Weight loss: Today I am three weeks sober. |
- Today I am three weeks sober.
- One year older and 65 pounds lighter with a new life ahead!
- I've had enough
- I am continuously gaining weight...
- The mindf$&@ that is a less than mediocre workout.
- I’ve lost 150 pounds going plant based but mainly through CICO. A couple things nobody seems to talk about...
- NSV: Finally found my flow (27F)
- Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 16 March 2021? Start here!
- SV/NV: 35 lbs down in 4 months and recognizing what makes me feel bad.
- 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 15
- Feeling Discouraged.
- Exercise and water weight
- Losing Weight, Gaining Insecurities, Finding Help
- In Defense of FDA-Approved Weight Loss Medications
- Feeling like shit and gaining it back
- 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - The Plan for Today!
- SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 16 March 2021: Today, I conquered!
- Vegetarian recipes where you don’t really notice the vegetables?
- I want to be thin but healthy habits feel like punishment
- [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 16th, 2021
- is it not good for me to not hit up my friends during quarantine to work on myself?
- Lost 12lbs in 2 weeks. ����
- Lost it. Then gained most of it back. Tips?
- Really afraid of gaining back weight, need help.
| Posted: 15 Mar 2021 10:00 AM PDT I haven't had a drink in three weeks, that hasn't happened in five years. For five years I drank away my problems and my fears and also my hopes and dreams, for five years I would drink and eat and crash diet and ruin every bit of success i would achieve, I used alcohol and food to help me through this pandemic too and it ended in me gaining 20 lbs. I am so proud of myself, I haven't had a drink in three weeks and I haven't binged on food for three days and I have worked out every single day for 15 days. I am doing it, I am finally letting myself succeed! I just wanted to put this out here because I have also removed myself from all social media except this and I just wanted everyone to know that even if you are fighting against the waves right now and it seems impossible DONT STOP FIGHTING! Even if it takes you five years to break an addiction be it food or alcohol or anything else as long as you keep fighting the day will come when you win that fight and then you can start counting your victory laps. [link] [comments] |
| One year older and 65 pounds lighter with a new life ahead! Posted: 15 Mar 2021 07:30 PM PDT Before / After 245 lbs -> 180 lbs I was always a reasonably healthy and in-shape kid through high school, one of those that never had to exercise, ate like crap, and was generally self-satisfied about it. That all changed my first year of college. The additional pressure combined with my unmanaged major depressive disorder was too much for me, and I fell into a deep funk for several years. After dropping out of college, I ate horribly, did nothing except stare at the walls most days, and barely managed to scrape by with the support of my family. I eventually found a great therapist, put in a ton of work, and got in a better headspace, but not before I had gained close to 70 lbs. For a long time after that, I kept telling myself I would start losing weight on Monday, or next week, or after the holidays. Then on my 22nd birthday, I caught myself saying "I'll start after my birthday is over" and finally said screw it, that never works, I'm starting today. No more putting it off, no more waiting. I ordered a healthy dinner that day (which surprised everyone) and never looked back. I wasn't perfect during this journey, but I kept up what I think is a relatively easy to manage diet. I ate whatever I wanted for 'special' meals (eating out with friends, a holiday dinner, etc.), but if a meal is 'regular', I made sure it was healthy. This way I generally didn't feel like I was missing out on too much by not eating, but I kept my calorie intake down like 95% of the time. Anyways, today is my 23rd birthday, exactly one year after I decided to start losing weight, and I feel amazing. I'm re-enrolled in school, working as a full time IT guy for a great company, and enjoying hiking with my friends without wanting to pass out after the first mile. If there's one piece of advice I would give anyone who wants to start losing weight, it's to start today, right now. You'll never be perfect and you'll have days when you eat like crap (I certainly did), but just having the mindset that you are going to be eating healthier makes a huge difference. If I can do it, you can too! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2021 08:24 PM PDT I've had enough. I'm even posting this from a throwaway because i'm ashamed of doing it from my real account. I'm 32F, and being overweigth almost my entire adult life, I had been losing weigth since 2017 and I lost around 55 pounds. Then I got pregnant and gained some, after giving birth lost some of that. And then shit hit the fan, baby had health issues and ended up needing surgery at 2 months old. After a month of stress and bad eating, when she was sent home, pandemic hit my country. I stopped exercising as much as I did before because I mostly did swimming, but that was shutted off. Still is. Started eating a lot and ended up gaining weigth, and now I have gained all that I had lost and more. My actual BMI indicates that i'm obese. I feel bad for myself, I have been trough a lot and I know eating doesn't make me feel good, but I do it anyway. And then I feel guilty. I look on the mirror and I hate myself. I don't fit on my clothes. I have also been working from home so staying home didn't help either. I keep looking old pictures