The 22-Year-Old Coke Addict

I recently started my weight loss journey and decided I wanted to cut out liquid calories. As an Atlanta native, drinking Coca Cola is practically in your blood from the minute you are born.

When I was in high school, drinking Coke was a treat that I had whenever we ate out. But when I started college, though, I would buy coke in packs. It got to a point where I couldn’t remember when the last time I had water was. If I was thirsty, Coke was the drink I went for. I realize now that it was a huge, huge issue.

I decided to quit cold turkey, and I haven’t had a Coke in a little over 24 hours. I woke up with the worst headache, and after thinking about it, I’m pretty sure these are withdrawals.... I think?

Does anyone know how long these withdrawals will last for and any way I can ease the withdrawal pain? My friend told me to have a coke to alleviate the headache and to slowly get off of my cola habit day by day instead of just shocking my body by cutting it out of my diet entirely, but at this point I don’t want to look back.

I want Coke to become a treat again, not the only way I hydrate myself.

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5 weeks in, 18lbs gone! and this time, for good!

It has now been five weeks since I started my weight loss journey AGAIN!

I have stuck to it pretty strictly for the last 5 weeks, apart from a little wobble last week.

As of today I am 18lbs down, meaning that I have had a loss every week since I started. I am over the moon about this and it motivates me to continue.

The community here have been absolutely fantastic with their support and seeing peoples progress and well, transformation photos has been inspiring and really pushed me to continue!

I posted about needing to diversify my diet so that I don't get bored of the same stuff, that is very much in process and quite successfully too! Any easy recipes would be fantastic (as long as there are no nuts)!

I have now got 6 weeks away from work to focus on my weight loss which I'm very much looking forward to!

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Walking to work and job requires a lot of walking

So this didn't start as a weight loss thing, it's due to uber/lyft being expensive as hell to use daily and I'm trying to save for a car. I live 2.8 miles from my job, so it's about 6 miles just getting back and forth. At my actual job in a 8 hour period I'm walking at least 14-16 miles, so I'm going to be walking about 20 miles a day give or take.

I work overnights, so luckily I don't have to worry about heat or a crazy amount of traffic on the way there and back. I'm only needing like 10-15 pounds off of me. I was almost there but a month ago I was ordering food like crazy and messed up the progress I had. My ribs and abs were actually starting to show a decent amount before I messed up my progress by ordering food like every other day. The only thing is when I got home this morning , like as soon as I stepped in the door and took my shoes and socks off my left foot is hurting like crazy and I started limping. My foot was hurting on my way back but not like THIS. I'm currently on the couch and don't feel like getting up due to the pain.

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Advices on my journey that is more like a path to purgatory

Hello, (I 23M) would like some advices / your point of view on my "journey" in weight loss.

Just to give a quick context : As far as I can remember I have always been the kind to like food and to be overweight (not obese but overweight) but then with the stress at the university it became more severe and I was prone to "bulimia phases" where i was shopping for a lot of food, eating the most i could and then throwing in the trash the left-overs.

Then i started my journey, i lost around 50 pounds in 3 months (yeah it was an extreme diet + everyday sport), got them back after one year and you can repeat that for 3 years but always while trying to "easy down" the extreme diet (meaning not being too rude on myself)

Now i'm doing CICO since it is easier for me to not be stressed about the diet and i'm not doing sport. I'm doing one cheat meal per week but after the cheat meal I gain like 3/4 pounds this is insane and it goes away after one week but still this is worrying me and i feel like shit everyday and not feeling that i'm losing weight.

To resume a little bit where I would like some advices :

1. I tried 3 diets and lost 50+ pounds each time and got them all back (on 3 years)
2. Now i'm tired and exhausted all day long, I have motivation for mostly nothing (for work it is still ok)
3. Food is like a drug for me, if i'm away from it for a sufficient time the desire will go away but once I taste some fast food etc the desire is coming back and it is irresistible to transform the cheat meal into a cheat day / week
4. The amount of energy I have to put to restrict myself is insane when I want to eat some "bad food"
5. When I eat my cheat meal with someone (not alone) i'm not feeling the same "pleasure" than I would eating it alone
6. I'm trying to keep my cheat meal for a lunch with friends / family / GF because I feel like always saying (I can't i'm doing a diet) is annoying.
7. I saw a psychologist for a while and it helped, but not as much as I thought.

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Looking for opinions on my body shape...

Hi all, I'm looking for personal opinions and maybe some advice on my body shape. I've been on a calorie controlled diet since Christmas and have lost nearly three stone, I was 14 stone 7lbs but now weight 11 stone 10lbs now (yay). I'm in my BMI range for being a healthy weight now but I still feel really fat with whats still left on my body, mainly around my stomach, waist and thighs. Everyone I've spoke to in person has said I look underweight and most saying I need to put ON weight. I'm just looking for some advice and opinions on what you think. I've attached a link to a collage of what my body shape looks like now (as I don't know how to attach an image to this post, sorry). I'll apologise in advance for being a hairy gorilla.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1346CbOdQiCISKJVzQiCremy_4FJ-g1KI/view?usp=drivesdk

Do you think I've got the right body shape? Or does it need more weight loss? Or what would you do to make it appear a better shape?

Thank you for your time.

Edit: new link to photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/8FFBLDR

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Weight loss and relationships.

This is such a sensitive topic. I’ve been obese since childhood and subsequently have never been in a relationship. Not saying that you can’t be obese and in a relationship, but it was never really an option for me as I am not comfortable in my body. I’ve started my weight loss journey and currently I’m 30 pounds down. I still have a solid 150 pounds left to lose before my body becomes what I would want it to be. My question here is for those who have lost weight how has it been to pursue a relationship. Has loose skin become a factor, has your history of being obese become a factor, do you find that it is easier to talk to people? Do you feel like because of your past history of not really interacting with others with the intent of developing a relationship you’re stuck. I don’t even know how I would approach dating at this point. I just wanted some feedback from other people who have been obese and have become healthy have started trying to build relationships and what obstacles they faced. I am a female hoping to develop a relationship with a male.

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Help me get my head straight

By now I have about 100 pounds to lose. The only time I've ever lost any significant amount of weight was when I stopped eating sugar and any processed carbs, and drank tons of water. I would look into weight loss medications but my problem isn't the amount I eat, it's getting me to eat at all. I ususally get busy in the morning, forget lunch, then right before dinner time I'm starving so then I snack. Then I have a huge dinner.

So my problem isn't lack of information and it isn't an overactive appetite. It's ignoring my hungry signals until my body really starts to complain.

How have any of you overcome this cycle? I'm a writer, I'm about to start college online about the same time my kids will be starting homeschool online. Any pearls of wisdom, or "I hear ya's" or words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

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