I feel horrible!!!

You body is having a temper fit! It WANTS that salty-sugary-fat bomb NOW! Don't put up with it. You will feel better soon. You may not be eating enough. I would also add lots of veggies like bitter greens, kale, turnip greens, etc. onions, mushrooms, beans, berries and seeds to get a rainbow of nutrients.

Hi - you stopped everything to fast. You should have cut back on ALL the bad stuff not, completely stopped it all at once. You need to give your body time to adjust.

You're fine stopping everything all at once, you will just feel like crap. It's not like you are stopping a prescription anxiolytic and are going to bust out into grand mal seizures. There's probably going to be some trouble as your neurotransmitters adjust. Eventually, you will feel like crap when you eat bad food.

dont drink 2% milk do fat free or skim milk.

Yuk. Why?

You don't have to give up all the foods you love to lose weight and feel better. Just eat them in moderation, and fit them into your calorie goals. You can have soda. You can have pizza. Don't turn weight loss into torture.

Sounds to me like you need a cheeseburger. I'd have a cheeseburger, then seriously reevaluate your approach here. First off, it's not a race, so up your calories a bit, second of all, and more importantly, don't cut out swaths of food you previously enjoyed, it's just not sustainable. Eat all the foods, just cut down the portions.

Rigger

You are in the middle of carb flu and caffeine withdraw. One of those is horrible alone. Both at the same time, you will feel like death. Add some carbs to your food. Add some multi grain crakers to lunch. Add a baked potato or sweet potato. Drink tea or coffee to help with the soda withdraw.

It takes about two full weeks to get over this. Think of it though, you were addicted, like heroin( exaggeration) Your body is freaking out! Thinking of it this way may keep you off if it and from going back. Lol

Caffeine withdrawal is awful. I didn't look at your diary, but unless you specifically want to be off caffeine, drinking coffee to ease getting off the soda would help. (I've had people tell me to try green tea, but that was the first or second day I tried to go off coffee and so I was legally allowed to kill them.)

As everyone said, you're going through withdrawals. If you're really feeling that bad, then get some simple carbs in you. Crackers, or some toast, etc. Also, try eating a little more. I understand the wanting to lose it fast as you can but remember 1 simple thing, you didn't put it on quickly, you're not going to take it off quickly.

This is a process on many levels. Another reason it doesn't happen quickly is because you have a lot of learning to do. You need to learn to eat correctly. That means in the proper portions. You need to learn to move more. Maybe not for weight loss but for overall health. Although honestly, the moving more does help with weight loss too. You need to learn to not rely on the "diet foods" but know how to do this regardless of the food. And you have to learn how to forgive yourself (because honestly you're going to hit some bumps along the way on this journey).

I subscribe to the 80/20 rule which is eat good (ie nutritious, not high in sugar unless it's natural sugar, lower sodium, lean protein, you get it) 80% of the time and 20% of the time it's not so good (chocolate, fast food, processed sugar, etc). This might be a better way of doing things for you. Especially given your former way of eating. This doesn't have to be all or nothing thinking.

I also suggest start finding exercises that you enjoy doing. One thing for me (except finding it for free or reasonable is difficult) is belly dance. It's a great workout especially for your core and it's fun. I've also found that I enjoy the weights at the gym. I still let life get in the way too often and forget how much I enjoy it but I do enjoy it. There are a ton of online videos for many things so you can find those and try them at home. Cassie Ho and Blogiates are mentioned a lot.

And with the amount of weight you're looking to lose, you can probably bump your water up to 10 glasses daily maybe even more. Yes, you can drink too much water but it really takes a lot to be too much. Drinking up to 1 gallon daily won't hurt you and you're only getting about 1/2 of that. Remember your body is actually mostly water so water helps it "run" correctly. A lot of people I know can drink unsweetened tea, sugar-free (often diet) soda, unsweetened coffee or flavored water and get the benefits of water. For me I need to drink plain water to have it give me the benefits of water. I do still have my Coke Zero daily too but that's really dropped off from what I used to consume.

You can do this! It's just a little tough at the beginning!

New to the site, so I'm no expert. But I've been researching how to change bad habits for a project at work. And one common thing I'm seeing a lot is not to try to change more than one habit at a time.

Maybe you could give yourself the time to only get off soda, for example. After you've tackled that, move on to healthy snacks, or something. Give yourself whatever time it takes to break each habit. You'll have a much better chance of long term, meaningful progress. And you won't feel so yucky for taking on so much at once.

My thought is, I didn't get this way overnight. Just one pound a week would be 52 in just a year. That'd be huge progress for someone like me,/ who needs to lose that much and more.

Hang in there. I hope you feel better soon. And don't forget to give yourself credit for at least trying.