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.

So I have found this sweet snack which tastes amazing and it feels like heavy cheating, but according to the nutritional values table it looks pretty good (a bag is 100g, which is apparently only 112kcal) compared to chocolate bars or something else I would consider when craving sweets, which are usually around 400kcal and up per 100g.

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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?

I was NOT raised on healthy food. My mother was very mentally and physically ill so every night was fast food or whatever pre-packaged junk was cheap and easy to throw together. I’m now trying to lose weight and I’ve been mainly focusing on just eating low calorie, but I’ve noticed I have a really low vegetable and protein intake. I can’t stand the texture of most vegetables and the only way they don’t make me unhappy is oil and cheese/butter/whatever, which kind of defeats the purpose. And for protein, I hate most meat and don’t eat seafood, so I’m kind of lost. Eggs get boring after eating them for my OMAD every other day and protein bars/shakes are high calorie. Help?

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.

My town's trick or treating is tonight. There is one more hour and we have had two whole trick or treaters. bro I am not exaggerating when I say I have a 5 gallon bucket of candy. I bought it on the Walmart app, which I have historically been terrible at looking at sizes of stuff in, for pickup. I bought 18 full size bars and 220 pieces of fun sized candies.

what the fuck can I do with all this candy?! I kind of would feel bad having my boyfriend eat it all. My workplace wouldn't appreciate it. Wonder if I can donate it somewhere, but a food pantry seems inappropriate.

ugh. as of now it's staring me in the face and smells SO GOOD!! the smell of Halloween candy is my favorite ugh.

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. :(

edit: oh wait this forum is nsfw anyway ok dw then

girl I know you want to. if that shit has been playing on your mind for weeks I promise just eat the damn thing and the craving will go. just eat it. because you will be eating a whole cucumber, two chicken breasts, a banana, a granola bar and a pint of ice cream to try and forget about it before you eventually give in and devour that pizza that you've been craving. and bam you've consumed twice as many calories than you intended to in the first place.

(ik this doesn't apply to everyone ie ppl who struggle with binging and hunger cues etc but if this resonates tho, just posting to say i hear you and I get it aha and sometimes it's just better to eat that craving occasionally so it's over and done with and to not beat yourself up for it. <3)

I like stronger drinks, shots, drinking on an empty stomach so I drink less and get drunk quicker. What spirits, cocktails or drinks like Soju would you recommend? The less cals the better.

THIS WAS SO EASY WHEN I WAS 15!!! I WENT FROM 190-155 IN LIKE 8 MONTHS!!!! NOW I’m 18 AND THIS WHOLE YEAR I CANT GET MY WEIGHT TO FUCKING STOP HOVERING AROUND 200. THE LOWEST IVE GOT FOR THIS ENTIRETY OF 2024 OF TRYING IS 189 AND THEN WHENEVER I GET TO THE LOW 190S SOME SHIT HAPPENS AND I GET RIGHT BACK UP TO 200-205. IT HAS BEEN ONE WHOLE YEAR. I TRIED TO CUT OUT WEED TO CURB THE BINGE EATING BUT THE BINGE EATING DIDNT CARE. HOLY FUCK I CANT STAY CONSISTENT WITH ANYTHING I WANT TO FUCKDUABGEOEHSKVSWIHSKSBSKSHKSHWKWNAA

Well, it was thanksgiving this weekend in canada. And my dad bought two massive costco pies for us to eat during the week 😔 I could not hold back. Tomorrow’s a new day though..haha……..

His timing is terrible, lol. I am almost at my goal.

He's not doing it to spite me, and he's making efforts to gift the results to people other than me, and he's even looking up ways to make his recipes lower-calorie... But there is only so much you can do to a brioche to make it more diet-friendly. Best we could do was shave off 50 cal per portion. Out of 300.

Please, gods, send me willpower.

Hey everyone!

I’ve recently been doing a variety of YouTube workouts at home (HIIT, dance workouts, yoga, etc.), and I work out on a yoga mat. I’ve noticed my feet get a bit sticky on the mat, and I’m thinking of getting some grippy yoga socks.

For those of you who work out at home, especially on yoga mats:

• Do you think grippy socks are a good option for a range of activities like HIIT, dancing, and yoga?
• Also, would you recommend getting the ones with separated toes (example) or the ones with normal, closed-toe, ballet-style (example) designs?
• I'm thinking of not getting these ankle-length, normal-syle socks (example) & prefer the ballet-style (example), cos it's spring here in Australia & starting to get quite warm already, but happy to take on your suggestions if you think the ballet-style aren't good.

Would love to hear your experiences and any advice!

Thanks in advance!

I WANT M&MS SOO BAD! I live with a diabetic who keeps a massive bag in the freezer and my will is being TESTED. I had 10 and said thats enough or I wont have enough calories left for my planned dinner. But I have never been so tempted to shove fistfuls of chocolate into my mouth. And I NEVER want M&Ms, I normally don’t even like them!!

how the hell do you get the nausea / weakness to stop ?? i eat 1300 calories a day, (m15) ive only JUST started the diet😭 is it because i immediately jumped into 1200 - 1400 cals a day after eating 2000+ like every other day for months ? will it get better / will it stop ??

From the beginning of this year till now i have become much less productive than i was before and especially during the last 3 months because of stress and grief so so much of grief. I am a stress-eater and find most of my comfort in food but now i’m just gaining weight. I was so close to my goal weight last year and now with everything i have just gone further and further away from it, I need advice on what can motivate me to begin a proper routine, and i need to start following the deficit again.

The thing i’d like to know the most is how can i reduce my stress eating. This is my biggest concern yet

This is a terrible joke, do not do this

if you can walk 5 miles, that’s amazing, and good on you! This isn’t shxtting on anyone that does, and enjoys it, this is just my personal experience

I keep setting this goal for myself and not achieving it because that’s too much damn walking that I just can’t bring myself to do.

I do 2-3 miles average walking around on campus but getting to 5 miles feels like such a chore. Then I feel really shamed by all the “I can’t go a day without getting 15k steps!!1!1!1!1” girlies/dudebros which then makes me feel bad about my own accomplishments. But FUCK it now I’m so done. I will never walk 5 miles unless I’m walking to the fridge to get some more food.

Like where do you people get the energy and time to religiously do all of that. It feels like a cult too sometimes shaming other people. I just can’t bring myself to do it and now I feel like a pos with my puny 2 miles.

Lol this isn’t that serious more of a joke but. End rant

EDITED TO ADD:

This is not directed towards people who enjoy walking as an exercise/lifestyle/hobby. This is specifically geared towards the “oh only tWo M1LeS?!?! I canT sLeeP iF i Don’t geT at LEAST 25!! PreyiNg for you SWEATY” people.

I feel like im constantly starving, and i assume thats how it goes at first, but om not aure if it ever goes away. Im super hungry, tired and light headed because of it. I do eat enough but also im anemic so idk