hey reddit
im having some trouble losing weight. for background, i have always been an athlete--i played basketball and ran track in high school and my weight always hovered around 135lbs (im a 5'7 female). then when i started college i gained 10 pounds and got really worried. so, the following summer i went home and lost it all and then some, coming in at 132 lbs--an all time low since i reached my peak height. i lost those 13 pounds really fast by eating 800 calories a day for 2-3 weeks and working out every morning for 1-2 hours for about a month (i realize now this wasnt healthy, but i didnt know anything about weight loss back then). at the gym i would do sprints and weights--pretty heavy weights too, i might add. then i increased the calories bit by bit so i could eat more but kept working out every morning, without failure. i eventually brought my calorie intake up to 1400 cals a day when i had to go back to school and i knew tracking/weighing food would be harder. long story short, i kept the weight off and kept around 1400 a day for a few months, then eventually weighed myself and all of a sudden i was at 137. so i tried to eat 800 calories again for a week but it didn't work. i lost a little weight, but it definitely didnt get me back down to 132 so i did a weird yo-yo thing of trying to eat 800 calories most of the time but probably not doing a great job. i eventually got home again for quarantine at around 140 lbs and started up the 800 calorie diet again with at home workouts every morning (i have weights at home). but whereas the last time i did a strict 800 calories (i weigh my food religiously) over the previous summer i lost 13 pounds no problem, this time during quarantine, i barely lost 3 pounds and then plateaued. i had done 800 calories a day with workouts for 2-3 weeks and couldnt budge off 137. so i tried cheat days to spark my metabolism/get a whoosh effect--i thought maybe it was water weight. did those cheat days for a few weeks but nothing changed. so i increased my calories to 1200 but still the weight didnt budge. then i went up to 1500 and started gaining. since then, i decided i probably fucked with my metabolism so much that i just need to eat food and potentially gain weight in order to go back to losing weight at a smaller deficit. but honestly, im eating around 1800-2000 calories a day (granted i am not exercising nearly as much as i used to because i wanted to give my body a break) and gaining weight pretty rapidly. i went from an average of 139 last week to 142.5 this week. ive been trying to find people who have experienced stuff like this but when i look at "starvation mode" on reddit (what i assume happened because i plateaued on 800 calories for nearly a month and a half and then never lost weight even when i increased calories to 1200/1500/1800), people say its just fat logic and i just need to eat less and exercise more...im not sure what to do. i don't want to gain weight if i dont have to and would rather just go back down to 137 but im not sure how. i ate 1000 calories for a week about a month ago and barely lost anything. any suggestions?
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