Just realised! I overeat BUT I overeat EVEN MORE if I have a social event coming up! HELP!

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Anyone else like this? I want so much to get into a nice outfit and to feel a few pounds lighter (I actually have tons to lose), but just realised that if I have an evening out coming up or a school social event or just meeting the in-laws I just can't stop eating more and more! WHY AM I SO STUPID? Anyone else out there have this problem?

Just fat me then

yes i do, have you checked out the cambridge diet thread?
you lose weight very quickly on it, but you have nothing except shakes and soup

A psychotherapist would probably call this Self-Sabotage

can't manage shakes and soups for very long. Always think just need to change my lifestyle so that I can loose and maintain - LOL ROFL idiot (me)

Oh yes - I do this... I want to lose weight for a particular event, then a few weeks before my mind decides there's no chance of achieving it, so I eat tons and tons so I'm bigger, not smaller - and then decide to start again with losing weight after the event.

It's utterly bonkers and is definitely self sabotage. I'm going through something similar at the moment - I keep trying to break the 2 stone mark in losing weight, but as I've never done this before I keep failing - with 1.5lbs to go I started eating stupidly again and now I'm 6lbs away from it. Daft thing is I've then got another stone and a half to shift. But my mind can't contemplate me actually getting to over 2 stone in weight loss, so I've been stalling for over a month now.

aaarrggghh!!

double aaaarrrggghhh Dottydot! I am really not even struggling at the moment and I'm going out with 5 slim or at least nice size 14 women on Thursday. I have one outfit to wear refuse to go and buy something with an elastic waist and so will end up struggling into it on Thursday and feeling utterly miserable as the fat one aaaarrrgggghhh!!