Now it makes sense why THIS anniversary night was Sooooo! Much! Fun! 🤪 35/F/5'1" SW:200lbs, GW:120lbs, CW:120lbs

My husband and I had our 17 year anniversary this past weekend. When this photo popped up in my 'remember when' photo reels, I was shocked at the difference! I actually still had the same outfit, so I ran to try it on again.

For Foks Sake! GOT! DAMN! I CANNOT take my eyes off this before and after! It's hard to believe even with the evidence right there! Here is the before and after: https://imgur.com/a/LhNwaqN

I have to say, this makes so much sense as to why that anniversary night seemed waaaaaaay more incredible compared to other nights. We have a very healthy bedroom life, but anniversaries, I get a little more adventurous. I was doing things I had only seen. Positions that used to be awkward, I was flowing into them better than the #1 OF star. I wasn't tired when I took over. I was trying to remember if I took drugs - there's NO WAY I'd be this flexible sober. (Yes! I was sober - that's the even more shocking part!) But nah, I was coo and just getting high from climaxing. I actually lost use of my legs for minute and had to camp on the floor. (I'm now realizing I'm going to have to leave my husband; the bar has been set too high for future sessions.)

It's not used enough, but 'sexy time tricks' should be the #1 motivator for adult weight loss!!

Anyway, I'm still trying super hard to maintain and tone. Still going to kickboxing 3x a week and weight training 2x a week. Still watching my portions and what I eat. Still making sure I'm lazy the majority of the week. Def making sure I'm enjoying a cocktail every once in while - I earned it and enjoying it reminds me to be social.

I don't have any updates, it's only been 2 months, but I still have December as my goal month. Hopefully, I'll still have maintained my weight and toned up my muscles and skin.

Here is my document about my previous progress, I'm still basically following everything from here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ab_nuDnfbTo5kDMv6gIReMVeLDxWagf-LVqqeNLWKR8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Thanks for the support guys!!

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How I went from trying to lose weight to developing an eating disorder

I don't usually do this sort of thing. But I am writing this because it is something that has swallowed me whole, and I would not want anyone to go through what I have.

For context, I am a 17 year old girl - 5'7/170cm. I had maintained a 53kg/117lb weight for months. I gained weight during COVID - 61kg/134lbs. I hated my figure.

Thus began my weight loss journey. I'm a total nerd, at the top of my classes. I had a 99% average for Health last year for context. But never was I taught about healthy eating at school. So, in my mind, satiety = unhealthyness. Dumb? Yes.

I started eating less and less. Nuts are tiny, they must be less cals, right? But apples, oh those round large apples, they make me full, and so they must be high cals. Well, no apples for me! They make me full and feeling full means being fat.

And so, whenever my mom gave me breakfast, I would eat a bite in front of her. As she left the room, I'd throw it out. If I had soup, I would spill it out and make it look like the plate had soup 'residue' on it. Chips? I shall lick them and throw the rest out because spices = no cals, right?

My mindset was indeed fuc*ed.

I went to 47kg/103lbs in 5 months. I would check my weight 15-20 times on the scale a day. My most visited website was for calculating BMI. I was obsessed.

Then, my hair was falling. My nails were blue. My period was gone. I developed hyperthyroidism and other fun stuff. I was SO conscious of my body. I don't even use social media (where I would supposedly compare my bods to others), it's just this crappy mindset I had - it's origin, unknown.

Then, once in a while, I would eat. But when I eat, I thought: you're so skinny, you should eat. And so, as I stood in the kitchen one night, after not eating all week, I devoured 3 bowls of oatmeal. The next day, I saw my bloat, and felt like a monster. OP, I shall never do this again. But one week later, came another binge. Soon, these binges became biweekly, and eventually daily. I would not eat all day, and would eat eveyrthing at night. Example, one night, I ate: 6 bowls of oatmeal, 1/4 of a cereal box, half a jar of PB, and 3 bowls of nuts. I felt like it was healthy and thus okay for my body. By then, I understood WTF calories were, but hey, these foods were healthy so it's fiiiinne.

