Losing the will to survive...

You should give yourself a break. This is not a diet but rather a lifestyle change. Perhaps try following the 80/20 rule...if you are good and make the right food choices 80% of the time then you should be able to ease up for 20%.

Try picking at least one day a week where you can go out with your friends and eat whatever you want and maybe even have a drink or two. You owe it to yourself to make this a liveable lifestyle, not something that keeps you unhappy and "losing the will to survive".

You may find that your weight loss actually increases by doing this.

You can do this...and be happy at the same time. :flowerforyou:

Hang in there. You won't always feel this way. One option you have to have a social life yet stick with your diet is to go out with your friends and just not eat or drink. I can't tell you how many times I have gone out with friends and done this. You don't have to be eating and drinking to have fun. I sip my water and talk/laugh/dance whatever and have a grand time.

If your gloomy day turns into many gloomy days and it becomes unbearable don't be afraid to seek help. I have been on anti-depressants for 10 years and I wish I had started taking them many years earlier when I was a sad college student like you. Take care! Reach out if you need support. Many of us do understand.

There was a program on UK TV last night called 'The Truth about Exercise' (post on it on fitness and exercise board) but bascially they found by presenter wearing some special shorts which tracked his NEAT non-exercise activity ie just daily moving about he burned 500 extra calories just doing stuff like taking the stairs instead of lifts. If your moving about from 8am-11pm you should be burning loads through NEAT. Even standing instead of sitting, if your watching or directing someone on stage stand if you can rather than just sitting and watching..walk on and off stage more if you can whilst describing how you or where you might want things if you usually just sit in audience seats and direct etc ... you get the idea.

You could easily burn off as much as doing an hour in the gym. If you're not getting time to sit down and eat decent meals either, you may be low in Q10 found in meats, fish, eggs, broccoli etc, it's naturally in all our cells and gives us energy. Q10 supplements can help give you more energy which will boost your metabolism if its slow cos you dont get chance to eat regularly or decent food.

You don't need to go to gym and lift weights and run for hour on a treadmill to lose weight. I'm a wheelchair user and still losing even though I'm housebound and spend all day in wheelchair. I can do limited games on wii BUT I have involuntary muscle movement as part of my condition, so by the end of the day adding all those little movements up I probably burn as much as I would have done going to the gym for an hour.

Try and do a packed lunch the night before an healthy salad instead of doing things like picking up a sausage roll on the go etc, maybe little things like that you can change too? My canteen had healthy salads etc usually right at end and was more tempting to go with the chips and sausage you came to first in the queue!

When I was at uni (I could walk then) our campus was massive and just walking to and from lectures all day and into town and back kept me fit and weight stable. if a class is within walking distance walk there if you have time, you should burn some decent calories with a couple of mile walk in about 20 mins.

Good Luck!

Yeah, the numbers can get overwhelming at times, but the good thing is that were creatures of habit. So once you start to eat healthy and balanced meals it will become second nature to you and you won't worry about the numbers so much. In the meantime, don't worry about exercising, with your schedule it'll probably do you more harm than good and go out with your friends and have a great time. Life's to short to be miserable.