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Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

I'm only trying to get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 240. Long-term, I need to find an office job that will keep me from snacking. WFH has been hell on every part of my body. Gained 120 pounds since I started 15 years ago because the kitchen is RIGHT there.

Disagree-that's only ten pounds a year. Very easy to gain that.

Maybe for a couple yrs..but after you’ve gone up more than 2 clothing sizes or so it is no longer a matter of an extra snack here and there. That is mental illness going on

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Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

I'm only trying to get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 240. Long-term, I need to find an office job that will keep me from snacking. WFH has been hell on every part of my body. Gained 120 pounds since I started 15 years ago because the kitchen is RIGHT there.

Disagree-that's only ten pounds a year. Very easy to gain that.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

Statistically, 99% of people who lose large amounts of weight gain it back.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

I'm only trying to get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 240. Long-term, I need to find an office job that will keep me from snacking. WFH has been hell on every part of my body. Gained 120 pounds since I started 15 years ago because the kitchen is RIGHT there.

You don’t gain 120 lbs because you are close to the kitchen. This is a pathological problem OP. You need to see a psychiatrist and a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

I'm only trying to get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 240. Long-term, I need to find an office job that will keep me from snacking. WFH has been hell on every part of my body. Gained 120 pounds since I started 15 years ago because the kitchen is RIGHT there.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you've received a lot of good advice and I think you're being too defensive to actually take it to heart.

Agree. Lots of contradictions and contrarian views from OP. She couldn’t afford a scale but doesn’t need extra money from her second job. She likes feeling hungry but feels faint. She’s not eating anything but not losing. Hope she can find a dietician who will work with her.

Dear OP, I know you said you had to get out to work with people, that is great that you did that.
I di truly think that since the gym was such a nightmare you should take up walking. It does miracles for weight loss. If you are able to get to 10K and then 15K per day, I am certain that you would see weight loss.
At 15K steps per day, I can eat almost whatever I want and not gain and even lose weight.
Of course, you work two jobs, so my advice might not be possible to implement.
Other than that, please see a professional. Also, check out CL threads.

OP, I am not sure you should listen to all the skinnies in here preaching about how fat people can’t lose weight and keep it off. I weighed over 250 three months ago and am down about 30 lbs now by restricting my diet and it is possible. Don’t get discouraged. You don’t know where you started and your friends agree you seem thinner. Don’t give up on losing weight, just find the right plan for you. You can listen to these guys about what plan to use, but don’t listen to the discouraging stuff about not being able to do it and keep it off. You need strength of will for that and you can do it.

Anonymous wrote:You're not eating enough, your body is hoarding fat. Obviously.

I don’t think it’s that she isn’t eating enough, but agree her body is hoarding fat. I’ve posted this before but a doctor once said to me “You’re not fat because you’re hungry, you’re hungry because you’re fat.” It’s true for me. I just finished Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes and he essentially says the same thing and gives the reasoning behind it. No answers for you, OP. I clicked on this thread because I am in the same spot as you and was considering trying IF.

You're not eating enough, your body is hoarding fat. Obviously.

They haven’t done any research on if this actually works for women. Spoiler: it doesn’t. Our hormones are too different.

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Anonymous wrote:OP works two jobs, in a pandemic, and people are still nasty on dcum! Surely if she was a rich CEO, she could have hired a cook and a personal trainer and many if she has kids.
What is wrong with you people? It is clear to me that to some of you eating is a full-time occupation!
Unlike to op, who lives in the real world.

To be fair, we're not hurting financially. But I'm forced to work from home for my main job since last March, so I took a retail job in the evenings because my mental health had deteriorated to the point I was barely functional. I need people. But it does make time and enough sleep an issue, yes.

You just said you couldn’t afford a new scale, which are $15-25…

Anyway, OP at 300 lbs you need to get serious. Your heath is on the line. Stop IF, this is not sustainable for you. See a dietician, have them help you figure out how many calories you should be eating and a diet plan to match that while meeting your nutritional needs. You need to be counting every single calorie at this point- or do WW if you can’t manage that

Stop talking about it being sustainable. If I can drop just 20 pounds in a few months, that would be huge. And excuse me for being more focused on, I don't know, not killing myself than eating well.

Because it is obvious you don’t like IF/feel like you are starving/hungry all the time…whatever you lose from that will come right back once you stop IF, which you will since you are miserable doing it. You need a life long plan, not eating for 16 hrs of the day isn’t it. Whatever mental issues you have going on are most certainly having an impact on your weight too. Hopefully you treat that too

OP, you've received a lot of good advice and I think you're being too defensive to actually take it to heart.

Anonymous wrote:It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.

Not true. I've done it and maintained for years. But you have to do a complete overhaul of basically your life. It requires learning how to eat right long term, it requires coping mechanisms to prevent over eating, it requires a commitment to fitness. OP may lose 20-30 pounds by eating 1000 calories a day, but it will all come back because it's not a long term plan. There are no excuses when you're trying to lose that much weight without surgery.

It’s nearly impossible to lose weight starting at 300 pounds and keep it off. I would look into weight loss surgery. It is often covered by insurance.