even after hitting my weight loss goal, i still obsess over food.

i started my weight loss journey in april 2025 at 174 lbs. by december, i weighed 130~ lbs. at 5’6, that’s pretty healthy for me. despite losing all this weight, i still feel trapped by food. when i wake up, i think about what i’m going to eat. after i eat a meal, i just think about the snacks that will follow. i often cave but remain unsatisfied.

maybe it’s because of my traumatic past, i don’t know. i spent almost my entire life being chronically ill. i got jaw surgery a month ago, so my sleep apnea is finally gone, but before that i believe it contributed to my depression. i have another chronic illness that negatively affects my hormones and caused me to not feel hunger for nearly a decade. i can feel hunger now that i’m medicated, but it’s not always consistent. i started experiencing food noise in my teens, which was when that chronic illness first manifested, so i think my brain was using food noise to compensate for my lack of hunger cues or something.

i also have autism and ocd, plus i experience depression. maybe the food noise is an ocd thing.

i just so badly want to be free from food. i thought that by the time i got to my goal weight, i’d no longer think about food all the time, but that’s not the case. i feel so trapped.

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everybody treats better now that I’m thinner

26 F - 5’5 - SW: 218 - CW: 114

i’ve heard of this being a thing, but i have been first hand experiencing this and wondering about other people experiences with this. back when i was almost 220, i was barely talked to or looked at. I had only a couple of friends and the friends i did have, were tinier than me and had friends that would make fun of me for my weight. I always used to like to cover my body and wear hoodies during summer, so I was also judged for that.

I always used to tell my bf “when i lose the weight, it’s over for these b*tches”. I have since LOST that weight and more!

I barely recognize myself sometimes. In my head mentally, I still look down and expect to be 200 pounds still. But I am not. I am super happy about my journey and progress, but an unsettling thing I’ve noticed is how different I am treated now. People didn’t notice my weight loss right away. Like I said, I used to wear hoodies and cover up. They noticed when I got to 150, it was summer and I stopped covering up. Everybody was asking me how I did it, congratulating me, asking me what I took (this one in particular always bothered me) or even assumed I was sick. But people started talking to me more, I got more noticed and people always offer to help me out with things, they try to make my life easier and it’s just an odd experience overall. People I never talked to at work even noticed and were talking to me. I felt scared to be around people before, to take up too much space, but I don’t anymore. People make space for me now, and it makes me sad how when I was bigger, I wasn’t treated as kindly.

If you also have any experience with this, comment it! I am interested in reading about your experience and journey.

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Visible bones are normal and healthy

I’m going to say this bluntly because this comes up constantly.

Seeing bones is normal. It's not unhealthy, disordered, or a sign that you’ve lost too much weight. Plenty of healthy adults can see their collarbones, shoulders, hip bones, ribs, wrists, ankles, parts of their spine, etc.. That happens at a wide range of weights and BMIs, including ones that are clearly healthy (sometimes even overweight still) and not even close to underweight.

Fat doesn't sit evenly on the body, and some areas just don’t hold as much of it -- even people who are not thin. A person can be healthy, eating normally, functioning fine, and still have visible bones. When you lose weight, fat comes off and your underlying shape shows. That is literally what weight loss looks like.

Yes, there's obviously a line somewhere. Extremes like bones sticking out everywhere isn't the same thing. That's not what most of these posts and comments are talking about. Someone starts approaching a healthy BMI, starts seeing the outline of their collarbones or hip bones and they think they must be emaciated.

If your only concern is, 'I can see bones now' that is a non-issue. People seem to not know what a normal, healthy body actually looks like and it's been incredibly annoying.

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i don’t like vegetables. help!

22f 5’4 229 lbs. ive finally started a serious weight loss journey after several failed attempts. i’ve cut my calories from 5k a day to about 1.2k a day, give or take. i also work out twice a day since i sit at work all day. so it’s all going fine and dandy for the most part.

except for.. the fact that vegetables are my mortal enemy. i’m autistic, i have texture and sensory issues. veggies absolutely trigger them. just about every single one, too. except potatoes and sweet potatoes, i LOVE those. and no, cooking them in different ways never helps. forcing them down doesn’t help either, it usually comes back up when i try.

does anyone have any suggestions for hiding veggies in my food (like a toddler.. lol)? or what veggies work best in a homemade protein shake? thank you in advance :,)

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Trying to stick to a weekly calorie deficit but keep messing up

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to lose weight and stay in a calorie deficit each week, but I keep running into the same problem. I usually go over my calories once or twice a week, and then I don’t want to eat less on the other days to make up for it. Because of that, a lot of my weeks end up being maintenance weeks instead of actual deficit weeks, which is really frustrating. I want to lose weight, not just maintain, but it feels like as soon as I mess up one or two days, the whole week is ruined.

Lately I’ve been thinking about it, and I’m realizing that being perfect every single day isn’t realistic. Most people don’t hit their deficit perfectly each week — life happens, and some days you go over and some days you stay under. What really matters is the bigger picture over time.

So now I’m trying to focus on aiming for my normal calorie target on most days, accepting that I’ll go over sometimes, and not punishing myself when it happens. I still try to limit the higher-calorie days, but I’m not stressing about perfection. Over the long run, that’s what creates a deficit and actually leads to weight loss.

I’m curious — does anyone else struggle with weeks like this? How do you handle it when you go over your calories a couple of times but still want to see progress?

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Real talk about hunger

Day 4 of weight loss and diet: still sticking to the plan (500-600cal cut) but I am realizing how hard is to operate in this stage. I feel sluggish and slow. I feel hungry a lot during the day. Reading other posts I came to realization that this is the normal state if you want significant wins, am I correct?? Nobody talked about it before! Please share!

Can you share your experience and how handle this hungry state? Also how long it took to get over it if you already passed thru it?

All info appreciated.

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Day 4 of diet - foggy

Hi all, On Monday I started my weight loss journey. I’m mid 30s Fem. I am increasing my steps to 10k, lifting 2x week and counting calories. Cutting from 2400 to 1700-1800 cal a day. Basically cutting off almost all sweets (I allow only a small one after dinner), alcohol and stick to whole food.

I feel kinda sluggish and foggy during the day, specially after lunch, despite of having a good night sleep.

Taking it slow, and still feeling strong at will but wondering when I would feel more back to normal in terms of energy. How long would take the body to adjust? I have like 50lbs to lose, so this will be a long process not just a 2 week diet.

Also any tips to cope with the food noise will be great. Thanks!

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