7 month ghost dieting with real world consequences

Sorry im on mobile dont roast me. TW: talking about overeating and binging as well as calorie restriction and weight

Tdlr: Cronic overeating after successful dieting leading to weight gain. Unable to change mentality and would like some genuine advice on how to do this.

Ok a little background on me before we dive into my emotional rollercoast that is no way fit to be shared online but I am too stubborn and scared to see an ED specialist so I'm turning to you lot just to let off some steam...yah know? As of December 2020 I was aware of this problem but I want to get back down to my happy weight before then (incredibly stupid I know that's how my brain works).

Summer 2018 to autumn 2019 I lost 32lbs, pretty good if you ask me. Healthy, non restrictive (up until summer 2019) and all round simple. Summer 2019 I decided to cut out dairy making my diet more restrictive and the odd few binges on dairy food started (granted I've always had problems over eating since I was a child but these were the more stereotypical binges of hiding food, excessive overeating, guilt, the shabang). After this I started excessively restricting (1200 and under) where I went from being cautious around food to obsessive. Little did I know it could get worse.

After deciding to stop losing in November 2019 I maintained for a solid month up until Christmas...of course rolls eyes. This very restricted, very unhealthy person goes on holiday (pre covid) and binges every day. Comes back and has to content with an additional Christmas day and a lot more food orientated occasions. After that, going into the new year of 2020, my mindset was I'm not losing weight I don't want to restrict. But the binges kept coming, excuse after excuse flooding in as to why I should be eating an ungodly amount of food (note:still dairy free) in secret. So from January to March the binge-restrict cycle cancled itself out and I only gained 4lbs.

March through to August 2020? Oh boy oh boy. Stuck in the house, very emotional, constantly gaining weight despite "eating healthy" and "working out" (honey no we all know it was the 4 person portions, crisps, biscuits, chocolate, bread and literally anything I could put on it). We shoot up by 10lbs. Now this triggered me big time, like panic attacks because of it (ironically leading to binges), because I was back at the weight I promised myself I would never reach again.

So the determination to diet really kicked in, more than it was January-August. But again, I failed. I kept binging but the restriction (more severe than my previous weight loss because I had found this magically dangerous thing called intermittent fasting) cancled it out. Come September 2020 I was off to uni. The "diet" stopped because I wanted to get used to the new environment without being stressed or restricted. Binges reduced and i ate normally most days. I lost weight. Looking back its simply because I wasn't eating a metric tonne of bread (except one time I had a whole loaf of toast in one sitting but we won't talk about that). And boy was I happy. From October 2020 to November 2020 I lost 7lbs. HELL YEAH I was getting somewhere. Please note this wasn't healthy at all: flatmates used to comment about what i was eating and judging me for it so I often didn't eat at meal times and if I did eat it was breakfast at 7am or cookies in my room.

So because we now have a verrrryyyy restricted diet, coming back from uni I went crazy and binged on food almost every day leading up to Christmas. I told myself that after Christmas I would stop and get back to normal (normal for me is November 2019). I didn't, of course, this thing is basically a habit I can't break. I gained 7lbs in a month.

January 2021. New year right? My resolutions were simple "be happy in my body" aka lose the 14lbs you gained since January 2020 and "learn how to do a push up with correct form" simply because I want to.

Now this mentality I have from January up until now, February 2021, is as follows. I can't eat more than 1200. Eating more than 1200 means I won't be able to lose weight by X date (this date changes). Fuck, you ate 300 over. Binge. Fuck, so and so said a nasty comment. Binge. Fuck, you want to avoid doing work/confronting things. Binge. Fuck, you restricted too much yesterday and you're hungry but now you can't stop. Binge. I have gained 8lbs since January. I can't stop, I can't live a normal life, I am constantly adding up calories of daily, weekly, months totals. I am seeing my life through a calculator a calculator with stupidly and unessecaryily high numbers. A binge of 2000 calories last year would be devastating, now its a little blip and my reality on what I consider a binge is distorted and grossly extreme compared to then.

