Is this it then?

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Since October 2024, I have lost 17% of my starting weight, amounting to some 15 kilograms, taking my BMI from 33 to 26.

I have done this through a very slow slog of -1) first calorie counting at 1200 a day and 2) then calorie counting at 1200 a day, cutting out grains and root vegetables and restricting eating window to 1-9 pm.

I believe I have done well. I look lovely. Feel better.

However that BMI is still 26 something and by my calculations losing another 5 kilograms is needed.

Unfortunately I just can’t even. Nothing I try is shifting these last 5. Frankly I don’t even want to try as such any more. Just eating “normally” by which I mean eating sensibly and still cutting out grains and most root vegetables is helping maintain where I am.

does anyone have any tips for this last 5? My life is incredibly chaotic currently and fitting in regular calorie burning exercise that isn’t a gentle yoga or something is not doable. I also have a knee issue since my adolescence which means a huge number of standard exercises are strictly prohibited.

one thing worth mentioning is that I currently have a very car dependent lifestyle but for various reasons this is due to radically shift permanently to a walking everywhere lifestyle in about a fortnight or so. Not sure what difference it will make.

Hopeful bump:)

Well done on your loss! If you are maintaining easily and are about to up the exercise I’d honestly ease off a bit. 25 is just a number. If you are feeling good at 26 I’d leave it for a bit and see what difference upping your exercise makes.

Thank you. I think - the issue also is that for my ethnicity - unfortunately 25 is not the BMI upper limit of normal - it is 23. So basically anyone in my ethnicity over 23 BMI is considered overweight and at risk of Type 2 diabetes. All my female relatives are obese and whilst i recognise that their lifestyle in my country of origin and their diet is radically different to my own - that number of 23 does continue to bother me.

Another 5 takes it to 25, but to get to 23, it would need to be another 10 and I can't even at this point.....