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Originally Posted by alliecat  Hi Kel,
I haven't done a lot. I have fallen off the wagon again so to speak. I have slacked off on my exercise and I have been struggling with cravings and finding a diet plan to stick to. I have tried weight watchers before and it is too much tracking. Always looking up food to see how many points they are, should I eat this and use 8 pts or eat that and use 4 but it won't fill me up as much, If I eat the higher points I can't eat the other thing I wanted for dinner. Just an example of what goes on in my head while I am doing weight watchers. I need something simple. Something layed out in Black and white and simple. I think I need to get a menu together that has the amount of calories I need to be eating and then add some high protien snacks as OD suggested. It's putting the menu together I hate. I hate anything to do with food. I love to eat crap when I feel awful and sad, depressed etc. but food is sickening. I think about it all the time. What not to eat, what to eat, how many calories, how fattening, when to eat, where to eat and grocery shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I definitly have an obsession going on. Thanks for your post.  |
Every now and again I feel like this as well. I got to a point where all I seemed to do was think about food, what I could eat, what I couldn't eat, what I wanted to eat, and it was driving me nuts.
Usually after feeling like this, I would dive off my healthy eating horribly.
I got really depressed thinking that I was going to have to count calories for the rest of my life. But I've realized now that I don't have to do that, but it really was/is essential to when I was loosing weight, and for my future.
The fact of the matter is, that calories are what makes or breaks loosing weight.
Because I counted calories at one point, I now know what most foods calories are, and I'm better at making food choices, even now that I don't count calories anymore. Because of that, I can eat what I choose (healthy of course), and maintain my weight.
I know it sucks, and you're obsessing over it now, but think of it as educating yourself.