Uggghhh. At my last physical my doctor basically told me my blood pressure is at "holy shit" levels and my cholesterol is higher than it should be (I partially blame work stress for the former, since my BP was fine 5 months ago before I got a big promotion, but the latter is all on me) and wanted me to lose about 20lbs overall. I have an appointment to talk about GLP-1 meds in about a month, but in the meantime I've been trying to focus on tracking, cutting certain foods and staying in a strict deficit to give myself a running start, and I hate how much food noise it creates as opposed to when I'm just eating what I want.

And it's like I go from being able to not think about food except around mealtimes to constantly thinking about my next meal, even when I'm not hungry. It's MISERABLE. I've been super disordered in the past and am trying not to slip back into old bad patterns, but when my diet and calorie intake become the only things I can think about, that's really hard... ugh. Just ranting, sorry.

If only I was a couple inches taller ugh… I could have a higher TDEE and deficits would be easier. I wouldn’t have to borderline starve and be so nitpicky about planning a bigger deficits days in advance or after, for every social events with food pushers involved.

Also so many people underestimate how easy it is for me (short blob) to gain weight by “taking a bite of this” “just a bite won’t hurt” “it’s just food”. Then you have people saying “just walk 5 miles lol!” As if my short stumpy legs can do that??? It’s insane.

Did I really have to spawn into this superficial world as a short person with the same appetite as bigfoot???

I ate peanuts last night and put on some weight. Stress eating sucks…

I stuck to high protein diet and sorta dropped the ball last night.. still within the 70’s trying to drop into the 60’s has been a hurdle

I promised myself to lose weight and I don't want to wait for new year to do this. I want to surprise my family with my weight loss and I don't know how to start.

Now, I'm trying to count calories but we always cook home cooked meals. How do I go about counting them? Do I count per ingredients? And estimate? Sorry. I'm really new. Thanks!

Although Google says 3-month is normal, I just lost patience.

But it’s genuinely so hard. 😭 How do you guys stick with it?

I usually do fine counting calories during the first half of my day, but then partway through I eat something that doesn’t fit in my calorie budget and then I just fully give up and binge.

It’s so demoralizing. The issue isn’t that I don’t want it bad enough; I’d give anything to not carry all this extra weight. My hatred for my appearance doesn’t fuel me to do better, though. It just causes me to give up and sabotage my gains.

Who live in towns with food factories. There's a jif factory clear across town and I swear they are wafting roasting peanut scent directly into my house.

on vacation and ate about 3000 calories on my first day, super excited for my 5 pound gain post trip gain x

I've been watching my calories since February but have stopped recently due to the holidays. Now I can't seem to get back on track, I've been eating out often but choosing the healthiest option. Its getting really bad, and while its embarrassing to admit I feel like I have no control anymore. Any advice?

I know it’s normal to have some weeks where you don’t lose anything despite sticking with it (I’m on 1300) but it’s so frustrating. I had a cheat day planned for Sunday (I haven’t had a cheat day since I got back on track) but I think I’m gonna remove it now 😭😭

It’s also really frustrating because I’m 5”6/7 and people on these subs always act like it’s so easy for us because we’re not short. Everybody’s body works differently and those comments just make a plateau feel even more frustrating. I’m gonna stick with it but it’s demotivating af

i maintained a steady weight around 150/160 for 3 years. didn’t change just had slight fluctuations. now after losing weight. i’m 120 pounds and im struggling to stay at my weight. i have to eat about 1400 calories it seems for maintenance and im never satisfied after im done eating im honestly tired of it. i do omad usually because i will end up over eating if i have several meals. it activates my blood sugar or something i think. my goal weight is 115 but i genuinly cannot maintain a consistent diet of 1200 because i get so hungry to the point i break it later on in the week. it’s just irritating because im struggling so hsrd to maintain this weight when before i started dieting and deficits i maintained a weight without trying and eating like crap!!

i bought myself an espresso from a vending machine at a local ice rink today. if the huge "NESCAFÉ" sign on its side was any indicator, it was probably a solution from Nescafé. the cup was your typical paper cup, around 250ml. I didn't add any sugar, I actually deleted the amount fabrically pre-entered into the machine from my order. it was a bit foamy on top, that's why I'm asking in the first place - do they add any cream or milk into the solution? is there any sugar in it?

i would really like to know how many kcals they are as I'm gonna be a frequent visitor. it would be useful to know whether its better to just make my own coffee at home.

