Goodbye cheat weekends, it was nice knowing you

I've been on a plateau for about a month now. I eat a high protein diet while still being in a calorie deficit on the weekdays. However, I've been doing well enough with my workouts and daily steps that I was able to afford a cheat weekend. Normally eating say, a whole small pizza Friday night, a hamburger with fries Saturday and Sunday, as well as a pint of ice cream on Sunday evenings.

But now my motivation and frustration is exceeding my love for bad food that I am cutting down to a single cheat meal a week -- the small pizza Friday evening after my leg workout.

Honestly, this is the first time I am looking at how bad my weekends were in terms of doing cheat meals. Holy shit. This is also the first time out of all of my weight loss journeys (this being the third) where I am making an effort to eat clean on the weekends.

I'm equally excited and nervous. Does anyone have a similar experience to share?

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50 lbs lost

I finally succeeded in losing 50 lbs. I'm at my long time forever wanting goal weight of 130lbs. I'm 52 and empty nest, single. I work and am getting ready to sell my home and travel debt free.

I feel pretty happy about where I'm at but here I am, rocking it, and no one notices me. All my coworkers, my sons, friends.... no one has said anything to me about the weight loss and I'm disappointed to the point of tears.

It's not that I want their approval, but just a little, congrats would be nice. I worked pretty hard to do this for me, and I just thought someone would notice.

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Little win!!

I started about three months ago taking weight loss seriously because my wedding is coming up (October!!) and I just want to feel very confident on my wedding day.

I have been insanely strict for the last three months on my calorie deficit. I have been very strict on walking every single day.

Today, I saw that Crumbl cookie had my favorite Crumbl cookies flavor (Wedding cake). And it finally clicked to me that this is a lifestyle and not a diet, and in my lifestyle, it is OK to go treat myself with a cookie that I really want.

So after work today, I went to Crumbl, and I got my wedding cake flavored cookie! Am I still under my calorie goal for the day? Yes. Will I be after I eat a fulfilling dinner? No. And that is OKAY. I do not need to starve myself and not eat dinner because I treated myself. I do not need to feel guilty for indulging in a guilty pleasure.

It may not seem like much to most, but this is a huge accomplishment for me!!

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Help estimating activity level (TDEE)

Hello

I will try calorie counting, since I have a very uneven food intake and weight. This is since my appetite variation is so big. Some days I can be satisfied with eating very few but then later that week my body will panic from the low intake and I will eat a lot.

So I tried Lose it app and got a daily calorie burn of 2300. That means at weekly weight loss rate of 1 pound, I should be at 1800 calories. And when I try this I feel like I am really starving myself.

My Apple watch say a total calorie burn of 2850 each day. I understand thats too high.

Can you help me to estimate my TDEE better?

I am a male 40y, 5’10 and 160 pounds.

I am an office worker.

I bike to the office 5 days a week (going and returning total of 13 miles (takes me a total of 50-60 min each day).

I lift weights at the gym 2-3 x 35min a week.

Play football 1 x 75min a week.

Tennis 1 x 60 min.

I run 1 x 30 min

The days I don’t do a workout I instead take 1h long walk = 1-2 x a week.

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Fighting and Weight Loss

Hi all -

I am a professional fighter, a woman 5'6" and fluctuate between 145 and 150. I know the scale isn't end all be all but for fighters, we need to make weight.

I would like to fight in the 135 weight class, which means I'd like to get to 140 or a little below. I've tried cutting for months. I track and weigh everything. I've gotten to 145, I'll stay there a day or two, then the next day I go up to 147 and just ... stay there. This has been going on since December, more or less.

These past few weeks I was steadily trending downwards and I was at 144. The next day, no deviation from the diet and eating about the same things as I had been eating for weeks, I went up to 147.5. It stayed there for 2 days, no deviation from the diet, and then yesterday went up to 149. Today back to 148.

I'm not on my period, hydrate and I train twice a day - pads and S and C in the morning, technique/pad/bag work and sparring at night. I run 3-4x/week on top of it. I use Carbon to track and I was eating about 1750 calories daily.

I don't understand what's happening. I don't get how the weight could just go up like that and stay up for days. Carbon is telling me to go to 1550 but I feel like that's too low for my activity level. Any advice or help would be so appreciated, I feel very frustrated.

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I instinctively tell people I'm not losing weight.

I can't describe it but I guess my weight loss is getting noticable and whenever someone says "wow, are you losing weight."

I immediately say "I don't think so but thanks! Maybe I have!"

I always say that because I don't want to talk. Whether they are saying something positive or negative. I don't want to talk.

And then 5 minutes later, I realize that I probably did and I wish I had said something different

It's so hard for me to talk about weight and instinctively shut it down. I'm proud of myself but I've still got that automatic impulse response to run from any impromptu weight conversation

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Starting to slip - send reinforcements!

It's finally happened.

The novelty of the initial weight loss has worn off and Im starting to binge again.

Im managing to keep under or around maintenance, but Im feeing control slipping.

My weigh loss is plateauing and Im hearing myself say 'Fuck it' with more and more frequency.

Give me the your best.

Whatever it is you say to yourself, or do or adjust or whatever.

I wish I was ok with taking a break, but it's not a break Im choosing to take, my mental state is taking over me and I'm feeling old bad habitats and lack of control creeping up on me again..

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