Talking to a therapist about this specifically — does this still hold? posts 31–60
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1 · go to the accepted answer.
Understood. Thank you for being specific about the limits of it.
Post #33 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Social and relationship impacts: weight change affects how others perceive and interact with a person. Those impacts are real and can be psychologically significant.
I would rather say I do not know than round it up to an answer.
Collapsed as off-topic by two members at trust level 3 or above
The arithmetic in post #34 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
That much is documented. The rest is how I have interpreted it.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
Post #36 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
Coming back to post #36, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
Flagging that the sources on this are thinner than the confidence in the thread suggests.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Agreed on all of that, and I have nothing to add to it.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
This is where my knowledge stops and I would rather mark the edge than blur it.
Confirming post #41 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.
Support and community: some people process weight change through community (online or in-person). Others prefer privacy. Knowing what you need and seeking it proactively helps.
Anyone with a larger sample, please post it.
Worth separating two things that post #41 runs together.
If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency or crisis service rather than posting. A volunteer forum cannot help and waiting costs time.
Social and relationship impacts: weight change affects how others perceive and interact with a person. Those impacts are real and can be psychologically significant.
Maintenance brings a different set of psychological questions from loss, and the discussion here is much thinner on that phase.
I would want a second opinion before relying on that.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
Someone will know this better than I do and I hope they say so.
Second this, and I would have said it less carefully.
The arithmetic in post #48 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.
Where I part company with post #50, and it is a narrow parting.
The social side of this — how other people respond to visible change — comes up constantly and has nothing to do with pharmacology.
If this contradicts something upthread, the upthread version may well be the better one.
Where a member is finding this hard, the useful reply is usually a question rather than an answer, and this subcategory does that well.
Confirming post #56 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.
The social side of this — how other people respond to visible change — comes up constantly and has nothing to do with pharmacology.
Filing this under things that are true until someone shows me otherwise.
Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.
It took me longer than it should have to see that.
Bookmarking this. I will come back when I have something worth adding.
Motivation and expectation: starting with clear motivation and realistic expectations about what will happen and when helps with psychological adjustment.
I would treat that as a working assumption and revisit it.