Weight Loss, Self Compassion, or both?

Ive struggled for a long time with restriction that ultimately leads into spouts of binging/ overeating. Im finally eating three normal sized meals and all thoughts of food/binging are gone. The problem is the scale has jumped higher and is staying there, so its clear Im in a surplus. Im worried if I work on my goal weight Ill be right back to obsessive restriction and ultimately binges. What is the middle ground here- do I get to live in “peace” without food chatter/ restriction or do I keep attempting to lose weight which I seem to bomb each time. Is weight loss with compassion for my history with restriction possible? Does anyone have any advice on this? It feels so good to not think so much about food lately and feel fed/ satisfied, but im worried Im going to keep ballooning. Stuck!

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A novel way to visualise daily weight loss?

I've been quite steadily plodding along with weight loss this year. I started at 73.3kg and have lost around 12.5kg. This is not a big number compared to a lot of people on this sub but I've come up with a neat (gross?!) way to visualise it for myself.

As I said, I've lost around 12.5kg and I did this over the last 365 days. That means I have lost about 35g per day, this is about equivalent to one rasher of bacon per day. Imagine peeling one rasher of bacon off your body every day. Crazy!

There have also been some nice NSVs along the way: - you know that stretch you do at the gym, where you pull your foot towards your buttock to stretch the thigh, well there was a revelation for me when my foot actually touched my bum. Usually my big thighs would stop it bending back all the way! - a pair of trousers I bought second hand online which didn't even fit over my hips now fit comfortably - my running is back on track. It's no longer an effort to convince myself to do it, instead I plan and look forward to my Sunday run all week.

I'm going for another 6kg (171 bacon rashers) and then I'm going to see how I feel.

By the way, I'm from the UK and I'm thinking of British bacon. Bacon might be a different size elsewhere.

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Meal Delivery Services

I'm sorry in advance as I'm sure this has been covered ad nauseum here but I've only been on this sub since I started my weight loss journey a couple month ago (down 20 lbs so far!).

I haven't tried a meal delivery service since the early days of those kind of services. I think my wife and I used to use something called Nutrisystem or something like that. I'm only really familiar with Blue Apron and Hello Fresh out of the current services.

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

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i need some support regarding my weight loss journey, i feel like i wasted an entire year and all i wanna do today is eat my comfort food and lay in my bed,

so i lost 20kgs last year, and i hit the 93 mark in jan 2022. since then, ive been yoyo'ing, but i still hit the gym and do my workouts which resulted me gaining 4kgs of muscle and losing around 6kgs of fat, i do look different, but not as much as id like in a year.

now its december, im so upset at my progress and what i couldve had or shouldve done, ive lost alot of people and i feel like im spiralling. i genuinely feel like going to the supermarket now instead of the gym, buying some of my favorite comfort food and laying in bed today. and from tomorrow, i want to increase my calorie intake, eat 2000 (i currently do 1800 and its working) until the 1st of jan, i go back to 1800 and stick it out until my birthday, which is the 24th, have some cake, still stick to my plan after the 24th.

does that sound like a good plan? lol, i feel like i need to know someone is going through this too.

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Learning to stay hungry

24M, 282lbs.

Hi, I am new here and I have recently made weight loss my priority. I am already pre-diabetic with cholesterol off the charts and very low self esteem. 5-6 years ago, I was around 200lbs and did not have any of the current problems esp with confidence. Now I am at my peak and look really bad and heavy. I have all the obesity problems now with a bmi of 38.6.

I apologise in advance for not having gone through all the posting guidelines and wiki, since it is so much. So I came directly here. But I have a basic idea of weight loss now after years of doing research.

I have tried lots and lots of diets, keto, paleo, worked with nutritionists (5-6 small meals in a day), gym and all. But I have pinned down my biggest problem to be my appetite. I eat so much in one sitting. I never feel full even with one good meal meant for one person. I usually eat for 2 people in one sitting. So I am thinking the key for me is to eat less and learn to live with having little food in my stomach. Just wondering if it is possible to lose weight like this and looking for some motivation I guess. Thanks.

