How to progress with weight loss when calories seem to be too low?

Hello all! This is my [17M] second attempt to drop weight through calorie counting. My attempt last year was a flop losing about 6lbs over the course of six weeks and then no loss for 3 months.

This time I swore it would be different. I am 149.8 lbs as of this morning and am 23% bf approximately. Pre quarantine I danced 4 hours a day and lost weight pretty easily on 2800 calories. Now that I'm more sedentary I'm starting to struggle. I'm using the TDEE tracker included with the training toolkit by Greg Nuckols. Next week it reckons that I should be consuming 1600 ish per day and I simply don't know if I can do that. I have always loved food and have tried 1800 before last year and it was horrendous - I felt like absolute crap In quarantine I aim to walk 3-4 miles 5-6 days a week on top of running the nsuns 4 day variant.

Can anybody offer any advice for dropping calories further without too much self torture?

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My transformation so far

Hey,

First post so if the formatting is bad, my apologies. I started the journey down after I had been medically disqualified from college football. It was my freshman year and I was a lineman. The weight was already up there but i was still in relatively good shape, running and lifting almost daily. I didnt shed the weight as I didn't want or need to while playing. Second semester. I got disqualified and stopped playing. I stopped training too but kept my eating habits. I was at about 280 and lost a good chunk of muscle while gaining fat. I think I was at about 310 at my heaviest but the only time i weighed myself, I was at almost 300. I came home from school and while living at home had cut down a little on the food so that is where I think I lost the 10 pounds.

I was chatting with my uncle and he invited me to join a weight loss competition. I said why not and talked with him about what to do and how to lose the weight. I knew I was fat and this was the extra push I needed to start losing. I was eating eggs, chicken, shrimp, and avocado. I kept my calories to 1200 a day roughly and was taking fat burners. (Now, I have not seen any results that point one way or another for how well they worked.) I shed 60 pounds in 3 months doing almost nothing. I had hit 240 and was feeling great about how I looked. I maintained between 240 and 260, staying mostly at 250 for about a year afterward. I started going to the gym and started lifting trying to regain strength and hopefully shed some more fat. I was making gains but didnt see any of the weight coming off but kept at it.

My brother had found his soulmate and so was planning his wedding. He is and was heavier than I ever was and I wanted him to be healthier and I know he wants to look good in his wedding photos. I challenged him to a competition between me and him and he accepted. I bulked a little bit and let myself go for about a month leading up to the start of the competition and weighed in at 270. After cutting calories down again to 1200, I started losing weight but felt weak, sluggish, and irritable all the time. I stopped counting calories and just started looking at what and how much I ate of things and found I was able to keep losing weight while still treating myself. The competition ended today and I weighed in at 225. I'm super excited and this weight is one that I never thought I would achieve. I'm planning on continuing to lose weight but don't have a goal weight in mind at the moment.

Diet is key. You can't outrun a fork.

Tranformation: http://imgur.com/a/KQF4Hpn

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Tips on losing weight during the quarantine? How do you cope?

Hey hi, longtime lurker first time poster here. I am not sure how to better phrase the title so I’ll try explain.

I have been going through my own weight loss journey since October and some health issues and events prevented me from losing weight faster, having only managed to lose 11kg. Now with the quarantine and gyms closed I have been stuck at my weight for a good month. I hadn’t done any exercises up until today since I figured maybe its because of the lack of movement. Having chatted with my dietitian and letting them know my diet plan was ineffective (but hey at least Im not gaining the weight back!) she didn’t have any other suggestions on how to keep on losing weight other than probably trying at home exercises.

My question is — do any of you face similar issues now with the quarantine and staying home? If yes, have you done something on your own and seen progress? Maybe you could share any training apps or workouts? Or any other eating habit tips?

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What should I do?

First of all, sorry for any grammar, spelling, or formatting errors as I am writing this on mobile.

Hello, I am 16 years old, 5'1 male who weighs 145lbs or 65 kg. I do 1hr on my stationary bike everyday. But I feel like this is not enough. Do I have to increase the time? Do I have to do different things types of exercise? I dont feel tired when I finish, I just sweat a lot.

