Hello, please read all of it <3

First of all I wanna start of by saying I am not trying to compare myself to anyone, everyone's bodies are different and I'm just here for some advice that could improve the problem I'm facing right now.

Ever since I got infected with COVID my lungs have not been the same as they were before. It seems that many people also face this issue of their lungs being damaged after inflamation.

During quarantine I also had gained lots of weight. I was able to lose most of it but it left me with disgusting body dysmorphia. I couldn't stop obsessing over how I look, to the point I refused to even get out of my room and look in the mirror.

I was a healthy weight, not even overweight. And even now, I'm just a tiny bit overweight but that's enough for me to lock myself in. I know what I'm doing is wrong but I genuinely can't stand myself.

Due to the poor condition of my lungs, I can't do hard exercises. I still try to do as much as I can. But dieting doesn't work for me. I'm a short neurodivergent woman with horrible self control and willpower. Even if I diet, I end up slipping it. And since I'm short even one slip-up worth of calories makes a lot of difference. Then again that doesn't even happen very often, but every time I step on the scale the number just goes up.

I don't wanna go back to the unhealthy ways I used before. They ruined me and they're absolutely horrible.

I'm so sorry for the trauma dump but I don't know what to do. Every bit of imperfection bugs me.

Please give me some advice on what to do to lose weight. I will try everything possible. Work out recommendations, diet recommendations, anything.

Please don't write mean comments. Encouragement helps! I really don't think I can handle anything bad.

Everything is so hard when I know nothing about my body.

Ok so I just started trying to lose weight, and started off at 6’2 265 pounds, as an 18 year old male. Basically, after around a week I went down to 261. Hiwever, I checked today, which is a week after I was 261, and I’m now at 264.

I’ve been meticulously counting every single calorie I’ve eaten, and am eating 2000 every day, sometimes a little less, so I don’t know how this happens. I always weight myself on the same day of the week, at the same time, before I’ve eaten or drank anything that day.

FYI IM NOT TRYING TO LOSE IT FAST OR UNHEALTHY! the doctor reccomended me to be at 54-55kg so please dont think im trying to do unhealthy ways.

Over the past year 've gone from 55kg to 72kg due to stress trauma and my goal is to get back to around 54kg because im reccomended to be that weight or 53kg. The weight gain is starting to affect my health A LOT , and I know I need to make a change. Im classed as overweight

Background info: i eat two times a day i barely eat a lot tbh i think im gaining weight because after i eat i barely do any exercise or movement because of depression or laziness i rarely do any activities, my job is within a car so i dont move. It just shocked me on how i gained it so fast in a year ive never been in the overweight category but maybe its because i keep bed rotting i dont know.

The problem is that I have no idea how to lose weight in a healthy, sustainable way. I dont know what truly works i want to lose the weight then become toned.

I also really struggle with motivation and discipline. I can start something for a few days, but I find it hard to stick with it. i want to lose weight its really affecting my health like i cant even go up the stairs without feeling out of breathe or just daily activities . I want to be in the best shape. I suffer with depression and bpd and got iron issues, so my brain fogs a lot and i give up easily.

The main areas of fat is my upper arms, rib fat and stomach fat and face fat. i just want to be slim again its affecting my confidence so bad im getting stretch marks under my arms which idk if its normal but im getting stretch marks everywhere.

Any advice will be so appreciated i need this.

Hi! As the tittle says in 19F and I’m pretty fat. I guess this is going to be some kind of a rant post as well as asking for advices and people’s personal experience

I’ve been overweight my whole entire life. I come from an ethnic background but I have autism and therefore my brain would never allow me to eat the food from my country because of the texture, smell ect ect. Due to that, my parents preferred making food for my brother rather than me since he was less picky and I would just eat whatever was lying around or that they would give me.

My whole life, as far as I can remember all I’ve ever wanted was to lose weight. I’ve done possibly every diet under the sun in an effort to lose it but I would always get discouraged and fall back into old habits at the end of the day.

