1,000 calories p/day not enough?

TW: Calorie counting, weight?

It might seem like a stupid question.
This is also my first post... so I'm sorry if I stuff this up. Please feel free to educate me.

I have never really tracked my weight since High School (about 5 years ago), and never really gave a heck about it, I was about 50 KGS. I'm now a 23F, 163 cm and around 59.00 KGS. About two years into my relationship I realised I got really comfortable with myself and maybe also because of the lockdown have just felt kinda bleh. So i started doing work outs from home. I bought a scale, out of curiosity and I weighed about 63 KGS. So I'm aware that I've gained quite a bit of weight but I still "appear healthy", I just don't feel healthy.

I'm not really a person into temporary diets or restrictions, I just kind of eat what I want in moderation, but I downloaded a calorie app just to track my usual patterns and encourage me to make healthier choices (note: I haven't yet really changed anything about my diet).

I've realised that I generally average 900 - 1000 calories a day. I haven't changed any of my foods that I eat for lunch or dinner (I never eat breakfast) and I honestly feel fine, but is this a bad thing?

I came across several articles about Adele's weight loss trick of sticking to 1,000 calories per day and the backlash over it, and it never occurred to me that it was unhealthy.

What problems will I run into if I keep eating as usual? I always feel full enough and I didn't realise it was a problem... Should I really be increasing it if I feel fine? I've lost about 2 KGS so far but that's only because I've started exercising, which I've literally never bothered with before.

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I finally lost 10KG!!!!!

I'M SO SO HAPPY I FINALLY HIT 10kg (22.05 lbs)

I (F,20, 164cm/ 5,4 ft) have been quite heavy for the past year and a half and pretty much gave up trying to lose weight.

I continuously gained until I reached my heaviest of 78.7kg/173.5 lbs.

I hated that I always felt sluggish and lazy and always binged on food and I really was just existing and not living.

Then I finally made the decision to change my life on 15 September 2020. (SW 76.3kg /168.21 lbs)

I started controlling my intake and calories that I ate, started running to get fit again, and worked out with Chloe Ting and Heather Robertson to gain muscle.

And now I can finally say as of 25 November I am exactly 10kg down to 66.3kg (146.17 lbs)!!!

This is the lightest I have been in nearly two years and I honestly feel so much better than I did when I was still lazy.

I still have about 6kg to go to my goal weight and it will take a while, but I'm looking at slow weight loss so that I can keep the weight off for a long time.

But I definitely am much more grateful for the NSV's - Better sleep, a better relationship with food, more strength, and confidence, happiness, and motivation, taking more initiative over my wellbeing and health, etc.

I now look myself in the eye when I look in a mirror :)

Wish me good luck for the final 6!!

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My weight loss journey has made me realize something.

I never chose to lose weight. There was no "ah ha!" moment. No light opened up in the clouds to pass down divine intervention. No mean comment or dirty look broke the last straw. Nothing finally "clicked". No switch was flipped. It wasn't one choice. It is a series of choices. Its choices I have to make every day. Its choices I have to make every time I walk into the kitchen. Its a choice I have to make every time someone brings junk food into work. Its a choice I have to make everytime I'm bored or sad or lonely. Its a choice I have to make everytime I think about food. Sometimes its easier to make the right choice than others. Sometimes I make the wrong choice. But as long as I keep choosing to be healthier, feel better, chase my dreams, I know I can do it. It may be an endless stream of choices that I have to make. But the good news is they are my choices to make.

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No motivation. No self-control. No progress.

Possible TW: Talk of negative self-image and dangerous eating habits (starvation/binging). Not in graphic detail.

I (21f) posted here a while ago on an old account about how I had finally gotten the motivation to lose weight. I had lost 20 pounds (out of a 120 pound total goal) and I was expecting to keep progressing. I am now here saying that my 20 pound victory has been reduced to a 13 pound victory, I'm having very bad days (and weeks and months), and I'm not progressing in any way.

My whole life I have been obsessed with my weight. Since elementary school I have been obsessed with losing weight, and that led to an unhealthy relationship with food. I used to not eat anything for days, then "break" and eat everything in sight. I don't want to use it as an excuse, but my self-image really messed up how/what I eat and how much. I thought that my obsession with weight loss as a kid would have kept me from gaining all this weight (I am now at 270, 283 was my highest), not that I think it was a healthy way of thinking at all, but after all these years of constant weight gain I look back and wonder how I ever got to this point. I am so unhappy with my weight and I want to change, but I fail over and over again. I was doing good for a while but it's slowly going down the drain.

So here are some things I want to ask you guys who are going through/have gone through major weight transformations:

How did you keep the motivation? I look in the mirror/at the scale and know I want better for myself but I can't keep the motivation to attain it.

How did you work on your relationship with food (if you had a bad one)?

Where did you get accountability from? I don't have anyone in my life to keep me accountable. Any recommendations?

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I need help with emotional eating but not sure where to turn. Nutritional coach? Therapist? Dietician? I need a serious intervention asap.

