Weight loss vs menstrual cycle

Hello all-- I'm at the one year mark of my weight loss journey and am officially down 27.6% of my total starting body weight (4'1, 28F, SW 170, CW 123)

When I first started tracking my food, I saw another post of someone who tracked their weigh-ins compared to their menstrual cycle. Having my period, period cravings, hormonal highs and lows, make this very challenging.

So much so, that in celebration of the one year mark, I thought it might be fun to make my own graph. I'm not a data analyst by any means, but I managed this on my own well enough.

I weigh weekly (had a rough patch over the holidays with stomach issues) and only record the first day of my period, but its safe to assume my period lasts 4-5 days each.

https://imgur.com/a/DxXQ4Rf

The orange markers indicate my weight on the first day of my period. It's validating seeing that oftentimes my weigh in the week after my period is almost always higher (in the past 6mo).

Will update if/when I reach my goal weight.

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Regaining weight!

Howdy! I am here to look for advice. I am currently 22 years old, male, and 5'7. A few years ago I was 250lbs and I got down to 155lbs in under a year through some very unhealthy choices. Wasn't eating, over exercising. It was ... Rough and it burnt me out. After staying relatively steady for a couple years, I am now back up to 175lbs. I want to get back down to a healthier weight and in a much more healthy way but I have such an unhealthy relationship with the gym now. Would tracking calories and staying in a deficit combined with walking everyday contribute to weight loss? I don't do too much walking at work as I work at a more corporate job and that is for sure a huge contributing factor to gaining 20lbs back. I'm overall looking for advice and a ~easier~ way to lose weight without going to the extreme like before. Any advice is appreciated :) And also how bad is 175lbs for my age and height? Is 20lbs a safe number for me to lose?

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After losing 100 lbs again, large weight loss is definitely unsustainable for most people.

In the past decade I have gained and lost at least 100 pounds three different times. Each time took great effort, it never got easier and required daily focus and counting to stay on track. I get around 180-200 grams of protein a day to try to dent my hunger and I could still pretty easily eat twice my maintenance calories. I have to accept feeling hungry and uncomfortable at times or I’ll gain, and if my routine or life becomes hectic I tend to lose ground and have to re-establish myself even with meal planning. If I don’t exercise daily it feels almost twice as hard to not overeat.

I honestly believe the amount of energy and focus required is draining and too much for the average person to maintain long term. I’d easily weigh over 300 lbs again if I eat what and when I feel like eating. In my experience, my body only fights me more the larger my loss gets.

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Advice on actually building stamina

Hey folks!

So I've been on a weight loss (and eventually fitness) journey for about a month and a half now, started regularly exercising about a month ago.

I've mainly been doing cardio I think? I do Grow with Jo workouts as they are what got me started and something I enjoy. After a month of doing a variety of her workouts 3-4 times a week, I don't feel like I'm actually building stamina? Maybe it takes longer than a month to feel a difference but I just want advice on what else I should be doing to build my stamina level. What I'm really struggling with at the moment is stairs! I have to go up a few flights of stairs at the train station and it always makes me feel out of breath. This is something I do every day and I feel like it never gets easier.. I've also been doing arm workouts which don't feel like they're getting easier either. They're beginner ones too. Am I doing something wrong?

For reference I don't have access to a gym or safe outdoor area/neighbourhood (so running isn't an option). At home workouts are the best option for me.

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How it Started vs. How it's Going (9 Years of Weigh-Ins)

Hiii it's Boo Boo The Fool checking in 🤡

Link to the screenshots of my LoseIt weight graph spanning NINE years of struggles, wins, and loses: https://imgur.com/a/9IB7S7g

🫣 Is it really that bad?

So what's the deal? I must have been 19 when I first got the LoseIt app and just wanted to lose 10 or 15 pounds. And it was 100% for aesthetics. I didn't have a medical need or any bad side effects, I just knew I was most confident at 120 pounds and liked how I looked at that size the best.

I'm gonna yadda yadda through most of it because it's been nearly a decade and I don't want this post to be a novel and I'm sure no one wants to read that much either. One moment I want to retell is for most of 2020 I was circa 160, and I distinctly remember being in the bathroom after weighing myself and thinking, "My body is stretched to the absolute max. This is the worst it will ever be. There is no way I could ever weigh more than this. It would be physically impossible. Like, I can't comprehend how I would ever be 200 pounds. Where would another 40 pounds go? That's impossible."

I had many slices of humble pie and for the last month I've consistently weighed circa 200.

I think a lot of my issues are adjacent to my mentality at that time, that it's somehow impossible I'lll gain more although I don't do enough to stop it. I'm so confident that it can't get worse, but I don't make any changes in the present to ensure my future is better. It's hard to describe but I feel very disconnected from who I will be in the future, like she's a totally different person and what I'm doing currently doesn't impact her at all. It feels like my weight issues are Future Self's problem and she will have all the answers and solve it for me. Like, "One of these days I'm gonna get it together and shed this weight and live a healthy lifestyle, and I won't believe that I was ever obese!" Like she's got everything figured out magically. And I've realized it's unrealistic to think my future self will save me and be this infallible person with a picture-perfect life. I know how I act and think now determines how I act and think in the future. But it took a really long time for me to break out of that strange avoidant/denial mindset. I don't believe it anymore, but if it pops up out of habit I can identify it as procrastination and illogical very quickly. I'm curious if anyone else has struggled with that kind of avoidant behavior with weight loss, and what helped you focus on your current habits?

Any other pieces of advice are welcome, just be prepared that I think I've read all of it by now.

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Screwed up big time

Hello,

I'm just here to rant about my personal weight loss, and the negative impact it has had. I lost 40 lbs since February of 2025, but 17-18 lbs of those came from the month of May 2025.

The way I did it was through fasting, and blind-sighted from the immediate results, I continued to fast for 12 days, before giving up. I didn't fell for the refeeding syndrome, but have began feeling sharp pain slightly on the right upper quadrant of the body, after the fast. Based on the general location, it probably is Gallstones, and now currently in the process of accepting it, meeting professional assistance, and coming up with a better plan for losing weight, without the cost of doing the more harm than good.

Thank you for reading

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Beginner question

So, I (25f) am very new to this whole weight loss thing. I always had the opposite problem actually. Then one desk job and 60lbs later, I’d like to get back down to a healthy weight.

Height: 5’6 CW: 165lbs GW: 130lbs

My question is, rather than going into a 500 cal per day deficit, then adding food back in to get to maintenance when I reach my goal, could I theoretically just eat at the maintenance level for my goal weight and gradually drop down, and then I wouldn’t need to change anything once I hit 130? I know it would probably take longer, but would it WORK?

I’m nervous of implementing too large of a deficit because I definitely struggled with restriction as a teenager and don’t want to accidentally slip back into bad habits.

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