5'3, 140lb, 19F. Sedentary or lightly active.
**Therapy is not an option. But I'd love any techniques or practices someone could share that they learned in therapy or online.
I've steadily gained 15lbs since starting Prozac last April; not as a side effect, but I'm pretty sure as a result of resolving my anxiety and regaining an appetite again. I also used to have gastritis and couldn't eat more than, like 1200 calories a day max due to severe fullness and appetite loss.
While I'm so glad I can eat again and feel happy enough to have this very first-world problem, I'm becoming really worried that I'll gain more weight or just maintain this already unhealthy lifestyle. It's been this way since last summer. My sleep quality is getting worse; I have waaay less energy.
I basically eat a standard large takeout for lunch (2 sides & some fatty entree like fried chicken or oxtail) + a small meal in the evening like a banana and some nuts, or the caloric equivalent of this layout. Always a huge lunch at 12 and excessive snacking in the evening, like 8-11pm. I would guess like 2000 cal? Give or take? Sometimes I snack even more late at night and probably rack it up to nearly 3k.
This amount is what's caused the steady weight gain since April '24, and i'm possibly still gaining, but I haven't weighed myself in the past 2 weeks out of sheer fear. My goal is to eat the same things, but just in normal quantities. Like a palm-size of an entree, a palm-size of a side, and half a plate of non fried veggies or greens. But whenever I order the food, I can NEVER just take a small amount and save the rest for later. I eat very quickly and almost desperately, like I'm never gonna have it again. Even if I've already committed to never cutting out any foods and incorporating everything into a moderate deficit.
I haven't even gotten to a strict calorie limit because I can't get past just not overeating compulsively or not thinking about food constantly the second I try to eat intuitively or a smaller amount. I literally don't know what to do anymore. Volume eating was a massive fail and made me far more stressed/increased the bad food/good food anxiety. Strict tracking didn't help. I've tried eating a big meal in the early morning instead to help the evening snacking. But my brain feels like it shuts off around a huge portion of food in front of me and I quite literally can't not overeat. All I want is to love food while also eating sensible portions of it without feeling like something critical is missing.
It feels irrelevant to my issues right now, but my endgame goal weight would probably be 110 or 115. For now, I just want to get back to 120-125 for health reasons.
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