Approaching Recurrent Stumbling Block

37 years old, female

Start Weight : 215lbs

Current Weight : 176lbs

Goal Weight : 155lbs

Hello!

This is more of a shout into the void than anything, but any advice is appreciated too!

So everytime I get to 175lbs, which has been a few times over the years, my body seems to “settle” and weight loss becomes harder and I usually take my foot off the gas and get back to 185lbs or so before starting CICO again and the cycle repeats.

Eating between 1400 and 1800 calories a day and I know this is a mental thing but I just can’t seem to get to the 160s!

Trying to stay motivated this time!

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lifestyle not a diet

started my weight loss journey and it’s going well. a lot of my habits are changing for the better and while yes I’m really proud of myself for essentially turning into a healthy person with healthy habits, I still find myself wanting more. sometimes I struggle not giving back in to old habits (restricting and binging).

idk how to explain it, the slow and gradual (healthy) weight loss just never feels rewarding enough? I feel so much more accomplished when I lose very quickly. Realistically I know I’m doing the right thing, making lifestyle changes instead of yo-yo dieting but sometimes I just don’t feel accomplished. There’s this voice in my head that goes “Good job on losing 1lb/week but remember the time you lost 20lbs in a month? Shouldn’t you be trying harder?”. I really just want that voice to shut up. I just try to remind myself that it wasn’t sustainable and I gained all back anyway.

not sure where I’m going with this but even though I’m making progress it never feels good enough for me, even though objectively I’m hitting my goals. it’s weird. feels like the weight loss doesn’t really count if I’m not at my gw overnight (which is stupid and irrational, I know).

I feel like a fraud sometimes because I’ve done so much work to be a healthier person and change my dietary habit for the better but I still won’t be skinny for a while bc my starting weight was so high. so I just think, why not speed up the process? but internal i fight with myself because i want to lose weight healthily this time, i dont want to be miserable and have brain fog all day because im running on 500 calories! but also i just can't wait to be skinny? im still goin to be in the overweight bmi by next year if i dont speed things up a bit you know?

idk what im saying i just had to get this off my chest. if anyone has any similar feelings or had dealt with this, id like to hear it.

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Trying to understand Fitbit with LoseIt (Target Burns)

Perhaps this is a stupid and obvious question, but - why does my target burn (mainly BMR I believe) not contribute to my [energy in - energy out] calculation? If I am naturally burning X, and eating Y, shouldn't I only need to do extra exercise when Y exceeds X in order to achieve weight loss? Why is that chunk of burned calories through BMR being tossed aside?

Because my LoseIt says I'm over budget, but a napkin calcution between what LoseIt says I ate and FitBit says I'm burning shows a decent deficit (details below)

Presumably I need to change my LoseIt budget, but to what? It's at 5500kj/1300cal atm. Can I change my FitBit "target burn" from 10,000kj/2400cal to lower, even 0, so that ALL my burn (BMR + exercise) is subtracted from what I eat, and aim for a solid deficit total as a goal, rather than trying to balance it?

Maybe I should I swap programs, or swap watches?

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The long version, in case I'm making no sense and people want to figure out how I got here 😅:

(Just FYI Im rounding my kj -> calorie conversion just to keep things simple, so don't read too much into the specifics of my numbers.)

I've been using LoseIt for a month and seen slow but steady progress by keeping my "net" at 5500kj/1300cal (I'm very tall), by burning off any extra I ate over that limit using their manual exercise options. Simple, straightforward. You eat, you burn, and you balance those near 0 on LoseIt so your body is always in a deficit due to your BMR being higher.

Then I purchased a fitbit and found my "moderate" exercise levels were actually "light" exercise according to fitbit (dangit), so I havent been burning quite as much as I hoped, hence the very slow weight loss. But now I'm not sure I have it set up right.

For example, yesterday the fitbit recorded I burnt 12,000kj/2850cal, and I ate 8500kj/2000cal. So, I believe I was in a deficit of (eaten - burnt =) 3500kj/850cal. Hooray, right? However, on LoseIt, the FitBit has only credited me with 1900kj/450cal, meaning I am still OVER budget by 1100kj/250kj.

The discrepancy is due to the "target burn" on fitbit, which is 10,000kj/2400cal. As I understand, that's auto-calculated from my BMR, and that does align with most BMR calculators given my height, weight and activity level. But that means I am still burning more than I consumed before I exercised, yet I have to exercise for hours more to meet my budget.

I did try lowering my goal in the FitBit app down to 9000kj/2150cal but that didn't change anything in LoseIt.

