I can deal with the physical sensation of hunger, but what are your strategies for dealing with "hanger" and "hanxiety" (if that's a thing)?

When I diet and exercise hard enough to actively lose weight, I get a little cranky and fidgety. It's like my body knows that it's starving, and it's increasing adrenaline levels so I'll run out into the woods, kill something, and eat it.

This is not productive in my day to day life. Those instincts might have served my ancient ancestors well when they were starving, but for my fat ass here in the 21st century, it just manifests as impatience and worry. I can deal with physical hunger all day long, but the change in mood is a real challenge.

It doesn't drop off much as I settle into it, either. I've stuck to diet and exercise programs with consistent progress for months in the past, and I was a little on edge pretty much the entire time. Whatever the specific cocktail of hormones and neurotransmitters may be, there's something about weight loss metabolism that just feels stressful.

I'm a couple months into a plan that I think is stable and sustainable, but this is one of the big obstacles I'm trying to navigate right now. I'm trying real hard not to be a dick basically all day, and laying awake in bed for way too long at night.

Does this happen to anyone else? How do you handle it?

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To Those Suffering From Addiction in Addition To Obesity

I pop onto this sub from time to time, but I feel I should be more active. Not just here, but on the addiction subs like r/stopdrinking.

5 years ago, I made a big change. At 28, I had a crystal clear realization I was headed for an early grave. I had a history of drug abuse through college and after, but it was alcohol that stuck with me thru my twenties. My drinking escalated, and my weight followed suit.

I ended up at 410lbs and engaging in frequent weeklong (or longer) benders that progressively got worse. The last couple years, I was drinking half a bottle of liquor upon waking just to get out the door to work and calm the withdrawals. It's embarrassing, but important for me to remember just how bad it was. I was swollen, red, puffy, sweaty, and my ankles were swollen and purple. When I'd walk into a liquor store in the morning or middle of the day, I know how I was perceived, and they were right. I was choosing a slow death, and it took me years to realize it.

For me, my previous weight loss attempts were in vain without confronting my chemical addiction. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who struggled/ struggles with it. My hope is that posting here can start a conversation for those that are trying to end more than just their addiction to food.

I lost 235lbs, am in the healthy BMI for my height, and will have 5 years sobriety next month. Many things have helped in that journey. I'd like to share with any of you what helped me. I think it's important and grounding to learn from our past, overcome our struggles, but remember why we made the choices we do to better ourselves.

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Help for my wife!

I hope this is a good place to post this I apologize if it isn’t. My wife , (34) has been having issues with loosing weight for a few years now. In her early 20’s until late she could lose weight super easy, had a trainer for awhile, the whole thing. Was super fit. She’s always have had thyroid issues most her life and has always stayed on top of it with always good numbers and meds. We got married when she was 30 and had a kid. In between there she went through a ton of ptsd type stress with her ex husband and ever since she can never lose weight. Granted having a kid can do that but in the mean time she has tried literally every type of safe diet and lifestyle.. keto, 1200 calories, trainer, weight training and cardio, carb skipping, and even paying $2,000 for a weight loss place with tons of success reviews, only have lost 10 lbs with the weight loss place. All the others she did for 1-3 months depending on what it was. Blood tests done, hormone levels checked pretty much everything normal She’s at a lost and so am I. I stay fit and work out a bunch and I try to help her but nothing works. Any advice on anything we may be missing or something else to try? She’s now going to try a well known Chinese medicine place with acupuncture and other stuff

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Aiming for a slimmer waist and plus-sized confidence

Today I start my journey toward change.

Too embarrassed to post a picture. Too ashamed to look at myself. Today I embark on a journey to make a major health change. But it’s not the weight loss I’m focusing on... it’s what I’ll gain. Confidence. Discipline. Pride. Respect.

I don’t remember when I let myself go physically, but I’ll never forget the moment I let go emotionally. 26 years old, recently single and with a small child... I heard the words that put a pit in my stomach and a black mark on my self esteem. “Plus sized.” It still rings loudly in my ears. Pluuuss sized. That’s when I stopped caring about being overweight and decided to just get over weight. I accepted being fat. I grew bigger. I cared less. And now the consequences of this have caught up to me.