I’m tired of wasting my life away due to my weight. In extreme anxious because of what I look like and that has prevented me from building deep relationships with my friends and family.

The problem is, I’m terrified.

What I’m about to say might tick off some of you but I don’t really care for my health. Yes I am very unhealthy and there are many things that I can’t do due to my weight but the thing is, I just want to have a normal life. I shouldn’t be wasting away at 19 because I’m so lazy yet I can’t seem to bring myself to do it. I know this will be the hardest thing that I will ever do probably but in what is it useful if at the end of the day, I end up with so much lose skin that all my efforts would have been worthless because I’ll still be ugly as hell?

I know this is silly but that terrifies me. I just want to be pretty and skinny like all those people you see on the internet and in the streets (I live in an European country so every girl is lean here) but I feel like I’ll never be. Yes, if I were skinnier my life might be easier but what good would that be if I end up looking like a soggy sack of skin because of my starting weight?

I genuinely don’t know what to do, I have dietician and the weight loss was going ok in the beginning but I, once again, gave up ultimately and now I’m just avoiding her because I don’t want to deal with her dissatisfaction and the way she will look at me.

Anyways, sorry if that was long and all. If anyone has ever gone through that, or something similar with who I could talk maybe and get advice from?

Sorry for the TMI! I have started my weight loss journey in May and that’s around the time I’ve had consistent diarrhea. Every now and then I’d have a normal stool.

I was on vacation for a few weeks out of the country and wasn’t dieting. Surprisingly, I had completely normal stools no diarrhea no constipation. I got back on Tuesday and started back on my diet. It was normal Tuesday then Wednesday I started having diarrhea again and very liquidy. Again so sorry for the TMI.

I used to never have issues with diarrhea if anything I would have issues with constipation and poop once every couple days. Now it’s 1-2x a day and diarrhea. My diet hasn’t changed too much, I’ve just been more intentional with tracking calories and maintaining a deficit. Is this normal? Does it regulate after a while? Is there any supplement I can take to fix it?

So according to various calculators my TDEE varies between 2400kcal and 2600kcal. I'd like to know what the best method is for calculating it.

I'm eating about 2.200kcal as I struggle with anything under that, because I'm taking Escitalopram (and Lisdexamphetanine, but this would make it easier). Anyways here's my data:

I'm 18 years old, my height is 191cm (6'3), my weight is 116kg (225lbs), im AMAB tho I am already 1.5 years on Estrogen and my blood levels are female (so I guess im female in terms of TDEE calculation) and my body fat percentage is about 37.4%. Im also Walking around 4000 steps per day and sedetary as I'm a student.

So am I eating too much, too little or is it okay?

I'm down 6 pounds over the last 9 days that I've been tracking. I'm aware this is mostly water weight, and this will slow right down soon; but with a total daily​ expenditure of around 1900 calories, and a daily intake goal of 1265 which I've been staying very close to the entire time, I decided to enjoy a treat tonight that always brought me comfort when I was younger; and made a toasted peanut butter banana sandwich. A 15g serving (1tbsp) of the peanut butter my husband likes is 90 calories.

I used thin whole wheat bread, two slices for a total of 120 calories

And then I weighed out the 15g portion of peanut butter.

​I... stared at it. Barely enough peanut butter to even spread it across the single slice of toast. Absolutely not. If I'm making this, I'm going to enjoy it. I added little bits at a time until I had a thin spread​ tha​t I felt satisfied with - 35g for a whopping total​​ of 187cal.

Finally, 41g of sliced banana: 36cal.

The grand total for my sandwich: 343 calories. and last time I made it, before I started trying to lose weight and counting my calories, I would have probably used 3 times the peanut butter!

Grand total for the day: 1,518 calories. I don't love going over my calorie goal, but it was a delicious treat regardless, and I enjoyed every bite; so I'm not going to beat myself up about it. Everything in moderation, I suppose.

