@RunaMarti I know exactly where you are comming from. I take depression and anxiety meds. I expressed to my Dr. My concerns about trying to lose weight. All he could say was keep eating right excersise. My weight loss will be slow because of meds. There is days I want to give up. I just keep pushing and have some NSV.
All support is welcome and needed. Please add me if you like.
Melanie

I definitely need extra support! I've struggled with depression for about 20 years. (Since puberty pretty much.) I actually fell off the wagon about Valentine's Day, stayed off the wagon for my birthday, and now I'm back. It's so hard to keep it up day-to-day. I don't really know how to keep from slipping back into old habits.

I totally Understand , with the back pain it makes it hard to exercise and with the depression you want comfort foods , both of those things are my reasons for not losing weight for years , not back pain but leg pain and I have arthritis in my neck c5 and c6 are really bad , but i need to lose over 100 pounds before they will even fix it .

But this web site has been a god send , I keep up with my foods i eat and talk to awesome people (like you) and it helps so much , touching base here keeps me honest . Plus I know if I do slip telling the truth here will be met with understanding , not put downs or make me feel like I failed .

so glad to meet you and please add me , I need to lose over 200 pounds .

Here are somethings that have been helping me.

1. Realizing that if you eat the right things - you can really eat a LOT! For example, corned beef and cabbage is comfort food for me. I make it by throwing corned beef, potatoes, carrots and cabbage in my crock pot. If you load up on the cabbage and carrots, you can have a decent portion of potato and corned beef and the calories are reasonable.

2. Keeping semi-junky treats that don't do much damage in the house. A bowl of strawberries might not light your fire, but weigh out a couple of servings of RediWhip on them and they are divine. I get a lot of fiber one snacks, brownie squares and lemon squares. I really like them, if feels like I got a "treat", they are high in fiber, have 5 grams of protein and between 100 and 150 calories.

3. If I made something particularly yummy try and stretch it through the whole meal. Last night I made philly cheese steaks with oven fries and a salad. Normally I would inhale the philly cheese steak right away (and it was a small one to stay in my calories). I'd take a couple of bites, put it down and have some salad or potato to make that yummy sandwich last through my whole dinner.

4. Don't eat things you don't like! You only have so many calories to spend - if you spend a lot of them on shrimp and you don't like shrimp, you will feel deprived.

OK - I guess all of those are different way of doing one thing, making sure I don't feel deprived. It makes it easier for me to not go off the deep end. And one last one when I was much smaller and could pull it off - if I knew I wanted to eat something really bad (like take out) working out like crazy to earn myself some excercise calories.

It’s tough losing weight, I always feel like if I’ve been dieting and lost, for example my 37lbs, then why aren’t I skinny already? Why can’t I just go to the gym once and be fit? It doesn’t seem so fair that it should take so long and so much work to get to where we want to be and that’s what can ,are it depressing I think. That’s why we need each other for support. Count me in for that! I fell off the wagon last week but I’m back and motoring again now, don’t my legs know it lol!

Welcome back! You were missed. Glad your trip went well.

Anyone is free to add me as a friend- it can be hard when you hear of people who have 5-10 pounds to lose, knowing our journey is much longer, but even if we stumble along the way, we can keep being there for one another!