and I really want to cry. I have tried to start on diets several times, but another problem is that I don't find proper support from my husband. He keeps telling me i'm fine and that I look beautiful but I hate that he keeps buying unhealthy food despite I have told him not to do so. He got me food for my birthday, I know he ment well, he got a cake and cooked a nice meal, but again, unhealthy food. I sincerely would have preferred a simple present, even a flower. But no. So I eated. And felt miserable all day, ended up crying alone in the bathroom before bed. So, I have had enough. I'm so angry with myself that I seriously have had enough. I'm subscribing to SLAM program from Ashley of getmomstrong and I'm cutting carbs and sugar. I have told my husband that I don't want junk food in the house, and that I'm really serious this time. Wish me luck, I know that is not going to be easy. If you made it here, thanks for reading, I really needed to vent. I hope i'll be able to share some progress with you in a couple of months! [link] [comments] |
| I am continuously gaining weight... Posted: 16 Mar 2021 02:12 AM PDT I need help, I'm at my wits end and I don't know what to do. Last year I went from 110kg to 65kg and I felt amazing, looked amazing. But... over the short quarantine period in New Zealand I broke my healthy eating patterns. Ever since then it's been a downward spiral from 65 to 75kg, stable for a month, 75 to 85, and now I've just hit 95kg again which sent me into complete panic attack mode... This has all happened in such a short amount of time, I don't even recognize myself in the mirror anymore, and I can't even convince myself to leave the house or go out. Some people I haven't seen in almost half a year now because I don't want them to see all the weight I have regained stuffing my face with UberEats. What happens is that I'll go on a diet for a few days, and then I will end up breaking and binging for a few weeks. No matter what I do, nothing stops me from breaking my diet and binging, so ultimately I just keep gaining and gaining and it's driving me into a horrible depression... Please, I really need advice on getting back into dieting and stopping this binge eating before I lose my mind. [link] [comments] |
| The mindf$&@ that is a less than mediocre workout. Posted: 15 Mar 2021 05:56 PM PDT This guy at work looks at me and says man you look great have you hit the numbers you're after. I'm like ya really close, but most importantly are my push-ups pull-ups and mile run metrics I set out to achieve in early 2020. I am so freaking close to those. He says I'm starting this wussy workout plan. I'm going to do 10 minutes 3 times a week every other week. I'm like why is that a wussy workout? He says "well compared to your 30 minutes plus a day, and constant extra minutes earned with push-ups extra stairs etc it's nothing".... BUT IT'S BETTER THAN WHAT YOU WERE DOING LAST WEEK!!! Which was thinking maybe next week you'll start some form of workout. You have a plan now. Is it perfect? Maybe not, but it's something. Stop beating yourself up for the less than perfect effort and recognize the effort. PLEASE!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2021 08:02 AM PDT
Edit: some spelling errors. This was more of a stream of thought than something I planned. It spawned from hitting the goal and really just not being as excited as I thought. More of just a like okay now what? It took so long to get here and now it's just over [link] [comments] |
| NSV: Finally found my flow (27F) Posted: 15 Mar 2021 05:45 PM PDT Hi All, I've been following this sub for literal years, trying to lose weight for most of my life. Always been overweight to obese, yo-yo dieting forever. Until last year- I went through a bad breakup, from a relationship of almost a decade. I've never been the type to stop eating when stressed, but my devastation from the breakup, as well as losing my job due to COVID around the same time, sent me into a mental breakdown. I ate close to nothing for almost 3 months, and shed 40 pounds. I'm not proud of how I lost the first 40, but I've kept it off since then, but haven't lost more. Like I mentioned, I've been trying to lose weight my entire life without success, and this is the most weight I've ever lost. It's been about 6 months since the initial loss, I rebuilt my entire life (new job, new home, getting used to being single etc), and I'm trying to get back on track to double that weight loss, in a healthier way. For those who have had childhood trauma like me, abandonment issues, etc, we know that a lot of weight loss and diet is mental and food/binging can be a crutch. Before, I was forcing myself to eat small meals multiple times a day, when I've always been an IF girl. I always loved meal substitutes due to my hectic job, but thought I had to be nutritionally perfect in order to be worthy of losing weight. I don't crave big breakfasts, but I always thought it was "bad". Last month, something clicked. I can skip breakfast if I want to, and if I want to drink soylent as my lunch, I can. For the first couple of weeks, I didn't count calories, I ate intuitively. I wanted to see how my body functions when I'm not putting pressure on it to behave a certain way. Here's how it went: - I wake up, not hungry. Drink a ton of water, and then my body starts craving coffee. From there, I eat a slice of toast, avo, and an egg. - Lunchtime rolls around, I'm slightly famished, but not enough to want a meal, so I drink a soylent - End of day, 5pm comes around. I'm hungry, in a comfortable way. I chopped up enough veggies for a few days, pulled my chicken out of the freezer, and put together a simple and delicious large meal. Didn't worry about