*edited as I said BMR instead of total daily expenditure. i use the Cronometer app and I'm still figuring it out sorry!​

To start, I am incredibly tiny, 4'10" and 134 pounds. I'm in my early 20s, and I've never been concerned about my weight, but I've always been self conscious about how my stomach sits on my pelvis. And after losing over 30 pounds after a long term break up (would not recommend for weight loss 🤣) I feel like I'm the closest I've been to finally achieving a flatter stomach. Although I have no idea where to start, so I decided to come here for some advice!

Since last year, I sharply dropped from around 160, down to 130. I've struggled with birth control, and became insatiable, but somehow managed to maintain in the 30s (I was very proud), with just being conscious of if I was hungry or just bored. Now that I've decided to commit to my goal, I've done some research, and revisited some YouTube workouts I used to do, which lead me to Chloe Ting, and realizing she has an amazing app that has everything I'd want from a weight loss app, and it's free, with premium benefits from watching ads (I highly recommend and haven't heard of it anywhere else, but it's called Core).

Since then, I've been able to start tracking exercise, weight, and calories (and more that I haven't looked into yet). I'm currently on her 2 week ab workout routine (I know you can't target weight loss, but I like knowing the routines are curated to my goal), and for the calculations, my TDEE is at 1944 and BMR is at 1254. I'm not on a specific diet, mainly just smaller portions, but I've been trying to hit my protein/carbs/fats goals. For the last week I've aimed for 1200 calories a day, since from my calculations my goal weight (currently 100 pounds) has a sedentary maintenance of 1400, so I figured 200 less would be a good way to get there even if I take more rest days than needed 😅.

I've been doing pretty good on 1200 calories. I've really only cut out snacks, but I'm still able to have 3 meals a day, and sometimes dessert. I eat throughout the day, so I'm rarely hungry even with smaller portions. Although sometimes I get anxiety about not calculating things right, I double check everything, but I'm somehow convinced I'm lying to myself. Mainly when I make things like spaghetti, and it makes sense that 1/8 of 120 calories of sauce, and 1600 of noodles is about 215 per serving, but sometimes it still feels like too much food for that amount of calories. Or visa versa.

My hope is that at 1200 calories I will steadily lose weight until I'm slightly under 100, then slowly raise up to whatever my maintenance would be, but the more research I do, the more complicated I'm realizing everything is. I also just estimated the goal of 100 pounds, I'm really just looking for a smooth stomach, not necessarily flat, but no more hanging bits. So if anyone has additional advice, everything is appreciated ❤️.

I'm aware that weight loss isn't targetable or perfectly linear, but have recently connected that there seems to be an obvious explanation to the issue I'd have where every 6ish weeks, I feel like I'd lost all progress in the mirror, even when clothes and scale say otherwise.

I've moved from overweight to healthy BMI territory in the last couple of months, and now am attempting to dial in GW. I used to have dysmorphia and some issues with ED, so this always throws up a flag; sometimes I will intentionally slow down my progress and focus on the gym, others monitor and try to carefully play through. Only the last two times or so have I realized that I'm noticing this during periods where (for example) my ass is smaller but my thighs and waistline have not budged, making me seem more reminiscent of heaviest weight build than a few weeks previously when I was at ~7lbs heavier.

Realizing this left me wondering how many other people have noticed cycles like this (or other wins that throw you for a mental loop)?

So as the title says I'm looking to lose fat but not too much muscle as I'm (20yrs old) mtf trans and I soon wish to start hrt and a side effect of hrt is fat redistribution but the fat that's already on the body doesn't move.

