I’m currently stuck at a weight, have been for about a week. I’m afraid I can’t really lower my calorie intake any more since that’ll do my health no good. I’ve also noticed that if I exercise too much and put my body through stress, I don’t lose any weight either (rather the opposite). Being active is quite hard for me too, since I struggle with depression and therefore motivation. Do you have any advice?
I’m prob gonna cry while writing this but fuck it idc.
June of 2022, I was at my highest weight for my height and I was overweight. I was about 148 pounds at 5’2 and at first I saw no issue with it until I realized, I gotta lose weight. I’ve been overweight my whole life. The doctors constantly telling younger me I’m a “bit too large for my age” and stuff but it’s just become a way of life for me, esp with me being African American, a lot of black people don’t believe in being “fat”. They just call it “well fed” or “thick”.
It became a long battle of dieting, restricting, binging, working my ass off but eventually, by the end of the year I was at 118 pounds. The lowest I’ve ever been in my older life. However, I still believed I was fat and wanted to lose some more weight. I was on eating disorder forums and sites that were aiding me in weight loss but little did I know, this would only fire my restrict on weekdays then binge on weekends habit. The weight gain started to creep up but because I could still fit into my jeans, I just said “eh it’s just food/water weight” or “I’ll restrict for real this week”. The weight steadily packing on, I just felt like I lost control and so, I kept eating. Up to 3K-4k calories constantly.
Fast forward to now. I’m now around 136 pounds. Still binging and restricting. My fat jawline is back, my thighs are heavy again and my waistline bulges out of all my jeans. I hate myself for letting this happen to me. I hate it. Summer is coming up and everyone is getting their successful weight loss but here I am, gaining. I just feel like there’s no hope anymore. I know I lost the weight once but now I feel like I just don’t know what to do anymore. And I feel like everyone notices my weight gain but just doesn’t say anything and this makes me scared to lose weight because what if they notice the rapid weight loss too? I just want out of the binging now. I just want to lose weight and be happy with my body. I know everyone binges, but that still doesn’t make it okay for me to binge. $100’s of dollars gone to diet foods and workout equipment, just for it to go to waste and for me to be crying over my weight again. I just feel like I’m meant to be overweight forever.
I’m looking for some advice. This may not be the right place for my situation, if so please just let me know. In hopes of keeping this not-painfully-long, I’m going to use bullet points to lay out my situation.
I could go on, but I think this summarizes my struggle. I can answer further questions in the comments.
My main question is, is this something I should seek help over, or just get over myself? Specifically my energy level is what I so desperately want to heal, I just don’t know how to go about it.
It’s taken a year of medically supervised dieting to lose 40 lbs and I can’t believe the results: No beneficial improvements. I still feel run-down, have high blood pressure, take MORE medicine than I did a year ago. My face and boobs are sagging making me look significantly older. Skin flabbing everywhere and at my age, it isn’t going to bounce back. Will I keep it up for another 40 pounds? Maybe. I’ll keep trying for now anyway. I’m hoping that something good happens in the next year. Maybe I haven’t done “enough“ yet. Ultimately I’m starting to think that weight loss isn’t the cure all doctors are touting. My weight was blamed for all my ailments whenever I would visit any physician in any specialty. Now I’m losing the weight and still have the ailments, so maybe they will listen now? TBD.
Hi,
At my work study job on campus, they decided to invite the students to participate in their seasonal steps contest. I’m excited and decided to join, specifically because my boss is known for getting a crazy number of steps and winning every time. Like, 21,000 steps a day type step count. I want to beat him. I’m super competitive and I’ve been meaning to start walking more, so I feel like this will help push me. However, I usually do like 5k steps a day so I’m starting off pretty low and suddenly leaping to be very active. Yesterday I managed 15,000 and today so far I’ve done a little over 18,000, so I think that I have a chance, but at the same time, I don’t know if I’ll be risking getting some type of injury by doing this. I don’t feel abnormally sore on my feet, but I can definitely feel the difference between my normal activity level. Does anyone have any input? By the end of the challenge (2 weeks from Monday) do you think I’ll be able to see any weight loss?
Can anyone recommend a good alternative to alcohol? I find after a long day it's a nice means to relax and wind down and let off steam. But it hinders weight loss and is overall unhealthy. Desert like cheesecake, muffins, pie, would be nice except I am of course trying to lose weight and they are not much healthier than beer anyway.
The lists I see online offer things like:
I have associated consuming something specific as opening the door to the end of the workday and the beginning of relaxing/have fun time. I would like to keep this habit, but simply replace what I currently consume with something else
There are plenty of other suggestions online, but often they seem slanted to encouraging the reader buying what the website wants to sell/promote (Kava, GABBA, L-theanine, etc etc).
Any thoughts? Honest opinions?
I’m finally deciding to start my weight loss journey but I’m scared of hurting myself. I’m 6’6 and 400 pounds. My healthy weight is around 210 so I’m about 200 over right now. I know a lot about nutrition and how to handle that. I was told losing weight when your as big as I am is 80% diet and 20% exercise. How frequently should I exercise and for how long and what exercises should I do ? I don’t want to lose the weight real quick than put it back on I’m wanting to make a life style change. What is a work out schedule that I’m going to be able to maintain without hurting myself. I’m scared if I hurt myself and can’t go to the gym that’ll ruin the routine of it. Thank you so much for any help.
