broodling43
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Hey everyone,
I'm a 41-year-old guy from MN, USA. My whole life has been a rollercoaster with weight, and binge eating has always been something I struggled to keep in check. At 14, the highest number I ever recall on the scale was 265 pounds, though I quit stepping on it after that, so I might have hit 300 by the time I actually got serious about changing things. In high school I managed to lose a huge amount of weight through DDR (if you're not familiar, that's a dance rhythm arcade game that was big in the late 90's and early 2000's). Then came 20 years of going up and down, often reaching 215 and then dropping back to 185. Binge eating and my inability to rein it in drove all of that.
At 31 I took up running. I kept at it and pushed hard, and at 36 I completed a marathon. Weightlifting came next, along with some experimentation with anabolics. I put on muscle, but the binges continued. Eventually I got a BED diagnosis and was prescribed vyvanse. It helped quite a bit, though it didn't silence the food noise all day long. In time I picked up some reta on the grey market (thanks to this site!) and began at a very low dose, and the food noise simply... vanished. For what might be the first time in my life, I can get to the end of a day without wanting to eat everything in sight. That change has been huge, and now I'd like to take my fitness further with input from other peps. These days I usually lift 6 days a week and the progress is really showing, and having control over my eating has meant so much. This forum has taught me a lot (I've been lurking for roughly the past 6 months), and I figured it was time to actually join. Looking forward to talking with people here who have similar interests.
Peace and Love ya'll
I'm a 41-year-old guy from MN, USA. My whole life has been a rollercoaster with weight, and binge eating has always been something I struggled to keep in check. At 14, the highest number I ever recall on the scale was 265 pounds, though I quit stepping on it after that, so I might have hit 300 by the time I actually got serious about changing things. In high school I managed to lose a huge amount of weight through DDR (if you're not familiar, that's a dance rhythm arcade game that was big in the late 90's and early 2000's). Then came 20 years of going up and down, often reaching 215 and then dropping back to 185. Binge eating and my inability to rein it in drove all of that.
At 31 I took up running. I kept at it and pushed hard, and at 36 I completed a marathon. Weightlifting came next, along with some experimentation with anabolics. I put on muscle, but the binges continued. Eventually I got a BED diagnosis and was prescribed vyvanse. It helped quite a bit, though it didn't silence the food noise all day long. In time I picked up some reta on the grey market (thanks to this site!) and began at a very low dose, and the food noise simply... vanished. For what might be the first time in my life, I can get to the end of a day without wanting to eat everything in sight. That change has been huge, and now I'd like to take my fitness further with input from other peps. These days I usually lift 6 days a week and the progress is really showing, and having control over my eating has meant so much. This forum has taught me a lot (I've been lurking for roughly the past 6 months), and I figured it was time to actually join. Looking forward to talking with people here who have similar interests.
Peace and Love ya'll