I really need help learning how to keep it off. Please help!

I'm at a great weight right now. I won't lie I feel a little guilty even writing this post only because I know how lucky I am to be as healthy as I am right now. This year I lost 15 pounds putting me at an IDEAL weight for my height. I'm happy, I'm fit, and best of all while striving to loose weight I also became a fantastic runner. I'm twenty years old and I felt in my prime. Now that I'm home for the summer I feel those pounds lurking over me, which is devastating given how long and how hard I strived to get the weight off. I'm not surprised at all to be honest. I associate a lot of pain with being home. I had a very difficult childhood, which is the reason I started binge eating when I was younger. I've fought off binging this entire year, and it would kill me to know I reverted right back into my old protective mechinisms. I need some help, maybe even a little motivation.

Could anyone give me some advice on how to maintain a ideal weight when one is a little out of your eliment?

The best adivice I can think of for you is don't be afraid to say no. Whether it be to your parents or to yourself. Do you need that extra handful of preztels after lunch?

You could also get up early in the morning and go running around the neighborhood for some extra exercise.

I hope that helps some. =/

From one emotional eater to another I will tell you how I deal with uncomfortable situations now in my life. You have already taken the first step which is to recognize that you eat to cover your feelings. Now you need to learn how to respond differently to uncomfortable situations.

The situation will pass. If you respond differently to the situation than you have in the past that will also facilitate change. Whatever is going on around you, you can only control you and your responses to that situation. You are not a child anymore so though you are at home where you may be treated like a child you can respond as an adult. You are responsible to take care of yourself. That means sometimes sitting with uncomfortable feelings until they pass, which they will. The food you eat to cover up will stay with you much longer than the feelings you are responding to. That food will make you more uncomfortable than the feelings in the long run. The feelings can't really hurt you but that extra unneeded food can.

Evaluate your situation when you feel like bingeing. Is there anything you can do to change the situation at the present moment? Empower yourself with action like going for a short run to burn off your frustration if there is no other constructive action you can take to make the situation better. Remember again that you can only control yourself and your responses to the situation. When you change your responses to other people you break the pattern of communication that is expected. That forces the other person to respond differently to you as well. Sometimes the best response is no response at all. That is when it is good to go for a run or just remove yourself from the situation. You eliminate the need to binge when you are taking action. It is when you feel helpless to do anything that you want to binge. Empower yourself with actions, write a list of choices of action and put it on the refrig or the cookie jar so that you see the other choices available when you need to make the choice.

Hope this helps!

Terry2fish

terry2fish is sooo right.  The discomfort you feel will pass and once you've sat with it a couple of times. After awhile it's not quite so hurtful and you'll realize just how strong you are.  Once the reality of that hits you it's as powerful as your first mile/10k/marathon.

I also find that getting on here and just acknowledging that I'm hurt/upset/angry and not hungry really helps me refocus. 

Hang in there and keep running!

i don't know if this will work for you (i don't even know if it will work for me), but my plan is to set a weight range that i'm comfortable with and keep weighing regularly (daily for now: i've only been at/below goal weight for a few weeks; then maybe twice a week?).  as long as i'm 130-133, i'm happy; i can relax and continue what i'm doing - whatever that happens to be.  but if i hit 134, that's a red flag (i've made up my mind never to be 135+ again), and i'll have to make adjustments: typically that means cut out the cheese and beer .

by keeping that range small, i know things won't get out of control.  and if i can stay in my range without much trouble (so far, so good), i'll know it's a good weight for me.

If you're eating  to "fix" some emotional problem try saying to yourself "I will eat that thing, at x o'clock" Then you have to actually deal with the problem and by x o'clock you probably won't want to eat it anymore.

losing weight is difficult but maintaining ideal weight is way much more difficult..

discipline in oneself is one important key to ideal weight maintenance.. if during your diet you have learned to eat healthy, even soon after the diet, you should continue eating healthy foods..

if you go back to your old bad eating habits then your losing weight will be useless.. you just wasted your time and effort in achieving your goal..

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