(Part 2) Top products from r/fatpeoplestories

Thanks for stopping by - I'm pulling for you! If you don't mind some unsolicited advice, I know a few things that might help.

I went from around 300 to 170 today. I'm working on getting that down to the 140-150 range. 170 is healthy for me, but I need to scrub off the rest. I'm under 1,000 calories a day, so I should be there by the end of the year or end of January. Doesn't matter, it's coming off.

If you don't have a pet, think about it. There are lots of them at the shelter and they are tremendously beneficial, especially cats and dogs. Nothing against birds and fish, but cats and dogs are really affectionate. They give you something to look forward to and something to look after. If you got a dog, you could take it out a couple of times a day. A good excuse to get outside and exercise, plus the dog will love it.

A couple of books I've found very helpful over the years are Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius and Buddhism Plain and Simple, by Steve Hagen. A little stoicism and reflections on life from nearly 2,000 years ago is surprisingly helpful. So is Hagen's book. No, it's not some religious tract. It's an introduction to Buddhism and a different way of looking at things. 100% compatible with atheism, by the way. Clear, concise and always interesting. At worst, you'll simply understand Buddhism. At best, you'll find some tools to improve your life.

Think about weight loss in the long term. It's going to take you two or three years to get where you want. But that's OK. It gets frustrating day-to-day when you just want it to be over with, but you have to stick it out. You've probably covered this with your therapist, but it's really important to shift your rewards away from food. Get yourself used to going for something else. Make it something productive. Go to school, or at least take some classes. Learn another language. Take up some hobbies. Make those things into your new reward. It won't happen overnight, but work at it.

Hopefully, those might help you out. I'd like them to. Keep working at it - you will get there.

I'm not currently a cat owner, but I've read a lot about cat nutrition. First, a lot of vets make their food recs based on what manufacturers say. If your cat is a kibbletarian, odds are the food you are feeding is too high in carbs because it's cheaper to produce than meat. Cats don't need rice, corn, or any grains, and too much can lead to feline diabetes. Even some of the "scientific" formulations have problems. I know it can be frustrating when you are doing everything "right" but it doesn't seem to work. You might want to check out this webiste or this book for more information on cat nutrition. You might have a great vet, but not all specialize in cats. I grew up on a farm, and our vet was great with cattle, but he wouldn't be my first choice for dealing with specialized cat problems. It's obvious you care about your cat, and I wish you the best of luck :)

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.

My college boyfriend was given this cookbook as a gag gift for Christmas one year because he refused to "eat rabbit food" (skinny as a twig though, one day his time will come). He didn't think it was all that funny so I managed to snag it during the breakup.

It's awesome and is pushing to help me learn to cook post-college (pretty basic recipes) while not eating too shitty.

Uh, dude...I read a lot. I like to write. I've taken a class in creative writing. It was rude and unnecessary of you to imply that I'm uneducated. You'll note that I steered clear of personal insults in my original critique.

If you'd like to have a look at some books on the craft of writing, you'll find that using shit-tons of purple prose synonyms for "said" is constantly described as an amateur's mistake. Same with using tons of adverbs. Vivid writing derives most of its punch from strong, well-placed verbs.

A well-written book full of "he said, she said" would not be boring because we don't actually register the "saids" on a conscious level. And we shouldn't. The dialogue is what matters, or the actions that people perform while speaking the dialogue. Again, don't draw attention away from the content, to the text.

Recommended reading: http://www.amazon.com/On-Writing-Anniversary-Edition-Memoir/dp/1439156816

The TV Tropes entry for Said Bookism: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SaidBookism

This one includes a great Twilight spoof that also demonstrates why Said Bookism is terrible: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0425238989

This is more to do with plot/characterization than sentence structure, but is also useful for writing in general: http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/538

No buckle belt

If you don’t have to tuck in your shirt these are ok. Not as good as a regular belt but the no buckle part is great!

Hi! IBS-D sufferer here. I hope it's okay for me to butt in. This IBS cookbook changed my life. The author, Heather Van Vorous, is a patient advocate and while everyone is different when it comes to IBS, I found her advice and recipes to be exactly what my tummy wanted/needed. :)

You might be interested in the book Black Like Me, in which the white author darkened his skin to experience life in the Jim Crow South as a black man. I haven't read it since 8th grade English, but I remember it being fascinating and heartbreaking.

My sister highly recommends these books:

It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30

Well Fed: Book of Paleo Recipes - The paleo shepherd's pie is OMFGSOGOOD.

No, it shouldn't IMHO... i did lose 15kg without starving myself.

If you want to learn something about calories, please read this :)

http://www.amazon.com/The-poor-misunderstood-calorie-calories/dp/1453843612

Could it be the Horrible Histories series?

I read all the Horrible Histories books in my elementary school library, they are awesome!

He doesn't know much vampire material.

Fat Vampire: An Underdog Vampire Novella - I've read it, it's not bad. It is however, realistic about fat vampires - in that he can't catch his prey because he's too fat. Also Real Vampires have Curves and another Fat Vampire.

Furthermore, fat vampires are in plenty of vampire movies/shows - Blade has Pearl, Balthazar and Kakistos in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cho in True Blood, a bunch of them in From Dusk till Dawn, Deacon in What We Do in the Shadows, the Head Vampire in Lost Boys and Santiago in Interview with the Vampire.

Old school:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Food-Counts-9th/dp/0440245613/

Read Hungry - the journey from fat to thin. It's a short book that looks at the struggles one person had after losing heaps of weight.

One day I changed from a fat person (who'd lost weight) to a person who looked in the mirror and saw a happy person looikng back, who just happened to have some excess skin.

Brain damage, damaged vagus nerve, Prader Willi, the list goes on.

EDIT: While I'm in no way defending the uglies of fat logic, obesity is a lot more than "eat less and exercise more" as this subreddit likes to think. Biological forces are in charge of energy balance and once you fuck up that feedback loop strict willpower just won't cut it for weight loss.

EDIT 2: Keep downvoting me, but after you hit that arrow go and read this and this