hi, im a high school girl struggling with body image. i eat a lot of food and then i make myself vomit and poop afterwards. i am so fat im like 82 kg or 180 lbs and liposuction sounds more and more enticing if thats the word, but i heard ill just have a saggy flap of skin. maybe if not continue to vomit and poop, i will just work out like the fatass i am.
I’ll just leave you with my experience.
I used to be obese. During the pandemic I started tracking my food intake via one of the many apps. It helped me lose about 60 pounds. I was more fit, liked the way I looked a lot more, and also took up biking as a form of exercise.
Fast forward a few years, and I gained a lot of the weight back. I’m not as heavy as I once was, but I’ve got about 40 pounds to lose now. Started dropping weight again by tracking my food intake religiously.
Vomiting or pooping will not help you. Start by evaluating the food you keep in your house. Get rid of any temptations like cookies or chips. Make a meal plan and learn how to cook at home. Look at a food tracking app (I use Cronometer at the moment), and start to track every thing you eat. If you can keep your daily calorie intake at a deficit of 500 you WILL lose weight at a rate of 1 pound a week.
Weight loss is a sustained goal, and you should be prepared to make long term lifestyle changes and stick to it. It’s not an easy thing to do but you can do it.
I realize this may seem more critical than helpful, but trust me, it comes from a place without judgement. This is purely advice, not criticism:
Vomiting and pooping aren’t effective solutions, because they don’t actually help you lose weight.
Vomiting with a high frequency wreaks havoc on your esophagus, vocal folds, mouth, and teeth. It’s a stopgap measure for consuming too many calories, but it won’t help you. Rather, it will only make things worse.
Pooping does NOT lead to weight loss. This is a common misconception, one I held until my 30s! As it turns out, weight is primarily lost through breathing! Pooping is mostly just removing the waste that wasn’t kept by the body from the food you ate.
When you burn fat the vast majority (like 84% or something) leaves the body through your lungs as carbon dioxide. The rest as water through exhalation, urine, and sweat.
The key to weight loss is eating fewer calories than you expend. The simplest way to do that is to eat fewer calories, but this can be really difficult for people like you and me. The alternative way is to exercise, though it takes quite a bit of exercise to offset food intake. Just remember, anything that makes you breathe harder is helping you lose weight faster!
Definitely talk to your doctor if you’re concerned about your weight, especially since it sounds as though you have an eating disorder (which are nothing to be ashamed of and are far more common than people think; binge eating for example is an extremely common eating disorder that I myself suffer from).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa
Not good, see a Dr.
Depending on your height, 180lb sounds chubby but not in morbidly obese territory yet. Don’t panic.
180lb sounds chubby but not in morbidly obese territory yet
People are often suprised what the definition of morbidly obese is, and the US AMA keeps reclassifying it to not insult patients.
It’s increased so fast in the US they needed new colors for the heat maps.
Sheesh, your self talk sounds just like mine, sorry for that and the upbringing that molded it : (. Check out ThePlantSlant on tiktok/YT, Liam has a lot of shorts about improving your relationship with food and that might be a good avenue to explore. If you are in the US and your family is in a position to be able to arrange liposuction treatment, the involvement & conversations with medical professionals would probably help more than anything. I suspect that would be less true outside the US and western Europe though.
Hi. Your description suggests you might have an eating disorder. In that case, it’s fundamental you look for professional health assistance ASAP, and before deciding to go into any surgical procedure. A professional may help you discover what is the source of your compulsion for food, and help you treat it by the root.
Second: regular exercise is always a good suggestion, regardless of it’s effect in weight loss. Even if the balance shows the same weight, your boy might be changing bad far for good fat and muscle, and getting active in a way that will boost your confidence and your overall health, in ways that can’t be measured just through your weight.
Good luck, and take care of yourself!
