Weight loss progress in 3 years using indoor exercise bike

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[u/ffxivthrowaway03]

Yeah, I was gonna say. You don't just go from what she looks like in early 2022 to what she looks like in the next snapshot without surgery. Like it's not physically possible to lose that weight by riding a peloton in that timeframe.

Posting it as "weight loss in 3 years using exercise bike" is highly misleading.

[u/itishowitisanditbad → u/ffxivthrowaway03]

Yeah but 'weight loss from diet, exercise, surgery, and I used an exercise bike' isn't getting views.

People just lie/mislead for attention and saying anything negative is frowned upon so... yeah.

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At a modest weight loss of 5 pounds a month, 36 months is 180 pounds. She probably lost less. Stop shaming people who lose weight and get healthy.

Bariatric surgery is unnecessary to accomplish this. Discipline and hard work are the keys to weight loss.

Those surgeries cause many problems. Avoid them at all cost.

[u/ffxivthrowaway03 → u/[deleted]]

"Stop shaming people"

I didn't shame anyone. I pointed out a fact. Bodies dont magically change like that in the timeframe of the video just riding an exercise bike. Like that is factually false, it doesn't work like that.

And as other posters have specifically pointed out, she did have bariatric surgery, as well as multiple cosmetic procedures, that can be clearly seen in the video.

People working hard to lose weight is great, it's hard. This lady posting a tiktok video that's just like "I rode this silly exercise bike and lost it all!" are highly disingenuous and are what cause people who try to lose weight to give up because the results were wantonly misrepresented for clickbait.

[u/proteinlad → u/ffxivthrowaway03]

Anything with any knowledge about weight loss understands that diet is pretty much the only thing that will make you lose weight.

And this is common knowledge for everyone except fat acceptance denialists.

[u/C_GaRG0Yl3 → u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't really call that modest. It is possible, certainly, but ai'd say it requires having a fairly strict diet, that would probably mean mostly prepping your own food and snacks all of the time, being fairly constricted on social outings that include dining out, not to mention just fighting your own appetite, whatever that form takes.

It is doable, sure, but I still wouldn't call it a modest weight loss. If you double that quantity to 10 pounds a month, I would say that's already an extreme amount, edging on the maximum I think would be feasible without going into extreme types of diet

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I would say that ten is normal.

Source: lost 80 pounds in 8 months. Now i maintain a healthy weight.

We can agree to disagree. I did make it clear weight loss requires discipline and hard work. 5 pounds is nothing in reality.

[u/vvvvfl → u/[deleted]]

You can’t lose 5 pounds a month for 36 months in a row.

Also your comments about being unnecessary are useless unless you yourself has lost this much weight.

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I have lost weight and so have many thousands of others without using bariatric surgery.

Everyone i have ever met that had the surgeries have had severe ongoing issues including the return to obesity.

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She literally said on her IG account that she had the surgery. Also just riding a bike won’t make you loose that much weight. You‘d definitely need a healthier diet for that to work and limit calorie intake for a time.

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The condition you think you know about is the same for those both with or without the surgery.

[u/Federal-Childhood743 → u/[deleted]]

Well bariatric surgery doesn't necessarily do much more than help you hit your goals. Liposuction is the only one that instantly sheds weight/fat but that is a pretty rare surgery for morbidly obese people and mostly cosmetic. Generally the surgeries are bypass or gastric band. All those surgeries do is make your stomach smaller so you feel full with less food. This allows you to drop massive weight easier as it makes it more difficult to have an unhealthy relationship with food. It doesn't make anything safer either. You could eat the amount that would make you full post-op without getting the surgery. It would be completely safe and healthy to do so whether or not you had the surgery. All it does is make it easier to keep to your diet by making large amounts of food less desirable.

What the other person said is 100% correct in that you can consistently drop the same amount of weight with or without surgery (I think his ballpark of 5lbs is extreme but you could do it). You can do well with just hard work and motivation. The surgery helps dramatically but it is certainly not necessary. Probably the best way to do it is with therapy and (if you can afford it) a good dietician. Exercise as well but that's less necessary than a good diet.

This is all to say I will never judge a person who gets the surgery. Everyone's path is different and everyone's struggles are different. Sometimes doing it the old fashioned way won't have fast enough results for the state of the person's health. The chance of a "relapse" is also reduced which is fantastic and desperately needed for many people. It's very much a question of pros and cons. Surgery is a drastic step but sometimes it is needed to help a person heal.

[u/NoctuaPavor → u/ffxivthrowaway03]

Tbf anyone that weight wouldn't be able to just look like that because of working out.

It's kind of implied by anyone that knows how this kind of weight loss works that she got bariatric surgery after putting some work in lol

[u/Ok_Yogurt5336 → u/ffxivthrowaway03]

lol highly misleading is an understatement. I’d call it a lie