Weight loss accountability/support 2025 edition

Hi, you may find more specific answers to some of your issues in the Depression, Teetotalism and Parenting threads in Members Only. And you can share the woes of getting old in the middle-aged thread

I would say that successfully losing weight in 2022 massively improved my mental health. I think mainly because it proved to me that I was in some sort of control of at least part of my life.

Alcoholism

Depends where you are on the alcoholic spectrum, I guess. I myself am on the “can go without, but the moment I start drinking I’m unlikely to stop until I go to bed’. I also have poor impulse control and the combination of the calories from booze plus the calories from getting the booze munchies was making it impossible for me to lose weight.

Solution: I stopped drinking during the week. Weekend, I still smash a bunch of beers in the evening, but no drinks during the week.

poor impulse control

Another issue for me. Solved by not buying anything that I might want to eat in the first place. No danger snacks in the house - no crisps, no fucking delicious hummus, no chocolate. If I’m in the shop then I will chart my route so it doesn’t take me past the things I know will tempt me. TBH I have to do this less now as the more time has gone by the better my impulse control around food has become (see also, being less drunk all the time)

I hear you loud and clear, man.

I found I had to build myself up to it, months/years of procrastination then bang! I just did it. Jump in, it's the best way.

I have terrible impulse control, total snackafarian. Good luck, check in here for encouragement!