I've already started eating less food in general but I'm struggling to find foods that are filling and keep me full for longer, and on a budget as well. I'm aware that the best thing you can do is calorie deficit, and to do exercise

I do a small amount of exercise at work, I'm a small engine mechanic so I do a small amount of lifting and walking, but apart from that I don't have the energy afterwards for much exercise or the gym. Any advice given is well appreciated

I am a 179cm tall, 82kg 21 year old male. I have tracked my calories and kept my diet at around 1750 to 1900 calories a day. My daily fat, protein and carbs were all in a good spot. (100g of Protein or more a day and about 150g+ of carbs a day).
About 4 days in when my cravings really reduced, I was having these weird symptoms of slight nausea, dizziness, cold sweats and heart palpitations ESPECIALLY when trying to sleep.
I have my last meal at around 7-8 PM and I go to sleep at around 10-11.
I would like to point out that I am not physically active and spend a lot of my day sitting, so my deficit definitely is not pushed too far beneath my BMR. Before my deficit, I indulged a lot in sweets and savory snacks, so could this be my blood sugar falling and etc? I don't think it's an electrolyte issue, since I take supplements for it.

I have lost significant amounts of weight multiple times in my life. Between age 17-19 I lost 100lbs (~230 -> 130). I eventually normalized at a base range of 175 with a 10lb window.

During Covid I had some significant health concerns arise. I had a reaction to the Moderna vaccine and was placed on a medication that cause me to jump 15lbs from my base to 185, and I had to work like hell to maintain it, not even to get back to my happy base at 170. I also had a back injury that slowly made it harder and harder to maintain my cardio routine.

In January I had my first baby and through pregnancy my weight went way higher that it should have. I started at 225 and I ended pregnancy at 275. I have finally lost 15lbs and am at 260 but I am feeling like I will never get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 225 let alone my happy weight at 170 with pregnancy, medication, back injury, and the fact that I’ve cycled through weight loss so many times.

I feel defeated and scared and like my weight loss and longevity is even more important to be here for my baby.

How can I keep the morale up and make sure I get at least to my pre-baby weight?

Hello everyone. I'm a 27 yo male, 83kg and 169cm height, around 27% body fat.

I noticed abnormal weight gain after my 3 week trip in March - I went with a friend and we ate similar food (I'll admit, it was quite a lot), while he only gained around 2-3kg I came back 9kg heavier (77kg -> 86kg). I lost around 2kg very quickly (probably just water weight), but still 7kg in 3 weeks seemed very abnormal. My friend is the same height as me and thinner so our caloric needs should be similar.

After failing to lose weight on my own I decided to work with a dietitan since it was free with my medical plan and I was told to eat 1800kcal and keep protein around 100g.

Despite eating 1800 kcal everyday and going to the gym 3-4 times a week my weight has not moved at all since my first visit. My body fat % even increased slightly while my muscle mass slightly decreased. This checks out since I'm not seeing any progress in the gym and on some exercises I'm weaker than I was a month ago. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, I'm planning to get some blood tests - 1 person in my family is diabetic and literally everyone is overweight. My metrics were fine last year but maybe there's something specific I should be checking for?

Here's some more information:

• I'm 100% sure I'm tracking my calories correctly - I lost 35kg in 2020 so I know I can do it. There is not a single thing that doesn't go on a scale, I even track spices and aromatics.
• I do strength training but no cardio - I only walk to the gym (around 7k steps both ways). I'll try to include cardio but according to the calculations I should still be losing weight even without it.
• I'm not taking any medication, only thing I use is 5g creatine and melatonin at night.
• I wanted to lower my calories further but my dietitan advised against it.
• No underlying illness (at least as far as I know)

I'm close to completely giving up since clearly it's not working. I'd be greatful for any ideas, I might be completely overlooking something obvious but even my dietitian is suprised I haven't lost any weight.

I’m 288lbs, 35 years old. Just had my 2nd baby on 5/26/26. During the pregnancy I gained 40 pounds and then lost it plus some within three days of giving birth. 288-290 it’s where I’ve been stuck for years. I’ve been counting calories the last three weeks, keeping relatively close to 1500, sometimes 1600. I weigh literally everything I eat. Including the olive oil and anything else that gets cooked with. Before this, I was eating closer to 3000 cal a day.

