weight gain

[MandyBueno]

For the last year due to anxiety and binge eating it had resulted in me gaining weight like crazy. I’m so sad and unhappy with my body. I used to always be in my ideal size. Moving to America didn’t help either. I got into eating fast food and my sugar cravings have been through the roof. I feel hopeless cause I’m a sugar addict and I can’t stop. I wake up thinking about sugar and I go to bed thinking about it. I literally need to have it every single day. I feel like drowning… I feel like if I go a day without it, I become irritable 😠

Did anyone experience this? Or have experienced this in the past? … I could use some advice regarding to this matter. Thank you all beautiful souls.

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Go slow. It's like tapering off of any medication. I had to get to a full plant based diet at one point and I did think I was going to die from lack of sugar and caffeine. It will pass but you have to take a little away from yourself each day. Slowly the irritability will go away!

[EndUser13]

I'm afraid I can relate to the American food problem all too much! Before I became terribly agoraphobic there was a time where I was getting a lot of exercise simply by walking all over a little town, it helped my anxiety a lot too. I always hated exercise for the sake of exercise, I'd rather play a game or sport.

I am heavier now than I have ever been and I hate it. I bought an exercise bike and force myself to use it daily. Weight loss is such a difficult thing to tackle, especially if you don't really eat very healthy, but it can also be addictive, seeing your body begin to shape into something you like seeing.

I offer you my sympathies and lots of luck! Go slow, taper off from what you know is unhealthy bit by bit so you don't rebound

[Blueruth]

I tried to stop a med and my sugar cravings were meth like. I changed my situation and then slowly tapered. I also did noom. I lost 25 lb. I can say sugar is a slow process. The standard american diet is the worst for weight. But we have stellar produce. start with a veggie at every single meal and improve from there. The fiber and bulk help with cravings. It took a good year but I knew I had success when I could taste the sweetness of raw berries once again. Noom is a good program also.

[lauralidia]

I gained 20pounds when I moved to America.It was so stressful in the beginning and also I really wanted to try every new food I saw.Then over the years I lost it and gained it again.I have an eating disorder but did not really want to look at it until recently.My advice to you is to strive toward balance.Nutritional food,some kind of exercise,emotional support when sad,lonely or angry.And lots of patience