u/Altruistic_Parsnip11

To preface I include a lot of information about what Im eating and why in this post to ensure transparency and enough about me for someone to give me helpful advice I can genuinely take advantage of. I apologize for how long it became.

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Hi, Ive been in a calorie deficit for about 2 1/2 weeks now. ( or so I think ?) I understand it gets a little harder as you continue to lose weight, but I lost the first 85lbs essentially effortlessly, due to major eating habits changing due to loss of interest in food. Now that Im actually trying to restrict, it feels like I can't lose anything. Its a little discouraging. I was able to get to about 10 pounds lighter 2-3 months ago without trying this hard, and eating whatever I felt like at the time :/

Im wondering if Im underestimating too much ? I try to go over what I calculate based on information online, but maybe I'm wrong - especially since places are allowed to be inaccurate.

I gained 2 pounds during this time and Im concerned that maybe Im not in a deficit like I think I am - because the options are high cal and I could potentially be miscounting.

To start, I'm 5'8, female, 22, currently 153 lbs - I do not get very much exercise and work from home. I am hoping to work on that, but my asthma didn't get much better with the weight loss like I thought it would so its an uphill battle for sure.

What I'm consuming each day :

1 kids meal from chick fil (coke zero, small fry, 5 nuggets, no sauce) - Says online its 480, I assume it can be up to 550 or something. (I have also had the mcdonalds 6pc kids meal, but I genuinely hate mcdonalds and try to stick to CFA)

1 7-8.5oz lemon garlic butter chicken breast (breast tossed in 1-2 tablespoons flour and pan fried with a tbsp of butter, and a drizzle of oil. A few squirts of lemon juice + maybe like 10 little pieces of pre crushed garlic - I do not pour any contents of the pan onto the plate only what sticks to the chicken.) - I count this as 600 calories, but Im worried Im underestimating this majorly maybe ?

If I feel hungry, Ill take some psylium powder - which I thought was the culprit for a while, but I stopped taking it last week and haven't gained weight like I did when I started taking it, but I havent lost it either.

With those two things, it only comes out to ~1150. (I am not attempting to be under 1200, I want to make that clear. I am aiming for 1200 everyday, its just hard due to my high cal choices) I literally do not consume anything else due to ARFID (no snacks, no chips, no nuts, no drinks, nothing besides water) , because I genuinely only eat hot meals on top of the other stuff I mention in the extra info below. I only drink water and zero calorie soda.

The only dietary change (if I am miscalculating the calories) I can make is halving the chicken breast or reducing the chick fil a to once every other day. I just worry because I struggle with balance. If its too low of density it'll be hard for me to stick on, because I literally have nothing low cal in my diet to replace it with which is why I failed previous attempts when overweight/obese :/

A potential factor besides food choice alone could also be could because the surface area of the chicken I'm cooking is higher than 1 singular breast? I do cut the breast into 2-3 pieces before cooking to help with the sensory issues.

I'm okay with the weight loss taking a while, it took a year for the 85 lbs, Im just worried about wasting my time if I'm doing this incorrectly. I also don't want to cut out half of my food for the day, at least on some days, if I don't have to.

----- extra info, feel free to skip if youre just commenting on the calories -----

Not really important, but for anyone who wants to discuss potentially cutting fast food out entirely :

I understand I should really kick the fast food habit but this is because of ARFID due to autism/adhd. I used to be very large because I'd binge eat fast food whenever I could due to it being the only thing I could comfortably eat, because Id go 2 days or so without eating before my parents would let me have it again. Then I got my own money and freedom with a huge appetite, so you know how that goes. Food quality has changed a lot in America recently, so much so to turn a fat girl... normalish size I guess - not even I would eat it as someone who was reliant on it 24/7

Its not that I am picky and dislike the taste of certain things - I actually am okay with the taste of most things, its just I really dislike eating and cant handle a lot of textures. Why would I eat this, AND consume calories, if I don't like it and its going to make me sick, no thanks, Ill be sick from not eating instead. I don't particularly think these things taste any better than things I wouldn't eat, its just purely a mental barrier with texture. :/

I need my food to be predictable, extremely dry, and crunchy. Otherwise I struggle with appetite, gagging, and my jaw locking due to a lot of anxiety around 'having' to eat when I try to expand my diet. :/

To preface I include a lot of information about what Im eating and why in this post to ensure transparency and enough about me for someone to give me helpful advice I can genuinely take advantage of. I apologize for how long it became.

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Hi, Ive been in a calorie deficit for about 2 1/2 weeks now. ( or so I think ?) I understand it gets a little harder as you continue to lose weight, but I lost the first 85lbs essentially effortlessly, due to major eating habits changing due to loss of interest in food. Now that Im actually trying to restrict, it feels like I can't lose anything. Its a little discouraging. I was able to get to about 10 pounds lighter 2-3 months ago without trying this hard, and eating whatever I felt like at the time :/

I gained 2 pounds during this time and Im concerned that maybe Im not in a deficit like I think I am - because the options are high cal and I could potentially be miscounting.

Im wondering if Im underestimating too much ? I try to go over what I calculate based on information online, but maybe I'm wrong - especially since places are allowed to be inaccurate.

To start, I'm 5'8, female, 22, currently 153 lbs - I do not get very much exercise and work from home. I am hoping to work on that, but my asthma didn't get much better with the weight loss like I thought it would so its an uphill battle for sure.

