How to deal with family’s comments after weight loss?

I’ve lost about 77 pounds in a healthy, steady way after a struggling cycle with an eating disorder & recovering. For my entire weight loss journey, I barely go to the gym & only use the treadmill, this makes my body look “soft” & a bit bony? (Prominent collarbone & chest bones but this is entirely due to how my body fat stores). So people comment a lot, especially family and such. My friends love how far I come but my relatives are a different story. They keep commenting on how soft I look & that I need to lift weights, and when I say I don’t want a lean/super toned body and that I’m happy with my body now, they act confused. Sometimes they poke my collarbones & ask if I even eat and comment on my portion sizes. My family on average is bigger, and there’s nothing wrong with that but they don’t have good eating/health habits and don’t commit to losing weight, the only family member who doesn’t negatively talk about my body is my dad who is very healthy & is at a normal weight. It’s just something that I noticed. I’m really happy with how I look now so I try to not think about what others think. Just a slight vent

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Can't seem to raise my weekly calorie budget

Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. 39F, I've lost 13 lbs (5.9 kg) over 3 months by using Loseit, which is awesome. I want to lose 7 lbs more, but I'd like to raise my calorie budget from 1 lb. lost per week to 0.5 lbs. Easing myself into maintenance, I guess.

The problem is, every time I change my budget in Loseit, I start gaining weight. I switched to the 0.5 budget and gained a pound in one week. Freaked out, switched back to the 1 lb. budget, lost the pound. Decided to try again, switched back to 0.5 budget and gained 0.8 lbs in a few days.

Up until now my weight loss has been consistent and predictable, so this is really weird. I'm staying within my budget and carefully weighing all my food, just as I was before. Why am I gaining weight in what should be a small deficit? Shouldn't I be at least maintaining my current weight?

Any ideas as to what could be going on?

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Regaining weight as a new dad

So as of five months ago, I’ve become a dad. It’s been super great and I’m loving the experience, but it has come with some side-effects. Before becoming a dad, I had a great thing going that led to me losing something like 50 pounds and I found a lifestyle that finally worked for me. I had gotten into a routine of going climbing for 2-3 hours about three times a week, I was going skateboarding for a couple hours on both Saturday and Sunday, and I was sprinkling in some other extra activities here and there like hiking. I went from about 235 down to 185 and it was super awesome and I was super happy with myself. Finding that active lifestyle plus also taking care of myself mentally, I felt like it wasn’t any real work for me to lose weight and I felt so lucky that it felt easy like that.

Now, my schedule has changed quite a bit. Now I’m climbing for about one hour three days a week, I’m not making it out to the skatepark anymore, and I haven’t been out for a hike in a while. I’m cooped up at home a lot more, taking care of my wife and baby and I’ve fallen back into old habits. I think that part of the reason I found weight loss so simple was because I just wasn’t giving myself a chance to be bored and turn to food as a solution. Instead of eating, I was out getting moving. Now I don’t find myself with that kind of freedom and I’m just at home not moving. Also, having a baby has seriously impacted my sleep and I fall into the trap of trying to make up for lost sleep with food. With all of that, I’ve regained about 10 pounds in the last 5/6 months.

I know what worked for me before and I know that I can get back on track, but the number of obstacles in the way of me getting back on track have increased and I’m feeling short on energy and will-power to overcome those obstacles. I don’t know what I can do about it, but I really need to figure something out. I need to figure something out before that 10 pounds turns into more.

Anyone have any advice on what I can do to get past this roadblock?

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Struggling not to eat over my calories

Female / 28/ 5ft 8’ SW: 305lbs CW: 286lbs GW:168lbs

My weight loss has been over the span of a year. I got down to 280lbs and then fell off the wagon again and went back up to 296lbs. Started again at the beginning of this year and am definitely having the most success in terms of not seeing a cheat day as the end of the world

I’ve also started exercising properly for the first time ever. But now I’m struggling with the calorie side of things. I was eating around 1,900 calories a day to lose weight. But I have noticed a DRASTIC increase in appetite since I started the gym.