My overall conclusion from this is that it's deffinetly a problem. I have tried, really I have, it isn't about self control at this point. I know I need to change my mentality and I have tried it. Some weeks I say eat like a normal person, copy what someone else eats, eat like you did in January 2018, you need to focus on eating normally before losing weight. They work, for a day or two then I binge, the next day I binge as well because I try to restrict and it goes on and on until the next week. Honestly if you look at my days this sequence happens so often it is sickening. Monday good, Tuesday is depended, Wednesday bad, Thursday bad, Friday bad, then the weekend is variable. Now you've read my life story I have something to ask you. If you're like me, a binge eater, how the hell did you get over it? I'm sick of it, I have been for 7 months, I'm not at my real weight I don't feel like myself so I desperately want to get back to the normal me while tackling this issue but I know that that simply isn't possible but I cant let go of the idea that I am not me, I am the 19lbs overweight me.

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I like slow weight loss but am ready to see big results

Hey guys. How long did it take you to really enjoy what you see in the mirror? I've been on this journey for over a year. I started at 310(im 5'8), and currently am sitting at 265. I've lost a lot of weight, and have gotten back to my weight from 2 years ago, but I am constantly critical of how fat i still am. I always feels like theres more I need to do before I can be happy. Lose the gut, regain running speed, get bigger muscles, etc. 45lbs down and these are still big hurdles to climb. My next milestone will be 250, but I'm worried even then I won't be satisfied. Just wondering if anyone else has dealt with this, and at what point did it go away.

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Are there any recommended vitamins or supplements to support healthy weight loss?

Hey all! I started my weight loss journey in mid Jan this year, after feeling much less mobile over the last 6 months or so. I've lost just about 15lbs so far, though I didn't weigh myself properly to begin with so that could be inaccurate. In any case, I'm starting to feel more mobile and am having less pain so far which is great.

A little about me: female, 33 years old, suffer with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis - these since I was young, otherwise fit and a healthy weight so not really due to my weight. I was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago, personally I think this is a mix up with the arthritis. Previous to the weight loss, I was eating a mix of healthy and unhealthy foods; lots of fruit, vegetables, chicken and rice but in the evenings I would eat a lot of chocolate or other treats without even considering how much I was eating.

Now, I am eating more of the healthy stuff but mostly counting calories, aiming for 1400-1500 per day which on most days I am achieving with ease (so far!). On weekdays I have coffee in the mornings but nothing to eat until lunch - usually chicken salad - at about 2pm, unless I'm feeling hungry in which case I'll have a light breakfast of fruit. Then I'll have dinner at about 6-7pm which is usually chicken with veg and rice or occasionally a less healthy dinner but still only about 600-800 calories. Often I'm finding I need an evening snack to get up to 1400 calories but this suits me fine as I normally want to eat in evenings anyway. Weekends for some reason I always want breakfast when I get up but again it's something light.

On to my question: are there any recommended supplements I should consider taking to support my diet? I was considering things like vitamin D (UK and no sunshine!) and apple cider vinegar, but I don't want to waste money on things that don't really have any benefit for me. Feel free to ask any clarifying questions and thanks for reading my essay and for your advice in advance!

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My experiment with Saxenda (personal anecdote, YMMV, etc.)

Ever since my father died of weight loss-related complications, I've allowed myself to be a guinea pig for nearly every "solution" to the obesity challenges. I was on Phen-fen before it was taken off the market, I was on Belviq before it was taken off the market, and I recently completed an experiment with Saxenda over the course of three months (and I suspect it won't be taken off the market.)

I am well aware that this sub is for "...healthy and sustainable methods of weight loss..." but I also know that it's important to peek over to the "dark side" every so often to see why healthier weight loss is better.

Ok, with that out of the way, let's get started.

If you're not familiar with Saxenda, you can read more about it here by the name: Liraglutide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liraglutide

The short version is that it's a mediocre diabetes drug that found a second commercial life as a weight loss daily injection. Given my proclivity to experiment, I grabbed a bunch of sharps and dove in.

The way Saxenda works is that a "pen" allows you to start off with a low dose and ratchet up the amount over time until you're getting the full dosage. This ability to "titrate up" apparently serves more to test the response system of the patient than to smooth out side effects, based on the claims my doctor made.

The result on weight loss is supposed to be somewhere between 5-10% of total weight, again according to my doctor. However, she quickly followed up by telling me "This is a helping drug. It is not a life choice." So, score one for healthy approaches to weight loss.

I began turning myself into a daily pin cushion which wasn't that terrible given the very tiny, almost acupuncture-type, sharps. The only thing I had to remember was to inject on the right side on one day and alternate to the left side the next day. I did get some bruising in the area where I gave myself the injection but it was one out of every 5 or 6 injections and, given that I was injecting near my belt line, it wasn't noticeable to anyone.

