My BMR seems low?

Hi all. Long time lurker here. I've had a long weight loss journey and have lost quite a bit of weight so I can have a surgery here in the UK.

I'm a 5"9 and a half trans female. So sex assigned at birth is male, gender female. I've been on HRT since I was 17 and have no T in my system. Currently I weigh 81kg.

So basing my BMR off of my smart scales and the body comp machine at the gym (I'm aware they aren't fully accurate). My bodyfat is between 22-29%. From multiple comparisons where youtubers have compared smart scales and body comp machines with dexascan. The BF% is never really more then 10% off.

Regardless. Both the machines I'm using are throwing out a BMR of 1400-1550kcals. With a muscle mass around 50kg (allegedly). To support this when I eat over 1400kcals a day I don't seem to lose any weight and in the most parts I gain weight. I've been silly with my diets in the past but have done refeeding cycles to try and get my metabolism back up a little bit.

It just feels like a really low calorie intake for someone my size? I do workout everyday (45 minutes of LISS or 20 minutes of HIIT, + weights focusing mainly on legs, bum and core. So my intake should be nearer to 2000kcals...but again. When doing this intake, I feel sick with the amount of healthy food I have to eat. And I always seem to maintain or gain weight.

Anyone have any input or advice?

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If I know I can't help myself from snacking, should I just adjust what I eat for the rest of the day?

In the office of my job, we have a huge candy bin that gets stocked every week along with a small hamper-sized storage bin filled with mini chips, cookies, etc. It's a gift and a curse and, because I work overnights that consist of sitting down for about 6-7 hours of my shift, I get bored and when I'm bored I snack. I've determined this as inevitable because even when I bring my own, perfectly weighted and portioned dinner that should be filling, I can't help but grab candy.

I know it wouldn't make me the healthiest, but in terms of strictly just weight loss, should I just incorporate what I know I'm going to binge on into my budget instead of just continuously disappointing myself when I do indulge because I've already hit my budget with other foods?

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Anyone taking saxenda?

I was prescribed Saxenda a while back and haven't made it through all four of my pens. I read online that you need to discard pens after 30 days even if they still have liquid in them. Why is that? Even if I took it every day at the recommended dosage, I would still be wasting pens. My doctor never shared that with me so I have been doing it every other day and upping my dosage every week but it's been well over 30 days and I have still been taking it. I haven't had any bad encounters with it but upset that I'm wasting my money on prescriptions I'm unable to finish.

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Update: I still have 2 pens that I have not used and I want to know since they haven't been used, can I still use them as long as I do it within 30 days, or is 30 days of when the prescription was filled? I'm trying to take my weight loss journey seriously and Saxenda has really been helping i don't want to stop if i don't have to.

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Skinny shamed by some douchey gymrat type after losing weight?

Why do people do this? I put effort into becoming thin because I was obese,and I'm expecting most people would be supportive but I literally end up getting shamed by some random stranger I never met online who looks like he's on steroids?

28M,I am 6'1" 145 lbs right now,BMI 19.1:don't call me anorexic because if you do then you're exactly the type I'm complaining about:yes I'm very thin,but I'm not underweight,and I feel more confident and attractive at my current weight than when I was borderline obese at 230 pounds (BMI 30.3).

So basically the story here is,I was always a very thin lanky guy but during COVID I gained a LOT of weight from binge eating all day and I reached 230 pounds at one point,so I decided to start dieting eventually and after a few months I slimmed down a lot to 145 and am now skinny again like I was pre-COVID.

So I posted pics of myself before and after on Facebook to share my success:it was noticable I went from fat slob to pencil thin. Most people were praising it and saying congratulations etc. and I'm happy about that...

...but I suddenly saw this absolute rando out of nowhere jump in the comments that I never saw on my profile before,I don't even know how he found my post but anyways:the dude's pfp is him 'flexing' and it's obvious he's a generic gym rat type.

He wrote something along the lines of:

'Lmfao youre a scrawny lil shit thats no improvement. I would break you in half like a twig lol you fucking anorexic giraffe you should either begin lifting and taking protein to become JACKED or delete this post and stop bragging about becoming a pathetic lanky ass fuck.'

