I need some support !

I'm at my heaviest weight ever outside of pregnancy. The last time I weighed this much I was about 7 months pregnant. This is ridiculous ! I have to get back into the 130 range. I don't eat a lot, but I think the muffin a day, cokes, and hazelnut international coffee's have taken their toll. I have switched to skim milk, fat free cheese, have given up muffins, and I am substiting that late night muffin for a tangerine. I'm keeping celery, carrots, and pickles handy and trying to substitute pretzels instead of potato chips. Two years ago I lost 20 pounds in three months by using this site. I stopped using this site and gained it all back. So, it looks like this is the way I am going to have to keep doing it until good habits are learned.

 YOu should make a copy of your food pyramid and eat all the food that are on there...its finding a balance of the foods and activity/exercise that will help you. Its hard keeping track of calories by ourselves..so this site is great...but you should atleast have a clue of what you should eat or not eat. I have cut out sodas of my life and it took me about a year to get use to it. Sometimes you will feel that if you dont eat you are not happy...so do something else..like read a book or get online and talk or text....buts it great that you are getting your life on track...keep up..good luck!

With me it's not eating for emotional or happiness reasons. I never had that connection to food.

If I didn't have to stop what I am doing to eat ever, I would be happy. I am an artist and usually if I am painting I completely forget to eat, sometimes I won't eat breakfast or lunch or even snacks, and then by the time afternoon and dinner roll around I am starving and eat too much. Hunger to me is just an annoyance.

Another reason is social eating. If I go out to eat with my husband or friends then I am hungry and eat too large of portions (usually after a day of not eating much) and a lot of that is guilt over paying for the meal and thinking I have to eat the whole plate not to waste the money we spent.

So, the hardest thing for me on this diet is taking the time to eat breakfast and lunch. I'm just not hungry in the mornings and it's hard for me to make myself eat. All I want in the morning is coffee. I think the way I eat has messed up my metabolism and I need to learn to eat evenly throughout the day and remember to eat healthy snacks. I think when I don't eat I send a signal to my body that I'm starving, and so when I do eat late in the day my body hangs on to the fat....and then...it's late in the day and there are no physical activities to burn off the fat because I'm about to go to bed.