has anyone else experienced this, when I lost a big amount of weight the “positive” comments people made triggered me so much

When I lost weight I got more attention from my family and friends, and women. Many comments were positive but you know, they were insulting my old self knowing that I had been fat for 80% of my life.

I felt so uncomfortable every time because im that person still, im still the same guy, I just ate less for a period of time.

I always knew people dislike fat people for just existing, I’ve been living it at my life. Ive had many instances where people just hate me from the first time they meet me because of the weight, people see you as being less than.

I hate that my weight loss made people feel comfortable with insulting who I was before. Plusim an introvert so every conversation being center around my weight was just weird to me.

It hurt hearing people tell me how they felt about me and my weight, they wouldve never told me anything before. But now that I lost the weight it was a free for all for weird comments about my body.

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Getting fit and healthy but always getting sick

Hello folks.

For the past 7-8 months I've been on a weight loss and getting fit journey. When I am well I am doing really good. Problem is though I seem to catch every single virus there is going and I end up having to take two weeks out of training to recover.

Question is, is this due to training and eating healthy? Taking too much out of myself? Or is it just because I have kids (germ magnets) and lock downs doing a number on us all?

So far this year I've had

Flu A Covid Bronchitis. Tonsilitus And now a bad cold

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What foods/minerals/vitamins helped you with diet fatigue?

Hi all,

I've been losing weight for about 14 weeks, and went from 82kg to 68kg eating (mostly) in a range of 1200-1300kcal and doing cardio everyday. I had been feeling energized - I haven't been working during this time, and yet my days have been much longer. I used to work flexible hours and always wake up late, but since quitting I've been following a good schedule in the evenings and waking up every single day at 6:30am, staying busy with studies and physically active. My mental health is much better, so my motivation is in an all-time peak.

In the past couple of weeks, though, diet fatigue has started to creep in. It hasn't affected my sleep much, and I don't feel sleepy during the day either, but I feel physically weaker. I had comprehensive blood work done a few weeks ago, so I know for a fact I'm not deficient in anything - iron, vitamin b12, vitamin d.

Other than the obvious factor of having been consuming less calories over a period of time, which is literally fuel for my body, I have some ideas of what could be causing this, but would love some recommendations and to read what might have worked for those of you that have gone through this.

• I'm wondering if my macro ratios need to be adjusted. Right now, the split is 20% protein, 43% carbs and 37% fat. I've always struggled with protein and have made a genuine effort to increase my intake, so there are days in which it is the same as carbs. Also, I do eat in a range, so when I eat less calories (closer to 1200 than 1300) carbs are the ones that I sacrifice. Not consciously, but because I mind protein more, that's what tends to happen;
• My diet is naturally low in salt. I don't eat much outside and don't use it a lot in my meals, so I'm often somewhere between 1000-1500mg. I also drink a lot of water (as well as unsweetened tea/infusions, and coke zero on occasion), so I'm wondering if this is causing some type of imbalance. It's probably between 2-3L per day, out of habit.

I'm a lifelong vegetarian. I eat a lot of vegetables (really, a lot), and fruit, so my diet is high in fiber. I haven't been hungry at all during this weight loss period, and, given that my meals are not usually high in calories, I can also snack comfortably and have not felt the need to cut anything off.

I should also mention that I've started to increase my calorie intake. As of this month, I intend to stay around 1400kcal/day and increase it by 100 every month until November, then stay in a very low deficit for 3-4 months, we'll see. My plan isn't dependant on the weight I'm at, since I'm likely to enter a healthy weight range this month and would consider anything after to be a nice bonus.

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the dark side of losing a huge amount of weight

By all means, I have to start off by saying weight loss was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have lose roughly 200lbs and have been able to maintain it for almost 2 years. I started at 398lbs in 2020. I am currently 26F.

Weight loss did fix alot of my problems. It also gave me a life I had never experienced. I have definitely experienced living in the past 2 years than I have in my entire life and for that I am thankful.

Now for the negatives.

1. My entire life and though process is calorie counting. If I stick to my calories, my mood is great, Ive done amazing, life is beautiful. If I go over my calories by even a few calories, my mood becomes trash, I get irritated, moody, etc.

2. My entire day revolves around food noise in the sense that Im either thinking of what to eat thats low calorie, when can I eat next, how to stretch every calorie, etc. its honestly exhausting. My husband can look in the fridge and throw a few things together and call it a meal. I have to plan carefully as to how I can engineer the meal to be the least amount of calories, highest amount of volume and highest amount of protein. Its EXHAUSTING.

