How to get out of this slump :(

Well to be fair, 130 would also still have her in the normal range (20.4)

@mary_welch Just don't binge then try to restrict the next day. That's how eating disorders take hold. Eat normally the day after the binge. Don't under eat to try to make up for it. That causes a binge-restrict cycle that makes all of this so much harder.

At 18 you will have weight changes due to menstruation, too.

I say live your life, don't focus on the scale or the calories. Stay active, eat lots of whole fruits and vegetables and limit the number of desserts in a week and you'll be able to lose weight - BUT that last 10 pounds is going to be up and down so just expect that. Your body is perfectly happy where it is!

Another thing that would make you faster would be to get stronger. People who are strong tend to be a bit heavier than average for their height and their inch/cm body measurements, because muscle is more compact than fat.

I'm a little old lady recreational athlete - a rower - so in a very different classification than you. But I definitely got better pace improvement from getting stronger than from getting lighter, and I got a lot lighter (around 50 pounds). I grant that the weight loss put me in the lightweight competitive class, which tends to be a little slower on average than openweight, especially in my age classification, so I did get more competitive because of weight loss. 😆😉

Gaining strength/muscle is much easier at your age than mine - you're really at the ideal time for it. Gaining strength/muscle is also easiest when eating in a small calorie surplus, harder in a calorie deficit, in between those if maintaining weight . . . just saying. Also, at 18, even as a woman, you may still be maturing physically, perhaps in ways not visibly obvious. Within the healthy weight range, getting stronger would be likely to set a woman up better for lifelong health and thriving than would losing more weight, and in many cases would lead to overall better athletic performance besides.

I'm not telling you what to do here. That's your call. I'm just suggesting you think about this aspect of the situation, too. I'm happy to hear that social media isn't a major influence in your life, because it can be pretty toxic. Still, I feel like swimming in the river of popular culture generally, women are more likely to be encouraged to get thinner, in cases where men might be more likely to be encouraged to get stronger. In my world, it would be good if both men and women thought hard about their personal body preferences and goals, plus how those fit into their overall personal total life goals for athletic improvement, health, appearance, and more.

Best wishes!

Some high school coaches are idiots who think they are pro team coaches instead of being more concerned about the life of their charges. As in the rest of their life. as in multiple times longer than the athletic team years.

And I'm not talking about resistance training!

Very few high school or even college age athletes benefit for the rest of their lives by being introduced into dieting, restriction, and binging, esp when they didn't have a need for any of the above.

So yeah. No. There are a few golden coaches. But many think or act as if they think that their win loss ratio comes ahead of the long term health of their athletes. And I don't approve of them! 🤔 Which I'm sure gets them all hot and bothered!🤣

agree. you’re going to lose more muscle than you want to this way. when we eat in a deficit we’re not ONLY losing fat. so we have to go slow and strength to train.