Finding the right weight for my body!

I am a female, early 20s, 5ft tall and 150lbs right now. I am an active woman who is working to eat right even though I know that I am a bit over weight and I’m working on it with the CICO method - I ate terrible at college and now I’m paying for it.

My problem is, I really don’t know a healthy number to shoot for with weight loss. I can throw out an arbitrary number and aim for it but I would really like a real solid healthy goal.

Google says that I should be between 90 lbs and 115 lbs but that just doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Not only have I not been that weight since freshman year of high school but I also have a good amount of muscle (I’ve been doing CrossFit for 1.5 years). And none of the online calculators take into account someone that is working out 4-5 days a week and building/maintaining muscle.

Since muscle weighs more than fat I really have no idea where my body should actually be at weight wise.

If anyone has any advice, answers, ideas, calculators, etc it would be greatly appreciated!

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How can these meal plans be equal

F 19 70kg 5'6 estimated output 1500-1600 per day due to mental illness and meds basically making me a tortoise
Struggling to lose belly fat, all other body parts look ok.
Ive searched hundereds of meal plans all looking like these:
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/g4351/1200-calorie-diet-plan/
https://blog.fitbit.com/meal-plan-weight-loss/
But this is what my fitness tracker recorded food yesterday:
Tortilla chips: 250
Strawberries, cup: 49
White roll: 161
Ham slice: 34
Easter biscuit: 173
Mini eggs, 30g: 165
Penne pasta: 200
Water
A raw carrot i forgot to add that day
= 998
How can these plans have the same calories when most meal plans let you have like three pieces of meat a day with vegetables? Because when i search for calories for meat and veg its always tiny? Yet i can have normal non-hipster-fancy-named-salad foods for the same amount of calories? Im not not eating those foods to be edgy, its just they dont fill me up and i cant stomach egg/fish/avacado which seems to be all meal plan staples. Apart from a lack of protein and nutrition, should this impede weight loss?
Has anyone tried a version like mine? Should it work for weight loss?
Im only bothered about losing weight, i had a recent blood test showing that my level of vitamins, thyroid, liver function etc was fine. I dont appear to be losing weight eating like this, ive only started counting recently, but i dont see how im not if calorie output/input is all that matters.
Advice appreciated

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Do you ever just fantasize about being your goal weight?

I've been overweight since I was a small kid. "My mom put me on my first 'diet' at 8 years old" kind of young. As such, I've never seen my body as a thin person. Right now I'm F, 28, 5'6" 272 lbs (at last weigh in before this Corona nonsense closed my gym 2 weeks ago), very overweight. I've been on my weight loss journey for 2 months and I can already wear a size down in clothing.

But I can hardly wait to reach my goal weight of 150 and see what my body looks like at a healthier weight. I think about it all the freaking time. Being a weight where my mom won't wrinkle her nose up at me and make snide comments. A weight where I don't feel tired all the time. A weight where I can buy cute clothes and not circus tents.

I know this journey will probably take a year and a half to two years and that these lifestyle changes need to be permanent. I'm not looking forward to "finishing" or "going back to normal" because I know that is the wrong mindset, but damn I cannot wait to meet healthy me. I bet she's awesome.

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College Student and Doing a Weight Loss Experiment for Final Paper - Beginning a Weight Loss Journey from Being Obese

Hello all,

I am in my final semester of undergrad (yayyy! but booo online and no commencement ceremony). For one of my classes I need to write and experiment essay that involves any type of experiment and writing about the my thoughts about it, the journey, and the outcome. The essay style required is a memoir type essay. I decided to write about a weight loss experiment, as I have struggled with trying to achieve weight loss my whole life. In my high school years I would lose weight in an unhealthy manner. For example, I was in two sports at the same time. One was all star cheer and this was in combination with other school sports like track, softball, and high school cheer. During this time I would eat very few calories (one bite of a peanut butter sandwich, or a few frozen grapes, or maybe a handful of almonds) for the whole day doing two sports a day for about 4-6 hours. I lost a lot of weight this way, but it was unhealthy and complicated my life for a long period of time before I got help.

After going through this period of recovery, I realized I never really learned how to lose weight in a healthy way. I learned how to not go back to eating disordered habits, but I didn't learn how to moderate weight loss. Two semesters ago I relapsed and went back to old habits. I lost a lot of weight quickly (was officially underweight), but then a negative event happened in my life and I stopped restricting and gained all the weight back and then some over the last semester.

