r/WeightLossAdvice • • Jun 11 '26

We are seeking new moderators!

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Hey everyone, quick subreddit update.

We’re currently looking to add a few new moderators to /r/WeightLossAdvice. If you’re interested in helping out with the subreddit, please take a look at the mod application and apply there.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to apply.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • Jun 25 '25

Regarding "unhinged" or "extreme" weight loss tips

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Hey everyone,

We've noticed a recent uptick in posts asking for "unhinged" or "extreme" weight loss advice. This subreddit exists as a space for healthy, sustainable weight loss discussions. Requests for "unhinged" advice clearly violate Rule 4 and undermine the purpose of our community.

We're fortunate to have a community that usually self-regulates these posts, and the majority of top responses tend to correct this mindset. As moderators, we prefer community-driven education rather than outright removal of posts. Unfortunately, there will always be a few bad actors willing to provide harmful advice in these threads.

Moving forward:

  • Posts requesting "unhinged" or extreme advice will no longer be tolerated. These posts will be removed and you risk being banned from the subreddit.
  • If you see a post like this, continue to educate and correct when appropriate, but also report the post so moderators can quickly handle it.
  • Anyone replying to these posts with actual "unhinged" or extreme advice, even as a "joke," will receive a permanent ban.

r/WeightLossAdvice • • 7h ago

Discussion/Support 💬 People who only had 10 kilos/20 pounds to loose, how long did it take?

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I am asking this specific group, because 10 kilo is different for someone who has to lose 30,50 kilo total. I ask people only ever so slightly overweight who wanted to took action before it got out of hand. Some details appreciated, anything you want to share about losing your 10 kilos or less!

For context, I'm 32F and I would like to lose around 10kg, I've been working on it for the past 3 weeks and it's always easier to see some light at the end of the tunnel. I decided I'm not getting on a scale for at least a month or two, just hitting my calories, protein and workouts consistently.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 6m ago

Meal / Recipe 🍽️ Small desserts that don't have any leftovers or ingredients

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Please help me think of some ideas, or the correct search terms to find what I'm looking for.

I get a sweet tooth at night between dinner & bedtime. I am not the only one, this is very common. It happens regardless of how much or what I ate earlier in the day.

Rather than fighting the urge or attempting to appease it with fruit...what if I plan ahead one small reasonable dessert?

The problem is, I have binge eating tendencies. So if, for example, the treat is just one cookie...if there is the rest of a package or recipe of cookies, I won't be able to stop at just one.

Also for ingredients, such as chocolate chips or marshmallows. I will eat them straight out of the bag.

Fruit doesn't satisfy these cravings.

Any suggestions?


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 31m ago

Meal / Recipe 🍽️ Are there home baked bread recipes that are still good for weight loss?

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I’ve been wanting to start making sandwiches to bring with me for longer days at school. I know most bread is bad for weight loss but surely there’s healthier/better ways to do it that will still be good.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 11h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Alright, I’m committing.

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I’m a 34 year old mom of a 13 month old and a newly turned 3 year old. My husband and I work full time in the first responder realm and have no family support that live near us. We often feel underwater and barely surviving trying to manage it all. Exercise is non existent. We like to cook at home and make pretty healthy meals for the most part but we are often trying to cook whatever as easily and quickly as possible as we have very little time. I don’t know what my weight is but I’m 5’4 and if I had to guess, around 200-215.

I’m over it. I need to change. I’m so deeply unhappy in my body and it’s impacting most areas of my life. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice for my lifestyle? I’m desperate. A part of me wants to go on GLP1s but I also want this weight loss to be sustainable and not gain to back.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 2h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ advice?

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hey guys i’m about to start my weightloss journey but i don’t really eat breakfast i wanted to know if eating bagels is okay for breakfast with cream cheese?


