To lose or to maintain…

Hey!

Looking for advice on weight loss. I’m a 5’9 female in my late 20s. Throughout college and mid twenties my weight ranged mostly from the high 140s to low 150s (a healthy BMI). I dropped to a weight in the mid 120s last fall (a really quick drop that began around May 2025 and lasted through September). This was due to a combination of work stress, anxiety, & also probably some OCD related restrictive behaviors. However, due to binge eating disorder I very quickly regained the weight. I’m seeing a nutritionist now to help with the binge eating, but I currently weigh around 150 and feel lost. I no longer fit in some of the clothes I have from when I was underweight in the fall and I’m questioning what my current goal should be.

Obviously I want to feel safe around food and stop bingeing, but I feel like a range I’d feel happy with would be like 135-140. I don’t have a ton of muscle and even when I was underweight looked more “skinny fat” than toned.

I was thinking I’d try to eat in a deficit to lose a pound per week until I reach this goal range. Is this stupid considering I have a history of binge eating? Is further deficit going to just continue pushing me further from my goal? Should I just embrace a weight range closer to 145-150 and call it a day?

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How do I live now?

So I’ve lost the weight, I’m finally so happy with how I look and I don’t know what to do now.
I understand reverse dieting and reversing into maintenance, but I’m so scared to gain all the weight back I’m super scared of going off plan with eating and not tracking calories. I want to stop tracking eat out from time to time and start to live again, but I’m just so afraid of gaining all the fat back. How are you guys able to maintain and enjoy life after weight loss?
I need advice or tips or anything.

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Tips for not eating so fast (even after weight loss)?

Hey everyone, looking for some perspective from people who have navigated the final stretch of a massive weight-loss phase.

Over the last 15 months, I’ve dropped from 315 lbs down to 170 lbs (mid-20s, M, 6'1"). At my lowest I weighed around 165 lbs but have recently gained a couple lbs back. My ultimate goal is to get into a lean muscular range. I have been going to the gym and lifting about 4 times a week for about six months now. Recently, I started adding some running into the mix and I have been really enjoying exercise. I am now aiming for about 2500-2700 calories a day, but this is where things have been difficult over the past month:

Today, the "day-after" running hunger hit me hard and I ended up eating about 4000 calories. Logically, I know my body is probably recovering from a workout and run yesterday, but mentally, I am struggling a bit.

My immediate instinct is to go back to my strategy of weight loss and cut down my calories. To make things more frustrating, I realized that despite transforming my body so far, my actual eating habits seemingly have not changed. This past month especially, I realized I still eat incredibly fast and totally mindlessly, just like I did when I weighed my highest.

Has anyone else experienced these hunger spikes right as they approach their final goal weight? And does anyone have tips on how to really change

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What's your weight loss "cheat code"

I was recently fired from my job where I did 5 hours of walking. I lost weight fast, but now that I no longer work there. I'm finding it hard to get outside and walk if I don't have to

What's your "cheat code" to cardio weight loss. I found that fasting was the way to go, but I'm not just talking about method, I'm talking about motivation

How do you find the motivation to get up and walk 1+ hours a day ? Ik summer is coming up, but I don't think that's enough 😭

(Landscapers answer (or blue collar workers): I start a landscaping job tomorrow, did that help with weight loss ?)

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300lbs, Female, haven't been to the gym since I was an athletic teenager, please help!

Hi all,

I've had various success with weightloss over the years, with a 70lb loss being the best success, following with regains. The diet I have is pinned down, I'm working with professionals and am happy there. The problem I have is I used to be incredibly athletic as a teenager in many sports and competing in most of them. I'm older now (30s)

Now, I have no idea where to begin aside from cardio. My brain thinks I can still pull off some pretty complex tumbles or swim 10k at my old pace lol, but obviously I can't. I definitely have lost most of my muscel with my last weight loss success, but now after falling off track I'm wanting to do it right this time. But I have no idea where to start with strength training.

Please can you share and resources that you found helpful? I'm not able to get a personal trainer atm, so I'm looking to begin with a good start as much as I can. I generally do best with a routine that I can write down and follow.

Thanks!

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Lose it - without gym?

Hi all ✨

Me (F / 33 / 160cm / ~65kg) and my boyfriend moved to a new area in February and are still settling in. The gym chain we’re subscribed to isn’t close by anymore and I’d prefer not to switch because we got a really good deal and genuinely like the gym overall. We’re trying to motivate ourselves to just take the car and drive there again, although realistically it probably won’t be as often as before for a while 👀

Normally, I would do home workouts instead, but since everything is still a bit chaotic here, we don’t really have a space where I feel comfortable working out. 🫠
I also tried calorie counting for a while, but honestly didn’t notice any significant weight loss — I mostly just maintained my current weight. 🙃

So my question is: what are your experiences and tips with losing weight while taking a break from sports/exercise? Especially if you’re trying to lose “only” around 20 lbs.

Thank you in advance! 🙌🏻

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6 months postpartum and unable to lose weight in a calorie deficit, what gives?

I’ve done a handful of weight loss journeys throughout my life and have successfully lost 20-30 pounds more than once. I carefully track calories (yes I know how), eat enough to lose 1lb per week, and do some light exercise that does not factor into my calorie goal. I no longer breastfeed.

I’m completely baffled that the scale originally went down 5 lbs, but after another month, it went back up! I’m so confused by this. I’m tracking, weighing, measuring, sometimes even overestimating calories just to cover it. What gives? I’m back where I started and none of this makes sense. I’ve never had this problem before. Any other postpartum moms out there dealing with this, and any tips to help?

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