Significent cut from TDEE but barely any fat or weight loss

Hi everyone!

Hopefully, others have also gone throught this sort of a problem and they can help me understand what I'm lacking here. I'm certainly not lacking or patience! I have been diligently tracking my caloric intake for atleast 5 months now. Despite a significent Calroic reduction, I dont see a corrosponding change. Please check out my worksheet below.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1elULfj08rU0msps538CtTN9q64FQFMgHstoj_YK_Lv8/edit?usp=sharing

What's happening here? Any suggesions what I need to change to see results? I'm not losing faith but I want to change things up as clearly this cal in cal out hasnt working for me (yet).

Thanks!

PS: Due to covid19, i have not had the chance to go to the gym, play tennis, or even go for long walks (I live in TOronto and it was cold). So my phyisical activity level has been sedentary at best.

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Turns out getting blood cancer has worked better than any weight loss plan I've ever participated in. Which kind sucks.

I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia back in early december of 2020. Since then, I've lost more weight then I ever have working out or counting calories. I was at 310 lbs in December and I'm currently 245 lbs for the first time in my adult life (28 M). Not few years ago when I was in college the smallest I ever got myself with eating healthy and working out four times a week was going from 290 lbs to257 lbs.

My doctor's says it's very common for weight loss to occur during chemotherapy, due to all the side effects such as nausea, reduced appetite, lactose intolerance, and diarrhea.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm kinda scared I'll develop an eating disorder once my treatment is over and I go into remission. I've been trying and failing for a long time to get my size down and I've never been this close before. I've spoken with my doctor about using this situation as a springboard to get to a healthy size but I'm not very educated about eating disorders in the other direction, ya know?

TLDR: Got cancer, much more effective than anything else I've tried, worried about eating disorders, advice?

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Anyone get comments from people at work (i.e. workers, customers, patrons, acquaintances, etc.) about how your weight loss is unhealthy/bad for you/making you look sickly, etc?

I'm down about 20 pounds, give or take 2-3 pounds, in the last three months. Most people haven't said anything but the ones who noticed made sure to ask me things like, "Are you sick? Did you get COVID? It's not healthy to lose weight so fast, you look sick now, etc" and it really bugs me. Anyone else have experience with this and if so what's your way of dealing with it? I stopped working out completely after a nasty shoulder injury about three years ago. I was competing in bodybuilding contests for my weight class, but I lost my job, got injured, and fell into a depression where I turned to food to cope. Lost a ton of the muscle I had, especially since I stopped cycling and stopped exercising, gained a ton of fat, do I basically looked like I never lifted a weight in my life at my peak low point. I have a good base of muscle underneath the fat, which I'm shedding now, but these comments bother me more than thru ought to. Sorry, had to vent. Thanks for listening.

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How to support a spouse

Hi All, so here is my situation. My husband is obese. 6'3 and 260. I know it really bothers him and as we get older, I'm more concerned for his health. I'm thin, always have been. Sure, I could lose 5 lbs but I'm active, healthy yada, yada.

He's had limited success with IF and low carb in the past, but it's just not sustainable long term. Here's a few things I think are relevant:

We work out 4-5 days a week (mostly weights). We ski, hike, are generally active people. He struggles with PTSD and VA has him on some anti depression meds (one SSRI and brupropion). He's also on Naltrexone for binge drinking (ptsd is a son of a bitch). I pretty much make the food and while it's no whole food perfection, we don't eat much red meat or processed foods.

He's in a job he's great at but hates and has recently applied for a position back with his former employer, where he was much happier and less stressed. The combo on covid/depression meds/shit job was the weight gain trifecta.

How can I support/encourage/light a fire under his ass without seeming judgemental? What works for me for weight loss does not work for him, so any and all advice is welcome.

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Where do you think my calorie sweet spot should be?