3. I see more flaws in my body now than I did at 398lbs. maybe its because I care more and am harder on myself. But unfortunately I pick apart my body several times a day and on days where I am not mentally in the right mood, I cant look at the mirror without having an internal meltdown.

4. I am obsessed with the scale. I will be starving in the morning but refuse to weight until the exact same time every day before even getting a sip of water. Its a problem.

5. I have had 2 rounds of skin removal surgery and one follow up procedure. You would think it would be enough. Nope, Im going back in for another procedure to remove even more skin in some areas Im not happy about. It never ends. My husband tells me he finds my body so normal and beautiful but I cant seem to convince myself I am happy with it and I think I can always make it look better. Im sick of myself too.

6. I am terrified of having babies because I dont want to ruin my body again. I am so worried Ill gain weight or stretch out my surgery results that I am dreading the idea of pregnancy.

7. yea thats it for now.

I just wanted to write this to say that weight loss is great but it wont fix everything. but its still worth it to lose weight to live an overall healthier life. Do I have these thoughts, yes. But if you look at my life as a whole, you will see that although I have my issues, I have come a long way and have really changed my life for the better.

But yea I should see someone. This is pretty much borderline if not already an ED or something.

Drop some of your pros and cons of weight loss. Or opinions. Happy friday.

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Hi! I desperately need encouragement and a metaphorical slap in the face!

I keep finding new bottoms to sink to and I'm hoping that by writing this it will change something in my mindset. Please help me with advice! Or just encouragement

I've had times in my life where I was quite fit and times where I was obese. I've had the most success in losing weight and also feeling amazing by doing intermittent fasting and something called the dukan diet (basically nothing processed no sugar).

But now I'm getting older and I've gone from obese to morbidly obese. There was a while that I was technically morbidly obese but I still felt normal. But not now. Now I actually feel morbidly obese. I feel like a hero for walking a few blocks like I did a major accomplishment. My body is starting to feel like a prison.

I tried getting on the weight loss injections and I had a prescription but I can't afford it. My doctor recommended bariatric but I don't want it to have to come to that just yet. I've done major fasts before! I've done three day dry fasts. I love the high of exercise. I love how good I feel when I eat healthy. But it's been many years and I don't know how to start again.

And now I don't know what to do without food. Eating and hunger have nothing to do with each other anymore. It's almost like I don't know what to do with that myself without putting food in my mouth. I know I just have to reshape my mentality to getting my high from the gym instead of food but I don't know how to start.

I know I'll be able to do it once I start for 2 weeks but I don't know how to do those first two weeks. It seems so futile because especially now in menopause I barely lose any weight even if I don't eat anything. Please help me find the motivation to believe that it's worth starting even if I don't notice any difference for a month

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Feeling confused and hopeless about the journey

33F we all read so many things.. like make a lifestyle change, but weight loss comes from a calorie deficit.

For me, I can't count calories for the rest of my life. How do I make a deficit a lifestyle otherwise?

I know I could eat much cleaner, but I don't eat excessively. I already eat under 2k calories a day. I doI lost weight previously by using slim fast but that was a huge calorie deficit and I gained it back.

I don't drink soda or coffee. Just green tea. I can look at a bagel and gain weight. It's so frustrating.

I know my medication doesnt help or even prevents weight loss (Zoloft).

Where would you start? I also tried Noom, using My Fit Pal, Cardio apps, Pilates challenges. The weight just increases.

Oh, right, I am 205lb and 5'3. ADHD 🙃

Tia ❤️

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Struggling with bingeing after weight loss

Over the past year I have successfully lost around 50lbs after dealing with binge eating disorder and just a horrible relationship with food for a very long time. I definitely struggled to contain the binge urges during the beginning, but from january of this year up until last month I had been doing extremely well and was completely binge-free. However, as I am now getting close to my goal weight and am getting more comfortable with body, I have found myself less motivated to stick to my “healthy lifestyle” and have felt the urges to binge coming back. During the past month or so there have been a few instances where I had a small binge, but they weren’t horrible and I was always able to get back on track the next day. For some reason though, earlier this week I had a binge and I have not been able to get myself back on track, and instead have been binging almost every day since. I am trying so hard to resist the urges because I always hate how I feel afterwards, and this was my exact behavior before my weight loss journey and I do not want to ruin my progress, but it is just so hard. Does anyone have any advice?

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