Tips for healthy weight loss after an ED?

Okay so this is my first post here, and I'm aiming this specifically at those who have experience with an eating disorder.

I suffered from anorexia for 6 years, short periods of "recovery" where I'd binge eat and gain massive amounts of weight just to lose it all again. I couldn't afford therapy after I moved out of my mom's house and couldn't be on hers, so I did it all on my own. Sadly I still can't afford it, but I finally feel like I'm in the clear and trying to approach weight loss from a healthy place.

The problem is, I've realized that while in theory I know how to lose weight, I don't really know how to put it in to practice. I managed to stop binging and not go back into heavily restricting, but I'm only maintaining at my new weight and have been for almost a year.

Also, before anyone worries I actually am in the overweight category BMI wise, and I can feel the affects on my body. I'm tired, I'm sluggish, my joints hurt... That's what made me realize maintaining isn't good enough anymore.

Anyway sorry for the rant, any tips I can get for putting all the facts and science I know into practice would be much appreciated! Thank you!

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What I've learned about maintaing

I'm 20 and since last year through CICO and consistency I've lost 24kgs and reached my goal weight which I never thought was possible for me, after being overweight my whole life.

Now I have been maintaining my weight loss for 4 months now And theres a lot of things I've learnt.

Losing weight is a lot easier because you have way more motivation to keep going. You see changes on the scale, in the mirror, everyone congratulating you. For the first couple of months. Once you reach your goal and stay there, people get used to you, so you don't get those congratulations. You don't see many physical or weight changes, because you're at where you want to be. You run out of motivation and what you have left are habits.

Thats why I reckon if I had lost the weight through an extreme fad diet, not taken the time to learn about nutrition, what kinda food works for me, what exercise is right for me and makes me feel good and developed a whole routine for myself, maintaining would be impossible.

Maintaining is the real test after your weight loss. To see if you have actually changed your habits for good.

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Two major milestones and a big thank you!

I finally, FINALLY lost my 40th pound! I started my weight loss journey on 11/12/2019 at 211 pounds. I lost the first 15 through March, the next 24 since then. I’ve hovering between 171.4-172 for six weeks but Saturday morning, I finally, FINALLY broke through that plateau and weighed in at 171.0!!!

But that wasn’t even my biggest victory of the week! I started Couch to 5k in May, and the 10K trainer in September. But that six week plateau was running-related too I guess because I’ve been really struggling with the 10K trainer. I’ve had to repeat every run like 4-5 times. It’s been rough. So I had a stroke of inspiration last week that I’m gonna focus on improving my times, not my distance, so I’ve kinda been doing my own runs and not following the program this week. On a whim, I decided I would make my Saturday run a distance/endurance run instead of a speed run. Well guess what??? I made it FIVE MILES!!! I was over the moon all weekend long.

Lastly, HUGE shout out to r/loseitchallenges!!! I did every challenge this year and it’s been the single biggest contributing factor to keep going! The accountability really motivates me. Even on weeks where I didn’t lose weight or even gained half a pound, logging my weight for my team helped keep me accountable. So THANK YOU LoseItchallenges!

Here’s a pic of my progress. https://www.reddit.com/r/progresspics/comments/k09e07/f2856_211_171_40_pounds_lost_one_year_november/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf First time posting on that sub and people are so gross 🤢 I’ve had to report so many creepy DMs.

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I have eaten so much over the past few days. I have no clue how I lost a stone a year ago, and I really want to do it again but it's so hard.

Today I ate: a chocolate and vanilla ice cream, 3 chocolate digestives, a chicken and cheese wrap, a bowl of cheese, stewed apple with added sugar and an entire quiche. Yesterday I ate an entire bag of chocolate digestives, stewed apple with sugar, a chocolate magnum, lots of bowls of cheese and almost an entire chicken and asparagus pie as I ate my sister's portion as well as my own. I also ate similarly for a few days before.

I am disgusted with myself. I used to eat so well and was losing weight so quickly, but now everytime I start I end up bingeing. The amount that I am bingeing is terrible and I already notice that I am gaining a double chin again and my acne is so much worse now.

