I've managed to lose a lot of weight in the last two years. I'm definitely not one of those crazy good stories; I've had my ups and downs, plateaus etc. But overall I've managed to lose 140lbs (330lbs to 190lbs at 5'10") over the last two-ish years through pretty standard diet and exercise. For anyone wanting the specifics, the diet is just me eating less. I eat mostly lean meats, vegetables and fruits. I try to leave out carbs as much as I can but don't do a true Keto diet. I have a general idea of CICO but I am not a counter (it drives me up a wall). I work out 3 days a week for two hours, one hour of cardio and one of weightlifting. Basically I've tried to change my lifestyle overall to be healthier rather than a specific regimen.
And I look far better. I went from the fattest guy in the room to as a friend recently put it "A Sears catalogue looking motherfucker." In clothing it's basically impossible to tell I need to lose weight much at all. At the same time I can definitely still see that I'm not quite where I need to be and have set a weight goal of 180lbs. I'm wide-shouldered and narrow waisted with a fair bit of muscle these days so with clothes on I'm pretty fit looking.
OH holy shit I'm tired of hearing people tell me I don't need to lose any more weight. "You look fine!" "I hardly recognize you already you'd be too skinny!" "But you look so great now!" And so on and so forth. Christ almighty I've never heard so much naysaying and demotivation. I even had to call my mother out on it (who's been a big supporter of my weight loss overall) in one of our few legitimate arguments recently. It's like I went from the golden boy for losing so much weight to some sort of weirdo for trying to be in legitimately good shape for the first time in my life. And if I hear the word 'Manorexia' one more time I swear to god I'm gonna stab someone. I genuinely had to ask my trainer if I was being unreasonable with this (unsurprisingly he's the one who helped me set the 180lbs goal). Do these people want me to take off my shirt and show off my still thoroughly pudgy self? It's not like I'm saying I'm still fat and need to lose another 140lbs. I'm just trying to lose the last of this very stubborn weight. Is it wrong to want to finish what I started? Is it weird to want to not have a small gut and love handles? I'd just stop talking about it if literally everyone doesn't constantly ask me "How did you lose so much weight?" like I'm some sort of sorcerer with fat burning powers rather than someone who doesn't eat an entire large pizza in a sitting anymore.
Sorry if I'm a little off topic here but this is the best place I can think of for this. Anyone else have experiences like this?
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