After that, I take nutriboost (a type of drink) and some type of snack, like bread. Should I take these before working out, during, or after? which is better?

My dad (who is a cook) makes me eat big portions of meat, rice, and sometimes vegetables. I like eating, like alot. I finish my portions in about 5-10mins. Should I eat slower? I still feel hungry after so I eat some junkfood or take my siblings' share. What do I do to make the hunger go away?

I feel like I dont drink enough water, I only drink 2-3 bottles of 1000ml water, throughout the day. I am very stubborn, I only drink when I absolutely need to drink. Do I need to drink more? I read somewhere online drinking too much water is bad for the body so maybe thats why.

2 years ago, I was 78kg. In about 3 months (it was summer time so I worked out everyday), I lost 13 kg, and I stagnated. I was satisfied with the results so I stopped working out, school was also starting. Was this a rapid weight loss? I puked everything I ate during this time so that must be the reason why. I developed stretch marks.

I want to lose weight fast, like in the past, I know that losing weight takes time, discipline, and is a matter that shouldn't be rushed. But I am the type of person that wants to see immediate results.

What should I do?

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[NSV] I’m about to need a new belt!

I’ve struggled with weight my whole adult life. I grew up with a father who liked decadent and rich things but had very little appetite, and a mother who was raised with a scarcity mentality around food, which meant that I ate every last bit of whatever was put in front of me, often unhealthy indulgent foods. As an adult I haven’t been able to break those cycles and have slowly been gaining weight since I started high school. With the exception of a brief period of weight loss my first year in college (thanks to, weirdly, an unlimited meal plan in my freshman dorm, which meant that I had access to as much or little pre-prepped food across the spectrum of healthiness as I wanted), I haven’t been able to change.

This year on New Year’s Day I stood on the scale and realized that I’d gotten back to my heaviest weight of all time despite feeling like I’d “been good.” I was frustrated, ashamed of myself, and overall just unhappy. My SIL was on Noom so I started the free trial and after a couple of weeks realized it was no better than My Fitness Pal. Credit Noom, though, for helping me see that it was really just as easy as committing to making lifestyle changes and not being ashamed of looking at the scale every day or for breaking my calorie limit on occasion - I learned that as long as I’m keeping accountable I can be successful.

Now, three months later I’m down almost 25 pounds. I still have a ways to go, and although it’s been difficult seeing little or no progress sometimes I’m starting to see real physical changes. I’m back to fitting into Men’s Large shirts instead of XL, and today I realized that my old favorite, reliable belt is getting too big to wearmy old favorite, reliable belt is getting too big to wear!

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Picking up where I left off (Height: 5’2 HW: 279lb SW: 269lb LW: 229 CW: 235.8 )

Hi!!!! Okay so this post is honestly going to be long winded, I’m really sure how to use reddit lol so I’ll just put out my whole weight loss journey and my history with obesity and overeating.

I am a woman, 19, 5’2, Highest weight is 279lb, starting weight was 269lb, my lowest weight was 229, my current weight is 235lb. I’m 5lb down from my re-start weight from two weeks ago so yay!!

I have been fat since I was a baby, every person in my family is fat except for a few family members who have lost their weight and are in a normal BMI or a few pounds overweight. Unhealthy eating habits are instilled into our lifestyles as it’s normal in my family to make up with food, eat while we watch TV, eat first thing in the morning, eat before you go to sleep, etc. I grew up thinking this was normal, so I didn’t think anything of it so I still didn’t understand why I was fat all my life & just accepted that being fat was just how I was born to be like everyone else in my family.

I was obese all my childhood & in 5th grade I found out about eating disorders in school, and sadly envied those people who could be so thin while I always felt so huge, because I was not only fat but always the tallest in my class during that time. By the time I got to middle school, I was already 200+ at 4’11 and I felt terrible about myself, I’d never received any romantic attention, I had very few friends, and going into my emo phase....needless to say I was lonely and isolated at best. that really plummeted my mental health at the time and I ended up finding pro-anorexia & bulimia forums, tumblrs & instagram when that became popular. I ended up falling into a pattern of fasting, extreme calorie restriction (only 800-300 calories a day) and overall an unhealthy obsession with losing weight due to the fact that I hated myself felt I needed to be punished for being fat/ugly, etc. It was a very hard time for me, but it only became harder when I started to binge and purge, which almost killed me (if you are purging please don’t do it in the shower lol) All of this and I only ever got down to 215.

