#weight loss cw

[portraitoftheoddity]

The downside of having lost a fair bit of weight recently is that a bunch of my clothes no longer fit and my pants are hanging halfway down my ass like an early 2000s mall goth.

[captainjonnitkessler]

I'm decreeing that nobody is allowed to talk about weight loss or fat positivity or anything related to it unless you first clarify what you think "fat" means. If I have to go through one more conversation with someone who is "super pro-fat-acceptance! I'm fat and I love my body! Being fat can't cause health problems and I'm proof!" and then I find out that they're 15 pounds overweight I will not be held responsible for my actions

Although that is still better than the alternative, which is someone assuring me that weight loss isn't that hard, they got fat over the pandemic but they stopped eating fast food and started working out and they were back to their normal weight in a couple of months! Those doctors tried convincing them that they needed 'medicine' or 'surgery' but they did it all by themselves, and I can too if I just use a little willpower! And then you find out they were never more than 15 pounds overweight (and for SURE no doctor actually recommended weight loss surgery to them)

[lifewithchronicpain]

I hate weight loss ads that show a stomach going from fat to flat with absolutely no stretching of the skin. As you get fat your skin expands and it doesn't magically go back down if you lose weight, it sags. These people either get skin surgery or the torsos are not the same. Obviously if they don't even show the faces, how can you trust it to be the same person? Or the egregious ones online where it's different people but they try to get away with it with fast clips or face angles. And I'm so sick of being force fed this crap when I'm obese because I'm sick and there's no magic cure for what I'm going through. So I choose to accept reality and love myself anyway and assure my fellow fat people this shit is so fucking fake.

[softartemisart]

hehehee realising that i gained back the weight i lost when i started my meds and some!! i don't have scales or anything to check but it's THERE and it's SOFT and all that icecream was WORTH THE STOMACH ACHE

[snarp]

Cut for all sorts of things

I am still fucking losing weight and I don't want this because

1) what if I am dying

2) this literally happened just before I got the brain tumor diagnosed too. what if I'm dying

3) medical professionals keep congratulating me for it which means their training probably sucked

4) just before the brain tumor got diagnosed I weighed like 100 pounds and random dudes were hitting on me and some of them got very aggressive because I seemed out-of-it and thus exploitable and I DID NOT LIKE THIS AT ALL. I do not want to be attractive to impulsive opportunistic dirtbags. It can get dangerous really fast when these guys realize that I know what they're up to and am capable of verbalizing it to their boss and/or the cops.

[spurgie-cousin]

weekly reminder of why I don't spend much time on reddit *shrieks into a pillow for ten straight minutes*

literally they are basing this off her arm being pressed against her body in one pic and stretched out in the other, I just fucking can't with these people......not to mention she just had A BABY, maybe that could possibly have something to do with a change in weight/body shape? but no definitely the most logical thing to do is make assumptions about her food intake based on the way she looks in two pictures with completely different poses yes, very normal and healthy of us.

Edit: fortunately a lot of people in the comments shared my discomfort with this. Someone pointed out that in addition to it just being gross, it could be extremely detrimental for someone who comes from an environment where weight gain is *really* discouraged to see something like this (think Jinger Duggar) which I couldn't agree more with. It's easy just as a woman living in America to develop disordered eating habits, but compound that with growing up in a conservative Christian community where you're taught that it is literally immoral to be over a certain weight, like this could really do some damage. We know Kaylee has access to the internet and we know that her "fame" has 100% come from her attention-seeking mother, she didn't ask for it, and she doesn't deserve to see weird ass shit like this.

[thedeafprophet]

I think the fact that tumblr is giving me weight loss ads is no only generally fatphobic but homophobic to me specifically

[delucadarling]

Current rambling thoughts on dieting/weight loss, nothing that's a downer:

Back in April I got blood test results that showed my cholesterol was high and my sugar was barely shy of being diabetic. It spooked the shit out of me, as despite being fat most of my life, I was also pretty healthy and somewhat active. It was after getting covid that I was so fatigued I dropped the active thing pretty much entirely.

