I started with too few calories, now I don't know how to fix it! Help!

Hey everyone! I posted this in the Q&A thread but it seems like it might be a bit too complex for that thread. Essentially, everyone on here and my boyfriend motivated me to lose weight. I've always been heavy. In undergrad an abusive relationship had me drop down to 180, and I was happy with myself, even though still a bit overweight.
During the pandemic I gained a bunch of weight all the way up to 250. This past month and a half (starting at 245) I've gotten down to 231 and I want to be able to like who I see in the mirror. I'm VERY excited about my progress and feel a lot of motivation to continue. I have been very disciplined and have been sticking strictly to 1600 calories a day.
Well that's where the problem starts. I went to calculate my TDEE today since now that I've lost more than 10 pounds I figured I might have to change. Well you can guess how shocked I was to see my maintenance even at THIS weight is meant to be around 2400 and for safe weight loss it recommends 1900 calories. Now I'm so panicked. I think I messed up. I don't have anywhere to go if I need to drop lower, but I'm scared to bring my calories up. If I bring them up, I might regain all the weight I've lost since my body surely has adjusted to where I'm at now.
Does anyone have any suggestions? What should I do? I don't want to yo-yo diet, I want to lose weight safely and I don't want to cut calories so much that I'm rapidly dropping weight. I must've done something wrong with the first TDEE calculator, which is why I dropped so low. I could've sworn it said 1600 for me

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Plateau advice?

27 y.o. male

SW: 378 lbs

CW: 324 lbs

Hey everybody!

Since January I’ve lost almost 60 pounds by completely cutting out alcohol and fast food (still fast food OCCASIONALLY only on weekends just because I’m not trying to deprive myself) and significantly reducing my calories throughout the week.

Monday - Friday

I eat a rice cake w/peanut butter and maybe a banana/mandarin orange for breakfast.

I eat a protein bar and a handful of raw almonds for lunch.

I eat meal-prepped chicken/brussels sprouts/broccoli for dinner

I eat around 2 cups of frozen fruit every night.

Weekends I’m much more lax and will eat kind of whatever I feel like, still no alcohol though.

As far as physical activity goes, I take around 30-45 minute walks 3-4 times a week and play long days of disc golf on weekends whenever I can, plus I do arm exercises with a 25 lb kettle bell every night before bed.

I feel really good physically/mentally, better than I have in several years, and have had little to no issue maintaining this lifestyle. I have almost completely re-evaluated my relationship with food and alcohol and myself in general.

For a little less than a month I’ve fluctuated between 320 and 329 lbs. can’t seem to get much lower than 322.

Can anybody recommend any changes I could make to possible kickstart weight loss back up? Obviously an increase in physical activity would help but should I cut more calories? Co-workers are already telling me I don’t eat enough.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

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Shared weight loss, with friends. Isn't happy.

Okay okay.

So I am officially down 10 pounds as of today! Really happy and just stoked. Now I don't talk about weight loss at all with friends, and hell even working out, I don't share often cause my friend already knows I do. Now this particular friend, of whom im really close with. Does have an ED? Body dysmorphia, but would at times tell me about her workouts, and her weight loss. I would just say the usual awesome job! Now today, is the first time I have ever spoken about my weight loss to her. To which I said pretty much the first sentence. Now and she responded with a "Do you know, who your telling this to..." to which really caught me off guard. Though I just really wanted to share it with her. Idk, I just feel bad. But at the same time, I can't share just this once? Idk. The same friend I have posted about in my last posts. But can I get your guys thoughts?

