"I lost 20lb just by..."

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  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    Does anyone else die a little bit on the inside whenever they read or hear comments about how someone lost loads of weight just by doing something really simple, like switching to diet coke/cutting out mid week drinking/changing to skimmed milk etc?

    I've cut out booze completely. I've switched to diet drinks. I've got rid of my car so have to walk more. I've made a ton of tweaks and you know how much I've lost this year? About 3lb. 3 f*cking pounds. In 8 months. I'm happy for the people who have lost weight but it feel like a punch in the stomach as my efforts are going nowhere.

    Am I alone with my bitterness?

    Presumably you're overweight as you're keen to lose some. Therefore you must have been putting on weight before you cut out all those things. How much were you putting on? Whatever it was you have halted it, stopped the increase, turned things around

    Doesn't sound like your 'efforts are going nowhere' to me
  • Amy911Gray
    Amy911Gray Posts: 685 Member
    I live with one of these people. I am married to one of these people and as much as I love him, I want to strangle him at the same time. I stopped buying regular coke for him and bought coke zero - he lost 10 lbs. I started sending him a banana and yogurt in his lunch instead of banana bread or blueberry muffins, he lost 8 lbs. I have been cooking healthier at home for all our meals and after the guilty look on his face this weekend when he came out of the bathroom I found out he has lost 32 lbs. Good for him but really, twice as much with half the effort not fair, lol!

    Men that don't cook and eat the food placed in front of them and in the fridge for them often will drop weight effortlessly. A friend of mine did that with her husband. He lost 75 lbs that way. She lost well over 100, and turned her pair of red jeans into two mini skirts for her three year old daughter.......
  • bensmommy1117
    bensmommy1117 Posts: 6
    Look at how much the person weighed to begin with. Someone < 150, has to put forth more effort than someone like me (>250) to drop pounds, simply because your body has way less to give up. 10 lbs for me is only .04 percent of my weight! Don't be discouraged, you will get there!
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Bah to positivitiy. I need people to fist wave with me. :tongue:
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Does anyone else die a little bit on the inside whenever they read or hear comments about how someone lost loads of weight just by doing something really simple, like switching to diet coke/cutting out mid week drinking/changing to skimmed milk etc?

    I've cut out booze completely. I've switched to diet drinks. I've got rid of my car so have to walk more. I've made a ton of tweaks and you know how much I've lost this year? About 3lb. 3 f*cking pounds. In 8 months. I'm happy for the people who have lost weight but it feel like a punch in the stomach as my efforts are going nowhere.

    Am I alone with my bitterness?

    Presumably you're overweight as you're keen to lose some. Therefore you must have been putting on weight before you cut out all those things. How much were you putting on? Whatever it was you have halted it, stopped the increase, turned things around

    Doesn't sound like your 'efforts are going nowhere' to me

    Gained weight eating too much bacon and drinking too much beer. Being as I'm a tee-total veggie that tactic has failed. I'm not going back to meat though, and I'm not drinking again until my dry year is over. Weight loss or not, I set out to complete a challenge and I'm going to complete it.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    PS. I rarely drink soda. Mostly I live on water and herbal tea. A lot of herbal tea.
  • Tebbspcad
    Tebbspcad Posts: 233

    Am I alone with my bitterness?

    Hell no i'm there with you too!

    But then I know I could always work out harder or eat less crap etc etc so my bitterness is shortlived & often turns into guilt which then walks me over to the fridge :cry:
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member

    Am I alone with my bitterness?

    Hell no i'm there with you too!

    But then I know I could always work out harder or eat less crap etc etc so my bitterness is shortlived & often turns into guilt which then walks me over to the fridge :cry:

    I love you.
  • Crazyjoe11
    Crazyjoe11 Posts: 83
    I wonder what it is that makes it so hard for some people to lose and others so hard to gain.

    Genetics - blame your mother and if that doesn't work, blame your grandmother or if really stuck - your mother in law.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    I wonder what it is that makes it so hard for some people to lose and others so hard to gain.

    Genetics - blame your mother and if that doesn't work, blame your grandmother or if really stuck - your mother in law.

    I tried not to laugh at that. I failed.
  • roguestates
    roguestates Posts: 223
    Honestly, I haven't lost a crap-ton of weight by the changes I made.

    To begin with, I'm not a soda drinker, and I don't eat fast food. Occasionally I have a beer/glass of wine, but only one or two because my alcohol tolerance sucks. It's hard to cut out "junk" food when you don't eat a lot of it to begin with. I've always eaten well (80/20), but I just ate too much of it while being too sedentary.

