Hi all.
My names teresa nice ta meetcha and I just decided three days ago that I wanted to lose a large amount of weight over a healthy period of time.
since then i have been working out every day (cardio). i am currently 5'3 or 5'4 and 295 lbs and i want to get down to 110 or 105 so that i'll have a good BMI. I am not telling any family or friends that I'm doing this because they are very judgemental about weight and weight loss and I don't want to get sabotaged so early in the beginning. I mean I haven't even worked out for a whole week yet so it's not like I'm about to tell anyone that I'm trying to adopt a healthy lifestyle, I just want to put in the time and let it happen.
I have bipolar disorder and I'm currently on disability from work because of it. I've been in a depressive episode since February of this year. My doctor is constantly changing my meds when we find that the newest cocktail isn't helping. i don't know what the med i end up with will do for my weight loss. i go to therapy once a week. Every week we set new goals for me to try and accomplish. I am not going to tell my therapist about my weight loss goal either.
I want to be healthy but I'm not there yet.
One of my main problems is that when I'm this depressed I do not want to eat anything. Absolutely nothing sounds appealing and I am never hungry. I do force myself to eat once a day so I can at least survive for now. I know this is not the healthiest thing to do, and I am basically just keeping my body in a state of survival. However for now, making myself eat one meal is difficult enough especially with my other problem:
I also have anxiety issues, and when I get severely anxious, I throw up.
this happened yesterday about 45 minutes after I had eaten raspberries and a fudge round and so afterwards I ate some cherry greek yogurt so that i'd at least have something in my stomach for the day before going to bed.
The above is a typical meal for me once a day.
Another common one is strawberries and an apple.
I guess my question is, my eating problem aside, what should I do from here besides working out and eating better?