Weight loss support thread

[Optavia Sales Rep]

From March 2024 to January 2025 I went from 233 lb (bmi 35) to 175 lb (bmi 26). I've never felt better in my adult life. I quit smoking as well. I'll never undo the damage done to my body from years of poor choices, and I didn't start losing because of some noble goal, but you can't argue with results.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Been sticking to a really good diet.

Breakfast: Two boiled eggs, a smoothie, a cup of milk, and a spoonful of honey.

Snack: baby carrots.

Lunch: a salad with various fruits and vegetables. Tomorrow it’s spinach, a chopped up apple, and tomatoes. I’m running low on supply.

Snack before gym: a potato and a cup of tea with a spoonful of cinnamon mixed in.

Dinner: 10 oz chicken breast and white rice and broccoli.

All in all, it’s around 1,898 calories. It’s shocking, because that’s a lot of food and yet because I’m not consuming a bunch of oils and butter I don’t even hit 2,000 calories. The gym also helps so I know I’m definitely losing weight from this diet.

 

[Arlo Gunthrie]

I started today.

How I ended up here is really complicated and weird. I grew up with a family of women with eating disorders and ended up with one myself. (Shocker) As a child I spent a lot of time in inpatient eating disorder clinics. I restricted, I purged, I binged into mostly losing most of my childhood into intensive individual and group therapy sessions. They monitored my calorie intake to make me gain weight. Some girls would maintain on their meal plans, some would lose weight depending on what their issues were with food. I learned a lot about counting calories and macros and what the long term effects might be if I continue to restrict calories.

But then I discovered drugs and alcohol. I learned I could be skinny AND escape reality, which was great except it ruined my life for a good 20 years.

I had to get sober. I have shit to do. People depend on me... So I quit. I've struggled with so many different drugs at different points in my life, and I never went to rehab... And now I think maybe I should've at some point.

I stopped using opiates around 7 years ago. I quit alcohol around 5 years ago... Then I still had a fierce addiction to cocaine, psychedelics, and marijuana that was DESTROYING ME. How can I still tell myself I don't have an issue when I'm doing cocaine every day, even at my own child's birthday party.

So I quit. It's almost been 2 years and replaced it with a diet coke and delta 8 addiction..... And food...

I gained over 100lbs in less than a year. A good part of my early sobriety, I didn't get out of bed... And I was a door dash queen. Apparently I really am good at gaining weight.

I'm finally at a place in my life where I think I can handle getting this together. I should probably look into therapy but no insurance.

I have been weighed 2 times since I went sober and my starting was 120.. then 180 6 months later to 230 6 months after that and now I'm at 207... And I want to just be able to put my shoes on.. I don't want to be a fat fucking bitch. I don't want to be a skinny bitch like I was on coke either. (I don't think that's an issue realistically) I literally just don't want to keep fighting off whatever the fuck I'm addicted to at this point until it kills me.

I immersed myself in GORL WORLD and I think that was a wake up call.

Anyways, thanks for reading.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

i've been eating nothing but chicken and broccoli for the past month

I fucking hate this but I wanna look hot before summer

 

[Iron Jaguar]

a smoothie

Glucose

a spoonful of honey

Glucose

various fruits

Glucose

potato

Glucose

white rice

Glucose

Cut these out and replace them with animal fats. Watch your visceral fat melt away.

 

[Crispy Jakes]

According to a ton of people I talked to on myfitnesspal forums the big mac has perfect macros. What gets people is the fries and a soda.

Don't believe a forum of morbidly obese people when they tell you that, actktually, a McDonalds burger is dietarily perfect.
You're already on mounjaro, stop seeking excuses to eat Big Macs.

 

[10TH Kiwi]

Just a little heads up for people losing weight.
It's very-very easy to lose weight because fat is just an energy reserve, the real problem is you can lose muscle mass faster which is not good for physical health as it drains your body.
Tips! I suggest eating lean meats like fresh tuna and chicken breast, and eggs are pretty good too but I hear some people can feel sick from eating them often.
Every once and awhile a fattier meat like salmon or chicken thigh is good too, because if you don't eat them in excess they can give you more energy.
Eat more green vegetables, I would suggest salad, of course. You can do so much with a salad.
Take vitamins so you do not become lethargic such as calcium, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin D, and DHA.
All of this while lower the intake of foods and drinks with very high carbohydrates and starches as much as possible, and I shouldn't have to tell you, but glutton and dairy. PLAIN yogurt with cucumber is a good snack though for gut bacteria.
To kick that hungry feeling or "fat rage" I suggest snacks like fruit, bananas, apples and berries because they're incredibly filling and have low caloric value. As a bonus to fruits they are natural carbohydrates and can help out a lot with sugar withdrawals. Final thing, go out, run an errand. Jog, walk, run, live. Just enjoy the open world and stop being fat af.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Take vitamins so you do not become lethargic such as calcium, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin D, and DHA.

Isn't the whole point of eating well and varied that you don't need a random assortment of vitamins, especially since they're overpriced as shit in modern society?

 

[10TH Kiwi]

Isn't the whole point of eating well and varied that you don't need a random assortment of vitamins, especially since they're overpriced as shit in modern society?

