How do I know when to stop the cut?

I was 101kg in October last year, and I’ve been eating around 1700-1800 calories pretty much every day since, as well as incorporating weight training every week day (with cheat days once or twice a month for ufc). I’m now around 75kg, and in the gym, I’ve noticed I can’t get the final 1 or 2 reps I used to, but I’m not sure if this is due to my move to a more physical full-time job in a warehouse. What are some of the indicators that my body needs more food? I’ve also observed in the last few months that I get dizzy when I get up and have more frequent headaches. I ask this because I personally believe I could lose.

There is a book called The Dip by Seth Godin. He talks about it in great detail.

Our time and resources are limited. For everything we say YES to, we must say NO to a few things.

Life is about making decisions. That is why reducing losses must also include decision-making.

The cost of choosing decisions is known as Opportunity Cost, a phrase coined by economists from the Austrian school of thinking.

If there are high stakes involved, consider taking a “time-out” and seeking professional assistance, both for your mental health and for your career, if that is what you have been pursuing.

Alternatively, when you feel beaten, lost, exhausted, stressed, or depressed. Then it’s time to quit.

Remember, quitting isn’t necessarily a terrible thing. It takes guts, power, and intelligence to realise and accept that a project has failed.

Do not grieve. Do not become depressed. Consider it a component of your lifelong education. You’ve now learnt something that no school can possibly teach. It’s known as the School of Life. It’s difficult and expensive, but it provides you with vital wisdom that you may use to the next stage of your journey through life.

Knowing when to move on entails understanding your goals, boundaries, and life plans. When you don’t have objectives, plans, or boundaries, it’s difficult to know when to move on.

If you haven’t considered where you want to be next year or in five years, whether you should go to school, pursue a career, be treated in a certain way, or how you know you’re happy (money in the bank, a healthy relationship, a challenging and rewarding job, etc.), now is the time to do so. When you know where you’re headed, you can easily identify roadblocks that will prevent you from getting there.

When you can’t try any harder, you realise it’s time to stop. The essential word here is “cannot.” Will not. Do not feel like you can’t. Do not think you can’t.

When you have provided 200% of what was expected of you and it hasn’t worked out, you know it’s time to give up. The strange thing about life is that once you get to that point - when you live, breathe, and crave success - everyone in your life will notice, and things will start to fall into place. Begrudgingly or not, your coworkers and supervisors will eventually recognise your ability and offer you what is legitimately yours.

When you notice you are getting nowhere, and the happiness is gone, it is as if they forgot about you. And with a job, when you start to grow bored, or do not fit in, yet you try so hard and work so hard.

You know when it’s time to cut your losses, when you’re expending more energy and not receiving any in return. You’re putting out the love and the work, but they’re not doing anything for/with you, they’re bringing you down, they’re draining your energy, and it’s time to say enough is enough and walk away. If you aren’t getting back what you’re giving, move away.

For the first time, someone swam out to me and told me not to try to swim back to the boat. We swam to the coast. He said that the river was too strong, and I would have tired out and drowned.

The second time someone told me they had passed the bar. I figured that if they could, so could I.

The third time, I realised I was making mistakes and didn’t care.

This was the fourth time I was in problems due to debt. Everything was only getting worse.

In chess (and even in real life), there is something called a sacrifice.

Which is simply a thing that you intentionally give up or accept its loss knowing that there is a value behind it.

Of course, no one can guarantee that the better would come after this sacrifice, therefore you must make your option after carefully monitoring and assessing everything before making your selection.

Sometimes it’s correct; other times it’s a complete failure.

But hey, this is how you develop your intuition and live life!

When you realise that the pain/hurt/anger created by the person in your life will be alleviated if that person is removed, it is time to cut ties. It’s that simple.

When you feel like you’re not growing and things are too simple at work, it’s time to move on. When you no longer enjoy a relationship, it is time to end it. When it comes to family, you can never truly cut them out of your life since we all need family.

Originally Answered: How do you know when you’ve failed and it’s time to leave whatever you’re doing?
When you have the fortitude to accept your mistakes. Quitting whatever you’re doing requires a great deal of courage. By that point, you’ve grown enough strength to accept the circumstance as it is, without passing judgement, good or bad.

You will discover that either you have failed to catch up with your want, or your desire is not keeping up with you. Whatever happens, you’ll be happy.

Your inner voice will tell you that enough is enough.

At that point, you’d be lost. Have a dialogue with your inner self/soul and decide your next steps. Personally, I’ve witnessed that when one is in profound despair, one becomes extremely close to hearing the voice of their soul.

You do not. You must trust your intuition and pray for the rest. When it comes to major decisions, logic is ineffective (for me). I always seek advice from my friends but don’t always follow it. I also (logically) consider the time, location, and options, but I frequently defy the odds. If it was meant to be, it would be yours sooner or later. I wholeheartedly believe in this ideology.