Hi everyone. I just signed up today in the hopes that having some support might really help me stay on track. I'm 22 and recently moved to a new city way on the other side of the country. So basically I have no friends at the moment except my boyfriend who I moved here with and co workers who I do not see outside of work. I have had success with weight loss before but really have a hard time maintaining what I've achieved. For example, I've just finished a month long detox and although I have no scale, I know I've gotten smaller as my clothes no longer fit. However, once again, I'm back to pigging out when I'm alone and having a hard time making the effort to cook myself proper food and get out and exercise. Its always been a cycle with me. Do awesome health wise for a short time, then fall off the wagon and end up feeling like crap and gaining weight for a longer time. Anyhow, I'd like to meet people who share the same problems with me, actually and different problems so we can all get creative together with solutions. So hi from Canada!

Welcome! I too live in Canada

You will find great support here. This site has helped me A LOT! And I know about eating when you are alone - I am good at that. Just keep thinking - you have lost weight, why put it back on? Try taking the food you dont want to eat out of the house. Cooking a good meal doesnt have to take long I have frozen chicken breast, fish, seafood, and frozen veggies in my freezer at all times

Good luck!

I forgot... I am 21 and my best friend is my boyfriend. I have lived in the same place my whole life but dont really have any friends. So I know what it is like to feel alone.

What does your detox consist of?

When you say you do really well health wise for a while, what does that entail?

I'm just wondering if you might not be overdoing it with the dieting. It's very common for people to have an overeating stage after an extensive dieting stage.

Well over the 4 years I have done various things to maitain good health.

For a while I was a member of shape.com. I followed the diet and exercise plan for a couple months and was feeling great, then just gave up.

Also when I was younger I used to swim regularly and also just stopped.

The detox I recently finished was a 7 stage detox that I did for 28 days. (4 days for each step) It started off with fasting, then you add fresh fruit, then vegetables, then cooked veggies and rice, and so on. You are basically adding things back into your diet slowly. At the end you are eating fish, whole grains (not wheat), beans, nuts, lentils, yogurt. Then you are meant to slowly add things like cheese, wheat and other meats back in. The problem with me was as sson as I finished the last step I full out gorged on whatever it was I had been missing, and havn't stopped since then. I know I've lost some weight as my clothes are bigger now. But once again I fear its just going to come back and I really want this to stop.

I was reading some of the other areas on this board and think I may have pin pointed my problem. I believe I am a binger. I am very ashamed of the way I eat when I do things like this, and I also try to hide it. I wait untill my boyfriend has gone out and try to eat as much as I can while he is gone. I always eat random things, little bits of this and that, so he won't notice that alot of something is missing. And when I'm at work too, I will leave for my lunch sometimes if I have money and go somewhere by myself where I can just pig out.

I don't necessarily enjoy the things I am eating, but I still can't stop myself. I will be telling myslef in my head that this is ridiculous while I'm doing the eating, but I just don't stop. I usually feel physically sick after and disgusted with myself. The other day I tried making myself throw up for the first time, which I know is wrong.

Whew this is getting longer than I intended, but it feels good to be telling someone.