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  • Unexpected snowballing with losing weight.

    The same busted bubble of insecurity and anxiety that got me started on PE made me wish to improve my body overall.

    First the backstory - I've been a fat kid since school started. Maybe it was a puberty thing, although that seems unlikely, as I was a very late bloomer, and most still guess that I'm way younger than I really am.

    Being 6' in highschool and lifting weights for 2 years, I was over 220 pounds (100 kilos). Nothing I tried could get the fat off, running, swimming.

    When I started going to college I moved out and started living alone. I experimented with my diet and excluded all simple sugar, I stopped going to the gym as well and in the first half a year I lost about 44 pounds (20 kilos). I clearly lost some fat and likely all the built up muscle mass.

    But the weight loss stopped there then. I was still fat looking, but I didn't care so much.

    This summer I decided to change myself for the better, started regulating my diet: no sugar again, 3 meals a day, oatmeal with bananas, eggs, celery for breakfast, no red meats, just bird and fish, steamed vegetables often, no tea or coffee and certainly no alcohol, although I quickly got my pot brewed green tea back on the list.

    I also started having interval runs about 2 or 3 times a week, my job didn't allow me to do it more often. I ran for about 40 minutes and added some exercises along the way, like pull ups or going back home to the eight floor on stairs.

    In less than two months I dropped another 22 pounds (10 kilos). I got to a stable 165 pounds mark and stopped for a while, maybe a month or a little more. My clothes didn't fit me anymore, my pants were falling down, my XL shirts were so baggy now and everyone told me I was looking unhealthy and less manly, than before, no positive comments, even from my SO.

    Along with the insecurity I also started noticing things like thin bony fingers, small feet, all of which may or may not relate to a skinny penis. It was new to me as I always looked as myself as a big brute.

    I fell ill with a common virus not long ago, three weeks, maybe. At that point I fell out of the newly set routine. It was too cold for running, and I got too lazy to control my diet, I got back to junk food as well. Along with a regular checkup I did a blood analysis as everyone was concerned if the illness could be weight loss caused. The results came out perfect.

    To my mind I am still fat looking, saggy belly, saggy tits, underarms, loose skin. I didn't plan on going any further though. But yesterday I noticed I had dropped another 7 pounds, despite all the lazyness and junkfood, which has started to worry me. What have I started and how the hell do I stop this?

    Can this be caused by the same reason I haven't gained anything with PE for the first couple of months?
    Last edited by Lavian; 10-16-2014, 10:04 PM.

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    You seem to have a lot going on which may or may not be related. Clearly you have made great strides toward improving yourself, but you may be allowing your brief setback and the reactions of others to determine your fate.

    Screw what other people say about your weight and if your SO can't be supportive, then maybe you need to take a longer look at the people around you. From what you've described, you don't have many supportive people on your orbit. Even so, you simple can't let the negativity stick to you.

    Jump back into your routines (healthy lifestyle, food, activity, PE). If the people around you can't cheer you on, then find new cheerleaders!

    I have struggled with with my weight all my life and it has been a journey in self acceptance. I'm very lucky in that my husband and mom are uber supportive (we workout together, share nutrition info), but I know that everyone is not so fortunate.

    You should be able to find some great support from the PE crowd and I know that ATP and I are happy to support positive lifestyle changes.

    Hang in there!

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