I'm a 25M whose been fat pretty much my entire life. While there have been 1 or 2 spans of a few months where ive successfully reduced weight, I've never been thin and I've always had a LOT of fat on my abdominal area and chest and thighs (I'm at 43% bf now). I feel like I gain weight so quickly and I don't know why. At work the thin people eat similar things to what I eat, at least during lunch, but they are thin. It feels like when I eat pizza, I put on 3 lbs the next morning (I'm not exagerrating, there have actually been times where I gained 3lbs overnight), but if others do it nothing happens. Now, I'm extremely obese (5'6 230lbs). At my highest I was 245 lbs. I try to lose weight, by skipping a meal, exercising etc. But what happens is that while that works for about 2 weeks or so, at approximately 3 weeks in suddenly the weight loss stops. And what'll happen is like 3 days in a row, I'll weigh myself in the morning, and despite eating well and exercising (usually 30 min run with walking in between or some strength training for an hour) I'll either be the same weight the next day or in the worst case I magically gain a pound, which is the most ridiculously frustrating thing in the world, so then I'll just give up and start eating like shit again.
Furthermore, I feel like the problems just keep piling on for me. I'm already short, I'm already obese, I'm a khhv, I'm trying to get a surgery that's very important to me, but it's predicated on losing weight, so I keep delaying it by a few months over and over until now its been 3 years of delaying it because I'm not losing weight. Everything is against me, including certain doctors. I've gone to get hormone panels and shit but endocrinologists have a ridiculous standard that even if the number a particular hormone is at is right at the edge of the acceptable boundary, they will consider it "normal", because that's the normal range. Like certain hormones of mine fall right on the lower edge of normal, but they will just say "yeah thats still normal". And I've gone to multiple endocrinologists who all say yeah some of those numbers are on the lower end but they are still normal, and weight loss will help. I've also done numerous genetic tests, like pretty much every genetic tests you can think of, and those results are not good. I have FTO mutations and other certain mutations which apparently cause me to absorb more fat or have a slower metabolism. Now in the last few days, i've been having shortness of breath, so now I have to see a doctor about that, and I'm freaking out about that.
I just feel so dejected because the surgery is the only thing I want in my life, and it's predicated on losing weight, and everything seems to be piling against me. I want to lose weight so I can get the surgery, I know I do. But it just feels like I have nothing to look forward to, and I'm at the edge of this long tunnel that's just complete darkness and I don't even know if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and I desperately hope there is. But if I'm putting in the effort I need to see the scale going down.
I guess I'm just wondering if there's anyone else here who needs/needed to a lose a LOT of weight, and during weight loss hit long plateaus or had weight go back up even when they were doing the right thing, and how they dealt with that. Or anyone that's dealt with having a body that naturally makes it difficult to lose weight, and how they mentally and physically dealt with that.
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