One strange effect it had on me after a few days in was that I actually had more of a craving for healthy foods - which is weird because I almost never crave healthy foods. I was dipping celery sticks in techina and such for a snack and I noticed my appetite was decreasing.

The biggest impact started after about the first week. I felt full. It was a sensation that I thought I had lost long ago and one of the things that I dread when I'm not on an unhealthy weight loss regimen. But there it was and I recognized it immediately. I would eat something and I would get a feeling of satiety. After a few more days, if I even attempted to eat beyond that point of being full, I would begin to feel pain (mild discomfort really, with a possibility of true pain if I kept going.)

Nice! I like feeling full. I like calling out "Half, please!" to whomever is serving whatever is being eaten or served. It was like an experience I remembered from my youth although I don't really ever remember requesting half servings in my life.

The weight started to drop. I went from 215Kilos to 199 kilos in a fairly short amount of time. I started to get a bit cocky and, based on some Saxenda YouTube testimonials, I started skipping every other day to see if it would still work - and it did.

But all good things must come to an end and one of those "skipped days" turned into a "skipped week" and, being the guinea pig that I am, I decided to play it out and see what would happen.

It didn't take long (maybe four days?) for me to lose that wonderful feeling of being full. I ate an entire container of Ben & Jerry's one night. I couldn't stop eating some gross chocolate almond thing that I wouldn't have looked at twice while I was on Saxenda. And the realization hit me that I'm back to where I was before I got on this ride.

My total weight loss was somewhere in the 5-10% range, as indicated and I loved the feeling of eating less and eating healthier and I know I did my body some good over the two months I was on the injections. But now I'm back where I was and eating without feeling full reminds me why I love playing with the unhealthy solutions so much.

I don't really have much more to add except to say that this was an expensive experiment. I miss the ease of weight loss from Phen-fen. I miss the nearly perfect happy serotonin balance that came with Belviq. And now I miss the feeling of being full that Saxenda gave me.

I'm either back to a diet or I'll wait for the next drug to come along and keep the laboratory going.

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I'm still losing weight even though I'm not trying to anymore.

So, I lost a lot of weight recently through eating less and exercising more. I weighed 82 kgs (180 lbs) in July when I started losing weight and went down to 59 kgs (130 lbs) in January, which was my ultimate goal weight (my height is 170 cm/5'7 and I am a 18 years old male). I wasn't really tracking the calories I consumed every day but I estimate it was between 1200 and 1500 and occasionally I would enjoy big holiday meals like on New Year and Christmas. After I reached my goal weight, I started eating more and normally to maintain the weight (not overeating like I used to do in the past though. For example, yesterday I calculated the number of calories I consumed and it was like 1900-2100 and usually I eat that much every day). Based on the information I have, 2000 calories with light-moderate exercise twice/three times a week would result in me maintaining my weight or losing extremely slowly in the worst case scenario. However, today I weighed myself and I am actually 56-57 kgs (125 lbs) which indicates that I am basically underweight and losing weight quite fast. I don't look malnourished and I have well defined, nice muscles with decent amount of fat (it's mostly fat that I lost), but if it continues this way I might become a skeleton and I certainly don't want that. My question is what should I do to not lose any more weight? (I don't want to bulk up or anything like that, I just want to maintain or gain 1/2 kgs). Should I just start eating more, exercising more, do I need to eat specific types of food, should I just do nothing and let the metabolism adjust, if that's even a thing?? BTW this subreddit has motivated and helped me on my weight loss journey and I am really thankful 😁😁

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How do you break bad habits?

Hey guys, long term lurker and dieter here. I’ve had 2 babies within a year, it’s been almost permanent lockdown & I’ve gained 20lbs. I’ve been obese in the past and lost a total of 80lbs and didn’t seem to mentally struggle doing it, but this time it seems so much harder to break my bad habits of comfort eating before bed which is, no doubt the reason I’ve gained weight. That and drinking wine with dinner or having a glass when the kids are in bed. The wine and food are like a reward to me which is the problem. I don’t know what else I can do to give me that reward and rested feeling at the end of a hard days work with the kids in tow. What do you guys do to achieve your weight loss goals and quit bad habits? Thanks in advance for sharing.

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