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.

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!

I am not a doctor and I am definitely not your doctor, but this sounds like an eating disorder to me. Are you in a position to talk to a doctor about it?

guys, thank you for all your support. i am going to a doctor soon :)

Idk how much to engage with this,

But liposuction or quick fixes aren’t the answer here. You need to ask why you are eating the food.

Also, a surprising amount of issues can be fixed with exercise,

Calisthenics, or walking, or biking or something that you can do easily and without totally hating it. Working at it to build routine

And the best part is you build strength, to fight your true enemy, the body image issues.

I feel weird commenting on this being an adult man but I’m about to have a teenage daughter so here goes: Focus on what you can control and what is within your ability to do. Nobody else’s opinion matters but yours and your doctor. At the same time, skinny == healthy. Aim to be healthy and accepting of how your body works. Learning to be content goes a long way in life and its a lesson a lot of people seem to never think about.

poopin or not, theres really no getting around eating correctly and a ton of exercise for some people.

id recommend finding a very active hobby you wouldnt see as exercise. i like to roller skate

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.

There’s many other things to try than looking at liposuction. Please talk to a doctor, and if that doctor recommends liposuction without trying to address why your feeling addicted to food then try another doctor, at least 3 opinions before a surgery like that. You may have a legit addiction to certain chemical reactions within certain foods like some do with the doritos powder, or you could have a deficiency which may make you crave lets say extremely fatty foods when it’s really one of the micronutrients that your body is craving that’s from said food that’sin a low quantity. Every body is different. An example I get dehydrated kinda easily regardless of the amount of water I drink while also not feeling that thirsty that leads random spasms that make me realize Im dehydrated. That issue is from salt regulation so I have to add salt to my water or drink those European high mineral content waters. Dad and granddad have the same issue so it’s genetic.

I don’t wanna sound like an asshole, but this seems like a bait post, like those you’d see on r/AITA

If it’s not, I’d recommend taking the advice of everyone here that’s saying talk to a doctor. Keep working out even if you feel it’s not helping, it’s still building those habits of exercising and staying active.

I haven’t been active in almost half a year, and I hate myself for it. I wish I had any hobbies that got me out of the house. Don’t be like me.

weight management is all about habits … start finding small ways to create healthier habits and grow slowly …

Sometimes there is a psychological factor. I was overweight most of my life and I always felt a constant need to satiate. When I was diagnosed with ADHD and started taking medication that hunger went away.

Try things like volume eating, fiber pills, drinking more water … small things add up over time but you have to be consistent.

Exercise helps but diet on it’s own can get you there too. CACO is the law (Calories in, calories out)

Any and all quick fixes will not work if you do not address the underlying issues - the weight will just come back.

Many people have had great success with GLP-1 drugs. You should consult a medical professional though for a qualified opinion and to ensure they won’t conflict with anything else you have going on.

I used to be 10 pounds under weight and about 10% body fat. I’m now so overweight I can barely muster the energy to cook healthy meals to try to stem the problem, and forget entirely about working out. I’ve been on GLP-1 (WeGovy) for two months now and the change is significant - it is much easier for me to say no to bad food (which my family still surrounds me with and shoves in my face constantly), and I’m less inclined to take, say, four slices of pizza - I’ll instead take two, and when I’m done, I don’t even bother going back for more (and this applies to other food as well.) My long term goals are structured roughly around - lose enough of the weight that my body is no longer constantly just fighting and burning all my energy to stay alive and keep my organs working - flip that energy into physical activity and/or healthy food prep - and then as things start to snowball, incorporate the other (physical activity or food prep, whichever is still outstanding). I’m only down a handful of pounds so far as the ramp-up time on the drug is quite long, but I already feel better about myself, generally feel better every day now than I did before, and most importantly have hope and think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

It is a tunnel though - and it is a long journey, no matter how you do it. I don’t expect any significant results for at least a year, and even then I’ll still have a ways to go. Nothing short of fundamental and sustained changes can produce positive, healthy results that will stick around though.

im gonna wear the smallest pants even if they dont fit to squeeze my stomach and make it look skinnier