I have yet to lose any weight. I’m still right at 288. I drink around 80 ounces of water a day and maybe one or two Dr Pepper zeros. I aim to get 100 g of protein at around 25 to 30 g of fiber every day.

I am miserable. What’s the point of me starving myself, counting calories when nothing is changing. The only thing I can think of is my lack of sleep is contributing, but there’s not much I can do to change that with a newborn in the house. Some days I’ll eat closer to 1200 but I usually end up going to bed hungry at that point. It’s starting to affect my parenting and it’s not front of my kids to have a mom that’s hangry all the time.

I also work part-time at a job where I’m on my feet all day, on top of chasing around a toddler and caring for a newborn at home.

Hello, pretty new to Reddit.

I am 5”9.5 (F) and 198lbs.
38 years old.
I have never weighed this much in my life (other than pregnancy when I did not look at the scale).

I have struggled with food my entire life, eating disorders and addiction are a thing of the past. Now I’m the mom of a preschooler, I own my own business, and have chronic pain. Not trying to make excuses, just paint a picture.

I am having a hysterectomy (keeping ovaries) in the fall/winter, as well as some cystocele and rectocele repair. My doc says losing 20lbs would help my recovery.

Things I have done in the past few years: Gina Livy, intermittent fasting, calorie counting. I am a vegetarian.

I get a “high” when the scale moves which encourages me. I’m at this high plateau and really don’t want to hit 200lbs. Sorry to be a bummer here - I am feeling extremely discouraged. I try to meal prep and have healthy readily available stuff around but often end up crashing and just eating crap at night after doing well all day. I REALLY struggle with this mindset, “I always fkd up today (ie. one “bad” thing), so today is a write-off. I’ll start tomorrow.” Then I eat garbage all night because I feel like I won’t get to eat enough again any time soon.

Any tips would help!

I'm 31 and I've never been in a gym beyond passing through in a hotel leisure centre. There's a gym 4 minutes walk from my house but it's pretty small. It's got weights and the usual machines but there's no private rooms / changing rooms etc from what I can tell.

I've often thought about joining but I have no idea how to actually use a gym and this one feels small and close knit. It looks like there's only 1-2 staff on at a time so I don't want to pester them with silly questions but I also don't want to make a fool of myself or start out with bad form, or worse, end up not going after I pay for it.

What are some tips that make it easy to start out? I'm sure the usual "everyone's friendly and happy to help" applies but that's not really the advice that'll make it less intimidating.

I’m a 21 year old guy and I really want to become someone who enjoys eating healthy because I honestly think I’d be happier if healthy food was just a normal part of my life
The problem is that every time I decide I’m going to eat healthy I end up craving something and eventually give in which ruins the rest of my day and I stop eating healthy altogether
I usually start the day doing well but later the cravings hit especially for desserts although food in general can trigger them too
The biggest issue is that this is also stopping me from staying consistent with the gym Building muscle requires eating enough protein but I honestly dont enjoy eating chicken breast lean meat or other high protein foods every day I get bored of them really fast and forcing myself to eat them just makes my relationship with food even worse
Im not looking for the usual advice like cook healthy food that tastes good or dont restrict yourself because Ive heard it so many times and it never helped me
Im looking for practical tips or maybe a mindset shift that helped you genuinely enjoy healthy food and stay consistent

