HELP PLEASE

Do you know what your triggers are that make you want to give up?

What's stressing you out? What makes it seem hopeless? What makes you want to just forgive yourself and go eat something?

Aside from that, I highly recommend trendweight.com or some similar tracker, where you weigh yourself every day and see the weight relative to a moving average. I find my weight on the scale jumps all over and it's hard to feel the progress - but with a trendline, it's magically much better - because suddenly, as long as the weight diamond is below the line I know it was a good day yesterday; and when I've had a bad day the diamond is above the line. Suddenly the scale shifts from being random and totally demotivating to really predictable and motivating - I know what I've done wrong when I get a bad weight, and I can see my progress every single day otherwise.

[image src="http://trendweight.com/u/78fac1a24a5440/chart/4w.png"]

Osric

Gosh, you are so young and have done such a GREAT job so far! Things can be very emotionally challenging at your age - lots of changes going on. I think you are doing great, and keep up the good work. You will get there. YOU GOT THIS! :drinker:

Yes, I love libra too, I use it on my Android and trendweight on the web. They have almost exactly the same methodology but Libra is more configurable.

@megan - certainly health is a big concern, and hopefully part of your motivation for losing. But you said also that you don't think you have family/friend support - what sorts of things? For example, I think it's really typical for family or friends to not really believe you can do it; hard to deal with that one other than ignoring it. Living on your own ought to be really helpful because you can control what food is in your house ... I didn't suggest this before because of your age but now that I've read your profile I see it is possible. One method I like for this is to calculate calories/gram of food when you buy it. You'll quickly discover that anything with more than about 3 calories per gram is a recipe for weight gain! If you can buy food that is 4 calories / gram or less, that should help because the food fills you up more but doesn't cost as much on the scale.

Another tactic I really like is the lean cuisine or other calorie controlled frozen dinners. I know frozen dinners don't sound glamorous, but:

- you get what it says on the box; there's no second helping or measuring or whatever;
- if you read the labels you can make your main meals all < 400 kcals per meal and this makes a huge impact
- you can allow yourself as much fruit and vegetables as you want along with the frozen food and you'll still lose weight.

Without knowing more about the support challenges, it's hard to provide real advice, but you can do this, with or without family and friend support!

Osric

P.S. The image I was trying to post before:

WOWZER Megan, you have lost 51lbs already, how amazing is that.

It is really easy to slip back into bad habits, slowly, but really you have come such a long way and you are keeping your diary. So you are good to go.

Is there anyone at college that you can team up with to set challenges and to inspire each other?

Don`t give up x

This is a journey... look at it as no final destination... sometimes reframing this thought process allows us to accept our present position while still moving forward. Yes do you still have more to go sure but look at what you have done. Be proud of yourself. that is a great accomplishment. I am very proud of you for reaching out when you felt low. That is the great thing about having this support system in place. We are here to boost you when you need that little boost.

HUGE congrats to you for your weight loss. This is a major accomplishment and the fact that you've reached out for support tells me you don't really want to give up.

There are some awesome posts on this subject here on MFP and some of the success stories move me to tears. Many folks will often say motivation has little to do with the long haul and I completely agree. I'm never motivated to exercise. Never. But, I've learned to do it anyhow because I know it's good for me, and I feel good after the fact. Check out

http://actionfiguremini.tumblr.com/post/53432744622/lost-your-motivation-my-standard-answer

for an easy read and you'll realize that others are in the same boat. You're not alone and you CAN change your life.

I use a HRM

Are you measuring and logging all your food?? I went back just a week and seen several days that said you had anywhere from 1500 to over 2000 calories remaining??? Why is this??

Yes I log everything but I dont eat exercise calories back!

How are you figuring your calorie burns?? by the machine, a calculator, heart rate monitor.... You need to fuel your body for the workouts you are asking of it to do... To large of a caloric deficit can be counterproductive in my opinion...

Then if it was me I would try to clean up the large deficits by either cutting back on your exercise or you need to eat more... even at 100 lbs. to lose setting a goal of 2 lbs. a week loss is a good goal. It is where I set my goals from day 1 and that never changed... Weight loss can be done without exercise that is the first thing you need to remember. The exercise is more for fitness and because of that is the reason you want to fuel your workouts.... That would be where I would start.... Best of Luck.....