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Lost 55 pounds this year, but 45 of it was from January to the end of April. I could have hit 100 in a year if I stuck to it. At least I'm no longer obese though, just overweight (HE'S FAT!). Need another 25 to be normal bmi, but I'm going to go for another 45-50 this coming January through April.
 
I don’t know about you guys, but I find it hard to keep up motivation sometimes without a little boost. I’d been feeling a lack of it lately until I visited my in-laws and now it all feels worth it. My mother in law can be hypercritical, especially about looks. As soon as I got out of the car at her house, she told me I look great and was asking how I lost the weight. That’ll hold me for the last leg til my goal.
 
My goal was originally 120 but since I'm still in the middle of a healthy BMI I think I'll go for 115 just to have a flatter stomach (hopefully).


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It's been a bit difficult with all the Christmas treats around and my huge sweet tooth. One of my goals this New Year, in addition to starting to work out again, is to cut out sugary junk. As of right now I've lost weight via calorie counting but it's absolutely disgusting how unhealthy my eating habits are. I eat like one decent meal a day and all other calories come from candy and sweets. I'm like a fucking goblin when it comes to chocolate.

It's just difficult as an addict because it's like, damn... I gave up heroin, I gave up crack, I gave up alcohol... Sugar is all I have left lmao. But if I could do the rest I can do this. I guess lol.

I tried to be a sneak and ordered a gymnema plant extract from Amazon, some people claim it makes your crave sugar less and some even report it makes them unable to taste sugar for a few hours. I don't know if I got a bunk product from a scam source or if I'm just one of the ones it doesn't work on. Guess I'll have to do it via my own will power. Boo. Any tips on curbing the cravings are so appreciated cause I'm about to just go cold turkey I guess
 
DopeAddictKittenV2 said:
It's just difficult as an addict because it's like, damn... I gave up heroin, I gave up crack, I gave up alcohol... Sugar is all I have left lmao.
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Don't feel too bad, the way food is processed and engineered to make you get addicted it's not really fair. Flaming Hot Cheetos for example are created specifically to melt in your mouth and just be perfect.

Tips for craving and cutting out sugar, it depends how much sugar you want to cut out. Do you still want to have sweets? Unsurprisingly, my answer is going to be water. Want to eat water candy you like, have a couple of drinks of water and wait a little while. And also switch to natural sugar instead of candy, but make sure you eat the fruit and it's not juice. Modern juice is basically like drinking a pop when it comes to sugar, when you eat the fruit you also get the benefit of fiber, which will also fill you up.

Want to completely cut sugar completely? Eat like you're a diabetic for about a month or however long it takes for you to not crave it anymore.
 
DopeAddictKittenV2 said:
My goal was originally 120 but since I'm still in the middle of a healthy BMI I think I'll go for 115 just to have a flatter stomach (hopefully).


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It's been a bit difficult with all the Christmas treats around and my huge sweet tooth. One of my goals this New Year, in addition to starting to work out again, is to cut out sugary junk. As of right now I've lost weight via calorie counting but it's absolutely disgusting how unhealthy my eating habits are. I eat like one decent meal a day and all other calories come from candy and sweets. I'm like a fucking goblin when it comes to chocolate.

It's just difficult as an addict because it's like, damn... I gave up heroin, I gave up crack, I gave up alcohol... Sugar is all I have left lmao. But if I could do the rest I can do this. I guess lol.

I tried to be a sneak and ordered a gymnema plant extract from Amazon, some people claim it makes your crave sugar less and some even report it makes them unable to taste sugar for a few hours. I don't know if I got a bunk product from a scam source or if I'm just one of the ones it doesn't work on. Guess I'll have to do it via my own will power. Boo. Any tips on curbing the cravings are so appreciated cause I'm about to just go cold turkey I guess
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Alternatives to sugar help me at least not drunk calories, but diet soda and sparkling water is my secret to getting off the shit.

Theyre a nice crutch that takes the edge off quitting soda proper.

Sweets? You gotta sub with fruit or super 90% cacao dark chocolate my man.

All this shit helps me at least stay within normal portions for treats with the goal of reducing and eventually eliminating.

Set alarms to go off before your usual meal or snack times with the reminder to cut back or cut out.

Oh, and start over as many times as it takes.
 
I finally got a CPAP machine to fix my poor sleep after like a year, god bless the bureaucratic process. Looking forward to getting more than 3 hours of sleep a day.
 
How did you all adjust your weight loss goal for the new year?
I decided to give myself a bit more time and to adjust to 60 kgs by the end of october
 
Wujime said:
How did you all adjust your weight loss goal for the new year?
I decided to give myself a bit more time and to adjust to 60 kgs by the end of october
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Ended up being vague and just marked my goal down as "be less fat"
 
Well this is only a little bit weight loss related but im so excited I can't stop talking about it so bear with me- im pregnant!

Even with pcos and much, much less active than I'd been in prior times in my life I am truly lost as to what enabled this for me. I'd stopped supplements, had been drinking a good amount, and my weight has climbed to *almost* my highest weight it's ever been, again. I'd also taken a break on the red light for some months but had recently started it again due to winter blues. Plus I'd had a good amount of stress. Maybe it's the supplements I'd taken in the past, or the red light I did several months of consistently that got things moving. Either way im thrilled.

