Weightloss and resurfacing of old emotions

IHTSM

Hello everyone!

I have been experiencing some interesting (and disturbing?) things in the past few weeks. I am 28 years old and have been trying to lose weight for about a year. I lost a bunch of weight between April-May last year, and have been very slowly continuing (though feeling pretty plateau'd at the moment). So far I've lost something over 20lbs. Hoping for another 10-15lbs more by June.

In the last few weeks I have been trying to re-commit to weight loss and after losing a couple of pounds I have begun to experience emotions that I didn't know I still had! Bad ones! For example; I have started to become stressed out about my weight, anxious about what others think and I have started feeling abandoned when people cancel their plans with me, etc. I guess I've always had these emotions, but lately its just getting intense! As if I am back in highschool! I am feeling jealousy and other things.

Part of me wonders if this is some kind of store of emotions that I have physically stuck in my fat cells, and as I am releasing them I am having to deal with it? I wonder if this is why I was at a plateau, because it is hard to break into this psychological "zone".

The worst part of all of this is this stress is making me want to binge eat! I am having a heck of a time staying on track, but I'm going to keep going damnit!! I am getting married this summer so I am trying to use that as my focus and motivation. But the wedding is also adding more stress and less sleep so it is hard!!!!! lol

Thank you for listening, I just had to complain

But seriously, does anyone ever find that old emotions come up when you lose weight? Like vivid memories and feelings?

IHTSM

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keakaha

I have experienced what you are talking about ; I certainly am feeling old emotions right now, but I'm not really losing any weight so it's not that as much. I feel like I look dumpy, and that I have an inevitable cycle of the same old stuff over and over. Definitely time to make a change for me.

nyxandstones

i know that feeling so badly. hahaha

Aim40

Omg I am experiencing the same thing!
I am starting to lose weight and doing great on my plan
and then all of a sudden I start to feel these strong emotions
of abandonment. I get jealous and insecure and what's weird
is that I was not usually like that when I was overeating.
I think I numbed those emotions with sweets just to please
my inner self. I really do think its old emotions that are
coming to the surface, now that your body is cleansing
itself. Emotions do stay and get stuck in our bodies.
And now that they have no where to hide they have to
come out. I want to research this further and see
what the psychologists say. I am also going to see
a therapist to see what she says too. In the meantime
I've been taking 100mg/day of 5HTP to increase my seratonin,
but on the days I feel like this I will increase my dosage by 1.
My natural path said 5HTP works wonders (and it does) and
to take extra when needed. I also think that when those old
emotions come up, we just need to see them, feel them, bless
them for coming up to the surface and then let them go.
Let us know if you've found any more research
on this.