Just started again but currently in a cast and can’t walk

Ok so I have tried about a million times to lose weight but it never works. I just got foot surgery and cannot put weight on my right foot for 10-12 weeks. I am so scared of gaining a ton of weight during this time due to not moving and snacking when bored (I can’t work during recovery). I am starting weight loss again by counting calories. I am trying to eat in a deficit. I worry though this won’t help and I want to keep up with this weight loss when I can walk again too. I can’t do much exercising right now but I do move around a lot due to my restless leg and it is also quite difficult to move around in general so it’s like a mini workout. Overall, I’m getting good at the counting calories but is there anything else I can add to help my weight loss while I still can’t move? It works best if I slowly add habits rather than 180 degree change at once.

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NSV: I got 2nd place in a hot wing eating competition at work!

Yeah, you read that right, I'm counting an eating competition as an NSV. Why? Because I planned for it and still hit my daily calorie/macro/exercise goals.

I used to have pretty severe social anxiety and huge hangups about eating in public when I was at my heaviest weight. I would actively avoid eating around other people so I could go binge at home. Doing a hot-wing eating competition, with 20 other people, and in front of like 100+ coworkers in the audience was nightmare fuel for me. However, now that I'm 140+ lbs down (and sober) it was ezpz lemon squeezy!

Ok, but isn't entering an eating competition kind of the antithesis of a weight loss journey? Nope! I contacted the organizer and asked about a vegetarian or vegan option, and was informed that they would have baked Beyond wings available for those who don't eat meat. (I do eat meat, but I don't really like chicken wings that much 😬) I was able to put the amount of beyond wings into MyFitnessPal and adjusted my breakfast & dinner meals so that I could still stay within my deficit. Later in the afternoon I went and did one of the most brutal leg day workouts I've done in the past 3 months, then I walked 10k steps before heading home for a dinner of liver and onions!

For the actual competition, the first 5 wings were between 500-800k scoville, and the last one had a huge slathering of the Hot Ones last dab Pepper X sauce at 2M+ scoville. To prep for that, I went through aboula half a bottle of the stuff over the past week, putting it in everything I ate except the yogurt and fruit I have for breakfast lol. In the end, I got bogged down by chewing the Beyond wings and lost to the reigning champion by a measly 10 seconds. However, I didn't have any water or milk afterwards and didn't have any issues at all with the 6-minute "after burn" after eating the last dab.

So, while 2nd place might be the first loser, I'm absolutely chalking this one up as a win. I ate in public, I was social, I hit my daily goals, and I had an awesome time. A weight loss journey doesn't have to suck, you can still do fun food-related things, and you can be a winner even if you lose 😎

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Feeling like I'll be fat forever

So I currently weigh 324 lbs from 332 (took 5 days so it's a decent start) but I missed a workout today and I feel like a pure failure because of it. For reference I worked out T, W, and Th this week but today (Friday) I missed it because my brother backed out of our gym date at the last minute (I can't go without him, he's the main member)

For reference, I feel like this because I'm desperate to get back to the weight I use to be. I've been obese my whole life but in 2015-2017 I went from 365 to 230. It was the best feeling in the world but after a few years I gained it all back because of the depo shot (notorious for making women gain weight), four surgeries, and two kids. I can't wait to get back to 230 but my life has been so incredibly busy, it's really interfered with my weight loss journey and I feel like I'm never going to get where I was again.

I guess what I'm looking for is motivation to not feel like such a loser for getting off track so early in this second weight loss journey. I'm just terrified all of this will be in vain and I'll be stuck at this weight forever.

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Losing weight is stressful

It's driving me crazy.

I'm so obsessed with looking in the mirror now to make sure I don't look as fat as I used to look.

Not to mention food is hard.

I'm 5'3 and started my weight loss journey in January. I went from 250 and now I'm almost 180.

Food is what stresses me out the most really, even though I lost so much weight, I still get overwhelmed. I try to keep my calorie count under 1000 for my deficit, but eating over that makes me panic.

I've just been feeling so emotional and irritable with everything, I hate being anxious. I really don't want to gain the weight back, I've been doing so good.

When will weight loss stop feeling so overpowering?

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What finally got you to lose those final 5-10 pounds?

Im 30F, 5ft3, BMI 20.3 and I started my journey last year august, 138 pounds and through nothing else except loosely following CICO have managed to lose 24lbs and am down to 114lbs currently and would really love to lose the final 5-10lbs to get to my GW but I havnt been able to budge much on this goal since May. In May I was briefly able to get down to 112 but have gone back up to 114 after a 2 week vacation.

I started weight lifting 3x a week and around 2 months ago as a way ti supplement my weight loss and for general health. My main issue is I know all the tricks, volume eating, eating higher protein, high fibre etc, I will manage to hit all the macros I need to stay satisfied but I still cannot help but over eat to maintenance. I cannot for the life of me find the will power to go in a further deficit. If it helps I breastfeed occasionally (shes a toddler its not her main nutrition anymore), but I dont want to make excuses, I just cant seem to stick to my deficit and it feels like a willpower issue.

What am I doing wrong? It feels like my body is trying its damn hardest to stick to this weight and I cannot figure out how to move past it.

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Got data from gym, need help making sense of it

I got all the nitty-gritty data at the gym today. This is my starting out data. F,43 182.8 lbs 29.5 BMI 41.6% body fat 25.8% muscle mass Rmkcal: 1567

I need help figuring out how to calculate how many calories I should be eating in order to get my body fat% and weight down. If my Apple Watch calculates that on any given day I burn 550-600 calories based on working out and living my life, and I need 1567 calories to stay alive, does that mean I should be consuming no more than 1600 calories/day in order to lose 1-2lbs a week?

Also how long has it taken anyone to get their body fat percentage down to something healthy (right now I’m overweight skirting with obese)?

Does rmkcal decrease along with weight loss, as the body gets smaller/carries less weight?

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Any advice for someone hitting a plateau?

I have only recently started my weight loss journey. In part thanks to those Manjuro injections (they have genuinely helped me). In my first month of taking them I have lost about 21lb.

I have kept myself on a controlled diet hitting between 1,200-1,500 calories a day. On top of taking up swimming 3 times a week. The only exercise I'm currently capable of doing due to a disability that had left me with mobility problems. So pushing for a more intense workout is not currently an option. (I have also been mucking about with a pair of dumbbells between swim days but only light reps)

But after seeing the numbers continuously go down week after week I've hit what appears to be a plateau. That despite the exercise, restricted diet and everything else the scales say the say number every time I step on them.

Was just wondering if any of my fellow travellers had any advice on how to keep those numbers going the way I want them. Or is this just a temporary flat before the next slope down?

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