What I'm consuming each day :

1 kids meal from chick fil (coke zero, small fry, 5 nuggets, no sauce) - Says online its 480, I assume it can be up to 550 or something. (I have also had the mcdonalds 6pc kids meal, but I genuinely hate mcdonalds and try to stick to CFA)

1 7-8.5oz lemon garlic butter chicken breast (breast tossed in 1-2 tablespoons flour and pan fried with a tbsp of butter, and a drizzle of oil. A few squirts of lemon juice + maybe like 10 little pieces of pre crushed garlic - I do not pour any contents of the pan onto the plate only what sticks to the chicken.) - I count this as 600 calories, but Im worried Im underestimating this majorly maybe ?

If I feel hungry, Ill take some psylium powder - which I thought was the culprit for a while, but I stopped taking it last week and haven't gained weight like I did when I started taking it, but I havent lost it either.

With those two things, it only comes out to ~1150. (I am not attempting to be under 1200, I want to make that clear. I am aiming for 1200 everyday, its just hard due to my high cal choices) I literally do not consume anything else due to ARFID (no snacks, no chips, no nuts, no drinks, nothing besides water) , because I genuinely only eat hot meals on top of the other stuff I mention in the extra info below. I only drink water and zero calorie soda.

The only dietary change (if I am miscalculating the calories) I can make is halving the chicken breast or reducing the chick fil a to once every other day. I just worry because I struggle with balance. If its too low of density it'll be hard for me to stick on, because I literally have nothing low cal in my diet to replace it with which is why I failed previous attempts when overweight/obese :/

A potential factor besides food choice alone could also be could because the surface area of the chicken I'm cooking is higher than 1 singular breast? I do cut the breast into 2-3 pieces before cooking to help with the sensory issues.

I'm okay with the weight loss taking a while, it took a year for the 85 lbs, Im just worried about wasting my time if I'm doing this incorrectly. I also don't want to cut out half of my food for the day, at least on some days, if I don't have to.

----- extra info, feel free to skip if youre just commenting on the calories -----

Not really important, but for anyone who wants to discuss potentially cutting fast food out entirely :

I understand I should really kick the fast food habit but this is because of ARFID due to autism/adhd. I used to be very large because I'd binge eat fast food whenever I could due to it being the only thing I could comfortably eat, because Id go 2 days or so without eating before my parents would let me have it again. Then I got my own money and freedom with a huge appetite, so you know how that goes. Food quality has changed a lot in America recently, so much so to turn a fat girl... normalish size I guess - not even I would eat it as someone who was reliant on it 24/7

Its not that I am picky and dislike the taste of certain things - I actually am okay with the taste of most things, its just I really dislike eating and cant handle a lot of textures. Why would I eat this, AND consume calories, if I don't like it and its going to make me sick, no thanks, Ill be sick from not eating instead. I don't particularly think these things taste any better than things I wouldn't eat, its just purely a mental barrier with texture. :/

I need my food to be predictable, extremely dry, and crunchy. Otherwise I struggle with appetite, gagging, and my jaw locking due to a lot of anxiety around 'having' to eat when I try to expand my diet. :/

TDLR ; Would the pharmacy / kaiser contact me to let me know the insurance denied a medication approval, or would I have to contact the pharmacy directly to inquire about it?

more info :

I'm very confused trying to get my Vyvanse through Kaiser for the first time. I had it sent to the pharmacy, and waited about a week for the order to complete. It just kept saying "preparing" -which is normal with Vyvanse anyways because its usually out of stock. I called on monday to see what the ETA was, and they told me it had to be approved before it could be dispensed.

Nobody ever contacted me to tell me that it needed approval in the first place, but I felt like it wasn't too big of a deal and I contacted doctors office to have them send over the stuff to get the approval started.

So its been two days since then, and the doctor told me she would get it sent over the same day I sent my email. I check back at my pharmacy order today and it says the order was cancelled with "There are issues with the following prescriptions"

I am now very confused, because I am unsure if the prescription sat for too long, if it finally got denied by a tech looking to fill it bc its still pending approval, or if the approval got denied.

ps ; I apologize for asking here, as I know I can just call the pharmacy directly but I struggle with phone calls due to autism/tourettes - my boyfriend gets off work after the pharmacy has closed, so I wouldn't be able to make the call for a bit :/

I feel like I'm going insane. The last time I posted about this everyone acted like I was overreacting and told me to wait it out - so I have. Its been 2 months since purchase, and even more issues have arisen :(

Current issues I am aware of :

- O key is still stuck dim green. When icue isnt running (ie, during boot) or using their web driver for the keyboard it works as intended, and all lights color correctly.
- Gaming mode activates itself constantly all the time and it is severely broken. It causes multiple key presses at one time and when I press space it always double spaces - I thought I was crazy until I tested it and sure enough, turning it off removed the issues and turning it on reintroduced them.
- I can no longer update the driver for the keyboard. On icue, I can see there is available firmware. Hitting 'update' leads to corsair.com/firmware-updater/index.html . This page can recognize the fact that I have a keyboard, but I can only preform a manual update, which requires me to upload my own files - which I obviously do not have.
- web driver stopped working because it gets taken over by icue, which I need for my mouse, headset, other stuff.

Is this occurring because they tried something new with this model that they can't fix easily? I'm really having trouble grasping why Corsair has been aware of the first issue for 2 months now with now fix.

I am absolutely returning my keyboard with the warranty I have - but I have had all corsair peripherals for over a decade, and I am really sad to have to start transitioning away from corsair. Is this keyboard a fluke or is this normal for modern Corsair ? I loved my K68, K95, K70.

I'm so very disappointed with how this has gone.