Just here to share a story about how sustainability is so much more important than losing weight “fast”. You don’t think that creating or developing an eating disorder could happen to you, but yet it knocked at my door.
I have been trying to loose some extra pounds. I was always the “naturally thin” girl with a body I felt proud to be in in my 20s. I was 5’10”, 145 lbs, now I (32f) am the same height still but 170 lbs. The weight crept onto me because life happened; major loss and grief, aging, a pretty serious back injury, loads of stress etc etc. I finally started taking my health a bit more seriously when I got some blood work done to show high cholesterol levels.
Well, being an extremist, the goal was to loose 2 lbs a week without exercise (re:back injury) which meant a pretty significant calorie deficit. I was consuming maybe 2000 calories or more a day and cut that down to 1000. One day, I gave into my cravings and overate on foods I thought to be “bad”. I literally had the thought, “maybe I should just go throw this up” and realized that’s an eating disorder. It was a hard check on myself mentally and emotionally.
Theres lots of pressures to be thinner, prettier, hotter and I guess I am looking for advice on how to approach this more sustainably while also giving thanks to my body how she is in the moment. Maybe I’m just looking for validation that I’m not alone.
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1c0ecwa/sustainability_fast_results/
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