Hello everyone. This is my first post here and I'm so glad I found you all.
I am 28 years old and for the most of my life I've been satisfied with my weight which usually tinkered around 115 lbs. About a year ago I lost a lot of weight (for me since I never wavered more than a few pounds) and was at 100 pounds with my 5'2" height and was happy and energetic. I didn't try to diet nor did I exercise more than usual...my appetite for some reason was just suppressed. I was going through a lot of changes in my life (i.e. stress, a break-up, death in the family) and probably just busied myself with distractions to even notice I was hungry. Even so, I never thought about food and was completely happy with how much energy I regained. I felt like a little kid.
Anyway, the past couple of months I've regained my apetite and I'm even ashamed to say how much I've gained. I have definitely moved up about 5 clothing sizes. Now, all i can think of is how "fat" I am although I've tried to exercise more, it's really discouraging since I don't see any results. I'm hungry all the time. I feel like I'm making up for almost a year of eating very little. These days, food is always on mind and I'm so sick of thoughts of it consuming me.
I don't know what all of a sudden changed my ways although I have my suspicions. I was in a relationship with a significant other who would eat horribly and eat out all of the time, I was in an extremely stressful period with national licensing examinations and now I've moved to another state (just today). I suppose these things could have caused this strange change of appetite, but I don't see why I've done a complete 180.
Needless to say, I'm feeling really down and depressed right now. Family members I haven't seen in ages are noticing my "fatness" and are making comments such as "you gained a lot of weight". I know I shouldn't pay attention to them, but *I* in fact don't feel at all healthy. I feel sluggish and slow and sometimes I dream about cutting parts of my fat off just to fit in my clothes since nothing fits anymore.
I'm going to try my hardest to attain the weight I was before (I've included a pic to show how I looked a year ago). If I could even get within 10 pounds of that weight I would be happy....I'm MUCH heavier now, but I'm too ashamed of how I look now to take a pic.
I'm really glad I found you all and I'm really glad this community exists so we can help each other out. Thank you for reading my first post.
I am 28 years old and for the most of my life I've been satisfied with my weight which usually tinkered around 115 lbs. About a year ago I lost a lot of weight (for me since I never wavered more than a few pounds) and was at 100 pounds with my 5'2" height and was happy and energetic. I didn't try to diet nor did I exercise more than usual...my appetite for some reason was just suppressed. I was going through a lot of changes in my life (i.e. stress, a break-up, death in the family) and probably just busied myself with distractions to even notice I was hungry. Even so, I never thought about food and was completely happy with how much energy I regained. I felt like a little kid.
Anyway, the past couple of months I've regained my apetite and I'm even ashamed to say how much I've gained. I have definitely moved up about 5 clothing sizes. Now, all i can think of is how "fat" I am although I've tried to exercise more, it's really discouraging since I don't see any results. I'm hungry all the time. I feel like I'm making up for almost a year of eating very little. These days, food is always on mind and I'm so sick of thoughts of it consuming me.
I don't know what all of a sudden changed my ways although I have my suspicions. I was in a relationship with a significant other who would eat horribly and eat out all of the time, I was in an extremely stressful period with national licensing examinations and now I've moved to another state (just today). I suppose these things could have caused this strange change of appetite, but I don't see why I've done a complete 180.
Needless to say, I'm feeling really down and depressed right now. Family members I haven't seen in ages are noticing my "fatness" and are making comments such as "you gained a lot of weight". I know I shouldn't pay attention to them, but *I* in fact don't feel at all healthy. I feel sluggish and slow and sometimes I dream about cutting parts of my fat off just to fit in my clothes since nothing fits anymore.
I'm going to try my hardest to attain the weight I was before (I've included a pic to show how I looked a year ago). If I could even get within 10 pounds of that weight I would be happy....I'm MUCH heavier now, but I'm too ashamed of how I look now to take a pic.
I'm really glad I found you all and I'm really glad this community exists so we can help each other out. Thank you for reading my first post.
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I appreciate the support and I will look at the threads you mentioned. You're right - I tend to look at the big picture and get overwhelmed...that's how I am with most things unfortunately. 