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Period Worsens With Weight Loss

Hi! I’m 16F and my starting weight was 160. I’m 5’7 and although I’m now in the normal weight range (says my dr) for my height. She’s also recommended me losing a bit more weight. I’m currently 153 pounds. My periods before was not at all painful or heavy. They were very regular , every 26 days and light cramps on the first day and were 4-5 days long. Now they’re almost 6 days long, and painful and just a bit heavier. I’m not sure what to do. I want to lose the weight, but I’m not sure how to handle this.

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is there anything that would help

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Self awareness is huge

Hey everyone. I just wanted to start by saying that I love hearing the success stories, the progress, and even the worries. Success stories show that you can do it, progress is inspirational, and the worried times mean that you care!

Sharing something I've experienced/am still going thru, is that self awareness is a massive key to long-term success.

If you constantly look at yourself as anything but what and where you really are, are you really succeeding? Hard to say either way, but here are a few things I have been doing to try and stay self aware:

1. Remind yourself every day that you are human, and flaws come naturally. No one is perfect, nor will anyone ever be. Look at where you are in your journey, and really let it sink in. How did you get there, and what's next?

2. Keep goals that are achievable. I'm not a professional athlete, or anything close, and I imagine most of you aren't either. Setting and meeting goals that make sense in the short term, will only help. Your mindset, your energy level, and even your overall mood will be enhanced by meeting goals; so why not keep them simple?

3. Consistentcy is huge, and I don't mean on the same schedule. Did you complete your exercises for the week, but not on the same timeline as last week? Great! You still completed that goal, so be satisfied. Did you stay in a deficit, but maybe had a day with too much fat and not enough protein one day? Still gonna lose lbs. We really overthink certain aspects of weight loss, yet the process really is simple.

4. People are different. Some of us have issues that either slow down or almost halt our weight loss, and that sucks. All you can do is keep going, and stay motivated. Even if you didn't drop a pound or even gained a pound, don't be discouraged. I know I don't lose weight quickly, and that's the case for most; just gotta keep pushing.

5. Be truthful. Honesty with yourself and with your close family/friends is major. If you tell people you're in a deficit, or you workout every day, or whatever else; yet you are really taking in 4000 calories and sitting on the couch, you're doing no favors for yourself. Being truthful will make you check yourself, and even though it may be depressing for a moment, you'll realize just where you're at, and what needs to be done.

Maybe I come off as a moron, but I say all of this with good intentions and some experience. I fail, almost daily, to stay 100% focused and on track. It's so hard to avoid certain foods, and easy to put off working out. But, if you can stick to it, as hard as it may be, you'll really find out just how amazing life can be, if you realize who you are and what you can become.

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Need help finding maintenance cals

Hey guys,

For reference I am 96kg atm M/174cm

I’ve been in a dieting phase for a while now started at much higher cals than I am now but for the purpose of properly figuring out my maintenance cals, this month I began eating strictly 1,500 cals. Now I’ve been tracking everything I eat this month and keeping my activity levels the exact same every single day (15,000 steps) via a step stacker watch.

Now here’s where i get a little confused, the first week of eating 1,500 cals with 15,000 steps daily, I lost 1.1kg, the second week lost 2.9kg, third week I lost 1.1kg and I’m yet to weigh in for the last week of the month.

As I said I dipped my calories this low in the hopes of figuring out my maintenance calories at this level of activity as it will most likely become my new norm (activity levels wise) I part of the reason for this post is to increase my cals to a rate of 1kg weight loss a week.

I initially thought my maintenance given the months weight loss average roughly 2kg a week to be a maintenance of 3,500.

But now I’m questioning this as the weeks of this months weight loss rate has not been linear at all, so I’m wondering if any of yous might be able to help me out with figuring out my maintenance. As I plan to up my calories to reflect a 1kg a week weight loss rate starting next week. Feb 1.

Thanks.

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Breakup gave me the boost I needed (even though I did not want it)

I'm not sure why I'm posting this after lurking in this sub for years and years but I guess I just wanted to share my story. Life is also a little lonely these days. For context, I'm 30f, 5'7", was about 260lbs in the summer of 2022, am now at 219lbs and steadily losing at about 2lbs per week.

