I started my weight loss journey almost a year ago now with my mom. I started out being 152 lbs, and I am, on a good day 
, 5'1". My ultimate goal is to be down to 115 or 110, a total loss of around 40lbs, depending on how I look and feel there. So far I have lost between 22 and 27 lbs and I'm stuck in a rut. Thats why I decided to come on here and try to figure out how to lose the last little bit.
My weight loss has been a combination of weight watchers on my own and exercise. I've gotten up to being able to run 8 and a half miles without stopping, and I can do that in about an hour and 20 minutes.
Thats where my plateau has come in. I had been eating 22 points (about 1100 calories) a day, while I was running that distance and I wasn't losing any weight. For 3 weeks I stayed at 125 lbs. I then started doing some research and I found out that I was probably starving myself when I was running that much, so I decided I was going to start adding about 2 points (100 calories) to my diet for every mile that I run. I did that for about a week, and it seemed to be working. I was almost to the one week mark and then the weekend rolled around.
I'm in college now, and live in the dorms there, but I go home on the weekends to work. Unfortunately, its difficult to control what I eat when I'm at home. I go on binges. BAD BINGES. This past weekend was no exception. I eat nonstop when I go on these binges. I probably ate two packages of graham crackers, some with frosting. I had bowls of cereal, raisin bran, oatmeal, etc... Then I had ritz crackers and saltine crackers and cheese crackers and candy bars and top ramen (I raided the vending machine at work), I had alfredo pasta, and shake and bake chicken, and popcorn, and three bowls of potato ham soup, and handfulls of trail mix, and chocolate chips, and peanut butter chips, and peanut butter, and the list goes on. To the point where I don't remember what I ate. Which is really horrible. None of the food I eat is particularly horrible for me (like chips and twinkies and stuff), I just eat ENORMOUS VOLUMES of it. Enough to give me a horrible stomach ache. And I can't stop, even when I feel like I need to puke.
The weeks that I was staying at 125 I didn't go home because I didn't have to work for two weekends. Thats how I could control myself. But now, every week I have to lose the weight that I gain over the weekend so I don't get any farther down. And I don't know how to stop myself on the weekends. Its like a disease.
I'm hoping that coming on here will help me. It will make me accountable hopefully. I tend to do all my eating in secret because I know my mom will get angry if she knows that I eat all that and she would stop me. If I have to come on here and face what I've done maybe I will stop.
Thats all I have to say for right now. My goal for this week is to write down everything I eat, and to not binge this weekend. And since its finals next week, I'm going to try not to stress eat. I'm also NOT going to give in to my binges.
, 5'1". My ultimate goal is to be down to 115 or 110, a total loss of around 40lbs, depending on how I look and feel there. So far I have lost between 22 and 27 lbs and I'm stuck in a rut. Thats why I decided to come on here and try to figure out how to lose the last little bit. My weight loss has been a combination of weight watchers on my own and exercise. I've gotten up to being able to run 8 and a half miles without stopping, and I can do that in about an hour and 20 minutes.
Thats where my plateau has come in. I had been eating 22 points (about 1100 calories) a day, while I was running that distance and I wasn't losing any weight. For 3 weeks I stayed at 125 lbs. I then started doing some research and I found out that I was probably starving myself when I was running that much, so I decided I was going to start adding about 2 points (100 calories) to my diet for every mile that I run. I did that for about a week, and it seemed to be working. I was almost to the one week mark and then the weekend rolled around.
I'm in college now, and live in the dorms there, but I go home on the weekends to work. Unfortunately, its difficult to control what I eat when I'm at home. I go on binges. BAD BINGES. This past weekend was no exception. I eat nonstop when I go on these binges. I probably ate two packages of graham crackers, some with frosting. I had bowls of cereal, raisin bran, oatmeal, etc... Then I had ritz crackers and saltine crackers and cheese crackers and candy bars and top ramen (I raided the vending machine at work), I had alfredo pasta, and shake and bake chicken, and popcorn, and three bowls of potato ham soup, and handfulls of trail mix, and chocolate chips, and peanut butter chips, and peanut butter, and the list goes on. To the point where I don't remember what I ate. Which is really horrible. None of the food I eat is particularly horrible for me (like chips and twinkies and stuff), I just eat ENORMOUS VOLUMES of it. Enough to give me a horrible stomach ache. And I can't stop, even when I feel like I need to puke.
The weeks that I was staying at 125 I didn't go home because I didn't have to work for two weekends. Thats how I could control myself. But now, every week I have to lose the weight that I gain over the weekend so I don't get any farther down. And I don't know how to stop myself on the weekends. Its like a disease.
I'm hoping that coming on here will help me. It will make me accountable hopefully. I tend to do all my eating in secret because I know my mom will get angry if she knows that I eat all that and she would stop me. If I have to come on here and face what I've done maybe I will stop.
Thats all I have to say for right now. My goal for this week is to write down everything I eat, and to not binge this weekend. And since its finals next week, I'm going to try not to stress eat. I'm also NOT going to give in to my binges.