For example, when we went for some chinese with my family last week i gained a kg and then spent the next three days making up for it. I of course know chinese isnt healthy and is maybe best avoided, but i just notice that it hits me way harder than for example my husband or than it did when i am not actively dieting. When i am not dieting i can eat quite a bit without gaining weight. This single bad meal makes the whole week not completely a loss but certainly not the result i hope for.
I have been to the doctor to have my thyroid checked to make sure there was nothing wrong there and the test results showed that it worked fine. Do you have any advice for me? i am contemplating just not going to any family dinners anymore for the foreseeable future to see if it can make the difference i need. On the other hand i wonder if that is really sustainable for the amount of time i would need to accomplish my goal. Restricting even more is of course also a possibility but i do really wonder if thats healthy. Please send help and advice, thank you!
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