So lately Ive become pretty obsessed with weight loss. Im on here and other forums all day long and all i think about is how long Ill be at the gym what Im going to do there, what i can do to my diet to help me. Ive been trying to go to the gym twice a day for atleast 2-3days a week and working out 6-7 days a week. When does it come to the point were youre too obsessed??

Is there a point? I'm not sure....

I think you just need to know yourself. If you can handle the intensity, go for it. If your the type of person who tends to start things off strong then grow tierd and fall off hard, maybe you should try to force yourself to stay at a level you can maintain long term.

I personally dip and dive with my "weight loss energy level" I'll be really into it and gung ho for ahwile. I'll post all the time. Then I'll have a few weeks of barely staying OP where I lose something like 3 pounds in 6 weeks. After this, I'll get fed up and get back into it and so on.

Just find what works for you.

I see nothing is wrong with the intensity at all! I think the only way I would become concerned is if you were below normal on the BMI chart and still wanting to be thinner.

I agree that it depends on who you are.

I know that I'm enough of a Type A personality/perfectionist that I obsess over details and goals and milestones and then beat myself up if I don't accomplish them and that this is bad for me (I get mean to myself).

For me, when it comes to weight loss and health and fitness, it is better to allow myself to fall off a bit so that I accept that as part of the process and I don't beat myself up over it.

I remind myself that I'm trying to achieve a balanced maintainable lifestyle not graduate with honours. I can't go full out obsessive or I will never be able to to maintain it.

But that's me and may not be you. Different people require different motivators and different styles.

but yes, it is possible to be overly obsessed and if you had the kind of personality that does that, it's good to be aware of it.

If you think this is something you can reasonably keep up for a long period of time, then that's good. Otherwise, you could go way too hard, become overwhelmed, and scrap the whole thing. Make sure that whatever your regimen is, it is something you foresee yourself doing months and years in the future.

If your exercise and diet are having negative impacts on your life, it is time to reassess. If you are quitting hobbies you loved or ditching friends in order to keep this up... in my eyes, that would be a sign of excess. As long as you are happy, healthy, and doing things you love...you are probably okay.

I went through the same thing. I lost 26 pounds last year by eating better and working out, but I made myself miserable and stopped completely. I was writing down everything I ate and counting calories, prot, carbs, fat, etc. I did 3 classes @ the gym per week and worked out at hoem on other days. I literally thought about food and exercise ALL day every day! I eventually got burnt out, stopped, and gained 10 pounds back. My advice? Take a second to listen to your body. Are you stressed more than usual, fatigued, tired? Are you constantly beating yourself up for the little mistakes?
Being focused is one thing, but be careful not to drag yourself down.
This experience should be a wonderful one for you. It should be a time to get to know your strengths and build a healthy relationship with food and exercise.

OP, you sound like me! I do pretty much the same thing, but it's something that I actually really enjoy. OK, I don't love counting and restricting calories, but I love exercising and I love seeing results. And I've been at this long enough, I know I can handle the intensity. I've been spending a lot of time at the gym and I have gotten teasing comments about being "obsessed", but I look at it more like taking advantage of the extra time I've had this summer. I think it would cross a line into an unhealthy obsession if I was giving up other parts of my life for it or like another poster said, if I got to a place where my BMI was too low and I kept wanting to lose. I also know that when school starts in a few weeks, I won't be able to spend my time like this anymore-those 4th graders won't teach themselves!- so I also feel like I have natural barriers for going too crazy. I think that as long as it works in your life and you're feeling physically capable of maintaining it, GFI (go for it)!

It's worst to be unhealthy. Health has both a physical and a mental/psychological component to it...but only you can really know for sure where you stand.

I feel like im at the borderline of being ok and not okish. I just feel like in my head i want to lose like 20lbs by tomorrow and when the scale hasnt moved i get annoyed and go to extremes like looking at weight loss pills and what not. I know it takes a long time to put it on so itll take a while to take it off but with all the hard work i do it gets frustrating and thats when i become obsessed like now. My brother just asked if i wanted to go to a baseball game tonight and i had to really think about if missing my workout would be worth it. I eventually told him yes and now im thinking i should double up tomorrow. But its like how do i get it to click that i know its ok to miss out and stuff. I sound like an idiot! i know what im trying to say but dont know how to actually say it i guess.

Yeah, I think you need to relax a little. Know that if you keep at it the weight will come off eventually. Weight loss is really funny, your a gung ho diet ninja one week and lose next to nothing. Then the next week you'll eat takeout 4 times and drop 5 pounds. It takes alot of patience to deal with the swings and the emotional rollercoaster. Don't drive yourself nuts.