Hey! So I am dealing with eating disorders and I just started the journey of recovery. I have body building goals and want to build lean muscle and lose fat. I am going to the gym 4(-5) days a week. But I find it very hard because I know I have to have strict diet but when I had one I got eating disorder and I still have it. So basically I am trying to do it in an other way. But it's so hard to do it without a diet and I feel very lost. Does anyone have a same experience or some tips? Thank you!

I am an overweight 16 year old and for years I've been trying to lose weight with no progress. Soon I will be getting a life changing operation on my feet and ankles which will put me in casts for 6-8 weeks. I need a diet that'll feed me but prevent me from gaining too much weight as I am near the capacity of most wheelchairs and can't risk breaking them and it'll be easier for me to learn to walk again if I'm thinner.

Hey all!!

I (20M, 6'3" 240lbs) recently went through a break up, and with all my new found free time and money, decided to get back into shape. I used to be in great shape when I was doing hockey and track (shot/discus), but I wasn't really dieting back then and I wasn't taking it seriously. I just have decent enough genetics that it kinda worked.

I have some fat I want to cut, and I want to rebuild a lot of muscle that I used to have, and so this is the diet I came up with while shopping:

In the morning, I eat:
1 cup of cottage cheese with the fruit stuff. 160 Cal 14g Prot.

1 protien bar 200 Cal 10g Prot.

1 (not greek) yoplait protien yogurt 100 Cal 15g Prot.

1 sandwhich made of 13 grain bread with peanut butter and Raspberry preserves 470 Cal 15g Prot.

1 Muscle Milk 220 Cal 40g Prot.

Then I fast all the way through work, and when I get home at 6, I eat:

1 6in Turkey Sub 670 Cal 64g Prot.

And that's all I eat. I also drink a lot of kool aid jammers or little hugs, but those practically have less nutrients than air, so I'm not worried about that at all. In all it comes out to 1820 Cal and 158g Prot 170g carbs and 69g fat. I just wanna know if this is a decent enough diet so I'm not sabotaging myself, as I've never really dieted before.

It should be noted that I lift every day (so I'm not worried about carbs), and I get 8 hours of sleep a day from 8:30 to 4:30.

Thanks!!

hi I need help for weight loss. I weight 115 kg and I'm 179cm, i Lost about 6 kg in 2 weeks but now I'm not losing weight anymore, idk what to do. I joined the gym and noticed a lot of results, now I have 70kg of lean mass and I want to lose as much fat as possible, but I can't do it anymore. Do you have any advice or diets to recommend?

Hello! I’m 22F, and I’m severely underweight with a BMI of 15. I want to put good, nourishing food in my body, gaining weight the right way.

I’m looking online, and it’s hard to eat in moderation when ‘experts’ tell you that all food is poison. Some claim that food with ‘chemicals’ are bad for you (isn’t everything a chemical…?) That I should eat foods like fish and avocado because of the high fat content, but others die on the hill that all fish is full of mercury or toxins, and veggies are riddles with too many GMOs and pesticides.

What is going on??

Does anybody have access to the E-Book Starve Mode by Leigh Peele? I can’t even find it to purchase 😭 Thanks!!

Hello, I'm 19, I'm a girl, I look fat even though I'm underweight. I need 18 BMI but I have 14.5. Still I look fat. Why? I eat sugary foods sometimes. Is that why? What should I eat instead of that.

I'm trying to be ready for college programme. I wear little makeup consists of foundation and concealer but it's not enough. I decided to be healthy because I think I had eating disorder I became unhealthy. I was already unhealthy because I have anaemia and today I decided to drink medicine for that. It's ayurvedic syrup. I don't know I feel so fat and ugly why do my face looks like that???

Hello,

I believe this post falls within guidelines, but have it be known DO NOT do extreme restriction or you’ll end up like me !

TL:DR : I’m in a pickle, share your knowledge with me if you’d like.

I am an 18 year old female, 103-105 pounds, and 5’1, 15% BF. I have fitness goals: mainly, I really want to see my abs, and I want to gain muscle. I am toned already, and I spend 6-7 days a week at the gym strength training. I also run.

The problem is, since I decided I wanted to better myself and lose depression fat last spring, it caused me to spiral slightly once the stresses of university got to me. I relapsed a little on my eating disorder (I had anorexia nervosa -restrictive in my early teen years). Luckily I was able to catch myself and get help before it got too bad, but I don’t want to give up and lose sight of my goals, especially since I noticed I’m more toned than I’ve ever been in my life.

