AMA - I've maintained a 50+ weightloss for 10 years 🙂

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What is your BMI?

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Anonymous wrote:I am in the slow process of losing weight- down from 255 to 240 - and I want to know when you stop thinking about food all the time? I hate that when I wasn’t trying to lose weight I never thought about it, but now I think about food at all times.

Not OP but this is pretty normal for people who have to restrict calories. It might not ever go away.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

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Anonymous wrote:What is your BMI?

22-23 officially, but BMI numbers are kind of irrelevant if you lift weights and also have some loose skin. It's a rough guideline, at best.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in the slow process of losing weight- down from 255 to 240 - and I want to know when you stop thinking about food all the time? I hate that when I wasn’t trying to lose weight I never thought about it, but now I think about food at all times.

Great job, pp! Slow and steady is the right way to lose weight and keep it off successfully. I love food and think about it all the time, but if you cut back gradually instead of hard restriction, I think the chatter becomes a bit less. You just have to get used to it and be kind yourself. Restricting myself and cutting things out would backfire, for me.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

Hmm. Binge eating once at night rather than fueling your body throughout the day is a big red flag for disordered eating. Paired with a history of disordered eating (overeating/obesity) that’s a strong indicator of an ongoing eating disorder. Of course anyone engaging in these behaviors should discuss it with a qualified eating disorder specialist and not self-diagnose.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

Hmm. Binge eating once at night rather than fueling your body throughout the day is a big red flag for disordered eating. Paired with a history of disordered eating (overeating/obesity) that’s a strong indicator of an ongoing eating disorder. Of course anyone engaging in these behaviors should discuss it with a qualified eating disorder specialist and not self-diagnose.

OP eating 80% of her calories in the evening is not binge eating. If she's eating 80% of 1500 calories, that's a large meal, but only 1200 calories.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

Hmm. Binge eating once at night rather than fueling your body throughout the day is a big red flag for disordered eating. Paired with a history of disordered eating (overeating/obesity) that’s a strong indicator of an ongoing eating disorder. Of course anyone engaging in these behaviors should discuss it with a qualified eating disorder specialist and not self-diagnose.

OP eating 80% of her calories in the evening is not binge eating. If she's eating 80% of 1500 calories, that's a large meal, but only 1200 calories.

Respectfully, OP is describing a daily bingeing episode after spending all day able to “control” her food then losing that control after work. Classic description of disordered eating:

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Yeah, your Ozempic is a better choice.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

Another factor is age - with perimenopause and menopause, for many women, digestion slows down essentially permanently, making it physically uncomfortable for many women to eat medium to large dinners. Beyond GI unpleasantness, that issue can also contribute to insomnia. It’s pretty evident that reframing OP’s decade-long success as an extremely slow-burning binge-eating disorder is what a poster or two has to do in order to salve their own frustration at never managing their own binge-eating, and now relying on semiglutides.

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Respectfully, OP is describing a daily bingeing episode after spending all day able to “control” her food then losing that control after work

So any type of food control is disordered?

She's using being at work as a tool to control calorie intake. It's a plan that's working for her. Binge eating, IMO, is consuming to excess, which OP wouldn't be able to maintain her reduced weight if that was the case.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Yeah, your Ozempic is a better choice.

Are you OP?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you manage food chatter/hunger?

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me.

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course.

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered.

Another factor is age - with perimenopause and menopause, for many women, digestion slows down essentially permanently, making it physically uncomfortable for many women to eat medium to large dinners. Beyond GI unpleasantness, that issue can also contribute to insomnia. It’s pretty evident that reframing OP’s decade-long success as an extremely slow-burning binge-eating disorder is what a poster or two has to do in order to salve their own frustration at never managing their own binge-eating, and now relying on semiglutides.

NP. It is always remarkable to me how much some posters are so angry about the existence of semaglutide. They are medications that don’t require an eating disorder to maintain weight. Surely this is something we should be celebrating.

I am not on semaglutide and don’t need it (always the next angry outburst from DCUMs disordered dieters), just to forstall you.