(Part 2) Best products from r/fatpeoplestories

People keep telling me about this book with my username. I've never actually read it. My name comes from this. It's in memoriam of a dead friend who liked drugs a little too much.

I'll have to go pick up that book one of these days. People keep telling me about it.

If you ever remember the name of that other book, which sounds like a Chick tract, just tell me the name. I can go fetch it for myself. No need to be buying me stuff, k.

If you like to read, hell yeah, let's talk. My hubs and I are both bookworms to an amazing degree. I just read one called Everything I Never Told You which won some kind of award from Amazon - best new or first book of the year, can't remember. It's a mindfucker.

The only book that ever made me cry was written from the point of view of a family dog. It was made into a movie that completely sucked, but the end of the book had me bawling. I've had to fight to retrieve that book from people I've loaned it to; only one printing, there aren't that many around, so I wasn't able to just let them keep it.

Want to read one from the point of view of a velociraptor? Here you go.

Another mindfucker: Room. Jesus, this one will have your skin crawling and hair standing up on the back of your neck.

My main thing is historical fiction, though. Gotta be well-researched and accurate - and yes, I check. I can go on and on about this, but the best is Edward Rutherfurd. He takes several lineages and follows them throughout history - Sarum starts in prehistory, do that one first - with a ton of detail.

Hubs is into science fiction, favorite author is Neal Stephenson. We both dig Kim Stanley Robinson, though. If you've never read his stuff, try this. If sci-fi is your thing, I can ask him for some recommendations.

When I say that Himself and I are bookworms, I am not kidding. We turned the dining room into a library to contain the overflow. You walk in our front door, and to your right is a wall; to your left, a library. Pretty fucking cool, if you ask me.

Hey man, that's awesome. Cooking can be a lot of fun once you have some basic recipes under your belt. I remember when I started it was all once-pan-meals. Change pasta/rice/noodles and the vegetables and flavoring and I could hit every continent. Now I like to challenge myself with at least one new recipe a month.

The one thing that will make cooking in the kitchen so much easier is developing good knife skills and buying a decent knife/honing steel. This one is often recommended.

I just got my girlfriend into cooking and it's amazing how far she's come in such a short time with a bit of practice. Good luck!

>B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bonus #1 Make your own damn hummus

I decided to include one of my favorite easy recipes to make. I love middle eastern food, but living in the middle of nowhere midwest makes that hard to come by round dese parts. This recipe + the following falafel/tzatziki makes my friends think I am some sort of food wizard, but it is criminally easy.


>Preperation

1. Purchase Garbanzo beans, Lemon, Garlic, Tahini (if you want to go balls to the wall. It is worth it. It gives it like this peanut butter taste. That makes my mouth happy.), Olive Oil
   
   >Cooking
   
   
   
2. Soak about 2 cups of the beans in water over night
   
3. drain
   
4. You can boil them for a bit to make them softer but it is not needed
   
5. Blend in a food processor with 2 cloves of garlic, some lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and tahini.
   
6. serve
   
7. If it is dry add a bit more olive oil.
   
   You can add any spices you want to this. The liquid aminos gives it a really neat flavor.

Suggestion - Have you ever come across Mexican hard candies that are pineapple flavored and coated in chili powder and salt?

The labels are not particularly obvious - A hungry ham could certainly tuck into them before realizing what flavor they just took. And they're a bit spicy - the cayenne burns a bit before the sweet candy center helps to balance it out.

You might try those as a decoy. And, bonus, if you find that you like the salty-spicy-sweet-fruit flavor, they may make an excellent once-in-a-while fancy-flavor candy for you, too.

Edit to add: DURIAN hard candies are also an excellent prank item. Few people like them, most people gag on them. See here: https://smile.amazon.com/Durian-Candy-6-34-Product-China/dp/B0062VQEQA?sa-no-redirect=1

So I hit my initial goal a while back (lost 40 pounds to hit 15% body fat at 5'11" and 170 lbs) and I've been eating maintenance for a couple of months, but this week I all of a sudden started feeling super hungry all of a sudden. Like, I'm hungry all the time, but it really affects me in the fact that haven't slept more than five hours a night this week because I have trouble stuffing my face enough to go to sleep at night, and then wake up in the middle of the night and basically have to eat a whole meal just to feel satisfied enough to go back to sleep. I went back to myfitnesspal, entered my food, and my calories are right around where they should be (before the nighttime binges). My carbs are low and my protein is crazy high (including chugging about 30 grams of Casein to try and keep me filled up over night), because I thought that would fill me up, but it's clearly not working. I had gained three pounds by Wednesday, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were five pounds by today (I was too exhausted to weigh myself this morning).

I went to a doctor for a similar issue a few years ago, but the answer that she didn't know (I have had about three successful visits to doctors over the past ten years, and one of them was a specialist). I'm certainly willing to go to the doctor again, but I suspect that I'll get the same results unless I have more information. Honestly, the weight gain sucks, but I just want to be able to sleep. I have no idea how to accomplish that.

Hey now, I've got a masters in applied linguistics. Anyone can do it!. If you're super super super stuck check out this book by Andy Field. He is very good and literally goes step by step by step. Unless of course you're doing the actual math by hand. In which case you just need to go slow and check you're work twice over.

EDIT: Read: I believe in you.

You can get aminophylline/theophylline creams to help with topical fat loss ("loose skin" which is mostly just edema/water weight and excess fat, not a whole lot of actual extra skin if it was only 60 pounds).

