Postpartum hormones and weight loss - help!

Hey all—30s F, 8 months postpartum, weaned 5 months ago. I’m always tired/never fully rested, very stress-reactive, crash around 5:30 pm then get a 9–10 pm second wind, have puffy hands, and my weight is stuck around 140 lbs with ~25 lbs to lose back to pre-pregnancy. I’ve been eating pretty healthy and exercising 4–5 days/week for 4 months (strength + walks) with only very small body-comp changes. Periods are heavier/brighter than before and cycles vary 24–28 days.

Labs suggest estrogen dominance (low progesterone:estradiol ratio), low-normal testosterone, low DHEA-S, and a cortisol rhythm that runs high/late in the evening. My doctor said I have “adrenal fatigue” (i.e., HPA-axis dysregulation) and started Gaia Adrenal Health + Thorne Adrenal Cortex, plus methylated B’s, selenium, vitamin D3, omega-3, magnesium at night, alternate-day iron with vitamin C, and a weekly castor oil pack for estrogen dominance.

For folks who’ve been here: does this sound like HPA/circadian + estrogen-dominant luteal imbalance postpartum, and is this supplement plan reasonable short-term? If you tried something similar, did it help—and what would you tweak or watch for (timing, dosing, specific ingredients)? Thanks!

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i’m so unbelievably confused about macros

so i (19F, 5’3) recently did a project for my ux class and decided it would be fun to count my macros for a week just for shits and gigs to see what would happen. ive been counting cals and trying to lose some weight for a while so i thought it would be a good way to get some health insights.

i then discovered im severely malnourished??!!

i’m not even kidding — one of the days i ate 1990 calories and got a grand total of 40g of protein. not great 😭

even for the rest of the week, i never even got above 10% of my calories as protein. apparently having airheads extremes for lunch and twizzlers for dinner wont do you too well health-wise

so now i’m trying to figure out macro goals and such to make sure i don’t literally die of lack of vitamins but literally every source i find is telling me something different. i can’t for the life of me tell if i’m supposed to be eating 60g of protein or 160g of protein.

right now, i’m eating around 1400 calories a day in a slight deficit just to go from 115lbs to 110lbs — nothing crazy. does anyone have any recommendations on macro goals for this kind of slight weight loss?? i keep seeing people recommending 1g of protein for every pound of body fat but i deadass do not see a world where i manage to eat 115 g of protein a day. i eat most of my meals in a college dining hall 😭😭

any help would be seriously appreciated. again my stats are 5’3, 19 yo female who weighs around 115lbs.

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How do you deal with constant hunger?

I am at the very beginning of my weight loss journey. I'm looking forward to fitting into some of my old clothes again. I have dealt with depression. Some time ago. But I feel motivated enough to put more effort into losing weight. I recently started swimming as my way to excersize. Before that I have only excersized regularly in highschool, which has been more than 5 years ago. But swimming is fun and the best sport to do for me to keep up.

The thing I struggle with though, is limiting my current diet. I feel like I am hungry all the time. Like literally constantly. I can't function on one meal for more than one and a half hours. I would like to restrict the amount I eat in a day. But at the same time I deal with chronic low blood sugars. There isn't much about it online other than articles telling me to eat smaller portions throughout the day. But other than that I don't know how to deal with it, because I already do that, and I feel like that doesn't help. I do end up running out of healthy things to eat at home. And If I wait too long in between meals, I get low blood sugar and i risk passing out. Generally it's at it's worst in the evening. That's when I munch on a lot of snacks. I do have a slightly irregular sleep schedule due to working both mornings and evenings. But it does invite more hunger.I don't really know what to do tbh.

do any of you struggle with this? And know what helps? Maybe meals and snacks that are light in calories and still filling? I could eat a whole bag of snack carrots and still be hungry, so I don't know anymore

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Is it sustainable?

Hello. For the last 7 weeks I've managed to control my calorie intake and have it at around 16-1800 per day.

I try and not eat until about 10am which I find pretty easy. I have about 200 calories either having some muesli/breakfast biscuits

I have 2/3 pieces of fruit between breakfast and lunch (I have lunch around 1pm) which is usually some soup with some low fat crackers.

Between lunch and dinner I'll have a couple more bits of fruit. Dinner is usually about 5/6pm and is usually a pasta meal/fish/meat or whatever. I'll have something small before I go to bed provided I don't fall asleep on the couch.

I don't focus much on what I eat as such, I focus 100% on sticking below 2000 calories everyday. I find it pretty easy and am rarely hungry. If I am ill just have some water, but there generally isn't long between snacks/meals so it isn't a problem.

So far it's working well, I feel much better, have definitely lost some belly fat (clothes fitting much better for example) and have lost around 7 pounds (been at it for approaching 7 weeks, so around 1 pound per week)

I've also been doing exercise everyday (sometimes a quick 10/15 minutes of kettle bell lifting, when I have more time I combine this with about 20 mins on an exercise bike.

That's the story so far. Hopefully I'll keep it going but my main concern is that once I have a big meal (date night with my wife for example) I'll just lose focus and motivation and stop then find it very hard to get back into this new lifestyle.

I don't particularly enjoy exercise, I dread it to be honest but have managed to keep it going so far. I suffer badly with exertion headaches so can't push it too far anyway.

Any thoughts, tips or general input would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry, I should just say, I don't have any particular weight loss goals, just better health and an improvement in appearance really.

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I’m looking to lose weight and would like some tips for what worked for you all

I am currently around 228 after having changed my diet a little over a year and a half ago. I started at 265, but after hitting 220 I just plateaued in my weight loss journey. Now I go between 225 and 230 from week to week with some fluctuations. I was a wrestler in high school and used to crash diet each season to make weight, but very quickly learned how dangerous that was and the negative effects it has on weight loss.

Now that I am getting close to graduating college (in December, yay!) I am trying to get closer to my goal weight of 160. I would eventually like to join the Navy, but I need to met certain weight requirements for my height.

I’m just looking for any tips on what worked for you guys or healthier recipes. I am trying to stay in a calorie deficit, but still feel snackish from time to time. I know it’s a gradual process, but I am trying to do this in a healthy way to make sure I keep the weight off for good and to avoid a yo-yo weight loss journey.

I’m not sure what all details I need to add. If anyone has questions or if there is anything I need to clarify then I can.

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Question about friends

Im not sure if this is a good place to post this but I figured a lot of people on here have underwent a dramatic transformation. Does anyone else feel like it was easier to make friends when you were bigger? I’ve lost about 150 ish lbs, and when I was bigger I never had the issues in making friends that I do now. For reference I’m in college so there’s a lot of people my age and I always try to put myself out there and talk to new people but those just last a day and go nowhere. I know a lot of people experience this in school, but honestly when I think back to pre weight loss I had a bigger friend group than I do now and i don’t understand why

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Vacation weight loss

So i went on a vacation on 10/2 and on 9/30 I weighed 159 lbs. I came back on 10/12 and weighed 155.9. Is that actually possible? I did a couple exercises over that vacation and watched my calories (except the day of a friend's wedding I didn't log at all) and besides one road trip day didn't go much over my calorie limit.

Is it possible the break from exercise is what my body needed to drop some of the weight? I weighed today at 154.8 so lost a bit more. Just a little but makes me think the dropped weight is right?

Should I be taking more routine breaks from exercise in order to better lose weight? Before this i had over 60 days in a row of at least 20 minutes of cardio a day (most days 60-85) and strength training 6 days a week for about 20 minutes.

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