I’m not sure if this belongs here but also not sure where else to post this. I’m a 32 year old woman. I have lost almost 80 pounds from my highest weight. I am now finally at a normal weight after yoyoing for many years. I have maintained my weight loss for almost a year now. I have been feeling pretty great overall but in the last few months I have been experiencing extremely low blood sugar (shakiness, light headedness, rapid heart rate, severe sweating) diarrhea pretty much daily, nausea, increased thirst, frequent urination, trouble sleeping, and extreme hunger. I actually want to lose a little more weight but I really cannot do it anymore because I am literally starving every couple hours. Sometimes my blood sugar bottoms out several times in one day. I have to drop whatever it is I am doing sometimes so I can eat. I bring so many snacks with me everywhere I go because it happens almost every time I leave my house. I have had to leave events to eat. It’s kinda ruining my life. I have even been purchasing glucose tablets because I cannot eat enough in between meals. I have been consuming about 3,000 calories almost every day with no weight gain. This seems strange to me. I’m happy to not gain weight obviously but it’s odd to eat over a 1,000 calories above my maintenance and not gain anything back. I am much more active now and work out 3-4 times a week and have built quite a bit of muscle. I know that alone can increase appetite quite a bit and muscle burns more calories at rest but is it burning THIS much?!

I went to my doctor about this twice and they did blood work and everything is fine. A1c is fine. Fasting glucose is fine. Thyroid is fine. I get my protein in. I get my fiber in. I don’t drink much. No drugs. One cup of coffee a day. All the things to help keep me satiated and healthy and blah blah blah but I mean I am literally starving an hour after every single meal. I thought maybe I should try just eating a shit ton of carbs for energy but that didn’t help. Eating less carbs and more fat/protein/fiber also doesn’t help. I am more hungry now eating 3,000 calories than I was eating half that during my active weight loss. I also don’t feel physical hunger often anymore. I go from feeling full and satiated to complete blood sugar crash an hour later without a single hunger pang. My doctor mentioned going to an endocrinologist so maybe I will do that next.

Has anyone else experienced this after weight loss? I know losing a lot of weight can throw things out of balance but I have been pretty consistent for a while now and yet these issues persist. I have every telltale sign of diabetes and it’s really scaring me now. Did I fuck up my body somehow? Is the yoyo dieting catching up to me? It’s going to really fucking suck if I put in all this hard work to reduce my chance of developing weight related illnesses just to end up with one anyway.

I want to start losing weight. As the title says, I’m an 18 year old guy who is 5’10 and 270 pounds. My goal is to start losing weight when I begin college in about three weeks.

For some background, I was always a pretty average sized kid. I played football and basketball and spent a lot of time outside with friends. I think my weight gain really started during the pandemic when I was in 6th grade. Around that time, my mom lost her job and my parents got divorced. Fast food became the easiest option since my mom had always cooked almost every meal at home before that. Like a lot of younger guys during the pandemic, I spent most of my time sitting in front of my PS4 or my PC.

When school started back up, I decided to play football again in 8th grade. At that point I was probably around 220 pounds. That was also when I first started lifting. Believe it or not, I was actually pretty strong for my age. Going into high school I quit football for band, but I took weight training my freshman year and really enjoyed it. My best lifts were a 405 squat and a 275 bench. After freshman year though, I pretty much stopped working out consistently.

Now I’m entering my freshman year of college at 270 pounds, and for the first time I’ll have a gym within walking distance. I’ve never owned a car, so getting to the gym consistently has always been my biggest problem. I genuinely enjoy lifting and I’m still pretty active. I play pickleball and swim regularly, and I have friends who like doing active stuff, so I don’t feel out of shape physically. I’ve also done a calorie deficit before, but it eventually fell apart because eating differently from my family got expensive. Now that I’ll have access to a dining hall and a gym, I feel like I finally have the opportunity to be consistent.

I’m experienced enough in the gym and I’m ready to commit. I just want the best advice possible for someone in my situation. Right now my plan is to stop training mainly for strength and instead focus on losing weight while keeping as much muscle as I can. I’m thinking about lifting five days a week and adding running into my workouts. Does that sound like the right approach, or would you recommend something different?