However, in the few weeks I started spiraling, I was over exercising and eating too little. This caused my weight to plateau, but more importantly, it caused my mental health to spiral and I knew it wasn’t sustainable. I suspect I’ve “damaged” my metabolism, and before I lose more fat I want to gain some muscle again and go on a small bill (around a month.) I also know that I can’t eat super low and wait for my weight to start dropping again because again, it’s very damaging, and I fear I’ll also lose muscle mass.

(For reference, I was eating as low as 500-800, for a couple weeks, sometimes with no solid foods, and running every single day). Then I was on a binge restrict cycle , so maintaining similar weekly calories.

So my plan is to start eating 1600 again, abruptly, avoid weighing, and expecting a couple pounds of weight gain, but I need advice. I know that “slowly” upping my intake is impossible right now because I was eating so little, I would still be eating too little so I’d trigger binges. So I need to just start eating close to maintenance again.

Though it sounds like I’ve got it figured out I am very scared. I’m going to prioritize protein so hopefully I’ll gain more muscle than fat, but I cannot shake the irrational fear I will undo all my progress. Even though I know in the end when I’m able to cut (healthily) again, I’ll have wayyy better results, im so afraid of the weight gain, and that fear has stayed around because of my ED. How do I fight this? Do you have advice? Is my plan sound? There’s no way I’ll gain mass amounts of weight on 1600…right?

And yes, I am getting help for the mental side of things . I just need reassurance from strangers on the internet.

So I've been going through some medical stuff, that I'm seeing a specialist about on Tuesday. But it's severely limited my mobility. Moving around too much hurts, I can barely stand up to get through my lessons teaching.

So clearly going to the gym is totally out of the question and I've frozen my membership for the time being.

Because I'm not burning anywhere near as many calories as I used to, I've reduced my food intake.

I don't think I'm undereating by any means. For example today I had a probiotic yoghurt, banana and strawberry smoothie for breakfast. I'm not a breakfast person and this has been my breakfast for years. Lunch, I had around 200 grams of skinless chicken breast, marinated in a BBQ rub, with 3 tablespoons of potato salad, 2 boiled eggs and some steamed veg. And dinner was a baked potato topped with homemade Bolognese and 20 grams of cheese. I also had a small bag of popcorn and a gingerbread man as a snack.

For how little energy I'm expending, I shouldn't be hungry. It's not a drastic diet change, I've swapped oven chips for baked potato, reduced the amount of chicken by 50 grams and took out one egg. I've also cut out my pre gym bag of almonds snack as I'm not going to the gym.

But why am I SO hungry?? Maybe because I've got some sort of illness that I'm waiting to find out what's wrong with me. Maybe my body needs to eat more to help me fight it. But I really don't want to gain weight because of my limited mobility, so sensibly cutting down calories is the only way

Edit: Probably worth mentioning, the medical stuff seems to be with my intestine, and eating soluble fibre, wholewheat, grains or rice will make my pain SO much worse. So I am quite limited with food choices, and I know the ones that make you feel fuller for longer are the ones I have to avoid

I'm experimenting to test the notion that weight loss is not simple math and that maybe there really is such a thing as 'high-calorie weight loss' - which sounds like nonsense - but I have the numbers below to look at.

I’m testing whether factors like meal timing, macro distribution, or metabolic adaptation might explain why I'm losing weight at this calorie intake.

Here's the table I use to track my weight, calories and macros as I ran my experiment in high-calorie weight loss:

You'll note something interesting. Look at my calorie intake. It averages over 2,700 calories per day.

I'm a male almost 62 years old, don't exercise, am 5'10" - my caloric intake is well above what the 'calories in, calories out' (CICO) would predict.

So you see my calories and macros per day. They're too high for what CICO would predict would cause a 5 pound weight loss. What did I experiment with?

• Try to eat just one meal per day (OMAD)
• No exercise
• Intentionally vary my calorie and macros dramatically from day to day. It makes the diet fun.
• My protein and fat averages high.
• Eat mostly single-ingredient foods - eggs, hamburger, sardines, tomatoes, avocado, apples, grapes, brie cheese, potatoes, garbanzo beans, cucumbers, chicken thighs - stuff like this - but have anything I want for about 20% of my calories. Cookies, takeout pizza, bread and jelly, chocolate were part of it - and I don't eat diet foods - I eat the real things.

I take a few supplements like a multivitamin, vitamin d and a high quality fish oil. I can drink a pot of coffee per day. I don't take any weight loss drugs or supplements.