Like many of you, I have struggled with my weight ever since I can remember. I have PCOS and clinical depression which is of course a really efficient combo... I have always had a hard time losing and maintaining weight. I grew up with an "almond mom" who put little bells on the handles of our kitchen cabinets, would say "kitchen is closed" right after dinner, encourage me to drink water when I was hungry, offer rice cakes for dessert (ugh), and enrolled me in diets like weight watchers at the age of 13. She is a kind woman who loves me very much but has a severe history of mental illness herself and an intense history of eating disorders and I think she desperately wanted me to not fall down that same path. However, her methods fucked me up. I was never taught how to eat in regulation. Only healthy, bland foods were available to me growing up so whenever I had the opportunity, I would binge anything unhealthy. I remember actually being astounded and confused when I went to friends houses and they had things like little debbie snacks and 2% milk and their entire family was healthy... When I started living on my own, I literally didn't know how to eat healthy when any kind of food was now available to me. I didn't know how to stop when I was full. And of course the PCOS and my mental health did nothing to help. I gained about 30 pounds in undergrad and then steadily gained about 30 more since then.

However, a year and a half ago I made the decision to move across the country for a change of career/life. I met new friends and was pleasantly surprised to find a guy that I thought was the man I had been waiting 29 years for. Gosh I thought he was incredible and we became best friends instantly. I developed a pretty intense crush on him and I started to think "shit shit shit I gotta start looking better for this man if I'm ever going to stand a chance" and dropped a few pounds by not eating barely at all. (I do not recommend this method.) But a few months in to our friendship, he asked me out, and I was like "oh. wait. I can be loved at this weight?" The answer was apparently yes and with him, I became truly happy for what I felt was the first time in my life. Due to this newfound happiness, fulfillment, and a sense of confidence I started to build, I found that I was able to eat less and eat healthy with almost no issue. I could also treat myself without going overboard. I exercised by walking and riding my Peloton, and the weight started to slowly come off. Slowly and healthily! (Sidenote: I am not a person that can count calories. I have this thing with "streaks" where I get weirdly stressed out when I mess them up. So with things like calorie counting apps or diary trackers, I get really upset and beat myself up when I miss meals/days. Drives me nuts and I seriously cannot sustain it.)

Fast forward to now. I got broken up with very unexpectedly by my boyfriend a little over 2 months ago. This hit me HARD and has easily been, and continues to be, the most painful thing I have ever had to endure. The trajectory of my life has completely changed and I started to question everything. Consequently (or maybe luckily in a sick and twisted way?) I have learned a LOT about myself in this time. I have had to truly face my issues head on in order to survive this. I have finally sought out therapy and FINALLY made the decision to get on an antidepressant so that my happiness can come from within and not from somebody else. I knew very well that my brain was not going to get through this on its own. Shit don't work right. And, though I still cry multiple times a day and am overall consistently heartbroken, I am doing all the things you are supposed to do after a breakup. Look up any "how to get over a breakup" article and I am doing all those things. As a result, the discipline I have created is astonishing. My ability to get up and do something for myself has drastically improved and with that, my weight loss journey has taken off more than ever before. The medication and my drive to not let myself fade away after this traumatic event keeps me eating healthily without counting calories and I am able to easily stop when I'm full. I will admit, the antidepressant does act as a bit of an appetite suppressant which is definitely convenient. I eat a greek yogurt with my meds in the morning, a sandwich with some chips and pickles and an occasional mini coke for lunch, and something simple for dinner. I can cook and eat things like pasta without binging it. A dove chocolate or two satisfies my sweet tooth. I drink LOTS of water as well. I also exercise 5-6 times a week and I LOVE it. Almost nothing makes me feel better than a hard Peloton ride with Cody Rigsby or a walk outside while listening to moody sad music (lol). I have dropped 20 more pounds since the breakup and people are starting to notice and comment on it. I feel so comfortable in my clothes and I'm pulling out old items that I haven't been able to fit into for a long while. And the weird thing is, I don't feel like I'm pushing myself or that I'm uncomfortable or pissed off doing this. Every time I've tried to lose weight before I just feel defeated and angry. It never lasted because my attitude didn't allow anything to be sustainable. Now, am I walking around like a ball of sunshine? Hell no. I'm so pissed that this happened to me and that I'm alone again but I refuse to let this put me back to where I was before. I feel as if this is a now or never type of situation.

I'm not sure what the point was of sharing this, I don't want ANYONE to get broken up with and go through what I'm currently going through BUT. I just wanted to say that with a kick in the pants and some determination, getting healthy on the outside has done wonders for my mental health. Do I wish my ex would come back to me every day? Absolutely. But I don't contact him, I just keep pushing. Day by day. It SUCKS and I wish I didn't have to go through this but it happened and I'm doing it. I think the work I'm putting in will eventually manifest itself in a new and better me, inside and out.

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