...why? Why would you just jump into a random stranger's post on social media and then insult them without any provocation? I was literally just thinking 'I'm happy now because I've lost weight so I wanna share my success'and then I see this bs?

I still haven't responded to him yet so I wonder what y'all think I should say. Aside from that,let me ask:has anyone else experienced something like this post-weight loss? I.e. people shaming you for improving? Discuss.

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Struggling with new lifestyle - petite weight loss

Hi everyone, I just wanted to vent about what I’m experiencing right now and hopefully this community will help me or understand.

I’m 22, 5’2”, and I weigh 215lbs. This is the most I’ve ever weighed and I’m really trying to get myself under control. I’ve lost and gained weight in the past, and at my lowest I was 130 in high school. I know that my weight has gotten out of control but I’m really struggling to keep it together and stick to it.

Right now, my daily caloric intake is 1300, in an effort to lose 1.5-2lbs a week. I have a very sedentary lifestyle as I work on my computer all day. I try to get up and active but I admit that I probably don’t get as much exercise as I should. I’ve started CICO again, monitoring everything I’m consuming and making low calorie, healthy alternatives to my typical meals.

Here’s where I’m struggling. I constantly feel hungry, and I can’t figure out how to make it stop. I remember reading that for petite women, if they overeat even 38 calories a day, in a decade they can gain 30 pounds. I’m keeping my calorie intake very strict because of this, as I desperately don’t want to gain any more.

I’ve always struggled with body image and I just feel horrible all the time. My partner is very tall and lean and he seems to eat anything he wants and not gain a pound. I want to be able to enjoy meals together but because we have such different food needs, it makes it difficult. Either he’s left crazy hungry, or I go over my allotted calories for a specific meal.

I’m just feeling disappointed and overwhelmed. I want my body to change, I want to have a healthier lifestyle. I’m finding that losing weight as a petite woman is extremely hard, and I’m worried that I’ll be fat my whole life. I don’t want to spend my younger years hating myself, but I also don’t want to spend them meticulously counting calories for months on end with no progress. I’m honestly at my wits end and considering liposuction just to make it easier for me.

Any advice or thoughts you guys have would be very helpful. Just wondering if there’s other petite women out there who have struggled with a similar thing. Thanks everyone.

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Is weight loss purely CICO?

I was sleeved in march 2022,at my heaviest (night of the surgery) I was 150kg,now I am down to 94kg. I was following the diet program that my surgeons dietician gave me and it has very low protein but very effective in reducing weight,after a while I started reading about the importance of protein and weight lifting and all that,so I started altering my diet and started tracking protein and calories which ultimately ended in failure,I stopped the diet and went on a binge eating spiral,now I want to start again but I have 1 question,is it okay to follow my surgeon’s dietician program of very low protein and low calories or should I start modifying it on my own?what are your suggestions?

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i cant stick with it and i can’t figure out why

i’ve been trying to lose weight for almost 2 years now and im so frustrated that i have made it nowhere. no matter how hard i try or what i try, i can’t stick with it.

i thought that maybe my adhd was the cause of it. i was constantly snacking even when i wasn’t hungry and it was like a stimulation thing. but i got medicated and got my adhd under control, but im still eating nonstop.

i thought maybe i was just eating emotionally. but i started medication for my mental health issues and started feeling a lot better. overall im not doing terrible. i feel decent. i eat whether i feel happy or sad or mad or even when i feel nothing/neutral. so i don’t think it’s my emotions.

i’ve tried fasting. i’ve tried sticking to a deficit. i tried eating a maintenance to start out with. i tried eating more protein. i tried eating my favorite foods in moderation. i have tried so many things. but i can’t stick to a single one.

i feel very hopeless in terms of my weight loss. at this point i feel like i will never reach my goal weight. i feel like something is wrong with me. i see so many successful people and i can’t help but compare myself to them and feel like a failure. why can’t i do it?? i can go maybe a week at the most and then i just fall off. i want this so bad. i really do. but no matter how bad i want it, i can’t get myself to work for it. i feel like as time goes on i just get more discouraged and feel worse about myself.

does anyone have any advice on how to get past this? what finally worked for you? if anyone has any advice at all i would appreciate it so much

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