I'm an 19 year old girl who's slightly overweight and wants to lose a few pounds in order to be a healthy weight. But the thing is, I have some kind of problem with food, and my lifestyle is not sustainable at all. I'll try to stay as short as possible.
Everything started around Easter last year. I started becoming very "attracted" to food during certain periods of time, which usually lasted one to a few weeks. As the year went by, these periods became more and more frequent and the "cravings" became stronger.
Now I can't stay away from unhealthy food most weeks. For the most part I manage to eat normal and healthy portions for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but my problem is that I want "bad" food almost constantly. Bread, cereal, chocolate, candy, ice cream, just to name a few: Almost anything works as long as it has a lot of carbs/sugar or just is generally unhealthy. My cravings are so bad I feel like I can't control them, it almost feels like they are controlling me. So nowadays during most weeks, I eat unhealthy things (and a bit excessive amount of them) for a majority of the days. It's never just a "scoop of ice cream", a "slice of bread" or "a bowl of cereal". I always want more. Another portion, more slices, and another unhealthy product as well.
I suspect why this has become a problem: Food seems to be my only source of "real" happiness in my daily life. I have no other interests that I enjoy enough to make me that happy. Food is my only real interest. I've even realized that I don't enjoy watching movies and series as much as I think I did: What I really enjoy is eating while watching! I realize that I should strive to find new interests, both as another source of happiness and a way to occupy my mind. But it feels so hard. Nothing seems to give me the feelings and happiness that food gives me. Besides, school makes me so tired, so finding happiness thorugh eating seems like the most convenient thing to do.
Has anyone been in the same situation? I'm desperate for a solution. Because not only will this make it really hard to lose weight, it might also make me obese, diabetic, give me an eating disorder or something like that. I'm scared and tired.
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