Everyone come here to rant!!!!

Everyone is welcome to rant about their diet problems, or anything else. For example, if you are feeling bad about your diet, deprived, anorexia problems, bulimia, anything!!Just get everything that's keeping you from losing weight, out!

EDIT: This is not for the people just trying to lose weight but for the ones who are trying to mantain or gain, and what's keeping you from that.

Great topic!

Small rant: My IBS is preventing me from maintaining my weight. It is causing me to undereat, which sucks because I will LOSE weight which is not really my goal. :\ My bloating makes me feel as though I have gained a billion pounds. I go to bed feeling really full from a meal which I had at least seven hours before. At times, my IBS can be well-behaved and not act up but after Christmas, it just does not go away! Ugh.

My rant; the weather over the last two weeks has completely thrown me off my routine. Weight gain isn't my concern, but the amount of sodium and added sugar I've been taking in is ridiculous. Also, now that my grocery shopping habits have been interrupted, I'm being lazy about resuming them. So I haven't really stocked up on healthy food to balance my diet like I had been. Now I'm just eating whatever is convenient or available in the house. I worked my calorie consumption around a full sized bag of pretzels the other day. Today I had a beer and a huge pile of cajonized tator tots for dinner. Bad, bad, bad.

What's keeping me from losing those last 5 pounds is my love for food and my little support from family. I love nuts with dried fruits waaaaay too much which causes me to often overeat when I am bored and have nothing to do. But I recognized my problem, and it is that the mix of nuts and fruit is delicious, and I don't like nuts that much without the dried fruit [Which contains tons of added sugars] so I'm not buying it anymore! And my family, I tell them I want a flat stomach, and they say I'm okay the way that I am, but I don't want to be okay! I want to be fit, strong, and the best I can be!

That was long =_=''

Ughh I'm ranting about how I've been dieting for two weeks, working out like a crazy person, and HAVE NOT LOST A POUND. I'm so frustrated! I WAS 120 for so long before college - I know my body's happy there, but I can't GET BELOW 125. IT'S 5 FREAKING POUNDS I WANT TO LOSE. THEN AFTER THAT I WANT TO LOSE MORE BUT RIGHT NOW I JUST WANT TO LOSE 5.

Ughhh, rant over

Tried upping your calories, Lafoutloud? Switching up your exercise routine?

Driftpsychosis: Even if your bloating is making you feel full, if you're undereating, you have to eat mechanically. Try eating higher calorie but lower density foods if it makes you any easier, stuff like nuts, nut butter, avocado, dried fruits. Just a few examples. And if it's really giving you grief, go speak to your doctor.

Skookum: It's okay, as long as you get motivated to get yourself back on track. You just have to get yourself to do it and don't let yourself make excuses for yourself.

Bassifiedmotherchuck: Dried fruit shouldn't contain any added sugars beyond fruit sugars. Natural sugars. If you find you're overeating them (nuts and dried fruit) when they're mixed, do still aim to eat them seperately. They're fantastic sources of nutrients and minerals.

My stats are female, 18 years old, 4'11", 125 lbs so at the very high end of a healthy weight range. I try and do an hour of exercise and I try to eat 1500 cals. It's been a little high over christmas (2000 a few days in a row) but I've been upping my exercise to help with that. Yesterday I took an hour run and did about a half hour of wii boxing wiht my boyfriend and his friends (I get into it and bounce around and stuff) and I ate 1500 cals. How does that sound?

I do different exercises all the time, running, strength training, yoga, pilates, ellpitical, stairmaster, jumping jacks, hula hooping, jumping rope. I'm at my wits end! I don't want to go back to school without losing any weight because it's so much harder away from home.

I know it might sound a bit odd, but I think you should try eating at maintainance for a while. 18, 4'11 (good lord, I am a full foot taller than you.) and 125lbs, and your activity level...
http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/bodycomp/bmiz2.html

Low Activity 1890 calories
Moderate Activity 2180 calories
High Activity 2680 calories

You might not actually be eating enough FOR your activity. That could also be a problem. An hour and a half of exercise is a lot! Try eating 1800 to 2000 calories and seeing if it breaks your plateau.

