How can I lose weight without triggering my eating disorder?

I’ve been recovered from an eating disorder for around five years. It was extreme I was in the gym at all hours and barely eating. I was in a lot of mental and physical pain. I had to eventually take time off of university to recover.

Anyone who had an eating disorder knows it never truly goes away. There’s always a little voice in your head criticizing you and tempting you to get back into old habits. I’m in therapy weekly to work on this.

Here’s my problem: I accidentally saw my weight on my medical chart. I am clinically overweight (around a 25.6 BMI, the highest I’ve ever weighed) but my doctors have never brought it up (probably to spare triggering me)

I feel like the 5-7 pounds I need to lose can be done easily as I have recently let go of healthy habits recently and maybe just need to add those back in. Like exercise, eating full meals, and stop ordering take out. BUT weight loss is a slippery slope for someone like me. What should I do?

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Down 77 pounds and 8 inches of my waist - unable to eat at a deficit anymore?

I went all in on my weight loss last October at 248 pounds. I had lost 20 pounds over the year before that without really trying my all time high of 267 in July 2019.

I now weigh 190 pounds.

I’m a 25 year old guy. I’m just under 5’6 (5’5.5) and I’m at my lowest weight since graduating high school. Throughout high school I fluctuated between 180 and 193. I was 193 on graduation day in 2014.

I haven’t been below 180 since I was 14. I was always chubby as a kid and as a teen. I was 144 pounds at 10, 157 pounds at 11, and 175 pounds at 13.

I’ve lost 58 pounds in 11 months solely from tracking and without much exercise. The last 18 pounds have been from Keto after starting the first week of July.

My dream is to have a normal BMI. I’ve never had that before. So, my destination weight wise when I started was 150 pounds.

I had two guiding beliefs/strategies when I started that have gotten to me where I am:

1). I would measure and track every single thing I ate.

2). If I went over my calories on one day I had to apply/track the overage/overflow to another day that week

The issue is now I can’t seem to stay in a deficit at all after averaging a 600 to 700 calorie deficit a day for 11 months. I’m not feeling full anymore even on Keto.

I’m going over more and more and my overflow is getting out of hand. I’m not gaining but I’m definitely not losing much.

My BMR is 1,900 calories a day and it’s lately taking at least 1,700 calories just for me to be satisfied. I’ve tried just eating at maintenance but I just feel so bloated and awful when I do.

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Conflict while preparing for a trip w/ friend due to my weight loss meal plan

I am planning a trip with a friend of mine. She asked me which restaurant to go while traveling, and I said I am gonna eat lunch in restaurant and drink shake for dinner. I said “You can take out your food for dinner and eat in the hotel room” (Hotel provides BF)

She already knows that I am trying to lose my weight. However, she is mad at me for not eating together in the restaurant.

I said “If you wanna have dinner at the restaurant, I can do that but I am gonna have shake for lunch” She is still mad with that tho. She wants to have both lunch and dinner at the restaurant with me. She said she doesn’t wanna eat alone and food tastes better when we eat together.

I don’t wanna change my meal plan that I have been maintaining for two months. What should I do?

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I put the food away

Stats: 34yo, 168cm SW: 117kg CW: 112kg GW: 60kg

Started another of my attempts at weight loss about a month ago. Previous attempts ended in the common issue of going back to "normal" and gaining more than I lost.

My issue is very much around being brought up in family with no concept of portion control and obsessed with eating everything you are given. So even with cooking what should be healthy meals, I end up eating way too much; even when I'm full I just keep going to empty the plate.

Today I made my lunch, put my normal portion on, looked at it and then put about half of it away (it will keep in the fridge). As a result I had about 300kcal instead of 600 and still made it to dinner without feeling hungry.

I know this is not much and it sounds so obvious to just eat less, but it felt like I've actually started to move in the right direction.

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Journey so far and NSV - People noticed!

