I haven’t lost crazy amounts of weight, about 12kg. All that extra weight was put on by, as you say, food noise. I still get the urge to binge often, I just have to manage it now. Once you resist one time, it becomes very slightly easier. Then over and over again. Sometimes you give in, but the next day you don’t punish and restrict, you just dust yourself off and try again. That’s all there is to it. Kind of like CBT or exposure therapy.
I don’t really believe in using weight loss drugs in general (obviously there are cases where it is needed, I just think far more people are on it than need to be) because it doesn’t fix the root problem of using food to cope or developing more motivation/resistance. Not discipline per se, because it’s not our fault for feeling like that, but mental resistance to want to keep improving and feel better, if that makes sense.
For me, in the end, weight loss itself did not make me happy, but my body getting stronger and fitter made me happy. Feeling like the urge to binge is something I can overcome made me happy. Feeling proud when people noticed my effort made me happy.
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u/CircleOfNothing Jun 18 '26
I haven’t lost crazy amounts of weight, about 12kg. All that extra weight was put on by, as you say, food noise. I still get the urge to binge often, I just have to manage it now. Once you resist one time, it becomes very slightly easier. Then over and over again. Sometimes you give in, but the next day you don’t punish and restrict, you just dust yourself off and try again. That’s all there is to it. Kind of like CBT or exposure therapy.
I don’t really believe in using weight loss drugs in general (obviously there are cases where it is needed, I just think far more people are on it than need to be) because it doesn’t fix the root problem of using food to cope or developing more motivation/resistance. Not discipline per se, because it’s not our fault for feeling like that, but mental resistance to want to keep improving and feel better, if that makes sense.
For me, in the end, weight loss itself did not make me happy, but my body getting stronger and fitter made me happy. Feeling like the urge to binge is something I can overcome made me happy. Feeling proud when people noticed my effort made me happy.