If you’ve lost a significant amount of weight, how did you do it?

[MrsDrake]

Currently trying to avoid getting weight loss surgery as I don’t think it will help in the long run as I have impulses to binge and I have family who have gained weight again after stretching their stomachs.

My health is shot. I have to lose 9+ stone.

I’ve done all the diets and seem to get stuck in the same place. I like the freedom of not weighing and counting everything with SW and WW but end up extremely hungry. I like the freedom if nothing being off limits with calorie counting, and don’t get as hungry, but the counting and weighing takes up so much headspace it seems to trigger a binge too.

I’ve tried to get hep for the binging, but a lot of it seems to centre around stopping dieting. With my cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes status that just isn’t possible.

If you have managed to lose a large amount of weight, how did you do it?

The thing is the lower your weight gets the harder to loose it becomes. I already walked 10, 000 steps daily ( have a dog and school runs) and ate pretty healthy, it has just been the bad snacks as my downfall. There seems to be 300 kcals lurking in every tasty corner !

Absolutely this, it really works.

Extensive integrative psychotherapy for Binge Eating Disorder….and then weight loss surgery. I’ve lost 13 stone in 18 months. I feel great.

3 stone+ with Ozempic.

But basically it enabled me to do boring stuff like cut out snacks, sugar and chocolate, eat smaller portions (I bought us smaller plates!), eat a higher fibre diet.

Am hopeful the lifestyle change will stick but it will be a v long slow wean once I am at target.