if you're eating/drinking a lot of carbs and sugars, the spikes and drops of your blood sugar levels might make you feel queasy and affect your appetite. it also can affect your mood and energy levels (and sleep patterns).
I agree with this, and I think you should schedule a Dr.'s appt on the double. There are some not very nice things that can cause constant nausea and bloating-- one of them is ovarian cancer. Another possible culprit is DIABETES. Many people with uncontrolled diabetes have a decreased appetite in the morning because of very high blood sugars in the morning. Their appetite doesn't pick up until the middle of the day.
Getting healthy and dropping some of the weight will make you feel MUCH BETTER.
I got on the scale this morning for the first time in a few days. Sigh. How can you gain 10 pounds in a week? Sigh. I think I am retaining a small ocean.
I have been eating less, and have gone to my doc and hopefully a new medicine she prescribed will help me to lose weight and to reduce my appetite. It isn't meant for that, but I read that it is one of the side effects (I am ok with that).
I see myself looking thinner, but my pants are still too tight on some days, and, I saw a picture of myself recently that was just so, so, so gross. At times, even though I know it is wrong, I wish I could be anorexic. Of course I don't want to be skeletal, but if I could just take a break from eating for a while...sigh.
I am working on how much I eat, and haven't been eating to getting full in a long, long time. I used to eat to the point of being super, super full. Now I don't. So I am happy about that. I need to get the sugar habit down, as I have been having sweets with my coffee as my breakfast. Not good. Lately, I have just been trying to do whatever possible to remain relaxed and calm, and sometimes sugar and treats are what do that. I know it is not a good coping mechanism, so I am hoping that working out at night will improve the happiness and relaxed feelings.
I am pretty convinced that real, sustainable weight loss is simply not possible for most people (I know that's a bold statement) without a specific, comprehensive eating plan. Do you have one? I personally don't think people who start off at our starting weights can just plan on "watching the sweets" or "trying to cut back on the junk food" to obtain any kind of meaningful change.
When I started back here in May, I was wholly unsure if a decent weight loss was possible for me. I had tried and failed so many times in the past!! I decided that I was going to develop a healthy, satisfying eating plan, and stick to it like glue and see what happened. In these last few months, I have really rooted myself in these better behaviors, and now I am getting to the point where I just know what to eat and when, how to manage eating out, what to do when hunger strikes, and at this point, very rarely do I even think about the crappy stuff. I was at a meeting at work the other day, I knew there would be junk food, so I ate breakfast before I went. It didn't even cross my mind that I could have "just one" of the little cinnamon rolls lots of other people were munching on. It has really just sort of become something I just don't do. I didn't have to white-knuckle it through the meeting just wishing I was allowed to eat that, not at all. That is why I know I am going to succeed this time, all the way to goal weight. I KNOW it. I have detoxed my body of the junk it does not want or need, I am fully satisfied with what I do choose to eat, and I have made a commitment to myself to keep it that way.
It all started with my taking the time to work out a realistic plan that will keep me fueled properly and appeal to me taste-wise. If I hadn't done that, then I would have been sitting in that meeting 5 months later thinking "well, just 2 of these cinnamon rolls is cutting back, right -- they're small!" Setting me up for a day of uncontrollable cravings and struggling to do anything right with my diet, not to mention fatigue, bloat, blech, and wondering why I STILL haven't lost any weight even though I told myself I was going to back in May!
Make yourself a very specific plan, and hold on for dear life for a few weeks. Smooth sailing after that! I'm not saying I never have temptations or urges to eat bad stuff, but they are much fewer and further between, and I can HANDLE them now, when before I never could.
I would wish you luck, but really, luck has nothing to do with it.
Edit: I am actually full after eating my meals -- not super, duper sick full, but comfortably, satisfied full. I love that feeling and couldn't do this if I didn't have it. And as for the exercise, make sure you are not doing it right before you go to bed, because exercise can make you super-alert and keep you awake longer, and you DEFINITELY need to sleep well/enough IMHO!
I see myself looking thinner, but my pants are still too tight on some days, and, I saw a picture of myself recently that was just so, so, so gross. At times, even though I know it is wrong, I wish I could be anorexic. Of course I don't want to be skeletal, but if I could just take a break from eating for a while...sigh.
