Has anyone here been prescribed appetite suppressants? What was your experience like?

I've been disabled since a bad accident and have been having a lot of trouble getting up and moving around amid the pain from my injuries.

I used to be a runner! Now I've gained quite a few pounds and have been struggling to make any headway even losing those first 10.

I feel like I could use a little nudge to get the scale moving in the right direction. I was considering talking to my doctor about a short term supply of suppressants, but I'm doing the responsible thing and asking the Reddit community first. (wink)

Of course diet and exercise are critical to any weight loss journey. In fact, my diet isn't all that bad overall in the quality department. Portion sizes have definitely crept up, and I'm not burning near the same level of calories I was used to a year ago.

I'm wondering if anyone here has used appetite suppressants as a part of their program. And if so, what was your experience, and did you find any major drawbacks?

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Been on a calorie-deficit diet + exercise for months with no results, what am I doing wrong?

Hello! I’m 22F, 5’3” and weigh 155 lb. My weight gain mostly happened when COVID hit and the gyms closed, I used to weigh only 125-130 pounds. I’ve gotten back into exercising 4-5 days a week and have been eating at a calorie deficit (1000-1200 calories per day) for 3 months now and have seen no results!

Every time i search for answers online I just further confuse myself. Some websites say that I should be eating less and some say that eating too little will slow your metabolism. I drink an average of 1/4-1/2 gallon of water a day.

Any advice would be much appreciated!! Congratulations and best of luck to you all on your weight loss journeys! :)

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How to navigate weight loss without falling into disordered eating (t/w: self-harm, suicidal thoughts)

Sorry if this has been posted before.

I (22f) have struggled with my weight for almost half my life, and I have a lot of huge mental blocks around weight loss.

I have two brothers with significant food allergies, so dieting, limiting foods, and the like were in my life before my weight issues started. Because of that, "off limit" foods and binging on "bad" food when I have the chance has been part of my life since I was little.

I steadily gained weight from age 12 on up (a mix of more freedom of food outside the home, and increasingly strick rules surrounding food at home.

My mom is overweight and was terrified of that for me., she tried every trick in the book to get me to lose weight: fear tactics, point out fat and skinny people to me, doing diets with me, saying nothing to me. I have had very limited success, and have always gained the weight right back.

It got to the point that, when I think about my weight, I can feel almost suicidal (feeling like there's no point trying, and I should just die). I have self-harmed because of my weight too.

I finally told mom she needs to stop and she was hurting me, and to her credit she has.

The thing is, I hate my weight, and I know it's negatively affecting my life and health. I want to lose weight, but I have so much extra baggage that I end up turning to the very food I need to avoid as a coping mechanism. (I also believe I have untreated ADHD and my executive function stinks, but that's a whole other can of worms).

I'm crying right now. I have such an emotional problem with my weight. Diets terrify me, because they fill this hopelessness cycle. I have such learned helplessness. I sneak food because I feel such shame around it. I sometimes can't even sleep thinking about how fat, ugly, and unhealthy I am.

I am moving on my own soon and would love to build healthy, non-shaming patterns around food and at least not gain weight, but I need so much help, and I don't even know where to begin.

I know I can't be the only one who'd dealt with this. How do I begin to get healthy when I have so much baggage? Thank you for anyone who's able to help.

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My lizard brain is sabotaging my weight loss

F 5’3” 170lbs

Please help.

I had a baby two years ago. I gained a lot more weight then than I planned to and after the pregnancy was over, was around 170lbs, up from 135 pre-pregnancy.

Then covid happened. I “tried” to lose weight but then the stress eating coping mechanism kicked in in full swing, and I have just hovered around 170 since. I’ll lose weight for a bit and then gain it all back.

I KNOW all the right things to do. I know about macros, IF, don’t pick a diet you can’t live with for your life, counting calories, weighing food, eating filling foods, drinking boatloads of water, etc etc etc. I could tell you how to lose weight with my eyes closed.

