Hi r/loseit
I'm in need of any and all possible advice. I'm m/5'4/183 lbs, and 67 lbs down from my heaviest weight. I have 33 pounds to hit my long term goal, and what would be considered a healthy average weight based on my BMI! It's been really successful journey so far, but lately I feel like I've hit a hard snag.
My method has been Low carb/dirty keto, IF and CICO. IF has gone very off track this month, and CICO feels like it could be next. I struggle to do IF as consistently as I used to. 12 hours is the easiest maximum lately. 14 to 16 was my average before and sometimes I still manage it, but I can't even bring myself to fast every night like I did before. I'm looking for the resolve to get back on track. Insulin sensitivity and autophagy are really important for me because I have a genetic vulnerability to diabetes, and I don't ever want to develop it.
For the last three months I found a sweet spot with Keto, but now find myself obsessively googling keto recipes. I think about food almost constantly. I was in a good groove, then I overdid it when I realized how well the Keto Diet works for me. My original fear was losing interest, but now it's like I have too much.
It's like I think about food as much as I did at my heaviest, but with better eating habits. Instead of binging, I can eat until I'm satisfied, but I end up grazing again later if it's not a full meal and just a snack. Usually I do two meals and maybe three small snacks and I can call it a night by 8 PM. Lately, it's just impossible to do consistently. I'm snacking lightly all hours into the night, though I have yet to breach my macros, I don't like it. I worry I'm working up to going over my macros and that becomes the beginning of the end of this success I'm experiencing.
Has anyone else gone through hard food obsessing? Obsessive recipe googling? I'm trying to cut back. I have ADHD and I can be a really fickle eater if it's not something I REALLY want. I suppose I went the opposite way and recently over-surrounded myself with foods I realize I love on this diet. So I'm struggling with self-control because I haven't had an abundance of things I Really Enjoy Eating until recently.
When I was IF-adapted I could stay up all night without eating if I needed to. I had so much control it was often easier to just keep fasting until something really piqued my appetite, or I needed the energy for an errand. Tonight I could only make it to 12:30 PM, then I ended up eating keto flax seed chips with sour cream, followed by a small helping of home-made chili. I managed to hold off until later than other attempts at not eating, but I ended up basically eating another entire - albeit smell meal outside of my eating window. It felt a bit reboundy.
The lower carb/CICO is still going, I know I didn't max out all my macros today but I still feel stressed out because I cut it really close. What if I cut it close until I cut my way into reversing my progress? I worked extremely hard to get down to this weight and I don't want to lose it by getting lax and complacent like I did at the beginning of the pandemic. That was hell.
I haven't felt this healthy in almost a decade and I don't want to lose it by letting the good habits I created slowly crumble. This snag with IF, snacking and obsessing is really troubling me. I really could use advice and help on getting back on track. Lately it's hard. Maybe because I'm a lot less frightened for my health now that all my serious weight related health problems have resolved. So I'm getting more lax than I can afford to be if I want 150. I want more WL gains - I don't think I can feel like I've completed this journey until I reach it. It's not that far away...
Thanks for listening guys. I really appreciate it.
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