I am currently in therapy and on medications for anxiety and depression, but my therapist does not have much experience working with food related issues so she is encouraging me (and helping me to) to seek help elsewhere. The problem is that I'm not sure where to turn.

I saw a dietician for a while, but her solution was to promote intuitive eating, which meant that she was encouraging me to drive to CVS every night to pick up chocolate, because that's what I was craving. While I know this approach might be successful for some, I feel like my cravings and my binge eating are out of control, and the last thing I need to do is give myself what I'm craving. (In the same way that you wouldn't give a 5 year old unlimited ice cream). I am also not interested in HAES.

I also met with therapist who focused on eating disorders, but her approach was to help me accept and love myself rather than helping me change habits. I recognize this is important, but that's not what I'm looking for right now. Maybe in the future.

I think I am really looking for a coach to check in with me weekly, kind of like a therapist, but who just focuses on my relationship with food. I want help understanding why I eat the way I do, I want accountability and someone to call me on my bullshit, and I want strategies to eat things that are going to make my body feel good. Yes, I'd also like weight loss.

I just feel like I am in a whirlwind of self destruction and I need a serious food intervention. Does anyone have any ideas?

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First post. 52lb down!

Hi Loseit,

I’ve been lurking for a while and this feels like a home. It’s very encouraging seeing people on my same boat and being successful.

This February I was 307lb as a 5’10” 30 year old male. I’ve been fat my whole life. I was diagnosed with cancer and the came Covid. I felt mortal twice in a month. Thankfully right now I’m unscathed, no chemo and no Covid. But I considered if this is the life I really want. One that I’m scared of living because of my weight. One that will be Severely limited due to my weight due to health complications and I decided to do something about it.

I started fasting, starting working out 1-2 a week started March, and now as of October I started to reintroduce 3 meals a day and my weight loss has slowed down but I have not gained a lb which is very motivating.

I’m 255lb as of right now, I have not been this skinny in over 15 years. My clothing is down from 3XL to XL. People have been noticing and I am happy as I can be.

To everyone here, keep it up! We will prevail.

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A gamer trying to gamify my weightloss without apps; any advice?

tl;dr: Avid gamer with body to match and a list of severe health issues (kept private) looking for advice to gamify weightloss. Not a fan of gamifying habit apps, so please don't suggest those. Have Just Dance, can't afford Ring Fit Adventure.
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I'm an avid gamer and have the body to match. For almost my whole life, I used to be fit, playing tons of sport and hitting the gym every day. But I ended up getting really, really sick over the last 5 years and somehow as a result, instead of losing weight and wasting away, I ended up becoming more like the people you'd see on Wall-E. I turned to video games and MMOs as something I could do on the days when I'm bedridden, so I could socialize and accomplish small goals while stuck in bed to keep my mind off how bad everything was getting.

But something happened recently and it's made me realize that I am in desperate need of levelling up my real life -- not just my virtual one.

I'm going on a quest to level up in life, with sidequests like improving my physical and mental health. Weight loss is going to be a big part of both. r/loseit 's references to gaming on its main page is what drew me to this subreddit before the other weightloss subreddits, so here I am.

I've already levelled up some of my gear (buying running shoes). I could use some armor (like wrist braces) and better weapons (I have a few fitness games and a resistance band), I'm missing out on a mount (bike) and I'm a little too underlevelled to take on the real boss fights I once melted with ease (Shaun T, I'm looking at you).

But like a newb with nothing but level 1 starting gear, I am still thrilled to begin this adventure.

Things I Have / Have Done:

I've made some spreadsheets to collect data so I can better match the meta for weightloss for someone with my (29, 5'4, 236lb) character stats. And at the end of every week I'll know my parse. I've found a few video game OSTs with 130bmp tracks for a workout playlist (and there are already some playlists on YT), but if you know of any I'd be glad to hear them!

Aside from just treating weightloss as a game, I've been trying to also use actual video games to my benefit instead of to my detriment. I absolutely can't afford the Ring Fit game for the Switch, but I do have Just Dance and Wii Sports and I've been using that to some success when paired with diet. And I've been taking my Switch with me on walks through Hyrule and real life at the same time. That's been kind of nice. I was able to walk 3 miles today without noticing because of it, in record time as well! (Well, a record time for the Sickness expansion, at least!)

I remember there being a phone app called Zombies, Run! Are there any other running apps out there you'd recommend that make it feel like a game? (Preferably no horror ones like ZR, though. My heart very seriously can't take it.) If Pokémon GO would ever read my GPS, I'd be using it more to log my miles for candies to feed my Pokémon with!

This mentality of turning it into a game is helping me stick to it, but I could also use a little advice. I'm not a fan of gamify-ing apps since I can never remember to use them no matter how much of a habit I try to make it, so please don't recommend those to me. But what are some other ways I can gamify this? I'm set for another two months or so, but I'm worried about running out of ideas by the time I hit a plateau and logging off until the next tier of raid bosses (in this case, IRL health crises) comes along.

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