It’s creeping up on a year since I’ve been consistently trying to lose weight and I need help.
I’ve been big since I was a kid, like many of us I used food as way to comfort/numb myself and I never realized just how bad my dependency on it was until this past year.
I’ve only managed to lose around 22 pounds with IF and some scattered CICO in almost a YEAR.
I quit smoking last March and obviously gained some weight, i started doing IF 16/8 and then 20/4 and saw good results but after I lost about 20 pounds I just continued to stall at the same weight for MONTHS.
I got a treadmill and walked a mile almost everyday for two weeks but I weighed myself and was really disappointed with the number so I gave that up.
I realized that I was still eating too much, even though I was fasting 20 hours a day and walking I was ruining my progress by eating to many calories, so i started counting them religiously and i started to lose weight again…
Here’s the problem, I’ll do so good for maybe a week or two, staying in a deficit and be steadily losing weight but one night one of my family members might ask me if I want to go on a midnight fast food run and then I’ll go eat out because I can rarely say no to that.
That one night of overeating derails me for days. I end up overeating multiple days in a row and gaining back whatever I had lost the previous week. I’ll start doing well and the cycle starts all over again when i eventually end up binge eating one night.
I’ve been stuck losing/gaining the same 10 or so pounds since January. I feel like I can’t control myself and that I’ll be fat forever. This feels so impossible. I see people that started when I did and they’ve lost 50+ pounds while I’m stuck in this never ending cycle.
I’m terrified that I’ve used food as a coping mechanism for so long that I’ll never know how to eat normally. It’s been two weeks since I’ve done any IF or CICO and I’m feeling pretty hopeless. I’d just really appreciate any advice you guys could give me.
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