PTSD and weight loss

Hi! 26F, 5’7, starting weight in January was 160. I’m slowly shedding weight off and am now around 151. I still want to lose around 20 more pounds. That’s when I feel and look my best. I work out up to 5 days a week. Typically splitting my workout into lower body, pull, push and stairs. I’ll either do a repeat of lower body or stairs for the fifth day. I’m eating around 1800 calories a day, but I’m thinking of cutting it to 1700 calories a day. I don’t want to go to the gym more because I usually spend at minimum an hour on those exercises not including a full stretch routine.

I eat pretty well, though, I have had a number of incredibly stressful day over the past month and I’m wondering if my stress is not allowing my body to shed weight faster. I was recently diagnosed with PTSD and have been in a constant state of fight for about 2 or so weeks.

What is the relationship between weight loss, and stress? Is there anything more I can do? This is the one area of my life I feel like I can control.

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Getting over leftovers inertia

Hi all,

I’ve been attempting to be in weight loss phase these past few months and have been failing pretty badly. I have to eat between 1300-1500 to be in calorie deficit and somehow end up eating 1800+ on multiple days every week simply because I can’t get myself to eat leftovers. When I do eat it, I’m perfectly satisfied with the meal and it does indeed taste yummy. But when hunger pangs first hit me, I find the leftovers almost repugnant and want to order in desperately. It’s not even a weak-moment decision. I sometimes spend an hour debating my options, consider cooking a new dish, open my refrigerator and cabinets multiple times, and then order and wait for my food for thirty more minutes.

I’m in a moderately unpredictable job where I cannot fix my lunch/dinner timings so I can’t preemptively feed myself before the hunger pangs hit. (Although, I ’m open to suggestions to work around it). I could possibly push myself to spend 30 minutes cooking every day but I really don’t seem to succeed at it since my hit rate with cooking yummy meals is maybe 2/5 times. And rewarding myself for eating leftovers is not working, cuz I’m mostly run out of willpower by the end of the day.

I do tend to eat mostly whole foods due to inflammatory responses to heavily processed food so premade meals are mostly out of question. The meals with good clean ingredients are all pretty out of my budget.

Any advice on working around this weird inertia?

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A balanced diet will me the death of me (and this diet) Y’all got any tips/recipes?

F24 5’0” Current weight: ~177

I’ve been on a deficit for about 40 days or so and I’ve only lost 4lbs (give or take) at 1330 a day. I realize it’s barely over a month but man seeing those numbers drop so slowly is making me wanna drop the deficit.

I do workout, but only twice a week and the rest of the days I’m relatively active at work. I can hit 10k steps most nights. I know where I fail the most and it’s in my diet. It’s not balanced AT ALL. I’m a meat lover and while I do eat veggies, I don’t eat it every day. Usually cause I can’t think of anything that I would like to eat and if I do, it’s gotta have more flavor than just plain ol steamed and boiled.

How are y’all fitting veggies into your diet? Your fiber? Also, should I raise my deficit to 1500-1600? I’ve seen other posts saying that 1300 could be counterproductive to weight loss. Or just any other tips in general?

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85 pounds down and feeling worse than ever

26M 171cm (5"6) SW:132,5 KG (292lbs) CW: 94,3 KG (207lbs)

basically title. I've recently noticed that despite losing a supposedly noticeable amount of weight, I'm not one bit happier than when I was morbidly obese. In fact it seems I'm not enjoying the things that I used to enjoy the same way or not at all. It's so frustrating that I get compliments and everyone I know seems happier for me despite me feeling this way. Whenever I look in the mirror I see the same person 85 pounds ago despite people telling me I look different.

Anyone else experience similiar feelings of unhappiness after/during weight loss?

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Fitness goals besides weight loss?

I originally started my fitness journey to lose weight but I’m starting to develop other goals related to fitness. One major thing I’ve been doing is walking 2-3 miles almost everyday. It’s really been improving my mental health. Since doing that, one of my major goals is to run a 5k this year! I’m hoping to start incorporating running into my routine soon, but every time I walk, it gets easier. I’m signing up for a 5k walk this June for my local JDRF chapter. Does anyone else have any other fitness related goals apart from weight loss?

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New gym plan

Hi guys so at the moment I’m on a bit of a weight loss journey and it’s going well so far, down 7kg since January and I’ve done this by 3 day full body a week and 3 days of running. I have noticed though that I do tend to neglect legs a lot. You see with my full body days it’s 5 for upper and 2 for lower, however I do tend to leave off legs a few times just because im tired from my upper body training or I want to save my strength for upper body training and I don’t go all out. So can anyone recommend an upper lower full body split 3 days for me?

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Loose skin after weight loss.

Hello !! I am a new here and this is the first time I will be asking questions but I really really really need advices. F21 here met a guy through a dating app he is m26 He is a sweet guy and all but the thing is I am a girl who been overweight and lost tons of weight, I always struggled with weight I used to starve my self all day and the weight just keeps getting up. Then I did a surgery and I lost tons of weight. Now the thing is this guy is very sweet we share things in common pretty much. And we been talking for now for like 9 months. But we still didn’t meet in real life and that is a big issue to me. I feel insecure and I am so scared and worried that I am wasting my time. I am worried when he will meet me and if anything we eventually will get intimate he will see my loose skin and he will not want to be with me anymore. He is a Scandinavian and their culture i feel based a lot on looks. Since they usually sleep together from the first day aka one night stand etc. This issue causing me a lot of sadness and make me feel depressed and I cry all night about it. I am not experienced girl and I have never been intimate with anyone before. I look good with clothes on. But it’s always the problem when I remove my clothes. Like completely without clothes. I don’t know if I should just tell him my story and that I have loose skin. Or I don’t tell him at all. I sent him many pics and videos of me. But I always hide the parts where they are loose. down the stomach. Boobs. We video called and all but he never saw me completely completely without clothes as I always hide those parts. Please help me. My self esteem is very low. And I feel I would not have any good relationship because of this. Plus when I ask him for his preferences he says he loves girls with big bum and boobs and thick thighs etc. But again I have big boobs and ass but they are saggy and I don’t feel he would find them attractive when it’s the moment to get intimate.

Any girl who had my experience please help me with advices. I feel so suffocated and not happy at all. I always try to end our relationship because of this but I never could tell him that reason. And he always tell me to be opened to him and tell him but It’s a very sensitive topic to me and I would rather not face my fears and end the relationship rather than facing them because I am scared to get hurt. He tell me he accept all of me but I feel he is a person who goes more for looks than personality. Idk what to do. I need help. Should I tell him and whatever happens happens ? Or I just not tell him and try to fix this problem. Whether with sport or surgeries ?

Help me please..

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