Its EVERYWHERE!! I was looking for new vegetable recipes because they are lacking in my diet and all I could find were vegan recipes that touted that they were 100,000 grams of protein. I just want a new way to eat broccoli or a nice salad. Its the same with dessert recipes too. I don't want high protein cake with Greek yogurt frosting or "healthy oreos" that are filled with Greek yogurt.

Do you ever randomly think okay I want to lose 15 pounds so I’ll start eating 1200 calories a day because that worked great two years ago and then today is the first day you start and you feel withdrawal symptoms? I’ve never done drugs but if this is what withdrawal feels like it feels so so bad. Anyone know how long it takes until withdrawal goes away? Thanks. Also I’ve tried to eat less and I always give up after a day or two because of the way I feel but I’m sick of not feeling comfortable with myself so I’m really forcing it now.

I originally lost 50lb last year, I was at a healthy building but still 30lbs from my goal. Then I regained 60lbs over 6 months and spent the entire time beating myself up only to find out it was due to a new medication I started. I have since stopped it, and lost 20lbs, but now I'm stuck and I just don't care anymore. I'm uncomfortable and unhappy, but I just can't bring myself to do it all over again. Counting calories doesn't work for me, because whenever I'm under my calorie limit I take it as permission to eat more to hit my calories goal then end up binging. I'm already on a ton of necessary medication and I don't want to start another one. I don't have a single person in the world to talk to about this, and it's so hard struggling 24/7 having to start each day over again.

right now im in my first year of uni and i can't describe how frustrating it is to eat all my meals at the one and only dining hall on campus. everything seems to have more grease, salt and sugar than how i would make it at home and there's a lot of fried foods bought in bulk. Im not exactly trying to eat 1,200 calories, maybe closer to 1,500 to stay in a light deficit but i have no way of knowing exactly what's in my food and don't want to just pull out a food scale in the middle of the dining hall. today i got a couple of turkey sausages at breakfast (one of the only things i know is sugar free) and as i was cutting it a bunch of oil exploded out of it all over my plate and the table 😦 what are they doing to those sausages

has anyone else gone through this? or does anyone have any advice on how to eat here without going crazy? its only for my first year probably so that gives me hope but in the meantime its just really annoying

okay this is weird but.. can diet changes make you stinky? I’m eating a lot different. lots of vegetables, lean protein, real food and replaced all sugar products with SF products. and now.. I’m stinkier? even when I’m not exercising I just sweat more, stink more, even my nether regions smell more than before. is it possible that my diet is making me smell bad?

they're so high in calories like whyyyyy, especially persimmons. i found out yesterday that my medium sized persimmon is 210 cals BRO WHAT I'd rather eat chocolate then 😭😭😭

From today:

Breakfast:

-A bag of goldfish snack crackers so that I could eat Motrin (110 calories)

-Motrin

Lunch:

-Microwave macaroni and cheese (450 calories)

Snack/Dinner:

-Absurd amount of sour patch kids (1,000 calories)

-Some broccoli (to justify the sour patch kids) (100 calories)

I'm not staying within 1,200.

I just want to eat. I don’t need to eat. In fact, I have already eaten, and eating more will make me physically uncomfortable. But I want to eat.

I notice every time I go into a deficit on the 4th day I get the worst fatigue and feel like I’m woozy and not all there. I was thinking I could combat this by eating normally on the 4th day, but then I would still feel like shit every 4 days lol. I’ve never stayed consistent for this reason so I don’t know if it gets better after I tackle this ONE DAY where it hits me like a truck. I’m on a semaglutide so I don’t get the unbearable hunger I used to, but still the body effects, so I don’t HAVE to eat normally, but I work 10 hours of physical labor so this is torture. What do u guys do?

