what made this attempt different from all my failed diets

This is probably my 15th serious weight loss attempt over the past decade. Every other time I'd lose 20-30 pounds then slowly gain it all back when willpower ran out. This time I didn't start with food restriction at all. Just began tracking my water intake with waterminder because I kept getting afternoon headaches and figured dehydration might be involved. Weird thing is fixing my hydration made me naturally want to eat better without forcing it. When I'm not constantly thirsty disguised as hungry, I make better food choices and eat appropriate portions. Lost 28 pounds so far and it feels completely sustainable because I'm not fighting against my body's confused signals anymore. My appetite is predictable and reasonable when I'm properly hydrated. The key difference this time was starting with biology instead of willpower. Fixed the foundation first and everything else followed naturally.

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I need some guidance

I’m 22F, 5’3, and 180lbs

I have a lot of history with yoyo dieting, and in the last year I’ve gained quite a bit of weight from a medication that I’m no longer on. Now that I’m off the medication, I want to lose about 50 lbs. my goal is to lose at least 8lbs a month, but I don’t know how possible it is without a pretty extreme diet. If I have to cut down to around 1100 calories a day for a little while to get started, would that be too little? I know it needs to be sustainable, but I think I’m mature enough and my relationship with food is healed enough to be able to handle restricting for a bit.

My other concern is loose skin and a sagging chest after weight loss. I don’t know if I’m at risk for it with 8lbs a month. Should my skin be able to bounce back easily at my age? I’d love some guidance on this.

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Where does your weight “fall” naturally without deprivation?

Where does your weight seem to fall naturally when not pushing yourself uncomfortably/ feeling deprived?

For context, my (F31) HW was 217 lbs back in 2021 and my CW is 130 lbs which I hit in 2024. I had and still struggle with binge eating. Being only 5’1” I’d like to lose another 15 lbs, but I’m not trying as hard I could. Since 2024 there have been months where I workout 3-4 times a week and there have been months where I’m traveling and don’t have gym access.

Aside from the weight loss plateau, my life is okay! I eat meals with my friends and family and try to move a little bit every day. My body seems to sit at 130 lbs without changing my habits drastically or feeling uncomfortably hungry. Comparatively my mother sits at 105 lbs without thought or effort.

I know I can hit 115 lbs with more effort and will still make that a goal, but I’m curious what people’s experiences are.

Where does your weight seem to fall naturally when you’re not pushing yourself?

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Therapist helping with weight loss without talking about it

I have seen my therapist for 8 years and for the past 5 years I’ve seen her 3x a week (I have severe mental illness) and I’m 300+lbs and we have never talked about my weight (dealing with too many other things to focus on losing weight) and recently therapy has so much filled in the wounds from my childhood that I was finally ready to tackle it and I’ve been perfectly calorie counting and eating 1300-1400 calories almost every day for the last month, and I can tell for sure that this will be a forever thing. I’m done eating the way I was.

I just wanted to share because it’s crazy how much good therapy can help with weight loss even when you never talk about weight.

I know you might be thinking that I’m only a month in, but I’m dead serious that I’m done stuffing my face with junk every day FOREVER. Mostly because of my therapist’s care. I could have never done this past month if it wasn’t for her.

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Going back up to maintenance calories to break a plateau?

Started my weight loss journey at 94kg now down to 80kg. Been at 80kg for 4 months and struggling to go down further. I also suffer from PCOS. I started at 1750 calories and have been slowly going down. I track and weigh everything that goes into my mouth. I only drink water. I don’t order take outs and I exercise regularly (gym + 10k steps). I’ve been at 1500-1600 for about 7 weeks now and nothing. I’ve been told to lower calories but I’m already starving on this I’m not sure I could. I’ve seen a few people mention going back up to maintenance calories for a couple weeks to reset, has that ever worked for anyone? I’m out of ideas I physically can’t get out more to exercise and I’m already trying my best to manage my hunger on 1500 calories.

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How long did it take you to lose 50 lbs?

Hi ! I’m 18, 5’6 and about 180. I went from 125 to 185 over the past two years, my doctor put me on a bunch of medications that boosted my appetite and blah blah blah. I’ve been trying for about 2 months to lose weight, but with the combination of my appetite, slowed metabolism and extreme fatigue from everything going on it was extremely difficult, bordering impossible. I started actually losing weight about two weeks ago, after my doctor gave me the OK to ween off the medications and have so far lost 5 lbs. Just wondering if anyone else has lost a similar amount of weight and how long it took you? I know healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs a week, but I’m hoping to speed that up at least somewhat. Any advice, suggestions or antidotes are greatly appreciated :)

edit: Thank you all for mentioning that losing weight faster is not healthy. Even just losing 5 lbs I got so excited that I wanted to speed things up for a quicker reward, not healthy! Also, my activity level used to be really high. I was a dancer till I was 16. (the reason I stopped is the same reason I was put on so many medications and gained sm weight). I want to lose weight so I can feel comfortable in my body, and go back to dancing, and hiking and other things I enjoy without getting so sweaty and exhausted so fast. My exercises mainly consist of different ballet inspired workouts for weight/resistence training(1 hour, three times a week) hiking to get cardio in (3 hours every saturday, plus 8k steps a day) and some mma here and there (my boyfriend and mom both do mma so I figured it be a fun way to get exercise in). If this helps any of you with giving advice, there you go! thank you all so much again!

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my weight loss has stopped and i don't know what to do anymore

i’ve been in a calorie deficit since march. for a year i was home all day bc i had to study so i was only walking 10k steps 2x a week.. the first three months were good and I lost 10kgs but after that the scale hasnt even moved. then i started going to the gym this july and i lift weights 3x a week and do cardio 4x a week. despite all this i still haven't lost any weight. I tried to eat 2300 calories for a week 3 weeks ago and then went back to calorie deficit but it didn't work.. (im already eating 1400 cals and i don't want to eat less and (I accurately track everything i eat) (and also i don’t gain any weight if i eat around 2000cals) please can someone give me advice?

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