Weight Loss Help with Prescription Meds

Lost my other post somehow so i will repost

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Hello people. I am 42 yo male in Canada. Had issues the last 15 years on and off losing about 20 to 30 pounds. Many times i did indeed lose it all and was back to an ideal weight but i always put it back on. I am done with the diet exercise stuff for now. I will try that again in the future. For now i was hoping for specific help on prescription or over the counter vitamins/meds that may help. Also, years ago i was prescribed a drug called Merida (Sibutramine) by my GP doctor. It was in capsules and it was amazing. I lost all the weight super fast and within days of starting it, my mood improved etc. So it helped with weight and i felt happier too! Sadly it was pulled from some countries due to heart attack risks etc. I never had any of these issues.though but i guess maybe long term there are risks as well ? Anyone know if this ingredient, Sibutramine is still available and or legal in Canada to buy?

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My other avenue was to consider getting a prescription from my doctor for an ADD med as of course i hear about weight loss on these EVERY day of my life more than once. Now hear me out on the ADD part though too. I actually do feel like i should be on an ADD type med anyway as i have always had issues concentrating and have lost a job before due to concentration issues etc. I do poorly on exams etc and i know years ago i possibly should have been on a med like this. Possibly talk to my doctor about an ADD med if this is another option? Or are other well known prescription meds in Canada i could try to lose weight with? Please help and nice to meet y'all. And thank you !! Any advice on other subreddits for my type of question are welcomed too!!

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P.S. - an important note. I fully quit smoking over 1 year ago after smoking for over 20 years. I am very proud about this but since i quit, i have had more issues than ever with weight gain (and shedding pounds) and its depressing. I am proud i quit smoking but i feel depressed about the weight gain. This is why i really want help with an alternative method for weight loss so i don't get an urge to start smoking again over the depression of weight gain....

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Your weight isn't the problem - it's just a symptom of the actual problem

TL;DR at the bottom. I'm writing this because it's something I see a lot here, it's something I had to wrap my head around when I started losing weight and it's actually the reason I failed to lose weight when I was ~15. Your weight isn't the problem here, the real problem is your lifestyle - something about your lifestyle promotes weight gain.

For example, I've been gaining weight steadily since I was like 10 years old and through those years I was constantly skipping P.E. I never went out to exercise with friends, I stayed at home most of the time playing video games, I would eat entire multi-packs of crisps on a daily/weekly basis, I never ate fruit or vegetables - I was all about the pizza. The point is my lifestyle was all about over eating, eating all the wrong stuff and never exercising. That is a lifestyle that promotes weight gain.

So what's my lifestyle like now? Well I've been going to the gym semi-consistently for a few months, I've cut out all the unhealthy snacks and I've started to work on my nutrition so that my meals are more filling and overall healthier. My lifestyle is far from perfect, and I do hope to improve it further but currently my lifestlye is promoting weight loss.

The real way to lose weight is to change your lifestyle into one that promotes weight loss, and eventually maintenance at your goal weight. How to achieve that is different for everyone and it's something you'll have to experiment with to do so. Weight loss is simple, be in a caloric deficit. All those "fad diets" do work, the problem is they don't make you deconstruct your lifestyle that promotes weight gain. You need to make small, manageable changes that you could do forever, let them develop into habits and eventually they will become part of your lifestyle.

Don't get me wrong, there are things that affect your weight that can be out of your control. Lots of people here suffer from medical conditions, mental health issues and disabilities that put you at an unfair position - I'm not trying to talk down to you. This post is just about tackling the mentality of "dieting", "losing weight quickly", "all or nothing" and things like that. Essentially things that will make the number on the scale go down temporarily but rarely lead to permanent change.

I believe in you all. I didn't used to believe in myself but now I think I can do anything (within reason lol). Be excellent to each other!

TL;DR: The real problem is your lifestyle, as it is currently promoting weight gain. Any old diet will work as long as you are in a caloric deficit but the only way to keep the weight off, is to develop a lifestyle that first promotes weight loss, and then weight maintenance at your goal weight. This is unique for everyone but try to make small, meaningful but manageable changes; develop into habits and eventually they will become your healthy lifestyle.

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A friend said this is a place I could post my weight loss progress, so I hope this will be helpful/inspiring to some of you. Here's old lazy me changing and losing 43 kgs in about 14 months and building some muscle afterwards.

Pics (late may - early august as far as I remember, sorry if that caused confusion together with title)

Sorry for the wasted looks on the right lmao

In short, after getting my mental health and other stuff together, I decided to go ahead and try to lose weight one last time. This time I counted calories and went on very long walks whenever possible (I still hate running and high tempo walking, so I increased the distance to at least 20 kms every time). Never ever been so disciplined and focused on something, it was kinda annoying / boring / painful yet seeing positive results kept me going.

