After months of struggling with Binge Eating, I am finally losing weight again!

25M 5'11 SW 352 CW 179 GW 165

I will leave a TLDR at the bottom bc this is a bit lengthy.

I went from 352lbs down to 182 lbs in my first year of dieting! In the following 3 months I gained and lost the same 5 lbs over and over and over due to binge eating. I am so close to my goal weight of 165 so this has been hard for me to deal with.

In the first 7-8 months, it was easy for me being in a massive calorie deficit, my sheer determination and will power to restrict calories was huge let me tell you. I actually enjoyed the feeling of an empty stomach, and feeling my stomach rumble lol it sounds weird ik. The weight just melted off. But then I started feeling hungrier and hungrier. I started needing more and more "cheat days" and the cheat days turned from a couple thousand extra calories, to a few thousand and so on. Then i started needing multiple cheat days every week. My weight loss slowed further and further. Until eventually it halted. From November to February I had a net loss of zero lbs. And I didn't realized I was developing a binge eating disorder.

November to February: I would Heavily restrict my calories as usual (1500 calories a day) then by the end of the week I couldn't take it, and would binge eat anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 calories a couple or even a few days in a row. I would see weight gain on the scale, get freaked out and scared to gain weight back, get really determined, and begin heavily restricting again. Rinse and repeat. The guilt i would feel after binge eating made me feel so horrible about myself. It actually started giving me anxiety and I couldn't stop thinking about food and dieting. I felt trapped in a way. Those who binge can relate I'm sure. When I binged, the feeling was just awful. I felt so insatiable just in full starving mode. Like a zombie craving flesh.

I lost my weight by massively cutting, it's all i knew, all I thought would work for me. Slower weight loss sounded scary because 1 of my binges could easily ruin a full week's progress... 3 weeks ago I decided I would trust in those ridiculously insane ppl who are ok with the idea of losing ONLY 1 lb a week (lol.) So I started eating at a much smaller deficit. I'm thinking my deficit is somewhere between 400-500 calories. It's hard to figure these things out precisely but I have lost nearly 3 lbs in the last few weeks. I am 179 lbs (lowest I've ever been since probably middle school) and I am happy to say the bingeing behaviors are completely gone! I do have moments where I'm a bit hungry sure, (after all, I'm still in a deficit) but it's not agonizing, not even close to the miserable feeling I used to feel. And some nights I do go to bed feeling very mildly hungry, more like minor cravings. But I feel comfort in the fact that I can now eat a proper sized meal when I wake up :) Sometimes I'm not hungry at all. Which is new for me XD Food is no longer ALWAYS on mind I can eat more of the foods I enjoy. I have been making sure to hit my protein goal, then eat whatever i want to fill out the rest of my calories. It's amazing. My body feels the best it's ever felt, I have had more energy, my sleep has even improved, my weightlifting sessions I feel like I can go harder. Since I don't binge anymore I never have to deal with significant bloating and looking 30 lbs heavier the next day! And I GET TO EAT. Omg I get to freaking eat! I'm an absolute idiot for not eating at a more sustainable deficit. It's not a race. And I will reach my goal weight before I know it!

TLDR: Eating at a big calorie deficit worked for me for a good while but eventually caused me to begin binge eating pretty severely. I stopped making any weight loss progress because of it. I am now eating at a much smaller deficit and the weight loss has resumed! I feel incredible!

I am excited to get this off my chest because I've been struggling with it so much physically and mentally! And I've finally overcome it!

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Please someone explain a deficit like I’m 5 YO

Okay I’m ready to start my weight loss journey, but I truly can’t wrap my head around a calorie deficit?! 22F, 5’9, 190 lbs. (I was 195lbs two weeks ago before I started)

I’ve put this info into a calculator but I don’t understand what the “bmr” number represents and what I do with that information?

Before I started this journey I never worked out, and never watched what I ate. I will say in the last two weeks I’ve been exercising for about an hour a day. And according to my smart watch I’m burning about 350 calories through exercise. Do I add this to my daily calories I can intake ? Or is it best for me to ignore my calorie burn through exercise?

I want to lose weight, and I want to do it effectively. I just don’t understand. And 20 articles later I’m here asking you guys.

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NSV: expectation vs reality

most of my weight loss journey has not been actively trying to lose ‘x’ lbs but instead working on my diet/exercise habits and seeing where my body’s ‘set point’ falls when i feel my best. I don’t like to weigh myself because of my tendency to obsess over it so my way of tracking progress has been seeing or feeling changes. Up until this point I haven’t felt/seen anything different but I bought some ‘XXL’ (XL is (was?) form fitting for me but these were for lounging not jeans so i went a size up) pants and when I tried them on they fit normally, which freaked me out thinking i had gone up a size, but i looked at the tag instead of the hanger and they’re actually medium.

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You can do it!

You really can do it. I know some of you need to hear this! I started my weight loss journey on April 20th, 2021 and I am closing in on my 1-year mark. I started at 205 - 31% body fat and right now am 177 - 20% body fat.

Why? This is the most important thing about a journey. If you don't have a strong enough reason why you are doing something it will not last and you will look for shortcuts. My why is because I know I can and I want to prove it to myself every single day. I do not care what other people think or care for positive or negative feedback. This is for me and what I think of myself. By proving this to myself every day I can achieve happiness every day even if my goal is a long time away.

