Discussion: Chubby, fat, and obese: Do you want to lose weight?

Production_101

Or do you not care. Have you come to terms with it or do you enjoy being bigger?

If you do want to lose weight, whats preventing you?

If you don't want to lose weight, why not?

Whats your overall relationship with your weight and idea of changing your body?

Kim Kardashian

Honestly, I don't know what weight I am but i'm definitely overweight, probably borderline obese.
I just found out my scales are dodgy and i'm a couple stone lighter than I thought I was though

I want to lose weight desperately but I just have a really bad relationship with food.
I'm gonna try start on Monday (feel like I say this every week

), hopefully it sticks this time

Reeawna

I am overweight but I'm mobile, and don't have heart issues and my current boyfriend is into the chubby thing so I'm not wanting to lose weight just yet.

Jan

According to BMI, I'm a fatty. Some of it is muscle though. For me it's not about losing the weight but not gaining it back again.

I'm on a diet now though

wish me luck

FloridaKilos

Damn I didn't know there were a lot of fatties on ATRL. Makes sense. I have a fast metabolism and I'm skinny.

Free hugs

All throughout the years I've had many kinds of eating disorders and my body's been on both extremes. I'm at a normal weight now and just want to be happy with it, even though it's hard, there's always the desire to look like a model and there's always the setback caused by my eating disorders.

AccioMiley

I lost a bunch of weighht a couple years ago, it took a lot of encouragement from family and getting into a stable mindset to where I was motivated and ready to make a change. I still love food more than people though so it's a struggle but I eat healthy Most of the time. I honestly hate seeing people bash overweight people on the street. Because no matter how "disgusting" people think it is, you have no idea what a big persons mindset might be. But anyway, what got me to make a change was encouragement and help. Not shame and humiliation

zach

I was overweight basically my whole life and now I'm underweight. I went from a size 40 jean to 28 and extra large shirts to extra small. All in the span of a year. I lost about 80-90 pounds.

I wanted to lose weight for such a long time, but I was incredibly depressed and I just kept gaining and gaining. But then I just eventfully came to the decision to make a real change in my life. I completely changed my diet. The only type of exercise that I did was walking/jogging.

I'm still not 100% happy with my body, as I have quite a bit of loose skin from losing so much weight. I plan to start actually working out sometime soon, but my main focus has been on not reverting to old habits and maintaining my new weight.

I actually randomly found a picture of me from three years ago while I was cleaning up my emails today (I'm a hoarder) and I'm still so amazed at how far I've come. I swear I'm like half the size I was just three years ago.

Jared

I want to lose weight but apparently I have the metabolism of a walrus. I can literally eat once a day and barely lose any weight. I also think I lowkey struggle with depression and it affects my eating habits.

Working doesn't give me much time to work out, but I was thinking of hiring a personal trainer soon so we shall see if I go that route.

I've come to terms that I will always be a "big" person, but I just want to be a healthy/fit "bigger" guy if that makes sense.

PoisonPill

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Originally posted by Jared

I want to lose weight but apparently I have the metabolism of a walrus. I can literally eat once a day and barely lose any weight. I also think I lowkey struggle with depression and it affects my eating habits.

Working doesn't give me much time to work out, but I was thinking of hiring a personal trainer soon so we shall see if I go that route.

I've come to terms that I will always be a "big" person, but I just want to be a healthy/fit "bigger" guy if that makes sense.

By only eating once a day you are sending messages to your body that it is not receiving enough nourishment which causes it to slow down your metabolism and store more fat. You should be eating small healthy meals every 4 hours if you want to lose weight.

Indie

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Originally posted by PoisonPill

By only eating once a day you are sending messages to your body that it is not receiving enough nourishment which causes it to slow down your metabolism and store more fat. You should be eating small healthy meals every 4 hours if you want to lose weight.

This is, for the most part, a fallacy. Yes your metabolism does technically slow down the less you eat, but it's so marginal that it doesn't really matter at all. We're talking 100-200 fewer calories burned per week. The only thing that truly matters for weight loss is that your calories expended are greater than your calories consumed. Figure out what your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is and eat ~25% fewer calories than that amount, and I guarantee, no matter what or when you eat, you will lose weight.

Aurora

I went on holidays in July and when I came back in August I certainly felt it. But I've lost pretty much all of the weight and I really want to try and get #toned. I'm thinking of getting a gym membership but I'm too lazy lol.