the calories in olive oil, didn't fret about how much starch I was eating, or the exact ounce number of the chicken. I just enjoyed my meal, drank water, ate until I was full, and finished off with a walk before getting ready for bed. I was feeling regular, had steadt levels of energy, and felt like I was getting more nutrients than I'd had in years. Did this for a couple of weeks, noticed weight coming off of me, so I decided to log my calories for a typical day in my life. 1,500 calories, right where I want to be to lose 2 pounds a week. I was elated. Been doing it since then, though sometimes I'll have breakfast, or soylent for breakfast, and a sandwich for lunch and a smaller dinner. The main thing I'm gleaming about is the fact that I've had a realization: it doesn't matter how you get your calories/achieve your weight loss, as long as it's easy, rewarding, and enjoyable for you. I know, weight loss isn't always easy, but it can be if you find what works for you. Counseling has also helped me overcome my issue of food being a mental crutch. I've spent years grappling with the vicious cycle of starving myself, to binge thousands of calories in shame. I've finally gotten to where I'm happy. Losing weight steadily and most importantly, loving my new lifestyle. [link] [comments] |
| Day 1? Starting your weight loss journey on Tuesday, 16 March 2021? Start here! Posted: 15 Mar 2021 09:31 PM PDT Today is your Day 1? Welcome to r/Loseit! So you aren't sure of how to start? Don't worry! "How do I get started?" is our most asked question. r/Loseit has helped our users lose over 1,000,000 recorded pounds and these are the steps that we've found most useful for getting started. Why you're overweight Our bodies are amazing (yes, yours too!). In order to survive before supermarkets, we had to be able to store energy to get us through lean times, we store this energy as adipose fat tissue. If you put more energy into your body than it needs, it stores it, for (potential) later use. When you put in less than it needs, it uses the stored energy. The more energy you have stored, the more overweight you are. The trick is to get your body to use the stored energy, which can only be done if you give it less energy than it needs, consistently. Before You Start The very first step is calculating your calorie needs. You can do that HERE. This will give you an approximation of your calorie needs for the day. The next step is to figure how quickly you want to lose the fat. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. So to lose 1 pound of fat per week you will need to consume 500 calories less than your TDEE (daily calorie needs from the link above). 750 calories less will result in 1.5 pounds and 1000 calories is an aggressive 2 pounds per week. Tracking Here is where it begins to resemble work. The most efficient way to lose the weight you desire is to track your calorie intake. This has gotten much simpler over the years and today it can be done right from your smartphone or computer. r/loseit recommends an app like MyFitnessPal, Loseit! (unaffiliated), or Cronometer. Create an account and be honest with it about your current stats, activities, and goals. This is your tracker and no one else needs to see it so don't cheat the numbers. You'll find large user created databases that make logging and tracking your food and drinks easy with just the tap of the screen or the push of a button. We also highly recommend the use of a digital kitchen scale for accuracy. Knowing how much of what you're eating is more important than what you're eating. Why? This may explain it. Creating Your Deficit How do you create a deficit? This is up to you. r/loseit has a few recommendations but ultimately that decision is yours. There is no perfect diet for everyone. There is a perfect diet for you and you can create it. You can eat less of exactly what you eat now. If you like pizza you can have pizza. Have 2 slices instead of 4. You can try lower calorie replacements for calorie dense foods. Some of the communities favorites are cauliflower rice, zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash in place of their more calorie rich cousins. If it appeals to you an entire dietary change like Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian. The most important thing to remember is that this selection of foods works for you. Sustainability is the key to long term weight management success. If you hate what you're eating you won't stick to it. Exercise Is NOT mandatory. You can lose fat and create a deficit through diet alone. There is no requirement of exercise to lose weight. It has it's own benefits though. You will burn extra calories. Exercise is shown to be beneficial to mental health and creates an endorphin rush as well. It makes people feel *awesome* and has been linked to higher rates of long term success when physical activity is included in lifestyle changes. Crawl, Walk, Run It can seem like one needs to make a 180 degree course correction to find success. That isn't necessarily true. Many of our users find that creating small initial changes that build a foundation allows them to progress forward in even, sustained, increments. Acceptance You will struggle. We have all struggled. This is natural. There is no tip or trick to get through this though. We encourage you to recognize why you are struggling and forgive yourself for whatever reason that may be. If you overindulged at your last meal that is ok. You can resolve to make the next meal better. Do not let the pursuit of perfect get in the way of progress. We don't need perfect. We just want better. Additional resources Now you're ready to do this. Here are more details, that may help you refine your plan.
