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Most of my family is overweight, including me.
I remember watching my mom keep trying fad diets and failing, and I remember how every time she and her also overweight friend would tell me "yeah well diets don't always work, you lose a few but than you gain even more!"
"oh look at Oprah! She looks so good now, but you know she keeps shrinking than ballooning up. She can't keep the weight down."
Than they would tell me about how I'm also getting fat, and I should watch what I eat, and do some sports.
But why should I do that if my mom goes on an hour long walk in the morning, and her friend goes to the gym and has a treadmill in her home and they look the same?
If my mom does a miserable shake diet, vegan diet, no carb diet, no sweets diet and looks the same?
I sort of figured that my "fate" is to be fat, like my family. We're all just like that and there's no real way to keep it down, so why bother?
I remember wishing so bad I had an eating disorder, or that I'd get so sick I'd be hospitalized and unable to eat, so I'd be thin and beautiful in the end (now I know better, these aren't fantasies, they're night mares).
Thanks to this sub, and reddit in general, I saw people learn how to eat right, happily keep the weight off while still enjoying food, go through huge transformation in their health, lifestyle and apparence. I found my motivation to do it too.
Since starting calorie counting I lost 16.6 kg. I'm finally not an XL, in some brands I'm even a S! A reality I never thought possible.
I've had a food full week and gained back 2.3 kg but I know it's OK. I can lose it back and it's not the end of the world. I'm not that ballooning and thinning dieter.
Thank you all so much for your posts, support, suggestions and most of all for being brave enough to show your transformation.
Tldr; thought losing weight was impossible, this sub helped me know better.
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