I’d say on average I’m doing 3-4 seasons a week, 35 mins of weight lifting and 10-20mins cardio each time.

I’m seeing a lot of different information in terms of how this affects maintenance and calories and I just don’t know what to change.

Could my deficit go up to 2,300 calories?

Should I not go up at all?

Help a hungry girl out

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Weight Loss Anxiety?

Hi loseit community, I wanted to ask a question. Does anyone have weight loss anxiety? One of my biggest barriers is first acknowledging how much weight I want to lose to be in a healthy range and then all the worries that come with that. I feel like I’ve been living with a ignorance is bliss, even though I acknowledge and verbalize the need to lose weight. It’s like talking about it is me saying I want to skydive and actually committing to it means jumping off the plane. Also im so worried about loose skin, sagging head to toe, my nipples migrating, acknowledging that my stretch marks will prevent me from having a smooth body. Its like its better never to care than to commit and worry.

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Does this sound right?

 Started the weight loss journey today. I've got a little elliptical machine that I primarily use as a sit down exercise bike. I downloaded the lose-it app and out in my stats. I'm 27 years old 5'10" 258lbs male. The app gave me a calorie budget of 2121 with the goal of losing 2 pounds a week. My goal is to get to 200 pounds and the app said I should hit that goal by September 19th. I was a little shocked at how many I was allowed and I'm just trying to see what you guys think if that sounds about right. 

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Weight loss program suggestions for young adults?

I’m looking for advice and also ranting.

I (24F) have always been overweight. Growing up my family always made comments about my body, that I should watch what I eat, while they had poor eating habits that in turn, gave me poor eating habits.

I look back at photos of myself and see that I wasn’t even that fat, and feel like if my family had just stayed quiet, I’d have a much better relationship with how I feel about my body and food. Because now I really am fat/obese.

I’ve also been dealing with borderline high BP for a few years now, and at my last physical my doctor said it was at the point where we couldn’t keep ignoring it and I had to be prescribed something. She gave me propranolol for the high bp and also symptoms of anxiety. We had a conversation and I told her that I’d like to target the source of the health problems and not just the symptoms, which means I want to lose weight. Even though high blood pressure runs in my family, there’s no reason why I, a 24 year old who is healthy otherwise, should have high blood pressure.

So my doctor prescribed the wegovy pill, but it’s not covered by my insurance and I just learned (after a month of going back and forth with my insurance and my doctors office and the insurance and the doctors office) that the $150 out of pocket cost for the wegovy pill is actually just a limited time offer and after April 15th, it’ll be $300 a month. I already couldn’t afford the $150 but I was gonna make it work, and now I especially can’t afford the $300. The fact that no one has mentioned this price increase to me over the last month of phone calls and conversations is (imo) extremely predatory and disgusting.

I’m now waiting for my doctor to fill out a coverage exception form for my insurance as a last hurrah to try and get it covered, but I don’t expect much.

In the meantime, I feel like my other option is a weight loss program like weight watchers, but I am extremely stubborn and I don’t like when someone tells me something that’s common sense like it’s rocket science. I don’t want to pay for a program that tells me to eat fruits and exercise because no fucking shit.

I’m also dealing with my mom who has recently lost a ton of weight from using Ozempic for her diabetes and now feels like she’s the pinnacle of health. When I was younger, she enrolled in weight watchers and is telling me now that it helped her, when I know for a fact that it did not because I lived it with her. She also makes being fat feel like a moral failing when 1. There’s plenty of people in our family on both sides who are obese so there’s very likely a genetic component, and 2. The way I was raised gave me a terrible relationship with food.

If anyone has any recommendations for weight loss programs that they feel actually helped them (I.e. a better relationship with food and their bodies) and didn’t feel like an episode of the biggest loser, please lmk.

And it’s not necessary but any advice on how to deal with family who body shames while pretending to be health geniuses, please lmk. (If you would like to an example of the unhealthy eating habits, growing up we’d have to hide sweet treats in the house because the next morning we’d find that the entire box of cookies (for example) had been eaten by my mom)

Sorry this was long, thanks in advance

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