You still need to maintain a caloric deficit (you won't magically spot reduce body fat if you're not actually eating at a caloric deficit). Also these chemical can be extremely cardiotoxic if they enter systemic circulation (interestingly enough they're used acutely in heart failure and stuff IV), but topical application doesn't produce any systemic increase.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1550-8528.1995.tb00228.x/abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-1326.2006.00600.x/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677732/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039128X05000577

There was one trial I saw with aminophylline reducing cellulite as well (*while maintaining a caloric deficit) compared to controls, and an actually change in the histology of the tissue (subq fat dropped and the puffed out skin because more normal looking in section).

You can buy this from smartpowders or this from amazon.

Eviscerate probably works better (more ingredients making up a larger percentage of the solution) but burns like a motherfucker (Eviscerate Smoulder apparently burns less but has less active ingredients). I haven't used the other cream so I can't comment on how much it burns (probably a lot less cuz no capsaicin <--- the stuff that makes things spicy).

Also be sure to check out the /r/loseit and /r/fitness FAQs if you haven't already. Best of luck on your journey =D

> Go to a fucking dietitian, not a goddamn nutritionist. A dietitian is trained in nutrition but has an actual degree and is accredited and licensed.

Person I've gone to is an RD. Two of them, in fact. One was in the context of an eating disorder program at a local hospital. This is before I went bulimic, but they considered obesity as an eating disorder too.

>STOP FUCKING CALLING IT A DIET.

OK, is "intentional caloric restriction" better?

> I'm assuming the problem with your "diets," is that you weren't really filling up on low-calorie foods; you craved these things because you weren't really making a lifestyle change

And you would assume wrongly. I can fill up on fiber and vegetables and fruits and even psyllium fiber-husks capsules (no net calories! I did and still do swallow them by the handful at least once a day), but that doesn't work for long. Take my last serious weight-loss attempt/lifestyle-change attempt: I dropped 78 lbs in a year and kept it off for a year-and-a-half using an RD-prescribed diabetic exchange diet. I was upset when I discovered that even when eating low-to-moderate fat and fiber-rich high-volume low-calorie foods I didn't get "filled up" for very long, even with moderate amounts of protein; hungry again like clockwork 1.5-to-2 hrs after eating, every time. Which is OK during the day, but not at night.

I always had terrible hunger at night, almost every damn night, while on that plan (1200-1400 kcals/day). Not just mild hunger pangs, but hunger pangs that kept me from falling asleep. And those nighttime hunger pangs never went away, over the course of two and a half years, either. And on bad nights, it led me to bingeing on almond butter or jars of olives, and sometimes throwing them up too. Which is the largest part of why I gave up that particular 'lifestyle change".

This is actually making me think about paleo, given that the fat content of that diet/eating plan is so high. Maybe I could find satiation on that plan. But first I have to come to terms with the idea of giving up sugar forever. So I bought a couple paleo cookbooks and hubby and I have been trying some of the recipes for dinner.

>Once it becomes a mindset to feed your body amazing things that will support your cellular functions and make you beautiful inside and out, you really put better options on a pedestal and treat yourself every one and a while; in moderation.

Not everybody can do "moderation". My brain does not do "moderation" very well. As one of my fellow bipolars said last time I was in group therapy at the funny farm, "I am AMPLIFIED". There is a strong link between obesity and mental illness, incidentally. The "moderation" problem may be one reason why.

>That said, have you gotten professional therapy for your eating addiction?

Yes, thanks for asking. My first enrollment in the hospital-based outpatient program was back in 1997, actually, and that's where I was first diagnosed with depression (which is actually bipolar) and put on psychotropic meds for the first time. Have not seen an RD since 2008. The latest advice I've gotten from current therapist (a LCSW, not an RD) and my new primary care doctor is to avoid food-restricting.

Whoops. Life happened. Here's a really comprehensive look at women's health in the US (this has overlaps with the NIH as well): http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Health-Missing-Medicine-Science/dp/0253209242 - many selections are available on google books. I'd be happy to discuss this further with you if you're interested.

Also, if you have sources you'd like to share, I'd be very interested in reviewing them.

Supplement your electrolytes and you will have 0 issues!

Get 100% of your daily value of Sodium from 1 cup of Bone Broth (or chicken broth).

In that, drop 1 teaspoon of NoSalt, which is just pure Potassium cholride powder. BAM! 100% daily value of Potassium.

Then, take 2 doses of Magnesium Glycinate Chelate and twice as much Coral Calcium if you want to get 100% of your Magnesium, and a 2-to-1 ratio of Magnesium to Calcium, which is preferred for bone calcium and blood calcium levels.

If you take your salty electrolyte shot everyday like I do, and adapt to ketosis at <25g carbs per day and not exceeding 150g protein, I bet you will turn Super Saiyan. LOL

I love my black teas - Yorkshire black is my current holy grail. I'm fond of a good mint tea, as well - the sort strong enough to numb your throat. (Chilled with a bit of honey is most refreshing.) :D

That one looks cool. Here's the one I have:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00309XR44/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1459107862&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=weighted+hula+hoop&dpPl=1&dpID=41UPSqgeQ9L&ref=plSrch

I like it because I can break it down really small (shoe box size) and take it with to beach trips, camping, etc. My daughter and husband use it, too. It's fun because it makes you feel like a kid again. I just end up laughing the whole time.