Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group

Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.

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sarahrv
sarahrv

Hey everyone. I just joined dailystrength, so this is my first support group. I don't really know how it works yet, but I guess I'll figure it out eventually. I've been heavy my whole life. I don't think I've ever been a "healthy" weight. I am 5'2", and at my heaviest I weighed 172 pounds. When I started my weight loss journey at the beginning of the summer I was 170 pounds, and this past Friday I weighed in at 149.4 pounds. It was really easy to lose weight over the summer because I was home, where my dad and stepmom also try to eat healthy and don't buy junk food. I had enough time to go the gym daily, and I was losing weight pretty easily. But now I'm back at college and it's been so much harder. I've lost weight, but not as quickly as I had been at the beginning. Lately I've been binging like crazy. Today I started off well, but then I started to do some meal prep for the upcoming week and my roommates all left the apartment, so I started to binge. I haven't been eating well all weekend and I'm so disapointed in myself. I JUST made it the 140s...I thought i would feel more motivated to stay in the 140s, but I've been eating crap and now I'm probably back in the 150s. My goal is to get to the 120s by New Years, which really isn't that much weight (20 lbs). But if I keep binging, I don't think I will be able to lose the weight :/  

lorrieonline
lorrieonline
Well, first off, welcome!! We encourage each other to keep up the healthy lifestyle fight here and to achieve our goals. Glad to have you on board. First off, I'd be sure to eat quality nutrition to keep from wanting to binge eat. More protein and fewer carbs are probably key. You have to plan to school studies so try to use your planning skills for your meal prep too. You can do this!! Do you have a gym at your school? Whether you do or don't, you can schedule yourself some exercises and they will keep you sharper for your classes.
BriannaPeck
BriannaPeck
I feel as though I can definitely relate to your situation. I am a college student as well who is struggling a bit with binge eating. While at college it is very hard not to just eat whenever you're bored or stressed, but the key to not binging, I feel, is to really keep yourself busy. When i start to feel hungry at a time that is not actually meal time, I find something to occupy my time so that I'm not thinking of food. Maybe something to help you out would be to immerse yourself in a campus group or activity, I did this myself, and it really worked for me. However, I know everyone is different, but try not to put yourself down! It sounds like you have made tons of progress, and that's so important. I wish you good luck with this in the future!
N79
N79
Finding out what triggers your binging will help, staying busy does too and planning out your food. You can do it. You came so far!
Reed31
Reed31
I think everyone in the world needs a "cheat" day. The trick is to make sure that it's just one day - whether it's one day a week or one day a month or just on special occasions. But I would feel so cheated if I couldn't have a treat on my birthday or Thanksgiving and Christmas. So those days I eat whatever I want with no rules. Then the next day, it's back to eating healthy.

If you slip, you've made an error just for that time frame. Don't beat up on yourself, just get back to it.

I like what Dr. Christiane Northrup suggests - instead of trying to muscle through with will power, when you have a craving, take just one or two bites. That what tastes best anyway! And you're less likely to binge because you can have another bite or two the next day. Today, I was dying for some chips, so I was just mindful about it. I turned off the tv and just focused on what I was eating, what it tasted like and I totally enjoyed it. I had 4 chips and didn't need any more.

Best of luck to you! But seriously, don't beat up on yourself. You're doing your best and it sounds like you've done amazing so far. You just needed a little break and now you can get back to it. If you dread getting back to it, maybe you just need a couple revisions to make it more do-able.
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