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| SV/NV: 35 lbs down in 4 months and recognizing what makes me feel bad. Posted: 15 Mar 2021 07:21 PM PDT This is the first time I have ever achieved steady weight loss, and the first time I have been below 190 since college. In previous attempts, I hit a plateau around 193 and just gave up. This time I came equipped with new knowledge about micronutrients and maintenance breaks, and now I'm at 187 with no signs of stopping. I had some consecutive days of relapse, but got back on the horse immediately. The best feeling is realizing that by late June (and my birthday) I will be in a normal BMI range, and I'll get to show off this bod at the onset of the summer, preliminary in-person gatherings, and I'll get to feel extra mobile in the months when outdoor activity'ing is at its peak. I've already written about the tactics I'm using but tl;dr CICO and light, enjoyable exercise. I think I've finally created a neural pathway that is strong enough to remind me that certain foods, and an excess of food, make me feel bad. I used to be able to forget *how* bad it made me feel, but, now, when faced with the decision of throwing back a pint of ice cream– I just don't. Not because of the scale but because I feel so much better (no bloat, no lethargy, no acne, no emotional dip) *not* doing that. Less obvious items that I've recently discovered that help me fit my nutrient goals at low cals:Seaweed snacks, canned smoked oysters, cottage cheese with dill, red onion, and balsamic reduction stovetop popcorn (ok, not super nutritious but throw some salt and nutritional yeast on those bbs and it's so good and so low impact) huge ass heaping piles of spinach and arugula with goat cheese melted in I plan on aiming for -10 lbs per month. Let's gooooooo. [link] [comments] |
| 30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 15 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 05:31 PM PDT Hello losers, Monday gonna Monday! Weigh in daily, enter in Libra & report here even if I don't like it: Didn't want to make eye contact with the scale this morning, 231.1 lbs trend weight. Stay within calorie range (1800): Maintenance. Easing back into the deficit after a not fabulous start to March. 3/10 days. Exercise 5 days a week: Rest day. So much snow. 11/15 days. Self-care time (journaling, beauty treatments, anything that fills the bucket, nonfood rewards): Gonna take a nice long shower. Try a new recipe once a week: Corned beef, roasted romanesco & sausage sammiches with grilled veggies. 3/4 weeks. Express mindfulness and or gratitude: Today I'm grateful for a whole world wide internet full of books. Order the paper ones, borrow digital stuff from various libraries, whatever floats your boat. Your turn kids! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2021 09:39 PM PDT Hi. I am a 21 year old girl and I stepped on the scale today to see the big red numbers 364 stare back at me. My heighest ever weight I remember is 367. During last summer I was losing weight pretty consistently and got down to 332, my lowest since high school. However I cannot remotivate myself to do anything. It seems like I will lose 20 pounds and then gain 25. I dont even know what to do anymore. I am trying not to make this sound ranty or whiny. I suffer from mental health issues which I am currently (as of very recently) receiving help for. I have done everything I can to stick to a routine. I am literally begging for some piece of advice or outlook change from someone who understands. I am so tired of living this way but I just do not know what to do anymore. I have been fat my entire life and I truly know no other way. My crippling depression keeps me in bed or inside all day. I cannot bring myself to do anything. All I do is sleep, play video games, and eat. I recently got to such a low point that I have considered just giving up on my health in all aspects. After battling my mental health and my weight for so many years, I do not know if there is anything that can help. This is something I want so bad, but it just feels like it is not worth the effort. I have tried the dumbest things to lose weight. I have also tried the tried and true methods. Nothing sticks. I never feel like it is worth it. I always return to my heighest weight or I create a new one. I am really just asking if anyone who was here at one point could just tell me what helped them escape it. I feel so lost and just stupid. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2021 03:22 AM PDT I'm about to move house at the weekend, so I spent yesterday evening dismantling both the beds in my flat. It was a task and a half - I got a proper workout! I can feel my glutes screaming at me today haha. I haven't exercised since November so my body is definitely not used to it. I weighed myself this morning and have somehow put on a pound since yesterday. I was mostly healthy yesterday but did reward my hard work with a scoop of ice cream; not nearly enough to gain a whole pound overnight though. I've read somewhere before that working out can cause you to retain water so I'm wondering if that's what's happened? How much do you typically retain from working out? It was just a surprise to see that number this morning and I can definitely feel my muscles are sore. However, my period is also due in a few days so it might be that. Just wondering how much of a role the physical exertion played. [link] [comments] |
