Weight loss rate for petite girls near their goal weight?

Any other shorties willing to tell me how long it’s taken them to lose the last few pounds? When I’m feeling impatient I like to read other peoples’ experiences. Here’s mine:

I’m 5’3 and about 124 right now, down from 136 at my highest in December. Getting close to my initial goal of 118, which is the highest I’ve ever felt I can go while still looking and feeling pretty healthy. After that I’ll probably strive for 104, where I always felt best and could excel as a runner, but I’ll stop along the way if it feels right.

I’m walking during my lunch break at least two days a week (usually take a stroll after dinner too), running 3 to 6 miles a few days a week, and doing a lot of heavy lifting in the process of a move, but now that that’s almost over I want to use my newfound free time to be even more active with fun things like badminton and frisbee. The added activity and being out in the heat (always makes me less hungry) will probably help move things along.

My 6’2 boyfriend doesn’t quite understand how someone a foot shorter can’t eat the same amount as him haha. He gets concerned that I’m not getting enough nutrition, or eating frequently enough, which is probably why I got so big in the first place. That and I stopped enjoying smoking weed and therefore learned to enjoy alcohol more, which is packed with calories and usually leads to a messier time.

I’ve returned to my natural eating habits (no breakfast, small or no lunch) and have cut way back on the alcohol. I’m feeling great and much more sexy and stable (: Now I just want this heavy belt of fat gone from around my waist and for my favorite jean shorts to fit right again! Almost there.

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1kg away from a healthy BMI

I started my weight loss journey in May 2020 and I’ve lost 26kg (~57lbs) since then. I am 1kg away from a healthy bmi! On the 7th of May last year I weighed 87kg (191 lbs and class 2 obese) and now I weigh 61kg (134lbs). I’m also 5’1 so a tiny person height-wise.

This sub has helped me so much with everything- and the advice that some of you have given me has kept me from falling off the wagon went I was going through a rough patch. Thanks to the advice on here, I have implemented cheat days and maintenance weeks to keep me from burning out. This has worked really well for me, and I’m so appreciative of everyone who commented on my last post.

I still want to lose another ~9kg or so to reach my goal weight of 52kg, but I definitely want to preserve muscle at this point. I’ve gotten really into running and I’m up around 10k distance, but I really enjoy 5ks. My plan is to train for 5ks specifically and do them fast and with proper form etc.

I was looking through pics of myself from May of last year and I think my face has changed a lot!

https://imgur.com/a/Cewm155

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Rant - I think My ED Therapist is using HAES/FA Logic

CW/TW - I talk about EDs and treatment for EDs in this post

Okay, a little bit about me first for some context. I’ve been overweight since puberty. In college, I learned about nutrition and calorie counting and tried multiple times to lose weight by tracking calories and exercising. I would lose weight, but then overeat, say “screw it” and go back to my old habits. I started dating my current partner, who is also overweight, and we both continued to gain weight together. Four years ago, I realized I might need some therapy to deal with my issues, and three years ago, I started seeing a therapist specifically for eating disorders.

The whole time, I’ve held two positions: 1) if you eat at a caloric deficit, you will lose weight, as has been shown time an time again through science and 2) my emotional and psychological issues were having me use food as a crutch, causing me to gain or maintain my higher weight.

I started working with her on my food issues. I developed mantras to use when I wanted to binge or compulsively eat. I started examining my body-image, self-worth, and social anxiety issues. In summer 2019, I started seeing a psychiatrist, as I didn’t feel like I was progressing fast enough and my depression was starting to creep back in. I was officially diagnosed with BED and I started the generic substitute for Vyvanse. This helped. I still had thoughts to binge and overeat, but the medication helped me say NO. I started practicing REAL intuitive eating. Full after half a bowl of oatmeal in the morning? Scrape it into the trash. Stomach growling at work in the afternoon? Have an apple and some nuts. Coworker having birthday cake, but you have a cookie at home you’d rather eat? Turn down the cake, eat the cookie later. I also started exercising in the morning and going to bed earlier at night. I started dropping about a pound a week for a total weight loss of about 30 pounds. I felt GREAT and was getting stronger. My therapist was pleased that I was able to feel more in control of my food choices and eat what I wanted. We were both excited I was trying new hobbies and developing new, sustainable routines.

Fast forward to the pandemic. I unexpectedly move far away. My therapist and I start meeting remotely. My work goes remote. No more morning gym. No more routine. I gained 40 pounds. I stopped seeing the psychiatrist I was seeing because of telehealth issues. Mental progress comes and goes during the pandemic. Suddenly, this spring, my therapist starts saying things that make me uncomfortable. About diets being shown to not work. Slightly deriding of intentional weight loss (she herself is a normal weight). She mentions how BMI isn’t an indicator of anyone’s actual health. I start getting uncomfortable. I want to love my body, but I want to love it so much that I treat it right. After experiencing severe abdominal pain, I get diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver. I am scared. I want to practice intuitive eating like I did before when I was losing weight. I don’t want to just stuff my mouth without thinking about it. I try to intuitive eat for a few months, but I stay the same weight. I’m still scared. The only prescription for the fatty liver is weight loss. If I don’t take care of it I could develop cirrhosis, liver cancer, and/or need a transplant. I start counting calories again out of fear even though historically that has just led to binges.

