I fear I am going to be fat FOREVER - vent/advice-seeking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:need to be at 700-800 calories per day, use glps to curb apetitie

7-800 a day is basically starving yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GLPs didn’t work for me either. Not the miracles some say they are.

For people like this, I think you have to combine it with metformin. Then it works.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell.

I’m 39 for a few more days. I have three kids: 11, 8, and 2. Outside of pregnancy, and since my youngest was born, I was always within the same ten-pound range and wore a size 6. Sometimes a 4, sometimes an 8, but I was pretty much the same size. I ate normally - did not exclude anything but didn’t eat to excess - and was active but was never a gym rat. It was, in hindsight, easy for me to maintain this weight.

My last pregnancy wrecked me 100%. Baby was born in March 2023. I gained an ungodly amount of weight, developed gestational diabetes, and to this day I weigh 30 pounds more than I did when I got pregnant with him.

I counted calories: sub-1600, sub-1400, sub-1200. Eliminated sugar. Eliminated gluten/grains. Quit alcohol. Intermittent fasted. Worked out 3-5 times a week for a YEAR (July 2024-July 2025, cardio and weights). And my weight has barely budged. Oh and before anyone suggests it, I have been on both tirzepitide and semaglutide and neither worked. WTF.

I am now trying the last-ditch effort of a carnivore diet. It’s been 2.5 weeks, and after an initial drop of water weight I haven’t lost anything. My panels are normal, my blood glucose is normal, and I am so plucking depressed at the notion of being perpetually chubby/overweight. I have tried EVERYTHING. Will carnivore/keto be the answer to my problems? Or should I just get used to being FAT!?

This sounds like insulin resistance. Go see an endocrinologist. You might need to go on insulin for a while.

Semaglutide doesn't work for like a third of people, BTW.

Wrong. She doesn’t need insulin. Insulin makes people gain more weight. What she needs is to live a low-insulin lifestyle to reverse her insulin resistance.

She needs metformin plus GLP. The weight will fall off in 8-12 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anyone try metformin + glp?

[Anonymous]

OP starts off post saying she's done everything right but is still fat. Then a few posts down she says she has issues with binge eating. Cass closed. OP, look at the whole pic, be honest with yourself. If not, investigating in elastic everything bc yes, you will be fat forever. Take a hard look in the mirror if you really want to and make consistent changes. You can do it if you really commit.