so close to giving up :'(

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try and think about how good it wil feel and how good you wil look when you have lost the weight

Very often you DON'T EAT ENOUGH.

Try to meet your food goal. Eating too little is as bad as eating too much. I have set my goal to a 500kcal deficit. If I eat 100kcal over my goal I steal ate 400kcal less than I need. And I will lose weight. Maybe at a slower pace but I'll get there. Like somebody said: it's a marathon not a sprint!

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."

If you want coffee, drink coffee. Just don't add milk/sugar.

Eat what you like to eat. If you're bored of cucumber/lettuce eat something else. Why eat something that you don't like / bores you? That will set you up for failure.

Now focus on your exams!

You can do it!

You look cute already. You'll look awesome when you finish! Good luck

Some great advice in all the posts here ...... don't give up!

Sounds to me that you are getting bored and feel restricted with what you feel you can eat. I'm not very good with working out what I feel i can and cant have so I look at all my friends diaries and see what they are eating. Today I have something I've never tried before for my lunch at work and I'm quite excited about it! lol

haha thank you, I think normally i eat quiet alright, I just had an awful week last week where I'd eat loads on one day then friday I was at a party with a bottle of malibu /rum punch and vodka, so the scale was a no-no this weekend...

Not sure if I understand you correct. (English is my 3rd language)

I would try to hit my goal on a day to day basis. Basically looking at a day as an isolated event. If you missed one day and ate too much (or drank) then I would not try to compensate by eating less the following days! I have seen several examples where people could not lose weight because their body adjusted to "starving days" and "binge days".

If you have too much one day. Forget it. And treat the next day as if nothing happened. Just don't let this happen too often.

I can't always control whats on my plate because I go to boarding school (the 6th form part!) I don't always board so at home its easy to eat what I want but be healthy about it but its days I can't do that, that I'm left with lettuce and cucumbers !

I don't know how boarding school works. And I don't know how much money you have. If you have the chance buy yourself a blender, milk, a good protein powder, banana and (if you have a freezer) frozen berries. This way you can easily make a shake whenever you don't feel like eating the stuff they offer you.

We have a 3yr old at home. And it makes it so much easier in the morning when i don't have to worry about my breakfast. I just make the shake and drink it when I've time. It has 300-400kcal dending on how I make it and it keeps me satisfied until lunch. Plus it tastes like chocolate-banana-strawberry

Btw. If you are like me and you need food (=chocolate) when you're stressed (=exams). Then I think it's a better idea to eat the chocolate, put it in your diary (accountability) and feel better. You can just do an extra 30min/60min cardio in the evening. And that you can do anywhere, boarding school, home, indoor, outdoor, with/without equipment.
I'd rather eat over my goal, feel better and get it back with a nice workout than starve myself and feel miserable.

looking at your diary your barely ever eating the amount of calories you are allowing yourself...don't deprive yourself, it just makes it harder to succeed!

Don't give up! I think every one of us here has felt exactly like this as some point, probably several times at least! But this place is also filled with success stories, people who have made it through those days and gone on to meet their goal. And not only meet their weight loss goal, but do things they never thought they would do, like run a marathon, or even fit into a normal chair! You can do it! And food does not have to be boring just because it is healthy. You just have to spend a little time learning to make new things, and fnding the healthy things that you like. I have been vegan since March, and I absolutely love the food that I eat. It's all about finding what you enjoy!