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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livelaughlove16 08/10/2008

I have been trying to lose weight for a long time. I usually eat because of boredom or stress, but I feel like my attitude has done a complete 180. Now I can barely eat anything. I am lucky if I eat one full meal a day. I don't know what happened, but now the more stressed I am, the less I eat.

It seems like not eating at all would make me lose weight. I lost 14 lbs in under a week (that was a bad week) . and now I stopped losing weight. but am still not eating. which makes me eat even less, for fear I will gain that weight right back.

what is going on?

tauruslady1 08/10/2008

Hey...sounds like u may have a problem u need to talk to a professional about??? i hope things turn around for u and u feel better :)

deleted_user 08/10/2008

Yea - that's not good and you should probably look for professional help. If it helps you regain the motivation to eat, you should consider that at least some of those 14 lbs you lost were muscle - it'd be best for your long-term efforts if you -did- regain that and then lost fat gradually. There are a lot of sites you can use to look up how many calories you should be eating per day to maintain or lose weight - make sure you're eating the appropriate number and you should never eat under 1200 a day. It might take a bit for your metabolism to catch back up, but that will make your weight loss healthier and easier to maintain long term. Please take care of yourself, and good luck with your journey!

deleted_user 08/10/2008

yea... you're not losing cause your body is in starvation mode...

eat more but less

your body needs to live so eat. one meal a day is bad bad bad.

Many people eat under 1200 calories in hopes to lose, you may, but that's torture for yourself and your body... FOOD IS NOT YOUR ENEMY if you are smart about it and control

deleted_user 08/10/2008

Your body has gone into starvation mode. It's storing what little you eat and keeping it for later, knowing you're not going to eat again soon. The best way to lose weight is eat. You have to keep you metabolism working. That's not to say that you can eat Mcdonald's all day long and lose weight, but I think, you know what I mean.

Any weight you lose from here, will be muscle. Your body will use your muscle tissue for energy, in the absence of food. I tend to be the same way, a stress non-eater, so, I have to be sure to make a concious effort to feed myself.

The bottom line is, if you keep starving yourself, your going to be unhealthy and when you do start eating again, you will gain weight back.

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