Struggled with this my whole life. I yo-yo dieted to an extreme degree as a child and kept it going as an adult. Eventually I lost a big chunk of weight, plateaued, then got back into the overeat-over-restrict cycle.
Right now, I've just tried reverse dieting and had great results. Problem is, I overate 1 day and freaked out. Over-restricted the next day. Mentally, that was rough, so I overate. Repeat for the past 7 days.
I'm fighting 2 factors: 1) I do fear that my metabolism is abnormal because I've yo-yo dieted longer than most people have 2) that fear fuels a fear of food.
So I struggle to "let go" of the 1 day I overate because I DO gain real weight (not water weight) from overeating 1 day. Last week, I overate 1 day and gained 5 pounds - still haven't lost the 5 pounds 8 days later.
I feel like the answer is to forgive myself but damn, it is not easy to do that when I feel like forgiveness = weight gain. Any advice? :(
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