Should I increase my calories from 1100 to 1500?

Hey everyone, I’m a 23 M, 5’6”, and I started my weight loss journey exactly one week ago. My starting weight was 173 lbs, and currently down to 165 lbs. I know a good chunk of that 8lb drop is likely water weight, but I’ve been hit pretty hard by the hunger wall. For the past 7 days, I’ve been eating a strict 1100 calories a day, and by the time I get to the end of the evening, I am still a bit hungry. I’m starting to realize that 1100 calories probably isn't sustainable or healthy in the long run. My goal is to get down to 155 lbs, and I’m thinking about bumping my intake up to 1500 calories a day. I’m looking for some input on whether 1500 is a more realistic "sweet spot" for my stats and if anyone else has successfully transitioned to a higher calorie count without stalling their progress completely.

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Content creators - who do you follow for ideas?

Title says it all, who do you follow for meal ideas and whatnot?

I mostly use FB and YT, and follow The Plant Slant and Slow Slimmer, but I'm always open to new ideas of people who post meal ideas, etc...

I also follow PlantYou, not specifically for low calorie ideas, but for delicious meals that taste amazing, and I just tweak em a bit sometimes.

Are there any non-American weight loss content creators that post meal ideas, etc? It can get very hard to find some USA ingredients or they cost a LOT if you're not in USA.

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Am I going too hard?

I’m trying to lose weight, but a couple people in my life have said that I’m going too hard. I’m 5’3 (162cm ish) female, and 108kg at the moment. On New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day I weighed in at 113kg so I’ve lost 5 kg since starting on the second. I have my Lifesum app set to a goal of 7911 kj per day, but I’m regularly about 1000-2000kj under this.

On top of that I’ve gone from an almost completely sedentary lifestyle last year (except for a few blips where I’ve tried to be more active) to getting half an hour exercise atleast every day, plus 1 hour exercise 3 times a week. I have my “move goals” on Apple Watch set to 2500kj on my rest days and 3500kj on the 3 days a week I go to the gym. I spend an hour at the gym, sometimes more, and do 20+ minutes of cardio and then the rest of weight training. I haven’t missed any days this month, with the exception of course of new years as I was nursing a hangover so properly started on the 2nd.

I did do this for a month last year but I fell out of it because I had been doing it with a friend, and when that friend lost motivation I also lost motivation. Conveniently, it’s also this friend who is saying I’m going too hard. But it’s also his brother (who also had a weight loss journey and is now super fit), and my fiancé.

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I don’t know what to do

Okay guys, I started my weight loss journey in May of 2024 and since then lost 72 pounds so far (25F, 5’6 and when from 252 to 180). Since recently I can’t lose weight it’s literally stuck on 180 for almost 2 months. I got frustrated and than started binging these last 2 weeks. I can’t stick to my diet (eating 1450kcal a day, if I eat more I don’t lose any weight), I always eat a lil extra and it has gotten me to 180 but recently nothing is helping. I started working out more and nope, I changed my diet and also nope. I feel very sad, I came so far and now I can’t even get to my GW. What can I do???

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Dietitian + PCOS

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Has anyone had experience with using Nourish or seeing a dietitian on your own/through another platform for help and guidance managing your PCOS through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle changes for weight loss? How has having a dietitian helped or not helped you, like did it keep you accountable and consistent with your efforts, or did it make it harder? I want to know everything, as I am currently signed up on Nourish to see a dietitian for PCOS and weight loss in February, and I will be paying out of pocket, so I want to make it worth it. Thanks in advance!

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How to know when diet alone won't be enough anymore?

I've been losing weight for about a year and a half now - I'm 5'3, and I've gotten from 175 down to 130, which is the lowest weight I've been since high school! I'm within a healthy BMI now, but now, honestly mostly for aesthetic reasons, I would like to keep going. I carry most of my weight right in the front of my stomach, so even now it's still very visible.

Here's the problem I'm facing right now though: I'm severely disabled (chronic fatigue, was almost completely bed-bound for over a year and lost all my muscle in 2023) and building muscle back is extremely difficult for me. I have to be super careful not to injure myself - even stepping the wrong way when I'm walking has, multiple times, caused my hamstrings to tear.

I also just mentally find it a lot easier to do one thing at a time, so I've been focusing on losing fat through diet alone all this time, thinking that I'll lose as much as I can, then slowly build some muscle for a bit, then maybe do one more fat loss period to get to where I want to be.

Right now, to keep losing I have to eat pretty much just 1200 calories a day. Any more, even for a day or two, and I start gaining weight back. It's getting to be extremely tough to stick to, even with taking maintenance breaks sometimes. I'm spending a LOT of time thinking about food, and over the last few weeks I've just been gaining and losing the same 3 pounds over and over. I know it would be easier, eventually, if I did gain some muscle, but for me the line between "pushing my body hard enough to prompt it to actually build muscle" and "injuring myself" is extremely thin, so I'm nervous to start. I already have chronic pain that limits me a fair bit (which has gotten substantially better with weight loss!). And I'm a bit worried about how to find the right amount to eat to build muscle without just regaining a bunch of fat, since I can't just go sicko mode lifting weights lol

How did you guys know when diet alone wasn't going to be enough to get you where you wanted to be? And if anyone here is disabled like me, I'd love any tips for strength training without wrecking my body further.

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is sleep REALLLY important for weight loss? (teen) (eating healthier but gaining weight??)

this is gonna be a long post, so if you don't wanna read the middle and skip to the end (which has my main question) that's completely fine, im grateful if anyone reads it anyway

i’m a teen and recently switched to healthier eating. light breakfast (smoothie or yogurt), half a sandwich for lunch, larger dinner + 1–2 snacks (yogurt, fruit, or a small chocolate truffle). This is very different from how I used to eat (much larger portions in the past + more snacks), but instead of losing weight, i’ve been gaining 😭😭??

in the same time i started eating better, my sleep schedule got REALLY effed up because of studying and extracurriculars. i nap from about 6–7 PM for two hours and then sleep at usually 3:30 AM. i don’t eat after 10 PM or snack late at night, so i dont think its eating at later times thats causing it.

also i usually eat dinner and then nap right after, which i heard is lowk bad for digestion (maybe this is it)?

additionally i get literally like zero exercise im studying in my room all day. asian community core. but this has always been the case so i dont think its me not exercising because i've always been inactive. im rn at a healthy weight (F 125 lbs 5'4) but just wanna lose 5 pounds, however, i care about that less than the fact im eating healthier YET gaining weight.

this might also be relevant but when i talk about gaining weight its that i used to be 120-121 lbs until 2 months ago when then i started my diet change, sleep change, and then gained 5 pounds. to be fair i dropped to 120 because i had samonella last year that caused me to lose 9 pounds, then i maintained 120 for 8 months, then im now at 125.

anyway that's a lot of information for a relatively simple question: are my sleeping habits of napping + 3:30 AM sleep time causing me to gain weight despite me eating healthier? thank you!

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