u/GoopOnYaGrinch

I know a lot has been posted here about how euphoric taking a hot shower feels when dealing with eczema.

But I feel like my experience is different. From what I can tell, hot showers relieves your eczema, at least temporarily. For me, it feels incredible, but in a different way.

The second hot water hits somewhere on my body that it hasn’t touched yet, it creates this extremely pleasurable feeling, but a VERY itchy one. And it causes like a near instantaneous need to scratch. Don’t get me wrong, I love the feeling, but I’m usually leaving a hot shower with a lot of noticeable scratch marks.

Does anyone else deal with the same thing?

So being on a pretty aggressive cut has made my TikTok algorithm heavily tailored to content around things like cutting, weight loss, macros, etc…

One thing I notice is how people talk about how they had to do an unscheduled cheat meal or something and how much of a setback that is.

Here’s my question. What do you all consider a true “setback” in your weight loss journey? It’s one thing if you’re trying to limit yourself to 1800 calories a day against a 2600 calorie maintenance and you have a 3000 calorie day. I’d consider that a setback, sure, though it’s not the end of the world. But if you’re trying to only do 1800 calories and you have a 2000 calorie day, is it really a setback? You’re still very much under your maintenance. In the grand scheme of the lifespan of a cut, it is still a net positive day where you’re operating in a solid calorie deficit.

I don’t know, I sometimes find myself annoyed by the zealot like approach some people take where they treat going a little over your budget as some failure when in reality it isn’t much of a detour at all.

My position is, if say I want to drop ten pounds by a certain time, and I finish with dropping nine pounds, I consider that a success. I’ll happily take the trade off of that last pound if it means I have a couple meals when I’m out with my friends and don’t need to feel as restrictive. I feel like sometimes these people don’t account for the mental health side of it to.