Venting losing weight is so hard

[RottenOdysseus]

I hate how I can't lose weight! Food is my only cope in life and I am a huge stoner so I tend to eat all the time. I need to lose weight to get surgery but actually losing it is so hard. I want to pick up smoking to lose weight but I live in a strict no smoking dorm so I can't even do that. Its not helping my depression at all, I feel like shit because I am too fat and lazy to lose weight and being fat makes you feel like shit for health reasons as well. Not to mention I keep eating food I'm not supposed to eat because of my probable celiacs. I feel really stuck in life, esp. in this area. Sorry for venting, I'm sure I've bitched about it before but I find this to be an unsolvable problem (though I know I can solve it which makes me even more depressed)

 

[Roberto]

I've got a problem with food. I was 115Kg four years ago. Now I'm 73 and I want to low the weight but my therapists don't want me to do it. I don't care what they say.
My suggestion is : sugar is addictive. Try yogurts low fat 0% 0%. Eat as many as you want.
The most important thing : just don't eat those high calories food.
Try Vegetables & proteins. No carbo : no bread, pasta or rice (desserts & chocolate also)
Proteins ends the hungry.
Nothing fried.

Like a drug, it will make want to break the rules.
The better rules are what you make. Don't follow others rules like mine. And remember that we have a emotional problem deep in us that makes us fail. Be kind to yourself.
Just remember too, that I've weighted 60Kg and I felt being a shitty thing. Possibly it won't change the way you look yourself.
It's easier to accept who you are now.
To make exercise it's always good. I never do.
Being a bag of bones instead of a exercised body it's not attractive.

 

[snowman626]

Yeah i know about food addiction. Im at the point where i make myself throw up just so i can eat more.

Its all connected to the way you view your life. If your life sucks youll feel like youve got nothing to live for and so whats the point of losing weight.

I think potatoes are good for weight loss because its low in calories and high in satiety. Try eating 1300 calories of boiled potatoes and you'll feel so full

 

[Alecsa]

I hate how I can't lose weight! Food is my only cope in life and I am a huge stoner so I tend to eat all the time.

I was actually told by someone I was lucky I've never tried pot. I have friends and family that smoke, and someone close to me smokes a lot, and is of normal weight but as she models, the weight gain whenever she binges pushes her to constantly gym and be anorexic. I've seen how miserable she is, but I understand that giving up pot is also very difficult for her.

As for me, I also use food as a coping mechanism. I used to enjoy cooking, especially baking, I have a very strong affinity for sweets. When I was younger this wasn't a problem, but as we age, metabolism gets worse, and hence the constant cycle of deprivation, binge eating, diet pills, laxatives, and depression. Then I get depressed so I eat more, the cycle never stops. Sometimes I even watch shows like My 600lbs. life or mukbangs just to make me feel more accepting towards my situation. It's such a low thing to do, but I'm fucked that way.

Being with someone super fit and critical didn't help either, now I am just even more harsh with how I see myself.

I hope you find some comfort and motivation, I understand it can be very difficult. ED and food dependency/addiction sucks. You can do it OP.

Sending lots of hugs and kindness.

 

[AhG]

Might want to try the keto diet. Lots of bacon and eggs, meats, few veggies, no pasta, bread, or anything that has more than 20 carbs in it.

 

[JustLosingMyself]

I got an ebike and commuted to work with it (46km each way 3 times a week)
Lost 38kg in 6 months. The exercise stopped my cravings for fatty and or sweet foods and shifted to meats, eggs and vegetables. On the up side it also helped with my depression/mood issues, better than the medication. Didn't solve my problems though.
It's a struggle to exercise for its own sake since I'm off work

 

[Jc40]

For 15 days I drank only water and had stopped olanzapine and pregabalin, I got from 10st13 to 9st11 but I have started both medicines again and eating food, now weigh 10st5. Going to go back to water again. Just cutting out juice can make a big difference if stopping food is difficult. It's hard being controlled by food, emotions.

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

Use an e-cig instead then, use stimulants like caffeine ect, drink shit tons of cold water, don't eat carbs , start pigging out on veggies when you're high. Eventually your body will adjust and junk food will taste like shit, you just have to cut it out long enough sugars and fats are addicting but sugar is seriously addicting for real.

 

[Chlo]

I've found that zero kcal energy drinks and protein bars suppress your appetite and make it a bit easier.

 

[Kyrok]

I was actually told by someone I was lucky I've never tried pot. I have friends and family that smoke, and someone close to me smokes a lot, and is of normal weight but as she models, the weight gain whenever she binges pushes her to constantly gym and be anorexic. I've seen how miserable she is, but I understand that giving up pot is also very difficult for her.

As for me, I also use food as a coping mechanism. I used to enjoy cooking, especially baking, I have a very strong affinity for sweets. When I was younger this wasn't a problem, but as we age, metabolism gets worse, and hence the constant cycle of deprivation, binge eating, diet pills, laxatives, and depression. Then I get depressed so I eat more, the cycle never stops. Sometimes I even watch shows like My 600lbs. life or mukbangs just to make me feel more accepting towards my situation. It's such a low thing to do, but I'm fucked that way.

Being with someone super fit and critical didn't help either, now I am just even more harsh with how I see myself.