Then realizing I lost about all the small amount of muscle I had, I started lifting again. Mostly did strength training and powerlifting though this time, since I had space on me to bulk and get some fat without looking unhealthy lol

So there I am. If a lazy sack of hot horseshit like me could turn it around, then why wouldn't you, you beautiful person? True that growth curve slows down the more you push like most other things done seriously / professionally, so I expect you to catch up to me some time soon my friend, just start now.

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Long time lurker and I need some help...

Sorry this is going to be kinda long so there's a TL;DR at the bottom.

I ran two Spartan Sprints a couple years ago and absolutely loved it. (This was about 8 months into my first major weight loss journey. About 50lbs of fat loss at that point) I’ve struggled with my weight all my life and since completing the two races life has gotten in the way. I had a doctors appointment today and I weighed in higher than I ever have in my life. Damn near 300 pounds. It’s embarrassing and I’m ashamed. I wish I could compete in Spartans and at a decent level. I wish I was functionally fit and I have struggled getting there.

I am now at the heaviest weight I have ever been at. I feel embarrassed to even be on this sub. I have dreams of racing and placing in my age group and I feel like it’s all ridiculous because I’m obese. I don’t know how to get to where I want to be in a sustainable fashion. So does anyone have advice or is anyone willing to help me make changes that will save me from diseases and an early death? I have all the desire and determination. I’m just paralyzed by failing yet again. Having put in the work before and now being heavier than I ever have how will it ever be any different?. I’m currently not employed (just graduated college) so now is the perfect time to dedicate to making those changes to save myself and put myself in a place where I can do everything I want. Achieve my Spartan trifecta and be healthy enough to have kids one day and be a role model for others. I dream of hiking, biking, and kayaking all day and training for spartans, but I’m just lost and need a little help. At this point I don’t know how to change or what else to do.

I’m addicted to food, well mostly ice cream. I eat my emotions away and I know I need to stop that. Losing 100 pounds just seems like and insurmountable task that I’m destined to fail. I don’t know what to do. I just need help and support and accountability. None of which I have, so I guess I’m going to post this and see what happens. I’ve lurked for a long time, but have never took the plunge on posting. I honestly just can’t imagine being able to lose that kind of weight. Especially with where I am now.

I’m sorry, I know this seems desperate. I know it’s pathetic to ask here, but I’m asking on the off chance that it does make a difference and someone will care.

TL;DR: I need to lose around 100 pounds and I need some motivation/suggestions and help on how to actually get it done so that I can be the person I want to be - not someone I hate.

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New to all of this, wondering if this sounds right?

Hey all,

I'm just starting out my weight loss journey and was wondering if this sounds right.

Little info about me:

Gender - F Age - 25 Height - 4'10" Weight - 126 lbs Goal weight - 95lbs

I went to the doctor on Monday and realized I gained 10 lbs in three months after starting my antidepressants (Wellbutrin)/antipsychotics (Seroquel) regime. I know meds don't make you gain weight, but my antipsychotics definitely encouraged my appetite at night after my antidepressants killed it during the day. I'd over eat at night before bed because I'd say "well I didn't eat much during the day so it's okay." (Spoiler: it wasn't)

This lead me to start my journey to finally just getting down to the weight I've always wanted, which is 95 lbs. Started going to the gym in my building for at least 30 minutes a day and actually exercising, definitely getting my heart rate up and breathing heavy, using my standing desk half the day, and getting onto mfp to track calories.

I logged my info into a TDEE and used sedentary as my exercise level like someone suggested on here because I'm probably not as active now even with the gym as I like to think I have become and it says to cut weight I need to bring my calories per day down to 930.

I already started cutting back to 1200 on recommendation from MFP which is difficult but not unreasonable, but cutting back to 930 seems impossible. Does this sound right to you all? Am I going to have to suck it up and figure out how to cut back to 930? Is that impossible?

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I'm fed up.

I'm 17 and I got diagnosed with diabetes 2 months ago. It's type 2. The doctors said that I have a genetic predisposition, and that it was only a matter of time, but that my weight obviously didn't help.

Which is why I kind of went cold turkey. I completely cut out high-calorie foods out of my diet, I stopped buying all of the stuff I used to binge on, started cooking healthy, tracking calories.

I've lost around 10 pounds since my diagnosis. I've had so many failed attempts of weight loss, but this time, I know that I really need to succeed. I'm young, my whole life is laid out in front of me and I want to be healthy. I really don't want to mess this up.

So I guess I created this account to share all of the journey that I started. Just to have a place to tell people about how I struggle, how I want to binge again, how I'm at a Plateau and how I want to give up sometimes.