I tell my therapist I’ve been counting calories for a week. She tells me I’ve been reporting a healthier relationship with food for the past two months, what happened? I tell her I am scared, I don’t want a liver transplant, I don’t want to be in pain. I tell her I’ve been putting off seeing the liver doctor because I don’t want to hear him say “lose weight”. I’m embarrassed that I haven’t lost any more weight despite health issues. She says it won’t help me to hear that right now and we agree I should just schedule an annual physical instead. But she seemed upset that I wanted to count calories again. Almost personally hurt. And I really adore this therapist, we’ve had a good working relationship, but HAES/FA stuff has slowly been slipping into her comments. I NEED to lose weight if I want to live. I want to develop a sustainable relationship with food, not a self-sabotaging cyclic one.

I just needed to vent. I don’t know what to do anymore. I have an appointment with the psychiatrist today, and I’m hoping he’ll prescribe me the other half of contrave, naltrexone (already on bupropion portion of it now.) I don't know how to approach my therapist. I need to talk to her, but I don't know what to say. If you have been in a similar situation, I'd love to hear about it.

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Perspective matters: Obese Class II to Normal in 2.5 years and 4 attempts (epic length)

Weight chart from Dec 2017 to Today

2017 Way back in December 2017, I got on the scale to learn that breastfeeding my second child hadn't magically made all the baby weight fall off like had happened with my first. In fact, rather than having lost all the baby weight, I'd added on enough post-partum pounds to be not just Obese, but Class II obese.

"This cannot be! I'm not eating that much, I must have a metabolic problem, " I thought, and promptly went to the doctor.

My wonderful, patient doctor, agreed that my family history did warrant testing, did the tests, and they came back normal.

"I'll prove that there's actually something wrong!" I decided, and carefully started tracking my weight and my food. Within a week, the numbers conclusively proved, to me, that my metabolism and such were completely normal. "Oh. Guess there's no magic weight loss pill for me, then. Might as well carry on with what works."

2018 But tracking calories takes attention and patience and I had a two kids, one a baby, and untreated ADHD that I was handling through "coping strategies". Coping strategies meant "cut things out of my life until I could handle it. Tracking calories for weight loss was one of those things, and by mid-2018, I stopped tracking. When I decided to not let my eldest enroll in a class because it would be too much for me, I finally got an official diagnosis and medication.

2019 In 2019, I started tracking again, and set a goal of a 365 day streak on MFP. Pretty classic CICO weight loss. I found that I did best with IF. I found that trying to lower my goal calories below 1500 made me promptly eat over 1700 and gave up my idea of cutting calories lower as I lost weight. We went on a family vacation and I brought my kitchen scale and kept my streak going. I did a couple months of personal training and kept up with the exercises fairly consistently after that. Even though my job is fairly sedentary, I was able to get quite a bit of walking in because I supported users about a mile from my office.

2020 I hit that 365 day streak on MFP and, confident that I now knew what reasonable portions were, in March, I decided to take a quick break from tracking. In April, I knew that it was only a temporary thing that I was eating all this candy while sitting around on the couch. And I certainly didn't need to take my ADHD medication when there was so little happening at work. I'd get back into tracking calories and such when things were normal.

By June, it was pretty obvious things weren't getting normal anytime soon, but it was too late. I was anxious to the point of depression and could no more track calories than I could place my hand on a hot stove. Plus, "everyone" "always" said that regaining the weight was inevitable. So why bother trying. I gave up so much, I even ordered and sewed together a plus size dress form (which is kind of cool as a "before", TBH).

I unsubscribed from the pressure of r/loseit, but kept lurking in the Facebook motivational weightloss group I'd joined. And was inspired to make a feeble attempt to reverse things by following a 2 week 1500 calorie meal plan. A bit after that, I got enough motivation to force myself to jump into the cold water by challenging my husband to a 30 day tracking streak. Not even limiting calories, just tracking. By day 2, I was back in the swing of things. One day, I went into overeating mode at lunch and had over 1200 calories in one meal. Rather than try to make a ~400 calorie dinner, I decided to wait and see how I felt.

I was absolutely fine. So the next day, I tried it again on purpose, and again, it was easy to stick to about 1200 calories. For me, at this time, OMAD was really great. (Nowadays, I have breakfast more often, because 800 calories is a more reasonable meal for me, but I always knew I'd end up changing things up over time.)

2020 weekly weight loss

I projected my weight loss timeframe based on having, for example, 2000 calories on Thanksgiving day and New Years. I created a "ideal world" data set that showed what my weight would be given my average daily calories if there was no such thing as water weight and my activity level was exactly what I hoped to maintain.

2021 So, as you can see from the previous charts, weight loss during the periods I was actually tracking calories was pretty steadily downwards. And in the larger perspective, fluctuations from water weight didn't really affect much. But here's my actual weights from May when all I did was add in some exercise that made my muscles sore.

