Suffering from depression and could use some support:)

IM currently signed off work with depression

I've just come back to work from being signed off work for depression and anxiety. So I know the feeling If I can help in anyway hit me up .

Bipolar depression over here! So far it has only affected my workouts a slight bit, but it has kept me from my calorie goal on several occassions. Feel free to add me as well! I try to stay positive on the site and just 'keep running the race.'

I have had both anxiety and depression since I was a teenager. Eating has always been a way of coping but in the end it has made it worse. My goal is to lose 80 lbs. Feel free to add me

Hello, I know exactly what you are going through. I also suffer from depression and ADD. I am going to be 30 this year. I have been overweight since I was 17 years old due to my depression. I spent my 20s hating who I was, wishing and hoping I would be who I really felt I was. Well after 10 years of that, I learned that wishing and hoping doesn't work. I lived 10 years of my life trapped in my own thoughts of negativity. I let 10 years of my life go with out feeling comfortable in my own body or ever feeling confident enough to be myself. A few months back I started reading and hearing motivational speakers. My #1 recommendation for you and everyone else is to You Tube Earl Nightingale, "The Strangest Secret" it's a 1950s recording. I hated the way I lived every day but I never made a change, I never pushed past the depression or pain. I've learned that if you don't make the changes you will never change. It's up to you. And if you have a bad day or 2 don't beat yourself up. Go back to your tapes or whatever you do to remind you of your goals. Every single day you have to do your best to stay positive. You control your thoughts, learn to recognize your emotions in order to make the right choices. Also stay away from the TV as much as possible and be outside more than usual. I will be on this journey with you. Every day counts, this is day 2 for me.

Hi I'm Lisa. I am not so healthy either, though I don't suffer from depression, I do feel depressed over my health. I have type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure and I damaged my heart from my crummy diet. I even had to start taking insulin a few years ago even though I am type 2. Plus I was taking 2 blood pressure pills a day and heart medicine for irregular heart beat caused by the damage my heart suffered. I weighed 327 lbs. and after being rushed to the ER, I vowed to eat healthy and I lost 130 lbs. I started swimming laps at my local outdoor pool (I am a crummy swimmer but I found that I enjoyed it and no matter how slow I go, I didn't care), and I got off insulin. In the winter I was walking, only a mile a day, but it's hilly around my house and my blood pressure was great and the doctor cut my medicine down to only 1/2 pill a day. I broke the 200 lb. mark and I felt good. Then I hurt my knee again and went to PT. (Walking is still more difficult.) I still watched my diet but I decided not to continue to be as strict, I was going to "maintain" for awhile. I still had weight to lose but I wanted a little break from the discipline. Then I started getting sick, my BP was climbing so I cut back on salt really strong and it came back down. In the summer I started swimming again and then I could eat more carbs and burn them off,still eating smaller portions, lower salt, lower carb. I just indulged myself on weekends but compared to how I used to eat, I thought I was doing great and I was still swimming. I started slipping gradually over these 18 months. Constant knee problems made it hard to walk and though I still watch my salt I did allow more carbs into my diet. Right now, I haven't swam since the summer. Anyway, I had vowed I was not going to allow myself to regain all my weight back so here I am. I weighed myself yesterday and I have gained back almost 50 lbs over the last 2 years! I thought I gained back about 25. How we live in denial! I almost hit the floor. So here I am back in the saddle, "no more excuses". The diet I followed last time was a medical diet, it is a diabetic diet to help control my sugars. So I count carbs, not calories. Most diabetics can have a bit more protein then I can on this diet, because it is also to lose weight. I must eat 5 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, snack. The meals are only 45 carbs at breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus 2 ounces protein at lunch, 3 ounces protein at dinner. Snacks are only 15 carbs allowed. I have to measure everything. I have a little scale and I have some measuring cups that I use. If you eyeball it, you will give yourself more. It is a 1800 calorie diet, if you count calories. One of the ways I messed up is that I started allowing myself to go out to eat on the weekends. Good on diet all week, go out to eat on Sunday after church. Then it was Saturday and Sunday. When I was losing weight the first time I didn't go out to eat very often. And when I did, I cut my portions in half before I took my first bite. I had stopped doing that also. Anyway, to help me kick off my diet again, I told my husband no going out to eat for at least 3 months (New Year's resolution). It's hardest the first few weekends. I've been planning special meals for the weekend, so my husband and daughter don't feel cheated. At least I hope they don't. So right now I'm trying to figure out how to work the myfitnessplan stuff. I can only have 3 ounces of protein at dinner, but the diary has lowest amount as 4 ounces. Is there a way of changing that? I kept a food diary in a notebook when I lost weight last time, but my husband bought me a Fitbit and it links to myfitnesspal and he thinks this will be easier so I'm going to give it a go. (Fitbit won't let you count carbs) I'm hoping having friends who understand what I'm trying to do, will help. Last time I felt very alone.

Feel free to add me. I just joined here & I've also fought depression (my entire life) and it seems that each episode gets worse and worse as I get older. (Now 39)
I've more or less been bed ridden since Jan 2012 and was just recently diagnosed as having type2 bipolar. If you ever need someone to talk with please don't hesitate to contact me. That goes for anyone else reading this as well.
Take care everyone.