r/CICO

I've bee trying to lose 45 pounds for the last year and id weigh food but honestly id half -ass it so of course the scale never moved. I got sick of my own bullshit so I weighted all my food and I stopped eating sweets for a month. I successfully lost 5 pounds, I was feeling great and with the junk food out of the house the food noise just left. I decided to go to trader Joe's last week and I bought more crap because this time I was going to be in better control. Fucking NOPE! I returned to all the bad habits again. I just threw everything out. I feel like a horrible person for wasting food but I need to stop lying to myself. Im not one of those people that can just have a cookie once a week, maybe eventually i can but not right now. I feel awful and so damned guilty

I finally hit the magic number that means I’m no longer classified as obese. It has been so hard, but so worth it. I’m also so close to being under 200lbs! My goal is to be under 200lbs by thanksgiving! 😭❤️ Thank you everyone who has posted, encouraged, anything. Y’all are my motivation and inspiration every single day! Keep it up! ❤️

I have been dieting for about two months and am losing weight. I have a significant amount to lose.

About two weeks ago I f'd up and one night I ate pizza and two cupcakes. I went right back to eating right and at a calorie deficit. I told myself these things happen and to just let it go.

However, last night I ate Chinese food. I was craving it and it tasted great. Today I am back on the deficit and eating right.

I'm concerned that since I did this twice already, I'll keep giving myself passes and then I'll end up back from where I started from. Especially with the temptations the holidays bring.

What are some strategies to avoid these situations? I would say the reason for my going off my diet was stress related. For example I thought I had a stressful day so some food will help.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

40F
I’ve been checking my weight pretty much everyday and some days my weight jumps from 60kilos to 62kilos in a day. And then it goes back to 60 in a few days, when i pay attention to my diet.

How do you gain like that in a day?

I'm loosing 0,4-0,5 kgs a week so far (3 weeks, minus initial first week). I eat around 2250 calories daily on avarage. I'm 32F. (Edit: current weight is 75,5 kg, 170 cm)

I'm not that active. I've been active for the last 12+ years rock climbing, weight training, biking etc. But like, only 2-ish times a week for climbing and weights. Biking is commute, ranging from 10 to 50 km a week. Daily small walks of 2-4 kms.

Can my habitual level of activity really have that much of an impact on my muscle mass, so I can eat this many calories?

I am HUNGRY if I avarage on 1800-2000 a day.

I can't help to wonder if I measure incorrectly? I've tried measuring every small thing, but can eyeball a lot of my food pretty accurately (tried to weigh it afterwards)

I've done CICO 5 years ago and lost the weight I wanted. But due to illness I gained everything back in 6 months and recently started CICO again.

Looking for encouragement/advice about next steps!

I’m a 5.7.5” 31 yo woman who started counting calories in May after weighing in at 202.4 at my doctor’s appointment. I put on 20 lb in the past year/30 in the past two—I got walloped by rebound COVID two years ago and became really sedentary as a result, was under a lot of stress, took emergency contraception a few times (idk if that made a difference but it was unpleasant). My goal is to get down to around 170. I log using MyFitnessPal and try to stay at 1570 a day, with the occasional maintenance breaks around my period and a handful of holiday cheat days.

At that point, I was lightly active—mostly remote desk work, pretty sedentary, a couple days of walking a week. I lost 7.9 lb in May and felt very encouraged by the rate of loss, but only lost 2 lb in June and stayed stagnant in July. In late July, I started couch 2 5k again, with the hopes of speeding up loss, getting more fit, and giving myself a little more wiggle room. I found myself gaining weight in August and September, and I’m at about 196 now. I’m feeling really frustrated with the slow rate of loss despite being more active and wondering what I can do to improve more/any hacks for lowering deficit and not getting hangry or frustrated. I’m finding I’m not able to fit into the clothes I’d like to wear, and it gets me really down and affects my confidence. One thing I’ve considered is cortisol levels but idk. Appreciate any consolation/encouragement/advice.

I lost 65lb, and then bought a house in January. Since about March, I’ve gained back 15lb. I came off my ADHD meds for unrelated reasons and my hunger rebounded like nothing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I’ve been on those meds for more than half of my life but also fat for a majority of my life so they weren’t a true suppressant but man it felt awful coming off. That was in June. Anyway, stress and life got to me & I’ve gained back 15lb which isn’t a huge amount but I’m scared of failing. It took me 2 years to lose 65lb and I was hoping to be under 200lb by my 30th bday, which is next week. I’m now 35lb away from that goal when in December, I was 18 away. I know I can do the work. I know I can even do it without meds (I’m not anti meds, I just cannot afford them because they’re very expensive) with my PCOS & endo. I’m just feeling discouraged. Disappointed in myself. I’m wallowing in self pity today. Plus my hunger cues are WHACK right now and have been since stopping my ADHD meds in June. I haven’t been able to eat in a deficit almost at all, I am just so hungry all the time and yes I promise on my dog’s life I eat enough protein, fiber, fat & drink enough water. It’s like a visceral hunger. I wish I could afford the meds that I know would help me. I wish I could recalibrate my hunger cues like I’ve done before after a period of over eating.

I’m just ranting because I wanted to be closer to my goal by now but I’ve gone backwards & it feels bad. I’m going to forgive myself, lock back in & aim for a goal of losing 15lb by the end of the year which will put me where I was last year. Cheers.

Does anyone else have nightmares that they’ve gone over their deficit? I’m already in a pretty aggressive one right now (1250 bc I’m very short), and I’ve recently been obsessed with baked potatoes. Now I’m having dreams that I’m adding on obscenely amounts of butter and not weighing it. I don’t even use butter for anything anymore.

It doesn’t help that the scale has gone up every day this week. I know I most likely did not eat an extra 700 calories every day, but it still sucks 😅