• adry@piefed.social
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    While we are at it, let me share my secret: carrots as a snack (together with sports). Of course, this is not an exact recipe for success but it did work in my case and I’ve been surprised by it. I started training kickboxing again this summer, and I lost 4 kg in the first weeks, as expected. Because “we loose all the liquids”, or so I’m told. Anyway, I was weighting myself in the scale every now and then but I always kept the same weight. Then, suddenly, one day I was off another extra 7 kg… I was amazed. I haven’t weighted myself in a month. I couldn’t believe it (except that I already felt I was thinner, when touching my belly; and faster during the sport…) So, the a few days later I was talking to my mother and I told her how I’ve been coming from work, eat a carrot or two, and go straight to my training session. And that’s when it hit me… it was a matter of replacing cookies, fruit, or anything else I’ve been doing with carrots. Their crunchy really satiated me, so that after the sport I would eat a normal meal and not a bigger one (which I belive has been partially my problem so far too).

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    3 days ago

    Mate; good fuckin’ work. You’re a champion. Looking after yourself is the first step towards looking an after others. Keep it up!

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      Looking after yourself is the first step towards looking after others

      that’s been one of my motivations :) i have a wonderful, but very picky senior kitty who has a lot of food allergies and now needs frequent medication. i always worry that if something happens to me, she’ll be put down since she’d be harder to adopt out. not to mention she loves me very much and i don’t want her to be sad. fediverse cat tax?

      i would also love to be in a place where i can have more pets and a family someday

      and i’ve experienced and witnessed a lot of injustice being as sick as i have all these years. i don’t want anyone to go through what i’ve been through. i’ve thought about getting into politics a lot. and i’ve thought about taking another shot at entering the medical field. not in any position where i can work yet, so i still have time to think about all of that.

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    3 days ago

    Now if you eat a person that weighs 100 pounds you’ll still be under 300 pounds.

    I’m assuming you won’t eat the bones, so I’m not sure how much under 300 pounds you’d be, but that’s a pretty big accomplishment.

    Assuming you want to and will eat a person. I don’t know why you would. I wouldn’t. But that’s the lay of the land for you right now.

    Hell, if you ate Ariana grande you probably wouldn’t even hit your pre weight loss weight.

    Really makes you think, you know?

    Congrats on the weight loss. And for not eating people.

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    3 days ago

    great work!

    I’ve got good news and bad news for you :

    Bad news : You missed out on celebrating going below 100kg
    Good news : You are probably going to be overweight soon (if not already)

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      you know what? funny you mention that - i likely just got below 100kg around this time last year :)

      i’ve lost about 39 pounds since may 2024 i believe? 21 pounds since january 2025 i think, and 15 pounds since august after i lost my shit finding out i had gained some lost weight back and my a1c hadn’t budged at all even though i’ve been working my ass off to lose this weight

      still have about 18 more pounds or so until i’m in overweight territory and as you can tell it has been sloooooooowwwww. i have a lot of major health issues and for most of this past decade no matter how hard ive tried ive only gotten sicker and sicker and sicker. this is the first year in years where i’ve finally seen more progress in my health rather than regress.

      i also have an upcoming appointment to check for endometrial cancer as i have bled almost every single day this year since january 6th and my endometrial lining looks huge but doing a biopsy was pushed off all year because of my age, until the most recent ultrasound where it looked way worse and my doctor was like “haha fuck”. which i know with the weight loss it’s like “did i do this or am i just dying of cancer lmao”. but there have been certain very recent positive changes that, in my very unprofessional opinion, i wouldn’t expect to see if i had cancer / the cancer was getting worse. i hope it’s not cancer, but if it is, my mind and body are in a much better position now to handle potential cancer treatment than they were one year ago. it’s been a very significant year for me. i haven’t felt like i’ve had so many reasons to feel good about myself in a very, very long time.

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        as you can tell it has been sloooooooowwwww.

        That’s not slow.

        Cutting weight is one of the hardest things to do in life. With drugs you can just quit completely. With food you have to engage in long term behavioral change while still consuming it. Your dedication to your health is a massive achievement that most people never accomplish.

        The fact that you cut 39lb in 1.5yr is a perfect pace and you’re so much more likely to carry habits, motivation, and keep it off long term versus a crash diet. You’ve accomplished something really, really impressive!

        The endometrium is a mystery to modern medical science. Your mindset seems like a good one so whatever may come, stick to it!

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        That’s not too slow at all! Pretty common for weight loss to slow down the further along you are. Think of it this way: to lose 1% of your bodyweight at 300 lbs you lose 3 lbs, to lose 1% of your bodyweight at 200 lbs you lose 2 lbs.

        Plus you have to keep decreasing your calorie intake as you get smaller and your body needs less to maintain its weight.

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        Aw, fuck cancer. Here’s hoping it’s not, but I like that you’re positioning yourself better just in case; solid strategy.

        I will choose to believe any weight loss was hard work and only a little luck until we learn differently. Please keep us up to date; and keep the chin up through what must be a scary-ass time.

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    Congrats! 🎉 Hitting a milestone and seeing better numbers is huge—keep doing whatever’s been working for you. Under 200 club ✅