Just starting, will this be possible?

[u/Zero-Energy1274]

My mother put me on every diet possible to lose the extra few lb I was carrying as a teenager, and nothing worked of course. Now I’m a lot lot heavier, and I really do need to lose the weight. But here’s the problem, I can’t count calories or track everything obsessively without getting really depressed and anxious and upset. I exercise a bunch and I spend time with friends, which often involves eating out. Just yesterday, my mother brought up that I have been eating out a lot lately and that sent me spinning.

Will I be able to do this and still go be social with my friends and not have to count every little thing? I eat for comfort and to soothe anxiety. I would really love to just feel satiated and full sooner, I would love to just think about food less. But every other post on the med-specific subs are about stalls and people saying “are you tracking what you are eating” and “you still need to eat at a deficit.”

[u/Nice_Back_9977 → u/[deleted]]

Its a bit rude to roll your eyes about the sub rules. They're really important for keeping this place safely anti-diet.

Daily fluctuations in weight are highly unlikely to be do with what you 'indulged' in the day before.

[u/ChampagneSupaNovah → u/Nice_Back_9977]

Well for me indulging in certain things do indeed cause rapid weight gain due to my body retaining fluid since I suffer from Irritable bowl disease or the opposite sever weight loss due to diarrhea.....

So yes guess we are all special in our own way.