Hello
I have given up on my diet today for the sake of my health and my sanity!
I have Chronic fatigue Syndrome , made worse by exercise and emotional strain. I also have a lifelong weak immune system.
I have a very slow metabolism and started HRT 6 months ago which helped me initially until I started to put on weight fast. My boyfriend was finding me less attractive, he didn't tell me this but I just know that he finds slim women attractive and overweight ones not!
I decided that I would slim before getting bigger and try to get within my BMI as I also have circulation problems.
It took me a long time to find a diet that worked for me as with diets like weight watchers , I simply put on weight due to my low metabolism.
So I went on the Rosemary Conley diet which is healthy I guess, but starts on 1200 calories a day with a lot of exercise and after a couple weeks goes up to 1453 calories a day because of my age and the fact that I can't exercise much.
I lost weight but within days I was ill, blurred vision, unable to concentrate and feeling weak, not sleeping.
Five weeks on I have lost nearly 9 pounds and lost all my energy and peace of mind. It's not an easy diet to follow for me at least and I cannot spend my life counting calories. It is drivng me crazy and I am unable to think about other things in life that matter a lot more. I resent feeling "guilty" for eating and "good" for not eating.
Anyway to cut a long story short, because I have been feeling weak for the past five weeks eversince I started my diet , I went to see my doctor today.
She found I had a serious bladder infection, a throat infection and a bowel infection and told me to STOP DIETING immediately.
Also she put me on different medications and I have two more appointments with her.
So there you go, I lost weight and got ill.
This afternoon after seeing the doctor I bought and ate an entire large chocolate easter egg and a bit more chocolate. I felt so "good" and can't feel guilty about it. My body needed a bit of a treat after 5 weeks of feeling like I am starving.
But now I realise this diet is too low in calories and is making me ill, where does that leave me?
Confused!
I can't exercise and if I eat the right amount of calories for me to lose weight I am getting ill.
Also having to write down every calorie eaten or spent and working it all out is really making me obsessive in a bad way!
All I know is that I need to approach it all in a different way. I refuse to count calories but am going to invent my own simpler system. My intuition tells me that feeling "bad" about eating is not mentally healthy or physically healthy.
Well that's me in a nutshell. Don't know if anyone has had a similar experience.