OCD and weight loss

Hello. I have OCD. However, it is not nearly as bad as it was when I was a child. (I worked very, very hard to stop my compulsive behavior, and the obsessions gradually reduced.) But in certain situations, I can feel my OCD start to resurface. When I first began counting calories on MFP, I experienced something similar to you. Watching the numbers add up terrified me, and I was so afraid of even reaching my calorie goal that sometimes I would only eat about 700 calories in one day. I was terrified that I wouldn't lose weight and felt like I should be exercising 24/7.

I still have troubles with these things occasionally, but I keep forcing myself to look at things logically and calm down. Calories don't freak me out anymore, but I still feel like exercising compulsively. I know thinking about something logically does not make the obsessions go away, but when my OCD starts resurfacing, I refuse to act on it. Follow logic, and try as hard as you can to not go through with the compulsions. It's torture, but that's how I got over the worst part of my OCD. (I didn't have the option to see a therapist.) I will warn you that it takes an incredible amount of willpower, but just know that you are strong enough to fight it.

-L

i do as well 20 yr year ago my husband literally drop kicked the scale out the bathroom window as i was constantly weighing myself and driving everyone crazy...this past february when i announced i was going to lose weight (18 pounds down yay me) everyone groaned...the regular scale drove me crazy i started the usual weighing myself constantly...

my husband made me deal - he got me a weight watchers scale and i could have a ritual..i get up,..pee, weigh,,,eye it distrustfully while the number rolls around in my brain,,,brush my teeth worry over the number, take a shower, weigh - go get my husband - whose weight never changes - he weighs himself - then i weigh again and whatever the number says that is what i am for the day...no more weighing...

i am also a chronic under eater and have been for years trying to eat more calories and i will worry when i see those calories add up at the bottom of my diary - so for my birthday he got me a FITBIT so i can fuss and worry over those numbers instead but those are positive numbers....the higher the numbers the better for me, more steps taken, more miles walked, more stairs climbed.. now i get a lil crazy that i have a high defict and i have eaten breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack and i am not hungry. i am just a work in progress i guess.