feeling guilty

cathyc113 · January 19, 2007

Has anyone had trouble with feeling guilty and like they have been "cheating". Maybe I just associate feeling full with eating too much, and think I have to feel hungry to lose weight, but I keep feeling guilty. Like I just blew a diet. And although i have been tempted, I have been following my guidelines to a "t". Has any one else had this problem?

Jachut · January 19, 2007

Yes! I know exactly what you mean. I too associate losing weight with starving myself and I often feel like some sort of imposter. I cant get my head around the fact that I am now not even overweight (!!!!) and only have a few kgs to go to my personal goal without having been miserable for the entire past year.

I feel that I have overeaten because I've eaten to a point of satiety. I still eat "bad" foods on occasion. I exercise a LOT but it seems not to count because I love it. Its really weird - and just goes to show how skewed my views on eating were beforehand (and still are I guess).

I do feel after 13 months though that my attitudes are changing permanently, 6 months ago it didnt feel nearly so settled in my head. So I can imagine in another year or two from here, that last trace of the fat me will be gone.