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Source: my desire to be unalive because life is pain, and burger is mmmmmm
If you had ever been fat and then lost a lot of weight, you would know that the physical feeling is night and day different. The feeling of being fat is exhausting, your joints hurt, you're tired all the time, it's truly awful. You'd wonder how you could stand being fat. At least that's how it felt for me.
The constant limiting yourself in what you eat and how much you eat, never really feeling full, always having to savour every tiny bite of what you love to eat because there's only a small amount...Yeah that's not really happiness either. I lost 75lbs five years ago, and this is still how i feel. Sure, my energy levels are higher and I'm less exhausted, but I'm 100% not any happier than i was back then. It's just other stuff that's sucking the joy out of life now.
I don't want to assume, but it seems to me that you haven't really changed your relationship to food on an emotional level. I lost a lot of weight and don't feel like you at all, because I changed my relationship to food to one of fuel instead of comfort or fun. It's not easy, but it's important. And it's not like I hate food or anything, I still like food obviously, but when I'm filling up my plate for dinner I put enough on it to feed my actual physical hunger, not some emotional hunger for dopamine. The fact that it's delicious is an added bonus, not the main event.