Stress and Weight loss?

I am unbelievably stressed, continuously. I can try meditate, do yoga and journal all I want, but as soon as I sit on my desk, I am swarmed with a mountain of work, emails, tasks and projects to complete.

Realistically, my stress won’t go away for another 3-6 months.

I gained weight because of the stress, and now I’m currently 15lbs down, weight training & tracking calories etc is all going well — but, I frequently see “STRESS SLOWS WEIGHTLOSS”.

Does anyone have any advice for dealing with being stressed but still losing weight? My stress cannot simply go away until a large amount of projects are complete at my job, which will take months.

(By the way, I love my job, but it can be very stressful.)

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I feel like most nutritionists/dietitians/doctors are too conservative about weight loss and see every patient as an eating disorder risk

I recently had a meeting with an endocrinologist I am regularly consulting about my diet. I told her I had a cheat day, which is the only cheat day I've had since I began tracking my calories 3 months ago. I got food at Shake Shack and ate nearly 4000 calories that day. She told me that if I feel like I need a cheat day I must be restricting my calories too much, and I need to be careful about not getting into a cycle of binging and purging. I find this really frustrating because I don't habitually binge eat and have no history of purging.

I'm not slightly overweight, I'm morbidly obese, I have been most of my life and I have not lost any weight in weeks. If I don't restrict my intake of calories/insulinogenic foods further, I will not lose weight. She told me I need to remember I am improving my health even if the number on the scale isn't getting lower, but I cannot possibly be healthy at this size. I have made a lot of positive changes to my diet but there's plenty of room for improvement, I'm not eating a ton of vegetables and I still eat sugary food like cookies. You can see my most recent cronometer entries here.

I often see people on social media making posts about doctors focusing on weight loss instead of their real health problem, but I have personally never experienced this. Even for issues that are obviously weight related, like knee pain, weight loss is rarely mentioned. Rather than over-encouraging weight loss I feel like a lot of doctors I see almost discourage it.

I have seen a lot of doctors about my weight. I also often feel like doctor give me cookie cutter advice that doesn't apply to me in particular. Like when I bring up intermittent fasting they tell me to not eat between 7 pm and 7 am. I'm not eating at that time anyway. Not everyone is waking up at 3 am to eat snacks. And when I say this multiple times it's like they don't hear me. Fasting is also strongly discouraged because they think it will lead to an eating disorder. I only know one endocrinologist who I feel like gives useful advice, and she moved far away. In spite of that I'm going to start seeing her again because I'm tired of advice like this.

Don't get me wrong, anorexia and other eating disorders are serious problems and doctors are right to be concerned, but I feel like this concern is emphasized over weight loss. I'm also frustrated because I became morbidly obese as a child and I wish my doctor had intervened before it got to that point, but their advice was to tell my parents to let me eat anything I want and the only dietary change my doctor suggested was skim milk.

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I'm kinda shocked/amazed at the ideal weight recommended on calculator.net

Has anyone else tried the 'ideal weight' calculator on calculator.net? What did you think? Did it seem about right or was it way off what you thought it should be?

So, on calculator.net there are 4 formulas from different researchers giving me an ideal weight range of 59.4 to 61.5 kg [ 130lb to 135lb]

When I began my CICO weight loss that 'ideal' range just seemed impossibly (even dangerously) thin and impossible to achieve but now I'm reconsidering how I think about it.

My weight in highschool was around 60kg. I slowly but steadily gained 20kg over the following 20 years. I just thought weight gain as you get older was inevitable.

I also didn't notice my weight gain because I carried it very evenly across my body and my clothes still mostly fitted. But, I was truly shocked when I calculated my BMI as saw I was just 3 kg away from being class 1 obesity. I kept asking people around me: "do I look obese???’ Everyone thought I was crazy, including me. But it was a wake up call that I took seriously.

I once snorted at an article that said you should be able to fit into the same jeans you wore in highschool for your whole life (assuming you were a healthy in highschool).

Now I am wondering if I have a bit of weight blindness (or if we all collectively do). I thought about those old photos where everyone looks slim, and how hard it is to get vintage clothes in my size. I have a friend who works on an organic farm. She has an extremely active life and a very healthy diet. She is lean and healthy and definitely the same weight as in highschool.

I remember how at 60kg I had a completely flat stomach and was often complimented on my appearance. How easy running was, how clothes looked so nice.

Originally my goal weight was 65kg but now I'm wondering about whether I should actually go for 61kg as a healthier weight? Of course if it's awful to maintain at that weight I'll go higher, but I'm now curious about it.

For reference, the healthy BMI range for my height/age is given as 52.2 -70.6 kg. I'm not bashing that as a healthy range!

