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I know how to lose weight and I started calorie counting a week ago, but this seems a lot tougher than when I was 21 and I went from 180lbs to 140lbs then hovered around 150 for the last 7 years.
So my question isn’t how to lose weight but more...even if I do is it gonna be possible to maintain my usual weight at this age without substantially limiting my life.
Whilst I was 150lbs I drank a lot, ate a lot, but also walked a lot and did tons of exercise in my field of study and work. It didn’t take effort for me to stay 150lbs I just balanced around there. It was being almost bed bobs for a year and binge eating out of boredom/depression that led to this weight gain and now I’ve added exercise and calorie counting back into my routine I’m pretty confident I can lose most of what I’ve put on but...
...at 28 can I realistically expect to ever go back to how I was.
Because how I look at anything above 160lbs is awful, I immediately begin to grow a huge belly (at 190lbs now my arms and legs are slim as ever and I look like a man who is 9 months pregnant and then I have the same old skinny neck and then a big double chin I never had).
I just feel I look horrendous with excess weight, I carry it in literally the worst possible places and it’s making me super depressed and a recluse.
Even clothes that fit me show my protruding belly and man-boobs and I’ve had to grow a horrible beard that I hate to try and cover my sudden double chin.
I know this is long but I suppose the root of my question is...
Has anyone ever had a sudden awful weight gain like this, lost it again and maintained it throughout the majority of their adult life without having to become a slave to eating and exercising right and never doing anything fun?
Obviously I’ll do that if I have to because I have no self-esteem like this but the cold harsh reality that I might always look this bad just hit me right in the face.
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