Am I too late?

(Obligatory “this is a throwaway”)

Okay, I KNOW that the answer is probably “no”. But damn, I am having a horrible time believing that right now.

I’m 26F, 5’9, and hovering between 250 and 255 lbs. I am at my absolute wits end, and after starting my first post-grad job have been having terrible back pain from sitting all day. I’ve been trying to lose weight since I was a teenager, and since WAY before I actually needed to. But now, obviously, I do actually need to and I just. Cant. Do. It.

I know I can do hard things - I’m a lawyer! I got the degree and passed the bar and worked my ass off to find a good job. Why is weight loss so different? Why is the discipline there for one thing, but not for another?

Anyone who lost the weight in or after their mid-20s - please share the tips, the tricks, the vents. I feel so alone and I need to know this is possible. I want to feel healthy and energetic and confident and, yes, pretty. I know this is all over the place (hence the throwaway, I just needed to word vomit).

To anyone who took the time to read it all - thank you. And thank you for creating this community where we can be vulnerable with people who get it.

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Calorie Deficit... is that really all there is too it?

Hi everybody! I've been fighting an ED for nearly 30 years, and therapy has helped me realize that a huge trigger for binging is the fact that I try to restrict too much. I've moved away from all the extreme diets and my primary goal is currently to make sure I eat regularly and enough during the day. I'm finding it to be a lot of food, which makes me very anxious and uncomfortable. My goal is currently 1450 cal per day. Which is not enough as per my TDEE but right now I'm really battling to even get over 1000 per day.

Rambling aside, I find putting together mealplans that are sustainable for me very stressful in terms of macros etc, I'd like some feedback as to whether staying in deficit and avoiding sugar and processed carbs will be sufficient for weight loss for now? Or do I need to pay close attention to macros?

Thanks for reading my rambling, and for the hope this subreddit offers!

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Weighing Food - I hate it

Hello everyone, some background first, about 16 years ago I rapidly gained weight during the last year of high school and I lost it about 4 years later when I took up running and cleaned up my diet. So for the last 16 year I've been pretty active but with disordered eating habits (trying to be too healthy, waiting too long to eat, binging on cheat days etc). So with Covid a ton of shit happened and I have gained about 25 pounds and pretty much quit working out. This has been devastating for me physically (high cholesterol now) and mentally (I struggle with anxiety).

So I'm trying to lose this but in a healthier way. So I decided to get a food scale. Oh my god I am a little blown away. First, I didn't realize how little some portion sizes are. 30g of hummus is not even two tablespoons when measuring out in my tablespoon. A very small sweet potato weighed 150g and I've been logging small sweet potato at the default 100g. I literally have to count and weigh nuts and it's like 7 nuts per serving. Even as someone who was pretty healthy but never weighed food, I feel like I was def eating closer to 1700 cals then the 1300 I thought I was eating precovid. After weighing all this food, no way was I close to 1300! I was just deluding myself and trying to eat that low but never making it because my habits were so disordered.

I also have been having trouble managing post workout hunger. I guess I was used to this precovid but am not longer used to working out. I know it's not essential for weight loss but I really want to get back into running. I miss it. But after my workouts I am so hungry and then my portions are so small.

Does anyone have any tips for any of this? My TDEE is around 1400cals so I don't have a ton of room to work with but that is not including any workouts. This has been really eye opening for me and I do want to eat pretty balanced meals.

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FYI: You did not actually gain 2+ pounds because you splurged at your superbowl party

I keep seeing posts on various weight loss subs about people freaking out because they weighed themselves monday morning and the number skyrocketed.

This is a reminder that water weight can fluctuate 5+ pounds every day. Weight loss is about trends, not a single day of screwing up.

I reccomend using the Happy Scale app, it will show your trends and lows instead of just your most recent weigh in.

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25 down

It’s taken about 8 months but according to my home scale I’m down 25 pounds now! According to the hospital I’m only 4 pounds down so a bit discouraging but I did gain weight since my first recorded weight in may. I started getting serious about weight loss July 27. While I’m not in as hopeful of a state as I used to be it’s encouraging to see even if it might only be 10 actual pounds lost atleast I can assume I’m heading in the right direction. Also to mention I just got out of a 5 month stall at the beginning of February. According to the hospital I’m 346 according to my home scale the day that was recorded I was 337.

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Had 3000 cals today and feeling so bad.

Hiya, I'm feeling really down and in need of some advice. Today I went way over my calorie limit of 1500 and ended up consuming around 3000 calories. And no matter what anyone replies this is notokay. Because if I start thinking it’s okay, I’ll just continue doing this, ya know? I cant stay i this pattern.

So now it’s the end of the day, I'm feeling terrible about it and worried about the setback this will cause in my weight loss journey. To make things worse, yesterday I also ate too much, and I've just been eating what I want without any self-control.

I'm feeling so bad because part of me wants to keep eating loads, while another part of me wants to take control and continue losing weight. I think my overeating is partly due to boredom, and I want to make sure this doesn't become a cycle.

I'm wondering if keeping a log of what I eat during my binges and what triggers them could help me better understand my behavior and make changes. Does anyone have any tips on how to log this in a way that's helpful?

Also, I'm not sure what to do now. I’m feeling disgusting and overweight and horrid. And I’m scared this will make me gain so much weight. Should I try to burn off the extra calories by going on a really long walk tomorrow, or should I just continue with my normal routine? Any advice or words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Under 200!

38f. Long time lurker! Been working on weight loss for the last two years. I started at 290 and lost 80 pounds getting down to 210 and then went off the rails gaining 50 pounds back up to 260! Started journey again and am down to 198.6 today, my first time under 200 pounds since 2013! 🤗 My end goal is 154 which seemed to unobtainable when I first started but not anymore. My next benchmark is 180! Want to start tonin! Just excited and wanted to share!

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