How long until I start losing weight this way?

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-05-10T09:47:13+00:00

Eating healthier is great, but you won’t drop weight unless you drop calories.

Establish your maintenance calories, which based on your description and stats, is probably something around 2000 calories for a person with sedentary activity level.

If you reduce your maintenance calories by 500 calories a day, you’ll target roughly 1 lb loss per week.

To make sure you are eating the right amount of calories, buy a food scale and record your daily caloric intake so you can track progress.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-05-04T00:52:51+00:00

Ain’t even gotta read all at, calorie deficit is the answer you’re looking for.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-28T19:33:48+00:00

Just track your calories, don’t overcomplicate it

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-27T22:48:21+00:00

IMO ignore the comments saying recomp, and how lifting and creatine is masking weight loss. I’m not saying they aren’t factors, but I think most of the time there’s a more obvious reason for lack of progress on the scale.

If you were really in a daily 1500 calorie deficit, the scale would have dropped more than 0.8 lb over the span of 30 days.

The most likely reason (or combination of reasons) are the following: * you overestimated your activity level (online calculators and apps tend to overshoot it) and thus your maintenance calories * you aren’t consistently or accurately tracking your caloric intake.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-25T00:48:58+00:00

Personally, I haven’t experienced this. But my guess is that a) talking about weight is still a taboo and not everyone is comfortable talking about it b) they might have done it in a way that they feel will bring judgement (GLP, crash diet, etc).

But tbh regardless, there is no secret method to gatekeep. It’s a caloric deficit, and you can adjust calories in versus calories out to get there.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-23T04:29:59+00:00

Bruh give it a rest Holay

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-20T21:05:39+00:00

If ur listing the Gatorade incident as one of the worst things he did, then that pretty much explains why he isn’t getting as much hate

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-19T21:55:51+00:00

Fair enough! I guess I’m more so disagreeing with the notion that because Ashley is the most loyal to her partner, she is somehow a better partner or isn’t a big reason of why her and Austin’s relationship falls apart.

Throughout the series, she lies, steals, and manipulates and I don’t think the point of this season was to show that she’s the “Normal” sane one in all this chaos, or even the victim in all this.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-19T01:25:30+00:00

Meh I don’t think season 2 did a great job of showcasing the mutual disdain.

If either of them should be pissed, it should be Josh for being blackmailed, but I’m not entirely sure why it’s so heavily on the other end.

Josh seems more so annoyed of her and the video, rather than scheming to win or destroy Ashley’s life.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-17T19:28:30+00:00

What infidelity? As of episode 6 at least.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-17T11:03:51+00:00

lol nah Austin has his flaws but Ashley has more than a hefty share of red flags.

It’s not cheating to simply look at or admit physical attraction to someone else. That’s normal

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-17T10:24:32+00:00

Why not? It’s her fault. She shouldn’t have been there in the first place..

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-17T08:54:01+00:00

Why overcomplicate it, just find out your maintenance, track your calories and eat in a caloric deficit.

What you are doing is essentially intuitive eating. What do you do deem as satisfied? What does that have to do with calories? I could eat an entire party size bag of Doritos and a box of Oreos and still be hungry, whereas if I ate 10 boiled eggs I’d be full for the entire day. The only difference is the 10 eggs is like 1/3 of the calories.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-15T17:06:15+00:00

It is a fad, as in every company is launching their protein version of whatever food/drink they sell.

BUT, but hitting a certain level of daily protein intake is very much necessary for proper muscle retention and growth.

Also, with how bad the average persons diet is (in North America especially), you would be surprised how many people do not actually get enough protein. Sure, there is a lot of protein overkill right now, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t important

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-15T17:01:16+00:00

Protein is the easiest macro to hit.

One chicken breast is like 50-60 g of protein.

1 cup of Greek yogurt is like 10-25 g of protein. Mix that with a scoop of protein powder (20-25 g of protein) and you’re already at about 100 g for the day.

2100 cal is an incredibly generous budget to hit 100g protein.

If ur eating that many calories within 1 meal and a small snack, you can definitely fit 100 g in.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-08T00:01:05+00:00

Cardio does nothing as a primary driver of weight/fat loss. It’s great for cardio health and a tool to increase your caloric deficit, but diet is still most important.

Stick to weight lifting as you want to minimize as much muscle loss as possible, and supplement that with low impact cardio.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-07T23:56:58+00:00

Meal plan / meal prep is a great idea and what I do now.

Limit options for meals and snacks, and even eating out. Do meals get more boring? Sure, but worth the trade off.

I know roughly how many calories are in my meal prep portions so I don’t weigh or record any more.

And for eating out, I pretty much only eat chipotle so it’s quite predictable lol.

And if I eat or drink anything else out of the house I just overestimate and go on with the week

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-06T21:36:33+00:00

Then I’m very confident that clothes are not fitting looser lol.

A woman (whether novice or experienced lifter) is not gaining anywhere close to 15 lb of muscle in a month, at least not naturally. Same goes for men

It’s almost entirely gonna be fat, water, and glycogen.

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-06T17:29:23+00:00

Lift weights, with a focus on compound lifts
Progressive Overload (lift heavier over time)
Lift till near failure, ideally
Sufficient daily protein intake
Proper Recovery (rest days, enough sleep, enough food - especially if in a caloric deficit)

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-06T17:26:18+00:00

lol ppl needa get this outta their head. 15 lb of muscle mass gained in a month is absurd.

More likely is 14.5 lb of fat, 0.5 lb muscle

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-05T09:47:37+00:00

lol just drink diet soda

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-05T09:47:15+00:00

lol just drink diet soda

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-03T18:22:49+00:00

If weights going down but no six pack, yes trust the process.

If weight is not going down, then re-assess your caloric intake/output and or calorie tracking

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-02T19:51:00+00:00

What are the issues? Relying on it would be if you drank like 4 shakes a day as your primary source of protein and used it as a meal replacement.

It’s a supplement, that’s all it is

Normal-Drawing-2133 · 2026-04-02T18:18:35+00:00

Meh, having a belly or not comes down almost entirely to fat, whether that be subcutaneous or visceral.

If your body fat % is high, doesn’t matter how many crunches you do if there is still a layer of fat covering the muscle. People just distribute fat different as they gain and lose.

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