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Starting today at 353lbs

I’m a 35F and 5‘8”. I’ve always been overweight but between 8 years of grad school, (I’m finally done!), anxiety, 2 kids* and the pandemic I’ve gotten up to 353. :( I was 246lb senior year of college. I believe this is my highest outside of pregnancy. I have this issue where if I don’t carefully control and document my calories, I gain weight. I slipped for 3 months and went from 340 to 353! I’m back on track but notice I’m still hungry frequently at 3000 calories a day (I burn around 3500 a day). If I don’t stop myself at all I can eat 4000+ a day. I think my antidepressant and birth control maybe playing a role, but I can’t go off them. (They are ones that MAY cause weight gain long term, science is divided). I have ADHD and anxiety/OCD. Depression currently in remission. I have an appt with the weight loss medicine people in July. I’ve done all the diets, seen 3 nutritionists, have psych people, exercise a lot, I just want something to work without me being hungry and obsessed with food/exercise/dieting all the time.

So here I am at 353 and I’m hoping to get below 300lbs. I was last there at the end of 2019 (the Christmas miracle). Hoping for some encouragement/suggestions/stories. I feel like everything else in my life is going great, just the weight.

*I feel extremely lucky to have borne 2 healthy kids naturally. I’m sure I would be laughed out of any Fertility clinic.

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Losing 1 lb/month at 1200 kcals

Hi all! Like most people here, I've been trying to lose weight. I (23F, 5'3) started at 140 pounds in early October, aiming for 1200 calories a day, as was suggested by some calculator.

While not every day has been perfect (the holidays were rough lol) I've largely stuck to 1200 the past 7 months, counting calories daily and weighing multiple times a week. I've also been running and strength training, 2-4 times a week, along with walking. I focus on protein, fiber, and volume.

Today I looked at my little weight tracker Excel and it showed that on average, per month, I only lose a pound. I'm down 8 pounds from when I started. While progress is progress, and scales don't account for muscle gain, I'm still disheartened by this. It just doesn't seem right that at such a low intake, it takes me 4 weeks to lose what people lose in a week.

I've been considering trying to increase to 1500 and seeing if that changes anything. Frankly, I'm losing motivation with these results.

Is this a normal weight loss pace for someone my size, or am I doing something wrong? Is it even healthy to be at 1200 calories for an extended period of time? Should I just be patient and stick to the course?

Thank you for any insight, communities like this have been really useful over the past few months and I've learned so much about nutrition and self improvement!

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How to get rid of stubborn fat around my stomach??

Hi, I'm 5'7, weigh 70kg and 24 (f). I have recently decided that this will be the year that I will finally get my 'bikini body' as I am entering my late 20s soon and I know how difficult it is to lose the extra fat as you get older.

Although, this isn't my first time trying to loose weight. During Covid, I was committed to looking better so I was eating clean, in a calorie deficit and was walking around 10k steps daily. I lost about 11kg and went down to 59 kg. Annoyingly, I still had a very large stomach and I am not sure why. I was heading towards being underweight but with a beer belly?

I don't want to make the same mistakes again because last time I felt defeated and it made me give up on my weight loss journey. So does anyone have any advice on how to get rid of a big stomach?

*Also, just some context, I have also had a bit of a stomach even when I was a kid. So I don't live in fantasy land and think I will ever look like Kendall Jenner but for my BMI at the time it was a little ridiculous that I still had quite a large stomach.

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plateau and losing motivation

hi everyone! i’ve been on my weight loss journey for about 7 months now and have managed to lose 20kg! the last month however, my weight has stayed around 80kg with no signs of dropping. i haven’t made any lifestyle changes, i am still tracking everything that i eat (down to the gram) and i have even reduced my deficit by 100 calories, despite my original deficit already being quite aggressive (it is now 1500 calories). i just don’t know what else there is to do at this point. i’m nowhere near my goal weight, but this has really taken a toll on my motivation, as it all feels pointless if i’m just going to remain overweight.

does anyone have any recommendations or advice to help me get over this plateau? i’d really appreciate it 🫶🫶

stats if it helps: 173cm (5’8”), 80kg (176lbs), female, 20yo

current calorie intake: 1500/day

moderately active

💗🩵💗🩵💗

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