Can I enjoy my thanksgiving without sabotaging my weekly weight loss?

I really don’t want to count calories on thanksgiving, but I also don’t want to sabotage my progress for the week. I currently eat 1250-1350 cals a day and so far have been seeing progress. I’m 136 lbs 5’4 females and tomorrow I don’t plan on going over 2,500 cals I doubt I’ll even eat that much but will be close to that. Does having a cheat day a few times a month but not going over 2,200-2,500 cals stop me from losing weight? I’m not in too big of a rush to lose and I can do good for most of the week but I feel that I need at least one day to enjoy myself. I started my diet 3 weeks ago starting at 144 lbs and now I’m currently at 136.

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How to be patient and enjoy the weight loss process?

Hello! I am finally slowly but surely shedding the weight off, hopefully for the last time! I started out at 215 and am now at 208 (not a huge difference, but it’s taken me months to actually gain momentum in my weight loss.) I am 5’7 and my goal weight is either 150 or 160, I’ll basically stop when I’m satisfied with how I look. I honestly feel an urgency when it comes to losing weight. Having lost weight before (245 to 150), my progress isn’t anything new or exciting. I don’t look the worst I ever have but I know I could look much, much better. I find myself ruminating on being overweight and how I let myself gain some of the weight back. I did the math and I probably won’t like how I look until March, which feels like a long time from now. I genuinely want to enjoy the process, because losing weight is one day at a time. So how can I be patient and deal with how slow this journey is? Any suggestions? The first time I lost weight I was unemployed! But I kept busy by reading everyday, going on two hour walks, etc…. Should I just aim to be busy to get my mind off repetitive thoughts bashing how fat and unattractive I feel? Maybe I’m fixating on this because I’m kind of on vacation and don’t have work to distract me.

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Weight loss success without counting calories?

Hi all, I'm new here. I'll cut right to it - basically the question in the subject. I'm 46 and really struggling with my weight. I've been unsuccessfully calorie counting practically my whole life. I know calorie counting works, but it's a daily struggle and I'm NEVER consistent. I know this is a "me" problem.

I am thinking of just focusing on eating more mindfully and concentrating on higher protein/fat/fiber/vegetables to keep me full, as I feel like I can ALWAYS eat.

I almost feel like if I'm not worrying about everything I eat fitting into a number or having to track everything I eat that I might actually be successful. I think tracking and focusing on a number too much is what is causing me to fail daily. I know calorie counting works for a lot of people! It just doesn't seem to work for me. In fact, it makes me miserable.

Any thoughts?

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Where do I start

So I’m a 22f 5”4 160 lbs and my goal is to get down to 125-130lbs. I have had a bad eating disorder and then started binge eating once I moved in with my significant other. I’m currently in grad school but when I go home for breaks It’s easy to NOT eat(my mother and older sister suffer with an ED). I don’t have much time to work out, I have school full time and work in an office (sit a lot). Does anyone have suggestions how I can kickstart my weight loss journey? I want to do it in a healthy way, but I don’t have the time to go to the gym. Thank you :) * I have a bad BAD relationship with food. Has anyone ever discovered a way to actually love and appreciate food the right way… or ways to stop binge eating? It’s horrible 😭

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I feel like I’m cheating

About a month ago I became really ill. At the start of my weight loss journey I was at 315 in July. I am now at 270. I’ve lost 25 pounds since the beginning of October because I became very ill. I am currently experiencing unbelievable nerve pain and muscle spasms in my back and leg due to some herniated disks. For the first few weeks of this episode I basically slept constantly and was only drinking glasses of milk and a few sips of soup here and there because it’s all I can tolerate. The pain was so immense and the medications made me so tired I was just not existing for those two weeks. Waking up and crying in pain, taking meds and going back to sleep. Now my appetite is completely gone and it’s not the meds. The meds have the exact opposite effect. I had a slice of garlic bread for dinner last night and that’s it. It feels amazing to not constantly be aching from how full I am but I don’t feel like I got here on my own merit. Before my health incident, I was fasting 16-8 and curbed a ton of my over eating habits, no sodas, and was walking 10k steps a day. But it was so hard, I felt every single hour I was fasting. Now it’s like nothing to me. I keep dropping weight but it doesn’t feel like I earned it.

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Is 150lbs skinny for a 5’7 person?

My goal weight is 150lbs and I’m currently at 193. I started my weight loss journey 2 and a half years ago at 281lbs and got down to 161 as my lowest at the beginning of the year. However I had huge setbacks this entire year and radically changed my routine last Sunday where I was at 202lbs and currently at 193lbs as of today! Fixed this by focusing more on eating clean, weight lifting a lot more than just doing cardio, cutting out bad sugars and lowering sodium intake, and even stopped smoking cigarettes as of Friday!

When I tell people I know that I want to get down to 150lbs as my goal weight, some say that’s too skinny and I think to myself that I wouldn’t really look that skinny for someone who is 5’7, especially now that I’m weight lifting a lot more and toning my body. Though, I never been at that weight so I don’t know what I would look like but I’m sure I wouldn’t look skinny at all.

The people I talked to that tell me I looked skinny don’t really work out and living in America has skewed how our bodies are actually suppose to look due to the high amount of obesity so of course people would think 150lbs on a 5’7 person would be skinny.

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Losing too quickly?

At the beginning of September I weighed in at 253lb (M, 6'0, 34 years old). It was the heaviest I'd ever been and it was the final straw for me. I was sick of being out of breath going up the stairs, getting exhausted quickly playing hockey, shirts getting tight, and my face looking fat in photos. Scale calculated body fat at 53%.

So I set out on a fairly rigid plan. My TDEE calculated out at ~2500. I stopped eating all fast food, revised what I cooked at home to include way more vegetables and salads, started weighing foods and counting calories, stopped drinking anything other than black coffee and water, and am running on the treadmill 4x weekly (typically 30-40 mins using the iFit app). I've set my calorie limit at 1950 and rarely, if ever, exceed that.

For background, I used to be in good shape ~8-10 years ago. 4-5 days/week workout schedule plus hockey a few times per week. At 1900 calories I was a bit hungry here and there but I've adjusted and manage well.

Today, 12 weeks later, I'm sitting at 214.8lb and 44% BF. I'm happy with the weight loss however a bit concerned that I'm losing too quickly and the BF% difference is a bit low given the total weight loss.

Am I going too quickly? Is this unhealthy? What would you recommend changing if I needed to change something?

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