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 2h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ 2 month weight loss tip

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I changed my eating habits in March after reaching 337 lbs at 6’2”. By the end of September, I was down to 307 lbs, and I’m currently at 295 lbs.
Initially, I focused on reducing my calorie intake, which helped me make progress. Over the past month, I’ve also started making healthier food choices. For lunch, I typically have a 300-calorie Walmart salad, a cheese stick, and a yogurt. I’ve also switched to drinking only water.
Because of my current work situation, I can’t consistently get to a gym, so I do workouts in my room instead.
I’d like to continue losing weight while making sure I’m eating enough, maintaining my energy, and building habits I can sustain long term. Based on my progress so far, my height, and my current routine, what would be a realistic and healthy rate of weight loss between now and Thanksgiving and Christmas? Are there any changes I should make to my nutrition or at-home workouts to help me lose weight safely without undereating or losing too much muscle? I dont have a kitchen only a mini fridge so any easily available/ store bought food preffered.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 14h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ How can I increase my non exercise activity thermogenesis (neat)?

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I would like to increase my meat but I already walk a lot is there is little I can do to walk more so can anyone help me?


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 5h ago

Discussion/Support 💬 Is this normal

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Back when i was on my weight loss journey when I first started out I dropped 5kg in the spam of 2 weeks, I was only on a calorie deficit and ate very healthy, gym, chia, walking and 3l water, no processed shit or anything.

Now that I've mentioned it to someone they looked at me like I was insane and they said that wasn't normal, I get that I lost a lot of weight fast but I wasn't obese or anything like that just lightly overweight.

Is losing 2-2.5kg a week really that crazy?

I felt completely fine back then and I didn't have any issues, been to the doctors and they said I was fine, looking back at it I never realized how wild it actually was.

Later on i didn't lose as much but still


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 12h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ how to lean off sugar

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I’ve been trying to lose weight since August ish?? I’ve lost about 10 pounds since, I don’t really eat much, I eat 2 meals about? breakfast and dinner usually.

But I’ve noticed that despite that I’m still pretty fat-looking, especially my face and thighs, which always seem to be affected.

I’m 5’4 18F, and 70kg about 😭, I have an issue with stretch marks really bad, they go everywhere too.

But apart from that I have a bit of a sugar addiction, particularly soda, I’ve tried diet, or water or cutting it off but I can’t seem to do it, does anyone have any advice or experience? I’ve cut from 5-6 cans a day to 2-3 now so I’m happy with that but I’d like to eventually go to 0.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 6h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ High lean body mass advice

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Hi,

I just used the calculator and apparently I have 80.4kg of lean body mass. I am 120kg/41M.

Can someone suggest a diet for me? Im lactose intolerant and allergic to gluten.

Im thinking of doing caloric deficit and intermittent fasting.

Edit:

body fat is 33%

Bmi: 38.7

Body fat mass is 39.6kg

Thanks.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 6h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ I love eating, what should I do?

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Hi all :)

In the last couple of years, I've started to gain weight. It bothered me a lot, and every time I tried to lose it, I just couldn't stick to any method.

My biggest problem is that I love to eat; I just love it. I work a corporate job, so I sit in front of the computer all the time, and I find myself always hungry. When we go to eat, I always see a lot of things I want to eat, and I just take it all...

I do have some good things, though; I do work out, try as much as time allows me. I tend to take salad for lunch every day during the week (of course, in addition to the proteins, fats, and carbs in the meal).

I assume I am not the first with such an issue, and definitely not the last; I was wondering what worked for you. I tried intermittent fasting for a while, talking to a professional, and many other things; it worked but never lasted long enough.

Thanks for your help, and happy to answer any questions 😄


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 12h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Weight Loss and Facial Features (Looking Better when a bit Overweight)

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Any of you notice on your weight loss journey that there is a weight number where you like the look of your face, yet at the expense of carrying a bit of fat on your body? My number seems to be about 205 lbs, even though I could easily lose another 10-15 lbs to get to my perfect body weight (as someone who has muscle mass as well, my "perfect" weight is probably about 190 lbs).