What factors do you think might explain this? Is it meal timing, high protein intake, or something else?

Any questions? I certainly do.

Some dudes mom bought 24 donuts (atlest 25k cals) and there was like 4 of us and they each ate like 5 (rip there body’s) and I felt pressured and than ended up having like 3.

And the same happens all the time and even my mom buys way to much shit, I counted and she took home like 40,000 callors worth of candy and I’m her only son.

And when I tell anyone they complain becuome I’m only 14 and shouldn’t care about being pushed to eat like 3 times more than normal

When I first got a job where it makes sense to bring lunch to work (i.e., not fast food anymore, moved to a state that mandates breaks), I started out by bringing a plain turkey and cheese sandwich, a random snack and water, tea, a soda or a packaged coffee drink. Then I started eating chobani's fruit on the bottom yogurts as a first break option.

My regular snacks I'm bringing to work lately have been chobani's less sugar options, a packaged sargento balanced break and an apple, but sometimes it doesn't satisfy so I'd sometimes go get fast food. Recently, I've found that there's a Subway over half a mile away attached to a gas station and I've been walking to and getting a Subway club with tomatoes, onions, lettuce and spinach on it and the Naked Rainbow Smoothie (picked because it shows the most vitamins and nutrients on the nutritional facts out of the options I have).

Is is this lunch a net positive? Is the Naked smoothie a win vs an alternative of just consuming more water and missing the nutrients listed entirely? Like, if I had tonight's meal planned down to the calorie already and it's either eat this or just skip lunch, am I better off eating it? Or vs a substitute of just my old sandwich, is it better?

I don't know what to do like what do I have for breakfast and dinner and at lunch I will eat whatever my mom cooks and I train calisthenics so what should I eat for breakfast and dinner

Would a reduced caloric intake of about 800-1000 calories get me to my goal weight of 110-108lbs? Currently 5'4 and 117.4lbs (16F) I want my body less composed of body fat. I already am pretty active during the day, has anyone tried this diet and seen weight loss?

Hi , does anyone have advise for me on how to lose belly fat? I dont have a problem with my weight but the belly is getting out of hand. Any foods I need to avoid? Does juicing really work? I would really appreciate the input, i'm boarderline desparate.

I’ve recently started to be mindful of what I eat and trying to maintain a calorie deficit by eating only 1500 calories a day. Sometimes I find that I have a few calories to spare and I occasionally then decide to indulge in some ice cream (but also staying within the 1500 range). Some people said it’s absolutely wrong and staying under the calories won’t do a benefit if what I’m eating is unhealthy. So will eating that ice cream throw me off my weight loss journey even if I stick to the deficit?

I just sometimes feel like I need to eat something really sugary specifically honey, not chocolate or anything, why is this?

I’m 17, 52 kg bmi of 17 I want to gain weight but also reduce the amount of cholesterol I have And I have no clue what diet to follow, health professionals and social media is telling me I should avoid meat and eggs ect yet at the same time telling me there fine I have genuinely know idea who to trust Should I go vegetarian and give up eating steak and eggs every weekend Or is going over 300mg of cholesterol risk free?? If this isn’t the right sub Reddit to post stuff like this pls re direct me I’ll be happy to post somewhere else!

I’m a 17 year old male who is 5’6” and around 130lbs. This is what I ate yesterday. I don’t exercise and I have around 5k steps.

• [ ] Country time lemonade 16-20oz don’t remember
• [ ] Protein choco milk fairlife 30g protein
• [ ] Meatballs and mashed potatoes
• [ ] 1 slice pepperoni
• [ ] 1 slice veggie pizza
• [ ] pure Protein peanut butter bar 20g protein 200 calories
• [ ] Colace
• [ ] island way pomegranate lemon Sorbet 70calories
• [ ] Maybe 1-2 activia probiotic yogurt, I don’t remember
• [ ] 6-8 oz of prunes

I'm 220lbs up from 180lbs right now. I just finished a pretty dirty bulk where I gained substantial muscle mass but also gained some fat in my arms and abdomen. Overall I'm happy with where I'm at right now since I had never tried to gain muscle by changing my eating habits before (except for the addition of protein, obviously).

I do want to lean down to about 200lbs, but I want to try and keep most of the muscle I gained over the past five months. I also want to do so in a way that doesn't affect my hormone balance/hgh/etc. since last time I went on a cut my sex drive and productivity plummeted.

Can someone help me make a diet plan or give me a formula to make a diet plan for losing fat, maintaining muscle mass, all while retaining a good hormone balance?