I've decided. I'm going to do Phase 1 for another week, so I would have done it for 3 weeks. I'm almost coming to the end of P1 now, and I don't feel that I have lost all the cravings and weight that I would like. I'm fine on Phase one, and I'm not sick of it (yet, anyway) so I'll think I'll do okay. What do you all think? I've only lost 5lbs so far.
5 pounds is a great weight loss considering you didn't have very much to lose. At your age and weight, I would NOT recommend that you stay on Phase 1 any longer without getting your doctor's approval. I think it is important for you to start adding back in the healthy carbs.
I agree with Barb. What's your hurry? By the way, intensive dieting at your young age can affect your ability to have children later.
I dunno.. I'm just fed up of feeling unhappy with myself and want to get myself back on track. Last school term I had a bag self esteem problem, and my psycoligist is concerned it's an eating disorder.. but I just wanna get red of this 14lbs or whatever that's making me feel like this.
Colbalt, I don't think its the pounds that are giving you are self-esteem problem. Take it from one who is older and been there. If you lose the weight then you will find some other reason to not be happy with yourself - your hair, skin, room - whatever! rather than thinking that by losing some weight you can fix everything. I know a lot of big people that are extremely confident in themselves and some people that have suffered terrible physical difficulties that are very accepting of their situations. It is never a good idea to gain your self-esteem based on your physical appearance. You won't have it forever.
"Last school term I had a bag self esteem problem, and my psycoligist is concerned it's an eating disorder.. but I just wanna get red of this 14lbs or whatever that's making me feel like this."
Is your psychologist treating the self esteem difficulties? It's common to have problems with self esteem at your age. Face it, when you are a teenager, life sucks raw eggs sometimes. Your hormones are fluxuating all over the place, you have to deal with other teenagers with hormone problems, parents, boyfriends, school, and whatever else is going on in your life.
Losing weight is not going to change any of that. You will just be 14 pounds lighter. You have to like yourself, the whole package, that what makes you you. You are more then your outside shell.
Cobalt, sweety, I am scared for you. I am afraid that you are developing an eating disorder. You are too young to be obsessing about such a small amount of weight.
Please talk with your psychologists about your feelings, maybe change doctors if this person isn't helping you. You really have to learn to like yourself and be comfortable in your skin.
Cobalt, I second exactly what Sarah said. You can lose all the weight in the world, but it will NOT affect how you feel about yourself. Truly. Take a peek in the maintainers forum and find that any problems you have under your weight (and honestly, you don't have any weight for it to hide under at your weight/height) just come even more to the surface when you lose it. They don't go away.
Meet with your therapist and your doctors, Cobalt. Find someone who can really help you. Having diabetes at your age makes it even more difficult, and being a teen is so hard already! You deserve the right to learn who you are and love yourself as you are without feeling that you have to keep tinkering with yourself before you'll be worth loving. You know?
Take gentle care of yourself, Cobalt, okay? We're worried about you.
Don't feel as though we are ganing up on you honey. It's just that we care.
I took a second glance at what you wrote too. It's never too soon to eat healthy, don't get us wrong. But you need to reintorduce those good carbs back. This isn't a diet, it's a way of life. And you don't want to deprive your growing body of what it needs, you know?
Go on to Phase 2 and start to excerise and the pounds will come off and you will tone. Then maybe you can start to focus on the other issues as to why you have low self-esteem?
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