u/Loose-Quality-6932

Did anyone go to Justin’s private LA shows (Troubadour or Roxy) where the merch was SKYLRK, and also end up buying one of the Coachella hoodies?

The quality feels completely different. The private show hoodie is super thick, heavy, and cozy, while the Coachella hoodie feels much thinner.

I’m mainly wondering: are the regular SKYLRK hoodies (not the Justin Bieber merch) made like the private show hoodies or more like the Coachella ones? Before I spend more money, I’d love to know what the standard quality is.

Just graduated with my doctoral degree with a little under $400k in loans (masters & doctoral loans). I’m a very first gen college student and have no idea how repayment works. I spoke to a loan consultant last night who said she wouldn’t suggest consolidation (I don’t remember why). And then offered me her services. Her service fee is $15.5k and she said my monthly repayment will be approx $1.5k. My question to you all is…should I just figure it out on my own or is it worth paying someone to do it? I have a pretty high income and have been working in the public education system in CA for 10+ years.

I’m looking for advice because I genuinely feel lost at this point.

In January 2022, I started eating 1200 calories a day and lost 90 pounds by April 2025. During that entire time, I did zero exercise. I didn’t count steps, didn’t go to the gym, and I sit all day at work. The weight loss was entirely from calorie restriction.

In April 2025, I went on a 3-week vacation where I completely stopped calorie counting and definitely overate. I gained around 10 pounds from that trip, which I expected.

But here’s where things started getting weird. From April to November, I went right back to eating 1200 calories, and instead of losing the vacation weight, I slowly started gaining more weight. Before anyone asks — yes, I weigh my food, yes, I know how to use a food scale, and yes, I’m confident in my calorie tracking because I successfully did this for years.

In November, I met with a new doctor because my regular doctor wasn’t available through Kaiser. Within the first 5 minutes of our 10-minute appointment, she recommended Ozempic without ordering labs or really asking me anything. Her exact words were: “If something isn’t working, we have to take another thing away.” She basically implied I should eat even less or go on medication.

I declined the Ozempic, and honestly I’m glad I did because when I finally saw my regular doctor and got labs done, everything came back normal.

At that point, I figured maybe the issue was that I had no movement in my life, so in November I started going to the gym. I hired a trainer twice a week for strength training and started consistently getting 10k steps a day. I also increased my calories to 1400 at first.

Both trainers I worked with told me I needed to eat MORE, not less, because my body had supposedly been in “survival mode” from eating 1200 calories for so long. They encouraged me to increase to around 2000 calories.

Since starting workouts and increasing calories in November, I’ve gained another 10 pounds. And before anyone says it’s muscle — it’s not. I’ve been doing body scans consistently throughout this process.

As of May 1, 2026, I lowered my calories back down to 1600 while continuing the 10k steps and workouts, but the scale still hasn’t budged at all.

At this point I genuinely don’t know what to do. Did I completely mess up my metabolism/body by eating 1200 calories for years? Did I make things worse by increasing calories? Should I have just taken the Ozempic? Has anyone experienced something similar after long-term dieting?