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Health Anxiety/OCD'ing about weight and sleep

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Does anyone else have this problem? I need to lose weight, don't really do much about though. I go along and check my weight daily, it fluctuates a few pounds here and there. BUT, every now and then, I'll weigh myself and I seem to have a dropped a couple pounds, it freaks me out. I start thinking, 'Wait! Ive been eating a ton lately, why have I lose weight?!" Or I try to think back on what I've been eating and get in a jumble because I can't think if what I've been eating has warranted any weight loss! My mind immediately goes to 'something must be wrong as I have unintended weight loss'! So then to prove to myself I don't, I will make myself eat a bunch just to be sure I can get those couple pounds back on! Then if I can, then I know it's safe to try to actively lose weight! Because if I don't, then I won't trust that any weight loss (intended) isn't rather because something is wrong instead! No wonder I can never lose weight! I do this a bit with sleeping as well. I'm normally a night owl (2am, etc), often toss and turn, like to sleep in when I can, but usually get around 8 hours. But if I go through a spurt where I get tired earlier (11-midnight), I immediately revert to "something must be wrong, why am I tired?" I try to remind myself I have cycles like this, but then I can't remember if 'this one is lasting longer than the others' etc!! Does anyone else do this, or have suggestions? This Health anxiety mixed with OCD totally messes with me!

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