acat
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I'm here mostly to learn more over the next couple months and make my decision on if I want to get into GLP-1s. I've been able to lose weight fine without them before, but I'm still interested in weight loss and some of the other problems they may solve for me.
I've been a stable weight, even after moving to office work, for years until the last ~2-3 years. The major change I made was actually eating every day and eating out less. A combination of probably getting older and just not caring lead to significant weight gain. I ran an experiment last year and managed to lose 25 pounds after the water weight (a bit over 35 but 10 of that was just instant water weight) in a few months (4-5?) with calorie counting. I don't like how I was accomplishing that, but I did manage to experiment to get an accurate idea of how much i need to maintain, gain, or lose weight. I stopped, and gained some of the weight back, but now that I'm a couple years over 30, I'm looking at it from a perspective of I need to do whatever is necessary to make sure I maintain a healthy weight as I approach 40 to reduce health issues this can cause. In particular I'm worried about my joints.
I'm 6'2", and currently 280-285. For years I was 245-255, and that changed. The heaviest I weighed myself in last year was 295. I don't know what my goal weight is as my previous stable weight was still a good bit of a beer gut for years, I haven't been a 'healthy' weight since shortly after college. I have a rather large frame for my size. Previously, I had been at 210 with pretty well built muscles and absolutely no visible fat. Before building muscles, the lowest I got to was 190, and that was about the line before you start asking if something is wrong. I did labor for some time, but for the last some years I've been in an office job, haven't worked out, and don't exercise much aside from walking primarily to prevent joint pain (low impact treadmill). I suspect that the 'stable' weight wasn't actually as stable if I lost any remaining muscle mass but stayed the same weight. I expect I don't have much muscle mass, so I probably should be closer to 190 as a final goal weight, but where I stop I think is a decision I'd make when I see how I'm doing when I start approach 200 and when I decide to start building a bit of muscle. Heck, I might even have less muscle than I did at 190.
I quit drinking last year, and recently quit smoking. I wasn't a very heavy drinker, but definitely enough to have it affect my weight gain. I drink almost exclusively hard liquor, so somehow in my brain that wasn't as fattening as just beer, even though alcohol can power engines and calories are a unit of energy. In the past year I haven't had anything to drink. I didn't want to quit smoking and drinking while on a diet. The smart addict keeps smoking while on suboxone, the point being one battle at a time. Now, I'm in a position where I care about how much more time I spend heavy and how uncomfortable it makes me over 'winning' it the traditional way.
As for diet I'm not all that picky, but I am lazy. I have a bad habit of frozen foods and sandwiches a lot. The former lasts longer and I have to shop less. Recently switched to cold wraps mostly, dodging bad lettuce the best I can in these runny times. I simply eat too much on average these days. I ate far larger meals before, but I didn't eat every day then would like panic eat a pizza or something. Baby steps. A couple of years ago, when I start eating every day, I also quit sugar for the most part as I feel fine on a lot of sugar, and I feel fine on no sugar, feel fine going from no sugar to a lot of sugar, but I do not adjust well going from a ton of sugar to no sugar. A large soda the day before encourages a small soda the next day because of that. So I just cut it out. Very rarely I rarely eat something like a high calorie snack on impulse. My gas station loyalty points are in a bear market.
So, in general, I'm hear to learn about glp-1s in general, snoop on people's experiences, and plot out my plan for my next overall improvement in well being. 2 lifestyle changes down 1 to go I guess.
Nice to meet everyone.
I've been a stable weight, even after moving to office work, for years until the last ~2-3 years. The major change I made was actually eating every day and eating out less. A combination of probably getting older and just not caring lead to significant weight gain. I ran an experiment last year and managed to lose 25 pounds after the water weight (a bit over 35 but 10 of that was just instant water weight) in a few months (4-5?) with calorie counting. I don't like how I was accomplishing that, but I did manage to experiment to get an accurate idea of how much i need to maintain, gain, or lose weight. I stopped, and gained some of the weight back, but now that I'm a couple years over 30, I'm looking at it from a perspective of I need to do whatever is necessary to make sure I maintain a healthy weight as I approach 40 to reduce health issues this can cause. In particular I'm worried about my joints.
I'm 6'2", and currently 280-285. For years I was 245-255, and that changed. The heaviest I weighed myself in last year was 295. I don't know what my goal weight is as my previous stable weight was still a good bit of a beer gut for years, I haven't been a 'healthy' weight since shortly after college. I have a rather large frame for my size. Previously, I had been at 210 with pretty well built muscles and absolutely no visible fat. Before building muscles, the lowest I got to was 190, and that was about the line before you start asking if something is wrong. I did labor for some time, but for the last some years I've been in an office job, haven't worked out, and don't exercise much aside from walking primarily to prevent joint pain (low impact treadmill). I suspect that the 'stable' weight wasn't actually as stable if I lost any remaining muscle mass but stayed the same weight. I expect I don't have much muscle mass, so I probably should be closer to 190 as a final goal weight, but where I stop I think is a decision I'd make when I see how I'm doing when I start approach 200 and when I decide to start building a bit of muscle. Heck, I might even have less muscle than I did at 190.
I quit drinking last year, and recently quit smoking. I wasn't a very heavy drinker, but definitely enough to have it affect my weight gain. I drink almost exclusively hard liquor, so somehow in my brain that wasn't as fattening as just beer, even though alcohol can power engines and calories are a unit of energy. In the past year I haven't had anything to drink. I didn't want to quit smoking and drinking while on a diet. The smart addict keeps smoking while on suboxone, the point being one battle at a time. Now, I'm in a position where I care about how much more time I spend heavy and how uncomfortable it makes me over 'winning' it the traditional way.
As for diet I'm not all that picky, but I am lazy. I have a bad habit of frozen foods and sandwiches a lot. The former lasts longer and I have to shop less. Recently switched to cold wraps mostly, dodging bad lettuce the best I can in these runny times. I simply eat too much on average these days. I ate far larger meals before, but I didn't eat every day then would like panic eat a pizza or something. Baby steps. A couple of years ago, when I start eating every day, I also quit sugar for the most part as I feel fine on a lot of sugar, and I feel fine on no sugar, feel fine going from no sugar to a lot of sugar, but I do not adjust well going from a ton of sugar to no sugar. A large soda the day before encourages a small soda the next day because of that. So I just cut it out. Very rarely I rarely eat something like a high calorie snack on impulse. My gas station loyalty points are in a bear market.
So, in general, I'm hear to learn about glp-1s in general, snoop on people's experiences, and plot out my plan for my next overall improvement in well being. 2 lifestyle changes down 1 to go I guess.
Nice to meet everyone.
