How long should it take me to lose weight? Should I have noticed weight loss by now?

I started a 1,200 (originally 700) calorie diet just over a month ago, but I still look the same. Is this normal? I know weight loss is a slow process but it seems to be going at a snail's pace. Like it seems as if it'll take years at this rate. I'd like to lose weight by the end of the year, preferably by the summer although that may be too optimistic. I don't know exactly how much I weigh (one scale said 187 lbs, another said 205 lbs). So I'm guessing here but I'd say I need to lose around 30 lbs or so.

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My boyfriend and I can’t talk about my fitness journey

Can someone tell me why I can’t just vent to my boyfriend about how my way of trying to lose weight isn’t working without him offering a solution? In fact, I can’t even talk about other peoples’ weight loss without him trying to push their method on me.

For context, we’re both trying to get back in shape. He wanted to lose 30ish pounds, I wanted to lose 25lbs, but apparently I need to lose 40 according to the body assessment I had (but that’s a story for another day).

He recently started intermittent fasting… eating only between 1p and 9pm, but otherwise not really changing what he consumes (except both of us are eating less sweet treats). Paired with his IF he takes the dogs on a walk for 30 mins a few days a week and has a more active job. He’s done a great job at dropping weight, and is over halfway to his goal in a month.

My method has involved just trying to make smaller sustainable diet changes, drinking more water, and going to the gym 4 times a week. I work a fairly sedentary job. I’ve been doing this for the past 3 weeks ish and there’s been no change at all in my weight. I’ve been a little discouraged but I’m still trying, but not making any radical changes.

Anyways recently I mentioned I haven’t lost any weight and he suggested IF. He said it’s working for him so I should try it. I tried to explain that when I don’t eat until late in the day, I gorge myself and can’t stop eating. He said he didn’t think it matters how much you eat during that time, as long as it’s only within those hours. I disagreed and we ended the convo with him still saying I should try it.

Today I told him a friend of mine is down 35 lbs. He asked how. I told him what she told me - her dr. prescribed her phentermine and she eats under 1200 cals a day. I made a comment about how i won’t be doing that because I feel like I’d be worsening my mental health by feeling like I was starving myself, to which his response was “well isn’t that kind of the point?” I said no, it’s not really a healthy calorie intake for most people, and that the “point” is being in a calorie deficit which most people accomplish without cutting that drastically. I also mentioned that my friend is also on a pretty powerful weight loss aid. I got a little irritated and it led to him saying we just shouldn’t talk about this anymore, but I’m irritated because sometimes I just want to express my frustration without him pushing some fad solution on me.

I’m not without blame here, I know, but when he says these things it feels like he’s telling me or thinking I’m just not trying hard enough. Thanks for listening!

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How do antibiotics and medically prescribed steroids affect weight?

I have been losing weight slowly over the past couple of months. It has been slow and steady progress and I'm proud of it so far. However, about a week and a half ago I was prescribed antibiotics and steroids for an ear infection.

I was only on the medication for a week, but pretty much all of last week I was constantly hitting new lows on the scale everyday! I was so happy because it all fell off so fast and I attributed it to a small change to my diet that I recently made and not thinking about the medication.

I was hoping to reach my 50lb milestone this weekend at the rate I was losing weight. However, on Friday I woke up and the weight loss was very small. I just shrugged it off because every day you can have highs and lows (and strangely enough, I find that I lose a lot of weight after a couple days of gaining weight). However on Saturday I gained half a pound. And this morning I gained 1 and a half pounds! I haven't changed my diet or eaten anything that I believe would have caused this to happen.

Overall I'm still negative to what I was like 2 weeks ago, but I'm starting to realize ther perhaps my sudden weight loss over the past week wasn't because of the change in my diet, but rather the medication I was on and now my body is recuperating what it lost.

I'm assuming the antibiotics killed lots of gut bacteria, which in turned caused me to lose weight (just because we have a ton of bacteria in our gut) but also because without that bacteria I wasn't digesting food as well and not soaking up the nutrients.

I'm hoping the weight gain stops soon, but it's just a mental defeat thinking that I was causing the weight loss when it wasn't me at all. I know that I will eventually hit that 50 lb goal, I was just excited to potentially do it this weekend.

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For those of you who can’t do moderation, have you just decided to abstain from unhealthy foods forever?

