Any downside to eating significantly under TDEE?

I’m 21 M 6’0” and about 195lbs currently. I know I want to be around 165lbs, so I have about 30 pounds to lose. I am now very much enjoying a more active lifestyle after getting adapted to working a 40 hour a week office job, but the past 6-7 months I would eat horrible foods and never exercise.

My questions stems around the downsides of eating way under my TDEE to see faster results. I know that many people burn out from this, or can’t find a happy medium once they hit their goal weight. However, I have absolutely no trouble running 5 times a week and eating around 1200 calories per day. Mentally and physically I feel great and have been sustaining this for about 1.5ish months. This has actually been such a great thing for my mental health, because I have been seeing results more rapidly and every day I feel like I’m accomplishing something challenging myself to meet these goals.

Will rapid weight loss leave me with an increased chance of stretch marks/lose skin, or will this affect my metabolism in some way? Or any other side effects that I’m not considering?

Thanks!

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Can’t thank this community enough!

I hit a low-point towards the end of last year/beginning of this year that really put my personal health in perspective. I’ve always been overweight but never paid too much attention to it until I went to the Dr & had my weight taken: 326lbs. It’s the biggest I’d ever been and completely ruined my self-perception. After cutting as much unnecessary sugars & calories from my diet as I could at once (no more cokes, black coffee only, etc.) & increasing my activity level, I dropped to 280 over about four months. Then we hit the dreaded plateau. About a month ago I found this thread & through trial & error have used advice shared here to start losing again. I’m down to 262 & can’t thank this community enough for that!! I had almost given hope on continuing towards my goal.

TLDR: weight loss journey started well, hit plateau, nearly lost hope, advice shared here has me back on track. Thank you beautiful people so much!

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Thoughts on losing 75 lbs, and gaining sex appeal...

Hi Reddit!

I've been a long time lurker, and was waiting to make an official "progress" post later, but something has been on my mind lately...

I started my journey at 290 lbs, and as a single 30 y/o woman (5'10''), this weight was doing ZERO favors for my sex/love life. Mostly because I felt I looked gross, so that manifested in me actually looking gross, and surprise! People don't think that's sexy, and I don't blame them.

Even though I'm still a bit far from my GW (160s) at my current 215lbs, I have to admit, I'm starting to look...well, good! And yes, I could sit here and yammer on about look good, feel good, yada yada, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.

Lately I've been noticing a lot of attention from the opposite sex, and I'm just struggling to understand it, and process it. I always thought that I would be "bitter" after weight loss, and feel sort of hardened that men who ignored me at 290 are noticing me as I become more conventionally attractive. However, I'm not feeling resentful at all. I'm feeling very validated by this attention, and it's kinda fucking with my head.

As a looooong time forever alone lady, I'm now starting to entertain the fact that I may be someone people actually desire, and it's scary and new.

If you have any thoughts, or ideas on how to manage attention (particularly the sexy kind) or just advice in general on how to embrace the sexy, haha, please share! This is an area of my weight loss journey that I hadn't planned on dealing with yet.

P.S. I'm actively in therapy! But I'd still love to hear from folks who have gone through this issue first-hand.

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Was super excited for vacation food, ended up disappointed

I had an interesting experience last weekend and I'm wondering if anyone else can relate to it or would like to share similar experiences.

Six months ago, I began my weight loss journey and have lost 45 lbs so far. Two months ago, I moved hundreds of miles away to a new state to start my career. Last year, and every year before that that I can remember, I would go to the state fair in my old state and absolutely pig out on all the fair foods: funnel cake, deep fried oreos, turkey legs, smoothie in a pineapple, deep fried red velvet cheesecake on a stick, etc. I'm also really into renaissance festivals, and I would go to the renaissance festival in my old state around the same time.

This year, unfortunately, I didn't get to go to my old state's fair, and my mom and I planned a vacation to a renaissance festival that's bigger than the one in my old state. We went last weekend. Since that was my only vacation this year (for financial reasons) and was planned months in advance, I had mentally prepared myself to basically take a break from my healthy eating habits and gave myself permission to eat whatever I wanted at the festival. I was looking forward to eating the types of fair food I had always enjoyed at my old state's fair.

Well, it was a huge letdown. Being a renaissance festival, the food wasn't on par with the state fair. There were no bacon wrapped grilled cheeses, no deep fried garlic cheese curds, and the red velvet funnel cake just tasted like disappointment. I felt like I had hyped myself up so much - about the food specifically - and yet the reality sucked. I made my mom walk all around the festival with me to see the different foods available, and then she had to listen to me complain that there was nothing I wanted to eat. They had deep fried oreos, but I've realized in the past few months that I don't even like oreos - I just used to eat them because they were available - that I didn't bother with them. I basically just ended up eating a bunch of chocolate covered strawberries.

