High stress job, no social life, mild depression, stress eating, etc. have turned me into a disgusting fat fuck with an enormous gut. I'm too scared to weigh myself. It's mostly the stress that's fucking with my appetite. I was skinny all my life until this job fucked me up. I'm looking for a new job. What can I do to stop being a disgusting fat fuck? I "exercise" by walking for two hours every single day. I'm tempted to start nicotine lozenges or gum because it makes you lose weight. I don't trust Ozempic or any of that shit.
Consuela
metabolism naturally slows down as you age, one has to become a lot more careful about eating (and less alcohol)
have you tried a very high protein diet? if you did a carnivore diet - eat as much meat as you want, vegetables ok too - the weight will fall off. but it is hard to keep up.
And what ur doing right now? It's illegal.
It's not about "trusting" the fat shot -- which will certainly have deleterious consequences over time -- it's that ur life is worthless as a fatass in a fat shot world. Frankly it's disgusting and antisocial of you to impose ur fatness on society
So we looked at the data
What sort of trash are you eating? Hard to get fat when you just eat whole foods, which can be prepared quickly (e.g. for lunch you can microwave 2 potatoes for 6 minutes and mix them with a can of sardines and some lemon juice)
do you guys really take all these pills
caffeine
use a stairmaster, dont just walk do incline and you'll keep the lbs off
ozempic
trt
if you cravings for snacks at night I recommend trying caralluma fimbriata
cowgod
Build muscle to counteract the Cortisol spike from the job. Need T To bring it into balance imho.
Also Losers’ BMR is like 600 irl. Build muscle to get it up. There’s no way it’s like 1200.
Not all of us can enjoy the Hawaii glory boy lifestyle
guy trying to lose weight
It's a Saturday afternoon, and I'm sitting here on my couch feeling like a disgusting, fat, lazy pig. I've already walked for 1.5 hours today, but I've walked for at least two hours every day while still gaining weight.
I'm going to have some coffee and then go to a nearby CVS to buy some nicotine gum. I'd rather be addicted to nicotine and at a normal weight than approaching obesity without any addictions.
I'm nearly 40, and changes in diet, exercise, and lifestyle aren't enough to shed the weight. It worked in my 20s, but I'm not young anymore.
If I cut calories by even a small amount like 200-300 calories, I wake up in the middle of the starving and binge eat. If I walk more than two hours in a day, I'm physically exhausted. Meditation calms my mind, but stress still fucks with my appetite. I talked to three therapists before giving up on that.
This appears to be me just rationalizing using nicotine as a weight loss drug, but I see no other reasonable alternatives.
podcat
height/weight?
Carl Jung
have you considered teewinot
weight gain is a spiritual sickness more than anything. you need adventure, risk, danger
Too scared to weigh myself. The number will probably just scare me. I don't need a scale to tell me I have an enormous gut, or that my old clothes don't fit and I've had to go up several pant sizes, etc.
Coming out of years of being a pumo/lurker to get serious about losing this gut. I can poast pictures of this disgusting gut if anyone wants to see it.
Just got back from CVS with a 160 pack of 4 mg nicotine gum. Immediately popped the first piece of gum as soon as I walked out the door. First time I've had nicotine in probably four years. It definitely gave me a nice boost but not enough for a buzz. Since I have absolutely no tolerance for nicotine I'm going to have only a few pieces a day to start with.
My hope/plan with the nicotine gum is that it'll do two things:
1. Suppress my appetite enough so that I can actually cut calories modestly without waking up in the middle of the night starving and binge eating. Sticking to gum and maybe lozenges since nicotine has a longer half-life this way vs. inhaling.
2. Since it's a stimulant it'll give me more energy to exercise because right now anything more than two hours of brisk walking leaves me exhausted.
Richard Ames
Download MyFitnessPal and pay for a subscription. Start tracking every single thing you eat. Once you see your calorie and nutrient intake, you will see where you can make changes. I imagine there's a lot of low hanging fruit for you here.
Also. - weigh yourself immediately. I understand why you haven't and many people go through this. But it is a key first step to accepting your situation and then dealing with it.
I agree with the other poaster who mentioned lifting weights. This is definitely important. Though I'd also recommend some HIIT workout as well. But even just getting on a stairmaster and then doing some bench presses and squats 3x a week will go a long way. Assuming you also commit to tracking your calories.
Finally, stop the self pitying. Yeah I'm sure your job is a bunch of faggot crap. That describes the majority of work that pays decently at this point. You're not even 40 yet, you can get your shit together.
I mean 2 hours of walking is a lot. And is almost certainly overkill. But you tell yourself "well I walked for two whole hours and nothing happened! I guess it's just bad luck." Most of your issues stem from your diet.
You sound like a fucking loser. "Too scared to weigh myself" = unwilling to quantify the problem and develop a real solution. But yet you run here to beg for others to help you
There are two core problems with my diet at the moment:
1. I snack on junk, usually chips or cookies, in the evenings. It's comforting and appears to be an unhealthy form of stress relief.
2. Most nights I wake up in the middle of the night and eat. It can be anything from a small snack to a large binge.
I really don't know how to resolve these problems without getting better at managing stress. And it's not like I haven't tried: I've tried replacing the junk food with low-calorie popcorn, protein bars, a small healthy meal, etc., but it just makes me binge more at night. I feel trapped. I literally wake up at around 1-2 AM starving and eat anywhere from 400 to probably 1,000 calories.
Protein bars and popcorn won't help for shit. Take all that crap and put it in a pile with the cookies and light it on fire.
Eat a diet that is very high in protein and fat and very low in carbs. Don't even worry about how many calories you're eating at first, just get completely off the sugars and other carbs. Eat as much as you need to feel full.
Find an exercise, any exercise, that you enjoy. Running, stair master, lifting, even walking (fast). It doesn't matter, but you have to do it consistently and you have to work your ass off at it.
So that for 6 months then adjust as needed.
don't buy any snack food. if it's not in the house, you can't eat it. buy only whole food ingredients to make food.
the best time to stop a binge is before it starts. if you wake up at 1am, eat nothing. drink la croix or something like that when you want to snack.
it'll get easier. think of yourself as being in withdrawal. it sucks but it will pass.
Competitive powerlifting is not the credited response. But doing light cardio for two hours is much much less beneficial than training hard and building muscle for one hour and then getting your steps in with the remaining time.
"I really don't know how to resolve these problems without getting better at managing stress." Bullshit. You haven't even really tried. As soon as you start tracking your food intake, you will be shocked and it will help you change.
Tracking is apparently one of the few things proven to help people lose weight and keep it off (or maintain a healthy weight to begin with.) You just want to sulk like a fag. Cut the shit.