foodieMDPhD
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hi everyone! im new to the forum and it looks like its been a great resource for a lot of people and hopefully itll help me too.
quick story of myself. i think that im a naturally thin person. blessed with good genetics from the parents but im just such a foodie that it really overrides all of that. i was very thin as a young child but gained a considerable amount of weight in high school. i am a little under 5' 5" and at my heaviest in high school i was 145lbs, maybe a little bit more. my mom put me on LA weight loss or something liket hat but i just could not stick to it. love food, hate diets! i started dating a boy at the end of high school and through most of college. i was a very focused pre-med student and when i wasn't bustling around campus for class, volunteering and research, i was relaxing with my boy. i was very distracted from my typical obsession with food and dropped a lot of weight. at my thinnest at the beginning of senior year, i was 122 lbs! yay. now i am bf-less and have found myself re-connecting with food again.... unfortunately. i know... i need a hobby to distract myself. i am currently 128lbs and would love to trim down to under 125lbs. honestly i feel quite pathetic and disappointed with myself that i dont even have the discipline and control to drop 4 measly lbs when other people are doing soooo amazing with their weight loss goals.
heres my thing.... when i diet i get super drastic so when i cheat i really binge.... maybe like a 1000 cal binge or so. also since graduating and moving back home, i have less control over what i eat. at school i can make sure i do the whole grill chicken salad thing... but at home its stir fry to the max... always. my mom is pretty against me losing weight and was very unhappy with me being 122lbs bc she said i was too thin and it looked bad. i beg to differ but either way she wont be an advocate of this. also i dont have a gym membership at home. at school i could do an hour of cardio daily, but at home i run a few miles very sporadically.
well i hope to jot down my emotions and whatnot during these 3-5lbs and hopefully itll help me. it just seems like once i break i just think wth! i already messed up... lets go allllll the way and then i really just let myself go. im doing better with understanding that its okay if i slip up with a candy bar or an extra bowl of cereal, it doesn't mean all is lost.
quick story of myself. i think that im a naturally thin person. blessed with good genetics from the parents but im just such a foodie that it really overrides all of that. i was very thin as a young child but gained a considerable amount of weight in high school. i am a little under 5' 5" and at my heaviest in high school i was 145lbs, maybe a little bit more. my mom put me on LA weight loss or something liket hat but i just could not stick to it. love food, hate diets! i started dating a boy at the end of high school and through most of college. i was a very focused pre-med student and when i wasn't bustling around campus for class, volunteering and research, i was relaxing with my boy. i was very distracted from my typical obsession with food and dropped a lot of weight. at my thinnest at the beginning of senior year, i was 122 lbs! yay. now i am bf-less and have found myself re-connecting with food again.... unfortunately. i know... i need a hobby to distract myself. i am currently 128lbs and would love to trim down to under 125lbs. honestly i feel quite pathetic and disappointed with myself that i dont even have the discipline and control to drop 4 measly lbs when other people are doing soooo amazing with their weight loss goals.
heres my thing.... when i diet i get super drastic so when i cheat i really binge.... maybe like a 1000 cal binge or so. also since graduating and moving back home, i have less control over what i eat. at school i can make sure i do the whole grill chicken salad thing... but at home its stir fry to the max... always. my mom is pretty against me losing weight and was very unhappy with me being 122lbs bc she said i was too thin and it looked bad. i beg to differ but either way she wont be an advocate of this. also i dont have a gym membership at home. at school i could do an hour of cardio daily, but at home i run a few miles very sporadically.
well i hope to jot down my emotions and whatnot during these 3-5lbs and hopefully itll help me. it just seems like once i break i just think wth! i already messed up... lets go allllll the way and then i really just let myself go. im doing better with understanding that its okay if i slip up with a candy bar or an extra bowl of cereal, it doesn't mean all is lost.
Hey and it's still exercise, you may find you drop those few lbs you don't want while you're at it!