Just want to share in the only place I can that I’ve reached a goal weight I thought was impossible

I’m a 5’5 female and was 156 at my heaviest. Today I stepped on the scale and for the first time since middle school the number was under 130. I still feel overweight but I keep punching the numbers in and I’m starting to believe it when they say I’m not.

I know it doesn’t sound that drastic but I honestly was in a really fucking dark place 15 pounds ago. People really do treat you differently when you’re thinner. I still have a lot of body issues and I’m terrified I’ll gain it all back but I am really starting to feel pretty. I can’t tell anyone I know irl about my weight loss because I don’t want to trigger anyone who might have an ED and I don’t know it but I thought this might be the one place I can share.

If someone had explained CICO to me sooner my life would have been so much easier.

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Weight Loss Plateau

This is my first post here!

I've been on a weight loss journey for roughly 10 months. I had started at 195 lbs and I am a 28 year old 5'7" male. I have lost nearly 50 lbs and I am currently at 147 lbs with 10-14% body fat. I've been weight lifting on and off since I was 16 years old, and recently got back into it in the past 10 months. My weight loss had been consistent up until 1.5-2 months ago.

I had started losing weight at 1700 calories when I started, and readjusted multiple times. I have been eating 1400-1450 calories per day and I have not been able to get under 147 lbs for 2 months or so now. I train 4 days per week following a PPL routine (Once per week) and a calves/ab day.

The mean of multiple online calculators of my TDEE is 1935 calories, including a sedentary lifestyle (Desk job) and I had entered 30 minutes of activity 3 times a week (For the sake of accuracy, although I go to the gym religiously 4 days a week). This would mean a 500 calorie deficit per day, or 3500 per week - weekend where I eat up to TDEE, so roughly 2500 calorie deficit per week. I do not drink soda nor alcohol, and I do not binge eat although my cheat meal typically consists of 1 large meal on Saturday (Calorie counted to under my TDEE of 1935 calories) or a home cooked meal which lasts Saturday and Sunday (Totaling less than my TDEE).

I am curious as to why I have plateaued. I have started eating at 1710 calories per day as of 10/1/2019 to attempt to break the plateau and up-regulate my hormones in case that is the cause. My days prior to the upping of calories consisted of the following (This is daily, and consistent):

1 Quest bar - 180 calories

2 slices Nature's Own Life - Whole Grain Sugar Free Bread - 100 calories

Myogenix Aftershock protein - 280 calories

Smoked Deli Turkey - 4 slices - 120 calories

1 slice of Sargento swiss cheese - 70 calories

1 Dannon - Lite and fit Blueberry Yogurt - 80 calories

Oatmeal - Apples & Cinnamon - 2 packets - 260 calories (Just switched to lower sugar version of this on 10/1/2019)

Grilled chicken breast - 4 oz - 150 calories

Uncle Ben's - Whole Grain Ready Rice, 1/2 package (1 cup) - 190 calories

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This works out to 1430 calories, 191 carbs, 26 fat, 133 protein

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I will be eating at 1710 calories for the next 2 weeks to attempt to break this plateau. Does anybody have any insight as to why I have stalled on my weight loss? If it is something glaringly obvious, please let me know. I am not too concerned as I am beyond happy with my progress (10-14% body fat) but I am curious as to why this has happened. I have searched online, but typically it is stated that people are miscounting calories. I have also recently had a blood test and everything has come back normal with testosterone at 550ish. Thyroid hormones have come back in the normal range as well. I have in fact noticed slight progress in the mirror, but not 2 months worth of progress.

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Thanks!

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Upping my calories has made eating at deficit so much easier

27(F) / 5’3” / CW: 154lb

The NHS BMI checker recommends I eat 1500-1900 cal daily (“to lose 1-2lb a week, eat at the lower end of the scale”). For several months, I was eating...or at least, attempting to eat, 1500 cal a day.

It went...inconsistently. I’m sure a lot of you know the struggle. Some days you feel great and like eating well is easy peasy, other days you’re feeling hungry and restricted and you’re bitterly clawing back whatever calories you can from your pre-logged dinner in order to make room for dessert.

