Alcohol and weight loss?

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I lost a bunch of weight recently and am currently actually a little under weight, but I have some stubborn fat around my arms and neck that won’t go away.

I’m a VERY heavy drinker, usually 2-3 tequila sodas when I get off work. No calories besides the tequila itself because I don’t use any mixers besides soda water. If I were to quit drinking, what are the chances I’d lose the stubborn fat?

I don’t exercise often, so I know most people would advise hitting the gym to target specific areas, but due to other health issues physical activity is difficult for me.

Obviously quitting drinking will help me lose weight, as it is A LOT of calories I’m drinking. Probably around 600-800 calories, at 90 cal an ounce. I guess I’m curious about just how much quitting would make a difference. I hope that makes sense.

Sorry for rambling, I need to meet the word count. ETA: late 20s, 5’8, 124 lbs, F

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Is loosing weight on SSRIs really hard?

So i went on SSRIs 2 years ago for my anxiety and i think they helped me a good bit. My anxiety didnt go away but it didnt feel unstoppable anymore. Since then, ive stayed on them and for one reason or another ive put on 80 pounds. I calorie counted for 2 years or so before i went on SSRIs and lost lots of weight, stopping shortly before i was perscribed.

I know SSRIs cause weight gain in many cases but i also know i was not vigilant watching what ive eaten the past 2 years as well. Do SSRIs slow down my metabolism or just make me hungirer? I feel like ill be able to loose weight again if it is just hunger but im really scared to try if its my metabolism being effected. I dont want to starve myself and still not see any weight loss due to every little thing i have blowing me up like a balloon.

I know my mental health is important but isnt it better to be a bit anxious than 80lbs overweight? That cant be good for my long-term health. Should I talk to my doctor about going off my meds and learning to cope without them before i try to loose weight again?

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How to deal with the disdain you have for your body, while losing weight and not sabotaging yourself

I have body dysmorphia, I was diagnosed with it after I I lost 100 pounds. My weight loss doctor gave me the advice of literally not looking at myself due to the severe mental stress I would get from looking at my body. I don’t know if that’s good advice but since I dealing with losing weight again, I’m struggling even more with the hatred I have for the way my body looks and how it will look when I lose weight.

I’m dealing a lot with comparison but specifically with my issue with the fact that I don’t and probably won’t have the body I want even when I lose weight. For example I think I have an apple/inverted triangle body shape and it’s dang near impossible for me to wear a dress without my stomach spilling over my hips and making me look like Igor. And I have massive back fat, and I’m so sure when I lose weight the fat I have back there will just deflate but won’t go away unless I get surgery and even if I get surgery I’m still going to be unhappy BECAUSE of the fact that I’m not naturally curvaceous.

Here’s the issue, my mind is set, even if I’m not the shape I want to be, I will still lose weight for my health. But I’m having a harder time this time with losing weight and being patient. When ever I see my stomach showing I get like extremely angry, like wanting to punch something angry, most of the time I just resort to bawling my eyes out. Or I’ll see how massive my arms are or how big my back is and I literally have had to put a sheet over my mirror cause there’s only so much I can take before I get deeply depressed about the way my body looks.

I know losing weight healthily takes time, but I’m literally going insane everyday with how my clothes fit and how I literally can see my stomach everyday and I look like I’m pregnant. My family has gotten on to me for dressing like I don’t care about how I look…but I literally don’t and when I try, everything looks bad in me.

I have heard that you have to accept yourself or the best thing to do is accepting who you are before losing weight and I have accepted the fact I won’t ever feel pretty in my body, and atm the reason I want to really lose weight is for health purposes and also to calm down my body dysmorphia. I really would love some advice, how did you guys deal with the hatred of how you look while losing weight?

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Before & after 70 lbs

https://imgur.com/a/W5BDcxO

This is the first time I've been brave enough to post a before and after of my weight loss. I'm having a hard time, and struggling a lot with body dysmorphia. Its a real mental thing right now. Some days I wake up and think I'm a cute, normal sized person, then someone takes a candid picture and I look like Jabba the Hutt. Some days I feel like I'm still almost 400 lbs when I know I'm not. I've worked so hard for so long and am still SMO. I still have a long way to go, but I've visibly come so far. I'm having a hard time in many areas of life right now, especially looking at myself in the mirror. I guess I'm looking for some kind of outsiders perspective. Like, the difference is real, right? Has anyone else struggled with body dysmorphia as the weight has come off?

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Therapy finally clicked with me, and I am finally achieving weight loss with ease

I just need to tell someone this because I am proud of myself.