But I also want a place where I can share achieving my goals, where I can share how sometimes I am so full of hope and inspiration. How every small change is a major success to me.

Because I'm fed up. I'm fed up of being "the fat one" of being out of breath after walking a flight of stairs, of secretly binging in my room.. And I want to change so desperately.

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NSV - I've Been Logging my Weight for Over 5 Years!!

5/14/14 - Now

SW: 178 lbs - CW: 143 lbs - GW: 130 lbs

I've tracked my weight for over 5 years!! I'm proud of this and I consider it to be a huge part of my weight loss success and how this subreddit has changed my life...So I wanted to share it and some of the things I've learned from it.

I love this graph.

I understand that weighing yourself often doesn't work for a lot of people. In the beginning, it didn't even work for me. I weighed myself daily and felt sooo demotivated by the fluctuations. My mood would be greatly affected by whether the scale went up or down overnight. Sometimes I felt like I was torturing myself for no reason when I was bloated and the scale jumped up 2 lbs overnight and that made me want to quit.

But 5 years ago, I saw a recommendation on this subreddit for a weight tracking app called Libra. I decided to try it out and I liked it because it generates a trendline and statistics from your weight data rather than just documenting single points. Over time, I learned to focus on the trends rather than the fluctuations.

Looking at the whole picture now, I can see so clearly how the data tells a story of my continuous healthy lifestyle journey.

There's big ups and downs when I started and I was trying to figure out sustainable diet changes that would work for me. There's consistent downward trends when I motivated myself with the goal of wearing a bikini on vacation or wanted to look good for an event. There's gaps when I did go on vacation, huge dips when I got sick, huge jumps when I went all out on beer and cookies over weekends/holidays. A big jump early in 2018 when I started traveling for work. And a slow increase since the end of 2018 when I started dating my boyfriend and going out for food and drinks (a lot) more.

But no matter what happens, I still step on the scale again and face the reality of what my choices are doing to my body. And with this graph, I can see the path I’m on.

Right now, I've gained about 10-15 lbs from my lowest weight point and I'm tickling the edge of going back to “overweight BMI land.” Which isn't ideal...but fuck it. I'm not a perfect person, none of us are. All of those jumps and dips in the data are part of my life. I'm adjusting to changes in my career and my social life and trying to find diet changes that work for me now as I increase my exercise and start lifting weights. (And play on two rec league sports that are more about free pizza and beer than athleticism 😬).

Life changed so now I have to adapt and keep trying. Life will most likely change again (career changes, pregnancy, injury, new friends, family changes, the invention of new Oreo flavors), but no matter what... my health is a priority so I'll make it work. Awareness of what is actually happening to my body is a big part of that.

I would NOT still be at a normal BMI without this app and my scale, without facing the reality of how my eating habits affected the trends, and reigning myself in as many times as I have. That's the reality of it for me. It's not easy. It's probably never going to be easy for me to maintain a healthy weight and love my body. But that's life! It isn't easy… But it's worth it.

The journey will never end for me and there will always be new goals. I spent 20 years of my life learning unhealthy eating habits. It's not going to become effortless overnight (or even over 5 years). But, I know that if I hadn't made the choice to change, I would be unhealthier now. So I just have to keep going because being as healthy as I can be is always going to be important to me.

I know that if you are just starting now, that idea can seem terribly daunting. That the fight may “never end” for you like it hasn't for me. But...the rest of your life is going to happen regardless...and I promise it is worth it to make better choices for yourself. It does get easier over time. And even the little improvements will make such a positive impact on your quality of life. Even though I've gained 10 lbs back, shit is much easier and I feel soooo much better than when I was heavier.

Also, another tip. Since it's a long journey, give yourself a break sometimes. You don't have to be perfect, just do better. You can fall off the bus 100 times and it doesn't matter. Forgive yourself and then just keep going, keep getting back on it, keep fighting to do better. You only have to do better on average to make progress. Slow progress is still meaningful progress. Trying your best and gaining 10 lbs is better than saying “fuck it, I give up” and gaining 50. Don't ever give up on yourself. (Hey, I wouldn't give up on you. You're pretty cool.)

People like to throw around statistics about "diets failing" and the futility of maintaining weight loss long term. Some people even use that as a reason that they shouldn't try. I see it differently. I strive to be one of the people that CAN maintain a healthy weight for the rest of my life and prove that it is possible. But even if I can't, even if I regain this 10lbs again and again, even if I have to go back to logging calories periodically for the rest of my life and have to mindfully tell myself 1000 times to stop "intuitively eating" all the Oreos.

I. Don't. Care.

It's worth the fight. I'm worth the fight and you are too.

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