I am now officially obese, with a BMI of 31.2 (5 feet, 160lbs, female). I thought about going back to old habits and restricting to lose the weight, but I have decided that I would be more beneficial to lose weight in a steady, moderate, healthy way. I realize that this will be a major challenge for me, since with me weight loss is either extreme or it's nothing. I also thought, since I have to do an experiment for my class, why not do it on weight loss?

So, why am I writing this on Reddit? Because I will be doing two things with this experiment. I will be trying to lose weight in a way i have never done before, but i will also be looking for a support group and seek help on my own instead of help being forced on me (went to inpatient for my ED). Along with my poor eating habits, I also have poor social habits. This means that I am afraid to ask for help, share my thoughts, lean on other people for support, and be authentic with people out of social fear. I will be reading and contributing to this sub to look for inspiration, help, and supporting others and looking for support for myself.

I have a few questions about this sub, as this is my first time with posting on Reddit. Am I allowed to post daily about what I ate, how I am doing in my journey etc.? Other questions I have are do you have any suggestions or input on this experiment or how I should go about it? Is there a better place I could get support or am I in the right place? I do have a fitbit and will be tracking my exercise that way. I have a treadmill in my house and some exercise equipment and I think i should be doing a mix of cardio and strength training. Any ideas on how or what I should do in regards to anything I mentioned? I'm looking for any feedback or input on this experiment.

TLDR; Doing a weight loss experiment and writing about it for a final paper. Looking for feedback on anything, how to do it in a healthy way, any suggestion or thoughts really.

Thanks if you read any of this :D

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Struggling to work out daily calorie needs, please help!

I am a 28 year old female. 5’2 and I weigh just over 15st (210lb) I want to use quiet time in self isolation to sort out my calorie intake and get myself into a calorie deficit for losing weight. I am struggling with choosing a calorie amount for the deficit and would appreciate some help please.

TDEE website said my maintenance calories are 1,963. I was advised to try 1,200 calories a day. However, that seems wrong to me. If I drop to 1,200 a day, will my body plateau at some point in regards to weight loss? Then I’m worried that I won’t be able to drop down further.

Please can someone advise a calorie amount to start with, and then if I should drop down over time? Thank you!! (Id like to lose weight as quickly as possible)

tl;dr I’d really appreciate some advise when it comes to calorie deficit for losing weight. Thank you!

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I binged a salty snack and let it get to me.

So I had a little hiccup in my weight loss journey and had way more Doritos than I intended, mostly due to bringing the whole bag to the living room with me. The next couple days I was up 3lbs. It’s been going slow for me so it felt like I went backwards a month. I was so upset with myself for doing that, even though I’ve been working on being nice to myself. Well now after just a few more days I’m back down and it dawned on me that sodium leads to water retention. It was temporary water weight.

The thing that gets me is that I know this. So here’s a little reminder for those who may slip with a salty snack or have an increased sodium intake with the quarantine. One little slip up is not going to set you back a whole month. Remember to be nice to yourself and don’t let things like this get to you like I did.

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Lost 13kg (roughly 28 and a half pounds) and quite proud. Maybe I'm biased, but I don't see too much difference.

I started my weight loss weighing 93kg, and weighed in this morning at 79.8kg - the first time I've been in the 70s in a very long time. My dream goal is to reach 75kg. I'm not sure if this is allowed, so mods please remove if inappropriate, but I'm going to pop an Imgur link below with side by side comparisons of my starting and current weight (only front pics, was stupid enough to forget to take pics from other angles when I started). I hope I don't sound conceited, but I don't really see too much difference when I look in the mirror. I still feel like I'm as fat as I was back then. Anyway, sorry, I'm waffling.

https://i.imgur.com/lDGHCfr.jpg

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Edit: Sorry, just realised I didn't comment on my method of weight loss. I am 180cm tall. I used CICO since the end of December, aiming for 1500 calories a day. I tried going Keto for a couple of days, but realised it was too restrictive for me. Recently, I did a dry fast and lost almost 1kg in one day but I do not recommend as it was very difficult to achieve and I'm pretty sure I gained the weight back soon. Like everyone here always says, progression is not linear, so I've had a few bumps along the way, and quite a few days of binge-eating and thinking there's no point for this. I am doing this to improve myself, but I can't lie, aiming for a nice beach body by summer next year.

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