Frustrated.

aifos99 · October 2017

I am an 18 year old that weighs 325lbs. I try and try to start a healthy life style every day but i always fail. I end up binge eating. I begin eating and its like i cant stop. I need help, motivation, support, advice, anything...

shannonwaters2395 · October 2017

Um, have you seen your GP? You might get a really good plan plus ongoing support.

Otherwise I don't know where to start. You are amazing, and you can do it! Do you have a goal? A timeline? Have you checked what is safe and realistic?

Start logging. Maybe seeing your food intake in written and number form might help.

I'll send you a friend request.

kommodevaran · October 2017

You are setting yourself up for failure, that's why you fail. Don't try to start a healthy lifestyle. Figure out what a healthy lifestyle is, and what it isn't, and how you can make it your own. If you demonize foods you like, you'll just crave them more, and it's hard to stop eating when you feel that you have failed, and you can get anything you want anytime, these days.

Set up MFP to lose 1% of your bodyweight per week. You get a calorie goal. Log your food intake (all of it), and hit that calorie goal. If you do this, every day, for a long time, you will lose weight. If you don't do it consistently, it doesn't work. If you eat food you like, it's possible to stick to it. If you force yourself to eat strange food, or too little, you'll want to stop. It's easy to stop. Make it easier to continue.

Do not look for motivation and support. Look for real information, and mobilise your inner strength. Mobilising inner strength does not mean pushing through some hopeless project, it means going out of your comfort zone enough to get results, and resisting temptation whenever that is needed, which shouldn't be all the time. Remove as much temptation as possible. Don't buy large amounts of junk food. Buy ingredients you can use to make delicious, balanced meals, and cook. Learn to cook if you can't already, it's not that difficult.

EsmeMary101 · October 2017

Start to log your food and keep it up. Don't cheat. Then join the Fat2Fit monthly group challenge on here. I find it so good. There are lots of people in the same situation and we try every day to be better and keep on track.

Good luck

88olds · October 2017

Weight loss is a set of things to do.

Calculate a daily calorie target and start a food journal. Weigh and measure your intake and crunch numbers. You will soon find that you have to plan your meals in advance.

Set a short term goal. Say lose 10lbs. This is an experiment. Try to put "healthy lifestyle" aside for now. Your long term goal is "healthy weight". You can figure out a number later. You can add other lifestyle changes later.

But the first thing you need to do is the 10lb loss experiment. The purpose of which is to gain a bit of control and start some good habits.

Because it's just an experiment, you don't have to be perfect. At the end of the day review your journal to figure out which things you did that were helpful and which were unhelpful. As they say in my yoga class, "Not to judge but to learn."

Fyreside · October 2017

In good news, you're young. You've got a great life ahead to be enjoyed, and you are getting onto what makes you unhappy nice and early.

I agree with what the posters above have said. Don't try to take it all on in one go. For me, the single best thing I did was just to start counting what I was putting in. Start writing down what you are eating. this website makes it really easy too. And when you see what's going in the path to success will become very clear. You don't even have to give up your favorite foods or comfort foods. Just find out the right amount to eat, you might be surprised at how close you are to that number already.

kelly_stevens81 · October 2017

The trick to weight loss for me was gaming the food log. You log all your foods from the day before and then look at your log and figure out what you can sub or cut. Had a pudding, try the sugar free one, had a salad with ranch croutons and cheese that was high in calories, keep the ranch, ditch the croutons and cheese. And the number one game of the log is eat the meal you wanted (in a smaller portion of course), but right before you eat it, scarf down like 200-300g of broccoli/cabbage/cauliflower/brussel sprouts. Its so much easier to eat healthy and not binge when your stomach is full of low calorie vegetables.

Also check out the volume eaters thread on my fitness pal. They focus on eating lower calorie foods but a lot of them, which helps if you need that bulk in your meal to feel satisfied.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10563959/volume-eaters-thread/p1

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