Weight loss support thread

DrearyDoomguy said:
There's actually a known cause and term for this phenomenon. It's called the insulin roller coaster. The body has a specific amount of glucose it wants in the bloodstream at all times, and uses insulin to regulate that by encouraging fat cells to consume glucose when too much is present. This mechanism not terribly precise and when you eat too much sugar at once it severely overcorrects and clears your bloodstream of sugar. That's why you tend to feel satiated for much shorted periods of time when eating carb-heavy meals, and feel compelled to eat more afterwards.
Eventually this kind of abuse causes your fat cells to resist insulin, which in turn overworks your pancreas to the point that it wears out. Once that happens you are a type II diabetic.
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If fat cells become resistant to insulin and can no longer cope with the amount of sugar, why does losing fat help with diabetes. Doesn't more fat cells = more ability to absorb the excess sugar?
 
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Been doing pretty good since the fast, keeping myself around 1800-2500 calories a day. Dropped another couple pounds in the last 10 days or so. No real difference in my face (always the last to change on me, darnit) but back fitting in the 33" waist pants I have, which big win. Of course prior to the pandemic I was fitting in 31" so yea, ways to go still. Stupid pandemic, was such an excuse to let yourself go and with the gym closed where I live for basically 18 months it was easy to do.
 
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Overly Serious said:
If fat cells become resistant to insulin and can no longer cope with the amount of sugar, why does losing fat help with diabetes. Doesn't more fat cells = more ability to absorb the excess sugar?
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I can't speak to specifics because it's outside of my area of education but the basic idea that was communicated is that fat cells are going to be more reluctant to create and store more fat the more they're already storing. Weight loss=more room to store fat and thus less resistance to lipogenesis via insulin.
 
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Re: All the sugar sperging. You really don't know how prevalent added sugar is in the food supply especially in the US, until you start really keeping track of it. Even then, with all of the creative names that they use to sneak it into the ingredients list, it really seems insidious on how many that there are.
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As for me, last Friday my weight was 200.8#. From a starting weight of 308#, that makes a tital weight loss of 107.2# so far. Weight loss has definitely hit a plateau but muscle mass and strength has increased for sure judging by my workouts at the gym.
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Smar Mijou said:
Re: All the sugar sperging. You really don't know how prevalent added sugar is in the food supply especially in the US, until you start really keeping track of it. Even then, with all of the creative names that they use to sneak it into the ingredients list, it really seems insidious on how many that there are.
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As for me, last Friday my weight was 200.8#. From a starting weight of 308#, that makes a tital weight loss of 107.2# so far. Weight loss has definitely hit a plateau but muscle mass and strength has increased for sure judging by my workouts at the gym.
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Sugars are a major problem "artificial sweeteners" or as what they really are "synthetic sugars" they are a major problem. You definitely want to be aware of the verbage "added sugars" especially of the deceptive labeling "no added sugars, zero sugars" or hell even "zero calories" more often than not. They will have artificial sweeteners. That's a great list you found so far this site got the most extensive list of sugars there is over 70 names for sugars. Despite that list being extensive it still doesn't cover all. I was thinking of doing one mega post of things to look out for. Sugars was definitely on the list.
 
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Cum Laudely said:
Sugars are a major problem "artificial sweeteners" or as what they really are "synthetic sugars" they are a major problem. You definitely want to be aware of the verbage "added sugars" especially of the deceptive labeling "no added sugars, zero sugars" or hell even "zero calories" more often than not. They will have artificial sweeteners. That's a great list you found so far this site got the most extensive list of sugars there is over 70 names for sugars. Despite that list being extensive it still doesn't cover all. I was thinking of doing one mega post of things to look out for. Sugars was definitely on the list.
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It's all about the rate of absorption into your body and how you process it, AKA Glycemic Index. While artificial sweeteners might have a lower GI, alot of them can wreak havoc on youe gut biome and cause other metabolic issues as well. I'd rather eat a spoon full of white sugar than splenda/sweet n low/etc. At least it's a known, more natural sweetener than a chemical substitute. For me, I don't really use any sweeteners, but if I do, for tea or something, I usually use honey, or agave nectar.
 
Well it's 5am and I've just scared myself with the thought that I'm potentially way closer to this image than I might think.

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Right now I'm pretty sure my one saving grace is that I'm still in my twenties. I know that once you start getting into your thirties, suddenly the shit you could get away with before stops being able to be a thing you can get away with. I'm not "mukbang big", but if anything, it's probably better to overestimate how bad it is.

Also doesn't help that I feel depressed a lot and sleep way too much. I've become a socialite shut-in.

Gonna actually quantify how bad I am tomorrow (only scales I have are out-of-battery and nothing will be open at this hour), but fuck man, I've kinda shaken myself now to the point I wanna panic, but can't really do much at 5 in the morning.

