who weighs themselves then gets depressed and eats more?

whos with me on this????

i used to be the oppisite! if i ever weighed myself and was upset with it id stay away from food....but now days ill stepp on the scale and see i gained 2 lbs and eat more...i just dont understand! and the cycle repeats itself! helppp meeee

Aw, I used to be like that! But for some reason, now if I just gain weight I tell myself "DUDE, get back in the game you fatass!" hahaha. Seems to work. I say that if I eat something bad, then I'm just gonna weigh EVEN MORE the next time I weigh myself. I have thoughts in my head of what I don't want to go back to -- like the fat friend of all the pretty girls. I'm done with that! I don't want to go back! I make myself run on the treadmill after I gain weight. Then maybe I can have a little indulgence, but stay within calorie limit.

yeaaa i dont know what my deal is! its so dumbbb i know that if im gonna eat more crap im gonna weigh more the next time. im just being stupid lol thats it im goin to the gym for 2 hours tomorrow!!!

I used to do the same...it would vary between not eating anything and stuffing myself silly!! So I stopped weighing myself!  Well obviously you've got to weigh yourself to check progress, but I cut it down to once a week.  That way if I "fell off the weigh-in wagon" i would only do a days worth of damage.

Funny thing is, since I've started doing this, my whole mental attitude has changed.  Now if the weights gone up, or stayed the same I think "right...got a week to sort this out now" and usually I'm OK.

 

ARCTICMONKEY: Love the motivation "not going to be the fat friend".  Definitely going to use that the next time I have a weak moment!

Yeah, I've done that...gain a few pounds, then allow for that beer and pizza I've been craving and start over the next day....I've also done the reverse,  walk into McDonald's or Wendy's, take a look at the other patrons, most of whom are REALLY BIG, then turn around and walk the hell out and either settle for a shot of wheatgrass or head straight to the gym...

Wow.. Its a mental thing I think.. and sometimes we are in a different mental state then others.  i may depend on your week your day or your mood.  If I feel fat.. I eat more.. If I feel lazy I eat more.. So...... take care of myself to look good..feel good.. take care of myself to stay motivated in movement of anykind to stay in a positive attitude and stay away from the binges.. You feel so so bad after.. both mentally and physically.. but like you I do fall into that as well.

Im 47 and do find life is tougher after 40 with the pounds.  I am around people who are larger girls and dont care as much so that even makes it harder to maintain. or to talk about a diet or exercise plan.

Do it for yourself... yes.. go to the gym tomorrow and work your ass of and not be that larger girl in the group..  i dont want to be...

Your not alone

 

 

Okay, weigh in today then put your scale away! Then write your weight down on the calendar. Then weigh in again next month on that day.

 So many reason why you could weigh more. It could be your time of the month,If you have eaten alot of fiber that hasn't passed thru your system, or you could have gained some muscle weight.

I would also suggest that you measure yourself instead of using the scale so much. I have noticed better results by measuring my body.

Also if you use a different scale sometimes they read differently.  

I feel you so much here. In fact, I think that's what's kept me overweight for so long. Id be at it for a week or two, check the scale, see a GAIN, and i'd be like, screw this. What's the point making the effort when nothing's happening? But then two weeks later I'll be depressed AGAIN, thinking, if i had JUST forged on, I'd have lost something by now.

So thse ddays I rarely check the scale. What I'm waiting for now is for my pants to get juts a little bit looser. Hasn't happened yet, but I'm hopeful. I checked the scale the other day and while I haven't lost anything, I havent gained...so, I must be doing SOMETHING right.

Original Post by louisebrookingmcdow:

Wow.. Its a mental thing I think.. and sometimes we are in a different mental state then others. i may depend on your week your day or your mood. If I feel fat.. I eat more.. If I feel lazy I eat more.. So...... take care of myself to look good..feel good.. take care of myself to stay motivated in movement of anykind to stay in a positive attitude and stay away from the binges.. You feel so so bad after.. both mentally and physically.. but like you I do fall into that as well.

I totally agree.  It's so hard to pull yourself out of a binge-cycle once it starts because of this very reasoning, methinks.

As for an increase on the scale leading to eating more, I've found that I do that less now that I realise that weight can fluctuate for a myriad of reasons.  I try not to beat myself up over it too much now.

Better yet, who DOESN't weigh themselves, get depressed and eat more?

Ack! I totally have done this... and it makes literally no sense. At all. Yet I have always managed to justify it somehow. This is probably one of the major behaviors that has lead to me falling off the wagon so many times. Especially since I have that "now that I've blown it, I might as well go crazy" mentality. I found that one thing that has "shamed" me into avoiding this behavior is logging in all the food I eat, especially if I'm having a gluttony/bad/sad/off-the-wagon day... seeing exactly how many calories are in a whole bag of doritos is worse than a zombie flick!

Ugh, you said the "D" word.  Right now I'm fighting a massive urge to run to the store, buy a bag of Doritos and a tub of green onion dip, and wolf it all down.  With a Diet Coke, of course. :-P

The only thing keeping me from doing it is that by now I've put it off enough that I won't have time for it today.

I don't know why, but I'm having a major Doritos and dip fixation lately.

And yes, it's really hard not to go scarf a bunch of food when the scale goes up--especially when I've been working so hard to make it go down.  I start to feel like what I'm doing's not working anyway, so what does it matter?  Usually I can focus and get past it.  But I still WANT to do it.

And I thought it was just me who did that.  I started eating healthy (I hate the word diet) almost a year ago.  I lost all my weight by February (65 lbs)  I still wanted to lose antoher 15 lbs but I have been stuck in the same plateau since then and go up and down the same 5-6 lbs.  I'll finally lose it and then start binging on junk for 3 days and there it is again.  I get frustrated, bored, fed up and just eat as a result.  I can't find the same mindset that help me lost the  65 lbs.  I do work out 7 days a week so a lot of the time I'll tell myself that I'll do an extra 10-15 min the next day, but I could work out 5 hours and still gain the weight if I overeat..  But it is 2-3 days of doing really well followed by 3-5 more of just eating junk.  Sometimes I weight myself after the 4-5 days of doing well and I actually gain a lb. and want to just eat.  I guess it is all mental.  I wish there was a magic cure for the mental part of losing weight.

thanks for all the replys guyssss!!!

this is so me!  i know it makes no sense, i feel like i hypocrite, seeing that i gained weight it should encourage me to eat less, but you know, it's depression for me, i get so sad that i feel like no matter what i do, it's useless, so i stuff my face.  i need to change my mindset, that is what is important, to think positively.

yea i dont understand it...im really trying so hard not to do that anymore....we have to be good!