18F and Ive been trying to lose weight since I was 15. It started with me cutting my meal portions and it worked pretty well for a year or two, where I gradually lost weight. Eventually I reached the dreaded plateau and that's when I started really looking into nutrition and dieting and everything. I started doing intermittent fasting around 6 months ago (before that I just kept going with the extremely slow weight loss plus started walking a lot more).
Ever since I started intermittent, I've been completely obsessed over food. I know it's stupid but unconsciously I started feeling like, "I only get 6 hours to eat so I need to load up on food" which completely cancels out the entire point of this. Plus at some point I had started making one hour walks after meals mandatory for myself (I'm free these days) so that made me start to feel like since I'm already walking I might as well just eat one huge meal and walk 3-4 hours afterwards. This kept spiraling and now I'm at the point where I eat a lot, walk a lot, get immediately distracted during the walk by "I could eat something rn to make the walk count" and the cycle continues like that.
But the thing is I'm not even hungry when Im making myself eat all this. On days I have to be outside I can eat just maybe a carrot and find myself completely satiated for lunch. I find it easy to control myself when I'm around others. It's just the time restriction actually makes me want to eat more than I need by making myself think that I'm not "extracting the full value of the time I get". The entire urge to eat at all completely shuts down after the allocated time. It's eerie. Why am I able to somehow control myself in one aspect but completely give up all semblance of level headedness during the six hours window? I feel like if I give up intermittent, I can give up the obsessive walking to burn off the food, and the all consuming thoughts of food. But intermittent lowk gave me the best results so far and idk if I could take it if I started gaining more weight (I hit 48 kg as my lowest but today it's at 51 again)(48 was during the times I only ate one huge meal a day but I don't even have the self control for that anymore)
What should I do? Please
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