For anyone keeping track, that's only 3 attempts. Check out the chart I posted at the top, see that little dip towards the end of 2018? Yeah, I tried to get back into tracking, but didn't stick with it long.

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It is NEVER too late to start working on your health.

I'm writing this up in case other people need to hear it as much as I did.

I sell my plasma for a living. I went in March 13 and found I'd hit my highest ever weight- 287 pounds. No one in my family weighs that much. I calculated what a healthy weight for me would be- almost half of what I weighed then. I'm literally morbidly obese. I started going on walks, joined this subreddit and r/WeightLossAdvice , and started planning calorie deficits and better meals.

I dropped ten pounds by April 13, then I hit a plateau for two, almost three weeks. I was still exercising, still eating at a calorie deficit. I didn't know what was wrong and got discouraged and almost gave up. Then my roommate mentioned her anti-depressants had made her gain weight and she was joining a swimming class to lose it. And I thought to look at my medicine.

The allergy medicine I was taking on a daily basis was causing weight gain. I stopped taking it and, even though the hay fever is annoying, I'm glad. I almost immediately started dropping weight again.

Last Friday I went into my first doctor's appointment in over a year to get on ADHD medicine. I told him that I knew I was obese and was working hard to lose weight. I told him I knew I needed ADHD medicine and antidepressants, but I was scared of medicine that would cause weight gain. He was kind enough to prescribe adderall (an ADHD med that also suppresses appetite) and the one anti depressant that doesn't cause weight gain.

He also wanted me to do labs for thyroid and diabetes, since I have a huge family history of both. I went in the next day and got my labs done. Monday, he called me into his office. I found out I have prediabetes and had to start taking metformin.

For a few hours, I was devastated. I thought that I had started my weight loss plan too little, too late. I thought I had ruined my body. I called up my father to talk to him, since he was diagnosed with diabetes around the time I was five. I thought he would understand.

And he did! He reminded me that 22 is still young. That at this time in my life, I can lose weight easier than he can. He told me that diabetes can be cured as long as I'm careful, and that I could have been straight up diabetic before I started working so hard on my health. That as long as I continue working on this, he's sure that I'll be healthy someday.

So, for anyone out there like me, who's thinking it's too late for them, that they've already wrecked their body- it's not! You can start working on your health in whatever ways you need to, no matter how big or how small- and you will get there. I know I will. It's going to be a long road, but it'll be worth it in the end. Even the smallest changes will improve your health so much. Please don't get discouraged. These are reachable goals, and I believe you can do it.

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Where do I go from here? (50lbs down, in a plateau)

I (25F) began losing weight in August of 2020 and have since lost 50lbs (201->151, I'm 5'4"). For the past few weeks I have been frustratingly bouncing around 151 and feel like I am in a plateau. I have PCOS, which I have heard can lower basal metabolic rates by as much as 15%, so I usually calculate TDEE based off of that 15% subtracted from the BMR.

I currently eat a maximum of 1200 calories per day and workout 6 times a week- 3 days I do Bikini Body Guide (for strength training) and 3 days I walk at a 15% incline at 3.5mph on the treadmill for 30 minutes (for cardio). I use a scale to measure everything I eat and I log it all, even down to a 15 calorie black coffee.

I feel like I am no longer making progress but I have nowhere to go from here. I am a medical student and cannot realistically devote more time to exercising, and I am not going under 1200 calories.

I am contemplating some options and was looking for advice. These are my current ideas, although I'm open to other ideas too:

1. Increase my calorie intake for a week to "maintenance", which I believe would be close to 1450 calories a day, then go back to 1200 calories.
2. Consider this 50lb weight loss a "cut" and begin trying to "bulk" with some muscle so that with future cuts I will have more muscle, thus increasing my TDEE. I mostly struggle through the Bikini Body Guide workouts so if I was better fed I may be able to get more out of these workouts? Not sure.

I've yo-yo'd with weight before and I'm terrified of doing anything that will make me gain weight in fear that I will spiral and lose my progress, as it's happened before; however, I'm kind of sick of working out nearly every day and only eating salads when I go out with friends only to sustain a plateau. I am just really stuck on what I should be doing to switch it up and get out of the plateau.

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Should I trust my Fitbit over the Apple Health app?

(Before I begin, yes I’m active in ED subreddits. Yes, I have disordered eating. No, I am not trying to further damage my health by making this post. I’ve decided to aim for slow, sustainable weight loss, but I still have disordered thoughts. Please don’t lecture me if you feel the need to. I am already in therapy.)

Hi all, humour me for a second. I’ve gotten very attached to Lifesum to track my intake, and it uses the data from Apple Health to tell me how many calories I’ve burned.

I just got home from a nearly 5km walk, and Lifesum says I’ve burned 511 calories. After subtracting my BMR from the number of calories that I’ve burned according to my Fitbit app, I found out I’ve burned 770 calories instead.

I want to trust the Fitbit, because it’s on me at all times and would be a lot more accurate than my phone. But I’m nervous because I’ve seen a lot of reviews talking about how the Charge 4 isn’t entirely accurate.

Which one should I trust? I just want to know if I can have extra salmon at dinner tonight :(

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