I know that I will seriously start to see the side effects if I keep eating this way and really don't know how to keep myself motivated so I can continue on my weight loss journey.

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Is it harder to lose weight the second time?

I achieved my goal, weight and physique wise earlier this year. However, due to the worldly situation, the weather getting colder and wetter, and being stuck inside everyday and being unable to do any kind of cardio outside, I basically regained all the weight I lost over the summer. Gyms also closed again, yay! Stress equals binge eating and there's not much to do besides eat right now.

I've decided to try to lose weight again, by basically just doing the same thing I did before. I got down to 145lbs from 160lbs by eating around 2000 calories a day and doing IF. I have some basic lifting equipment at home and I'd usually lift for a 1 hour and 30 minutes, then take a walk outside right after for about an hour to hit 10k steps. I'm basically doing the exact same thing since I am now 160 again. The only difference is I can't take a walk outside, so I am pacing back and forth in my apartment (not enough room for HIIT or movement based cardio, but I have a decently long hallway that I can walk back and forth in). I am pacing my hallway for 30 minutes to an hour, just to hit 10k steps for the day as tracked by my smartwatch. All this exercise takes place during my fasting window; I eat right after I hit 10k steps. In addition to that, I take a short 15-20 minute walk/hall way pace after every meal, resulting in a daily step total of around 14-15k steps. I only eat twice in a day: once post workout, and once a couple hours before bed containing some protein and fats from cottage cheese.

I've been at it for several weeks, but my weight hasn't changed at all. It just fluctuates between 155 and 160, despite me doing the exact same thing to lose weight before, except now I am walking inside. My steps per day are the exact same and I do get my heart rate up during my daily pace (power pace, if you will). I checked my weight loss logs from back in the summer and I started seeing progress imminently and never had any plateaus. However, this time around doing the same things, I'm basically starting off in a plateau. I wonder then, is your body more resistant to losing weight the 2nd time around?

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How Restrictive Should i Be?

Hi everyone, I am a 5'9 27 year old Female. I have been working out my whole life, and have been recently into power lifting. I have always had trouble with my diet ( lover of carbs/sugar/take out, who doesn't? )

At my gym I have recently enrolled in the nutrition program. I am 199 lbs and 40 % Body Fat. Hard numbers to hear but important. Now, my trainer has got me on a plan, where I eat only clean food everyday, with one single cheat meal.

I am worried this complete change will end up in me failing. I am wanting to do a more moderate approach( which I accept will result in slower weight loss) For example, Monday for lunch i had a slice of pizza with dip but dinner was a mixed green salad with ground turkey, and apple and peanut butter ( natural)

I guess my questions is: will my flexible dieting approach work to get some of my body fat off, or should I buckle down and go the full clean eating route?

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(NSV) Just bought my first XL shirt in 6 years. And it completely changed my perspective.

Been on my new regiment for about 7 months and yesterday bought an XL shirt for the first time in more than a half decade. And it really changed my weight loss journey.

I have been pretty diligent on this diet, I’ve lost a bit more than 40 pounds, am more than halfway to my goal, and am close to the lightest I’ve been since before college. However, I have been frustrated with the lack of noticeable result. Every now and then I’d see a glimpse of a thinner me, but in pictures and in the mirror I just didn’t really notice much of a difference. And then yesterday happened.

I was in a store (with a mask on) and I brought a XXL and a XL shirt into the changing room. I put on the XXL shirt and looked at myself. It looked like me. I could see a bit of a difference. I wasn’t straining the shirt like I did at my heaviest, but it still looked about the same. Then I put the XL on. The first bit of euphoria was that it actually fit. I wasn’t struggling to suck in my gut to keep the buttons from exploding like a cartoon steam pipe. But then I looked in the mirror and for the first time I actually noticed a difference. I was noticeable thinner and healthier looking than I had been 7 months ago. The effort and work I was putting in was having an impact.

Point being, this helped me realize something kind of obvious in retrospect, wearing clothes meant for bigger people are going to make you look bigger. I’m not going to totally replace my closet, god forbid I backslide, but wearing fitted clothes will show you actual results.

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