New to forum: I need some advice. I feel stuck

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Sas1

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Age: 20 years old, female
Height: 5'7
Weight: 198lbs

I gained about 40 lbs since last year and I didn't notice any changes in my body or clothing. I'm a college student and I do freelance work (mostly at a desk) so I'm very short on time. My doctors reported that my blood work was normal. I'm not sure of my fat percentage but my doctors have always told me I was very muscular and they didn't notice my weight gain.

I've recently been put on vyvanse for my ADHD but I was also diagnosed with binge eating disorder. I thought the binging was responsible for the weight gain but I had been eating like this for years and maintained the same weight. I can't cook and although I've tried I'm simple mentally unable to workout. I hired a nutrisionist but if the meds suppress my appetite whats the point ? I can't stress enough how unmotivated I am to workout, but if I could at least control my diet I'd be open to setting up a game plan. I burn about 300 calories just walking around campus and running errands according to my Fitbit and Apple Watch. It's very rare for me to exceed 2k calories and I barely get passed 1200 even if I ate fast food for each meal.

What are my options as a lazy person ? I feel like I'm out of options because I'm usually only eating 1 big meal and a snack. Sometimes I eat even less than that. I find that fruits and veggies spoil because I'm simply too lazy to prepare them. Specifically for fast food, regardless of how unhealthy or healthy the option was if it's under 1200 calories and under the recommended carbs, sugar, fat, protein wouldn't you lose weight ?

What do you suggest for those who can't cook ?

How do you begin to workout when you're pressed for time and lack motivation ?

In the long run can you use supplements or drinks like soylent to meet your nutritional needs?
 
Hi Sas,

I wouldn't recommend going under 1200cal/day.. that's low. I know it can be hard at first just to understand what is causing you to gain it or is preventing you from losing what you want. What you could do is use the 2/3 rule. What is it? It's simply to eat 2/3 of your plate and put the rest back for another meal. And with every meal you do the same. This will lead you to eat less and hopefully start losing weight. Keep walking around, that's good.

Although the best would be to know exactly what you are eating, the reality of losing weight is to go slowly and to get used to change. I think that's what people find the hardest. They are used to eating a certain way or amount and struggle. It's like if you were to start doing the long jump. Would you aim for a 3 meters jump the first time? No, you'd do a small one. The same thing is true for weight loss: one small step at the time.

Hope it helps.

Antoine
 
You say you are not motivated to exercise - but clearly you are motivated about weight loss enough to regularly try to calculate calories and also to seek out and post on this forum. That's a reasonable motivation towards weight loss in itself... Maybe you can convert a little of it towards maybe walking a little extra running those errands... Your Fitbit should be able to help you quantify it to see that you are actually doing more... That walking is all useful exercise...

Maybe a little other exercise could be adopted that doesn't actually involve you getting all dressed up for exercise so does not feel like an "exercise session"... One of the best exercise things I did as a youngster was that one of my friends where I worked had a skipping rope... A group of us all grabbed the skipping rope at different times across the day... I used to just disappear to a quiet area and skip for a couple of minutes every day... Since it was only for a few minutes it really wasn't a big deal. To my mind - spending less than 5 minutes doing something is quite a good lazy option...

As for not being able to cook... You can buy salads that are all prepared and washed and ready to eat... If you want to pay less - there really is almost zero preparation to such as cucumber, tomato and lettuce... You just hack off the amount you are going to eat and run it under the tap and lob it onto a plate... Then cut it into bites as you stick it into your mouth... Eat with either a pack of lean cooked meat or tub of cottage cheese.
 
Don't make things complicated. Just make a habit of drinking a glass of hot water on a daily basis right after waking up in the morning. You could avoid sugar, cheese and other junk food which are known to increase weight.
 
Evan Marcus said:
Don't make things complicated. Just make a habit of drinking a glass of hot water on a daily basis right after waking up in the morning. You could avoid sugar, cheese and other junk food which are known to increase weight.
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Drinking hot water is a complete myth which has been mentioned in past threads but for further reference

University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Debunking water myths: Weight loss, calorie burn and more." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 March 2014. Beth Kitchin, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor of nutrition sciences

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Sep;91(9):3598-602. Epub 2006 Jul 5

The Temperature of the water has no difference on fat loss, the only benefit you are getting is the general benefits of the water itself.
 
you should look up about how the calorie is not the best measurement for weight loss. stop concentrating on calories and start developing some basic healthy eating habits. firstlt you have to stop eating one big meal, thats a major metabolism killer and if you are a binge eater then its probably the worst thing you could do.

as a start just concentrate on changing this one bad habit of eating one big meal a day into eating more more often. once you achieve this on a regular basis you can add in other strategies. its an easy goal to achieve and im sure you can do it
 
ThinHappy40 said:
you should look up about how the calorie is not the best measurement for weight loss. stop concentrating on calories and start developing some basic healthy eating habits. firstlt you have to stop eating one big meal, thats a major metabolism killer and if you are a binge eater then its probably the worst thing you could do.

as a start just concentrate on changing this one bad habit of eating one big meal a day into eating more more often. once you achieve this on a regular basis you can add in other strategies. its an easy goal to achieve and im sure you can do it
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This is another myth, eating more meals in the day does not boost metabolism, nor does one meal per day harm metabolism.
 
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