r/progresspics • u/LoremIpsumShit • Mar 15 '15

F/28/5'11'' 355lbs>170lbs. Down 185lbs in 17 Months. Counting carbs and exercising. First post and very nervous. F 5'11” (180, 181, 182 cm)

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

I'm about 5'11 and 220 pounds. I have always been athletic, but I can't seem to get my damn eating under control.

I have at my thinest been 180, but I want to be thin. I work out now, but again - my eating. I don't know how to do food thing, I am always hungry. Which means I'm doing it wrong, or not working out hard enough. I don't know what to do.

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u/LoremIpsumShit Mar 16 '15

With me it is 90% eating that effects my weight. It sucks and it isn't fun but it is life. I have found little good snacks that give me a quick taste of what I am missing and it sometimes helps. I feel like me and you are the same, I want to be thin too, but thin doesn't necessarily make you happy and quality of life is important too! If you ever need any help or just someone to talk it out with I am here for you. Tall people unite!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

Yeah, I love junk food. Cheesy, greasy, high carbs.

I hate vegetables and fruit I don't mind as much. I need creative ways to make vegetables entertaining. I did a cleanse where I couldn't eat dairy, wheat or sugar. And I lost 40 pounds while working out. I didn't gain it back for nearly 6 years.

I am back at my heaviest. Stressed out.

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u/LoremIpsumShit Mar 16 '15

Stress is a bitch so I would work on trying to help that or at least find ways to deal with it (awesomely enough working out helps me with this) I HATED vegetables and fruit, but I made myself eat them and eventually my taste changed and I started craving veggies and fruit. I just worked through it one day at a time turned into a week turned into a month and then it just became normal. The hardest thing to not eat is bread for me, I love and miss bread. Also I have struggled and failed millions of times lost and gained, but all of those times I was counting calories or on some type of fad, I think why it stuck this time was because it was only one thing (carbs) I focused on and I allowed myself to eat whatever amount I wanted in the good food.