10 Facts To Lose Weight Without Gaining It Back

[Anonymous]

There was a time in my life when I was a fat kid, being 250 lbs when I was just 16 years old.

I managed to lose almost 150 lbs since then, and even if I'm very thin now, I prefer it than being 250 lbs. After all my weight loss it's one of the few things I'm proud in my life. I didn't gain any of my weight back except some few gains during my first years of weight loss process.

It's clearly a mental thing. No diet will save you, if your mind refuses to follow.

Anyway my facts would be:

1) Feel Disgusted By Yourself

That's the most essential reason, if you want to start the weight loss process. It will really help, since you will start being dedicated and not cheat on your diet.

2) Being Made Fun Of Your Weight

Of course I must make it clear I'm against fat-shaming. But in my case it really helped. I just felt my presence was being disgusting to other people,so I had to take some action.

So IF in case you suffer from fat-shaming, it will actually prove to be helpful.

3) Don't Cut Off Any Meal From Your Diet

No there are no "fattening" foods. It has to do with quantities and only. I was still eating "junk-food" and drinking sodas during the process. 3 slices of pizza (considered "unhealthy") won't make you "fat"...but 10 dishes of salad (considered "healthy") will put you on some weight for sure.

4) Cutting Off Meals Will Make You Desire Them More

Yes. If pizza is your favorite food for example and you cut it off because it's "unhealthy",then everytime you see a pizza you will go crazy for sure, till one day you'll end up devouring 5 boxes in just 1 sitting.

5) Weigh Yourself Often

Like once per week at least. It will help you to keep some balance and not let yourself on the loose.

6) Eat In Order To Stop Your Hunger

Not for satisfaction. You should know when to stop if you want to succeed.

7) Always Calculate Your Calories

It's essential for your weight loss. You should know how many calories you need to consume.

8. Excercise Will Help Losing Weight Faster

Particularly walking and running. At least 1 hour per day is good.

9) Prefer 4-5 Small Meals Than 1 Big Meal

It's been proven that if you eat the same quantity in 1 sitting than in 2,you will get hungry again earlier.

10) And Most Important...Once You Succeed With Your Weight Loss

Always remember how you were before losing weight. It helped me a lot personally.

You wouldn't like to be as you used to before,right? So always mind your quantities. Of course now that you aren't on a weight loss process anymore,you should be more relaxed with your diet...but this doesn't mean you should totally let yourself on the loose.

[Jay-Are]

One of the most important things about losing weight is understanding how the human body works. Most people don't realize it has a built in survival mechanism.

What often happens is that people stop eating or cut back and be hungry lot. This is actually when you start to gain weight. Because you stopped eating the body actually thinks it's in danger and tries to store all the food you do eat as fat. That's why you actually gain weight during dieting.

The trick is to cut back only a little bit. Just enough to not let the body notice. Then after 1 or 2 weeks when the body is used to this amount cut back a little it more. Repeat this until you reached the desired amount of eating.

Another thing is that people once they have reached their goal start to live the way they have lived before. Don't do that. In most cases just eat healthy, exercise, keep doing that and you'll be fine.

[ichot]

Clarification on number 8.

It's a waste of time if one just does light and low intensity exercises.
An exercise intensity that works the heart rate at 70~80% Max is often recommended. Check out "target heart rate" if you want to know what yours is. From what I've seen of fat people working out, they barely make it past 20%. Walking does NOTHING to improve cardio strength nor does it increase metabolic rate.

[Anonymous]

I completely disagree with 1 and 2. I have sufferend from eating disorder and weighting myself often and calculating all calories will make me obsessed. So those points work for only some people. I don't get the point of 4. Do you mean you should fight against pizza until you eat whole box or should we eat pizza a little sometimes?

[myTake Owner]

if you cut off something you like, then you are going to want it more and more.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah that is true. So you should allow yourself to have that thing a bit sometimes?

[myTake Owner]

yup... :)

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah I agree that works best

[JamielovesKU]

Another thing too is don't drink your calories!