Fun anecdote: went to school one day. At lunch, I stopped at the dollar store, and impulsively brough 3 chocolate bars, even though I am am extremely frugal person (mind you, the total was $3) and never buy anything, ever. As I walked back, I had finished the 3. Went again after school to my local grocery store, and brough a jumbo box of tons of diff chocolates. Hid it from my parents and finished it in a night.

2 months later, my weight skyrocketed back to 61kg/134lbs.

Shit.

Hated myself again. And well, I am currently recovering. Trying to eat 3 meals a day. No midnight binges or daytime starving.

This, folks, is the wonderful, Binge Eating Disorder. My main message: don't become hyperfixated on numbers. Bloating is normal. Eat slowly, and don't starve.

Of course, these are things that I feel are important for myself, certainly not applicable for all of mankind y'know.

Also, I am a very sarcastic person. I realize my tone is not audible through text, and thus, I shall make clear: this eating disorder is not fun.

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how to make walking less boring

I want to start walking more to help me with my weight loss journey, but I find it so incredibly boring.

I have a treadmill and I've tried listening to music, watching TV etc but nothing seems to make it even remotely enjoyable.

I don't want to go out for walks as I'm not able to walk until later in the day and there's no one to go with me. I also don't find walking outside any more interesting than on a treadmill.

Does anyone have any secrets to make using the treadmill more tolerable so that I can utilize it more.

Thanks in advance.

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Two years later, and I've done it! A reminder to visit your doctor if CICO hasn't been working for you.

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F / 23 / HEIGHT: 4'11" /149.86cm
CW: 148 lbs 48.8 KG | SW: 220LBs/99.79 KG | GW: 120 LBs/54 KG

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Hello all! When I'd posted two years ago, I was immensely depressed, frustrated and at my lowest point.

If you don't feel like peeping my post history, I'll give a rundown:

At around age twelve, I was prescribed antipsychotic medications for a condition I ended up not even having. This isn't a psych subreddit, so I won't delve into that agonizing ordeal, but it turns out that my problem required therapy, NOT medication, and certainly not something so intense as an anti-psych.
Five years of abilify (with two of those being by injection, too!) later, and a complete overhaul of my diet, my body was ruined. I weighed over 120 pounds over the ideal weight for my height.
I went from eating literal garbage as a teenager, to starving myself in my early twenties, to eating consistently clean for a year, at pristine, weighed CICO.

I began to work out despite feeling exhausted. Why wouldn't the scale move?

I was eating at a healthy deficit, why wasn't I seeing a decline?

Sure, fluctuations happened, but after a meal, no matter how low-density or accurately weighed and measured, I'd climb several pounds over two days, only drop down once i'd beaten my appetite into submission and rest at an absolutely unsustainable caloric intake.
At my worst, I was taking in 600 calories a day, with a side of self loathing.

I was a burnt match; I wanted to scream into the void but was worried that people would accuse me of lying or not 'actually' eating in deficit a'la many posts around r/loseit in the same vein as the one i'd written before.

I made the decision to log off of online weight loss resources and book an appointment with a new doctor and explain my problem.
I lucked out; the most incredible doctor i'd had the pleasure of meeting with saw me that same month.

He was personable, empathetic and had experience with this sort of thing a handful of times, a few patients ago. We met with the intent to discuss weight loss as it's done by the books.
Surely, I was doing something wrong?
As soon as I mentioned why my weight began to climb, his face dropped.

He asked if I was constantly fatigued, I said yes. He asked about my final dosage of abilifiy, discussed my initial misdiagnosis. He looked at my calorie tracker and just shook his head. He ordered labs.

After collecting labs and realizing that evidently, I was not sustaining myself on Mcdonald's and fried Oreos, he decided to set me on track to get a gastric bypass.

With his referral, I made an appointment with a bariatric center a state over and got the ball rolling. It took six months. Continuous appointments With the guidance of healthcare professionals in remote-limbo talking me through nutrition education resources, I had my weight analyzed like coordinates to some nebulous mystery; as if it were a problem willpower couldn't break.

