Hi! Background: I'm 5' (152cm) and had lost a little weight from 140lbs to 131lbs in October, then the stress of university work kicked in from November where I did not keep track of calories and ate whatever, especially over Christmas. After Christmas my weight was back up to 140lbs but of course some of that was water weight etc.
From the 1st January until the end of that month, I had been eating between 1000-1200 calories every day (apart from maybe 4 days of the month). I had aso started working out doing HIIT 3x a week. I intermittment fast every day. I have a food scale that I weigh everything on and the only things I don't weigh are sugar (which is just sugar in my tea and on cereal) and butter on bread. During that whole time period I ate twice a day and knew exactly everything that I ate. I had noticed about 3 weeks into January I hadn't been losing much if anything but decided to keep doing what I was doing. I did go down to 135lbs roughly which was probably mostly water weight, bloat etc.
But now, it's half way through Feburary and I'm at my wit's end with putting in this effort and not losing weight and it's really not making sense to me. Although for these past 2 weeks I haven't been paying as much attention to my calories every single day and honestly I'm just so discouraged. On days I don't work out, I usually (unless I'm at home all day) walk 5-13k steps. I'm a BIG believer in CICO and I don't really fall for reasons why people aren't losing weight because it's almost always down to them overestimating their caloric intake. Even when I'm counting calories I usually overestimate some calories (like butter on bread). I really don't think I'm overestimating my calories, during the whole of January I was eating mostly 1000cals to make up for calories I might have missed.
I'm currently at 133lbs and usually in 6 weeks people achieve a lot more. Throughout my teenage years I had an eating disorder so I'm very familar with weight loss (as odd as that sounds). I thought about maybe upping my calories for a while to see if it helps but even then over the course of 6 weeks, if I wasn't eating enough I still would have lost something because that's just how it works. During my workout today I honestly felt so exhausted that I had to skip some exercises because it took too much out of me to do them. All of this is kind of bringing back a terrible eating disorder mindset where I feel like I need to be eating 500 calories again just to lose weight. I only ate about 2 hours ago and I'm hungry again. I have checked my TDEE which says (depending on which site) 1500-1700 calories a day which seems like too much for someone my height (although it might make me feel better) but still if that is my TDEE and I'm eating under that, I should be seeing results?
I know it sounds a but obsessive but it's so frustrating to be putting in the effort and not seeing the results.
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