[Nadya]

For two weeks, I cut my calorie intake off at 1200. I was feeling good, wasn't overeating, and was avoiding most junk food. Then, people started picking at my calorie limit telling me that I'll plateau, that I'll go into starvation mode...and the more I heard it, the more anxious I got. Now, I'm worried that I'm overeating again. It's not so much how much I'm eating but how many calories everything contains. It's hard to know what I'm eating when I have to order out so much and I keep slipping here and there.

I think the most annoying problem is that my stomach is feeling bigger for some reason. Maybe it's coming close to TTOtM but it's still bothering me a lot. I have GAD so that doesn't help and it feels like my nerves are kinda shaky. I'm almost reluctant to mention my weight loss journey anymore, the more I talk about it honestly, the worse people make me feel.

[krampus]

It sounds like you might define "overeating" as anything over 1200, which is likely not true at all. You don't have to feel guilty for eating - we all need food to live, which makes this whole weight loss thing an extremely complicated question.

[Nadya]

You're right, that's a big part of it. But I also feel like I am overeating when I reach a point of uncomfortability (this needs to be a word already!). As a downside, it doesn't seem to take much to fill me up so even a little extra makes me feel blech.

[krampus]

I know the feeling you're talking about - eating even a healthy portion of good food makes you feel fat and guilty, etc.

Logic and numbers aren't always the route to go, sometimes listening to your body is better, but if you can't even eat normally without feeling guilty, you gotta shrug off those feelings somehow or push them back.

I hope this gets easier for us soon!