I’ve finally gotten started! (First update)

Obligatory on mobile!

Hey y’all, I’ve posted on here before, but I’m super excited about it this time. In 2018, I took a depression booster that absolutely packed the weight on me. Like, we’re talking 50 pounds in 4 months. (I’m from the US, so sorry, I don’t know what that is in KG or stones.) After stopping the medicine (switched to a better one for my body, am in care of an AWESOME psych), I gained about 10 more pounds. I topped out at around 221 lbs last year and haven’t gained or lost since then. Now, for most of my life, I have been between 150-160 lbs. The healthiest I’ve ever looked and felt is about 145 lbs a few years ago.

I’m finally in a good enough headspace to take care of me, and though I’ve been talking about and thinking about losing weight to feel better, I’M FINALLY DOING IT. It helps that I’m back in a house with steps instead of a flat apartment. More natural moving! The big update? I HAVE LOST TWELVE POUNDS!!!! I’m seeing a number I haven’t seen since before I got married! Just having that little bit of progress is encouraging me to really start in earnest. I’m working on having a healthy relationship with food, and I’m thinking about starting the Beachbody workout thingy. I’ve got Ring Fit Adventure, too, which I’d highly recommend.

Now, I’m lucky enough to have a spouse who thinks I’m beautiful no matter what, but secretly, I’d like to be back at my healthy weight (145-155 but no lower, probably) to feel better, look better, and have a better quality of life. Plus, I’d like to be pick-up-and-kiss-against-a-wall-able, if you know what I mean, and I just am excited to be healthy.

I’m mostly posting this for encouragement to keep going and for any tips or easy, cheaper recipes or meal prep ideas you might have! If anyone is interested in an accountability buddy or anything, feel free to PM me. Any weight loss things I should know? Anything to expect? Any ways I can encourage any of you???

Twelve down, and still a bunch to go, but hey, I’m 12 closer than I was a month ago!!!!!!

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Starting to feel like this is impossible.

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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Frustrated

I'm so super frustrated with how long it's going to take to lose this weight. I am tired of looking like this and will have to wait 7+ months before I'm finally able to feel confident about myself. I want people to whisper about how cute I am when I enter a new job. I want to be able to hook up with strangers. I want to have more presence and clout with my friends. I just miss being athletic. I miss my body. That's really what's going on. I had it so nice... and then I went and got big. If only I had known what I was getting myself into when I ate all that food. I took my size for granted. And now I'm really suffering because of it. Ah. Any suggestions on how to weather the long wait of weight loss would be appreciated.

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How to start a weight loss journey?

I know this question probably has been asked for 1000 times before but here me out.

I am 83kg(~170pounds) with 170cm ( 5'7") height and slightly obese on BMI scale. I have High blood pressure, hypochondria, stomach problem, week muscles, sleep apnea and most probelmatic dyspraxia. Because of my dyspraxia, i have problem with fine motor skills and hand eye co ordination. In day to day life I can function properly but any and all sport I am almost useless. I am also suffering from depression and overeating. Sadness and loneliness is big trigger for me to cook and eat unhealthy food.

Now some good thing, I am blessed when it comes to cooking. I have a great cooking skill that I can make anything taste good with some tweaking and cooking and eating tasty food is my passion but it also is problem for me that I always cook very tasty food(humble brag or not) that I always overeat and for me hard to stop.

As an early 30s,balding queer,fat, POC in europe my chance of finding a decent partner is in single digits.(97 out 100 rejection rate on dating playform) and I am in the deadlock of lonly- sad - overeat - fat - lonly cycle.

With all this fact I dont know where to start?

P.s. finding a therapist is already in progress. Doc suggested medication and I weighting my option between ssri(lexapro) and snri(effexor) so if somebody has experience I welcome opinion on that too.

Thanks for reading and any and all opinion,success stories are welcome.

Stay safe

P.P.S. already paying gym membership and healthy eating app for multiple year yet to use their benefits.

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Its been a hard week, just wanted to share.

