how much would having a birthday cheat week affect my progress?

i feel like the title says it all.. but my 21st birthday is coming up and i want to treat myself kindly and eat things i missed for the first time ever since i started counting calories (not sure if this is relevant but my relationship with food is not the best, finally accepted that it might be a problem and i am going to the doc soon don’t worry). I am not sure if i will actually be brave enough to have a cheat week but i am wondering how it might affect my weight loss journey if i did. and im not talking about incredibly hugeee amounts of food i just mean like for example if i had one vegan medium pizza, one vegan burger king meal, one fried vegan chicken bites from my fav restaurant and ofc some of a low cal bday cake im planing to bake with my friends spread out throughout the week. all while minimizing other meals that day or doing an OMAD. Would that significantly affect my progress? Sorry if thats a stupid question.

for reference i eat 1200 right now, im 155cm and 50.5kg and i walk 10k+ daily

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Losing all motivation, help!

Little backstory:

I started out my weight loss journey initially at the end of 2017. I had been in a relationship for a while, and when it started I was at approx. 175, I looked good and felt good. But I got stagnant, I was like 16 and didn't know anything about how my body reacted to what I was eating, so over the course of 2 or 3 years I put on about 50-60 pounds. I started the keto diet as the first diet I would ever attempt, it worked really well and I got down to like 185 over the course of 9ish months. I didn't feel super great but I looked pretty good. That was when I got stagnant and let go again, I have trouble in my life with overdoing good things and not being very aware of my physical world, whether that be my senses, habits, or physical surroundings. I'm working to improve that. 2 years later, I got back up to like 215 after a long battle with my fluctuating diet that I inevitably gave up on. After a nasty breakup, I decided to try again, this time doing calorie counting, which has been much easier than keto, I can eat smaller amounts of food I actually like, yipee! Over the summer I bottomed out at about 187, and since then I've fallen back into apathy again and let go of my life and habits once more. I haven't weighed in for a bit, but It's probably not great. How can I keep on the right track here? I need the motivation to not become apathetic and make positive changes in every area of my life, but most importantly and foremost, my diet.

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Thanks!

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protein affecting weight loss?

Hi everyone. I (5’3 F, 22, CW: 134 lbs, SW:155.5, GW: 120) recently upped my protein intake as I’ve started doing more strength exercise than cardio. For context, I’m not super athletic to begin with so this is something like 0.6g/lb and pretty low stakes body weight exercises. I’ve been meticulous about CICO, and am consuming around 1225/day. Despite all of this, I’ve noticed that since consuming more protein, my stomach looks…bigger? and not in a newly muscular or bloated sort of way. It looks like I’m gaining fat around my middle again, and the scale has gone up a few pounds, even though that should be thermodynamically impossible? Again, it’s definitely not muscle gains of any kind yet (i wish!). Most of the protein I’m consuming is from things like greek yoghurt, tuna, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc but I also am drinking a dairy-free protein shake (muscle milk, 25g) with coffee daily. I’m drinking plenty of water and am not having digestive issues of any kind. Has anyone else had the experience of gaining weight after increasing protein? I know protein can’t be stored in the body except as fat but does this still apply in a calorie deficit? Does this weight gain go away? Thank you!!

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I pushed myself too hard and its ended badly - NSFW

Hello all,

TW - May not be required but as it gets on you'll see I got ridiculous.

I'm after some advice and just a place to admit a few key errors I made.

Me female 30 5'5 Starting weight - 13 stone 10 - date 30/08 Current weight - 10 stone 3 (today) Goal - 10 stone 1

So I'll start from the beginning. I started this diet with NOOM and then got cross at constant mis information from their food. So I moved to the Loose it! App.

The first 2 months my weight loss was quick and amazing. I was so happy and eating 1000-1400 calories a day. I started exercising and fell in love with it and it's now a permanent part of my life.

Very beginning of November I had a girls trip away, so the week before I pushed it harder than ever. Limited calories to 800 for a week, intermittent fasting for 22 hours. I lost 4 pounds in that week. Got to the girls trip and trusted a fart. Yep.... I pooed myself from one sandwich that wasn't in my stupidly strict plan.

Anyway got back and had gained 4.5 pounds, I was furious with myself. So since then I restricted to 500 calories a day. Well today out of know where I pooed myself again. It wasn't even a fart, just a instant moment of serious D*. This time it wasn't at a friend's house, oh no. This time it was in the middle of a shopping centre.

So this evening I've made the difficult decision to delete the fasting app, and eat 3 meals a day, accepting that those last 2 pounds may not leave me again. I'm aiming for 1200-1600 calories but on a steady increase. I will look to increase by 300 tomorrow so 800, then next Monday 1100 and so on and so forth.

If I'm honest I'm terrified it's going to all come back. But the starvation I've put my body in is so much more scary. My skin is ruined, my time of the month was a week late, my face looks old.

I have questions though.

1 - has anyone maintained after being as ridiculous as me 2 - how do I get my brain into eating mode 3 - has anyone else pooed themselves (this is purely so I feel better)

Thank you for listening. I also hope this was allowed as it's not diet as such, it's just a massive error.

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Small Victory & life lesson

Small victory first: Down to my lowest weight since late 2016, at 192. Feel the need to celebrate, especially in the midst of this time of year that is traditionally tough on us.