I was losing weight on 1500, but I was also finding that I was binging maybe once every week-and-a-half purely out of frustration.

I came to realise that I might be being too harsh with 1500cal. I know 1500cal is something of a go-to number for women looking to lose weight, and as a short AFAB-nonbinary person 1500 felt like it should have been fine. I mean, it was doable, but somedays I was having to fight myself so hard and could not keep food out of my head, and of course I was working against myself with the binges as well.

So I changed my MFP goals, switching my Activity level from Sedentary to Active, and changing my Goal to “lose 1lb a week” instead of lose 2lb. My daily cals went up to 1760, which is still roughly in the middle of the ballpark offered to me by the NHS website.

The trade-off, I decided, was that I was going to live up to that “Active” marker. I’ve been more consistent with the gym, because I know I’ll be losing less through my diet and want to keep my progress going.

The first week of eating 1760, I still lost 2lb. It’s too early to tell exactly how my weight loss has been impacted by the change: the second week I was back up 2lb, but it’s shark week and I definitely haven’t eaten 7000 surplus calories since last week, so I know the scale’s a lying motherfuck.

But the MENTAL change has been awesome. I’m still eating at deficit, albeit a smaller one than before, but I’ve felt great these two weeks. Staying in the green on MFP has been easy. I’m no longer depriving myself of Calcium like I was before because I have more room for a daily serving of milk and that tasty but high calorie friend, cheese. I still get hungry towards the end of my shift, as you do, but I haven’t been obsessing over food like I have been.

If I haven’t prelogged all my meals for the day, I don’t stress over what I’m going to eat later in the day, because I know I have the wiggle room to make filling, healthy meals AND have a small dessert, without having to slither off as many calories as I can to make it fit. ...And working out more has been a breeze because I HAVE MORE ENERGY FOR IT.

Taking longer to reach my goals is fine if it means I can let my healthy eating take a backseat in my life, instead of obsessing about it or feeling chained by it. If you’re eating at a large deficit and you too have been feeling stressed or frustrated over your diet—if you’re in it for the long-haul and are okay with maybe hitting your goals a little slower, I’m just saying MAYBE consider giving yourself a break and upping your calories a tad. And then throw your sneakers on and go crush that Stairmaster.

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boobs shrunk with weight loss, will they come back with weight gain?? Please help:(

Hi. I always had body image issues, and this has been a tough one to wrap my head around. 2 years ago, I was a 32D cup. I lost about 15-20 pounds since then, and now I am a B cup. It has been killing my confidence, and now I find myself depressed over this loss. I wanted to lose weight, but not at this expense. If I was to gain the weight back, how likely is it that it will return to my breasts, given that they were bigger before? Does anyone have experience with this!?

I am 24 years old now, and was 22 when I had the body I wish I still had.

Please help! I know these are first world problems, but it kills my confidence. My boyfriend says he doesn't care and that he loves my body, but I know he's just being nice.

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I can't seem to stop eating.

At my lowest, I was down to 140 pounds, and man, did I look great. I felt better about myself, too, but I still thought of myself as fat, which I think was ultimately detrimental to my weight loss. Since August of last year, I've really struggled with my eating and have put 35 pounds back on. It's humiliating, and I'm ashamed of myself. I'm getting married next year and bought a wedding dress that doesn't fit me right now but will with some weight loss, hopefully, but it's really freaking me out that I'll be fat for my wedding. There are several reasons that could be contributing to my eating, such as the insertion of a copper IUD, a 2-hour daily commute to work, the completion of my Master's, starting a depression medication, and several more things. I'm seeing a therapist, but it's been more focused on me being happy with myself, not necessarily why I'm struggling to eat well when I was successful on CICO for over a year, and she is leaving her practice, so this will probably be it for awhile. Plus, it's expensive, and I'm on a tight budget. Ultimately, I guess these are just excuses, but I feel like if I figure out why I'm overeating so badly, I might be able to switch it back off and get to where I want to be. I don't know how to do that though and would be interested in hearing others' input who have had something similar and successfully turned it around. I'm sad and scared and angry that I'm here and just want to be back to where I was.

