Weight loss after bulimia recovery

So, I'm in the process of recovering from bulimia nervosa. My "journey" started more than half a year ago, and I've made great progress. I've conquered almost everything; the urges to diet, to purge, to calorie count, to fast, but not to binge.

Mentally, I'm awesome. I'm finally living life again. But then I get these overpowering urges to indulge. I live alone, and it feels like recently, it's become a daily thing. They exhaust me and sometimes I'll give in. I hate it and don't know how to stop.

I recently joined the swim team again. I want to be fit. I want to be the fast swimmer I was before. Being overweight is an obstacle to that. I just want to stop bingeing. Does it ever stop? How do I make it stop? I just need hope and some advice.

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[aesthetic] Pros and cons of starting lifting D1.

warning: weight lost can be done without any exercises, and this post is not made to talk about that. it target people who are unsure if they should start lifting or not at the beginning of the weight loss.

in the end, it all depend on your goal, but scrolling on this forum made me realize that alot of us dont only want to lose fat to be healthy, but also to look good.

Pros:

1. Muscle mass consume calories. increasing your muscle mass will help you lose weight during a long period.

2. it fill out loose skin. glutes , thights and pecs can be fill out with muscle mass to reduce loose skin.

3. aesthetic, petty as it is, a nice butt or shoulders are confidence booster.

4.(personal) it help me with sleep.

Cons:

1. it require an extra level of dedication, both in the kitchen for macros and the exercise room to lift.

2. its a confidence killer. d1 entering the gym is really hard.

3. it require time.

4. its more expensive, gym cost,clothing etc.

personally, i went to the gym d1 and lifted hard and today, most of the cons i've mentioned are not present in my day to day. i can share my today sv progress pic if you want to see where a 5'9" 190 lbs male has loose skin and where the muscle fill it up.

happy grinding!

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88 lbs down in 8 months, how my life has changed.

Hey r/loseit , I'm a long time lurker, and decided to join you 8 months ago, the 5th of March to be precise.

I was 18 and weighted 247 lbs (111.7 kg) for 6'0. I've always been fat, since I was born, and never did anything to lose weight. But this time, I decided to take control of my life, and started looking for methods to lose weight without going to the gym.

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I decided to do Insanity program, while having a healthy diet. Actually, what I considered healthy back then was probably the most dangerous and dumbest thing I've done. One Insanity session could make me burn 600 kcal, and I just ate once a day. So for weeks, I was just hahving between -100 to 300 calories a day. Waaaaaaaaaay less than what I should've eaten. Anyways, I finished Insanity, losing easily 3 pounds a week.

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After Insanity, I did Insanity MAX 30 and bought some dumbbels and pectoral barbells to gain muscle (useless), but still ate in thisunhealthy way, I lost a lot of weight however. I started to take food complements such as whey, casein, fat burners, BCAAs without knowing what they do.

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Around July, it was summer holidays and I was weighting arount 198lbs. Then I went to the gym 4-5 times a week and learned about macros. From June to today (until December), I calculated that I need 1750cal a day for weight loss, with 190g of protein. And it works!

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Today, I'm 19 but I weigh 161lbs only! I'm closer to being underweight than overweight according to my BMI.

I'll cut until December when I'll be around 152 lbs than I'll have a bulking phase.

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To be honest, this weight loss was probably the best thing I've ever did because if I'm 115kg in my 20s I'll never lose weight again. People noticed it, said how much I changed, but they were never happy, they didn't care at all. Even my parents at first were dumbfounded when they saw me (I was in university so I couldn't see them from March to July). But they quicly realised how dangerous was my "program". At one point, I even started to feel dizzy, sleep a lot, lost focus, always had headaches so I did a blood test to find out that fortunately, everything's okay.

I allow myself a cheat meal twice a month.

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Guys, r/loseit community, I don't know how to thank you for helping me lose 88 lbs, it's just unimaginable, I'm a new guy with new ambitions, and it's 100% thanks to all of you and I wish you all success in your weight loss quest!

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If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask!

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Permanent changes

TLDR at the end. At the end of August I started getting serious about my weight loss. I tried Keto but it seemed like another fad and I hated drawing attention to myself by not eating what everyone else was eating. I got serious about CICO using the lose it app.
I have several kids and I wanted to set an example for my teen daughters of not dieting, but just making wise choices in the form of portion control. You can eat whatever you want (whole foods being better choices) just watch portion sizes. I lost 10 lbs the first month. I was weighing myself every day and recording when I achieved a new low. The last month I wasn't setting any new low records, just hovering back and forth with a 3 pound range and I wasn't trying very hard, not logging my food every day. Then this last week I made some really poor food choices and I didn't weigh myself for a week because I was afraid I was creeping back up. This morning I weighed myself for the first time in a week and I was at my previous record low. Not a new low, but I hadn't gained. I say this to show that the mindset of portion control is an important one. Once I fully embraced it, even when I was eating less than ideal foods, I still kept my portions down and was aware of how much I was eating throughout the day. Just don't get off that wagon. Every morning is a new day and just because you messed up yesterday, it doesn't mean you can't do a great job today. 43/F. SW: 227, CW: 214.6, GW: 180. Thank you for all the inspiration I get from this sub.

