Chubby Cow:
Stress eating did encourage me to eat more & my biggest gains came from me using food as a stress relief.
If you are trying lose weight, reduce your sugar intake. It will help a lot, as long as your set point doesn’t increase. However you can decrease your set point, with a long term low calorie diet. It takes a year of discipline to achieve it.
I struggle with that part, as I don’t commit for the long term but maintaining my current set point is easy.
After I had a sudden weight gain spurt because of stress binge me eating bags of chocolate after work.
I ended up being 273 pounds.
After stopping the sugar soft drinks I very quickly dropped down to 252 pounds. Then my new set point kick in & I slowly regained most of it back & now I’m in the mid 260 pounds.
It took me while to learn to love this new set point. I'm still physically active & mobile. It just easier to walk than run.
Plus, I kinda like the look of my body at this set point. So I decided to maintain it, instead of fighting it. I do exercise my legs muscles regularly to justify my current weight.
My feedee side still wants me to gain more though.
I guess, im saying is that as long as you are physically active. The some extra weight is bad. It only a problem if you are not active.
I hope I manage to make you less terrified?
Not really, as I'm lazy and hate exercising, to me it feels like punishment for being fat. 😪
I wanted to start taking walks more often, but I live in Quebec and I hate walking in the cold and snow...
You can decrease your set point with a prolonged low calorie diet? 🤯 I thought it had the opposite effect!
I had been restricting my food intake significantly for the last few years and avoiding most carbohydrates: I never ate pasta or potatoes, very rarely allowed myself to have dessert/sweets (except some dark chocolate), bread, rice, granola...
This is how I had managed to maintain my weight at 100-120 lbs.
Since my dad died I think I've been eating my emotions more than I like to admit.
My psychiatrist was worried I'd lose
too much weight on the Vyvanse he prescribed to me for my ADHD but I actually GAINED weight because it reduces my appetite so much during the day I forget to eat... and wake up multiple times at night and binge on fatty (a chunk of cheese, peanuts/nuts including butters spooned straight from the jar) or sugary (candy, dulcey and white chocolate, sweet banana chips) foods.
Even during the day I've allowed myself to eat muffins and sweets more often (there's this coffee shop where they have pistachio chocolate croissants 🥐... those are SO good it's ridiculous).
It's like I have no self control anymore.
When I stepped on the scale and saw I was up to 139 lbs, I tried to bully myself into dieting but it backfired on me and I end up stress eating even more. 😩