I hope you find some comfort and motivation, I understand it can be very difficult. ED and food dependency/addiction sucks. You can do it OP.

Sending lots of hugs and kindness.

There are many studies indicating MJ helps with weight loss.

Cannabinoids help regulate Insulin flow, inflammatory molecules and the immune system through metabolic receptors. Even with the "munchies" calories are burned off by MJ's effects. Google "marijuana weight loss"

 

[Alecsa]

There are many studies indicating MJ helps with weight loss.

Cannabinoids help regulate Insulin flow, inflammatory molecules and the immune system through metabolic receptors. Even with the "munchies" calories are burned off by MJ's effects. Google "marijuana weight loss"

I wouldn't contest that in fact I'd say it's highly likely. But imo regular munchies with extreme calorific surplus, no matter how much MJ helps burn off, would still lead to weight gain. It's the high calorific, regular munchies binges + that very rewarding, satisfying feeling that you get when you eat and cannot stop eating that's difficult to handle. Also, I've noticed, most men who do smoke seem to have better metabolism than women, who more often than not end up on the thicc - er side.

 

[RememberWhatUCameFor]

take 1-3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar over the day

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

There are many studies indicating MJ helps with weight loss.

Cannabinoids help regulate Insulin flow, inflammatory molecules and the immune system through metabolic receptors. Even with the "munchies" calories are burned off by MJ's effects. Google "marijuana weight loss"

There has to be some truth to this. I was a chronic smoker for years and I would literally eat a tub of ice cream or a whole cheesecake and a bag of chips a night after having 3 meals and snacking in between and I never had problems with my weight. It wasn't until I stopped smoking that I would literally gain weight eating 1/4 of that. Very interesting.

 

[RememberWhatUCameFor]

There has to be some truth to this. I was a chronic smoker for years and I would literally eat a tub of ice cream or a whole cheesecake and a bag of chips a night after having 3 meals and snacking in between and I never had problems with my weight. It wasn't until I stopped smoking that I would literally gain weight eating 1/4 of that. Very interesting.

thats because tobacco infuence the gut flora though (generally negative but for weight loss in a positive way)

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

thats because tobacco infuence the gut flora though (generally negative but for weight loss in a positive way)

I was talking about smoking weed

 

[RememberWhatUCameFor]

I was talking about smoking weed

you smoke weed pure?

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

you smoke weed pure?

Lol yeah in the US most people do

 

[RememberWhatUCameFor]

Lol yeah in the US most people do

o wow

didnt know us boys were so healthy

its mostly mixed with tobacco here

 

[Final Escape]

Sounds like u have a food addiction. I'm not sure how to handle that. Are u on certain medications? I know one psych med made me lose my set point of appetite and I could not stop eating.

 

[21Neberg]

You could also use an app on your phone to track the calories you eat. It's helped me to stay under 500 cals each day over the past month and a half.

 

[Wolfjob_dayjob]

Lol its hyperdriven angry gym addiction that gets me down in weight, calming down for a second makes me feel like it's easier to just pack it all back on. Why is it so hard/why do I have to be so driven to go one way and so whatever/easy to go back the other?! I'm sorry. Know that I felt this rant intimately and its on the shortlist of ways my flesh and blood body 'betrays' me.

 

[WhiteRabbit]

I've always been a binge eater. I do intermittent fasting to keep my weight normal.

 

[TheRiverStyz]

I managed to lose 20 kgs between 2011-2012 by exercise and watching what I eat (I didn't necessarily diet, I just portion-controlled and changed my meal routine a little), maintained the weight until about 2016 when depression fully took over and everything spiraled out of control. I'm now at my heaviest and I fucking hate everything about myself. (:

 

[Rollo]

I hate how I can't lose weight! Food is my only cope in life and I am a huge stoner so I tend to eat all the time. I need to lose weight to get surgery but actually losing it is so hard. I want to pick up smoking to lose weight but I live in a strict no smoking dorm so I can't even do that. Its not helping my depression at all, I feel like shit because I am too fat and lazy to lose weight and being fat makes you feel like shit for health reasons as well. Not to mention I keep eating food I'm not supposed to eat because of my probable celiacs. I feel really stuck in life, esp. in this area. Sorry for venting, I'm sure I've bitched about it before but I find this to be an unsolvable problem (though I know I can solve it which makes me even more depressed)

It IS hard. I too indulge in occasional smoke but even without it I'm big on eating delicious food and only compromising on it if I need to manage the weight. I'm 1.82m (6 feet) tall and after finishing school I was 82kg, then gradually picked weight to 97kg and managed to keep it there for a while, then relapsed and peaked at 105, took action, went back to 97, then after some time went all the way down to 85, but since relapsed and now I'm 90, this after loosing couple of kilos in last week.

My main action-based weight control tool is walking. Right now I would walk about 16km every other day and run up the stairs whenether possible. I excercise at my place and in the outside too. Gym, treadmill and even running outside is too boring for me. And it's crazy how easily a nice meal can nullify the effort. So gotta be watchful there but not too watchful though cause eating well (meaning eating whatever you want in my book) is no less important.

So from my experience walking is the best thing. It's both fat-cutting and enjoyful.