Probably also cause I was watching a video talking about "fat activism" and one line stood out, explaining that obese people are addicted like smokers are and immediately paralleled myself and went "shit man... I'm the equivalent of someone smoking 50 a day".

I'm kinda tempted to try picking up some new hobby so that I actually look forward to leaving the house too.
 
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I'm down about 20 pounds since I started back in December. I figure if I made it this far - including surviving the holidays - I should be in pretty decent shape by summer. Not muscular, but at least not a fatass with their gut sticking out over their swimsuit.

I forgot how difficult it can be to find clothes that aren't made for "all body types" meaning fatties.

Smar Mijou said:
It's all about the rate of absorption into your body and how you process it, AKA Glycemic Index. While artificial sweeteners might have a lower GI, alot of them can wreak havoc on youe gut biome and cause other metabolic issues as well. I'd rather eat a spoon full of white sugar than splenda/sweet n low/etc. At least it's a known, more natural sweetener than a chemical substitute. For me, I don't really use any sweeteners, but if I do, for tea or something, I usually use honey, or agave nectar.
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Try allulose, it's sugar but has a lower GI than glucose - low enough that people with diabetes/on keto use it.
 
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Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
I'm kinda tempted to try picking up some new hobby so that I actually look forward to leaving the house too.
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Make the gym a hobby. You're looking at 30-60 min out of the house and around people. Can even do Planet Fitness if you think people at the gym care what you look like.

Unless you live in the ghetto or an equally shitty area, take a walk in the morning before your day begins and again when you get off of work.

Watching depressing shit and thinking depressing shit will make you depressed. Simple fix is shut your brain off by keeping it distracted.
 
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Stopped drinking Soda daily. I always get into the bad habit of it over the holidays. Presently I'm only drinking it on the weekends and soon once I'm sure I won't get any major headaches from the caffeine withdraw I'll be back on water only.

I think that'll help a lot as most of my excess comes from soda. My work still doesn't give me enough time to go the gym, however I recently got a puppy and walk her at least a mile everyday, and 2 miles on the weekend, so I'm not as sedimentary.

Its probably not enough, but its a start and it goes from actively harming myself to improving.
 
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Abbadon's Gate said:
Presently I'm only drinking it on the weekends
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Try the carbonated sweetened water you can find from grocery stores like Walmart. The actual good tasting stuff, not La Croix.

When I was giving up soda, I realized I was "addicted" to the carbonation for whatever reason and it allowed me to just stop soda all together. After a bit, I was able to only drink the carbonated water twice a month and water the rest of it.
 
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You're MDNWU said:
Try the carbonated sweetened water you can find from grocery stores like Walmart. The actual good tasting stuff, not La Croix.

When I was giving up soda, I realized I was "addicted" to the carbonation for whatever reason and it allowed me to just stop soda all together. After a bit, I was able to only drink the carbonated water twice a month and water the rest of it.
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A good suggestion, but I think I'll be fine. I tend to fall into a pattern of being able to quit cold turkey and be fine, then holidays roll around and everyone's got soda and then I get back into the habit of drinking it.

Normally I'm fine because I only drink it at Restaurants (I don't drink alcohol), but this last year I was very busy and ended up drinking more than usual.

That said I'm not sure if its the sugar or the carbonation that I'm addicted to. I'm inclined to think its the sugar, but I might try that anyway just to see if its the carbonation.
 
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Smar Mijou said:
As for me, last Friday my weight was 200.8#. From a starting weight of 308#, that makes a tital weight loss of 107.2# so far. Weight loss has definitely hit a plateau but muscle mass and strength has increased for sure judging by my workouts at the gym.
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Sick! How long did this take you? No doubt you said earlier in the thread but I'm too retarded and gay to look it up.
You're MDNWU said:
Try the carbonated sweetened water you can find from grocery stores like Walmart. The actual good tasting stuff, not La Croix.

When I was giving up soda, I realized I was "addicted" to the carbonation for whatever reason and it allowed me to just stop soda all together. After a bit, I was able to only drink the carbonated water twice a month and water the rest of it.
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I had the same issue but my thing was diet soda. Once I switched to Topo Chico I realized I didn't give a shit about soda or caffeine, it was the carbonation and that "texture" it gave to the drink I wanted. Surprisingly not that hard to give up once you realize black coffee and water are easier to keep around you regularly during the day.

Now I have carbonated water only when I'm eating at a restaurant, so like once a week.

A thing I want to share with you all that has helped me tremendously in avoiding temptation and maintaining body composition is this.
 
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im starting my journey, got at least 80 pounds to lose, my goal weight is 200 pounds. Ive been doing 24 hour omad fasts for a week now. not much change, think i need to change what im eating during omad
 
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spurggist said:
im starting my journey, got at least 80 pounds to lose, my goal weight is 200 pounds. Ive been doing 24 hour omad fasts for a week now. not much change, think i need to change what im eating during omad
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What are you eating for that meal, what're you drinking throughout the day, are you doing any physical activity etc etc
 
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