[Anonymous]

There's a million things wrong with 1 and 2. Studies show that fat shaming helps people gain MORE weight, while loving support that urges you to stick with your diet and exercise actually helps you lose.

People don't need to fat shame others, and ESPECIALLY shouldn't fat shame themselves. Large people already think terrible things about themselves. Purposely making yourself feel like shit and fat shaming yourself is a good way to set you on an unstable path to mental illness and potential self harm.

I'm glad that this worked for you. But 9 times oit of 10, such things can seriously harm people.

[ichot]

You think protecting a fat person's feelings and making them feel comfortable being fat is going to encourage them to lose weight? Heck, they already have a disability card and scooters to use to pick up food now they can feel good about themselves engorging on food?

Shaming is NOT possible to someone that doesn't feel the shame themselves."Fat-shaming" is anything that reminds fat people of their OWN shame. An advertisement that features a muscular women is "fat-shaming". And most fat people are RUNNING away from the shame instead of facing it. There's a reason why more than 75% of the American population is overweight and obese. Being fat is normalized now, no one has the backbone anymore to tell the fat-asses that they don't need multiple burgers and a large soda.

Take a look at running magazines of lately, ESPECIALLY WOMEN'S. Fat people claiming they can run just as well as athletic fit people. Oh com'on. /facepalm. Could they belittle athletic people any further?

[Opinion Owner]

@ichot I don't think you even read what I wrote. So go take a closer look. I'll wait.

Now I'm going to reiterate what I ACTUALLY said, whether you actually went back to read my comment or not.

I said EXACTLY this: Studies show that fat shaming helps people gain MORE weight, WHILE LOVING SUPPORT THAT URGES YOU TO STICK WITH YOUR DIET AND EXERCISE ACTUALLY HELPS YOU LOSE.

No one is fucking protecting shit. You DON'T have to be an ASSHOLE to fat people to get them to lose weight. Is being overweight bad for their health? Yes. Do they know this? Well, considering a large population of Americans have a shit education, no, not everyone knows what's bad for them The rest of them either don't care, are working on it, or have an underlying condition.

Don't fucking group a bunch of similar people into the dame category. I'm a fatass. I look at myself in the mirror every day and hate what I see. Am I working on it? Yes. Do I need to be shamed? No!

[Opinion Owner]

@ichot Also, people eat TO HELP THEMSELVES FEEL GOOD. People who are fat shamed are more likely to resort to emotional eating because they feel bad about themselves, and food makes them feel good. THAT'S why fat shaming doesn't work 95% of the time.

So fuck off with your unintelligable and asshole answers. Obviously you're someone who's somehow been persecuted by a fat person in the past. Or maybe you're just so petty that you can't just simply ignore us. We don't need YOUR seal of approval or input on how we're trying to change our lifestyle.

[Opinion Owner]

@ichot From a quick look at the questions you recently answered on your profile, seems like you're just petty and think that women were made to please you.

So don't even bother to grace me with a response. 😂

And just so you know, your statistic was off. You seem to know everything about how fat people work yet you don't eveb know the statistic for your own country.

So, in case you're curious, 68.8% of people in America are considered overweight, but only 35.7 are considered obese. Have a nice day dude.

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to lose weight by just doing some light exercises?

I do watch my calories but it doesn't feel as good since I don't feel healthy

I am not fat but I want to lose at least 12 pounds.

[Cosma]

weight loss is 90% diet so yes you can. Exercise is great for looking really good in a swim suit or having a nice ass, plus it's wonderful for your health.

[myTake Owner]

in my case it helped.

[Lauraxo95]

I agree for the most part, but eating 4-5 meals a day isn't mandatory for weight loss. Some people thrive on 1-2 large meals a day (intermittent fasting) while others feel better eating 5 small meals a day. Losing weight may be as simple as reducing or eliminating processed sugar and listening to hunger cues as opposed to eating mindlessly. This technique doesn't always involve tracking calories. There's no one size fit all approach when it comes to losing weight. Thanks for the myTake!