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Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition

I turned this program on today because I was cleaning and wanted something on that I could listen to and mostly ignore. This show is just reinforcing toxic diet culture ideas. It might be helping 20 people a season--at least in the short term--quite a bit. But look at the cost for millions of viewers. They come into this desperate, morbidly obese person's life, take away all their junk food and put them through a harrowing workout. Then over the course of a year, they give them weight goals to hit with the promise of some non-food reward to motivate them. Invariably the person fails at one of the weigh ins (which proves that even after educating them and giving them the promise of free skin surgery and amazing non-food rewards, it's still not enough to "fix" them), at which point they're berated for not trying harder. Generally, they do lose a staggering amount of weight (at least the contestants that they show. Who knows if there are others who give up altogether). Then they get skin surgery and a final reveal party. Everyone is happy, the end.

Even though I'm so so happy for the people who lost weight, I got so mad at some parts of the show:

• reinforcing the idea that all a person needs to lose weight is to be educated on how to eat healthy and how to workout. No mention that the mental part of weight loss is the most important part. A LOT of overweight and obese people have been dieting for most of their lives, know exactly how to eat healthy and workout, and have still never succeeded in the long run. Why do you think this is? Because of this very toxic diet culture which this show is perpetuating!

• reinforcing the idea there's "bad" food these people just shouldn't eat.

• reinforcing the idea that weight loss has to feel like a punishment. In the third episode I watched, the young obese man was doing water aerobics at the beginning of the show. The trainer berated his workout, saying it wouldn't get him any closer to his weight goal. I hated it.

• blaming the contestants for lack of willpower when they invariably fail at some point during the year. Yeah of course they failed! You've done nothing to address the issues in their lives that they struggle with. You haven't taught them any substitute methods to deal with stress. All you've done is take away their favorite foods and given them hard, punishing workouts. How do you expect them to cope on bad days. Eating and working out are only a small part of weight loss. The big part is the mental work.

Even without changing the format of the show, they could make simple changes to the script to make the show less toxic.

• Change the script when throwing out the junk food. Instead of making it sound like "bad" food, they could focus on all the healthy foods they're bringing into the house and show the obese person choosing to throw away the food they don't care for, perhaps saving some of their favorite foods to eat in moderation.

• instead of the trainer berating the man for doing water aerobics, he should praise him for taking steps toward his health, and offer to show him some strength training exercises to incorporate

• instead of making the first workout look like a punishment, they could have the same workout but show the contestant really enjoying pushing themself

• when the person starts struggling with their eating or workouts, the trainer could show more empathy and not telling them they failed because they lost willpower. They could show them some tricks to get into the gym even when a person doesn't want to. They could show them going to therapy to help deal with their issues. The can teach the person meditation. They can show the person how to go out and indulge, but moderate it so they don't fall into "fuck it" mode

I worry that all these contestants will regain their weight since they were never taught the mental part of weight loss. Furthermore, I think this show perpetuating harmful ideas about weight loss will keep millions of viewers from learning how to lose weight and keep it off for good.

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Eating “as many” green type vegetables as a snack?

Hey,

I have been wondering, how would affect my weight loss if I ate many vegetables as a snack?

I am on a calorie deficit for the last 2.5 month and transformed from 86kg to 72.5kg (1.74 of Height) (Yes I know it means my diet is bad and not correct and should be slower but let’s not discuss it on this specific topic please)

But lately I began to get more hungry for snacks, so I often take take here and there around the day instead of just waiting for the next meal.

Now, I do love the “healthy” green vegetables, and if we look at their calories, that’s over 20-30 per 100g, so if I wanted to really enjoy now, I’ll gladly want to eat over 1kg of those only as a snake(total of 300 calories) that’s not include the normal meals)

Can I really allow myself that? Because I know calorie deficit is needed, but how will I keep lose weight if my body receives so much of “weight” of those food per day, I mean that’s 1KG only from snacks.

Do we speak here about only temporarily water that will be easily lost with body fluids, or those veggies can actually make me gain weight?

I really love those veggies! I’m able to make them sweat by zero calories types of sauces, sweeteners(no oil at all) so it can help me a lot, especially evading those once in a while random “eating disorders” attacks that I am depressed and eat everything I want and then instantly regret it.

Thank you

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