Looking for a help with weight loss

Hello everyone!
I am quite new to this but it’s amazing to see such a community here. Long story short. I am trying to loose weight currently. I gained about 10kg since last November due to stress and emotional eating. A lot just happened in my private/family life and I struggled mentally. Unfortunately, I took up a food as my friend in this journey and it resulted in weight gain. I always struggled with the weight since I was teenager. I was bullied for a years and comments were also made on behalf on my family. Unfortunately, this didn’t do well for my head. I was on *kitten* diets, I punished myself by exercising in excess and overtraining myself because I believed the more the better. I was not right obviously.
This year I have the highest weight ever and it is depressing. Some days I feel I am on the edge with the emotions and how I perceive myself. Anyways...
Since a month I decided to start using MFP again to slowly reduce the calories intake. I already knew that I was eating in excess so I had to balance this out by creating very small deficit. I had episodes of binge eating so I knew that I can’t just cut off massive amount of calories because it will ignite binge eating.
My starting weight was nearly 94 kg. My age is 33 and my height is 166cm.
Then I put myself on 1900kcal a day. Some days I ate about 2100 and some 1700, depending really on how hungry I am. I started to walking a lot, on non training days is would be about 15km. On training days it’s topically half of it or less.
I do strength training three times a week, it’s about 35min including warm up and cool down. I progressively adding the load to my training. I am not working, I am student and I am due to get back to collage soon. My question is, am I doing enough? I really try to pace myself as I used to just throw myself into extremes and I either stopped exercise or stopped my diet or both. I see that my waist line slimmed little bit. It’s not massive progress but I can clearly see the change. I am definitely stronger. I lost only about 1,5kg in a more than months so this is the reason I doubting myself if I do enough.
I know I am heading in the right direction but is it enough to sustain healthy weight loss. I think I accepted already that loosing 25kg (which is pretty much my case) it’s a long term commitment. I have to be patient and I have to accept what it takes.
I hope you guys could give me bit of advice here. I will really appreciate that. Cheers

Replies

  • ALZ14
    ALZ14 Posts: 202 Member
    Your rate of progress is up to you. General consensus is that slower is better because it is more sustainable in the long run (nothing too extreme). As long as you keep your calories at a safe intake you can cut a bit more if you want, but if you are losing now you don’t have to.

    Are you inputting you’re exercise calories and eating those back? That might give you some more wiggle room.
  • Kitessa87
    Kitessa87 Posts: 18 Member
    Hey! Thanks for responding. It’s much appreciated. I actually don’t putting my exercises to MFP since it’s only 30-35 min, 3 x a week. At the moment I am using the lowest weights - 2,5kg for single arm exercises, 5kg for lunges and 7,5kg for goblet squat. I am very slowly try to increase this together with the reps. I just know that if I do too much again I will just stop exercise completely. I have that weird relationship that as soon as I start exercise, I love it and I want more of it then I keep doing more, I don’t see more results because more exercise = more food intake, especially cardio is igniting my appetite badly. This time I would like to be successful and I know it’s a long term change. I feel quite lone in my journey so it’s great to see great community here. Hopefully I will meet someone along my journey who want to reach similar goals.