I'm a 23 year old female who is approximately 5'3" and 160lbs. I'm trying to get back down to my ideal weight of 135lbs before my wedding and have been working out a ton and counting/restricting calories. On average, I burn about 1900-2000 calories a day (I have a really solid exercise routine, but sedentary lifestyle otherwise) and have been setting my calorie intake goal at 1300 max. I've been seeing a ton of progress already, however I find it SO hard not to just give up and start binge eating because I get ravenous during the day and can't seem to make myself feel remotely full, even when I eat the full 1300 calories. So, my questions are as follows:

Is 1300 calories a day a good amount if I'm burning 2000? If not, what do you recommend? And, Any tips on how to make myself feel fuller on the calories I'm eating? (I'm not on any special diet, just eating more protein, less unhealthy fats and sticking to refined carbs)

Any help would be so appreciated! And btw, this is for fast weight loss because I am getting married in August and want to look and feel great 😊

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How many lbs between women’s sizes? Trying to plan ahead. Also vanity sizing is out of control.

Ok so it took me (20 F) 21lbs (210 to 190) to go from a 16 to a 14, and then 15 lbs (190 to 175) to go from a 14 to a 12. But THEN I went from 175 to 158 and went down almost TWO sizes (now an 8 in most jeans, except smaller brands like H&M in borderline 10). 17 lbs for 2 dress sizes is an average of 8.5 pounds per dress size. What gives? In the beginning I thought the scale was lying to me since I was still the same size, but now I’m down two dress sizes in a month and a half. What gives? Are there less inches or lbs between smaller sizes? When will I be a 6 or a 4? This is important because my sister is getting married in August and I need to estimate what size dress to get. I’m planning on getting 1 size larger than I will be based off of my weight loss averaging 2.5lbs a week for the past 4months, but if it’s any more than 1 size bigger I won’t be able to get it tailored!! By August I should be about 130, my goal weight (I’m thinking 125-130 to stop losing) for my 5’3 frame.

Also, the measurements they give for women’s sizes are totally false! I tested it on me, my size 2 friend, and my size 4 friend when I was a 12. According to the chart, we should have at been 2 or more sizes higher. My hypothesis is that the charts haven’t really been updated since the first wave of vanity sizing in the 80’s, so with the size increases in recent years (particularly the last 10-15) the charts are non sensical.

A little personal anecdote; when I was younger, about 15, Old Navy sizes always ran large, I would be a 4 there even though I was really a 6. But I went back 2 months ago when I was a 12 and the sizes are ridiculously large. I was a 6! I am not a 6 now, and was certainly not back then...that’s a 3 size larger size model, compared fo the 1 size larger I experience just 5 years ago. I recently learned that a size 0 today, is what a size 4 would have been in the 90s. Although the Devil Wears Prada came out when I was in kindergarten, Ann Hathaway’s character “Andy” is made fun of for being a size 6. While she may have been a 6 in 2006, she definitely would be a 2021 4 or maybe even a 2.

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CICO and Waiting for Motivation

Just simply taking action to know your TDEE and caloric intake is in my opinion, the most important lifestyle change you can make in relation to weightloss. Motivation comes and goes, days are bad and good, life happens. These are part of the human experience, and tend to be beyond your control. The brain has a threshold for cortisol (the chemical in the brain associated with stress) before you inevitably crack under pressure. Excuse the title, but watch this if you're the "If I just try hard enough, I can power through anything" type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Wcu6aGyz8. To paraphrase this video, all sources of uncertainty good or bad, raise cortisol levels. Your brain has a literal threshold for cortisol before you lose control of your physical decision making capacities. Body will beat the mind, and there's little to be done about it. You won't make good decisions at higher stress levels, and that's a fact. In this case, all you can do is wait for the body to flush the chemicals after the causal uncertainty in your life has been resolved. You have to wait on your motivation and willpower to return. It's natural, out of your hands, and what you're experiencing is normal. Be okay with waiting. What you can control though is knowledge. Knowing your calories eradicates uncertainty surrounding the effects of your eating. I mean, that's the singular and chief concern of weight loss dieting to begin with -- "the effects of food on your weight". What's so important is that you know where you stand so there's no uncertainty. You will have days of higher motivation, and those days are awesome, enjoy them. On your bad days try your best, but if you fail it's okay, just don't stop counting. Knowledge is the only real power your body can't arrest from you in times of high stress. Let that ground you, it'll help you understand there is still a way to accurately perceive your situation and prevent a negative spiraling mindset. Be the person who always googles how many calories are in the meal they're about to eat. It doesn't matter where you do it, when you do it, or why you do it, even if you do it after you've already eaten the food. Build the habit to just own that one thing about yourself so you can always say, "I know what's happening to me".

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