Just been looking at pictures from 2years ago!! Help :(

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I have just been looking at pictures of myself from 2 years ago when I was the exact weight that I need to be, I wasn't working out a lot at the time and looked much better then I do now!!

I keep trying all different diets then giving up! I'm so fed up :(

I can do it for a day then completely fall off track, I feel like its all emotional eating and I can't stop!

I've for Paul McKenna book! I tried my fitness plan, I'm currently paying for weight watchers! Was going to try low carb but realised that what I was doing was not low carb and now I am so pissed off and annoyed!

I think my eating is related to stress and I just won't stop :(

I'm not expecting a solution but just wanted to vent really!!!

Hi,

I'm in the same boat really. I look at pictures of myself from a couple of years ago, and I was a size 10-12. Silly thing is that at the time I thought I was fat then! When I obviously wasn't. Now at almost 16 stone I am definitely very fat.

I am also an emotional eater, I am not trying to make excuses for myself but I do believe it's because as a child I wasn't fed very often - and so I eat to sort of 'look after myself' when in reality I'm doing the exact opposite!

How about you? I'm doing Slimming World, I only started on Monday though and it feels a bit too good to be true - I'm worried I will have put weight on if anything, but we'll see when I weight in I guess.

What is making you stressed and then will make you eat? For me I think it's boredom. xx

sorry to hear that you are in the same situation...

So how does slimming world work? Are you allowed any chocolate? . I hope it goes well for you when is your weigh day?

any type of stress makes me eat and boredom. I am a single mum, so everything is on my shoulders to hold together. Also i seem to stay awake way too late every night then i am over tired the next day and from reading online found that getting too little sleep makes you over eat.

i guess being lonely makes me eat too, pretty much everything is an excuse for me to eat

i think i will start listening to paul mckenna again to see if it helps with motivate, as right now i have non.

Hello!
I am also an emotional eater. I started tackling it last year, and developed a bit of a binge/purge cycle. If I'm in a diet frame of mind, I'll go overboard and have less than 500 cals a day- If I'm on a binge day, prob about 4,000. It's crap. I wish I would have started out by tackling why I eat instead of thinking my head would sort itself out.
MyFitnessPal is excellent, though- And free!

wow thats a massive difference

so what do you eat on the 500cal days? you must be starving?

and what are you eating on the 4000 cal day? Is it chocolate too?

so have you managed to get your weight down atall?

Yeah, I have lost 3.5 stone in a year. But I wish I hadn't done it. I was happier when I was bigger. The I went about 3 months eating only salad and quorn, occasionally a few seeds. I gave myself some serious health problems, too.

Now I'm around my goal weight, and this is the difficult bit because I'm supposed to chill out a bit, but not so much as to put it back on... I am so bloody extreme with my eating, it's ridiculous.
Yesterday was a

ahhh thats terrible sending hugs (((())))

have you tried to speak to anyone about it? like a doctor or counsellor?

well done for loosing the weight, but its a same that it has to be done in such an extreme way. I can see why you had health problems if you ate so little

so did you feel better in your body when you was bigger?

Oh dear DogEared .

I think you need to get help. I am also at goal weight and terrified of putting weight on. And also have occasional binge evenings,. But I recognise when it happens, listen to Paul Mckenna, enlist Dh's help and try to get back on track the next day. I never let myself go under 1200, and don't log when I overeat.

I also love supersize superskinny but I don't think I am either!

Another emotional eater here too.I defo eat as a reward-to relax,to congratulate myself and to celebrate.
I also saw some old pics last week and could have cried at myself in my denim mini on the beach
My baby is 14 months now but i really was massive with her and its been so slow to come off.
I get on well with sw too but constantly sabbotage it with small cheats/treats not big binges though.
Baby up before 6 every day and im back at work so its hard to exercise but I am going to really try and do the shred daily from tomorrow.
Its such a slog though isnt it?