I slowly stopped binging, restricting, purging, abusing laxatives, etc. I never received help because I knew my mom couldn’t afford it and I was embarrassed that I was doing these things & scared of what she would think of me. I never told anyone this to this day except for a few people. I ballooned over the next year or two, up to my HW which was 279. Staying the summers with my grandparents who are 300+ & 400+lb and kept sodas, juice & junk food in the house constantly did not make it easy for me not to gain weight.

The fall of my junior year was when I randomly decided to get serious about my weight again and did low carb & moderate exercise, but I’d started using diet pills to make it fall off faster 3 months in after becoming obsessed with weight loss again. But I already lost about 20lb from my official starting weight in MFP at 269lb prior to starting them. I worked out everyday because I’d recently gotten a dog who needs lots of exercise. I started intermittent fasting with 16/8 and then moving on to fasting became obsessive for me too. In 6 months, I lost 50 lb from my highest weight and 40lb from my starting weight, so I was 229 and I could see a difference but i still felt that I was so fat and could never be normal. I also lost my period for 2 of those 5 months, which scared me because I knew what I was doing was counterintuitive to the health journey it started as. I started binging, stop counting calories, stopped weighing myself and gave up toward the end of my senior year, which was last year.

I recently have picked up where I left off and only gained +12 (I was 241lb 2weeks ago, now down to 235, I assume it’s water weight) in almost 2 years, it’s not good that I gained any, but when I started my weight loss journey and wanted to be healthy, I picked up good habits and have been working on getting my mental health to where it needs to be during. I started beauty school, graduating online in 2 weeks & going to university in the fall (assuming the world doesn’t end before then lol). I want to be healthy & normal, I want to fit in. I want to be able to walk at the same pace as my friend group without being out of breath and behind. I want to be able to walk to class without getting sweaty and out of breath. I want to be seen as a person & not invisible. I want to experience life as a normal person, not a physically and mentally ill obese person. I want to be genuinely healthy and happy.

TL;DR don’t give up on yourself & don’t give up on your health journey, if you fall off, you’re not a failure and a big part of me being able to start my weight loss journey again is to treat this not as a punishment for being fat but as a learning and healing experience. I want to be healthy and strong inside and out, so I believe everything I’ve been through has been to teach me & I’m still learning everyday <3

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What does my body actually look like?

Hello! I'm currently in the process of losing some weight. I (18 F) started at 215 (5' 10") and am currently at 200 (!!!) I've gotten a lot of encouragement from friends and sought a lot of support, and it has been great.

However, as I'm losing the weight and watching the number descend, I'm struggling to find a 'goal weight' and visualize what my body will look like. Let me explain.

Since the age of about 10, I have been overweight. In sixth grade, I would say I was easily 20 pounds heavier than any of the other classmates, but I was also 6 inches taller. I was always told that I was going to be tall (Dad 6' 2" and Mom 5' 11") and that I would grow into that extra weight. I never did.

Both of my parents are overweight. My dad, not so much 'overweight' as he just has some extra "fluff", but my mom is incredibly curvy (like I am) and is probably 60-65 pounds overweight, roughly.

Given my genetics, and my being overweight nearly my entire life, I've never seen my post-puberty body at a regular, 'healthy' weight given my height and body type. I have no idea what number I should be aiming for on the scale. 160? 130? I don't know at what point I won't be able to lose any more weight, so I have absolutely no way to visualize where I want to be at the end of my weight loss and what that number looks like.

I've got some extra chubbiness around my tummy, but I don't know what a healthy weight for myself is given my body and genetic 'deck', so to say.

Not necessarily looking for any answers, because I know it's different for everyone, but any input on this, personal experience, or knowledge?

Thank you all in advance!

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