Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum and am not sure where to place this post, so I appologize if I should have put it in another category....

here's my problem, a few months ago I started dieting/changing my lifestyle: eating less calories around 1200-1300 per day, and excercing everyday (30 minutes of cardio). Everything went great. I lost 20 pounds and am about 5 pounds away from my target weight.

At Christmas, I decided to ease up on the diet and allow for some indulgence, and since I have not been able to get back on track!

Even worse, all I can think about all the time is food. All I want to do is eat. During the day I'm ok, but after dinner time I just keep eating until I go to bed even though I'm not at all hungry. I havent yet put any weight back on (maybe 1-2 pounds but that could just be fluctuation). But I feel like i'm going a little crazy. I compulsively add and re-add up my calories for the day, and while i'm not eating more than 1800-2000 calories on an average day, I feel a horrible sense of self-loathing over my new found obsession with food.

I hate that I want it all the time, and I hate that I'm giving into the desire. has this happened to anyone before? Is there any way I can get myself back under control? ...

thanks for taking the time to read my post!

Its awesomely hard getting back into a diet again eh?

I had same thing but with exercise.

Make sure you leave a bit of room in your diet for 'fun' foods like chocolate or other stuff so you arnt denying yourself so much. go out with friends and have dinner somewhere out and about (pays to check the menu before going though lol).

It doesnt matter if you're eating 1800 cals a day if you are still using more than that, you will still loose weight - just a lot slower

I seem to also have the problem of eating when I'm not hungry . For me, I think it's simply because I have nothing better to do, and food just tastes so darn good! It's a stupid reason, I know, but it's unfortunately the truth. The only thing that really works for me as far as not binging is just not buying any junk food or being around any junk food; if it's not there, you can't eat it .

I think "wishes" makes a good point by saying to leave room to eat "fun foods", tho, bcuz if you deny yourself of any of them for too long, once you get a little freedom to eat what you want, you'll tend to want to overeat all that you've denied yourself. I know that's happened to me one too many times, and the repercussions of my actions are devastating to say the least .

So, no, I definitely don't think you're alone on that aspect. Hopefully we'll both be able to get back on track soon, though . Good luck!