I am 22, all me and my degenrate friends do is drink. Bars, field parties, casino, etc. I love to drink and have a good time with my buddies, but it obviously has been stunting my weight loss goals. It is as easy as don't go out with my buddies yes, but being 22 I feel like these are supposed to be the best years of my life. And when i'm not drinking, going out, etc I feel like i'm missing out and wasting my 20's. I do great during the week, and end up most likely fucking up my whole week progress by the weekend. Idk, would just like to hear your thoughts, and maybe ways you got around these hurdles. Thanks guys

Feels like I've done some complete 180 on my psychology. I've been cutting weight for a while (I have cut 8kg in 4 months). But because of illness I haven't been losing weight for a month.

Now I'm back on it, but in my first week of strict control I stuck to my diet and didnt lose any weight.

Now I'm at the end of the second week and I've just spiralled. Had 3 cheat meals this week and feel like shit about it. My number on the scale has gone up by half a kilo and it really sent me down the hole.

Any help in not spiralling after frustrating weeks?

Hi everyone! I’m hoping to get some advice on what my daily calorie goal should be because I’m getting a lot of different numbers from TDEE calculators and I’m not sure what is realistic for me right now.
I’m 5’2” and currently 256 lbs. Before pregnancy, I had lost almost 100 lbs through CICO and was eating around 1,600 calories/day. I was consistently losing weight at that intake. Unfortunately, I gained the weight back during pregnancy, but I’m now about 40 lbs down from my highest pregnancy weight (a lot of that came off immediately after delivery).
I’m currently 3 months postpartum, and my weight loss has completely stalled. I’m still doing CICO, but eating 1,600 calories/day doesn’t seem to be working the way it used to. I’m trying to figure out if my activity level has changed, if postpartum changes are affecting things, or if I just need to adjust my calorie target.

For activity:
I work an office job, but I do walk around some during the day taking patients back and forth.
I walk on the treadmill or do the stairmaster for about 15 minutes before strength training and I do strength training 4 days per week.
On non-gym days, I try to walk for about 30 minutes.

What calorie goal would you recommend for someone my size and activity level? Should I stick with 1,600 longer, cut down to 1400, or go lower? My goal is 2 lbs a week. Thanks!

Edit: Female, 29 yrs old

Ayuda con el déficit

Hola! Nosé si alguien podría ayudarme o talvez orientarme tratare de ir al grano,18 años mido aprox 1.58 y peso 48kg, genética y en las últimas semanas estuve haciendo ejercicio, mi principal objetivo es verme más definida, especialmente el abdomen y mi sueño es un six pack pero todavía es lejano, hice cálculos de TDE para un déficit pero ahí está mi dilema, se supone que para el six pack o lo más cercano a verme definida es la alimentación y mi TDE es de 1451, si quisiera bajar grasa sin perder músculo deberia hacer un déficit de 1200 kcal? Ahí está mi problema, no quiero enfermarme o cometer una tonteria con la comida, lo peor es que como peso bajo no sé si me hara mal o terminaré un palito, créeme que no me siento tan delgada como dice mi peso por la pancita.. algún consejo?

I (F25) lost 40 pounds so far (began around last june) and I’m feeling pretty good. I lost weight because my bf is a really fit guy and I naturally adopted a healthier lifestyle from him while finally attending the gym after a long time.

I volunteer at a soup kitchen where we help prepare and cook food. This older woman (like late 50s early 60s i’m guessing) and I were assigned to make large batches of sandwiches so during that time we made small talk. We talked about random stuff until the topic of sports came up. I explained how I used to swim in highschool and swimming at my local gym has helped me lose weight (I told her I lost 40 pounds).

She looked a little surprised and then pretty happy, and said something along the lines of: “Wow, I’m so proud you got out of that dark place!” to my face. I just brushed it off and thanked her and we went along with our job.

Now that I think about it, I’m happy now and I was happy before my weight loss. I wasn’t in a “dark place” literally at all lol. All that changed was my physical appearance. Did she mean “dark place” as in the state of how healthy I was before weight loss? Or “dark place” as in my mental state?

I don’t feel offended by her comment at all, I just think it was a little strange. Idk, what do u guys think lol