| Losing Weight, Gaining Insecurities, Finding Help Posted: 15 Mar 2021 06:05 PM PDT TW: sexual assault, ED. TLDR at the end. I have lost just under 50 lbs over the last year - diet and lifting weights, so my body has changed and gained muscle in addition to losing fat. I have been losing weight via cico starting in Jan of last year through October 2020 (lazy keto in the beginning, now focus more on CICO vs. macros). Since September, I've been aiming at building muscle while not counting calories, and I maintained while gaining muscle. My main goal was to stop counting calories as much and see how I did - and I succeeded and I was happy with it! ...But after finding out some family history and my mother receiving a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, I wanted to take my calories into consideration again and enter a purposeful deficit for my health. I'm still overweight (BMI 31). I still have weight to lose. I have lost 6ish lbs since January while working out. I am more proud of my body now than I've ever been! I feel good knowing I can go on a 16 mile hike and not be sore the next day because my body is strong. I feel better in the clothes I wear. I feel more confident to wear a sleeveless outfit (where prior to last year, I haven't been since high school). I enjoy the feeling of being strong and seeing my body change. We've all read it before - losing weight doesn't fix the mental issues you've always had. And I agree! I have a lot of self-esteem issues and losing weight did not make them go away. I do think taking ownership of my body and my health gave me confidence. Knowing I was the owner of what my body could and would be was so empowering to me, versus the old mentality I had of "this is how I am, there's nothing I can do". I love wearing matching sets to the gym or finding an outfit for mundane tasks out in the world because it makes me feel confident and good about myself to be "put together". When I was younger, I never put effort into how I dressed. As I got older, I wanted to find my style and be more fashionable, and doing so gave me so much confidence. But I didn't realize how much my extra weight was a shield for me from other people. Ever since I crossed the 40lb lost threshold and starting buying newer clothes that properly fit me, I have started getting a noticeable amount of unwanted attention. I get approached at the gym. I have men purposefully block me while I am walking to force me to talk to them. I was buying wings after a gym session (so I looked sweaty, hair all the wrong way, mask on, smelled, whatever) with headphones in, but that didn't stop a man easily twice my age from asking me to removing my headphones so he could tell me how much he liked that I "worked for my body." I'm not bragging. I hate the attention. I dressed up as a heavier person for me and now I feel like I can't anymore because I feel unsafe. I was sexually assaulted twice as a kid, and receiving more unwanted looks/comments from men than I am used to just makes me feel unsafe. It makes me want to hide my body behind oversized clothes so I will be overlooked. It makes me want to never go out in public. It makes me want to gain the weight back. It doesn't happen often (maybe once a month) but it's enough to make me anxious and self conscious and insecure. On another side, I notice other women's bodies more than I ever have before and it's 100% comparison (which is always the thief of joy). I feel like I can't be happy with myself because my body "doesn't look like hers". Or maybe I shouldn't order the shake I've been saving up (calorically) for all week because the girl serving it has the body I wish I had. This feeds into borderline ED thoughts and I sometimes have to remind myself that I deserve food and that underrating leads me to binge and takes me further away from the goals of HEALTH that I have. I know that sustainable weight loss and health come from small lifestyle changes. Starving myself or denying myself foods that bring me joy (in moderation) is not the way to change my health in the long term. I still have those thoughts and I wished I didn't. My body is different than the ones around me - that doesn't make me or anyone else less than, and comparing myself to others is unfair to me and to them. Constantly paying attention to what I eat and my body has made me more obsessive over it, in a way I wasn't before my mom's diagnosis - I am sure my anxiety over her diagnosis is transferring over into my body image. And it's slipped away from insecurity about my body to insecurity over my relationship, minimizing all of my loving bf's affections to the way I look, and how I'll lose him because there are women more (_________) than me. He has genuinely been more supportive of me than anyone (been with him since before I lost weight), none of this is coming from him and I genuinely mean that. He loved my body before and he loves it now - but he loves ME first and who I am. And while I can say that and know it objectively, my insecurity tells me it's a lie. I think I've seen a post mention something like this before but I wanted to share it again in case there's anyone that needs to hear it (or hear it again): Losing weight won't solve your mental health problems. Losing weight has shown me how much I need to work on myself, as it gave me something else to be anxious and insecure about instead of my weight. I'm about to hit a major milestone (50lbs!) and don't feel celebratory because my mental health is just so not there. I am looking into a therapist because I need to talk about my mom, I need to work through the emotional baggage there, I need to work on building a better relationship with myself. There is strength in knowing when you need help, and more strength in actually asking for it (can't tell you how many times I've said I need a therapist but haven't actually seen one). If you're struggling with your mental health, whether you're in the middle of your journey, a lurker, you've fallen off track, or you're thriving in maintenance, I hope you seek out the help we all deserve as humans. 💙 TLDR: lost weight and became insecure about things other than my body. I know I need to see a therapist, and I'm going to - because losing weight won't magically solve my problems and because I know I am worthy of help. [link] [comments] |
