Almost to my goal weight, about 4-5 weeks ago

Adpalangi
Adpalangi Posts: 349 Member
edited November 8 in Motivation and Support
So I was within 3lbs to my goal, when I decided to treat myself to a sweet, which turned into another sweet and on and on fir several weeks. I was actually using the sweet as my total intake for the day. Family and friends were telling me I had lost to much weight and not to loose anymore as they said my face was sunken in, and I looked very fraile and sickly. Wow what a blow, I kinda thought family would be very proud of my loss. I was able to see though how fast those lbs come back on snd I could see what they were talking about in my face, and my hair was / is thinning. Dissappointed So I got so off track, should I eat more to put some weight back on, to look healthier (thinking I should up my calories and maybe do another two weeks or so of the 12 week program, and then to maintenance. Thinking if I could just get down to somewhere in my target weight I would be fine to move on. Then was the "you shouldn't loose anymore" reminders, and views of my face sunken in, and my hair falling out (someone on here had warned me about that, but it is very hard to see in ones self. And also being terrified once I put some back on I would fall right off with prob more than this time). So I did just about nothing for approximately 3-4 weeks, nothing except for using sweets as a meal everyday, which meant I was hardly getting any protien, which is what I was told would happen. Not to mention my memory getting worse and in a state of confusion, these last two things could of been to a number of things: memory and confusion. Maybe hair loss or thinning. Also had very hard time balancing, kinda falling often. Could of come from a number of things, but felt I ought to get it checked out (even though I had just had a yearly exam) all my bloodwork and exam had come back fine. So I guess what I really am looking advice for is will it be ok to stay on my counting calories until I've reached a goal of 5 more lbs? Or should I work out of maintenance? For weeks now I have been over my daily calories by at least 1000 eating the same sweets day and night and making excuses like this should be fine, I will put some weight back on quickly. Never really thinking of where that fat would come back to, like can't actually suggest to my fat where in my body to stay. I don't think maintenance is meant to go over calorie count every day, by 1000 or so. I'm just really messed up right now. Tonight I riddled myself of all the sweets in the house. I think I need to plan no more than a week grocery shopping, cause usually a lot of the food goes bad faster because it is mostly whole foods with no processed foods. Could use some help again on planning out my meals for the week, logging it in each day and following up with the calorie, protien, and fat. This would best be done ahead of each day.
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