My stats: 168cm, SW 80kg, CW: 77.5 kg, GW: ? [5'6 /SW: 176lb / CW: 148)

Edit: here's the link to the calculator if you are interested: https://www.calculator.net/ideal-weight-calculator.html

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Every time I eat salt…

I’m looking for input from all of you experienced people on this weight loss journey. I have been on a very restricted caloric deficit tracking tightly. I’m going insane because of these 2 things and I need help understanding how to bypass it:

1.) Every single time I eat something that is salty, for example, popcorn, I will literally go up 2lbs. on the scale. And then it takes me several days to bring that back down. So instead of losing, I go up and have to spend the next couple of days just to get back to where I was before the salt. It happens every. single. time. How can this be normal to experience such a set back from just a little bit of salt? 2.) Every single day I do weight training, I go up a couple of lbs. on the scale, without fail. Why?

I’m spending so much time just back tracking on the things that move the scale up. I understand water retention from salt. I understand glycogen stores. But how can it be this extreme? I’ve been weight training for months. It should be adjusted by now. Salt is a normal part of diet, how can my body still not be adjusted to it? It’s destroyed my goals and my morale.

I would appreciate any input!

Thanks, guys!

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Not losing any weight but I’m not discouraged

M 5'6" 250 lbs i have adhd and had a good addiction until i was able to get treatment and now ive been able to dial in and change my lifestyle. I've been eating at maintenance for a few months now so I haven't been losing any weight. Im using trial and error to dial down how much my body needs to maintain calories, because tdee is very inaccurate. I work at a warehouse and run 6 miles a day along with weight training in the early morning, but I don't really factor that stuff in terms of calories. it seems my body is really efficient with its energy so my tdee seems to be a little under 2000 calories a day. I've been doing OMAD and I've just had one chicken breast at 423 calories at 9 oz that I round up a few hundred calories to 700 along with a bag of frozen vegetables that the label puts at 240 calories but labels aren't all accurate so I'll also look at the serving info and weigh the vegetables that way. I'll also round up by a couple hundred calories. I'll cook with a non-stick pan so I don't have to use any oil and then I'll add a few more calories when I log it at 1500 calories. I go to bed pretty hungry but I'm not losing weight so I can cut more out and bump up the cardio. Weight loss is a lot harder than i thought but if i keep lowering the amount i eat and keep increasing the intensity of my workouts i can start seeing progress. Wish me luck!

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Being Obese and Confident in 2025 is so Hard !

Hey everyone! Some words about me first. I'm a 24M and i have been though it with weight loss. The biggest one i had was 4 years ago i went from 127 kg to 82 kg and ever since then i gained everything back and more going all the way to 142kg ! I have been dieting for the last month and lost about 10 kg and honestly i still feel very fat, especially when i see pictures of what i used to look like.

There are a lot of people in my life rn that have never seen me thin/fit and i usually keep it to myself cause when i show them they think its a different person. I feel so ashamed of how i look right now, its difficult to find clothes that fit well, go to interviews, have a dating life and be present in the moment. When i lost the weight i feel like everyone changed 180 degrees how they saw me, especially love interests, mutuals, colleagues and strangers but i know for sure it had something to also do with my confidence boost.

I basically came to the conclusion that pretty privilege is unfortunately a real thing. I feel like overweight/obese people wont be treated like thinner/fit people by everyone, meaning being OBESE and CONFIDENT is something that you have to work very hard to achieve whilst losing the weight and that its almost impossible since everything in the media and around us is 99% targeted to thin/fit/pretty/handsome people. Unfortunately, I believe this international community we built is mainly beneficial to these kind of individuals . When you open Instagram and just see fit people and models living their best life (i know its mostly fake) is very hard to stomach. Believe me i tried very hard to embrace my obese body whilst working on it but its really hard and frustrating when random people you talk to have to bring up your weight and be like you can make it, what's your diet and suggest their bizarre weight loss strategies when you haven't even asked for it. One of the most recent incidents i had was when i posted a picture myself after a long time because i thought i looked good in the gym and some of my mutuals Dmd me messages like you can do it, keep pushing ! when i just posted it because i thought i looked good lmao.

Anyhow, i am going to keep pushing and fighting for myself cause i know that i can manage it in the end and that this is just a phase and its a matter of time before i like what i see in the mirror. My biggest motivation right now from previous experience is that i know when i lose the weight everyone will change how they see me, be my true self, finally wear the clothes that i like and make my daily life easier ( the paper roll effect also gives me much motivation) . I give myself very big value as an individual and so should everyone despite their looks etc. but it gets hard sometimes...

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