| In Defense of FDA-Approved Weight Loss Medications Posted: 15 Mar 2021 01:39 PM PDT This is a followup to my summaries of weight loss and drug studies at [study] A Tour Through Google Scholar's Studies On Weight Loss Methods : loseit (reddit.com). Reddit (including r/loseit) is, as a rule, very much against using FDA-approved drugs for weight loss, viewing them as a dangerous and irresponsible cheat. This view seems very common in society as a whole. But I think this view should be reconsidered! This is an effortpost meant to persuade others why FDA-approved weight loss drugs, when taken as prescribed by a doctor, actually have a reasonable place in the arsenal of healthy and sustainable weight loss. The arguments against using such drugs are mostly in four categories, which I'll tackle in order: 1a ) "You don't know what the long-term effects of [anti-obesity medication] will be. You could be cutting literal years off your life." This is the fully-general counterargument against using drugs for the treatment of chronic conditions. And it's also a very strong objection to the use of weight loss medications, which is why I address it first. The argument goes: We can only know what we've learned about these drugs from randomized controlled studies, which tend to only run about a year. What if there are very long-term adverse effects that only happen after two years? We wouldn't know about them! (Well, that's not quite right. The FDA does require longer-term post-approval studies, which is how they knew to pull Belviq after it'd been on the market for a few years-- the longer you're able to run studies the more you're able to detect extremely subtle or long-term impacts on health.) But anyway, there always is some baseline level of risk. Ultimately, the unknown risks of taking a given drug long-term must be weighed against the known risks of obesity, which are large and known. If you can lose the weight through planning and willpower, this is best; but if you can't, drugs are second-best. Don't take my word for it: 1b) "Okay, but obesity drugs are disproportionately risky; have you considered the disasters of phen-fen and DNP?" These were indeed public health disasters! They are why the FDA nowadays is extremely conservative with approving anti-obesity medications, requiring lengthy trials before they are taken by the general public and revoking approval at the first sign of serious side effect risk. Which is why there are currently a low-single-digit number of FDA-approved anti-obesity medications: these are precisely the ones for which scientists have not found serious long-term side-effects even after extensive study. 2 ) "Drugs might help you lose weight initially. However, you'll have to go off the drugs eventually, and then you'll just regain the weight." This is true for some drugs, but not all. Qsymia and phentermine are considered to be for short-term use; Contrave, Orlistat and Saxenda are for short or long-term use. Semaglutide (Ozempic) similarly is for long-term use in type-2 diabetes patients, though its usage as an anti-obesity drug otherwise is off-label. 3 ) "Drugs can only treat the symptoms of obesity; the true root cause is a unhealthy psychological relationship with food, which drugs cannot treat." I include this argument for completeness, since it is one I've seen advanced on Reddit. The prevalence of obesity in the US is 40%. To the extent that the root cause of overweight and obesity is an unhealthy relationship with food, this is the default state of humans in the United States, and it appears to be extremely difficult to change (in the sense that decades of public health measures haven't made a dent in the problem). Workarounds are likely to be useful, and this is one of them. 4) "Anti-obesity drugs just exist so that people don't have to do the work of dieting. They should simply use CICO/Keto/WFPB/other diets to lose the weight naturally, which is cheap, healthy and achievable for all." Ultimately, you don't gain or lose virtue points by losing weight naturally vs. with drugs. It's your life; if you find that CICO dieting without drugs makes you miserable, you are under no obligation to suck it up and deal with it just because it's theoretically possible for you to do so. Drugs exist for our well-being, and we shouldn't be shy about reaching for them for this purpose any more than somebody with depression should "just power through it" without pharmacological aid, or someone with OCD should just "get a grip". In conclusion, I of course agree with most on here that people looking to lose weight should first try out dieting; but if that's ineffective or unsustainably miserable, checking out the current list of FDA-approved weight loss drugs should be something you discuss with your doctor. [link] [comments] |
| Feeling like shit and gaining it back Posted: 16 Mar 2021 03:44 AM PDT (18M) I've had a rough couple of weeks recently. My 91 year old grandma was in the hospital with Covid but she's out now My mom was in the hospital for a scheduled operation but she relied on me for transport and taking care of her basic needs. However, that aspect ended about a week ago. I only work on weekends so I can focus on school during the week but the stimulus check hit and everybody was at my work it seemed like. It's AP study season and I'm taking 3 exams this year. Oh and to top it off my cat might have anything from a UTI to bladder cancer It's been... rough. I feel exhausted from the moment I wake up until I go to bed. My back, which has some strength and postural issues but nothing crazy or extreme, is hurting a lot more and I just feel sluggish and disengaged. I lost over 100 lbs over the quarantine. It changed my life! I'm so glad I did it but now I'm gaining back some of it. It's not muscle, I haven't been lifting, it's fat. I think as of now I've gained about 8 to 10 pounds give or take. My face, while still slim (I think... and hope) is rounder, my chest is slightly softer and my belly is rounding (though surprisingly I can still fit in my pants). I keep telling myself I need to go for a run but every day I just feel so tired when I get home and I collapse and eat. I'm falling apart and I just want to get my life back on track. I'm in a body I don't want living a sedentary lifestyle I don't want to live and I already feel less confident and I want to conceal my body more. I'm burnt out! I take my multivitamin and drink my water (only water) but I can't seem to find energy. I sleep, sometimes I sleep in but it's never enough!! I can't go on like this. I am crying out for some help, please! I don't want to feel like this anymore. [link] [comments] |