I just can’t do it myself. When I count calories, I get into disordered eating habits. I’ll start fresh, tell myself “this is the time!” and start logging my food, weighing myself daily, exercising, etc. and then I go to the grocery store and my lizard brain takes over and I buy a gallon of ice cream. “Not to worry, I’ll work it into my calorie budget” - except then that night lizard brain is back and I eat half the damn thing.

It’s like lizard brain just shuts off the part of me that wants to lose weight and shoves it in a cupboard under the stairs until it gets its full of sweets. “Just don’t buy it then you won’t be tempted!” except lizard brain shuts that off too and normal brain doesn’t come back until I’ve eaten a Twix in the bathroom and hidden the wrapper so my family doesn’t see.

Please help.

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I will no longer be using a scale or measuring tape

I started my weight loss journey about 2 months ago. I do not know what my starting weight was nor do I care. I have an idea that it is around 300 pounds due to the last time I weighed myself, but that is all I know. This tactic has been very useful for me. I focus on my lifestyle changes and routine while avoiding worry about a number on a scale. So far it’s been working out great as I can see and feel the changes on my body. My weight is probably fluctuating but I would never know! All I know is that I’m trending towards losing weight, my appetite has been reduced, my clothes fit better and I feel more energized.

If the overall goal is to make lifestyle changes and not “diet” why do the numbers matter? I’m focused on my lifestyle not my weight and it has been so liberating. Going forward the only numbers I will care about are the results of my blood work and vitals (glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure etc.)

I hope this motivates somebody who is feeling discouraged by the number on the scale. Your weight does not define you! Your choices do.

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Terrified of the changes! Please tell me I’m not crazy?

I am a female, I have been battling weight loss for YEARS with, unfortunately, no success. I started at 178 pounds at 5’0. I have been slowly weaning off over-eating, I completely cut out alcohol back in August and stopped eating sweets for the most part.

I really wasn’t tracking anything, not weighing myself, no progress pictures, I wasn’t working out or doing anything out of the ordinary and my mom came over the other day and she goes, “wow! Have you been losing weight? You can really tell!” I was just dumbfounded because I felt the same as I always did, my husband who sees me everyday never mentioned it or anyone else I have seen recently.

That following night I dug my scale out of my closet and when I stepped on my scale, I had realized I lost 26 pounds (down to 152) since I started paying more attention to what I put in my body (august) … and just as I stepped off the scale and looked in the mirror I saw a completely different me! 20 minutes ago before weighing myself I saw the same fat body and now I see a skinnier… me?

When my husband came home I told him how much I lost and he replied with “really?!” I showed him on the scale and he goes “you know, now that you say something I can really see it now.” It scares me so much that I never noticed until after my mom said something and I can’t stop touching my legs and body and staring at myself in the mirror in disbelief!

My question is, does this happen to anyone else? Why are we so blind to the changes of our body and then become so aware of it when it’s called out by someone else? I’m sorry if this has been asked before - but I feel crazy and confused and I still can’t believe it to be true! I swear the scale is broken and my eyes playing tricks on me even though it isn’t. Someone help me understand this.

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Chocolate preventing me from getting really lean.

22M here. Lost around 40 kilos in last 2 years, living a healthy lifestyle and working out. For the first time in my life I can see my abs (mostly outline).

I conquered nearly all my cravings, havent eaten fast food in over a year, gave up chips and sugary drinks + alcohol. There is only one thing left thats really fucking up my last weight loss cycle.

Chocolate.

I dont know what the fuck they put in that shit, it just makes me go full methhead mode running to store to buy 5 chocolate plates and eating them in less than a minute. I am doing 100% fine for the whole day, and then my mind randomly decides it wants to ingest 5000 calories of full on sugar,fat and whatever shit there is in it.

I think im in love with the texture of it. Like when you chew it long enough and it turns into muddy sweet pile of shit in your mouth and your brain just full on orgasms.

Any suggestions and tips for deleting that shit off my mind is welcome. Hoping for motivating answers. Stay hard!

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