How? This is the second most important thing about your journey. You need to be at least 80-90% consistent with whatever you find out works for you on a weekly basis. It should take forever to do this depending on how far away from your goal you are. Don't try to go lose more than 1 pound per week, 4 pounds per month, 52 pounds per year maximum( I am probably only going to lose 30 pounds in a year and went many weeks without losing weight ). I am going to tell you that you need to exercise, eat right, and recover(sleep well) but not how to do each of those. Find what is best for you in those 3 categories and be consistent.

Balance Listen, eating the right food, getting in the right exercises for the right amount of time, and getting enough sleep is very time-consuming on a daily basis. The journey is going to be very long and you need to be extremely consistent. The only way to do this is to enjoy every minute of it. If you would only be happy with your end goal and can't enjoy the steps on the way there you will suffer(even if the scale or mirror doesn't show progress). If you suffer you will avoid doing what is necessary and look for shortcuts or stop. Or even worse, you will regress to be beginning of your journey or go further in the wrong direction and this will make enjoying what you do 10 times harder which leads to suffering. Find the right balance that makes you consistent on a weekly basis.

Your body takes care of you every day and you need to take care of it. You only get 1.

Tell me your why, and how!

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Disappointed with lack of progress

Hey everyone, I’m a bit nervous as it’s my first post here (and on Reddit) but I need some help/advice.

I’ve struggled with being overweight and eating poorly since I was a child. I’ve always been the largest in my class, friend group etc. I’m tall (5’10) and have always been overweight. In 2017, I was depressed and gained a lot of weight - at my highest weight I was about 220 pounds. However, a year later (2018), I lost about 40 pounds without much effort. I ate a bit better, but my diet was still pretty bad, though I did walk a lot.

From June 2019 to June 2021, I was very depressed and coped with food (just like 2017). I gained 40 pounds in 2 years, and am now the heaviest I’ve ever been at 230 pounds. It’s affected my health and my doctor has told me I need to lose at least 10% of my bodyweight.

For the past 3 months, I’ve been tracking everything I eat through the Lose It app. Originally I had it set to 1800 calories, but I wasn’t losing anything, so a month ago I set my activity to “sedentary” (which is accurate anyways) and I now aim to eat about 1500-1600 calories a day. But I’m still not losing weight. I’ve lost a few inches off of my chest and waist (assuming I measured correctly) but my weight hasn’t budged, and I look the exact same in my “progress” photos from January and now. I’m getting super discouraged, and have already gone way over my calorie limit this week. I’m eating so much less than I used to (when I was gaining weight), plus I’ve cut out or reduced other things (less sugar in my coffee, no Starbucks, way less snacking and frozen food) but I’m not seeing any results. It’s frustrating too because a few years ago, I seemed to lose weight without changing much, but now I’m trying so hard and getting no results.

I also like spinning as a workout, but it doesn’t seem to be contributing at all to my weight loss. I’ve read that weightlifting is better for fat loss - does it have to be heavy weights at the gym? Or can it be body weight workouts, or dumbbell workouts?

Hoping for some advice/encouragement. Has anyone else been in this situation, and if so, what helped you? Is it worth getting a Registered Dietician, or will they just tell me standard advice (eat less, eat better and workout more)?

Thanks in advance :)

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Could use some advice

I currently weigh around 180 at 5’5 (female). I have a history of restrictive eating which morphed into binge eating and over eating. At the beginning of the pandemic I was 170, walking a ton and counting calories and lost 15 lb to 155and i was proud but not in a very good spot mentally. I got pregnant August 2020 and gained about 4plb up to around 200lb.

I’ve been trying to lose weight and find good habits but I feel like I already eat pretty well, which is frustrating. I rarely eat bread, mostly fruits and veggies and low fat Greek yogurt, chicken tacos for dinner (thigh, with onion and garlic and no sour cream etc). I live in New England so it is hard to get exercise in the winter.

I got too obsessive with calories recently and I was exercising a minimum of 2 hours 6 days a week, then I relapsed and had a binge.

I stopped counting calories after that binge (about 2 weeks ago) and felt like I was in a really good spot mentally, feeling good about my body, when I found out I gained like 7 lb in the last two weeks. I’ve been trying intuitive/mindful eating but now I’m just sad and frustrated. I’m already in therapy, and I have an appointment with a local weight loss clinic i used to attend.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated :/ I just feel like I have to torture myself mentally (ie count calories) in order to make myself lose weight, and I’m not sure what to do.

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Frustrated and maybe I’m just hyper focusing

For context, I had emergency surgery back in Oct/21 to have my gallbladder yeeted. Since then I’ve lost roughly 40 pounds. I know that weight fluctuation is normal, and this is more than likely where the hyper focusing is massively coming into play.

My day before surgery weight was 263.4 and my lowest since surgery was 221.8 on Monday. I weighed in at 225.6 this morning. I’ve been fluctuating anywhere between 1-7 pounds since the beginning of the month. I KNOW that the fluctuations are normal. I know it. But for whatever reason, seeing the numbers increase occasionally makes me want to cry. It also frustrates me at the same time, because I don’t really want them to increase. And this morning was one of those days.

I’m still experiencing rapid weight loss since surgery. I’ll take the weight loss in general, as I was at 324 at my highest. The rapid weight loss since surgery has also resulted in body dysmorphia that comes and goes. Today being one of those days where I just want to cry. I’ve been talking to my mental health worker about it over the last four months, and one of the things we’ve talked about was to take the mirror out of my room for a week or two at a time. I know that the next logical thing to do is to move the scale to someplace where I don’t have access to it for a week or two, as it’s currently chilling out in my bedroom.

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