Eating

maysonhills08
maysonhills08 Posts: 1 Member
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I had a good diet going for about 4 months and now I only binge eat and never have the energy for anything

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,634 Member
    Any chance that you over-restricted calories or food choices during the "good diet"? Trying to lose weight too fast can backfire. Setting a bunch of restrictive eating rules, a major "good/bad foods" framing, can backfire. Over-exercising in pursuit of weight management can backfire. One form of backfiring is compensatory binging.

    Maybe that's not what happened for you, but if you're looking for advice or support, more details would help.

    I think maybe my idea of "good diet" might differ from some other people's. (I don't know if it differs from yours.)

    A good diet IMO is one that shifts enough from past habits, even gradually, to reach adequate calories for one's weight goal, and overall decent nutrition. A good diet balances calorie needs, tastiness, nutrition, energy level, affordability, practicality, and some other factors important to the specific individual. It doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough on average the majority of days to reach reasonable weight and health. A good diet is one that relies on routine, relatively-happy new habits that can continue long term almost on autopilot when other parts of life get challenging, because they will.

    IMO, if it's not sustainable, it's not a good diet. People don't fail diets, IMO . . . particular diets fail individual people. Try another approach?

    Best wishes!

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