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In treatment for bulimia, which is now mostly under control except in times of great stress. I echo CAT/CBT if you haven't tried that kind of therapy. I found it much more useful than talking therapy. I also did art therapy with a group of 3 other women which was also helpful. Making sure you're not restricting too much is…

Open diary to friends. I'm also in maintenance but bank calories some days just in case, so I rarely have too aggressive a deficit--I eat from 1700-2200 calories most days.

As a data point, I'm 6'0" and female and reasonably active and I maintain on 2100-2200 (though tbh I'm not super accurate with logging, so could be higher).

I maintain on around 2200 calories, so a 1000 calorie deficit is too aggressive for me. I try not to go below 1500, but usually if aiming for weight loss I'm at 1700-1800. I usually hit 10k steps, but also do yoga, weight lifting, and sometimes things like HIIT or barre/pilates.

Throw away the boyfriend.

Not a big difference in weight (12ish pounds) but lots more strength and on the whole a better relationship with food. 5'11': 165 pounds to 153 pounds.

I just guess. Quite often I can have a good idea of how much I've eaten by how full I feel. Not always, but it's a good indicator. Like I was in London this weekend and we went out for afternoon tea. I guessed it was like 1000 calories, and I found an entry on the database of 1100, so I logged that and then planned lighter…

I can't do any sort of IF as I had an eating disorder. I sometimes accidentally do 16:8 as sometimes my appetite patterns fall that way, but I don't see the need to ignore my hunger cues and have my blood sugar crash and feel shaky just to wait until 1 pm to eat.

Have the beer. You can fit it in just fine.

I just eat bread, but if I want a vehicle for toppings--unflavoured rice cakes for 35 cals each.

I'm currently doing strong curves (though more like 2x a week than 3 as I like do to another fitness class at my gym). It seems good for the booty. Echoing recomp suggestions.

I usually eat 50ish percent of them unless I'm really hungry, like today. I ate 2700 calories, burned 800ish through exercise supposedly, and had 160g of protein--this is a fair amount more than usual but my body seemed to want it and I don't feel overly full. If I wasn't quite so hangry today I'd probably have aimed for…

Kettlebell swings mostly work out your glutes and abs, not your legs. Same with deadlift type movements (plus a bit of hammies).

45 min on the stationary bike while watching TV. Walking 3 miles home from work. 30ish minutes weight lifting. This is more than usual for me!

I love halo top! Also seconding the banana nice cream. I sometimes do frozen cherries, chocolate protein powder, oat milk, and a tablespoon of peanut butter or PB2. I make it thick enough to eat with a spoon.

Add some peanut butter! Or some protein powders. Or just in general increase all your portions slightly. As others have said it's a bit too aggressive and may be unsustainable. Also it'll probably be hard for you to cut out bread and pasta for the rest of your life, right? So why not learn to moderate? I used to eat half a…

1. Yes, pretty aggressive. 2. A lot of people in those dietbets cheat--they binge/eat super salty food and weigh in higher, so it's easier to lose the 4%. They end up gaining and losing around the same amount of weight every month--not healthy. 3. Dietbet takes 15% of the pot and the host takes another 10%, so you're…

You likely have lost inches if they were too tight and now they aren't! I'd also suggest some weight lifting if you haven't/have access to a gym or getting some weights/think it sounds interesting. That's the thing that changed my shape the most. I never had much to lose (like just shy of a stone), but I lost that and have…

1. Your body weight fluctuates a lot naturally due to water, weight in the system, periods (if you have a uterus). This is why people on here tend to use trend apps like Libra. 2. If you just started a new exercise regime, your body often holds onto water. 3. Are you weighing all your food with a food scale to make sure…

I personally feel a lot of the fasting stuff that's in vogue just now is disordered eating packaged into a different set of key words. I mean, 16:8 I can understand--I do that sometimes just because I'm not hungry until 12 or 1 and I tend not to eat just before bed. But as others have said, the liver detoxes. The body…

I don't like protein shakes on their own but I like them mixed in with other stuff. I'll often add 5g of whey to my café au lait I make with my coffee machine - the milk and powder makes it like 7 or 8g of protein. Or chocolate (I use protein works) blended with frozen cherries or banana, oat milk, and a tablespoon of…

I'm 1900 to 2000 net to maintain.

I still had cellulite when I was medically emaciated with an eating disorder when I was 16. I realised that it was never going to go away entirely then, hah. I'm now about 40 pounds heavier (now a healthy weight for my height). I recently lost 10-14 pounds and also got more into regular weight lifting, running, and yoga.…

Weigh everything on a food scale. Make sure your calories are accurate. Follow the guidelines MFP gives you. I'd also add protein and a complex carb to lunch--just greens with a bit of italian dressing doesn't sound filling at all. Are you actually able to keep up that diet day in and day out without any binging? Hard to…

Dark/whole grain bread doesn't often have less calories, it just has more fibre and sometimes protein so it tends to keep you fuller.

You don't need to go keto to lose weight. It's very hard for most people to sustain that long-term, so then once you eat carbs again the weight can creep back. Carbs aren't a bad habit--most people eat like 40-50% of their calories from carbs. It's fine. To lose weight you need to eat less calories than you consume. So…

Echoing strength training (though maybe see a PT so they can help advise on your injury?) I've been the same weight since around October but I've lost a dress size. Hooray for recomp.

That's a pretty aggressive deficit. You might feel miserable, plus that's a lot of changes to your lifestyle very quickly which could be difficult to sustain. I'd probably aim for .5 to 1 pound a week. Crash dieting to fit in a dress isn't any better for your health, IMO. Echo getting it altered or maybe purchasing another…

I'm often 2000+. My TDEE is 2100-2200, and I'm usually around that. Happy to have friends who eat around that! Even when I'm aiming to lose I rarely eat less than 1600-1700. I'm 6 ft tall and pretty active.

What PAV said. I have a fitbit and it usually adds at least a couple hundred calories a day. I don't manually enter my walking around or running calories. I will manually add things like yoga or weight lifting, though I usually under report the minutes (e.g. if it's a 90 min yoga class I tend to put 45 min because the…