My health is poor. I’m out of shape. I’m out of my jeans and it feels like I’m out of society.

I’m ready to feel like me again. Today and everyday here following, I focus on my health. I focus on emotional growth and a shrinking waist. I focus on ME.

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Need to Lose 40-50 Pounds

Hi everyone! So I am new on this subreddit, and looking for some assistance/advice on achieving my weight goal.

Quick backstory. Growing up I played soccer quite competitively, and was always in extremely good shape throughout all my teenage years (170-180 lbs). After a serious groin injury when I was 17, I quit playing sports COMPLETELY to pursue another passion, music. I remained 170-180 pounds for the next following years, which leads to now.

Im currently 24 years old, and I weigh 220 lbs. I work 12 hour shift work away from home, where I'm essentially just sitting on a clamp truck all day. Long story short, I'm going to Hawaii in October, and I really want to be back in the shape I was in in my late teenage years.

Can you guys help me out with the best exercises I should be doing, and types of lunches I should be packing for my 12 hour shifts, and well as what I should be doing on my days off? I'm kind of just lost on the whole weight loss thing, since I've never really had to do it before.

Thanks!

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NSV: I only ate the recommended serving size!

Longtime lurker, first time poster.

I've been trying to lose weight since December. I've steadily been gaining weight since I started working remotely a couple of years ago, but in December, my doctor broke it to me that I was in the overweight BMI category. I'd gone from a lifetime weight of 135-140 pounds to 165 - and I'm only 5'2".

I felt horrible that I'd let myself get to this stage, so I started using Noom, which is a weight loss app and program. I used it really heavily for a couple of months and then started using it off and on, but my habits were still getting better and better.

Now, I've lost 19 pounds (it's been a slow and steady journey haha), but my victories go beyond the scale. I do have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder, and I've been working really hard since December to use strategies to mitigate my binging triggers and focus on adding in new healthy foods. Additionally, I've recently transitioned from vegetarianism to veganism, which has been a fun journey as well.

But here's my biggest win from today: I always loved Halo Top when I was vegetarian, but I've yet to find a great non-dairy replacement now that I am vegan (I hate HT's non-dairy flavors unfortunately). Yesterday I picked up a pint of Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy Brownie Batter, which I knew was probably going to be a disaster but I wanted to try it.

Today, for my afternoon snack, I spooned out exactly the serving size (1/2 cup), enjoyed it immensely, logged it in my food log for the day, and kept going about my day.

With a binging disorder, it's so hard to have a healthy, positive relationship with treats like this. It's so easy to just say, fuck it, I deserve to be unhealthy, and eat the entire container. It's so easy to disregard any sense of care for yourself, and subject yourself to unhealthy behavior.

But today, I overcame those impulses and did something "NORMAL" with a treat - something I've rarely been able to do in life. I wanted to share and thank you all for your inspiration!

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Significant other and weight loss guilt

My boyfriend and I are long distance, but we get to see each other about once a month. We are both on fitness journeys tailored to us as individuals. Mine is calorie counting and weightlifting. His tends to be super clean eating and cardio, he is training to go back into the army. We usually are really good influences on each other, but lately I have been feeling guilty because we tend to have one meal where we treat ourselves when were together. I tend not to finish everything on my plate because I will save the last 25% of a meal to evaluate if I'm really still hungry or my body hasn't realized it is full yet. Once I feel full, I always offer him whatever I have left because I don't like to bring leftovers home because going out is a treat, usually much higher in calories than my normal meals, and I know the next day I have to go back to my day to day structure.

He has never said that it bothers him and he is making leaps and bounds in his goals, but I really feel like I'm hindering him in some way by getting foods he normally wouldn't eat because I'm treating myself but stopping before I overindulge and he feels in some way obligated to finish what I got. For instance, we went to a baseball game and I knew it was going to be a treat so i got loaded tater tots (668 cals). I only ended up eating 25% of them and then i was full because I tend to only eat small meals throughout the day. I offered him the rest and he ate them. The day after he was telling me how crappy he felt and how bloated he was. I feel like it was my fault for even offering them to him.

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Am I just being crazy or does this hold some credence? For reference, he has lost 20lbs and I am down 40lbs in 2 months.

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