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Using Bullying To Lose Weight

This Guy Dropped 100 Pounds By Asking His Roommate To Bully Him (Really) 
Redditor iannmitchell had always struggled with his weight. At his worst, he said, he was 300 pounds. He had tried different diets. He even bought a gym membership and dropped 40 pounds fast. But leveled out, yoyo'ing back and forth around 260 pounds at 24 years old.

He had always been bullied about his weight. He just didn't know then that he could take those negative comments and mold them into motivation. When he did, he found himself 100 pounds lighter.

It started on a nondescript night. He was working on a television show set, responsible for dropping of footage to the post-production crew at the end of each night. On those night's he would receive a few dollars for dinner — money that he would spend at the drive-thru of a fast food joint. That was until one night, midway through his Jack-in-the-Box burger, that he wasn't even hungry.

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"In the middle of my burger I stopped and realized that I wasn’t even hungry," he recalled in the thread. "I was eating the burger routinely and didn’t even think twice about the fact that I didn’t need to eat – I just did because hey, the food was covered by production and why wouldn’t I?"

That night he knew he had to revamp his diet. And he knew he needed help. So he asked his roommate. But he didn't ask for encouragement. He asked to be chastised — regularly.

"I asked my roommate to do something for me that I wouldn’t suggest anyone just doing – to be ruthless with me," he wrote. "Now I want to make it clear that for me – I had to go to the extreme because I didn’t know any other way. I asked her to be on top of me when it came to eating – be harsh. Make a comment if you see me slipping up – point out that I am messing up. This really helped ME a lot (again I don’t suggest this for anyone). I had spent my entire life dealing with people bullying me and my weight and I wanted to use that as motivation and she did it."

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The next day, he decided to give up on bread and dairy products. That same next day, his coworkers brought homemade pizza bagels to the set. He explained his new diet — that dairy and bread were off limits. The coworker "scoffed." And that was all he needed. "Time to prove them wrong," he would say.

For three months, he skipped dairy and bread and dropped 20 pounds. He would soon add sugar to the banned list. That though, proved much more difficult. "The first two weeks are by far the most grueling – headache-inducing things I have ever had to do," he wrote. 'Mood swings, depression, anger, HUNGER, cravings, anything you could imagine. 25 years of my body were dependent on sugar and removing that put me through hell and back."

But after two weeks he felt more clear and more energetic. He was in the gym 4-5 times each week. His workouts were cardio-heavy. He runs 3-6 times miles depending how whether he's circuit training, he explained. Two more months and another 45 pounds down. Now he weighs a lean 195 and "never felt better in my whole life."

He still has cravings, he admitted, still has to stop himself from over-eating. But that's when he remembers the haters. And he feeds on the doubt instead.