I started my weightloss journey almost 4 years ago. I started at 188 lb, and am down 47lb today. A lot of my weight loss journey has been ups and downs, nothing super consistent. I would obsess, focus on hitting a calorie deficit no matter how I felt, work out even if I was sick. I would burn out every few months and regain 10lb each time. It was an extremely slow weightloss because of it. Eventually I had to maintain because I got really really sick.

During this time, the therapy I had started 15 years ago finally clicked with me. I had been forced into therapy as a teenager, and obviously very resistant. A lot of medical abuse and a conservatorship led to my mental health deteriorating. I was finally rediagnosed two years ago and I got a hold of my medical records. Been working through that, my issues with control, and my actual mental health problems in therapy since then. For some reason, it all clicked last year.

How does this tie in with weight loss? I started again this year, with the goal to just take it week by week. Do I want to gain? Do I want to lose? Do I want to maintain? I made that decision each week. My only requirement to myself is that I track it all, whether half-assed or with the scale. I noticed that I am forgiving myself more often than not. I have been sick for the last two days and I told myself, let's just track. I am sick. I need to rest, I cannot exercise, and I will do that when I feel better.

Before, I would either stop tracking and eat what I want, or I would not rest and get so sick I would be in the hospital. I would feel out of control and I would try to regain it anyway I could.

I haven't felt that the past two days. And I have been still at a very slight deficit. I don't feel out of control. I feel very....normal. I haven't obsessed over weight loss for the past couple months. I have been just okay, maybe even bored with it. And I think that's what I want. I don't want to be excited when I see the scale change. I don't need those hits of dopamine. I changed a lot of my portion intake to be lower, and I feel healthier. My body is changing. My "mommy pouch" is mostly gone. I have more energy than normal.

I am still not in my goal range, but I am still happy to be where I am at. My mental health is better. My illnesses are under control since reducing my portions to stay around or under 100grams. I look forward to being able to climb and play with my 3 year old. I look forward to hiking longer.

Thank you for reading this if you got this far!

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Binge ED isn't easy to overcome.

I gained almost all my weight back.

I only started my weight loss journey recently, but I guess I had a strong honeymoon phase with it and thought the whole process would be that easy. I lost almost 15lbs and felt better than I'd ever felt in my life. I felt light, I started liking my body and feeling confident, and had incredible energy levels and focus levels I'd never had before. I still had 25lbs to lose, so I had to remain consistent.

But, I did all of that when I lived alone. When my uni semester started up and my friends moved in with me, I had one day I gave in and let myself have McDonald's. I meticulously checked the calories, got a healthy serving. I thought it'd be okay. But since I started my weight loss, I hadn't had any fast food or junk food at all. It was like that one meal woke back up my binge ED and I kept binging since. I've gained almost all the weight back since then and I am so ashamed of myself. I'm now realizing the only way to keep my binge ED under control and reasonably recover is to avoid these trigger foods entirely until I can find a safe way to have them in moderation.

Anyway. Back in the gym today, back on my diet today, and although I hate myself for falling off, I'm not giving up on myself. I want to be better.

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How to lose weight after a plateau?

My situation is a bit complicated, so if this isn’t the right place to post this then I apologize in advance.

I found out I was pregnant in January of this year and have since lost ~30 pounds (I would like to add this was not achieved in a healthy way, I struggled with hyperemesis or excessive vomiting for the first 6 months and wasn’t able to keep any food down. I’m not promoting this method of weight loss at all). I am 5’8, 22F, and was originally about 224 lbs. I now weigh about 198 lb give or take (some of it is the weight of the baby, placenta, blood, etc.). I don’t eat much (a meal a day, usually) on most days as I still struggle with my appetite from months of not being able to eat.

Online, my calorie maintenance is supposedly anywhere from 2,000-2,500 (given that I currently do light exercise ~3 times a week), but I currently eat less than that and am still plateauing. There was also a period of time where eating even 600 calories a day was enough for me to gain weight, but since then I lost it (somehow) and my weight has gone up and down from anywhere from 189lb to 208 lb in the last 2 months.

I’m worried that my body is getting used to not needing as many calories to sustain itself and that when I’m not pregnant (in a week, lol), it will be hard for me to lose weight with just a simple calorie deficit. I’m scared that my body is only going to lose weight off of something ridiculous like 1,200 cal/day because it’s gotten fairly used to not needing much to sustain itself, and that seems to be the problem I’m having.

My question is has anybody struggled with this? And if so, what did you do to get past the plateau? I am trying to get down to at least 160lb and plan on doing moderate exercise (weights and cardio) at least 4x a week and prioritizing protein in my diet. If you read this far, thank you!

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