This is honestly just me venting. I’m 24 F, currently about 314 pounds and only 5’3 ish so I am severely overweight. I used to eat ice cream, a whole package of donuts, chocolate bars, family sized bags of M&M’s, a whole bag of Doritos, a whole pizza. I’d constantly drink juice, pop, gatorade, bottles and bottles a day. I’d order out 4-5 times a week and usually order enough food for 3 people and eat it all. When I did cook at home I was using a crap ton of oil, butter, cream, cheese. I was probably consuming at least 3000-3500 calories a day if not more. I never went to the gym or exercised.
I stopped all of that, I weigh my food, I don’t have any sweets in the house except low calorie popsicles and sugar free pudding. I limit myself to approx 1300-1500 calories a day depending on the day. I only drink water or diet drinks. I am careful to limit my use of calorie dense food, I try to meal prep and I control my portion size. I occasionally order out but now when I do I order lower calorie options and a regular sized meal instead of enough to feed a small family. And I track those calories the best I can. If I eat chips, I eat veggie puffs, baked lays, popcorn and I weigh out my portion. My eating habits aren’t perfection, but it is a massive change from before.
I started exercising with a personal trainer once a week and using an exercise bike at home, plus walking more. My job is active and I’m on my feet a lot of the time, running up and down stairs constantly.
I just don’t get it. When I got off birth control a couple years ago I lost about 80 pounds in a year easily. I didn’t really try. But now that I am truly trying I don’t think anything is happening. I couldn’t weigh myself when I started, but now I have access to a scale that works with my weight. 3 weeks ago I was about 311-312 pounds, two weeks ago I went all the way up to 317, then this week 314 ish. I’ve heard that hormonal birth control can really cause issues with weight. Idk if that’s actually true. My husband is a personal trainer and he said my maintenance calories on birth control is likely like less than 1000. Issue is I cannot function without birth control. I have a condition and basically I’m in excruciating pain to the point where I wouldn’t be able to work or do anything without being on it. I was off it for a year and had to go back. Since being back on it for 4-5 years now I’ve gained over 100 pounds. I am constantly hungry, thinking about what I’m going to eat next, it feels like my whole life revolves around food and I just want to be able to forget about it and be normal. I’m so frustrated with myself. I feel terrible mentally, physically. I hate looking in the mirror, I hate not being able to do the activities I want to do.. not being able to wear the clothes I want to wear. I want to make a lifestyle change to be healthier obviously, but I’m not gonna lie a huge part of it is simply that I am not comfortable or confident in my body. It is taking a MASSIVE toll on my mental health. My whole family and my husband, my coworkers they all keep asking every single day ‘how’s the diet going, how’s the gym going, blah blah blah’ and I appreciate that they care however I just want to cry every time they bring it up because it’s going terrible. I feel like if I don’t lose weight not only am I letting myself down but everyone around me is going to know I’m failing. I’ve been overweight my entire life since like 3 years old. It got increasingly worse in highschool. I would love to leave the house and not have that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that people are staring at me, thinking I’m disgusting and pathetic. I know it’s only been two months, but I feel like considering how large of a change I feel like I’ve made in my diet there should be SOME change.
I guess the point is, has anybody been on birth control and lost a large amount of weight? Has anybody had to get off birth control in order to see a change? Am I missing something? Is there something else I should be doing? From what I can tell all I’ve done is gain weight since starting to weigh myself and I’m not planning on going back to my old habits but it is definitely making me feel terrible to put effort into something and not be able to see even a small victory
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