NSV: Emotional Eating

19F SW: 197.7 CW: 194.8 GW: 160

I am guilty of emotional and bored eating, and that's my main focus for weight loss. However, yesterday, I found out my husband got recycled in his AIT training and it's gonna be another two months before he's home. With the countdown of days set back at triple digits, I was devastated, and really wanted to order Domino's to console myself. I even ended up going to the app and looking at everything. While I did end up going over my budget, I instead ate at home and saved money by eating a cutie, a banana, and some cherry tomatoes (200 cal). Even though I ended up eating over my goal, I'm really glad I didn't order domino's and chose a healthy option instead. I never thought I'd be able to do that!!!

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Weight loss plateau of 2+ months?

I started my weight loss journey on July 1st, 2022. The weight initially just peeled off because I was eating only 1,200-1,400 calories/day (I used a bad online calculator for my BMR and deficit, I know better now). Mostly water weight and shock for my body, but I lost almost 20 pounds in two months (187-167 lbs). During this time I was hitting the gym 4-7 days a week and doing the stair master for upwards of 60-70 minutes typically burning around 500-700 calories (sometimes 1,000). I lost the next 10 pounds or so over (160 lbs) the course of about 2 months. November and December I had a lot of cheat meals, obviously and December especially, I ate at maintenance or surplus, however, I did not gain any extra weight (160-161 lbs). I was not going to the gym as regularly sometimes 1-2x a week, usually not at all.

One week in november, I was under EXTREME stress and hardly ate due to anxiety and lost 5 pounds. I put it all back on once I started eating regularly again.

January 1, 2023, I hopped back into the gym and committed to being religious with my weight loss. Weighing all of my food, logging accurately, fewer cheat meals (even making healthier decisions at restaurants). I'm back in the gym 4-5 days a week and doing 500 cals on the stair master each day. I weigh myself daily and the average seems to trend around 159-160. I've gone as low as 157 and as high as 162. This seems extremely frustrating as I just cannot seem to break this plateau. I'm currently eating 1,500-1,550 calories per day and burning around 2,000-2,500 calories at the gym/week.

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Any advice on what to do to lose the remaining 15-19 pounds or so?

F, 5'10, 27, SW 187.7, CW 159.6 GW 140

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Stats?

So my dietician says it’s possible for me to lose weight at 2000 calories a day. I don’t believe it I haven’t seen weight loss in 5 months until I dropped to 1200 calories a day. I’m on trulicity which helps with hunger to a certain extent but I feel if I ate at 2000 I’d be a lot happier and have more energy. My current tdee is 2700. In 5ft tall and weigh 345. I literally just need to lose 30 pounds. I lost 15 pounds from July- September but I’ve been fluctuating in the same 7 pound weight since then on 1500/1200 calories a day. I’ve started going to the gym. I go 6 days a week anywhere from 30mins to 1hr of weight training and so far im doing 10 mins of cardio (working on increasing but it’s a slow progress) So TLDR is it possible to lose weight on 2000 cals and consistent working out

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Doing downhill and I need some advice and help before it gets too late.

So I (26m) am a recovering alcoholic that replaced booze with food. Getting sober was not a difficult choice for me this time around. Alcohol beat me to there I literally couldn't say no to what AA had to offer, but when I quit drinking I started eating. People say oh yeah I eat more sweet when I quit but the feeling will go away. Well after about a year and a half the feeling has done anything but go away. I eat around 3-4 thousand calories per day of mostly garbage. I am worried it's beginning to effect my health. Instead of changing my diet I just up my workouts, and eat more garbage. Today I was at lunch with some friends out of no where I got the feeling I was about to pass out. This happened the other day too after my workout in the pool. I'm scared its my food in eating and something is happening in my body.

I told my AA friends about maybe checking out OA and they said "spoiler alert, it's the same 12 steps".

I called my works counseling hotline to get referred to a therapist for it but I'm afraid to go in because therapy never worked for my alcoholism so why would it work for this

I thought about going to a doctor and spilling the beans but I am in the military and I am afraid I'll have some medical issue now that will get me kicked out.

So I'm pretty much all out of ideas.

I've counted calories in the past and I went from 250 to 190, but that was because I had to do it for my job. Now I can't find and real goal for weight loss and "my health, or married" isn't a good enough reason. I workout 5-6 days a week sometimes twice a day, and even that is slowly not being able to keep up with my weight gain.

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Advice on continuing to lose weight in a healthy manner.

I have lost about 50lbs since I started taking my ADHD medication; and while I welcome the weight loss, it has not been in the healthiest way. I only eat once a day and drink a lot of water whenever I take my medication, I am a fairly active person but losing weight has been difficult for me due to my PCOS, one of my symptoms is that I never feel full, but now the stimulants suppress my hunger.

I'd like to hear advice from other people who may be on the same boat I am, I try to have a nice breakfast before taking my meds and attempt to at least snack throughout the day but I just don't get hungry until late at night when I'm ready for bed.

I am a full-time student, waitress (so i walk a lot), and have also been going to the gym a couple of times a week. Just need advice on maintaining my eating habits so I am not just starving myself.

Thanks in advance!

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Hit my first goal!

When I started on 19th Jan 2022 I didn’t have a goal date in mind, but as we got closer to the 1 year mark I started thinking I’d try to aim for hitting my first goal (to change BMI class) within the year. I did it with one day to spare!! For a total of 24.1kg or 53lbs lost in the past year.

I don’t pretend to have all the answers but a couple of things which I think would help a lot of people are:

1) learning to be flexible (and I don’t mean yoga). I have a chronic illness with pain and fatigue flare ups - I had to learn to be ok with skipping workouts. I also have a young family and a social life - I had to be ok with being unable to track some meals. Being able to do both of these without giving up the entire thing as a lost cause was really important for me

2) accepting that this takes time. I know this sounds contradictory considering this post is about hitting a time-based goal, but I only set that goal once I knew it was possible. When I started I was fine if this took 1 year or 4. As long as there’s progress, not just with weight loss but also mental health, mentality around weight loss, etc, then I’m on the right path

My next goal is to go down another BMI class, with about another 14kg or 30lbs to go, and then I’ll see if I want to set another goal after that. I expect this part to be slower, so I’m happy if this takes another couple of years…

I was going to end this by saying wish me luck, but I don’t need it! I’m confident that I’m going to achieve my goals. But how about some good wishes for the rest of my journey?

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"Eat X deficit size" "10k steps a day" influencer advice confusion

Every (reasonable) fitness influencer seems to peddle the same tips for weight loss, the biggest ones being a smaller deficit (500 cals max) and 10k steps a day, with an additional focus on strength training 3 days a week.

All great stuff, and things I would like to do regardless of weight loss! My question is this: is the 500 cal deficit taking into account the exercise? Are they setting their activity levels accordingly? Or are they taking the usual approach seen here, which is setting to sedentary and then logging your exercise separately/increasing cals accordingly?

I'm six foot and 315, so my sedentary 500 cal deficit is in the ballpark of 2400 cals. Should I just eat this amount and do the exercise as bonus burn? Log it and adjust day to day? Just looking for some clarity :(

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