In 2015 I was working out a lot. I was 150lbs basically from 14 years old and never really went above that. In 2017 I had gotten to about 140lbs, and I decided to do keto because I still had some stubborn tummy flab. I maintained my weigh well for several years, and I got to the smallest I have ever been as an adult! (I am 5'6 and then I got to 130lbs.) But I was at a miserable job and it was just getting worse by the day. Also they manufactured tortilla chips (delicious ones, I will add) so not exactly the best for Keto. Anyway, I stopped working out as much and stopped watching watch I was eating and started creeping back up at the end of 2018 (got to about 150) and by the time I left that job at the end of February in 2020, I had gotten to 170lbs, which is the highest I had ever weighed as an adult. I got a new fabulous job within a week and then the shutdowns started happening. I gained 26 more pounds! I weighed 196lbs and was MISERABLE. I wish I could have been one of those people who worked out during that time, but my anxiety and depression were hitting me hard. At the beginning of March this year, I knew I had to change. I knew my diet and exercise program of nothing was making my anxiety and depression worse so I figured I would start with Keto again (easiest thing for me to jumpstart my weight loss) and once I lost some weight I would start working out again. The working out is mainly for my mental health, but the physical is a bonus. I like when I feel like I have gotten stronger but I hate working out, lol. I also have exercise-induced asthma, a birth defect in my lower back, and bad knees - so no high impact exercise for me! I do it because I know what my mind is like without it. I got back on keto and did it for a few months and lost ~24lbs! I was pretty proud of myself, but I know I can't do keto forever (I love fruit carbs and some other bad carbs SOOOO MUCH - I wouldn't be able to deny myself that forever) so I started measuring and trying to eat healthier without going overboard. I got into a pilates place that offers pilates classes and treadmill sprinting/walking+body work classes that is close to my work. I have been doing that for about two months now. While I have only lost a few more pounds, NOW is when everyone is noticing!!! People at work have been asking me if I have lost weight, or they are saying that I am looking great! It's wonderful! I wanted to make this post because when I was walking in to work today, a coworker said "mornin' slim!" when I walked by. Made my whole morning! Last time I weighed (last week - I don't weight everyday or I will obsess) I was at 169lbs. It is so motivating to me when people notice and say that I am looking good! I know not everyone takes that in the same way, but for me - if I can tell it is genuine and sincere I am allllll for it! I am feeling stronger in my classes and I can do a lot more in the class than I could previously. Can't wait to keep up the progress!

Edit: just wanted to give more workout/diet deets: my first working out journey was just me going to the gym 3 or 4 times a week. I started out with a trainer to get me going and give me exercise ideas, but only did that 1 a week for about two months. All the other times I would just go by myself and do 15 min of elliptical for cardio and then I would do 45 min of weights for legs/arms/core/back (whichever I designated for that day). For keto I would eat 3 eggs in the morning with bacon, Salmon and broccoli for lunch and the keto version of whatever I was making for dinner for the boyfriend. When I stopped keto I went immediately back to all the old "bad" stuff from before and piled on weight quickly. Keto the second time was lazy - I just did pretty much what I had done previously without weighing and counting. Now I am just trying to concentrate on portion sizes. I am still meal prepping salmon and broccoli for lunch, and currently breakfast is Chiobani yogurt and some grapes. Depending on how I feel after the workout I have been doing protein smoothies (frozen fruit, almond milk, dose & co vanilla protein powder and a few squirts of monk fruit sweetener) or I make dinner. If I do a "bad" dinner I try to eat as slowly as possible so I don't eat the whole thing. And I allow myself to gorge on ice cream once a week (it's my weakness) so I don't go crazy. My workout classes are Monday-Thursday & Sat, Sun at 50 minutes a piece. It's some weights but mostly body weight exercise and cardio.

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I set up a trail cam to see where the neighborhood wildlife hangs out... Have you ever seen 10 photos of your backside walking away from a trail cam?

I was trying to see where the coyotes hang out in my yard so I can make my little dogs safer, and all I captured are ten photos that are concrete proof of what the last year and half of desk sitting and stress eating has done to my ass. I'm back where I started after losing 30 pounds three years ago. I knew it because my fat clothes fit again, but I really needed those photos as a wake up call.

CICO and IF aren't working as well as last time, so after reading a bunch of stuff about perimenopause and hormonal effects on weight and talking to my doctor, I'm reducing carbs as well. Since I'm vegan and eat a lot of beans, this is going to be a challenge.

If anyone had any advice on things that were helpful for weight loss in middle age, easy low carb veg meal ideas, or stories about accidentally traumatizing yourself with your own camera, I'm here for it.

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Is trying to lose 60 pounds in 6 months realistic?

I’m a really small person. I’m 5’4” male and been really overweight for a long time. At my heaviest I was 225lbs. When the pandemic hit in I decided to start exercising more and got down to about 170lbs. Recently, I fell off the wagon and gained about 20lbs back (currently 187). My goal has always been to get to 135 (natural weight for my height) and maintain that weight. Last week, I joined an MMA gym and have been doing 1 hour kickboxing and BJJ classes 4 days a week (I’m new so I need break days here and there to recover sore muscles. My goal is to be able to go 6 days a week). To make this weight loss journey different than the other times I’ve tried to lose weight, I wanted to set a goal for myself that’s difficult, but ultimately achievable with hard work. Is losing 10lbs a month a realistic goal or should I give myself more time?

EDIT: You guys are super helpful. Thank you so much.

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