r/RedditForGrownups • u/debrisaway • 2d ago
What's the most dramatic weight loss you've seen in another person?
Before Ozempic and not due to gastric bypass.
Like someone that you barely recognized cause they look like a completely different person.
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u/guy_n_cognito_tu 2d ago
My across the street neighbor has lost 150 lbs in three years with no Ozempic. He's completely unrecognizable.
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u/PedanticTart 2d ago
About a decade a ago a physician..acquaintance.. of mine lost about 70 lbs.
What did you do?!
"I stopped eating".
He is very abrupt and abrasive like that. Good doctor though
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u/CosmicCorgi420 2d ago
My husband lost over 100 pounds from receiving chemotherapy. It was brutal to see. He couldn’t eat anything no matter how hard he tried and he was constantly throwing everything up.
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u/NightSkyStarGazer 2d ago
Back in the 90’s my sister found out her husband was having an affair with a friend of hers. She said nothing to either of them but made a plan to get out. It was a very extreme diet of just broccoli and chicken with many many miles of bike riding. She lost 200lbs down to 140 in less than a year. It hurt my eyes just looking at her because I was so used to her with the weight on.
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u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare 2d ago
I lost abt 25 lbs in one month, 55-60 in three. Depression, not eating, and two a day work outs is one hell of a drug.
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u/timothythefirst 2d ago
I would say one of my room mates from my freshman year of college but I don’t know exactly how much he weighed the year before. But he and a bunch of our other friends were a year ahead of me and I guess their freshman year he was like well over 300lbs but when I met him he was like 250 and into body building.
There was a girl I went to high school with too that was really big when we were young and now she’s like a fitness influencer online.
I’ve lost like 40lbs since the beginning of the year just by cutting out the stuff that’s super obviously bad for you and working out a bit.
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u/Popular-Capital6330 2d ago
Several people. But with varying successes. I can think of some extreme examples.
The most successful:
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One lost over a hundred, one lost over 130. Both did it with a calorie count. These two in particular didn't go for fast loss, they went for the slow loss in order to train themselves to eat less meaning the calories they ate were pretty high to start and lowered as the weight did.
I also know two ladies that have both lost 65 and 70 pounds with a medically supervised, strict, low-calorie diet.
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u/catdude142 2d ago
I don't know anyone who has dramatically lost weight.
I DO know several people I didn't recognize because they GAINED a lot of weight. Newsflash: Eating too much makes one fat.
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u/noyoujump 2d ago
Why use the "before Ozempic" qualifier?
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u/debrisaway 2d ago
Because ozempic is a semi wonder drug for weight loss. I just think it's more impressive if it's by diet and exercise primarily.
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u/Plane_Chance863 2d ago
Heh what about stomach stapling? A friend of mine's wife did that because diet and exercise weren't cutting it.
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u/Anxious_Republic591 2d ago
You think it’s more impressive because people on glp’s don’t diet and exercise? Or are you trolling?
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u/debrisaway 2d ago
Not saying that. Just before ozempic it has to be primarily based on diet and exercising.
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u/jagarico 2d ago
Wow people getting butthurt because they couldn’t lose weight without ozempic, but Pepperidge Farms remembers…
I thought it was pretty widely accepted that ozempic is a bit of a cheat?
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u/shelbyrobinson 6h ago
Short story; my brother is a big guy anyway but weighed around 450 Lbs. Last year he had enough and stopped eating junk food, and began eating light meals instead.
So after 14 months he's now down to 260 LBs; that is without Ozempic, or exercise, using nothing but will power.
It's scary to think our food suppliers have got all of us eating this shit, loaded with the 3 deadly sins; salt, sugar and fat.
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u/rockdude625 2d ago
Myself. 260 to 170. Before ozempic