I'd lost 100lbs in the past (down to 174), but then got a bit lazy on maintenance and put back on a good 35ish lbs or so. Since April 1st I've taken off 31lbs. My thinking is basically that I want to settle in the mid 180s and continue to reshape my body with strength training (which I've been doing all along through the weight loss this time and has definitely made it take a while longer than if I was just crashing down).

The month of November was basically one long plateau (192 on Oct 29, 192 today). And that brings us to the life lesson.

Through trial-and-error I realized that I actually haven't been eating enough. I mean I thought I was eating a good mix of macros to fuel myself, and I was never hungry at all, but I wasn't consuming enough calories (even at say 2200 a day) for the exercise I was doing. A 1500+ calorie deficit was messing with my metabolism and slowing it down too much. Bumping that up to 2500, even just having like a half dozen dried figs or something like that at the end of the day if I'm still short, has made the weight start to come back off again.

Happy journey everyone!!!

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65 down, 70 to go....

I thought I'd be a lot more hype about this? I started at about 367 pounds, probably rounding up to 370 would be a safe bet. That was last January, at my heaviest ever. I had gotten down to 315 and 330 before, but then I would yo-yo back, and covid made it even worse. It honestly clicked this time, in combination with getting on the right medications, so with a lot of hard work at the gym and some (probably less than stellar) dieting... I'm now 303/304 pounds and a certified gym rat. Honestly, I'm not going to celebrate until I get back into the 2's, but it's just so stunning to me to look at the numbers. The last time I was this weight, it was my junior year of high school. And I'm in my 4th year of college now. My goal weight? I haven't weighed that 'little' since MIDDLE SCHOOL. I was always big and stress ate because of bullying etc, it became my identity. My self confidence and self worth was entirely built around it, and I know better now, but... I think I'm going to talk to a counselor at the university once I start getting close to my goal weight. I've heard a lot about people getting treated better, get more attention, get invited out more, etc when they've lost weight, and I'm honestly scared and unprepared for that, so I want to be prepared. But like... under 300 pounds? It's almost scary, lol. If I hadn't hit a plateau I would have already been there, but that's OK albeit slightly annoying. I know weight loss isn't linear, and any progress is good progress. Though I kinda wish I could just 'rip off the bandaid' so I can get it over with and buy my new wardrobe already LOL. These 3xl sweatpants are already falling down my butt when they were tight before.

I was stuck at 311/312 for probably over a month, but looking at it now, I think I just hit the point of overtraining. The last couple of weeks before break, my sports practices made me feel like I was out of gas, stuff that I was doing well at, at the start of the semester, was killing me all of a sudden. I couldn't focus, I just felt heavy at the gym and exhausted for no reason. It was like a crawl to the finish line to get to Thanksgiving break, and I only went for one 20 minute jog/walk that whole week and slept in a bunch... granted I ate like shit and I shouldn't have, but whoops. I thought I would have surely gained weight and prepared for the mental hit, ready to see 315... but it was 303 instead. Bodies are weird, man. I'm easing myself back into exercise this week, so hopefully I'll get back on track and will have minimal hiccups to the end of my goal.

I guess I don't have any questions, I just needed a bit of a soapbox to share this with someone; sorry it's kinda all over the place. My family doesn't really understand it and most of them are the types that can breathe and lose weight, so whenever I share my struggles, it's either an awkward conversation or I get the usual 'well you just need to diet and exercise more'. Or constantly offering me candy.

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Happy tuesday!

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Body dysmorphia or plain underestimating truly exist

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I was last active in this sub. During the summer I posted in here a lot and you people have helped me a great lot in losing the first (easiest) bulk of my excess weight. I'm 27F, 155cm tall (5'0) and went from 87 kg to 70 kg (191 lbs to 154 lbs roughly), between June and September. It was really great to discuss weight loss in here with so many people from all over the world and always receiving so much support and sweet words.

I always thought that body dysmorphia had to be related to other psychological issues or heavy lack of self-confidence, but my scale proved me wrong yesterday.

Since mid-September I grew tired of counting calories as my life became busier and I decided I'd switch to maintenance until I felt like going on a bigger cut again. In short, various things happened and the maintenance lasted more than planned, and while I didn't fall back into depression or binge eating (big victory for me), I had a lot of moments where I snacked more than I should have, or enjoyed bigger and fatter dinners more frequently than advised.

In the last week I was feeling so fat, and bloated, and felt like my waistline went back to when I was 87 kg. After deciding I'd start seriously cutting calories again I obviously had to take my measurements and weigh myself. I was sure, REALLY SURE, to weigh at least 72-74kg.

Well.. both my scales, after many tries because of disbelief, read 69.5, my lowest weight ever since 2013. Measurements are the same or slighly smaller on my thighs.

I don't know how this happened. But after putting the pieces together I realized that there were probably many different factors in this, such as having beaten depression, learning to eat right during my diet, learning to manage cravings and choosing the right food or simply bearing hunger more effectively.

But the thing I can't really fathom is how I was so freaking SURE to have gotten so fat, and having ruined all of my progress. Turns out I probably just got used to my "new" body and it's time for another challenge.

EDIT: grammar (not a native speaker, I'm sorry :c )

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