Obese guy reacts to another obese guy lose all the weight

I am a serious fan of your videos and I wish you the best. Honestly you should do absolutely anything you have to do to get through this. If you need a total blackout on weight loss updates, that is what you should do.

I always hated myself for being overweight and I struggled for most of my life to slim down. For nearly two years now, I have been at a healthy weight. I'm no longer seriously restricting calories, and still my weight is in slight decline.

I know you are getting advice from two million people. I hope you won't think it too cheeky of me to add my own:

Weight loss is hard because it is asymmetrical.

You get thin by restricting calories, and you stay thin by working out. You get fat by sitting on your ass.

For me, shitting eating was powerfully addictive. As long as I was sitting on my ass, I needed more and more stimulation from food to feel the same satisfaction. I found that intense exercise (at least 45 mins/day) basically reverses this addictive spiral. Essentially, it resets my pleasure response. Rather than needing ever more bacon cheeseburgers to feel full, the workouts have meant that I need fewer and fewer. Now with a little effort I don't eat them at all. I used to drink heavily, for same reasons, and within months of taking up running I found my booze cravings tapered off too.

There is some evidence anyway that other people react similarly. Thus, if you work out enough, your appetite will come to align more and more with your needs. Maybe it will never be perfect, maybe you will need to keep an eye on things at the margins. But for me, staying thin is not realistic without the workouts.

That said, I never would've gotten thin without restricting calories. The workouts will come. Right now, you don't want to get hurt. You want to be ready and able to hit the gym after that first 150 lbs comes off.

Right now you should do everything possible to restrict the calories. For me this took a fuckton of willpower and resolve. I had to make drastic changes to hold on. I ended up moving to a new apartment. I said goodbye to some old friends. I stepped into a totally different life. Even after all of that, it was still really fucking hard. But it was doable, and over time it got easier. Looking back, the first two weeks were the hardest.

Some strategies for eating less that worked for me:

I kept a food journal where I recorded absolutely everything I ate.

For the first week, the rule was that I could eat anything, but only if I could record the precise calorie count. So, I bought a scale and avoided restaurants. At the end of the week I studied each and every day's worth of food. I found it very enlightening. I discovered how much ground I could gain by merely cutting out chocolate, for example.

I had to make vegetables the star of ev ery meal, even breakfast. You need to eat more slowly, so major meals will now have to cconsist of multiple courses. Also, you need to always always always eat the vegetables first. Eat a whole pound of them before you eat anything else. Brussels sprouts and broccoli worked really great for me. Bake or steam them, put some sriracha on them, and eat a whole pound while you drink a lot of water. Then wait forty minutes, then eat whatever else you've planned. Throughout, and especially when you're eating non-vegetables, chew like a motherfucker. Chew twenty-five time per bite. For me this made a huge difference.

Everyone says to drink a lot of water and for me that also made a big difference. If you feel hungry, even if you're scheduled for a meal, drink a liter of water first.

As much as possible, avoid calories from liquids. Drink all the diet soda you have to, but above all do not drink any calories (beyond a glass or two of wine maybe: no beer). Liquid calories are not registered by your body in the same way as food.

Three things that did not work for me:

Cheat days. I took one and nearly fell off the wagon entirely. For me the diet had to be all day everyday my whole life no looking back.

"Always eat breakfast." Everybody says this and I don't understand it. I find my willpower tends to slip over the course of the day, so by reserving as many calories as possible for the evening I could avoid late-night snacking and other pitfalls.

The whole salad thing. I hate salads. You'll have to eat them undressed because the lowfat dressings are the most vile things in the world. Also I found that food preparation and cooking took the edge off my hunger in a way. It was another way of extending meals across a few hours and getting stimulation, but not necessarily calories, from food.

Good luck man. In December 2016, if all goes well, everything will be different.

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