• HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Strongly suggest not telling anyone when you make such a decision. Keep it to yourself, work privately, and keep going until someone else comments (and then keep going anyway).

    Telling people gets their praise, then you have a false sense of accomplishment and motivation gets sapped.

    Completely projecting. Maybe you’re already doing this, what do I know? But maybe it’s a helpful perspective, so I said it anyway.

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        Yeah this is often advice given for any love changes (weight loss, stopping smoking etc) as getting support from others is usually really helpful plus it gives more accountability.

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      14 hours ago

      I experienced this myself for sure. Just do the thing and get into it. Also helps make sure youre really doing it for yourself.

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    12 hours ago

    The picture isn’t loading for me, can only see it in tiny thumbnail view, so if anyone else is experiencing this glitch, here I screenshat the tiny thumbnail then enlarged it so I could read it.

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    1 day ago

    Just need to treat it as a standard deviation bell curve where they haven’t reached the peak yet.

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    Drugs and a heavy injury is all I needed. Lost 20kgs (44 lbs) in two weeks and haven’t ever regained them.

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        I injured my back and had great difficulty leaving my bed for a long time. As a result, I stopped adequately feeding myself. Previously I would eat three meals a day, including one between midnight and 2am (when my family was asleep). Getting from my bed to the kitchen involved going down and coming back up a flight of stairs, which was a major ask with my injury.

        As a result, besides a few non perishable snacks I kept on my nightstand, I ended up pretty much just eating what my wife was available to prepare and bring to me. She is loving and caring. I literally don’t know what I would or even could have done without her support. However, we have a kid and my wife has a life, so she wasn’t always around when I was hungry; in general, that meant I was mostly eating one full meal a day. It was not uncommon for me to have under 1000 calories.

        I’m not exactly sure of the timeframe (or what I weigh now), but I lost thirty pounds.

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        Yeah well the drugs in question are cigarettes and weed. And the weight lost was mostly muscles. /s in case anyone couldn’t tell Would not recommend a permanent nerve injury just to fucking lose some weight