The doctor was more focus on the sugar, and recommended cutting back simple sugars, adding in more fiber, and increasing my weekly activity.

I'd been wanting to get back into shape for a long, long time but I've been nervous about trying the gym again. My dad was one of those shithead people that secretly films people in the gym doing things 'wrong' or committing the sin of being fat in public. It had me terrified of trying to get fit where other people could see me, because you know, most people don't want to be mocked.

Lucky me, I have the most amazing, supportive girlfriend ever. She took me by the hand and very gently showed me around the gym, helped me learn how to use the machines, and didn't mind when I shadowed her around as she did her workout. From there, I got excited! I used to LOVE working out, I just mostly did simple stuff, running, and swimming. I did a lot of WiiFit when I was younger, and this one Jillian Michael's DVD I found at Walmart for like $5 at the time. Running was the big one though (hello Zombies, Run folks).

So just making those changes (less soda, more fiber, more exercise) over the course of maybe 3ish months I dropped almost 15 lbs. I hadn't been tracking my weight, but I did compare the results the doctor took from my previous three appointments. I was kind of shocked! I've never had a healthy relationship with weight loss, and every time I've tried to lose weight it lead to a lot of heartache, misery, and doubled weight gain. So I more or less wrote off my ability to trim down and decided to just be fat and happy.

I will say though, the extra bulk has recently frustrated me. I can't do yoga the way I used to. My limbs are still flexible but I keep getting blocked by my own fat. I have to go real easy on my joints because of all the extra weight, which is frustrating, because I'd honestly love to try jogging again. I just don't want to fuck my back and knees up again.

I decided to give losing weight another try, with a lot more self-love, after a lot more research, and with the support of someone who has loved me even at my fattest and never said a word about it.

It hasn't been too hard this time. I don't feel like I'm depriving myself. I am impatient, I want to see results NOW, but obviously that's not how things work. And slow is better anyway.

I know tumblr has a generally negative view on weight loss, and I fully include myself in that. I bought into the 'starvation mode means you'll never ACTUALLY lose weight permanently) thing, I was convinced anyone trying to lose weight had the same disordered ideas on it that I used to have (and still struggle with sometimes). It's a loaded topic for a hundred reasons, so I am trying to be conscious of when I talk about it and around who. Hence the tags and putting it under a cut. I'm happy and excited to be trying this out, putting my health first, trying to feel strong and capable in my body, but I absolutely know first hand how upsetting hearing about dieting can be. Not to mention how hard it is to avoid the more toxic side of trying to change your diet and fitness.

I've found a lot of resources that are very facts based, cut and dry, and leave out the moralizing behind weight loss and weight gain and just weight in general. There are a lot of very encouraging resources as well.

So yeah! As said, this is just a ramble, I like to write to get my thoughts down, and it always comes easier when it feels like I'm talking to someone, not just myself. I probably won't post a lot about this, but it's been just over a week since I started tracking my food and daily weight specifically, which always used to be something that would send me into a bad habit spiral. This time feels different. I've been doing fine. There have been a few moments of disappointment, but they've been easy to shake off. Mostly I'm just astounded to learn more about the macros involved in the food I eat, and I'm also happy to have tools to help me find portions that make me feel full and not stuffed. On the days I've been not kept to my deficit goals, it was because I was hungry and decided it was more worth it to feed myself than stick to a number and I didn't feel a bit of guilt about it afterward.

I'm pretty pleased with how it's going so far. I feel stronger, I feel more energetic, and tracking my food intake and weight makes the part of my brain that loves a spreadsheet very happy.

