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To summarize, I’m a 5’9 female who has a history of restriction (went from 145 to 125 last fall). Began binge eating over the past 10 months leading me to regain the weight plus some (currently around 152 give or take water weight from all the sodium from binges). I’m aware this is still a healthy BMI but my ideal range is 135-140.

Realized restriction was feeding my binges, increased my goal calories from 1500 to 1750 (still a deficit from my maintenance which I estimate around 2100-2150). However have unfortunately relapsed with multiple 4000-5000 calories binges in the past week.

Part of me wonders if the binges are due to the fact I have no set end time on these deficits, leaving my body in a feeding frenzy out of concern that I’m attempting a deficit for several months on end. Instead, should I try a deficit for eight weeks at a time and then maintenance at two weeks? Repeat until I hit my goal? Would this help the binges stop?

Incredibly grateful for any feedback i have—especially from those who have real experience and have been overcoming/overcame binge eating disorder while also trying to shed some of the weight gained as a result of it. Thank you, please constructive honest feedback only 🙏🙏

I’m looking for honest straight up advice. I’m a 5’9, late twenties female. I’m lightly to moderately active. Due to a restrictive disordered eating pattern the summer of 2025 I rapidly lost from my baseline high 140s to 125 over just a couple months. Since October to now I’ve rapidly regained the weight right back to my baseline high 140s. I’ve been stuck in a battle between trying to stick to a calorie deficit of about 1700 and ultimately bingeing like 3500-4500 calories (the binges were bigger and more frequent initially when I first regained all the weight, but they’re still happening 1-2x/week). Ironically, when you average my calories over the past month including the binges they average right around my maintenance (2000).

I don’t understand how I easily & rapidly lost the weight before but obviously it was not sustainable. I don’t know how others manage a deficit so easily while I struggle.

Originally I thought this was an issue of willpower. But after 10 freaking months of this binge restrict cycle (and seeing a nutritionist) I wonder if I’m just being crazy trying to fight my body. ***Should I just embrace a “set weight” around 145? Or do I adjust to make my calorie deficit more subtle (1800 instead of \~1650) to reach my goal of 135?***

I’m looking for honest straight up advice. I’m a 5’9, late twenties female. I’m lightly to moderately active. Due to a restrictive disordered eating pattern the summer of 2025 I rapidly lost from my baseline high 140s to 125 over just a couple months. Since October to now I’ve rapidly regained the weight right back to my baseline high 140s. I’ve been stuck in a battle between trying to stick to a calorie deficit of about 1700 and ultimately bingeing like 3500-4500 calories (the binges were bigger and more frequent initially when I first regained all the weight, but they’re still happening 1-2x/week). Ironically, when you average my calories over the past month including the binges they average right around my maintenance (2000).

I don’t understand how I easily & rapidly lost the weight before but obviously it was not sustainable. I don’t know how others manage a deficit so easily while I struggle.

Originally I thought this was an issue of willpower. But after 10 freaking months of this binge restrict cycle (and seeing a nutritionist) I wonder if I’m just being crazy trying to fight my body. Should I just embrace a “set weight” around 145? Or do I adjust to make my calorie deficit more subtle (1800 instead of ~1650) to reach my goal of 135?

I’m a 5’9 female around 146 lbs in my mid 20s. My goal weight is 135-140 range. I’ve been trying to stick to 1700 but I’m dealing with binges and need to figure out a solution. TDEE calculators are all over the place for my estimated TDEE but I think it should be around 2200? I walk 10k steps a day, do cardio 50 min 3x a week, 2 light 20 min strength workouts a week, sometimes throw in an extra 20 min cardio session.

Should I try a higher daily calorie intake? I’ve been trying to overcome these binges as I try to keep a deficit but it’s been unsuccessful for months now and I need a change. For example, I tried sticking to 1700 over the past 19 days, but with a couple of binges factored in, average is closer to 1850. Since my binges included a lot of junk/sodium I don’t think it’s safe to use my morning weights to calculate that TDEE since it’s very influenced by my water fluctuations right now.

Appreciate any advice on next steps!

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Hi looking for advice on my weight loss plan. I’m a 5’9 F late 20s who weighed 150 for most of my 20s. Due to life stressors and some restrictive behaviors this past fall I quickly lost about 25 lbs. began a cycle of binge eating (for which I now am seeing an ED nutritionist for help). I regained the weight quickly as a result of binge eating and am now back at 150. About to go on a one week vacation where I’m hoping to stay around maintenance calories and stay the same weight.

My plan is to start a calorie deficit to last 18 weeks once I get back from the trip. Calorie calculators are literally all over the place when it comes to estimating my maintenance. I’m assuming when active (which I will be as I have a good gym routine planned for my upcoming deficit) my maintenance should be around 2100-2200. Interestingly I tracked my calories over the past week and maintained on 2300 despite being sedentary (but with some recent binges wondering if water weight is muddying those numbers…or if my maintenance is way higher than I suspect it is…)

My plan is to eat 1750 to lose roughly 0.8 lb a week. I’ll eat at this calorie count for 18 weeks with the goal of getting to a weight of 135-140. Any suggestions/feedback?