This week has been one of the yuckiest weeks all year for me and my relationship with food. My stomach feels like it doesn't exist - that everything that goes into my body just passes wonderfully over my tongue and then directly into the void. I don't feel full, I don't feel hungry. I'm only eating because I'm looking for that little happy feeling it gives me. But its so very temporary and is immediately replaced by the sad feelings knowing that I'm making it harder to carry my body around and do the things I love doing in the long run. On paper, it doesn't take much effort to start reaping the long term benefits. When I am actually doing cico and eating healthy, I start to feel sustainably better both emotionally and physically in just a few days. But in reality the effort that it takes to break the cycle of immediate rewards seems so unobtainable in the thick of it. Newton's first law I guess. Before posting, I re-read this section of the FAQ. It was very affirming of the struggle I'm experiencing and encouraging to read, and I recommend giving it a read if you find what I'm going through relatable.

On the bright side/ moving forward:

1. I am in therapy and binge eating is one of the things we discuss at that has been helpful. I know that I'm always only <2 week away from having a talk with someone who is very skilled at helping me help myself.
2. I wanted to share something that I read here about a year ago that has always stuck with me, especially in times like this. I don't remember the exact phrasing the redditor used, but they essentially talked about an important step in weight loss being the realization that you need to feed your body, not your emotions. Reading that comment was an epiphany moment for me. I hadn't realized that was what I had been doing all along until then, nor had it ever really clicked until then that giving my body the right fuel was a worthwhile endeavor. Maybe if I share that here it'll reach someone else at the right time too.

I'm excited to get back to a good place. Maybe not today, but soon.

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Looking to learn about some positive changes you have noticed!

Backstory.. I am a 28F, 5'8" tall, and I have always been overweight since I was about.. ehh probably 8 years old. From the age of 15 to now at 28 years old I have typically maintained my weight around 220 lbs. Throughout the years I have lost and gained weight by dieting, exercising, and making lifestyle changes. The heaviest I have been was 250 lbs and the lowest being 180.

At 28 and technically obese (even though I'm heavy I am very active and do sports) I am starting to not feel awesome. I wake up tired, I have no motivation or drive, I have stomach upsets.. I know what I need to do to lose weight. I know what I should be eating and the activities I should be doing.

That all being said.. right now I need some darn MOTIVATION to do the right thing for myself!!

I want to know what positive (or not positive) things you all have noticed through your weight loss/health journies! Beyond that amazing feeling of being able to buy smaller clothes and feeling more attractive. I want to know emotional and physical changes you have noticed!

Thank you!!!

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i wish insults weren’t such blows to morale

22/f/5’7/255lbs

I am thing to take this as motivation to keep going, to not give up, to “prove them wrong.”

but, i’m having a hard time today. i was talking to my fiancé’s sister about how i was proud of myself for losing 30lbs, and how i’m gonna keep going until i reach my goal. i don’t know if it was jealousy (id say she’s bigger than me, quite a bit so, not that i’m shaming her, of course, just maybe that’s why she said this) or what, but she told me “yeah, you’re big, it’s fine, you have a mom bod.”

i don’t know why it hurt so much. she said it right in front of my fiancé who didn’t say anything, but i guess i also didn’t say anything. when i got pregnant, i lost a lot of weight. i was in the healthy weight loss range, but i could barely eat, vomiting constantly, genuinely unhealthy. i got put on bed rest, and then after i had my kiddo, PPD hit and within 1 year i gained 110-120lbs. this was two years ago that i had my kid.

i have been working to lose the weight, but i don’t know why this hurt me so much, and i don’t know why it’s stuck with me. she has her own problems, at least i’m trying to fix mine. i just feel like shit and i want to give up. i’m trying to stop emotionally eating, start working out, but right now it feels impossible. my fiancé can eat whatever he wants and stays skinny. he always buys my favorite junk foods and i don’t know how to make him stop. he thinks he’s being nice but it fucks me up so bad.

any advice on how i can change this way of thinking, or how i can start losing weight again?

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