Weight Loss is an emotional rollercoaster

missjazminenicole

So weight loss has to be the biggest emotional rollercoaster in life. I don't understand how I can feel so completely motivated and proud and then just a few hours later feel like giving up. This is the first moment I've felt like that. It just comes at the most strange moment. I could really use a ton of encouragement to power through this moment of weakness.

NoelFigart1

Are you eating enough to regulate your mood? While the calorie deficit is totally necessary to lose, too much of one, and you may be setting yourself up.

The other thing you might want to consider is whether or not you want this particular goal to be dictated by mood. I'm sure you've accomplished other things in your life, and I'd bet that the stuff you've accomplished was done by ignoring mood sometimes.

missjazminenicole

Yea, I'm definitely trying to ignore the mood. I've never had MFP before now to help me when I failed in the past. So now I have this community to turn to when I feel my low moments and I'm aware and conscious that it's just a low moment. Before, I wasn't able to address it because I wasn't aware that it would pass so I just quit. I feel very determined. For some reason today I just started wondering if i will ever get there and it's really ridiculous because logically speaking, Eating a deficit, healthy, and exercise can only lead to my goal. I do have generalized anxiety and so my mood can change on a whim. I take a medication that has helped a lot with regulating that and lately I've been trying to practice meditation so I can find peace and presence in moments of anxiety.