How to diet when you’re overworked

Hi all! I lost about 50lbs around 4-5 years ago with the help of this sub. I kept it off until recently. I’ve gone back up 10-15lbs from my lowest/goal weight. It’s not much, but it’s enough I need to rein it in.

I think the issue is my job. I’m working more hours than ever (50-60 hours/week) and I’m traveling a lot too. This has led to more high calorie/fast food as well as going hard on the sugar from the stress. Less time and ability to exercise, and less sleep is not helping either.

Any other individuals here with high stress, demanding, and time consuming jobs? What are your tips for dieting when you have no time to meal prep (something I relied heavily on before)? How do you make your life easier in your weight loss journey and prevent it from taking up mental and physical energy you just don’t have? Living on protein bars is not going well for me.

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Weight loss failure; push myself to try again

I gotta be honest, I’m very disappointed in myself. I was doing so good with my workouts and eating right (I don’t always eat good once in a while) but since I got busy with more college classes and work, I haven’t been about to fit in working out everyday. I still did workouts but I wasn’t consistent. I did great but I feel like I am back to the shape I was last year. It’s my own fault. For the past couple weeks I haven’t been consistent or just been plain lazy and ate crap. I don’t think I’ll ever get in shape but I shouldn’t speak like that. That’s why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions about losing weight or getting fit because I ALWAYS FAIL! I think my body is just meant to be this way. I think I am just about to give up. I see others making progress but me I was, but I end up.

I did it when I was younger, but I think now I’m getting older is getting more challenging but that’s not an excuse. Can any of you guys please give me some tips to help me stay consistent and stay fit? I don’t look that bad but I need to stay more consistent. Thank you.

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Please help a yo yo dieter

Been battling weight loss my whole life. I’m a snacker, I have cravings, im depressed, I’m a binge eater, it’s my life. I tend to sit between 200 and 240 pounds. In the beginning of the summer this year I started calorie counting daily and just did a rough estimate with counting and told myself to never go over 3k cals and try to stick to not going over 2500 cals daily. Did the gym a few times a week, nothing crazy. Lost 35/40 pounds by October 1. Woohoo, “I did it.” Now before you know it, I went from 240, to 205 oct 1 and now I’m back at 230. Im 5’3 by the way. Instead of shaming myself and being in mental torture, I’m just gonna get back at but. But I’m looking for advice on how calories work. I don’t understand and if I’m gonna put in the hard work, I’d like to have some knowledge behind it other than just eat less calories and go to the gym. Is my plan of just not going over 2,500 sound like an okay plan for a lazy dieter? I’ll also take advice for places to find easy to make / cheap to make lower calorie foods. I don’t have time or energy to make fancy instagram meals. My struggle with food choice is my problem. I enjoy the gym, I enjoy cardio and I love lifting. I’m just sadly addicted to food.

Thanks for your help.

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Weight loss advice

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How can I lose 150+ pounds with PCOS + rigid thinking?

Hi all,

I am a 26-year-old woman. I come from England. I am half Caucasian and half Asian. I am 5 foot 9.69 inches. I weigh approximately 166 kg (365 lbs). I have a few health issues such as PCOS (which I believe is the main contributing factor to a lot of my weight gain) and because I have autism, I have rigid thinking patterns. For example, I feel like a lot of things are 'all or nothing'.

So, I have gone through stages of starving myself in 2015 for months and only having bad food once every week. Then, since around 2017, I have let myself go and thought "fuck this, let's eat whatever I desire". I feel like I have lost all accountability of my eating, but for me it's easier to just eat anything than to make a positive change. But then I realise that I am still quite young and that I have a life to live. If I lost weight and maintained a healthy weight I could do so many things in life and just feel so much better.

I have been morbidly obese for a long time now. I was a healthy child until I hit puberty. Since then, the weight kept piling on and on and on. That was until 2015. I thought I can't live like this and then I lost 56 lbs from January 2015 to August 2015.

Then in 2017/2018 I really let myself go and thought I don't care anymore. I went through a lot of bad stuff with potential relationships with men that didn't materialise, to getting an autism diagnosis and realising the reason I struggled so badly in life and at school was because I had undiagnosed autism.

Every year I said I would lost weight and make changes. I have made some such as not ordering on food delivery websites and getting fast food delivered every day. Even though I get takeaways about 3 times a week now.

I am constantly hungry. My mental health has been stable for a while now, yet I am still always hungry. I am concluding it's the PCOS. I am under a weight management clinic and they offered my the weight loss injections, but realistically I cannot have weight loss injections forever. I really want to try and lose weight by myself without intervention. However as soon as I think about let's say McDonald's, I crave it and therefore want it. I did try to do a thing with myself that I only get fast food or whatever I fancy when I'm in the town centre. But then I think how can I learn to cope without my old habits of eating junk food everyday?! As soon as I think about tasty food it's almost like I cannot help myself and order it.

Also, if I'm aware that I am meant to be losing weight and not eating rubbish, I crave it even more. It's a hard situation I'm in because I feel like I cannot cope without my food.

I've really got to start taking responsibility for what I eat. But the cravings are sometimes so intense that I feel like I have to act on the craving. Also, with the excessive hunger, as soon as my stomach rumbles I act on that too by eating. However, sometimes I am hungry but full at the same time!?

I wanted to get a leptin test but they are hard to come by in England and I don't think the doctors will refer me.

Has anyone lost 150+ or more with PCOS and these sort of thinking patterns that I have?

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Feeling stuck with weight loss and motivation looking for perspective

I’ve been trying to be more mindful about my eating and movement, and while I know progress isn’t linear, lately it feels like things have slowed down a lot. I’m still showing up and not giving up, but mentally it’s been harder than I expected.

Some days it’s tough to tell whether I should change something or just stay patient and trust the process. I know everyone’s journey looks different, and comparisons don’t really help, but that stuck feeling can still get frustrating.

For those who’ve been through this phase before, what helped you stay consistent when progress felt slow? Not looking for quick fixes, just real experiences or mindset shifts that helped you keep going.

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Taking a victory lap because I don't have anywhere else to brag

I got a Polar H9 today, did the test to set it up and it gave me a VO2max of 52. I'm a 41 year old male. This was more exciting news to me than any weight loss goal I had from 500 down to 180, maybe even including when I found out I could get my first 2 skin removal surgeries done. It said 95th percentile for men my age, with the cardiopulmonary health of a mid-20s male. All those years of treadmilling summed up in that one moment. I'm not even at my final stop yet since I have some fine tuning to do after my surgeries.

For anyone else out there, you don't need to run to improve cardio health. I only ever walked until I had my stomach/chest and arms/legs/upper back skin removal surgeries. Just kept upping the elevation and speed to keep pushing myself. Now I'm at 70 minutes a day of 3.8mph, 15% incline(plus 15 min warmup/cooldown), working in some 4.3mph jogging for a few minutes at the end. One step at a time!

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