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Using my plant wishlist to meet weight loss goals

Not sure how much of an overlap there is here between plant people & people wanting to lose weight, but I saw this idea in one of my plant groups and wanted to share it! I lost ~40 lbs between winter 2017 and summer 2018, fell off the wagon hard and gained some back that winter. I'm still at 25 lbs lost, but the feeling of "failure" from gaining back lost weight (again) has been keeping me from having the confidence to get back on the wagon.

I'm really into plants and have 13 rare, expensive plants that I want but can never bring myself to drop so much money on. I feel too guilty. I've made a deal with my husband (he doesn't care if I buy these at all, it's a principle thing for me) that for every 10 lbs I lose I can buy one of these plants. I'm only looking to lose 80 more lbs at most so I will probably switch over to every 5 lbs towards my goal weight. I am super motivated to "earn" my dream plants!

I made a wishlist with pictures to look at when I need motivation

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I’ve lost 91 pounds and look so different, but it’s the little differences that mean the world to me.

My start weight was 230 pounds. I hit the 130s a few days ago. That puts me at a 91-pound weight loss at 18 years old. I look drastically different, of course. I’m no longer round and hiding all my rolls behind baggy shirts and leggings that awkwardly fit. I have an actual figure, and the words “petite” and “skinny” have been used to describe me.

So I’ve lost almost 100 pounds in 13 months. That’s a huge change! But I just noticed today that it’s the little things that are incredibly noticeable. Sure, to others, the biggest change is definitely the way I look, but to me, it’s the tiniest of things.

Stairs. I began losing weight early of last August. Later that month, I had a family emergency and my mom and I went to stay at her godmother’s house while we visited our sick family member. I live in a single-story house right now, so I don’t have to climb stairs, but my mom’s godmother let us stay in her guest bedroom upstairs. Now, I had already lost 10 pounds by this time, but I was still 220. That’s big. I also have asthma. Climbing those damn stairs at 220 pounds was a challenge. I could go down just fine, getting up sucked though! It wasn’t to the point that I had to stop at the middle landing and take a breather, but I was definitely short of all breath at the top. I had to do this several times a day because, well, I was staying there and all my stuff was upstairs. I couldn’t just hang downstairs all the time. And it was just ONE flight! Flash forward to today. A year and some months later. I got a job working in an Amazon facility. I have to consistently climb four flights of stairs each way to get to my station and then back down four flights to get to the break room. Several times a day. What a surprise to me that I’m able to do it with absolutely zero problems! I can even run up and down them if I’m in a hurry. And I’m never out of breath doing it! I also can walk a total of 21 miles in a week at the park.

Not worrying if I fit into a space. I was never HUGE huge, but I was definitely large and round. I took a trip in June 2017 and had to take a plane. Luckily, I still had an inch on the seatbelt and didn’t need an extender, but I was dangerously close! I took another plane ride this August and had at least a foot left on the belt!

Clothes. I wore the same stuff over and over at my heaviest because it’s tough to find cute clothes that would fit my 230-lb, 5’2 stature. I wore baggy tees and leggings all the time. I hated clothes shopping. My wardrobe was nonexistent. Once the weight melted off, I threw out my huge clothes (save for a few shirts I can now wear as dresses) and now my closet is bursting with bright colors and all types of different styles. In fact, I consistently have to donate clothes because my style is always changing now that I’m free to explore and wear what I want.

Compliments, intentional or not. I always got the “your face is pretty.” Nobody really ever said anything about my body, maybe because they were trying to be nice and not draw attention to it. Now that I’m a normal weight, I hear a lot of “you’re so petite!” and “you’re so cute!” Compliments flow in like a river. I don’t strive or try for them, but you can bet that it feels good when a coworker compliments me. I hardly ever received compliments at my heaviest.

So yes, I am literally half the girl I was before, but I’m twice as confident. It really is the small things that make it so worthwhile. Of course my health is the number one reason I lost the weight, but the little differences in my everyday life are important, too. No change is ever too small. If it impacts you in any way, it’s big. It’s important. Love yourself and all your changes. Not just the numbers on the scale or the progress pics. Everything.

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