Would 1200 be top high of a calorie limit for me?

I'm 15, 5'1, 104 pounds and looking to drop some weight (not too much, just wanna drop a bit, before I get comments on my current weight) and I'm honestly not that active lol. I'm looking to lose some fat, and drop a couple of pounds.

Would 1200 calories be too many for me? I've got a limit of 900 right now, because I'm so short & don't excersize as much as I should, but I've binged a few times since I began that. I was thinking eating more would prevent that, but was just wondering if upping it to 1200 would cause maintenance/gain. And if so, what is a proper limit for me? I don't need super fast weight loss, but I also dont wanna be losing too slow haha. Everything I've looked up on this has been confusing, and I'm just hoping to get a clearer answer.

Thanks, and apologies if this is the wrong subreddit!

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Shameful bingeing after lots of progress

I am 33 years old and after over a decade of absolutely horrible eating habits I decided to make a big change. It started in September of last year. Instead of starting some extreme rapid weight loss scheme like I’d done multiple times in the past, I followed the boring advice I’d heard most of my life and (skeptically) began implementing reasonable and realistic changes to my diet and daily physical activity that I felt I could sustain for a lifetime. To my surprise, it has been much more effective than any attempt to lose weight in my life. And I’ve had lots of attempts.

I step on the scale every Friday, and this past weigh-in, the scale read 246.5 lbs - still much too high for me, but nearly 100 down from where I started at 346. Even though I wasn’t technically all the way to the magic number, it felt like a huge milestone.

And yet, in this moment, I’m at home in my bed, feeling like utter garbage having just binged a shameful amount of food in a secluded parking lot in my car. This is something I used to do regularly and even typing anonymously on the internet, that still feels embarrassing to admit. Anyway, I can’t remember the last time I’ve done it before today, and I thought I had long moved past it. After feeling so empowered for an extended period of time by taking responsibility for my actions and taking control over my life and making real positive change to my health, I don’t really understand what came over me and why I could not (or would not) control myself.

I want to be clear - I’m not saying my journey this far has been perfect up until now . I have certainly had plenty of weak moments and fallen into slumps along the way - but this is the first time I have just completely lost control and binged a really shameful amount of food and it seemingly came out of nowhere. I am really trying not to be too self indulgent right now and throw myself a pity party, but I am also undeniably feeling myself fall into a bit of a shame spiral and am very fearful that I am ultimately not going to be able to control myself in the long run and am going to slowly return to my old eating habits - and perhaps they’ll be even worse than before.

I’m curious to hear from anyone who has thoughts or advice, and especially from this who have experienced something similar.

Thanks.

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Losing weight when I shouldn't be

Ok so my weight loss has been a serious roller coaster of a journey from loosing up until Nov 2019, maintaining till March 2020 and then gaining 14lbs during lockdown. I attempted to lose weight before heading off to uni but that effort failed, I lost 3 lbs to then gain it back(issues with binging).

I originally thought I would be losing weight at uni but since I got here I realised how much of a challenge it is and I dont need that extra stress on top of trying to get used to it all. Its been a solid month since I've been here and I've lost weight. 1lbs a week. I have been eating at maintainace plus consistently each week which is kind of concerning for me. Granted I have walked a little more than normal (last week was the most i walked with an average of 9000 steps) but this surely cant be contributing to this much weight lost.

I mentioned it to my friend who said I should be happy im finally seeing results but I'm worried that its not intentionally and I've been monitoring how much I've been eating yet the scales keep going down.

Bonus note: when I weighed myself It was the middle of the afternoon and I had breakfast, 2 lunches, birthday cake and a slice of pie.... normally id weight myself in the morning.

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Need advice for maintaining motivation

Hello beautiful people, long time lurker here, but I need a little help and figured why not finally post.

I've been struggling with consistent weight gain over the last few years. Just a few years ago I was 230 (6'3) and happily playing sports daily. Today I'm 328 and can barely make it around my office without running out of breath. Luckily for me I love the gym and sports right? Yes....but no, because here's the caveat. I keep losing 30-40lbs, then just abruptly stop. Sometimes because I just wanted to binge pizza. Sometimes I just want to not care about doing stuff. I just start feeling so burnt out of everything, that I throw it all away. Next thing you know I'm 10-20lbs heavier than my initial starting weight.

So in the end what I'm really just asking is, how you guys keep motivation up during a longterm weight loss?

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Anyone else find themselves back here after pandemic weight gain?

Just curious if anyone is in the same boat as me...

I lost about 120 lbs over the course of a 4 year span (280-160) Hit me goal weight in mid 2017, and maintained it (+/- 5 or so lbs) for about 2 years. Slowly gained a smidge of weight in 2019, topping out at about 170 in January 2020

Since the pandemic, though things have gotten bad! Laziness (not going to gym) and worse habits have been exacerbated by the pandemic! I'm currently hovering at around the 185-190 mark, and fear an inability to run outside now that it's colder will make things worse.

Making this thread mostly to see if anyone else has dealt with a pandemic-related road block. I'm slowly getting back on the health train that lead to my original weight loss - knowing that I did it once certainly helps.

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Weight loss questions, where do I start? is this possible?

Hello /Loseit, I have a couple of questions. I just got off the phone with the scheduling nurse for a upcoming surgery that is in Feb 2021. She was going through the normal stuff until we got to the weight portion. She said that I am outside the normal weight limits for this surgery, and asked if I should reschedule for further in the year. (She hinted that it would be December 2021 or 2022 before the next opening.

I have always been a big person, and I am at the biggest I have ever been. I am 5'7 and my last weigh in (months ago) was 275. She said I would need to be under 30 BMI for this surgery.

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I checked the BMI chart and I would have to lose 70ish lbs (at least) to get to that goal. Is that doable? I haven't ever been able to lose weight so I am thinking it is impossible to lose that much weight at all.

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I need Help, advice, and guidance in this. Is it possible? healthy? What would it look like to achieve this?

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Down 40 pounds today! Don't forget to go easy on yourself sometimes.

Hi loseit fam!

I posted a few days ago about being burnt out on weight loss and how I was binging too much. I had been trying to eat 1450 a day (I'm a tall woman at 5'10) and avoid "unhealthy" foods. I was also running 5 days a week and constantly looking at weight loss stuff online. I was so sick of everything and found myself becoming miserable and exhausted. I got some great advice to make things easier on myself and upped my calories from 1450 to 1600. I also took a few days off from running and allowed myself to stay in bed and watch Netflix. Lo and behold I found my urge to binge dwindling. It just made me realize how hard on myself I am and how that ultimately leads to self sabotage. By chilling out I made it to 168.5, which means I have lost 40 pounds from my initial weight and 48 pounds from my high weight in April!

It just shows that perfectionism and beating yourself up is not the answer. It's kind of a mind fuck because I always felt that weight loss had to be difficult and I had to suffer through it. However I am starting to learn it can be way easier and I don't have to be miserable! This week on my grocery shopping trip I bought snacks for the first time in a while, and also ingredients for meals I actually like instead of perfectly healthy concoctions that I had to force myself to eat. I am looking forward to my menu for the week and I am losing weight! This journey has been a learning experience for sure. Keep on keeping on everyone!

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