feel like I've been knocked off my feet

I've been steadily loosing weight since I started my weight loss journey towards the end of October last year I was eating at a caloric deficit and doing around 10k steps and even lifting weights 4-5 times a week but 2 weeks ago things changed my mother lost her boyfriend who I saw like a step father to heart disease noone had any idea that he had any problems with his health so it knocked us all off our feet and now I just can't seem to find the energy to lift and I've been eating more then I was I weighed myself today and I've put on like 4lb and as soon as I had weighed myself I just felt even worse like I've failed sorry if this is the wrong place to post this I just felt like I needed to get it off my chest.

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Struggling to lose weight again.

Hey y'all,

I'm a 5'6" dude that currently weighs 240 lbs. Around 4 years ago, I weighed around the same, and I had the motivation and the discipline to lose the weight all the way down to 175 lbs. I ate around 1300 calories a day and I would check the scale every other day and see if my weight would drop. I would do cardio 6 days a week and if I felt like it, I would even do 7. Now, I am currently struggling to get back on the wagon, and I've chalked it up to a couple specific details:

1. I get back on the weight loss grind and I eat around 1300-1500 calories a day but I can only keep back on it for about a week and then I fall back to my old ways of binge eating.

2. I get INSANE cravings around 10 PM. It happens often enough that I would want to eat something nice before going to bed and I end up going to a fast food place, watch a video on my computer, and then go right back to sleep.

3. Every day I wake up I tell myself I am going to go to the gym. However, as the day goes on, I make up excuses in my head such as "Oh I have so much homework tonight that I need to go home and do as much as I can" or "I can just eat less and it'll be okay".

I look back at pictures of my old self and I realize that if I managed to do it once, I can do it again. Problem is, I just don't know how to address these issues, and I might get back on the grind and then fall off of it in a week. I never saw it during the time, but I realized that I looked really good and I also wanna feel really good as well. If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

For reference: https://imgur.com/mRb8Vpv Me back then. https://imgur.com/lLVa3X0 Me now.

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How to manage the extreme hunger after losing weight ?

I'm 5'11 male 142 pounds, formerly 257, been maintaining for several months. I suffer from extreme hunger a lot since trying to maintain my weight. It feels uncontrollable, like a wild animal. I make sure I never have food in the house sometimes, except vegetables. One time I was so desperate I binge ate a bag of frozen peas and carrots. It felt like it should have been some kind of low point, lol.

My old tactics are volume eating, drinking lots of coffee, drinking lots of water..plus a few other not so nice things. But they don't work anymore. Only thing that seems to work is sleep but it just delays it.I asked my GP to prescribe appetite suppressants and other weight loss drugs, but she would not due to my weight and said it could make me underweight (no risk of that lol). I tried to explain what the extreme hunger was actually like, but she didn't seem to get it.

I feel tired a lot because i waste so much energy thinking about food and trying not to eat too much. And yes I eat a healthy amount that maintains my weight but it doesn't feel like enough, even though I know it is. (I track and weigh everything). My diet is high in protein with a low to medium amount of carbs. I fast one day a week, but I do make up for the calories. The food I eat does next to nothing to get rid of the hunger.

Anyone else had this issue? I don't want to lose more weight, but I also don't want to gain any fat or eat more. I'm hoping that this is fixable but it's so tiring. It makes me so depressed constantly resisting temptation, and when I do give in I have to work it off which just make me hungry again.

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Finally learned what may have been holding me back

I have always struggled with weight loss, especially with hypothyroidism. But you know what I discovered on Monday or Tuesday? My maintenance calories and BMR calculation were way fucking off. I use the TDEE calculator, this one for calculating it. It turns out, inputting your body fat percentage makes a huge difference that my noob self didn’t realize.

I also hadn’t calculated my body fat in months, so it was needing to be updated anyway lol

ANYWAY, the calculation difference was almost 1000 calories. So it turned out, I’ve been eating my maintenance calories for the last 3 months, not at a -800 to -1000 caloric deficit like I thought! (Which wasn’t a dangerous amount for me. My incorrectly calculated maintenance calories was 2900). I had just figured it was so high because I’m so fat.