    BUT what has changed? I feel STRONGER. When I do my workouts, I have more energy, endurance, and strength. I sweat less. I'm losing inches and seeing real changes in my body.

    So I've only lost 2 measly pounds in 3 months, but my body has changed. Has yours?
  • newmooon56
    newmooon56 Posts: 347 Member
    I feel your pain........on all counts. :)

    How do they do it? HOW???? They must have made a pact with the Devil, right?

    Want to know my guess? And its just that - a guess. They didnt. They are full of it. IF you are using MFP the way it was meant to be- you know what a calorie deficit is - you know these ppl didnt create one JUST by cutting soda or stopping their afternoon candy bar habit. Most ppl that starve themselves for 3 weeks and eat nothing but maple syrup and pepper (or whatever fad concoction) they dont want ppl to know what stupid lengths they go to. So they lie.

    When I tell ppl "all" Im doing is diet and exercise - some look like they dont believe me- they want to hear I swallowed a magic pill, ate whatever and wham! So if I can get looks of disbelief while doing the right things- I am going to choose to believe the fast losers are full of it. (I could and very well may be wrong) Thats my guess and story and Im sticking with it.
  • AshleyLo_44
    AshleyLo_44 Posts: 206 Member
    I feel your pain........on all counts. :)

    How do they do it? HOW???? They must have made a pact with the Devil, right?

    Just pop this pill or sprinkle our magic powder and lose weight................ugh these and the I stopped this and lost....lbs kill me.

    I'm so with you man they made a pack with the Devil :devil:
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Oh man... I just started watching what I ate, stopped eating a few key foods, and stopped buying things that were high cal that came in packages with lots of servings. (Like string cheese and nutella)

    Yeah I've lost 20lbs in 6wks. I bike to work/everywhere though... mostly I just don't eat half a 1.65quart at a time, though.

    I am/was 70-100 pounds overweight, though. Now I'm 60-75 overweight. I don't go to the gym or do anything every week, I just work retail and bike.

    I'm only 25 though so my metabolism hasn't started slowing down yet (one of the reasons I decided to seriously start losing weight)

    I think I may just secretly have an alright metabolism, sorry!

    I'm happy for you, but I still hate you. *waves fist in an indignant fashion*
  • dannytwist
    dannytwist Posts: 2
    For what it's worth, that was an excellent response :-)
    I would have added that the OP should get into the habit of tracking things - what they eat, what exercise they do, etc... They can then check this bi-weekly or monthly to see if what they are doing is working.. If not then they can make amendments to their diet/exercise plan...

    ^^now that sounds like a lecture haha

    As for the original post.. You will find that the people who make these 'little changes' would in fact have made others. A change of habits when losing bodyweight usually consists of more than one thing :-)
  • dannytwist
    dannytwist Posts: 2
    everyone's bodies are different. and cutting back is definitely the first step.
    You don' t have to cut out COMPLETELY. but cutting back significantly, helps.

    along with cutting back on weight-gaining foods/drinks, you should be cutting diet soda out of your life completely! They can make you bloated and have ridiculous chemicals in them (they don't even taste that great anyways!)

    Although you've cut back and are walking more, your body needs you to eat clean too. That means vegetables and fruit and grains ALL the time. and protein. And leave some calories for the cravings you just can't get rid of.
    but most people who can't lose weight have "cheat days" and don't just stick to ONE day of the week :P been there done that.

    You NEED to exercise 4/7 days a week at least and switch up your routine so that your body isn't used to it! once your body gets used to a workout, it doesn't make you sweat as much, and it doesn't do as good of a job as when you started. you gotta change it up!

    sorry for this rant lol but in the end, my point is even though you're cutting back on bad things (yay you!) you have to put in that 100% effort into everything else too!

    :)

    My point isn't all the things I need to do, its how easy some people seem to find it. I know those people are the exception but it still grates.

    This is also one of the reasons I don't post on here often. I ask a simple question for support so I don't have to sit here feeling like a bitter freak and I get a lecture.

    wow lol. wasn't lecturing. was helping. seems silly to whine about how easy others have it when obviously not everyones bodies are the same. so i gave a few pointers. good luck in life brother. lol.


    For what it's worth, that was an excellent response :-)
    I would have added that the OP should get into the habit of tracking things - what they eat, what exercise they do, etc... They can then check this bi-weekly or monthly to see if what they are doing is working.. If not then they can make amendments to their diet/exercise plan...

    ^^now that sounds like a lecture haha

    As for the original post.. You will find that the people who make these 'little changes' would in fact have made others. A change of habits when losing bodyweight usually consists of more than one thing :-)

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