I think I'll try upping to 1800 on activity days. Thanks for the advice - I'll let you know how it turns out! Tomorrow I'm going skiing all day - how many cals do you think I should eat? 2000? It's a couple hour drive so we may be getting fast food, shouldn't be too hard :-P

I'm ranting because I've gotten so F'N lazy for the past 3 weeks....Booo.

silentdeadlyrose: All you have to do is picture yourself the shape and body you want, and you'll be motivated, that's what I do!

Honestly, lafoutloud? Skiing will take a LOT out of you. I would eat to maintainance - or have a "cheat" day as it were and not think about weight loss. Lots of high energy and warm foods. I love skiing, you lucky thing - have fun!

OMG I'm sooo jealous of lafoutloud too, I would love to skii, where I live, the heat is killing me >_<. So out of topic >_>.

ugh first.. i just ate a highly processed french bread pizza boat thing... barf, i know! for some reason i was craving it but i wish i wouldnt have eaten it now... i will remember this feeling for next time i get a craving...

also, why is the weight ive gained in college so hard to burn off!?! i cant fit in any of my jeans from hs.

19, 5'4, 125

whatever07: It's okay to cheat once in a while, that happened to me once, and I ate 3 slices soooo, after that, I imagined myself having Megan Fox's body and the cravings for bad food stopped XD.

yes i will def try to picture what i want my body to look like. that would fight off the cravings for sure! haha. a problem i have is waiting too long to eat that im SOOOO hungry that its hard to make good choices. i just eat the first thing i see. lol

Remember to take small snacks with you! And try to eat every 2-4 hours, more than that an your metabolism slows.

I'm recovered from an eating disorder.  I started eating right in mid-May, and then dieted.  Didn't work because my body was still in shock.  Began maintenance.  Maintained weight to regain metabolism until December.  Began dieting in December.  Went from 147lbs to 144lbs in about two weeks, and haven't lost weight since then. 

I'm sick of it.  I feel as though I can't do this any more.  I can't be in this body any more.  It isn't me.  I eat healthily and just enough for my height and weight, and I'm about to start exercise back up.  I have a healthy body, but if you saw me you'd think I lived an unhealthy lifestyle.  I don't; I'm healthy. 

I've come to the point where half of me is letting my ED thoughts seep back in, telling me to restrict and go back to bad habits.  They're telling me that since all of this isn't working, it would be the way for it to work finally.  But, the other half of me is telling me that the way to eventually lose weight is to just suck it up and maintain.  I've been arguing with myself all day about what to do.  If I were to maintain, I have a feeling it would have to be for longer than several months, but more like several years.  I've read of others' experiences where that's all that worked for them.  Waiting a long while until trying to lose weight again.

But, could I do that? Am I strong enough? I loathe maintenace.  I hate the way I feel when getting up to 2000 something calories every day.  I don't know if I could do it.  It's hard for me.  Dieting for me is easy.  I know it probably shouldn't be, but it is.  But, so is restricting. But, that's not something that's supposed to be easy, either.

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Okay, that's my rant.  I'm stopping there.

I'd  like to rant about my insane schedule that makes losing weight damned near impossible.  Sometimes I'm at work for seventeen hours one day, home sleeping for four hours, then back at work for another nine hours.  It makes counting crazy, as I'm either too busy to sit down at the computer and count (we often eat a afew bites in between draws or schedule our lunches around our lab work, which isn't always guaranteed).  I've tried keeping all of my meas around 500 calories, drinking plenty of water to combat all the caffeine I need to stay awake and e nergised at work.

For the most part, I'm maintaining.  I may gain and lose five pounds over and over, but otherwise, still maintaining around 150.  Which blows, 'cause I either need to gian twenty pounds to fit into my medium pants, or lose ten pounds so my small pants fit comfortably.  They're so snug in the thigh, man.

O wow cellulitedelight, that is very hard for you =[

I've been too busy lately to take care of myself. I was doing the artistic direction for the sets of a play so my days consisted of all day painting and coming home and eating crap. or not coming home and going out for a drink and eating platters. I feel horrible. I went shopping today and i've gained some inches that i broke my back loosing in just two weeks! I am getting back up on the horse tho so i bought a pair of motivational jeans my previous size and a really nice jacket that i plan on fitting into in a month :)