Hi everyone, good afternoon. My name is Autumn and I am 18 years old. I am so tired. Very, very tired of being overweight. I weight 237 pounds right now which is such a shame. I'm only 5'7...And unfortunately, most of the fat is in my belly area which is the worst place it could be. Well, my problem is that I have horrible eating habits. I am addicted to food. Oh, yea, I'm also addicted to this demon drug called tramadol/ultram. My doctor gave it to me a year ago for mild back pain and he never told me that I could get hooked. Well, I sure am hooked now. Everytime I miss a dose, my body starts to attack itself. I have so much physcial pain when the medicine is not in my system. My other problem is that I don't exercise that much, but I do have a gym membership. That's pretty sad, big waste of money...I don't know where my head is..I'm currently going to school full-time also....To sum everything up, I am a very confused person that needs major help and a BIG mental adjustment. Is it possible for me to eat healthy and workout 30 minutes a day? Of course. The hard part is putting that into action. And that's where I'm hoping you guys can come into play....
You may really be addicted to food. I was. The key for you is to make it through an initial 2 weeks or so of NOT EATING ANY JUNK. This means no sugary drinks, candies, chocolates, pastries, refined carbs, even white pasta is a no go.
You can get unaddicted. I used to be completely out of control, like I would buy an entire cake and eat it in one sitting, or buy a whole bag of candy (like 5 chocolate bars) and eat them until I was sick, and keep eating. It was quite bad.
Well for the past 3 months or so I haven't had any of that stuff, and more importantly I haven't wanted it. You could lay a whole table of junk in front of me and I wouldn't want to eat it one bit, and that's the truth. I think the key has been switching to a diet without any refined carbs, mostly lean protein, vegetables, lean dairy, occasional fruit, and very, very rare starch. My brain has changed, and frankly you'd have to pay me a lot of money to get me to eat stuff that I couldn't stop eating before.
It's weird. I feel like a different person, and I think the key to my change has been that I cut this stuff out completely. I know that if I have even one junky thing, I risk falling into the addictive habits I had before.
(You won't get the full result after 2 weeks, but it will be so much easier for you to resist. For me the transition has been gradual, at first I lost the craving for junk, but still wanted to eat a lot of healthy food. Now I have no problem eating small portions as well. I actually leave things on the plate a lot because I don't always want to keep eating.)