Lately, I have just been trying to do whatever possible to remain relaxed and calm, and sometimes sugar and treats are what do that. I know it is not a good coping mechanism, so I am hoping that working out at night will improve the happiness and relaxed feelings.
Well you can't take a break from eating, but you can take a break from eating the *wrong* foods and the wrong quantities.
As far as the sugar and treats calming you, how long does that calming affect last? ISn't it time to find something that gives you true comfort without the guilt, without the ill side affects?
Shannon just wrote a sticky worthy post and I can't say it any better than that.
I'll just add this much copied post of mine:
Know that you DO have the ability to lose the weight. We all do. It's not some hare brained, crazy, out of this world scheme. We all are capable of it. Yourself included.
Eating well, adhering to a healthy life style is nothing to fear, nothing to loathe. Remaining obese IS. So, you need to fear and loathe it (remaining obese).
At some point, you will have to come to the conclusion that all that *food* comes at too high of a price. That the consequences are just too high.
At some point your desire to be thin, healthy, fit and active will have to outweigh, overtake and overpower the desire for all that food.
At some point you will have to come to terms that you just can't have it both ways - the high calorie, high quantity food and be the optimal you.
At some point you will have to recognize that you DO have the power over this. That it IS within your control. That being overweight is a choice. That getting slim is a choice. And you are the one that gets to choose.
At some point you will have to realize that it's okay to tell yourself no. That you don't have to give into a craving or a desire or a want. You will have to stop worrying about your immediate gratification and look to your long term satisfaction.
At some point, you'll have to change what you want. The foods that you're eating, the way that you're living.
At some point you will have to change your relationship with food. You can't use it for times of anger, loneliness, boredom, stress, happiness, joy.
At some point you will have to stop focusing on what you are giving up and focus on what you are GAINING.
At some point you will just have to do the mature, responsible, adult thing and make mature, responsible decisions.
At some point you will have to realize that all work, effort, time, devotion, persistence and dedication that this requires is incredibly worth it and to not do it would be ludicrous.
At some point you will just have to suck it up and get past the uncomfortable moments of changing your bad habits and incorporating the new ones in. There WILL be uncomfortable moments - initially, temporarily.
At some point you will have to raise your standards and require more from yourself. And stop settling for foods that just taste good. You'll need them to taste good and BE good for you; long after your done chewing.
At some point you will have to challenge yourself and really, really push yourself. You'll have to give it 150 percent. You'll have to push and push. Reaching, stretching, striving, growing, prospering.
At some point you'll have to realize that eating well, adhering to a healthy lifestyle is no prison sentence. But a ticket to freedom. That will open up more doors to you than you can possibly imagine. Ones you didn't even realize were closed.
At some point you will have to say, enough is enough. I'm not going to take this another minute. I'm done being fat. That it can't possibly be as hard to lose the weight as it is to remain morbidly obese. Choosing your hard.
At some point you will have to decide to do this, once and for all, permanently and NO MATTER WHAT. No matter what.
At some point you'll have to set yourself up for success. Get rid of the junk. Make a plan, make a plan, make a plan. Plan, plan and than plan some more. Plan out your food schedule in advance, knowing where each and every bite is coming from AHEAD OF TIME. Much easier to stick to a plan when you've got one. Write down each and every morsel that goes into your mouth before it goes in that said mouth. No matter what. It doesn't go into your mouth before you write it down. Be firm. Make some boundaries, make some rules. Set some limits. And stick to them. No matter what. Stop giving yourself permission to veer off. Enough is enough. Time to do the mature, responsible thing, even if you don't want to. Eventually, you'll want to.
And luckily once you get into it, working past that initial discomfort, getting through the detox period so to speak, and it becomes more habitual and then those rewards start surfacing and it no longer feels like a sacrifice - it becomes dare I say - easy. But you've got to get there. You've got to push through to get to that point. So I urge you to PUSH YOURSELF. Find out what you're capable of. Amaze yourself.
And really, why on earth WOULDN'T you do this? Why???? Why keep settling for second best when first best is well within your reach? Break those bad habits, incorporate the new good ones. Isn't it worth going through a little uncomfortable moments for a few weeks or heck even months to switch behaviors, learn some new skill, master something incredible and have a wonderful, more carefree life? One with lotssssss less worries and anxieties and one with much more joy, happiness, confidence, self respect, stamina, energy, vitality,optimal health and choices???
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