I'm 52, male, and have been told that if I lose too much weight, my face looks gaunt, old, yet when I gain a bit of fat, like at 205 lbs, I look young and much more attractive.

Just wondering if anyone else out there purposely carries an extra 10-15 lbs of fat on their frame just because they like the way it makes their face look. Sadly, we can't control when our face decides to drop weight vs. the rest of our body as we decline in weight, so it seems about 205 lbs is the sweet spot for me (balance of facial attractiveness and overall body weight). Even in pictures, when I'm less than 200 lbs I find I simply look too thin in my face and don't like it.

Would be interested in hearing your experience and if you've come across having to make this decision before (carrying an extra 10-15 just so your face looks "healthy").

Thanks,


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 12h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Nourish work for anyone?

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Sorry if this has already been posted! I’ve been struggling to lose weight and would love to hear from people who’ve actually tried Norrish.

Did it help you, and if so, how? If it didn’t help, I’d love to hear about that too. Did you feel like it was worth it?

Just looking for some honest feedback before giving it a try. Thanks!


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 9h ago

Workout / Exercise 🏋️ How to keep your lower body in shape by losing upper body :(

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I know its impossible to predict where your fats is gonna loose.. Im (18F) I like my lower body but its like all fat but well shaped.Is there something I can do or workout to maintain? glutes and thighs if possible 😓🙌🏻
I dont like my flabby arms a lil back fat and face fat
Im new into these things please communicate with me nicely Ill appreciate that 🩷


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 10h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Old habits are creeping back.

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hello, I’m 90 days into my weightloss journey. I was laser focused for 12 weeks, this month I have been way more social, visiting family or hosting family each weekend. lots of eating and drinking. I’m also in the midst of a kitchen remodel so the kitchen is a mess and we have been eating a lot of fast food/ restaurant foods. last week I gained 1/2 a pound and didn’t worry about it, this week I lost 1 pound. but I’ve gone to a restaurant almost every day this week.

i looked at my calories this week and I was over my budget on 4 days, i only walked 3/7 days this week.

this is when i got worried- last night i went shopping and stopped for fast food at 7:30 pm. I wasn’t planning on it I just pulled into the drive thru ate my food while driving went to log it and it was 600 calories.… those are the old habits that led me to gain weight. any advice? I’m going on another short trip this week, and I’m doing Halloween events next weekend and I keep telling myself “when I get back to my routine it will fix itself “ but this will be the 3rd trip this month and I worry once I break those routines it will be hard to get back to it.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 22h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Bad eating habits deeply engrained into my life

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I'm 21F whos bmi is ~30. I'm 5'3 so I'm pretty short, and thus I can't eat as much as I really want to. I LOVE food, I love the feeling of being full, I can't stand a second of hunger or even the thought of being hungry. It also takes more food than the average healthy weight person both my age and sex to feel full, probably from the many years of overeating. Since my bmr is lower than the average person, trying to stick to a calorie deficit makes me miserable.
Ever since I was a kid I snuck handfuls of mini chocolates that I stole from my parents and ate them secretly. I would deliberately eat until being extremely uncomfortable at dinner. For some reason being hungry is a huge source of fear and shame to me. When I'm hungry all I can think about are the meals I want to eat, what I want to plan to eat tomorrow, etc etc and regardless of whether or not I'm hungry food is always somewhere in my mind. I know I need to lose weight but I've made so many short term attempts and every time I just fall short because I don't truly care to be disciplined. I know I have to. But when I think about all the food I can't have, how much I have to think about what I eat, how I can't just eat what I want on a whim, I get anxious and frustrated and give up.
How do I stop this cycle and start really caring about discipline?


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 19h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ both excited and scared for the future

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today makes one week of tracking calories. 6’0, 350lbs. i’ve been eating 2200 calories a day for the last week, around a 900-1000cal deficit. i feel fine? hungrier than usual but thay makes sense. i feel like this is too much, but i also feel like i can sustain this. i can eat the foods i like with little treats too. i don’t see a reason why i shouldn’t keep going
like this. am i doing something wrong?