[randomslasher]

I wanted to share a progress update. So I have a chronic bad back (genetic and congenital issues) and I used to have what I called “Blow outs” every 6 months or so.  In 2020 I started walking regularly. Just walking. That’s it. Walking. But in the intervening years I’ve brought myself from “I can slowly walk half a mile with a cane” to “I regularly hike 4-5 miles at a time no issue or cane needed.”  I wasn’t so foolish as to believe I had completely eradicated the possibility of blow outs, but I hadn’t had one since 2018. I’m having one now--but the difference is night and day. I can still walk, move, function. I went shopping yesterday. I’m still working. I’m taking my cousin to the movies tonight. I’m in pain, yeah, but I’m still living my life.  Anyway walking is a miracle and if you can do it at all I highly recommend it. 

[nessa007]

actually it’s because you’re using medication that is needed by diabetics

[theunemployedrogue]

I hate that 'getting healthy' involves so many fcking complications for me (my fault for contributing to some of it, but it's still annoying).

I went back to a 85/15% healthy diet, focusing on fruits, vegetables/salad, peanut butter, yogurt, and chicken, and allowing myself a pizza day or a soda maybe once a week. Drinking a ton of water. Doing a reasonable amount of moderate cardio each day, recently switching from walking to jogging on the treadmill. Almost 2 weeks with zero alcohol.

I woke up this morning shaking and sweating (and constipated, but that's not that unusual lol). I had an orange juice and a little food and feel much better. I have a history of waking up with low blood sugar to the point I've flat out fainted before, but I am not diabetic nor have my glucose readings ever been abnormal at the doctor or when I check it myself.

So the only real explanation is that I'm not getting enough carbs somehow, despite not restricting that much imo? I am 5'3, small-framed, and work sedentary jobs. I do not need anywhere near 2000 calories a day. My BMR is roughly 1200 kcal a day bc I'm just small. I just want to lose a little belly fat so my jeans aren't so damn tight.

I do live in a hot, humid climate and sweat a lot just going about my day sometimes, so I'm wondering if that's partially to blame. I am just so frustrated doing everything I'm supposed to and it still being "wrong" somehow. Taking a rest day from jogging today I guess.

[foone]

A reddit post reminded me of a silly thing I did once: I calculated how long it would take to lose my entire body.

So I was dieting at the time and I was using a spreadsheet to track my weight loss and I decided to get nerdy with it and calculate average change per week and then I tried to add "time until I reach my target weight", so I added a cell for my target weight and set up some formulas and it gave me a date... Which seemed awfully far in the future? I wasn't that far from my goal and I was losing weight pretty quickly, so... What?

It turned out I typo'd the cell reference. It was using the cell NEXT TO the target weight cell, which was empty. And my spreadsheet was interpreting an empty cell as a zero.

So it was calculating how long it would be until my weight got down... To zero pounds (zero kilograms for you metric folks).

I'd calculated how long it would take me to lose ALL MY WEIGHT.

[aegidiusrex]

whump my beloved

[mulderscully]

one very weird thing that keeps happening to me since dropping 50 pounds (🤯) is that i keep buying clothes in the wrong size bc my brain refuses to register that i fit into smaller sizes. this is how i know i lost weight for health reasons and not aesthetic ones though, i guess?

[edgebug]

frantically googling "how to talk about being proud of losing some weight without perpetuating fatphobia or contributing to own internalized fatphobia"

[motherhenna]

wanted to share an almost full-body pic for the first time in probably almost a decade because for once I'm actually proud of how I'm progressing and think that the changes I'm making will end up being permanent bc I'm genuinely enjoying them. Plus, the few selfies I have shared over the last five years have been very photoshopped and at flattering angles, so I feel like most of y'all don't know what I actually look like. So this is me in my children's theater teacher fit last monday!

I'm 17 lbs down from my highest ever weight, but my trainer thinks I'm probably up at least ten to fifteen lbs in muscle. I'm cooking my own food, eating more reasonable portions, and going to the gym at least five times a week because I want to, not because I feel shame or guilt. And now that I'm working as hard as I am, I'm a lot less triggered by looking at new pictures of myself because I know I'm doing my best. I'm still obese, and probably will be for awhile more, but I'm starting to appreciate what I look like and feel like. And hopefully it'll just get better from here!