Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.

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Hi everyone! I want to know why I'm not losing weight**. I've just tried different kinds of diets but it doesn't work.
I'm 16 years old,
132 lbs ,
5'1*

Here ia my diet history(the one without advice of someone or simply I just do my own diet without reaearching and without knowing it would be dangerous)

When I'm Highschool i don't eat breakfast, I starve always and I do it for almost 2years . I didn't also
take my lunch. I just buy snackk in our canteen knowing it won't make me fat. And in dinner, i eat a lot. Sometimes small meals.*
In my almost 6months of doing this. My friends tell me that I'm getting thin, but then after 1 year and more months. They notice i'm not getting thin and tell me to avoid skipping meals. I'm not starving so I continued. And now I'm college student,i want to research about healthy diets that won't affect my health badly. But now i tried everything (calorie deficit - eating
less calorie more than my body burns) , while doing (low-carb diet,50kg of carbs only or low per day)
I never eat unhealthy foods/drinks(candies,energydrinks, junkfoods, verybsweet foods etc) and start eating fruits and vegetables.
i eat small meals every three or four hours to keep my metabolism going(limiting it to 1,000 cal per day or 1200 because my bbody burns 1,400 cal a day.

i don't know what to do. But my body don't change. And the number on scale*
 
Hey. Thanks guys!
Today was ok. I would guess I finished at around 1700 cals maybe. I Still don't feel totally committed to it yet. Reading helps as it's more distracting that the TV or books and harder to eat cause you have to hold the book open. Too much reading makes my eyes and head hurt though!
I'm gonna try to post everdayeven when I don't have a good day but that's hard.
 
Not the best day yesterday (chocolate), today isn't going great yet. Hoping to pull it together to finish off ok. Is so hard to feel so useless. I can be screaming to myself while holding my big nasty "fanny pack" of fat telling myself to stop, and yet it does no good. I just keep eating.
 
You're in a rut Mystic. Make one change even a tiny one and stick to it. Once you have that down make another and before you know it you'll be there. You already made the change of posting even when you aren't doing well. What's next?
 
Chocolate is an affront to all reason. And sometimes it´s just hard. But if you keep trying every morning you will get there. And I´m telling myself as much as you...
 
Thanks guys.
Yesterday wasn't too terrible except for in the morning when I finished off my chocolate. Not sure what the cals would have been but hoping around maintenance.
Might be going out for lunch today (likely pizza) with my mom and nieces and nephew so that might not be great but hoping to do a decent job today despite that.
 
I do wonder if maybe gradually winding down your calorie level week by week might help with the food cravings. Start off aiming for like 2100, then 2000, then 1900 and so on. Folks will find this hard to believe, but I haven't been hungry very often the last 28 months or so.

Structure can be important. Knowing that you have a meal in a few hours, or a snack in 90 minutes or whatever, might help prevent complete meltdowns where you put away 1200 calories in a sitting.

By the way I have nothing against chocolate actually, in some ways it's actually quite good for you. But obviously with something that yummy, moderation is the key to being able to keep it in your diet. I have problems with pizza this way.
 
I RARELY feel hungry, ever. My eating virtually has nothing to do with feeling hungry or full, in fact I'm fairly certain that those processes have almost completely shut down due to the years and years of over eating and ignoring those feelings.
I do better eating very little during the work day, just having lunch no breakfast or snacks, then having more cals to use in the evenings. I virtually never feel hungry during the day even though I usually only eat one small meal till I get home from work/barn.
I used to have chocolate virtually every evening when I lost 30 pounds, unfortunately I'm not at the point yet where I have the ability to moderate it yet. I try to keep it out of the house and it helps to a degree, but it's so easy to grab some while I'm out or make a quick trip to pick some up.
Today I think I prob ate around maintenance. I'm still not using MFP yet so I'm not sure my exact cals.
I had a delicious breakfast burrito I made for breakfast (I usually only have breakfast on the weekends and not always)
Went out for supper and had a pasta dish. It wasn't great and oddly enough I felt full quite quickly so I only ate less than half. I did have a couple glasses of coke.
Had a whole package of jello for a snack in the afternoon. It's not crazy high cals but it can definitely add to your cal total for the end of the day.
Made lasagna for supper. It was delicious. Had one large piece and oddly enough again felt very full (I know, after talking so much about not having those feelings early on in this post I'm saying I felt it quite a bit today, but it is QUITE odd for me to have these feelings at least without completely stuffing myself full of food)
I did have 3 granola bars (150 cals each I think) and a bag of 'light buttery' popcorn while watching a movie which I wish I hadn't but I feel like I'm making small steps in the right direction.
 
Thank you. I keep trying to focus on the small positives I do rather than the negatives.

Today would have probably been a good day. I had breakfast burritos for breakfast/lunch, and lasagna for supper (though with a bottle of coke), unfortunately I got strong cravings for junk food and drove myself to the corner store and bought some. If I had been able to avoid that it would have been a really good day.

Tomorrow it's back to work (long weekend this weekend due to thanksgiving and taking the saturday off) and hopefully back to riding too which will help take up time in the evenings giving me less time to potentially eat out of boredom (though reading helps with that too, though I've been reading a bit too much lately and have had to force myself to take some breaks)
 
Not sure how today was calorie wise.
Had a big piece of lasagna for lunch which was fine but then I went out for supper with friends. I had a steak sandwich with fries and probably 2.5 big glasses of coke. I was happy that I kept from snacking between work and going out but I wish I'd had 0 or only 1 coke.
 
Hey Mystic! I think we're in the same boat - lots of trying again and again, starting over. Anyway, don't give up - don't get overly annoyed at the bad habits. If you figure out how to break them, let me know, I need to fix mine.
 
Thank you.
It's terrible that when one is sick one likes to use it as an excuse to eat bad, like I did again today. Must be better.
 
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