It turns out, at 5’6” with about 69% body fat (nice) puts my BMR at about 1700 calories, IF I didn’t have hypothyroidism (because I know that makes it lower).

So now I can eat at the right caloric amount and adjust as I go! It’s a win I wanted to share, since my only other post was me bitching months ago

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A new priority

Hey all. Long-time lurker here. I'm writing this at 12AM after eating an entire 150g chocolate bar because I weighed myself for the first time in a week and somehow went from 65 to 68 kg. Yes, the chocolate was rage-chocolate after seeing that number jump.

I've decided that I can't keep doing this. The #1 thing hindering my weight loss efforts is binge eating. Although I'm not diagnosed, I am pretty sure I have Binge Eating Disorder. So I'm switching my priorities right now. I'm at a healthy weight (approx 66 kg or 146 lbs) for my height (1.67m or 5'6), and while I'd like to lose another 5 kg (12 lbs), that can be put aside. The pressing issue is my relationship with food. I'm 21 years old and know that if I don't fix this problem now, it's going to have negative consequences for me down the line.

So, I am posting my pledge here to change my priorities and to repair my relationship with food. I've had quite the rocky relationship with food: anorexic/severely underweight at 14, overweight at 18, and now healthy weight at 21. It's time for me to fix this. My new plan: eat like a "normal person." This means no hiding food, no sneaking snacks, eating meals with my family, and even getting ice cream when my friends do. I'm going to not check my weight for a while and truly focus on building a more stable relationship with food.

Thank you all for listening to this half-asleep rant/promise/whatever it was.

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Blood Work Numbers

I am a 25-year old male that stays fairly active(cardio twice to three times a week, in addition with working a job with lots of walking). Sort of turned a bind eye to monitoring a healthy weight for a few years, and when I stepped on the scale in January I was at 198lbs, with a BMI of 26.9. Thru a calorie deficit using MyPlate and increased exercise, I got myself currently to a BMI of 25.5/188lbs.

Did my physical a few days ago(the first one I’ve done since 2011🤦‍♂️)and routine blood work came back yesterday. It was a bit of a wake-up call. My LDL is 118 and Triglycerides are 180.5, both considered borderline high. Total cholesterol is at 192.6, which, according to the report, is normal. Additionally, my fasting glucose was at 108.3, which is higher than the healthy upper range. After some research it appears this is considered pre-diabetic.

I’m trying to make sense of it all. I know weight loss is beneficial for lowering all those numbers mentioned..a healthy weight range for my height(6’0) is between 136 and 184 lbs, does this mean I should aim for the midpoint, 160? I’ve also been a vegetarian since my middle school years. Almost never drink soda, and eat fried foods once to twice a week. The only culprit I can think of that would cause blood sugar issues would be eating more pasta/rice dishes than average. Bread as well. I’m Asian, so rice is a staple of our diet. Ideas on diet modification? Should I lower carb intake? Most of my meals have been eat-out as opposed to self-cooking but it’s been places like Chipotle, Panera, and Chinese restaurants where I’ll get mixed vegetables or similar.

I’m planning on seeing an R.D. soon, and putting together a meal plan but wanted to get some input from the community.

Thanks in advance!

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25F, 285 lbs, 5’6 from India looking to lose ~100 lbs…need guidance on where and how to start with both the workout and diet

Some important points:

I suffered from COVID last year and I wouldn’t say I’m completely fine even now. I have bouts of breathlessness, etc. and hence can’t do too much cardio.

I want the weight loss process to be gradual but consistent, say 10 lbs a month.

I am currently not working or studying, but I will join my job in late May, in a city away from home. I have around a month and a half to solely focus on my health and fitness.

I do not have access to a gym or any sports facilities, but have dumbbells and a multi-gym at home.

I mostly follow an Indian diet at home, and majorly eggs and chicken for protein.

I want to see more of NSVs because honestly, I know they would motivate me to continue more than the actual weight loss.

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