Had a cheat day for my birthday on the 14th. Have done 2 weeks of maintenance since, supposed to go out with a friend for dinner tonight and high key want another cheat meal for it with intentions to hop on the diet train tomorrow. I usually do one cheat a month and one week of maintenance to kind of reset my metabolism and I’m super anxious that I will ruin my progress in a dramatic way. Someone slap me plz.

Lets fucking go

I just wish I was disgusted by food like I used to be. I put on 20 lbs in the past month from stress eating and binge eating. I love food but I hate what I does to me. I wish I had a fast metabolism. All this weight it probably what’s messing with my Hormones. Will be back to my diet tomorrow.

Trigger warning: This post is primarily about body image issues and goes into a good bit of detail about them! It also sort of mentions eating disorders, but does not glorify or promote them.

So I started my diet sometime in the spring at around 167 pounds (I'm 5'5), and if the publix scale is to be trusted I'm around 138 now. My parents have been pretty supportive this whole time, telling me I look good and complimenting my willpower because they keep a lot of snacks in the house. But a few days ago, that suddenly changed. After I had gotten home from work, I mentioned my diet in passing and their demeanor just kind of changed. They asked me when I was going to stop, since I was already at this point comfortably out of the "overweight" bmi category. I told them I don't have a specific number in mind, and I would probably stop "when I'm happy with it". They really didn't like that answer. They said that mentality could easily get out of hand, and that I already look "good". I kind of don't agree with them, is the thing.

Yes, I look "better", but I don't think I look "good". I'm not technically overweight, but I'm still fat. I'm still generally wide, I still have this permanent muffin top thing where my belly fat is wider than my thighs, my arms still look big, the silhouette of my neck from the side still bothers me, and when I bend my arms and legs the fat still squishes to the side in a way I don't like. I kind of thought most of these things would disappear when I hit my original goal of 150, which is part of the reason I don't really have a specific goal weight anymore. Now I'm kind of worried that i can't get rid of them unless i get thin, and I'm worried I can't do that without basically living in the gym and having a super restrictive diet.

But anyways, listing off the things I hate about my body would be a terrible way to convince them I'm fine. And I've been kind of emotional lately, so if I said any of that I would probably cry, and that definitely wouldn't look good. So I didn't know what to say to them and just kind of shrugged it off. That night, my dad offered me the other half of his philly cheese steak sub, which I decided to accept even though I knew it would probably put me well over 1200, because I do really like those sandwiches and he knows that. I figured at the very least, it would have to have an insane amount of calories to do anything more than put me at maintenance for the day (it's a small local business so I really have no way of finding out how many calories are actually in it, I just guessed maybe 500-800 based on similar sandwiches). But my mom didn't know he did that, so later on she offered me half of her sandwich too, which made me realize they were both convinced I'm not eating enough and this would probably become a whole thing.

If I had to guess what caused their sudden concern, maybe it's because just the day before this happened I stressed just a little bit about what I was gonna order for our lunch at chili's. They said a big lunch wouldn't kill me and that's when I told them something like "yeah but I eat 1200 calories a day on my diet, almost every item on the menu would put me over that even if it was the only thing I ate for the entire day". I was just really surprised, people on twitter were just freaking out about the 1100 calorie crumbl sundae like it was the worst thing a company had ever done, so I didn't imagine such a beloved restaurant would be guilty of the exact same thing with almost every item on the menu. Maybe hearing the specific amount of calories I eat per day, or just seeing me stress about it, is what worried them.

I'm not really sure what to do about this situation, so I decided to take a week off from the diet entirely and try to just eat at maintenance for now. I just hope I don't gain weight during this time, MyFitnessPal tells me my maintenance is almost 2000 which just feels kinda high compared to what I've been eating this whole time. I've also been having to guess calories for a lot of things because most local places just don't tell you squat about what they're serving you.

I hope this is the right place to post this, idk I'm just in such a situation here. This post is so long but I have so much to say about this whole dieting experience that I haven't been able to talk about bc it seems so taboo, I could write essays upon essays about this stuff 😭

I've lost 17 pounds over the past 4 months which has been nice but I'm hungry and tired all the time and food is basically the only thing that makes me feel good so I have been really struggling. :(