| 24-Hour Pledge - Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - The Plan for Today! Posted: 15 Mar 2021 10:01 PM PDT Wake up with determination; go to bed with satisfaction! This is our daily check-in, to help keep us accountable over the long haul. Feel free to post whatever goals will help keep you on track. Here's the regular text on behalf of this thread's originator, kingoftheeyesores, taken with his blessing
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| SV/NSV Feats of the Day - Tuesday, 16 March 2021: Today, I conquered! Posted: 15 Mar 2021 10:01 PM PDT The habit of persistence is the habit of victory! Celebrating something great? Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, long or short, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! (Details are appreciated!! How are you losing your weight?) * Did you just change your flair? pass a milestone? reach a goal? * Did you log for an entire week? or year? * Did you take the stairs? walk a mile? jog for 3? set a new personal record? * Fit into your old pair of jeans? throw away your fat clothes? fit into your college outfit? Post it here! This is the new, improved place for recording your acts of awesomeness! Due to space limitations, this may be an announcement (sticky) only occasionally. Please find it daily and keep it the hottest thing on /r/loseit! --- On Reddit your vote means, "I found this interesting!" Help us make this daily most the most read, most used, most interesting post on r/loseit by redding, commenting, and participating often! --- [link] [comments] |
| Vegetarian recipes where you don’t really notice the vegetables? Posted: 16 Mar 2021 12:35 AM PDT Okay, I KNOW the title sounds strange, and this'll probably sound stranger, but I'm trying to find vegetarian recipes where you can't really notice the amount of vegetables in it? Some background: I've been a vegetarian all my life and currently don't have any plans to start eating meat (except for things with chicken broth—that's okay for me). Unfortunately, I also really don't like vegetables, mainly because of their textures. I don't know how to explain it, but I have some sensory issues and it makes it hard for me to find vegetable-heavy foods that I can comfortably eat. And look, I KNOW it sounds really immature, and I really am trying to fix it, but I'm currently trying to find vegetarian recipes that have a good amount of vegetables in it, but not in a noticeable way. One example I have is this vegetable lasagna I make, where instead of using ricotta and whole vegetables, I purée cottage cheese and a ton of vegetables to make the sort of cheese replacement. Does anyone have any other suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| I want to be thin but healthy habits feel like punishment Posted: 15 Mar 2021 01:00 PM PDT I just watched this youtube video and it made me realize something. Kiana says that the reason many of us go through these cycles of wanting to binge eat comfort foods then extreme fitness and dieting to get thinner because we feel bad about ourselves, is because Chantal sees exercise and healthy foods as a punishment. She says you need to WANT to change your unhealthy behaviours so that your body doesn't feel like good choices=punishment. I have never felt worse about my potential to lose weight. I made a big change in the past, i lost roughly 60 pounds over the course of 3-4 months when i changed living arrangements and had less opportunity to binge eat. in my world, that is the extent of "wanting to change unhealthy habits".. When i exercise it releases no endorphins, it actually makes me feel worse about myself tenfold. I spend 30 minutes "working out" then 3 hours crying about how much i hate myself. Similar problems with food, like i said i stopped binge eating (for the most part) but i didn't cut out foods i like, aka big portions or fast greasy food. I just managed when i ate them. but if i would have to genuinely NOT WANT those foods anymore, i have to give up now because i simply don't see that happening. Kiana gives some advice how she overcame this during her "rock bottom", but my rock bottom as been happening non-stop pretty much since i hit puberty. if my rock bottom gets any lower I don't know if I'll choose to live through it. this is it. if i'm not motivated now, how do i get there? EDIT: Thanks for all the responses. the only thing i really wanted to say in response to some comments is that as much as i wish i could do therapy, it is not at all an option right now. Besides that thanks for the advice. Lots to think about [link] [comments] |
| [Challenge] European Accountability Challenge: March 16th, 2021 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 10:56 PM PDT Hi team Euro accountability, I hope you're all well! For anyone new who wants to join today, this is a daily post where you can track your goals, keep yourself accountable, get support and have a chat with friendly people at times that are convenient for European time zones. Check-in daily, weekly, or whatever works best for you. It's never the wrong time to join! Anyone and everyone are welcome! Tell us about yourself and let's continue supporting each other. Let us know how your day is going, or, if you're checking in early, how your yesterday went! Share your victories, rants, problems, NSVs, SVs, we are here! I want to shortly also mention — this thread lives and breathes by people supporting each other :) so if you have some time, comment on the other posts! Show support, offer advice and share experiences :) [link] [comments] |
