Hi guys! Yesterday I started counting calories again. I'm a big girl, despite having lost over 60 pounds from medication for my PCOS. I figure the best way to keep the weight loss going is to actively change my lifestyle. My initial calorie limit is 1900 a day. I know that's quite a lot for many of you, but I don't know how many I'd normally be eating and I don't mind really going at it slowly, especially at first. The thing is though, I've basically been on diets since I was 7. I've never had a healthy relationship with food, and when I was younger I got into eating disorder territory. I never got a diagnosis because I've never told anyone, but I both binged and purged and restricted quite heavily. I managed to mostly overcome this on my own, except I've been kind of scared to count calories again in case my brain starts to go back into that headspace. Hence why it's been years of me refusing to count calories. I think I'm more or less ready for it now though. I'd like to lose enough to be at a healthy weight, both to lessen my chronic pain, to be healthier in the future, have more ease finding clothes and loving my body and such. But I can't help but worry that some part of my brain is just lying in wait to try and send me down a bad spiral. I do have mental health issues, and while I want a healthy body, to me my mind comes first. So I was wondering if any of you have advice on how to tackle this? How do you stay positive? Do you have any personal mantras that help you stay on task, without taking things to extremes? Thank you! And sorry if the format is weird, I'm on mobile.
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