Lost 8kg and counting! Feeling great (sharing win)

Hi everyone! Long-time lurker here. I started my weight loss journey on the 8th of January of this year. I started before, but it never lasted longer than two months. I started at 87,2kg and today I’m 79,2kg! I’m over the moon! This time I got a gym membership and started walking more, besides prioritising protein and eating in a slight caloric deficit. I love walking and lifting weights, and slowly but surely the weight started going down. I think I lost fat whilst also gaining muscle, at least that’s what I think when looking in the mirror. I just wanted to share this win because I’m so happy with it! According to assessments at my gym, for my length (170cm) my ideal weight is 65,5kg. That means I have a long way to go still Is that true? I can’t wait to keep continuing like this regardless! My next goal is 75 :)

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Let myself go last week. Had a full week of proper binge-eating and now i'm not sure how to continue

So last Monday i weighed myself, i was 352. And i don't know what happened inside my head but it was like "you know, you should be able to have a cheat day now that you've lost 15 LBS in a month. But that cheat day made something disconnect (don't know how else to describe it) and i went on a full week of eating unhealthy stuff. Pizza, Pasta, Fries, Loaded Fries, Noodles, A ton of grilled cheese sandwiches, lots of crackers and peanut butter and i decided to just stop moving all together, hardly got more than 1000 Steps a day, didn't do the other exercises i did.. Decided to weigh myself last Monday and i was 370.

I'm feeling terrified because while right after that i got a punch in the gut and i immediately started toning down again and tracking my calories seriously again. Like, i would still track my calories with the binge-eating stuff and i'd overeat about 1000-1500 a day for that week. But after last Monday i genuinely got scared and nearly cried because of what i had done, it felt like this was irreversible and like it was an insane amount of weight to gain, even if it was just water.

Ever since Monday i've been in a defecit again, between 500-750. I've started walking again and exercising like i never stopped and while i can feel that i'm getting less stiff again and the acid reflux is gone and i have more energy, i'm still sad that something like "oh let me have a cheat day" made me spiral out of control like this.

Weight loss is a massive struggle, i went from 385 to 302 from 2023 to 2024. Then in 2025 i regained almost everything but i could stop before i got back to my old weight. Things were going so well again, i started feeling energetic and agile again and my mental health had cleared up a ton, and then this happens.

Does anyone have tips to make it less difficult for me to get involved with binge-eating or with craving fast food?

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Reduced hair density during weight loss

I'm a 21 year old male who's 25 pounds down since February, and I just got my hair cut and under the bright light of the barber shop, I was mortified to see so much of my scalp after the haircut. My hairline is intact and its not just in one area, from my sides to the top to the back of my hair theres reduced density everywhere, so much so that under bright lights u can see some scalp no matter how I style it.

I asked GPT and it said this is normal and is called "telogen effluvium", but I'm not losing hairs. Im pulling on my head and checking my pillow and no hair is falling out, its density has just significantly reduced. I'm looking back on photos and videos of me, and my hair was very good and thick up till around mid august, and that's when I start noticing decreased density in photos. The haircut I just got has just woken me up to how bad it's gotten.

Has anyone experienced this and what should I do? Should I take a long break from my cutting phase? Should I go to a dermatologist?

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I hit one of my biggest goals in my WLJ

Hi everyone :') I've lurked here for quite some time, and first of all I'd like to say thank you for all for all the encouragement you've given even though you've got no idea you did it. I read so many accounts of weight loss journeys and used them as motivation to get to where I am today.

I just wanted to post this somewhere, because I feel like I can't really talk to anyone, but my boyfriend who was very congratulatory, about this. I started my wlj about a year and a half ago, at about 362lbs. One of my biggest goals in my journey was I wanted to be able to ride rollercoasters with my boyfriend at Halloweekends at Cedar Point. We went last year and I couldn't ride a single ride, and I was devasted. This year? I stand here at around 270lbs, and this past weekend was the Cedar Point trip; I got to ride the coasters. I fit in every single one I tried, and I cried from happiness. I've tried so hard to get where I am today, and while I know I have a way to go to get to my ultimate goals, it was just such an amazing nsv I wanted to share.

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rate my bulking hot cereal - for bulking / weight loss / satiety

Going for max fullness and minimum calories.

Ingredients:

1. 2 tablespoons of oat bran
2. 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed
3. 6 tablespoons of unground flaxseed
4. 5 tablespoons of erythritol
5. boiled, filtered water as needed

Preparation: mix dry ingredients, add some water, microwave until hot (3-4 minutes), then mix and add filtered water as needed.

Any advice/changes? I've seen lots of different answers from AI since it gets confused by the unground flax seeds due to uncertainty regarding how well that food gets absorbed.

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Your most delicious meal recommendations

I am curious to know, as many of you are pros at cooking for weight loss, what are some meals you like to make that are very delicious and actually interesting. I’m stuck in a rut because I really want to be cooking interesting meals full of vegetables and herbs and such but have spent HOURS scrolling google and Pinterest to find meals that actually sound really good but find a whole lot of nothing. I’m not a very well rounded cook yet so I have to rely on recipes to make stuff that actually tastes good lol. Share all the recipes please!

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Lost 50 pounds, but….

Why does it feel like nothing? At my starting weight, losing 50 pounds, which would have completely transformed another person, I feel like makes me look barely different. Like, my face is definitely thinner, and my clothes are fitting better, but I also can’t help but feel like I haven’t actually done anything that impressive. I hate how long I still have to go before I hit my goal weight, especially because at my current calorie goal (1700 a day to hopefully stay at losing 2 pounds a week), I’ve been having so much trouble meeting the goal.

I hate myself for putting me in this situation. All that food really wasn’t worth it. But also, sometimes, I miss getting to eat whatever I want without thinking about it.

I hate how much leftover skin I’m probably going to have when I’m done. I’m doing this mostly for my health, and I love how I can already tell that I’m moving better, but I’ve always wanted to feel attractive. I hate that when all of this is done, I’m probably going to be even uglier than before.

I just, I don’t know. People in my life are congratulating me but I don’t really feel proud. Instead just focused on where I need to end up. I feel like weight loss is the only thing I have going on right now/the only place where I’m succeeding and when I don’t lose at a good enough pace I start feeling nervous/bad about myself because I want it so bad. When I don’t get enough steps, too, as that’s really my only form of exercise right now.

Which brings me to my last point. I’m kind of doing this all alone. I’m not great at finding out my TDEE, and I have a general sense of how many calories my body needs to run every day because of the InBody scan, but I don’t know exactly how to figure out what exact calorie amount I need to be eating to stay in a 1,000 calorie deficit. I spend all of my time either sick because I haven’t eaten or sick because I fill up way too quickly and my body’s still hungry.

Overall it’s been a lot of up and down, where I notice the scale go down or something gets easier or something fits again, and I’m over the moon. But then overall it just being a very scary/negative experience. When I read other people’s posts, I see the leftover skin fears, but not really anything else that I’ve touched on.

Y’guys know what I’m talking about?

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