how do you guys just not randomly undo all your progress??? oh my god

[ThisPearlOP]

title, sometimes I just can't believe that it only takes 7000cal over to gain back 1kg 😭😭😭so means just one sad evening binge attack can ruin 2 weeks of progress and I can't deal with this !!!

I mean mentally and physically by far the worst, the constant setbacks its driving me mad and heavily yo yo dieting (>10kg) is probably super unhealthy as well !! literally gained all I lost last year back in 2 months this is hell what can even be done please anyone !!!!

You need to resolve why you're binging. Unless you do that and change your relationship with food, no 'diet' will ever work.

Will power and completely changing your diet to avoid fruit, sweets, chocolate, sugar and upfs, and taking up a hobby like cycling. It's the only way.

Hello!
Fellow sufferer in yoyo-ing. Things that I know I don't get right, cause roadblocks, or are good things for me:

• I often don't think ahead, or buy the right things, then suddenly get hungry and gorge > I'm trying to be more thoughtful and planned
• I am very susceptible to emotional eating - sometimes I need to learn to sit with the emotion
• I will eat anything that's in the house when I'm in the wrong mood. I will never be someone who can eat just one cube of chocolate, so I am trying to stop pretending I can, by not even buying it.
• I can never be bothered to prepare veg when I'm hungry but If there's already a load of washed celery, carrot and cucumber I will happily munch on that
• I beat myself up for that one night of binging. But actually one night won't matter. It's what you then do the next day (see The Human Being Diet, which requires you to absolutely pig out to the max at least one meal a week, or people who lose weight on the 5:2 diet)

Essentially, identify your triggers and have a plan

Thanks for the replies and yeah it is because I am already trying to go low carb or at least keto but depriving myself only causes me to binge even more !!!! I just have this terrifying loss of control around food and its always been like this I hate myself for this so mich you have no idea istg 😭

Ugh I feel this so much. Sympathies...I've been losing and regaining the same 2 stone for 20 years, except an extra 2 crept on somehow when I had a horrible time in 2023...

Theres no excuse. I just...can't seem to sustain the momentum. Food is such a comfort to me.

I had to google how much a stone is but YES I relate so much :((

and what is crazy to me is how there is no relation between weight gain and weight loss.

Like, weight gain is a snap of a finger I can take half a breath and boom 5000cal boom 3kg gained boom all bloated and horrible etc like you just time-skip into realizing what is going on. That just happens without trying, without even having any kinda clue wtf is up with me. If anything, I would have to try hard to NOT gain just living my life !!!

But LOSING weight???? Ok struggle against the hardest brain rage, do everything possible, track all calories spend hours on meal prep protein foods you name it and resist sooo many urges and insane hunger constant drilling noise in the head type shit for days, then weeks, then MONTHS and maybe some slight change eventually comes....????

Why is it so horrible. If these thing were anywhere near equal it would be manageable but its crazy to take one blink and gain 5kg vs struggling forever and not seeing the scale move this is demonic work

Stop 'low' anything. Keep an eye on your calorie intake, make sure your protein intake is enough to keep you full. You don't need to restrict any food group - including carbs and fat - it's just getting the balance right so that you're not feeling hungry, and trying to identify what your binging triggers are. Its not a fix, it's changing your relationship with food entirely. I was doing 1200 cals a day, and lost a fair amount, but it always went back on. Then I signed up to a nutrition programme, lost 13 kg in 3 months, on a much lower deficit (1700) and the good habits I learned along the way have stayed with me. I'm hitting 50 v soon & perimenopausal, so it wasn't a simple challenge.

Keto works for me because I can stick to it. It doesn’t work for you because you can’t. And there is no shame or guilt in any of that. Some things just work for bodies. I always ate the middle of the sandwiches and left the bread before my mum’s disordered eating got to me!

If you can’t do keto, and you can do low-cal, one tip is count WEEKLY from the weekend. If you binge on the weekend, do the maths about how many calories you have for each weekday. But subtract as you binge and do weekends first. Instead of the inevitable ‘good all week, ruin on the weekends’ cycle.

@PrincessofWells why avoid fruit, out of interest?

not this user but fruit tastes sweet and good and so eating it sends my brain into a complete rage like this is GOOD AND PLEASURE and I time skip into a binge where I would eat anything, I mean completely anything, I mean cartons of things, I mean amounts of food that NO HUMAN should ever eat because it is scary much!!!!! So the next clear moment I have is hating myself because I just ate a sack apples or 4 nets of bananas or something stupid and that is kilos and it WILL be too many calories and too much sugar!!!!!!!!!😭

Honestly, it sounds like bulimia. I think mental health support for this is vital.

I agree. OP, it sounds like bulimia.

so first of all no I cannot speak about this to anyone in person plus this is not something I decide to do I don't sit there like oh lets over eat and destroy my health etc it's like an attack, you do X and one blink later NOOOOOOOO 5000cal all bloated all messed up all is lost it takes forever to realize and regret that!!!

This is like some fog where ok YES I completely accept responsibility and having no discipline being dumb etc yes BUT it is like the me that means well is switched away and only comes back on when I did horrible stuff!!! This is why I was asking I guess it is HOW HOW how people just stay themselves I have no idea how else to describe this do you not know what I mean!!! Just be YOUR OWN head voice not this rage blaring to stuff face 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Have you spoken to your GP? I think you need specialised support to tackle the binge eating. Binge eating is a whole different problem than standard weight loss, and needs different advice. Maybe a support group would help.

7000 calories in one binge is massive!

One night will mostly be water weight OP, just get back on the horse

but what if you are really eating 10-12k calories??? I am saying it was a binge attack, not just over eating. So it was an amount of food that is scary. There is no way it is all water weight especially when Ia lready have tried every diuretic and lax out there wrecked my guts!!! I wish it was water weight but I just cannot believe it and it terrifies me :(((

Even one days binge, if you get straight back on it the next morning and maybe have less than your usual dieting calories, more water. You’ll flush it out quickly. Believe me I’ve had many one day binges!

What you're describing is binge eating disorder. Please get some specialised help. In the meantime the Food Freedom podcast is informative.