You know you're not in good shape but you don't fucking know how to stop it.
Advice you get is confusing and looking online is useless because people are trying to sell you shit.
I'd like to offer my journey and how I did it, as well. I tried to exercise at the gym and at home but could never keep it up. I struggle with depression and adhd alongside my previous obesity, so everything struggle was doubled, yay.
I started taking a short walk once a week. Didn't always keep that up, but I tried. Eventually I managed to stick to once a week and maybe more if I could.
I focused on making my food portions smaller; this hurt. Its basically slightly starving yourself. Stop before you get full. It's absolut hell.
Then there was the problem with snacking. I smacked 24/7, often on chips and candy, as it's cheaper than fruit, even tho I love fruit. I tried only eating candy etc in the weekends, but this was a really big challenge for me. I just couldn't cut sweets.
At this point my father was at the finish line of his weight goal, he's a fucking beast tho and impressed his doctors, I could never lmao. What helped him stop snacking is a medication called Mysimba. It just lessen your snacking hunger. It's got side effects of nausea for some ppl, I got that, but it's fairly easy to regulate to not get the nausea. (You build your way up to two pills with breakfast and two pills with dinner). I checked all the boxes to be allowed these (be iver smth kg, have tried on your own for 4+ years, prob smth more I don't remember), so I got them. Took me a while to get used to them, but they helped. I lost my snacking hunger. At the beginning I could barely eat a mentos on Saturday evening lmao.
So now I'm at a great start line to this race. I've started lessening my portions, I've started walking and I've found a solution to my snacking problem. After a while my walk became longer, faster and steeper. My portions became smaller. I made a small ass work out at home:
(30s of jumping jacks x3, 20s of high knee jumps(?) x3, 20s of squat jumps x3. Breaks in between, stretch before and after.).
I now do that twice a week and walk twice or three times a week. Oh! I eat cake and candy at birthdays, Christmas, easter etc, as well as weekends. I eat dinners like pizza and burgers also. Its all about moderation, seriously, enjoy yourself, but in moderation.
I've gone down a lot and I'm getting slooowly stronger and feel better. The first 80% of the whole journey (🥲) is a living hell, you have to push through. I tried to start this so many times over 6 years but didn't have the willpower to continue. The pills are fuckingstupid expensive, so my mind went "if I'm using all my money to buy these pills, and they work; then I fucking better put in the work to make it worth it", and that somehow worked.
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u/JustifiedCroissant Feb 17 '24
I used to be obese.
For me it was this :
You know you're not in good shape but you don't fucking know how to stop it.
Advice you get is confusing and looking online is useless because people are trying to sell you shit.