| is it not good for me to not hit up my friends during quarantine to work on myself? Posted: 15 Mar 2021 11:31 PM PDT i gained back a majority of the weight i lost before quarantine. which, is about 30 pounds since this all started. i was at a great 5'4, 153 lbs. toned muscle and the best shape i've ever been in. i dealt with a, technically 2 break ups between this time. i really looked at myself in the mirror about a month ago, and i was like "shit, i'm far gone from where i was last year" but i kept getting, "you know, everyone's dealing with their own personal shit right now. people are gain weight/losing weight and gaining or losing friends. it's all apart of this weird journey" totally understandable. but from where i was: in shape, clear face, worked with a lot of young people like myself in person, i felt my confidence was constantly being practiced and challenged. once quarantine started, i stop challenging myself as much. and i also work from home, away from all of my work friends. so i lost a lot of my social-ness, i feel. i just got back on the horse as of lost month, taking it slow, but going about 5 days of of the week. i don't reach out to my friends as much, i've noticed since i've made these changes (snap, twitter etc) and to be honest, i noticed after losing weight, being in shape and gaining it back, the people i normally talked to treat me differently. my friends used to always find ways to reach out, and it was a two-way street, but since the weight gain, i feel like i'm not respected by them as much. it hurts. so i'm not reaching out to them either. i feel like it's helping me work on me, but at the same time, i feel like i'm being an overthinking ass, and isolating myself bc people might be dealing with the same things i am. (the last time i hung out with some friends was about a month ago. i'm usually very social) tl;dr: was in great shape before quarantine, gained my weight back and my friends don't treat me the same as when i was in shape. i feel like i'm responsible for them moving on from me. should i let people come to me and focus on myself during this journey? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2021 07:07 AM PDT 20F 5'3 SW: 210.2lbs (03/02/21) CW: 198.4lbs (03/15/21) GW: 120lbs (03/02/22) About 2 months ago I posted here about my binge eating problem and I was at 205lbs. Over the next couple weeks I gained another 5lbs. One day something in me snapped and I decided I didn't want my weight to affect my confidence anymore. I stopped eating fast food and cooked myself. Drink lots of water and try to keep myself busy. I'm down to 198lbs. At one point I thought I might be losing the weight too fast but I've always had a high metabolism and lost weight quick eating healthy. By my 21st bday this June I'm hoping to be at around 150-160lbs. [link] [comments] |
| Lost it. Then gained most of it back. Tips? Posted: 15 Mar 2021 09:18 PM PDT Hi all! Long time lurker first time poster. I am going to try and keep this brief. Due to various reasons (excuses really) like covid, gyms being closed, a major car accident, my lung collapsing, and an apartment fire... life has recently been really stressful and difficult. I've found myself turning to food again and without my regular exercise I am watching my weight rapidly increase. I'm almost back to my starting point. I feel extremely upset and disgusted with myself. I know what I need to do to lose the weight but I also am finding it difficult to do what I did last time / stick to a routine / find myself happy or motivated when I do lose weight because that was a weight I had already combated and now I'm back at it. So instead of celebrating when I lose a few pounds I can't help but think about how I was already past that point this time last year. I feel like a failure. I never thought I'd be at this place in my life again and yet here I am... Any tips tricks or advice on how to get that motivation back? How to stop resorting to food to help me cope with everything collapsing around me? Particularly maybe from those who have experienced losing weight after gaining it back? Also any tips for virtual or at home workouts? I can't go outside. The drunk driver who hit me hired a PI who watches me all day to make sure I'm actually injured which means my lawyer has prohibited me from even taking out the trash 🙄 Wow that wasn't brief at all. Sorry...! Thank you in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Really afraid of gaining back weight, need help. Posted: 16 Mar 2021 04:35 AM PDT Hi everyone, sorry for my bad English also sorry if this question has been asked too many times. After a few months of losing weight, from 82kg (180lbs) to 68kg (149lbs). I start getting into lifting for about a week, but I still want to lose more weight until 65kg (143lbs) I recalculate my TDEE from tdeecalculator.net, and they suggest that I should eat around 2000 calories for cutting while still maintaining muscle, and to maintain is around 2500 calories. When I reassign my information in MyFitnessPal, they suggest that I should only eat 1500 calories, or I will gain weight. I freak out a little bit, then start searching on Google, to see which one should I trust (TDEECalculator or MyFitnessPal), most comments say TDEECalculator is more accurate. Today, I try to eat 2000 calories as TDEECalculator told me and I just couldn't handle it, I feel like I want to vomit, this is just too much, even when I was overweight, I cannot eat this much (all I do is drinking soda when I was fat) I read a few articles online, they said if I deficit too many calories from my TDEE, my muscle will not grow and I still retain my belly fat, but If I eat as the TDEE suggest, I could grow my muscle while still lose weight and make my belly less fat. (sorry, I may express this wrong, because of my limited vocabulary) I'm really afraid if I eat as TDEECalculator said, I could gain back my weight. Am I paranoid or overthinking? I don't think I have that much muscle after losing weight, and because I'm a beginner maybe I just eat like normal, just not over-exceed my calorie intake, and workout normally? Thank you. [link] [comments] |
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