Ok, two days into concerted weightloss and the scales are down 2kg! The first day there was no sugar, and yesterday I had a little bit. Loads of water and loads of steps. So that’s the inflammation weight reduction, and hopefully it should continue a bit slower from here on in.
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Another 0.5kg down taking me to 2.5kg down from my starting point. 
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Exercise has very little direct impact on weight loss (“can’t outrun a bad diet”) but it is super important for you mentally and physically! Are you tracking calories? Do you have a food scale? When I think I’m doing the right things but it’s not working I use the scale for every thing and often find something I’m not accounting for. It also helps de-personalize the choices I’m making - just gathering data.
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Most of the apps have a goals or settings where you can input your data and get a goal weight, set your pace, and get your daily intake suggestions. I use cronometer but my fitness pal is good too. There are also similar calculators online.
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I am 3 lbs over my long term goal weight. I was pretty sick for a month and I lost 10 lbs, so now that I am somewhat better I am trying to not go back into bad habits. I went through HELL and I want to honor how much it sucked and how grateful I am to be better and keep the weight off.
Most importantly all of my clothes fit again! This was my primary reason for losing weight so it’s very exciting, I basically went on a free shopping spree.
My main fear is the realization that if I stay at this weight, my intake will be permanently lower. I know this objectively, and I have most of my systems in place but it seems intimidating now that it’s a reality.
Right now I am doing an elimination diet for IBS but it is hard not to cheat. I have a hard commit for the next 2 weeks and I am in reddit groups for support for that.
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Thursday weigh in
Down 2.6lb since Monday. Seems a bit much so Im assuming its a bit of water weight also. I have been doing really well with my eating since monday 
Feeling good about that! Going to keep at it!
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Thank u for ur support friend! I do track my calories and I do have a food scale (that I dont use very often lol), and it definitly does help. I could easily go over my calories if i wasnt tracking. I should be weighing my food more tho, especially meats cuz Im thinking I go over on those. I use my fitbit app for tracking and for keeping track of my weight. Im on a medication that is helping me with my BED. Its not a weight loss med but it indirectly helps me lose wieght bcuz Im not bingeing or overeating. It seems to be helping
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Just checking in: currently at 183lbs, started at 191lbs 
Last week I was like 184lbs or so.
Slowed my weight loss down to be about 1lb per week. Usually when I cut, I do it at a rate of more like 2-3lbs per week by accident because I guess I keep thinking I need less calories than I actually I require. Trying to avoid cutting too fast because 2-3lbs per week at my current body fat = tons of muscle loss even when getting a lot of protein for me at like 0.7-1.5g per lb of body weight. I slowed my weight loss down by eating more calories on some days and eating less on others which should hopefully help for this. 
I find when I cut at 2-3lbs per week I have like zero energy for work, always hungry, metabolism crashes, irritability, no sex drive, inability to really focus on work since I’m a software developer it’s pretty intense in terms of focus that I need during work. So, slowing my weight loss down to 1lb/week and dividing up my calories to eat more regularly should help with that too I think.
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This is the way!!! Congrats on the 2.6lbs from Monday to now
Most likely if its like the first week into your cut especially if it’s the first week that you’re really seeing drops in your weight, a lot of it is likely water weight at first. But, this is a good thing because that means you’re on track for losing fat!
From my understanding the way how one’s body loses weight is kinda like:
First, glycogen (water weight) drops
Then, subcutaneous body fat and some/a bit of muscle gets used for energy from the caloric deficit (this is when the real weight loss occurs; the ratio of how much fat/muscle makes up the weight loss is highly dependent on things like protein intake, weightlifting, how much fat vs muscle you have, etc)
Keep it up friend, you’re doing great
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194.2 lbs
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Just checking in: I am now about 181.4lbs.
I haven’t quite calculated my weight change weekly rate yet because I’ve been slacking on making my scatter-plot graph but I will do this eventually. What I know for sure is my weight loss is somewhere within the range of 1-3lbs per week I think. But I need to actually do these things soon
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Alright so im DEFINITELY losing weight dangerously fast for me. Woke up at 180.8lbs this morning. Gonna make my weight change graph for real and take my current caloric intake and increase it accordingly. Probably needs to be increased to 2100 kcal per day. Currently eating at my resting metabolic rate of like 1600 kcal per day but it’s definitely too low
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HOLY CRAPPPP, so I did some insane lazy parsing of all these messy MS Word docs I have and did some regex to retrieve the weight for that day, then used matplotlib to make my graph, assuming I didn’t screw up my code/calculations, Im losing weight at approximately 3.85lbs per week. That is REALLY bad. Definitely gonna eat more:
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Ya that is a bit fast for sure. How do u feel tho eating the amount u do? Are u dizzy? Or fatigued or anything?
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I feel fatigued, cant focus easily, kinda hungry etc. Graph is saying im losing weight at 0.55lbs per DAY on average which is mega wack. 3.85lbs per week or so. A lot of the data skewing could be because of water weight though. So might realistically be more like 2lbs per week or something idk
I basically just grabbed a ton of Word documents from my phone and processed any that are from March of this year onwards, so hopefully its just mega wrong or something
I’m gonna try incrementing my caloric intake by 250 kcal every 2 weeks until its 500 kcal above what it is now and monitor my weight and see if it improves.
Edit: fixed my calculations. Its actually 2.31lbs weight loss per week. A 500 kcal increase in my calorie intake should fix this. Will slowly increase it by 500 kcal 
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Had a tough start to the week actually and ended up gaining a bit back and then losing it +more so over all had a successful week and I feel like I’m in the swing of things now so hopefully I don’t have any backtracking this week 
Week: -5lbs
Total: -29lbs
Next Milestone: -51lbs
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Monday weigh in:
-2lb lost since last Monday Ill take it!
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331 days sober -22lbs today.. nice slow and steady pace 
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80.2kg this morning. This is 3.2kg down from my starting point which is great 
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Doing ok maintaining my weight that I lost during my sick month (I’m still technically sick but I can at least eat) I am still doing a FODMAP elimination diet so it isn’t exactly a great reflection of my normal eating, but it’s going to be my new normal so I might as well get used to it. Luckily I LOVE QUINOA
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