So, I'm posting this on behalf of my wife. She's in her mid twenties, 5'3 and weighs 164 lbs as of this morning. Weight has always been something that she feels self conscious about. When we first started dating about three and a half years ago, she weighed about 145. We've kind of start/stopped dieting/exercising together literally the entire time we've been together, probably about once every month or two. Typically she will lose several pounds and kind of fizzle out a few weeks later and get off track. Recently, she weighed herself in at about 168 lbs and I think this really made her feel uncomfortable and frustrated with herself.
She decided she wanted to do something drastic and so has been eating between 1000-1200 kcal/day (I'll talk about this in a second) now for the past three and a half weeks or so. Like I stated before she's down to 164 lbs, but she gets discouraged very easily seeing that some days she weighs up and other days she weighs down. She tracks her weight with an app every day and it gives her a chart to show her progress.
When she first told me how little calories she was going to eat, I was a bit apprehensive. On one hand, I understand wanting to take some seemingly drastic steps to get where you want to be in life, but on the other hand 1000 kcal just doesn't sound very healthy or sustainable. At the same time she's been doing this, I've jumped on board and restricted my calories to around 1400-1700 a day. I started at 180 about the same time she began, and I'm down to 169 today. Two weeks ago I started doing IF 16:8 and I feel like it's really helped me to not feel deprived. My wife however is feeling pretty down about having only lost essentially a pound a week.
So, if you're still with me at this point, I just have a couple of questions: 1) Am I right in assuming that a lb of weight loss a week really isnt that bad, even if it does feel slow? 2) Could she perhaps not be losing weight very quickly because she is actually eating too few calories and her body seems to be adapting to that? What about a day where she doesn't really worry about calories, like once a week? 3) What can I, as her husband do to be supportive and help? I tend to not get too discouraged about things in general, and I like to keep trying new approaches to a problem if one thing doesn't work out. I think my wife, however, tends to be really hard on herself and ends up feeling defeated when something doesn't work out how she wants it to.
Ok, I'll stop writing here. I apologize if this all sounds disjointed. I just wanted to give some background. Thanks for listening!
TL/DR - Wife is eating at big caloric deficit (1000-1200kcal) each day and losing weight slowly (4lbs and about as many weeks) and is discouraged. Any tips?
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