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HELP- food obsession

foodie178
foodie178 Posts: 47 Member
edited January 8 in Motivation and Support
i am seriously obsessed with food. from the moment i wake up to literally the seconds before i sleep i'm thinking about what i ate, will eat, planning my food diary. I spend free time looking up the calorie counts of various foods and trying different meal combinations to fit them in my food diary. i am constantly waiting for my next meal, and as soon as i have it i'm waiting for the next. to be completely honest i know that i'm not overweight, i have a bmi around 20, but for some reason i am constantly seeking to lose weight. i spend all my time looking at sites like foodgawker and tastespotting, going through recipe and review blogs.

i'm eating around 1400 calories a day, and i'm currently an off season athlete. i run 3-5 days a week, 2 miles at a time. i'm not anorexic because i eat the way I do and allow myself to eat cheat meals. I'm definitely not orthorexic because i eat anything. I'm not bulimic because i've never purged in my life. i've never binged, but i've had cheat meals that are strategically planned so they fit in my calorie plan. basically my entire life strategically revolves around food. I'm obsessed with losing about 10 more pounds even though i don't NEED to, but because i know i can. i've been restricting my calories for a year and i have lost about 8 lbs.

if anyone is willing to help, i have made my food diary public! can someone tell me if this is normal, or if i'm not alone, or what i should do? i'm so tired of having myself obsess over my weight and food.
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