beginner here

hi everyone! i’m a 28f 164 cm (5’4”), and I started my weight loss journey this past tuesday at 100.1 kg (~200 lbs). i’m already down 0.65 kg (~1.43 lbs), and i’m really happy with my progress so far. I love reading everyone’s posts here they’re super motivating but at the same time, i can’t help but think about how long it’s going to take to reach my goal to be 60 kg (~132 lbs), and it kind of makes me want to give up already lol. also, i keep weighing myself everyday because if i don’t see results right away i don’t even want to continue. but this applies to everything i’ve ever tried in my life haha. i’m sure it’s not healthy, i can feel this topic is consuming my brain, there is nothing else that interests me at the moment other than how to lose weight. how do you manage to maintain a healthy mindset and avoid comparing your progress to others. i’d love to hear your advice!

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Men who are successfully losing weight, how many calories are you eating a day?

I am trying to lose weight. It's hard. My husband is always buying snacks. He hasn't been very supportive and encouraging in my weight loss journey, but it looks like that's going to change. He recently decided he also wants to try to lose weight. We are both about 40lbs overweight.

My husband is 5'9 and thinks he should be eating 2,500 calories a day. He goes to the gym, weightlifts and cardio like 4 times a week. I am curious to hear from men who are losing weight how much you're eating. We know about TDEE and BMR and BMI. Just wanting to hear from people living it every day and being successful.

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Lost a total of 10-11 pounds in 3 weeks, having issues eating a bit now.

So I weighed about, 175-176 and my total weight loss is 165 3 weeks ago. I am trying to lose around 157 in 3 more weeks. I've been drinking at least 64 oz of water daily, going to the gym twice a day at least 1 a mile everyday I go. But for what I've been eating is, so minimal around 500-800 calories I just don't feel that hungry for some reason. Like today when I finished a workout for 45 min I was starving and I got brisket, but the moment I ate like 3-4 brisket slices I just don't feel hungry anymore and I didn't feel like eating anymore which is half a pound being 352 calories. I've eaten like 120 calories and I don't feel like eating more. I cut completely on Grain and Rice and sugar and have just been eating protein and salads.

I am not sure if I should be concerned. I know calorie deficit is a thing but the amount I'm eating is so minimal it is kinda worrying me. But my goals are outweighing my own safety which is a concern.

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Losing weight makes you really love eating

Hi! Since I started losing weight with calories deficit food tastes a lot better. For most of my life I always ate a lot, in certain periods of time *really* a lot, something like I went to the off licence every day and spend 10/15£ on junk food full of sugar and I was able to gain 15/20 kgs in a matter of weeks.

On June of 2024 I started a weight loss journey. Many things changed in my life, one being the taste of food. Every time I eat something it's food of gods. I know it will sound stupid, but a couple weeks ago I ate a pizza again for the first time and I was nearly crying for the good feeling it gave me. Does this happen to some of you aswell?

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Diet break necessary???

Is a diet break necessary? If so, is it necessary during a certain timeframe within the weight loss journey? I’m 43f, current weight 184 from 215, 91 days into my weight loss efforts. MFP daily calorie goal is set to 1420 calories a day and I’ve only gone over by 100-250 calories three days since starting. I workout 5-7 days a week, usually around 45 min/day that includes a combination of cardio, strength, yoga. I have not felt hungry or deprived or feel the need to take a diet break at this point. Is it really necessary? Will I feel the need at some point? If so, how will I know? I’m assuming I don’t feel hungry due to the foods I’m eating. I found out I had high cholesterol and have switched to whole grains, healthy fats, increased fiber. I’ve also significantly decreased the amount of processed foods and try to get as much protein as I can. I’m becoming more and more motivated by my progress and don’t want to lose my momentum while also knowing/waiting for my rate of weight loss to slow down at some point (soon???).

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Willpower when your partner doesn't eat the same thing

30F | SW 315 | CW 285 | GW 145 | 30lbs lost

Hi all! I am (very slowly) losing weight trying to get below the BMI threshold for a breast reduction. I wanted to ask how y'all keep control of yourself if your partner is not on a weight loss journey and tends to enable unwanted habits - she is a major sweet tooth and does most of our grocery shopping since I work three jobs and she is on medical leave. There is always some kind of cookie, candy, sugary juice, etc in our home from her grocery trips, or a tendency for the meals she plans to be extremely oily, fatty, cheesy etc. She is recovering from lifelong disordered eating, so I don't want to ask her to stop eating things that are part of her healing process with food, I just want to learn better personal boundaries and gain willpower to say no or do something different when she offers/makes food that I know contributes negatively to my goals.

Do you have any advice about how to maintain your food goals and avoid sweets when they're omnipresent, or how to delicately have a conversation with a partner whose background includes disordered eating about your boundaries with food? I'm concerned about triggering my partner in an attempt to stick more effectively to goals.

TIA!

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Increasing Calorie Budget

I'm still a ways off from where I want to be, at a normal BMI, but last night I decided it was time to increase my calories and slow down my weight loss.

I ate at a 1k deficit for most of 2024, from the moment I began counting calories and even through the holidays, for the most part. At the height of my weight loss, I was losing around 2.3 lbs per week, and much of that could be attributed to an increase in activity without and increase in calories.

I lost weight quickly but hit a wall here recently. I can now feel my body struggling to find fat to metabolize as I near a normal BMI, and I'm reaching near-ravenous levels of hunger on days that I'm particularly active and/or stressed. So, last night as I struggled to stay out of my kitchen, I realized that my body was telling me I was actually hungry rather than being bored or just having... munchies. And instead of binging, I decided it was time to modify the budget.

In my mind, eating more than my budget is bingeing, but it's not bingeing if I'm still counting my calories and sticking to a budget (which is still a deficit). This is just me listening to what my body is telling me, and giving it what it needs.

I'm writing this post as a sort of declaration of commitment to this new caloric budget (currently ~500 cal, give or take 100, but I won't know for certain until I see the results and adjust accordingly). I also feel it's important for me to state this out loud, because I've gone back and forth with this decision multiple times over the past month or so. And, in an effort to avoid any potential for an eating disorder, I think holding myself accountable to this public statement is equally important.

This new budget will promote the slight change in goals as I aim for a maintenance/recomposition phase once I get down below 178. I can already see the outline of my muscles as I continue to lean down, and the desire to see more of that is becoming a more prominent motivation than "simply" losing the weight.

To anyone who happens across this, thank you for reading. If you're in the same boat as I am, I encourage you to reflect on your own situation and determine whether or not a change in budget is right for you.

Thank you.

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