A little under a year ago, I got the procedure. It hasn't been easy. Even with therapy, it was hard to shake the feeling that I took the easy way out.

I worked hard. I am working hard. I tried my best, and it paid off; I've lost 80 lbs— I'm about 20 lbs away from my goal weight.

I am fit. I have some loose skin, but it's a reminder that i'm fucking doing it. Even if I needed medical help to begin; I tear it up at the gym, I stick with my diet, and I never, ever gave up and ate the tub of gelato. I'm losing a consistent 1-2 lbs and eating an appropriate amount for my GW.
Sometimes you just can't do it alone.
By all means, start with CICO. I just want to remind everyone that CICO isn't always a one-size-fits-all solution; especially when your body chemistry and hormones have been destroyed by an improper diagnosis and medication that's now a thorny nest of class-actions and complaints regarding long-term weight loss problems.

I apologize for how long this was, I hope it wasn't a slog, and I hope I can help anyone in a similar boat. I wanna add that this isn't to say CICO is bad or ineffective; sometimes you gotta dig a little deeper and get a Medical professional's opinion. You just might have been fucked over by big pharma, or something!

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Seeing what progress should look like has motivated me further

I had wisdom teeth surgery on Friday, so approximately seven days ago. My face swelled a lot, as expected. I haven’t taken a firm look in the mirror since the first few days of surgery until just now, and I couldn’t figure out what was different about my face. My family instantly commented that the swelling went down when I walked through the door today. I realized that my face is so much more defined than it was a few days ago, as it was very round and full.

Seeing the definition develop back in my face made me realize that if I can lose the rest of these 36 pounds, I will have even more definition in my face, and I’ve always envied that of naturally skinny people. I want an angular face, because mine currently is somewhat chubby looking, and I think it’s due to being overweight. If I love my face more now than I did a few days ago, then I can’t wait to see the changes I’ll make in the future.

I know I should lose weight for health reasons alone, but I’ll be honest, I’m in it for the looks. I want to look my best, and if being healthier comes along with that, of course I’ll take it. Just wanted to share.

(Disclaimer: I loved myself pre-weight loss journey, but I do want to change my appearance, and I think both can be valid.)

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Apple body shape weight loss (F)

I’m 5’ and I began working out last year. Not really for my body or not even my health really. one day I was bored, found a trainer gym near me and was like “I wanna try to get strong”. That’s how my fitness journey started, I wanted to be strong. I started at 140 lbs. I am now 155 lbs. Honestly, my body never bothered me too much. I have a bigger chest size (biggest part of my body tbh) so I only wear baggy clothes, I try to avoid as much attention to them as I can bc I don’t like it. So I never really saw how my body looked and didn’t care. I was working out, getting stronger, felt better and my life got better a lot. It wasn’t until like a month ago when I tried to dress girlier I saw how my body was and I didn’t really like it. I don’t like my gut or my big chest but i’m more focused on my gut bc there’s not much you can do about your chest unless you get surgery. I was confused because I thought since i’ve been working out consistently that I would’ve changed but not really and I checked my weight and was like woah how’d this happen. I’m currently in a calorie deficit and now doing cardio. I still lift weights bc I love it but now I add 30 min stairs and try to do 30 min treadmill after too. But im scared to lose weight because of my body shape. the little muscle I have on my legs i’m scared to lose because my proportions are weird. and I have an apple shape so most fat is upper body. I’m scared what if I lose weight everywhere but my mid sections and I end up looking slim with a beer belly.

Has anyone with an apple body shape has trouble losing fat from their gut area? my body isn’t like terrible now and I like cardio because now I can run and I couldn’t before, but i’m scared if I lose weight my body will look disproportionate?

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Making Progress

I've been 200+ lbs since august. I just weighed myself (after eating dinner - I know it's not very accurate, but I just wanted to see.) I was 198.6 lbs - which was what I was last April. Obviously this isn't huge, but after a day's worth of meals, I managed to be below 200, which makes me feel like I'm going in the right direction. I finally feel hopeful about my weight loss, which isn't something I could've said at the beginning of my journey.

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