The issue is that overweight people have the problem of being use to a huge intake of these vitamins in excess to whatever they eat and will feel weak or irregular brain chemicals happening which cause cravings as a result. Where I live they aren't as expensive so I didn't really know this was a touchy subject.

 

[Brahma]

The issue is that overweight people have the problem of being use to a huge intake of these vitamins in excess to whatever they eat and will feel weak or irregular brain chemicals happening which cause cravings as a result. Where I live they aren't as expensive so I didn't really know this was a touchy subject.

I've never heard under before, interesting if true

 

[Derka Derka]

The issue is that overweight people have the problem of being use to a huge intake of these vitamins in excess to whatever they eat and will feel weak or irregular brain chemicals happening which cause cravings as a result. Where I live they aren't as expensive so I didn't really know this was a touchy subject.

The issue is obese people are consuming too much of just about everything

Sugars/carbs from processed foods is causing them to consume too much

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I suggest eating lean meats like fresh tuna and chicken breast,

There is NO benefit to eating lean meat. It doesn't help you lose weight, and it tastes like shit.

fruit, bananas, apples and berries because they're incredibly filling and have low caloric value

Wrong. Fruit is absolutely loaded with fructose, especially bananas.

As a bonus to fruits they are natural carbohydrates and can help out a lot with sugar withdrawals.

This is criminally stupid advice and you clearly have no in-depth knowledge of the subject. Fructose is actually much worse for weight gain than pure sucrose.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

As observed, it is physically impossible to get weightloss or dietary or nutrition advice online. Every bit of advice will have someone telling you the exact opposite thing and that the advice you formerly got was completely wrong.

I have one friend who redpilled me on seed oils who has a copypasta for every single protein, molecule, vitamin, or atomic construct that can exist in a 3 dimensional physical space and how if you eat them you are killing yourself. Oh, and calories are a myth, apparently.

He's also a Europoor as far as I can tell, so he has interesting ideas on the availability of food or services. Like he genuinely believes the average American can just walk down to a baker running a small rustic shop next to the shoemaker and the apothecary and pick up fresh bread.

 

[niggercattle]

Oh, and calories are a myth, apparently.

Correct.

 

[Arlo Gunthrie]

I miss rice mountain the most

 

[McMitch]

I’m starting my yearly attempt to get my weight down. Currently, I am 227 lbs and want to hit 200 by the last full week of April, with a final goal of ~180 by July. Last year, I got down to 215 after starting at 250, before stagnating for several months.

While my diet is not great, I know a majority of my weight issues stems from a more sedentary lifestyle than I am used to. My job for most my adult life was much more physical than the job I have now, and I used to live in a part of the country where I could get outside every day.

I want to focus on body weight exercises, rather than buying weights that I’m not necessarily motivated to use. The exception to this will probably be a pull-up bar. I also want to get back to a running distance of 5k contiguous, eventually extending that to 10k closer to summer.

I’m hoping that recording a weekly progress here will help me develop good habits.

 

[Aiōn]

I overindulged quite a bit this past Christmas and have been focusing on my diet since the start of the year, mostly for health reasons but I could also stand to lose a few lbs.

I've dieted in the past and some of it was miserable, eating too little and then rebounding. I'm currently really enjoying what I am doing and figured I'd share.

When I wake up I aim to drink plenty of water and herbal tea. I eat 2 meals per day with plenty of vegetables, dividing my BMR roughly in half. One day I made a chicken burrito bowl which was on the larger side so I compensated with my next meal.

When I am craving something sweet I switch a meal for oatmeal with nuts and seeds and sweeten with fruit/maple syrup/dark chocolate.

I work out daily at varying intensities, including strength training, aiming to burn a minimum of 500 cals which I track with my smart watch. According to my calculations, I should lose 1lb a week.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

According to a ton of people I talked to on myfitnesspal forums the big mac has perfect macros. What gets people is the fries and a soda.

nigga it's mcdonalds

eat a salad

 

[74164978231]

262 > 259. So 13 pounds in a little over two months now.

While my diet is not great, I know a majority of my weight issues stems from a more sedentary lifestyle than I am used to. My job for most my adult life was much more physical than the job I have now, and I used to live in a part of the country where I could get outside every day.

Weight loss and maintaining weight is 75% diet. Significantly easier to lose weight by not eating that icecream than it is to burn off the icecream calories by any form of exercise. Exercise certainly helps by burning some calories and increasing your metabolism but if you can have the will power to not eat that icecream the weight loss will come much faster.

 

[McMitch]

Weight loss and maintaining weight is 75% diet. Significantly easier to lose weight by not eating that icecream than it is to burn off the icecream calories by any form of exercise. Exercise certainly helps by burning some calories and increasing your metabolism but if you can have the will power to not eat that icecream the weight loss will come much faster.

When I was flipping burgers I was eating ~3000 calories a day and still lost sixty pounds. And that included getting a milkshake every day. My current diet gets no where near that much, usually topping out at ~2200 with no calories from soda or ice cream or anything of the like. I do, however eat a lot of hotdogs, or large pizza over the course of three days. I can and do cook, but it’s irregular, and usually ends up being something like eggs and bacon or pork chops and potatoes. My job just does not move me around like I want it to, so I have to compensate.