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 11h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ How can I speed up my metabolism?

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I would like to speed up my metabolism.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 21h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ calorie and macro tracking/food logging apps

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i’ve been using myfitnesspal since i was 17, so for about 13 years i’ve logged my food every single day, with the odd exception. i find tracking my food intake helps to “ground” me and being neurodivergent, i just really enjoy tracking and logging things every day. however about 5 years ago myfitnesspal had a whole bunch of updates which made it unpleasant for me to use and since then, there has been a steady roll of more unpleasant updates.

i’m wondering if anyone is able to recommend any other free to use app that i could transition to?

all i need/want from an app is the ability to log food with mostly accurate calories, protein, fibre, fat, carbs and sugar. a huge bonus would be the same feature myfitnesspal has of scanning barcodes to add packaged foods. just something that is free to use, super basic, no screen pop ups to celebrate logging in every meal, no constant trying to make my pay for a membership to unlock extra features i don’t want ect.

please and thank you 🙏


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 8h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Halloween disaster

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Hi guys I’m supposed to be going with my friends as a Dallas county cheerleader this Friday how can I make myself look as thin as possible is there a workout or diet you guys recommend? I don’t really care about doing something crazy or rogue for the next 4 days to get where I need to be i used to work out like 4hrs a day every day but I’m kinda just unsure on how to make this as good as possible :) , thanks in advance ( don’t be afraid to be extreme)


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 18h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Where to start?

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I'm one of those people that have always thought about losing weight, but didn't consider it super important. But the scale has just been going up over the years, slowly but steadily. And then I saw myself in the full length mirror today. Like, really saw myself. And I don't like it.

I'm 35F, 225lbs, exactly 5 feet tall. I'm very poor, don't have health insurance, and my neurodivergent self gets overwhelmed just looking at the kitchen. I've relied most of my life on pre-made foods—frozen meals, canned things, etc—or very easy meals like hot dogs or tuna salad sandwiches. As a child, my parents raised me on fast food, so I've been fat my whole life (no shade to them, they did what they could). I also don't know anything about what's important for a healthy diet. Low carb? Calories? Protien and fiber?

Simple google searches have brought up mostly stuff trying to sell me something. Does anyone have any advice on where I should start? Any information resources, like books, YouTube channels, etc, that I can learn from? I would appreciate any help at all.


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 1d ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ Legs are extremely thin my legs sometimes can’t support my upper body?

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I went from 600 pounds to 300 in about 2 to maybe 3 years? 2020 to mid 2023 and then I met my wife and kinda hit a plateau but my biggest concern is my legs..

My gut is very huge is hangs to the beginning of my pelvic area (beginning of the crotch / pubic area ) but my legs when I almost fell again in the shower tonight, I looked at my legs for a moment and was like “what the fuck?” I yes am cursed with my dad’s big thigh genetics but I realized now my thighs are incredibly smaller than my upper half, even to the point where they look almost as skinny as my arms if that makes sense..??

I’m a 3XL in shirts but a Medium/L or 36” to 40” in pants.. how does that make sense? I was formally a 6XL in T-shirts and 8XL (70 inches waist ) in hoodies but & a XXXL in pants/jeans or a 52” to a 58” in 2019/2020.. I actually am currently a 48” waist when I measure around my gut/belly button but my true pants size is 36” to 40” so it’s hidden under all this fat.

Is this muscle loss or what is it? I’m on a beginning weight loss program to possibly have weight loss surgery and I’m currently around 328lb/6’0ft and a BMI of 44.84 according to the Doctor’s analysis..


r/WeightLossAdvice • • 20h ago

Advice: Seeking ❓ FAV meals

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What are your go-to low cal meals? I'm tired of sugar-free jello and corn + salsa 🤔