650 LB Virgin Regains His Weight Back!!!

Naturally_sassy0525 · June 2012

This is really heartbreaking!

Softrbreeze · June 2012

I totally agree with you! I got lots of male attention growing up (pretty girl, developed early.etc) and I was extremely uncomfortable with the fact that I seemingly couldn't leave my home without some pervert making a comment about my appearance. When I started gaining weight, the attention lightened up which was such a RELIEF. I'm 40 now and a new vegan, so I'm committed to losing weight. I live in a different environment where people are more respectful of each other (I grew up in a poor/high crime urban neighborhood), so I have little fear my previous situation will return.

ColleenRoss50 · June 2012

Hey I weighed more and now weight 248lbs, 6 years after I started... I am still losing currently, but have gone up and down a bit. It is a hard road but I will never be in that position again. I figured out what things actually mean to me, and what it takes to keep it off... I enjoy the exercise, the life, the clothes, and even the food..

My surgery is probably a year or so away, I plan to reach 220 before I schedule everything.

I am 6'3 on a really large frame, and the surgeon expects me to drop 30+lbs from removal of what I can't lose so I may be in the 190s by the end... Which is shocking to me lol..

Wish I could talk to this guy one on one, I am one of the few people in the world that actually knows 100% what he is going through.

I saw from another post how much you have lost over the last several years. That is awesome. Great achievement. I agree he could benefit from talking to someone like you.

Gerald_King · July 2012

That poor man so sad

CarleyLovesPets · July 2012

I know when I lost 50lbs I gained 75 back within three years.

It was tough, so I really want to lose it and keep it off this time!

skinnyjuu · July 2012

Very sad story.. Hope he's able to overcome his insecurities and lose again..

rhe280 · July 2012

I lost 56lb five years ago on a 'diet' and gained back 98lb. Thats why MFP is so great because its about breaking bad habits so you are not dieting but actually jst learning to eat healthier. If this poor gentleman had the support we have from friends on this site maybe he wouldnt have gained it back.

honkytonks85 · July 2012

This is a wakeup call for all of us losing weight.

WE MUST ALL GO INTO MAINTENANCE WHEN WE REACH OUR GOAL.
And we must encourage each other to keep the weight off.

A friend of mine lost 100 pounds and reached her goal.
Then she said: "I can start eating again."
(That is a huge mistake!)

So she did go back to her bad eating habits ... and gained it all back in a couple of years...plus another 20 pounds.

No one here can afford to do that. We must stay at our goal weights.
We cannot "start eating again."

The key is to never "stop eating" I think.

lillydlc · July 2012

I feel bad for this guy, and his story got me thinking that this should remind us all that we should find a healthy sustainable way to lose weight, and shun VLCD, or fad diets, which are unsustainable in the long term.

LinaBo · July 2012

I myself have tried to (and succeeded in) losing large amounts of weight, before. First, I lost 70 lbs. When I moved to a new city, the stresses of being young, impoverished, and on my own eventually slowed, then reversed, my progress... as I coped with emotional turmoil in the only way I knew how: food. The same goes for when I lost 44 lbs. I hit another stressful period in my life, and again I boomeranged back by using food to cope. Both of these times, I did heavy strength training and cardio, building significant muscle in addition to losing body fat.

This guy clearly has deep-rooted issues, and a serious food addiction tied to those issues. He needs intensive, one-on-one counselling with a qualified therapist who specializes in disordered eating. Focusing only on the physical without dealing with his emotional issues is like one hand clapping. Maybe group therapy could also work, in tandem with individual therapy, but the effectiveness of group depends on the person (I am not personally fond of it). Individual therapy is what eventually broke my cycle of compulsive and binge eating, as well as many "diet" behaviours and thought patterns I didn't even realise I had until they were pointed out to me as such (for example, the "all or nothing" mentality). It also got me to build up a toolbox of non-food ways to cope with life's various situations that triggered me to eat when I wasn't physically hungry. That's very important, to have something to replace food as your way of coping, and not just leave yourself without any way at all. I am now in recovery, and go for monthly "check-in" sessions with my therapist. I still have treats, but they're much, much smaller. Even the thought of one of my binges, or even a 1/4 of one of my binges, or compulsively eating crap foods stretched out over the course of a day, is positively nauseating.

Vailara · July 2012

I wish more people would understand how difficult it is. Just about everyone I know who has lost a significant amount of weight has put it back on.

Over in the UK, Georgia Davis has been the news. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170414/Britains-fattest-teenager-U-S-fat-camp-attempt-shed-weight.html I watched her on a documentary back when she lost a whopping amount of weight at fat camp. She seemed a lovely girl, really dedicated and threw herself into the programme. Now she's much, much bigger.

It's certainly been the case for me in the past that when I've dieted, I've eventually put the weight back on. I'm hoping this time is different and trying hard to make it so. But when I hear about people like this, it makes me so sad for them. Maybe there is often something amiss in the first place that makes us put on unnecessary weight, and simply losing weight doesn't really address that.

IsMollyReallyHungry · July 2012

Thanks for sharing! A good reminder and I know exactly where he is coming from.

650 LB Virgin Regains His Weight Back!!!

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