I've started to just say screw it - I'm going out and I'm going to have a blast. I make the choices the best I can, and if I go over - I do an extra work out, and compensate calories. You can't let your diet but a hault on your life, it should be making your life better! Live it while you're young!

Thanks everyone for your posts.

I love this site so much and it means the world to me to know I am not the only one who feels this way.

oh i hear ya, its like when i go out to restaurants with my friends if we go out to a place that doesn't have the nutrition facts i freak out, i start to panic. i either get do something stripped down meat with veggies or i don't eat at all.

I know I'm bumping up an old thread here, but I just came on here to search for something to make me feel better or that other people out there understand, and this made me feel so much better.

I was having such a hard day. I just felt like I was thinking about food the whole day and resisting it, and it just got me down, realising that basically I will have to do this for the rest of my life to stay healthy. It can just be so mentally draining, having to think about food so much, and then I get all mad that there are people at my work who just eat whatever they like and never exercise at all, and I just wish it were so easy for me, but I guess there are maybe other things I find easy that I don't appreciate how hard it is for other people, like schoolwork or something.

I do feel like food is such a hard thing though because unlike some other addictions, you can't just completely cut it out or avoid it. You're always going to need to eat. Sigh.

Anyway, thanks for all the positive advice in this thread.

i used to stay home a lot just because i didnt want to be tempted but thats not a way to ive now i look at my dinning out calorie book and plan how and what im gonna eat. i find different ways to test myself. such as i make cupcakes and dont eat a single one. it hels if i chew gum while mixing beacuse i might sneek at taste other wise..lol id say just plan and you wont fail..