Lost 35 pounds last year, then gained back 40! Starting all over again 🥲

Hello community, I’m a guy in his 20’s here to work on losing around 30-40 pounds again because my last weight loss journey was wayy too unsustainable. So unsustainable in fact that my obsession with constant progress and total discipline eventually led me to developing a serious eating disorder 😬

Once I finally realized how much I was actually hurting myself (going through the cycle of complete abstinence to binging to hating myself and purging and back again) I decided to quit the diet for good and focus on my mental health. That was a year ago, and in the process I ended up falling back into bad overeating habits and gained back even more weight than i started with. Incredibly disheartening! I almost gave up on my weight goals, but after lots of time, research and professional help I feel that I’m mentally ready to lose weight again the right way.

In my last journey, I worked on weight loss for about a year and made great progress, but it was in a pretty unhealthy way! I’m aiming to be more kind and patient with myself this time, not rushing my progress. And things have been going pretty good so far!!

I’m currently down from 177 to 168, which took a while (I was inconsistent!) but I’m feeling comfortable with my new MFP plan. I am determined to use this app to keep me on track. I’m also hopeful that I can interact with some other people working to lose weight and/or gain muscle so we can support each other. The hardest part of my diet was probably fighting so hard for my goals all alone.

Anyways sorry that was so long lol, it’s not easy but I’m happy to be here!