When you've lived your whole life overweight

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love when I'm sick and easily go 48 hours eating one snack pack of applesauce and an ice pop. I always vow to stick to eating just enough to quell hunger pangs, but never do. I have a voracious appetite and notice my inner monologue is always worried about my portions not being enough and my being hungry. Combine that with a sweet tooth, and I'm huge.

Yes, it sounds very weird to actually say this, but I love when I am sick & have zero appetite. I love how quickly the numbers on the scale drop but of course once I am better my weight also goes right back up! I remember having pneumonia about 25 years ago for about three weeks I lost so much weight then but eventually gained most of it back! 😬

Yeah, not only is it non-sustainable but it's also unhealthy. I am 230lbs at 5'4". I would be open to trying one of the newer weight loss drugs, except my concern is what happens when I go off it. Will I gain my appetite right back and thus gain all the weight back? Or does it rewire the brain (or whatever controls appetite) permanently?

Why can’t you just love yourself as you are?

NP - see 23:54.

[Anonymous]

It sucks. It's definitely genetic. But i don't think it's the weight that's genetic so much as the way our bodies respond to the modern diet. Naturally thin people don't have the same addiction-like response to processed and carb-rich foods. They can eat a couple of slices of pizza and feel full, whereas some of us make ourselves stop after a few slices but then spend the next hour haunted by the leftover slices we put away, until we binge and finish the rest of the pie.

After a lifetime of being like this -- of being someone who was always thinking about food, and never felt truly satiated -- I tried a whole-foods, ketogenic (<20g carbs daily) diet, and it worked like magic. Yes, i missed bread and sugar and fruit, but suddenly I could feel full for HOURS. (And yes, I also dropped a ton of weight while not counting calories at all.)

After I got back on the carb train and gained some weight, I tried Mounjaro. It basically has the same effect as a very low carb diet, with the perk that you can eat carbs without developing a bottomless craving for them. But it also has some drawbacks that a keto diet doesn't: I often felt mildly nauseated, and when i did eat, i didn't enjoy food very much.

If you haven't tried either approach, OP, I recommend you try one of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And we shouldn't feel as though healthy fat people who don’t want to take semaglutide for no reason other than weight loss are making a bad choice

Healthy fat person?

They exist, as do unhealthy thin people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sucks. It's definitely genetic. But i don't think it's the weight that's genetic so much as the way our bodies respond to the modern diet. Naturally thin people don't have the same addiction-like response to processed and carb-rich foods. They can eat a couple of slices of pizza and feel full, whereas some of us make ourselves stop after a few slices but then spend the next hour haunted by the leftover slices we put away, until we binge and finish the rest of the pie.

After a lifetime of being like this -- of being someone who was always thinking about food, and never felt truly satiated -- I tried a whole-foods, ketogenic (<20g carbs daily) diet, and it worked like magic. Yes, i missed bread and sugar and fruit, but suddenly I could feel full for HOURS. (And yes, I also dropped a ton of weight while not counting calories at all.)

After I got back on the carb train and gained some weight, I tried Mounjaro. It basically has the same effect as a very low carb diet, with the perk that you can eat carbs without developing a bottomless craving for them. But it also has some drawbacks that a keto diet doesn't: I often felt mildly nauseated, and when i did eat, i didn't enjoy food very much.

If you haven't tried either approach, OP, I recommend you try one of them.

I think it’s complicated. It’s frustrating to be a fat person eating like a skinny person, sitting with a skinny person eating like a fat person. I (the fat person) was never the stereotypical fat person, eating pies and candy bars at all hours. I rarely ate more than a slice or two of pizza (and I make my own — thin crust, not a lot of cheese, about 150 calories per slice), and I never went back and ate more of that pizza. Meanwhile, my friends would be scarfing down cheeseburgers and fries, drinking sugary drinks, etc. and never gain an ounce. I think that’s where the genetics comes in. I see it in my kids, too. My oldest never ate that much (and certainly never like a stereotypical teenager), but was always heavy; my youngest eats multiple servings of everything, to include a lot of junk, and he’s skinny.

[Anonymous]

Yea one of the most depressing articles I ever read was how research is starting to show that once your body gains weight, it changes your metabolism to stay at that weight which is why everyone fails at dieting. Also means everyone who is obese in childhood will be obese throughout life.

I don't think it's totally genetics though. I remember my elementary school in the 80s only had a handful of obese kids and we all ate horrendously sugared food at all meals back then. But if these new weight loss drugs work long term then it's going to be a game changer for society and should be encouraged for anyone who wants to use them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go on semaglutide, it will change your world.

I can’t believe I was convinced I was somehow strong willed in every facet of my life but just weak in this one category. In all my years of yoyo dieting and self-loathing, no one ever said “you’re too hungry.”

And here comes this medication that is like a light switch. Suddenly I can plan and execute a healthy diet without having to retreat from life. I have enough energy for both. It’s incredible.

I'm hoping that I now finally have insurance coverage for this and it will help in this way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And we shouldn't feel as though healthy fat people who don’t want to take semaglutide for no reason other than weight loss are making a bad choice

Healthy fat person?

They exist, as do unhealthy thin people

A huge part of this is just societal image. Of course there are healthy heavy people. Their body is designed that way, and there's nothing wrong with that. But because there is this obsession with looking thin, people massively diet or take Wegovy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go on semaglutide, it will change your world.

I can’t believe I was convinced I was somehow strong willed in every facet of my life but just weak in this one category. In all my years of yoyo dieting and self-loathing, no one ever said “you’re too hungry.”

And here comes this medication that is like a light switch. Suddenly I can plan and execute a healthy diet without having to retreat from life. I have enough energy for both. It’s incredible.

Yes inject yourself with drugs to stop tour undisciplined mouth

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well you can’t just eat and eat and eat and not exercise!!!

I was a division I athlete, worked out hours every day and at times starved myself and, yes, still never my Mother's weight. Ever.

Sure jane

[Anonymous]

OP go for semaglutides. It’s been a game changer for me and many others. I’ve been on them for 10 months and working to reduce the dosage but am also willing to stay on them long term if needed (hoping they will be covered by insurance and be in pill form soon). It’s not just the weight loss but the other positive health effects - lower A1C, more energy, less joint pain - that makes a difference. And being a normal weight gives me self confidence and a more positive outlook on life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well you can’t just eat and eat and eat and not exercise!!!

I trained for and ran two marathons and was still not skinny. And I eat plenty of produce and lean proteins and I rarely drink my calories. I don’t eat fast food ever and only treat myself two takeout twice a month.

It seems simple to you because it has been simple for you—you aren’t like the op and you aren’t like me. Try to open your mind to that possibility.