I'm fat and have been all my life. For the very first time though, I've actually started to slowly lose some weight. It's crazy because my whole life I've worried about my weight/counted calories and had a really bad relationship with food but I recently decided I wasn't going to dedicate ALL my time into thinking about food, and then naturally, BOOM I started to loose weight. I now don't hate myself constantly, and do things that make me happy without letting food dominate my mind. I have sorted through some trauma and issues and stuff I have had in my life, and I have naturally started to eat healthier and excersise more without forcing myself to do horrible workouts. I really believe If you mentally get healthier, that's when you will be successful in losing some weight.
I am presently fat but slimming down. My big change happened when I got my thyroid checked and discovered that I have an underactive thyroid.
After that, it's just a matter of getting exercise, intermittent fasting, and staying away from carbs.
Oh, and don't do that whole "eat what you want to lose" thing. It doesn't make sense. If I want to lose fat, why would I give my body a bunch of fat? If I want it to use my fat, why would I give it the fat it needs through my diet, instead of making it rely on the fat it already has?
We’ll I was a slender child before I hit puberty at age 13. Tall and slender. I stared gaining weight which wasn’t bad but then I ballooned up to 252lbs by junior year which was awful. Believe be being a very tall and overweight girl isn’t attractive at all. I had to cut out the jund and I became a vegetarian two years ago. My weight loss journey was a struggle and my weight went up and down but so far I lost 51 pounds. I told told I’m getting too skinny and I should gain some of the weight back but no way. I worked too damn hard. I did cardio, swimming, walking and rode my bike.
not currently- but a former fat teen/young adult had an underactive thyroid and the weight started coming off a few weeks into the medication, took a full two years and hit target weight. i was always active- unfort it took awhile for them to see my thyroid wasn't working properly.
have your tsh tested if you can go to the Drs and getta blood panel on thyroid function
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Yes. I stopped being fat by having goals towards being thin & behaving in accordance with those goals. Helps if they're interdependent. The first step should always be an alteration of what you eat. It needs to be reevaluated to better fit how much energy you're actually expending & need.
Can't stress how great the my fitness pal app is. I log my food so much. I also recommended the yuka app. But it takes a great knowledge of things though. Because just because the yuka app says something is a 1/10, it doesn't mean you'll be unhealthy if you consume a bit of it. We are what we absorbe & so long as the body isn't Absorbing dangerous amounts of things then you'll be fine. The dose make the poison.
there's no one size fits all with fat loss, so many contributing factors and many solutions as well.
For me I've been fit a good amount of times in my life but currently I'm overweight, I'm considering water fasting, red light therapy and a few detox solutions to get to the root of it, exercise was my go to solution but for whatever reason its not as effective as it used to be, I'm sure I'll figure it out and get back on track.
I do know without fail everytime I went vegan i lost fat, its fool proof, just no meat or dairy, usually means i can't eat vending machine food or ultra processed which the body definitely does not need.
I've never been fat. Max weight I've gained was +10kg and even then I could still wear most of my clothes although they were tight. I don't think my body could tolerate more than 10kg considering my height. I gained weight because I was going through something and was eating really badly. As soon as I went back to a healthy diet I managed to lose the weight.
When I was in my 20s, it was easier to lose weight. I'd exercise on the gym and I'll lose weight in a month. Now in my early 30s, it's harder. It took me more than 6 months to lose weight. I wasn't as thin as before, but still, I lost weight. Before I was only around 48-50 kg. Now, I'm around 55-57 kg. It's definitely better than being overweight.
i wore 44/22 pants in 8th grade and considered walking between classes strenuous, now i'm 30/32 and do marathons wearing body armor. Stopped eating as much, stopped eating as much crap, got real active. never looked back
Spent most my adult. life being fat. Around 21 I starved myself. Was having 500 calories 5 days a week, maybe 1000 one day and zero the other. Lost 2 or 3 stone very quickly. Put it all back on with interest over the years.
I was used to be about 260 lbs when I was younger, now I'm about 205. Drink lots of water and exercise. Don't starve yourself. Just eat healthier.
All you really need is a calorie deficit but I’m doing did that ran 5 miles daily did some weight training 3x a week and that’s it since I’m cutting from a dirty bulk (wouldn’t recommend dirty bulking)
I'm 6'4" and I weigh 185 lbs
I always been thin, but I feel fat because part of my belly don't have that 6 pack shape no more
I am and there's nothing I can do to lose weight, I was once at ideal weight but 5 hospitalizations and 4 years later, I'm back where I started and a whole lot worse
yes, eat less, eat healthier and move more.
Works like a charm
I used to be 250+, now 155. Just stopped overeating.
Low carbs no sugar.. walking n strength train and your dinner in 2 months..
I lost 22lb in 10 days drinking only diet rootbeer and Coke Zero. It was a good deal losing weight fast. Rootbeer really gives you full feeling.
Hey, good for you, keep at it but don't go over board. I have always been on the thin side.
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