I’m starting to realize I’m not the type of person who can do moderation. The second sugar, fat or carb heavy foods hit my system all bets are out the door. A donut could turn into a month-long binge if I’m not especially careful. But, if I can abstain for a few days, I can usually build up a tolerance that lasts a while . It almost feels like I’ll need to give up on anything too indulgent, food-wise. This might be able to work for me in the short term as I focus on weight loss. But, once I hit my ideal weight range and am looking to maintain, I’m unsure I can integrate these types of foods back into my diet if moderation has shown to not work for me.

Curious, for those of you now at your goal weight, who have kept it off, and aren’t really into moderation, how has long-term weight maintenance been for you and have you decided to abstain from indulgent / unhealthy / “junk” foods forever?

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I lost 10kg and gained back 17kg. Now I'm back on track to lose it all.

Typing on my phone, I apologize in advance for any formatting errors.

Three years ago at the start of the pandemic I (24f) managed to lose 10kg from my then SW of 83kg to 73kg. In the following summer my grandpa passed away from COVID complications and I momentarily stopped counting my calories and doing my daily workouts to grieve.

it turned out to be much harder to get back on track than I thought. The following two years were full of half baked attempts at getting back into the mindset and starting anew. During that time period I gained back all the weight I had lost plus some more. I was now at my heighest weight at 90kg.

I had never felt so miserable in my entire life. I struggle with depression and anxiety disorder since my teenage years and am currently in the process of getting an ADHD diagnosis. Gaining so much weight, noticing that my clothes don't fit anymore and that my mobility got worse really put me in a horrible state of mind.

Maybe that is the reason I managed to attempt another start to my weight loss journey. I'm not sure what it was, but this time i managed to stick to my resolutions again and I have since lost 4kg. It's not much, but it's more than I have managed to lose during the last two years, so I'm proud of how far I've come. I hope to lose all the weight I gained back and finally reach my goal weight of 65kg.

Thanks for reading!

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Pilates/walking macro question

Hi! I’ve been on my weight loss journey for a bit - started around 185 and currently 137 with a gw of 125. I want to tone my overall body but especially my stomach. Does anyone have any suggestions on how many steps I should be taking each day or how often I should be doing mat pilates each week? Also any input on macros is highly appreciated :) I’m 5’7, eat 1500 calories, and around 22% body fat if that helps.

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Need advice for weight loss and muscle gain for 26m

Hello, this is my first time posting here and to preface, this is for my husband. I am only posting for him because he is too nervous to do it himself and doesn’t like having an online presence. Also the below are things he has said to me and his own personal goals. I love him as he is but I want to support his goals I just don’t know how.

He is 26 just under 6ft and around 250lbs. We both have struggled with ED in the past and he has a habit of doing a lot of fad diets (keto, intermittent fasting, etc..) or trying to make himself only eat 1000 calories or less, he will lose 10-20 lbs really fast and then fall off and gain it back and then some. He always really wants to lose weight and go back to his college weight of 170 lbs or at a minimum 200lbs.

He also wants to gain more muscle, around a year ago he gained a lot of muscle in a short amount of time and when he did he got a lot of purple stretch marks on his arms. That ruined it for him and made him really unmotivated and upset. Went back on an ED diet and lost a lot of the muscle.

The things he struggles with are he says he never ever feels full. Even when I make him big meals. A typical meal for us is something like a meat (usually chicken or steak/red meat), a veggie (usually green beans, corn, salad, or peas), and a carb ( usually potatoes or pasta) I try to plan balanced meals. He always describes it as like a never ending pit like he can always eat more.

The other thing he struggles with is he wants to gain muscle but he said last time he felt stronger but just looked bigger like the muscles just pushed his fat out. He also is scared of hurting himself working out because he was doing squats wrong for awhile and messed up his knees. He also doesn’t want more stretch marks.

I have been trying to get away from diet culture and do more intuitive eating (I don’t think I’m doing the best at it but I’m trying) since my last stint with my ED caused me to lose 30 lbs in 2 months and I lost basically all of the muscles I once had. I would really like for whatever he tries to not be a fad diet and something that we can adapt to be a healthy lifestyle.

I would appreciate any help with supporting his goals if you guys need any more information let me know. I hope someone here can relate to how he feels so he can get some real help and achieve results that last.

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