Emotional Overload

chunkymonkey0493
chunkymonkey0493 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Have you ever just been at a point of complete emotional breakdown during your diet? Well I am. And I have just started .... yet again. I have stuggled with my weight for years. I'm talking a complete yoyo. About 4 years ago I lost a good amount of weight and was pretty happy in my skin. I went from 200 to 170. Now I know 170 may sound like alot but it was good for me. Over the past year and a half I have gained it all back plus some. I reached my all time high which in turn was an actual low at 218. The problem was that I had skinny girl syndrome. Kinda like fat girl syndrome, you know those girls who are perfect in every way but complain about being fat? Ya I was the opposite, as big as I got I looked in the mirror and saw a skinny girl. Up until a few weeks ago when I was out with a group of friends and a pic was taken of all of us. I finally saw myself. It was not a good realization for me. Lol. I cried and cried, then last week I finally decided to get off my butt and do something about it. 8 days ago I started reducing my calories and walking about 2 miles a day. I have lost 10lbs. Which is nothing short of a miracle in my eyes. However I am so extremely emotional. It's not that I miss the crap food and believe me I'm not pregnate lol. It's just everything seems to hurt my feelings. I'm not sure if I'm being over sensitive but I feel so, alone I guess. My family, they are all skinny. And whenever I try and talk about my goals or progress it's like I'm not talking and suddenly the conversation are about them and I don't even feel aknowledged im not sure if they just don't know what to say or don't care. Or if it's my imagination. But I feel myself snapping at things that normally don't bother me. And wanting to cry over stupid stuff. I'm probably rambling by now. But would love to hear from people that may be going through something similar.

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  • badgerbadger1
    badgerbadger1 Posts: 954 Member
    I know what you mean by skinny girl syndrome, I'm the same way. Give yourself time to grieve and then move on with this awesome journey. This is my second time around losing weight too.
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