My bmi was maybe 26 when I got pregnant. I'm honestly anticipating i could lose weight during this, as im motivated to eat better and alcohol actively disgusts me right now. Which I hear some women do actually lose/maintain while pregnant, which isn't an issue as long as baby is growing fine. Either way this will be great for my health.

Lastly, im a year sober from weed. Yay ^-^
 
Redoniblueoni said:
Well this is only a little bit weight loss related but im so excited I can't stop talking about it so bear with me- im pregnant!

Even with pcos and much, much less active than I'd been in prior times in my life I am truly lost as to what enabled this for me. I'd stopped supplements, had been drinking a good amount, and my weight has climbed to *almost* my highest weight it's ever been, again. I'd also taken a break on the red light for some months but had recently started it again due to winter blues. Plus I'd had a good amount of stress. Maybe it's the supplements I'd taken in the past, or the red light I did several months of consistently that got things moving. Either way im thrilled.

My bmi was maybe 26 when I got pregnant. I'm honestly anticipating i could lose weight during this, as im motivated to eat better and alcohol actively disgusts me right now. Which I hear some women do actually lose/maintain while pregnant, which isn't an issue as long as baby is growing fine. Either way this will be great for my health.

Lastly, im a year sober from weed. Yay ^-^
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Aw that's so sweet! Congratulations on your pregnancy and sobriety!! I truly wish you a smooth journey ahead and that your baby arrives healthy and strong :heart-full: nothing more motivating for getting into shape when you have a little human being who depends on you and not wanting to disappoint them.
 
It's now been 3 days over a year since I started to seriously tackle weight loss.
I think it's fair to say that this year has been a successful one. I weighed myself once a week every Wednesday starting with the 1st of January. and as of last Wednesday I managed to lose a total of 52.3kg in total in 2025.

I want to thank everyone that participates and shares their stories in this thread, you have been helpful and inspirational throughout this last year!
 
Mentioned my goal for the next few months above. The way I lost the 45 pounds this time last year was by starting off with only eating one ~1000 calorie meal a day for a month. No snacks, no cheating (mostly). Then for the next 3 months I ate a single ~1400 calorie meal every 48, sometimes 72 hours. Kept that up for a semester, down roughly 45 pounds in 16 weeks. The problem I struggle with is not eating when I am bored. Hoping that posting updates occasionally will keep me accountable, because I'm not really thrilled to be back on this routine. At least this time, I can look forward to going from overweight to normal, which is much more exciting than deathfat to regular fat.
 
I'm currently at 400 pounds at the age of 30, trying to make changes to my life before shit gets way to far out of hand. Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to check on some blood work to see if I'm diabetic or prediabetic, and probably get prescribed ozempic or something similar.

I know people make fun of you for being on it but I don't know what else to do. My girlfriend and I have been walking and going to the gym every week and she's been super supportive, but I have an addiction to food, I know I do and I need help. I'm hoping the Ozempic can help me start curbing my worse food habits so I can actually start managing what I eat better.

I know this sounds gay and bitchy but it's the truth. My father has had me try all these different fucking diets and I keep dropping them, he's had me try Keto, Carnivore, Medifast, low carb etc.

I just have a problem and enjoy eating too much, so any advice would be great...

Well besides "just stop eating faggot" I've tried that it hasn't worked.
 
A thing a lot of people who are activly trying to avoid partaking in their addictions struggle with is free time. You suddenly realise that your addiction was what you filled your day with, and suddenly there's a lot of empty hours that weren't there before. Boredom is one thing, and so is allowing there to be space for intrusive thoughts (which will be very loud and difficult at first).

So my advice is to line up as much stuff as you can to keep busy. Doesn't even have to be fun shit. Make a list of jobs/responsibilities/housework/life-shit that you've been putting off and work through it. Taking that step to assert control over a different difficult aspect of your life can be the pride-boost that keeps you going with regards to your other difficult things.

Then think of hobbies that keep your hands busy too. Learning to knit or similar can be good, It will take concentration, occupy your hands, keep you moving without being physically taxing and you get something to show for it plus a new skill at the end.

Have replacements/displacements lined up for when you're craving the sensation of eating. Usually I'd say sugar free soda and v spicy low cal shit, but if you're addicted then that might just trigger. Maybe take a shower or something that changes your state.

Walking is great. At one point in my life I was morbidly obese and I started by walking short trips, then seeing if I could go to the next stop before catching the bus etc. I went from barely able to walk to walking miles per day (admittedly I had time to back then) and went from lard-barge to slightly underweight (something I never thought was even possible for me! I had to course correct after that if I'm honest) and the only exercise I ever did was walking. It gave me endorphins, pride and mobility back without injury. Just keep with it. Walking is fucking brilliant.

Hopefully the drugs will help with the urges. At your weight it will shift quickly if you manage to stick with a deficit.

If large deficits trigger binges then I would recommend getting a tracker watch (I use a very old version of a fitbit which go for cheap on ebay due to being many-gen old). Log what you burned the previous day and so long as you stay under that number you're good. I'm slightly overweight at the moment and was aiming for 500 cal/day under as that's 1lb/wk loss. I was somehow struggling with binging so accepted that things might need to go slower and started seeing results on smaller deficits with less pressure (doesn't help that I'm very short so my baseline limit is low regardless).

Good luck, addictions are miserable things to have, but you can absolutely get to the place where they no longer dictate your actions. It takes time but it fucking rules once you get there. It means you did something tough and won.
 
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