TL/DR: Portion control is key. Master being aware of your overall daily calorie intake, and it takes much of the challenge out of weight loss/maintenance.

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We decided to finally get healthy. Now what?

I (42F) need to lose at least 100 pounds. He (43M) needs to lose probably 150. It finally sunk in that if we don’t do something, we will die. We want to make actual lifestyle changes that stick. Neither of us are interested in weight loss surgery.

On my side, I’m getting a dietitian and starting to go to binge eating groups to treat my disordered eating, starting to see a physical therapist for my severe knee arthritis that specializes in transitioning you to the gym. I’m planning on getting an Apple Watch or some sort of activity tracker to keep motivated to be active. I’m hesitant to chose a diet until I see the dietician because of the disordered eating, either binging or restricting. Because of that, I’m not tracking at the moment.

I don’t really know where to start with him though. He said he would also consider the binge eating group. He’s in better physical shape than me and wouldn’t need the physical therapist. We are talking about paying a personal trainer for a few sessions to get him started so he can know the best way to start. I’d like to get him a activity tracker but don’t know which one would best suit his needs at this point. (It would need to be durable, have xl bands available, and unobtrusive.) He’s tracking his calories.

I already cook everything from scratch and think that it is more a matter of portion control when it comes to food for us. Our local rec center is excellent and inexpensive. We plan on joining that rather than a gym because of the better facilities. I can’t help but to think that activity is key for us at this point. Something that we have to work on a bit slowly so we don’t injure ourselves.

Is there anything else we can do to keep going through this and stay motivated? This is going to be a very long journey for the two of us. We tend to influence each other greatly for bad habits, I’m hoping we can start influence each other for good ones now as well.

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I've gotten to a point in my progress where my lower belly fat looks proportionally WORSE than when I started

Just a funny thing I noticed. I'm not doing an intense weight loss, I wasn't obese before just a bit overweight with a bit of a belly. I was 5'9 and 175lbs. I've dropped about 20 pounds so far and fat has disappeared from my upper belly, my thighs, my face, basically everywhere _except_ my lower belly. So now looking in the mirror it actually appears worse in comparison to the rest of my slimmer body than when I started.

I know that the lower belly fat is next to go, so no real point to this post other than to recognize the humour that I've reached an inflection point where fat rolls look worse bending over than when I began. Bodies are funny.

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Gratitude to strangers online for doing what I thought those close to me would!

20/M Knew I was a fat bas*ard but didn’t realise how heavy I was in a literal sense. At home I’ve been comfortable since young walking around topless despite my mother and 2 sisters being home, they weren’t ever going to judge me for being obese right? Towards the latter end of last year my mother made comments on my weight (which I’m grateful for, it was out of love) and stretch marks basically made me feel shit about myself despite the fact this wasn’t her intention. This led to me buying weighing scales and a whole bunch of motivational posters and shit at the start of the year to see if it would get me going and sorting myself out.

1st Jan 2018 - 235lbs. Fast forward 8 months to: 12th Aug 2018 - 224lbs. Nothing had been done in these 8 months, diet was the same and I wasn’t exercising at all, I put this weight loss down to the fact that I can no longer drive so have been living a more active lifestyle in general.

Come August 12th, 3 days after quite the drunken debacle at a relatives wedding making a fool of myself resulting in feeling not far from the worst I ever have done I decided I needed a positive change and there it came - my friendship group made a football team to join the league, my one love football. Having not played in years and being mad out of shape this was a lift I needed to get into gear!

Since 12th August I have gone from 224lbs to 204lbs (today- 25th Oct 2018) still a long way to go but feeling better, eating better, running consistently and playing football life is improving. However, to get to the point of my post: After losing this weight I thought those who critiqued me in the past, friends and family would be very happy for me and seeing this progress; but I just get the buzz that nobody cares - then it hit me .. they don’t. The only person you’re losing weight for is yourself and nobody else will care (as much as you maybe imagined they would if not at all) which can be quite demotivating I felt. Ultimately this is where my gratitude lies, the r/loseit community (despite me being a lurker) has provided me with the enthusiasm and spirit to keep me going harder and harder every day! A long way to go YES; but knowing how genuinely happy and supportive you all are by reading other posts every morning I knooooooow this long way to go is 100% possible no doubt whatsoever.

So ultimately thanks, good strangers of the world!!!! Love all keep movingggg!!

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