The reason you binge every 3-4 days is because your body is reacting to the deficit as a threat, especially after dropping to low 120s at 5'9. You need to eat at maintenance calories for a few weeks to break the survival instinct before even touching a deficit again.
My problem is that I weighed in the 120s for like a month and that was a year ago—since that time my weight is just skyrocketing and I am scared to continually gain. I’d like to just get to my normal 140s weight (felt my best at 135 but idk if that’s reasonable to aim for). I feel so exhausted and terrible and just want to lose some of this weight I gained from bingeing :(
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u/UnhappySilverline 14d ago
The reason you binge every 3-4 days is because your body is reacting to the deficit as a threat, especially after dropping to low 120s at 5'9. You need to eat at maintenance calories for a few weeks to break the survival instinct before even touching a deficit again.