On the plus side, I did voluntarily share food with her for the first time ever. We did really like smores on a stick, and I didn't want all those calories, so she got to taste foods she never would have ordered herself (she is very fit and active, former triathlete and figure competitor, and has been my cheerleader throughout this journey). She also bought a new leather dress and it fit me too, which was awesome because my mom has always been at least a couple sizes smaller than me.

Anyway, I'm wondering whether anyone else has ever hyped up the food at some event, given themselves permission to indulge, and then realized it was just disappointing?

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How do you combat the self-anger as you lose weight?

Pretty much the title. I've struggled with my weight all my life but with a wedding coming up I figured now is as good of a time as any to get really serious. I've been doing CICO, meal prepping, making healthy swaps, working out more consistently, all of that. And I'm seeing a difference! My waist is smaller, my thigh gap is coming back, my face is slimming out, etc. My fiance has remarked how he's seeing a difference which is so motivating.

But what I can't shake is the anger I feel for myself for getting to this point in the first place. Every time I look in the mirror and see something I'm happy with, I instantly notice the flab under my arms and will just poke and prod it in disgust or frown at my hip dips or the fat behind my knees. I started developing stretch marks on my stomach and I can't help but look at them and think "look what you did to yourself, that'll never go away and now you're flawed". Every single day, the moment I start feeling happy about my weight loss journey and, dare I say, PROUD of my progress so far, I almost immediately feel ashamed instead.

Do others feel this way? How did you overcome that feeling? Do I need therapy?

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[UPDATE] Five Months In, 66 Pounds Down

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/brp523/i_dont_want_to_die_before_im_50/

So the last five months have been a hell of a trip. I've managed to drop 66lbs and for the first time in years I'm under 300lbs. I'm hoping to never go back. One thing I don't think I realized was just how terrible I felt all the time at 357lbs. I was always tired and whenever I had free time I felt like I had to spend it resting.

So now at 291lbs I already feel like I have so much more energy than I did. I'm going out and taking walks not because I feel like I'm needing to push myself, but because I have energy to burn now and genuinely have begun to enjoy getting outside and moving. Plus, I already feel so much more comfortable in my own skin. At my highest weight, I don't think I fully realized how uncomfortable being in public made me and that when I didn't have to be out for work, I was making myself into a hermit to avoid being seen. I felt like a bull in a China shop everywhere I went; like I took up too much space and was an inconvenience and got in the way. I've still got a long road ahead, but I already look and feel immensely better than I did.

I'm at the point now where I'm getting a couple of comments a day at work about how good I look and how much weight I've lost. On the one hand, having your weight loss become to the talk of the office is a lot of pressure, on the other hand its also motivation. I'm pretty sure I've inspired several coworkers to start as well. I'm hearing a lot of them talking about what they're doing to lose weight now as well, and it feels good to think maybe I indirectly helped.

So to anyone who has 100+ pounds to lose and is feeling overwhelmed, trust me, it is worth it. You'll start feeling the benefits long before your goal weight. At 291, no one is going to accuse me of being skinny or in good shape, but I don't feel almost sick all the time like I did at 357. I don't feel like I have to stay cooped up in my apartment all the time because I'm too uncomfortable being in public anymore. I don't feel like obesity is what defines me to other people like it did when I was 357lbs. The hardest part is finding a system that works for you, and being kind to yourself so mistakes don't derail you.

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Losing weight when you have stuff going on

Hey! I lurk around here, mainly because I'm inspired by everyone's commitment and achievements.

I wanted to ask for advice about losing weight when you have Stuff going on in your life. Have people put their weight loss on hold while they're focusing on other goals, or dealing with personal difficulties? Or have you found a way to keep going, and if so, how?

In my case it's a little bit of everything. I want to lose the 10 pounds I've gained this year (I'm 145, 5'4, F). It just feels so hard to focus on it. Firstly my depression has flared up pretty badly, which makes everything difficult and it's just generally hard to get my stuff together enough to eat right. I usually work 9.5 hr days. I'm learning to drive as a mature learner and I'm putting a lot of time into it because I want to be able to drive asap. And then there's some family stuff I don't really want to talk about on the internet.

I've been thinking of putting my weight loss goal on hold until things calm down. But maybe that's weak? Or maybe it's not as hard as I think and it's the depression brain telling me I can't do it? Idk, would welcome advice on whether to start or wait a bit.

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