I just need to vent

sircoisoc

So, I made a pretty extreme crash diet (very supervised) and it worked wonders! I lost weight (around 5 kg/11 pounds) quicker than I had ever before in my life. I had never dieted before, and decided to go ALL IN.

The thing is, I just get so frustrated with the diet, I started obssesing about food like I had never before in my life. After some days thinking about quitting, I finally decided to throw all my progress away and eat whatever the hell I wanted.

Not only I have broken my diet (which I followed strictly for almost 3 months) I am now overating and feel like I can't stop! Even when I wasn't on a diet I ate this badly!

The food I'm eating is basically all carbs (tons of bread and pastries) and fried, greasy junk food, and it's not even fulfilling so I keep eating.

I feel very mentally exhausted and psicologically weak to keep on eating clean and excercising like I was doing before, but at the same time I feel completley defeated (which makes me angry and sad and make me want to eat)

I feel like I ruined my progress so bad with these three weeks of eating whatever I want that I don't even feel like I can do damage control anymore and starting all over again just makes me want to cry.

I never knew dieting was going to be so hard and taxing psychologically, I'm really surprised and even shocked at what I have been feeling lateley.

I just feel like it is SO much work that it doesn't even seem natural to me. Why should we get so much out of our way to be healthy, lean and fit?

I just needed to vent

Watchinherbackthistime

Being healthy isn't as difficult as these fad diets make out. Yes it is difficult to lose ridiculous amount of weight in a very short time and the inevitable will happen, you will put on all that u lost and then some more. I know I've done every diet under the sun but mfp is the only one that has worked for me long term. Yes it's slow but it's healthy. And your results will stick because it's about retraining yourself to make better choices and there is not limitations. If you fancy a burger have a burger just count up the calories and before you know it the weight will come off at a steady pace of about 1-2 lbs per week. Better still it will stay off. Add me as a friend if you like I can offer advice and motivation. Good luck on you journey to a healthier you.

999tigger

Who was supervising? It sounds like you have been naive and embarked upon an unhealthy approach to dieting that people on here would have warned you against. You sound impatient, do not understand how weight loss works and are simply unrealistic. Extreme diets have the danger that you will over restrict and then binge, which is what you are doing.

You should learn from the experience and follow he advice of the successful and knowledgeable mfpers, but you have to alter your expectations and be prepared for it to take longer. Lots of people manage it with less stress and less misery than you have inflicted on yourself. They eat waht they want, just less of it.

Learn from your experience and reassess your whole approach.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

LKArgh

1) With the small amount of weight your profile indicates you need to lose, there is no way a dr recommended and supervised a very low cal diet.
2) 5 kilos in the course of 3 months does not sound like the result of an extreme diet. Maybe you mean just a no-fun, not to your taste diet with strict weird rules?
3) Set yourself a realistic goal. If your profile is accurate and you have about 5 kilos more to lose, a goal of 1 kilo per month would be very reasonable. Let MFP calculate your calories, and eat at this goal. Do not avoid any food group, just adjust portions and plan treats to fit your calories. You will see results and will not feel bad at all.

cat_lady77

You used the term "crash diet" which kind of makes it sound like you went a little too extreme. That doesn't work long term (as you have found).
As most people here recommend, use MFP to calculate how many calories you should be consuming each day to get to your goal weight safely. Depriving and starving yourself will only lead to future binges and unhealthy behavior. It's not worth it.