Looking for reassurance more than anything else. I have weighed around 150 most of my 20s (currently in my late 20s). Due to restrictive eating around May-October 2025 I lost about 25 pounds down to a weight of 125 (temporarily was even lower I think). As a 5’9 female this was a borderline to actual underweight BMI and I felt terrible and exhausted. I started a cycle of binge eating in October that I’ve been struggling with for 8 months. Began seeing an eating disorder nutritionist and am working on stopping the binges. What I struggle with terribly right now is body image. To lose and regain 25 lbs in a year has been a lot on my body and right now I feel like I can’t recognize who I really am. I want to cry when I don’t fit into my old jeans, when I feel fat on my arms that wasn’t there literally months ago. Does anyone have reassurance to overcome the body image issues that come with BED? Will the weight come off or is this where I’m supposed to be?

Hey!

Looking for advice on weight loss. I’m a 5’9 female in my late 20s. Throughout college and mid twenties my weight ranged mostly from the high 140s to low 150s (a healthy BMI). I dropped to a weight in the mid 120s last fall (a really quick drop that began around May 2025 and lasted through September). This was due to a combination of work stress, anxiety, & also probably some OCD related restrictive behaviors. However, due to binge eating disorder I very quickly regained the weight. I’m seeing a nutritionist now to help with the binge eating, but I currently weigh around 150 and feel lost. I no longer fit in some of the clothes I have from when I was underweight in the fall and I’m questioning what my current goal should be.

Obviously I want to feel safe around food and stop bingeing, but I feel like a range I’d feel happy with would be like 135-140. I don’t have a ton of muscle and even when I was underweight looked more “skinny fat” than toned.

I was thinking I’d try to eat in a deficit to lose a pound per week until I reach this goal range. Is this stupid considering I have a history of binge eating? Is further deficit going to just continue pushing me further from my goal? Should I just embrace a weight range closer to 145-150 and call it a day?

Hey!

Looking for advice on weight loss. I’m a 5’9 female in my late 20s. Throughout college and mid twenties my weight ranged mostly from the high 140s to low 150s (a healthy BMI). I dropped to a weight in the mid 120s last fall (a really quick drop that began around May 2025 and lasted through September). This was due to a combination of work stress, anxiety, & also probably some OCD related restrictive behaviors. However, due to binge eating disorder I very quickly regained the weight. I’m seeing a nutritionist now to help with the binge eating, but I currently weigh around 150 and feel lost. I no longer fit in some of the clothes I have from when I was underweight in the fall and I’m questioning what my current goal should be.

Obviously I want to feel safe around food and stop bingeing, but I feel like a range I’d feel happy with would be like 135-140. I don’t have a ton of muscle and even when I was underweight looked more “skinny fat” than toned.

I was thinking I’d try to eat in a deficit to lose a pound per week until I reach this goal range. Is this stupid considering I have a history of binge eating? Is further deficit going to just continue pushing me further from my goal? Should I just embrace a weight range closer to 145-150 and call it a day?

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What are your thoughts on eliminating binge trigger foods? I exclusively binge on sweet items—sweet protein bars, cookies, cakes, chocolate. Have never binged or been triggered to binge by anything savory. I’ve tried cutting them out and ended up bingeing at the vending machine, tried including protein bars and end up eating 10 in a sitting. What have others found success doing?

I think the root of my binge eating started in October. I started a new job in June and started to weigh less from under eating and stress. Before this whole cycle began I weighed in the range of 143-150 at 5’9 (female). Since June I was walking and exercising more and I think the loss was somewhat accidental. I weighed like 126 pounds at my doctors appointment in October. around that time is when I developed these episodes of feeling out of control around food. At work events if there was a table of cupcakes or brownies, I would feel absolutely uncontrollable around it and just keep taking more. My brain became/is hyper fixated on sweet palatable items. These episodes got worse with the holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I started really stressing out when I knew I would be around social events that had access to lots of desserts. These binge episodes could be 4000 till like 8000 cal. Initially, I would try to limit calories the next day and this would just perpetuate the cycle.

I think intuitive eating would be absolutely useless because my brain will just use it as an excuse to binge. So right now I am calorie tracking to make sure that I’m eating a healthy amount, and I’ve actually found some temporary success by increasing my daily calories and planning out three set meals a day. I find that I specifically binge on sweet items—protein bars, Kit Kats, cookies etc. I never binge on savory. I’ve tried cutting them out (end up bingeing at work events, accessing vending machine) and tried incorporating them into daily planned intake (which works for 3 days and then I binge the rest of the box in one sitting). Is it time to cut out protein bars and packaged sweet stuff entirely??

Most recently I was able to go five days eating 1800 and feeling great, but was on a string of night shifts. one of the last nights I barely got any sleep and at work ended up having a binge that lasted until the morning. This threw me completely off track, which was especially hard for me since I had just had almost a whole week of what I thought was freedom from the cycle. Overtime, I realized that my biggest triggers are of course restriction, but also sleep deprivation, boredom, loneliness. I also have black-and-white thinking where if I have one snack that is unplanned or something that I deem unhealthy get spirals and I end up binging because I feel like I already ruined the day.

I’m at the point now where I eat normally 4-5 days of the week and the rest are absolute binges of 4-6k calories. I’m at like 150 lbs right now but I’m sure a lot of it is water weight that would drop fairly quickly if this horrible cycle ends…This is affecting my quality of life at this point and I’m thinking of setting up with a dietician through nourish. Does anyone have any advice for me?

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