Cutting to 1,000 calories a day

So recently I started experience weird issues with my body that I have never experienced. So I chalked it up to me being overweight with that in mind I decided to take drastic measures and cut my eating habits. But I feared it wasn’t enough so I decided to restrain myself to 1,000 calories a day. I have been successful for about a week now going strong on week two and my family has commented that I have been losing weight. But the problem now is that I’ve been reading that for long term weight loss it isn’t sustainable. But despite numerous articles and papers I’m hesitant to believe it since I had a friend that had surgery to reduce his stomach size and he eats about 800 or less calories a day. In the three months or so since he had his surgery he has lost considerable amount of weight. So I wanna keep to this diet despite the amount of research against but I’m just not sure I don’t want my efforts to be in vain. So any advice?

For the record my friend and I were about similar weight he was 400+ pounds and I was shy of 370 pounds. Not sure if that information helps.

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Switching from losing to gaining intentionally is terrifying.

I’ve been maintaining my weight around 170lbs for the past few months and now want to make a conscious decisions to build muscle but the prospect of literally putting weight on is terrifying to me. I feel like I’m one bad stretch away from starting to balloon up to my old weight.

I know that won’t happen overnight, but I’ve lost a significant amount of weight in my life a couple times before and regained it.

A couple days ago, I realized I went to the gym for the first time in my life without weight loss being a primary motivation for being there.

I know muscle weight doesn’t grow rapidly, but I will be putting on water and probably even some fat during the process of eating in a surplus. My plan isn’t to go eat like crazy, but to eat slightly above maintenance (targeting about 2700-3000 calories a day).

For those that want to build muscle after significant weight loss, what strategies have you used to deal with the psychology of scale increases? What have you noticed differs compared to people who try to put on muscle who were never obese.

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Began exercising and eating healthy but I'm gaining weight?

I began my weight loss journey early July and honestly it's a bit upsetting seeing that I'm putting on weight rather than losing.

I'm recovering from an ED (About 3 months now) and changed my diet completely. Since I've been on the road to recovery I regularly see a dietician who assists me with my diet plan.

Cut out all sugar, high sodium foods, fast food, bread and pasta. To be honest, I feel a whole lot better and I go to the gym every morning after work (I work overnights) for an hour. Then before work I do a 30 minute at home workout which consists of sit-ups, squats, burpees, planks, mounting climbers, jumping jacks and I lift weights as well.

To be clear, I haven't gained a whole lot of weight, maybe about 3-5 pounds from where I was. I'm not sure if this is just water weight or my bodies way of telling me that its temporary going through something then I'll start to see the progress I'd like?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

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Struggling with the numbers

Hi everyone! I've been following and reading this sub daily since I started this weight loss attempt in April, and it has been the only place where I've felt understood through reading everyone's stories and updates. I apologize in advance for the long post.

Even as a young girl, I've always been a bit chubby, but it was usually balanced out by the fact that I am really tall and have a more athletic build. I knew this and decided in high school to never know the number of what I actually weigh to save myself from fixating on that and instead focusing on how I feel. That was a fine system, I would always just guestimate if I needed, until February when I had to complete a physical for a new job and self-report the data...meaning I had to know what my weight was. I was shocked to find out that I was only 2 pounds shy of 200 pounds and officially in the overweight category. In retrospect, I'm not surprised because I hadn't been feeling good about myself for awhile, but seeing the number was a wake up call.

Cue Covid, getting sent home from college, etc. and I decided enough was enough. Until mid-June I was doing really well with CICO, tracking in MFP and doing bi-weekly weigh ins, but I started noticing that I was obsessing over calorie counting and deficits in a really minute and unhealthy way to where it was consuming pretty much all of my day, so I decided to take a step back and stop counting so exactly as well as stopping the weigh-ins. I also started weight training again around this time, which has resulted in muscle build up and toning, which I'm happy with but I think has affected my actual weight loss (as in number going down on the scale), which I noticed after doing my first weigh-in in over a month this past week.

I'm feeling really down about this derailment in what was a really solid method for me. I am conflicted on what is best for my mental health. CICO and seeing the weight go down is important for keeping me motivated and happy, but not obsessing over every single calorie is also important. There may not be a clear resolution to this, but I just wanted to share this unexpected conflict that I'm facing in my journey. No matter what, I'm determined to do this healthily! 15 pounds down and proud!!

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UK obesity strategy and what you would suggest

So the UK is going to push for everyone overweight/obese to lose weight through various tactics.

If you were writing the policy, what 3 things would be your top priority to help people like you?

Mine would be:

1- free gym membership with childcare

2- subsidised fruit and veg with instructions on what to make it with and how to prep

3- NHS led weight loss groups

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Managed to Pavlov myself into exercising!

I’ve been doing CICO since January, lost about 28 pounds, and recently decided to get a treadmill and start to incorporate walking/jogging into my weight loss goals. I tend to find any sort of exercise boring and it’s a challenge to motivate myself to do it.

What I decided to try was to pick a favorite show of mine with many episodes of decent length, so I settled on one of my favorites that’s been running for 15 seasons with 42ish minute episodes (Supernatural if anyone knows it or is curious). I told myself that every time I get on the treadmill I’ll watch one episode, and that I can’t watch it unless I’m exercising.

The crazy part is that this worked! It’s only been a week but I already find myself thinking “I really want to watch another episode....fine then I’ll get my sneakers on” and begrudgingly turning on the treadmill. Once I’m done, I’m glad I did it, but starting is the challenge for me and this seems to have done the trick!

It’s funny how you can train yourself to do things that you normally have a hard time motivating yourself for, and how quickly you can!

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60lbs of baby weight gone!

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my before and after pics hoping it will motivate and inspire others to keep going with their weight loss journey!

It took me nearly 2 years to lose all of the baby weight and get to pre baby body. From 215 lbs in the left pic at my heaviest to 155 lbs just a few weeks ago. First I lost a large chunk of weight by sticking to pescatarian diet all thru 2019 and moderate 2-3 times a week exercise. The last 15lbs were defeated over the quarantine with running ( Strava app really got me into running!). Quarantine ended up being a blessing for fitness with extra 2 hours a day I don’t spend on commute any longer. I eat pretty much everything these days, I run about 30-40 miles a week. It keeps me sane during the quarantine. Here are pics:

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

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