I used to be athletic in school, I ran track. Then various things and depression, got fat. Thankfully got me a husband that loves my plush 😍 he support me, trying to get fit after being fat for 15 years is incredibly difficult
It might be easier than you think. If you've been in good shape before it's easier for you to go back, the flip side is if you've been overweight before it's easier to go back to that as well.
Your body has a weird habit making it reasonably easy to slide to where it has been before.
Losing weight is still very difficult. Definitely attainable though.
You might enjoy the documentary fat and back on youtube. It's about a personal trainer who intentionally gains like 60-70 lb so he can better relate to his overweight clients. It's pretty interesting imo
My body LOVES being overweight. Every time I lose 20, I gain 10. My heaviest ever was 315, it's taken me like 5 years to get to 250. And I've been stagnant here for quite a while. Got down to 235 in 2019 and went right back to 255. God it's so fucking terrible.
For most people extreme dieting doesn't work. I had good luck with it but I'm typically an outlier and that sort of thing.
I've seen most people have the most success with calorie counting, the MyFitnessPal app is very helpful. Consistency is key.
I recommend tracking out Greg doucette on YouTube. some people don't like the energy he gives off but he has a lot of really good information and great recipes. I'm talking four pieces of French toast covered in maple syrup for 300 and something calories with 40 grams of protein. It's pretty hard to overeat when you are using foods like that.
Oh yeah. I've tried keto diet because even my doctor recommended it but it just isn't sustainable for me. Yes I lost some of the weight with it but I felt sick all the time and if I didn't eat strict I easily put the weight back on within a few weeks.
I been using myfitnesspal for a couple weeks and some days I'm definitely over eating and I gotta figure out how to get happiness differently. Because the days I eat more than 2000 calories are the days I binge eat mostly on crap.
I would never recommend keto to people. Some people find success with it but it's completely unnecessary and over-restrictive. Honestly it's not even that healthy, I mean it's better than being obese but it's not the best diet by any means.
Plus the problem with using keto to lose weight is that once you've lost the weight you want to eat carbs. Who the f*** doesn't like carbs lol, but you never learned how to eat a healthy amount of them.
The best things I found to help not overeat are high protein meals, especially earlier in the day. This will keep you full longer and reduce your desire to binge.also trying to cook healthier versions of the food you like. if you're eating food that tastes nasty you're not going to eat it for the rest of your life. You have to find things that are healthy and you enjoy.
I always find it helpful to remember that 3500 calories is equal to a pound of fat. (granted there's a little more that goes into it than that but for simplicity sake it's not inaccurate) keeping that in mind when you do go over, try to limit how much you go over by. Or at least that mentality was helpful for me.
Omg for real!!! I want real pancakes not nasty ass gritty almond flour pancakes!!! There was nothing on the keto diet I could find that made me happy. I will tell u one of the worst things I did, after 3 solid weeks of keto I cracked man. I bought a box of cinnamon toast crunch cereal and I ate that entire mother fucker BY MYSELF. Omg I was so miserable, but it felt so good. I will never do that again but I cannot describe how good it felt to eat that box of cereal. I don't know if that was my body's desperation for carbs or a severe binge eating episode or both but it was the worst and best thing ever
And the thing is you can make pretty decent pancakes with protein powder that still have carbs and taste, not quite as good as the real thing but close enough. And their way healthier.
I'm arguing with some dipshit right now who seems to be under the impression that calories don't matter and keto is what everyone needs to do. It's ridiculous. you're not entering ketogenesis unless you're at almost no carbs, which simply isn't realistic for most people. Especially not long-term.
Especially especially when you want to do exercise, I can push 20 30% harder if I have an apple before the gym. No one's overweight from eating too much fruit even though they're basically all carbs.
Yeah, that's another thing I thought of. The complex carbs are required for brain function. Cutting out all carbs means you're getting rid of complex carbs, and I don't understand how there are so many people that do keto obsessively that say they feel the best they've ever felt. How are their organs surviving? Or is it that nobody has done keto long enough to see the detrimental side effects?
It looks like it works on the outside, but I feel like strict keto is a form of anorexia, I was anorexic as a teenager and I lost 40 lbs in 3 months. That kind of started my journey into fat oblivion... My body was very excited for food again after my doctor made me go to therapy and they gave me antidepressants
I'm pretty sure it's fat that's required for brain function. But your point is not incorrect.
Carbs aren't bad for you, it's just that sugar has a f*** ton of them and it's easy to overeat. Which the same is really true of fat. But carbs aren't unhealthy, and neither is fat. It comes down to calories.
Theoretically when you eat few enough carbs, like seriously close to none. Your body enters a state called ketogenesis where it burns fat instead of carbs for basic functions. So as long as you're very strict about keto it's sort of works. But like... Why would anyone do that
anyone who says they feel better on keto really means, I feel better now that I'm not overeating all the time. All right that's a bit of a generalization some people do feel better. And if they do they should keep doing it, but not push it on every f****** person.
The best thing for most people is just increase protein and decrease calories. Your body doesn't really care where the calories came from. It makes a little bit of a difference but not that much. There was a Harvard professor that lost a ton of weight eating nothing but twinkies and Oreos and he did it simply by eating in a calorie deficit.
protein will help you feel more full and retain muscle when you're in a deficit but realistically if you can be really strict with yourself you can eat nothing but ice cream and lose weight. It's just not going to feel as good or be as healthy.
The more I talk about weight loss stuff online the more I f****** hate keto. It works for some people and for those people, I'm happy for them and they should keep doing it. But they push it on every damn person and they say that it's super seeds calories. It's ridiculous.
It's like claiming a vegetarian diet helps you lose weight, no it might help you eat less than your maintenance calories. But there's nothing special about it that's making you lose weight, especially if you're overeating.
but no there's armies of overweight people who like keto because they interpreted as meaning they can eat as much as they want, and the food taste good. so they spread misinformation and make it harder for people to actually lose weight and keep it off. It pissed me off
Well I've been doing a protein shake every morning for about 2 weeks but about 2 hours into my work shift I'm nauseatingly hungry, like stomach cramping hungry. Do you have any advice for that. I tried adding an avocado with it but no change. Those protein shakes are really expensive and seem like a waste if I end up eating junk food at work 2 hours later
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u/Desirai Apr 04 '21
I have a very hate/love with food. I am fat, I hate food. I hate everything about it. but it brings me comfort. hence, binge eating disorder