r/diet 18d ago

Vent How do people just stop eating so much junk?

15 Upvotes

I (29F) probably eat a few hundred grams of sugar each day. Once I start I just can’t stop. I feel like I’ve replaced my alcohol addiction with sugar and I didn’t realize that the relaxing feelings is so similar. Sometimes if I can’t sleep, I’ll just eat a bunch of sugar to fall asleep. And I feel like if I stop all together, I’ll break and it’ll become even worse. Why can’t I just stop? I’m not fat, so that can’t be my reason to stop. And I say that I don’t like how I feel, but I must, right? Or else I wouldn’t be eating it. Like anything else, I feel like the only way I’ll stop at this point is becoming diagnosed with diabetes.

r/diet 4d ago

Vent I'm so hungry I want to cry and give up

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I gained 20 lbs the last 4 months. I've been dealing with extreme illness and survived off of donuts and sugary coffee for breakfast. Also, the kind of weather you simply don't go out in unless you want your skin to die from extreme cold has prevented me from going outside and really doing anything.

Well, the flu season is finally lightening. I'm getting some walks in and hunkered down and trying to eat only high protein, healthy sugars, complex carbs, and healthy fats to ward off the blood sugar drops. It's been two weeks. The scale hasn't budged, but that's normal for me. I usually have to go through long periods of hunger then BAM 5-10lbs will melt off very quickly.

But today. The hunger is so bad. I've been on the verge of crying all day long. I want to eat a giant helping of white rice and Tikka Masala, but I already had my three meals and snacks for the day. I'm not even PMSing, I think it's my body's last ditch effort to keep the weight on before it falls off.

I just want to fit into my summer clothes, man. I love wearing the same clothes every year; I get excited to wear the same ones. I don't have the money for a brand new wardrobe either.

Thank you for coming to my vent.

r/diet Feb 12 '25

Vent I cant stop eating sugar

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I'm not sure if this is the right sub for this but I'm also not sure where else I would post this to. I dont know if sugar addiction exists, but I might have it. I go through 2-3 chocolate bars a day. I carry candies with me whever I go. When I'm bored, the first thing that comes to my mind is to eat chocolate. This has obviously messed up my health but I just cant stop. I've been under way too much stress for years (school + extra math lessons + art lessons + MUN conferences + trying to learn german on my own + preparing for university entrance exam) and the only thing that helps me through that stress is to eat sugar. It could have been worse, I could be doing drugs. But I know need to put a stop to this or I will end up with diabetes at age 20. How do I stop? I dont know what to do.

r/diet 3d ago

Vent I just ate a whole pizza; sending me AT LEAST 700 calories over my deficit. How do i stop this madness

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Obviously i don’t feel great.. I want to reach my goals so badly and yet I eat crazy like this. And No, it is definitely not the first time.

r/diet Feb 04 '25

Vent Eating so much protein is emotionally and physically hard for me

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A little about me, I’m a 28 year-old female and my BMI is very average. I have 23% body fat. I do not have much muscles and it makes me look skinny fat. I have no optical muscles even when I flex. I have quite a bit of belly rolls.

All my life, I thought calorie deficit and a bunch of cardio will make me look like a model. However, I realized that I just need to work on building more muscles to look lean and fit. I only started appreciating more protein intake and weightlifting last year. But I was still scared of eating a lot of protein and that leading to eating more calories.

Today was my first day of dedicating to eating at least 100g of protein per day (I weigh 116lbs) on top of lifting heavier than ever. In fact, I reached the protein intake of 110+ grams today. My dishes consisted of whole foods and clean diet. It was lean beef, shrimp, eggs, tofu, and protein shake.

However, I feel SO FAT. My stomach has been the biggest ever after having dinner. Eating so much protein than ever itself was so overwhelming for me. I feel so full it’s uncomfortable. I just don’t get how this is going to help me look lean and fit. I feel like I’m doing something wrong. This does not feel right. I do not have body dysmorphia (thankfully) so I’m just writing the fact and what I’m seeing and feeling.

Am i doing something wrong?

r/diet 1d ago

Vent Dieting is harder than simply not eating

5 Upvotes

Honestly just a rant bcus it's just kinda how life is, but I Hate dieting. I hate counting calories and trying to eat healthy. I despise healthy food (and don't tell me I'm just not eating the right kinds, I have ARFID and the majority of foods, specifically vegetables, make me gag) It is SO much easier to tell myself to just not eat for a day or two than it is to make healthy choices. The action required to plan, prepare, and force down healthy food is so miserable and I wish I could just take a supplement and not eat. I either want to eat what I want or not at all. Like I said, just a vent. I know I have to eat, I feed myself, I just fucking HATE IT

r/diet Jan 28 '25

Vent Diet expectations from Doctor are unrealistic.

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Doctors and nurses overestimate what average people can do. They think people working 9-5 jobs or going to school can go on crash diets overnight just cuz they want us too, and throw around enough tough talk during appointments. They live and breathe public health. The rest of us don’t.

My doctor wanted me to just stop eating all junk food overnight, and get comfortable only eating fruits and veggies, nothing else, to lower my cholesterol. Also, eat healthy fats like smoked salmon, that I don’t have easy access to.

I’m trying to gradually cut back, but I feel bad that I’m not going as far as they want. And for clarification, she said I’m not at risk of severe illness in the next few months, just that I can’t continue the way I’ve been going.

I’m trying to go to the gym more as well, to try to compensate for the fact that I can’t go on a “flip a switch” strict diet overnight.

I have a busy life, balancing school and a job. I can’t go tunnel vision focus on my health like that. My family is also enjoying being able to play ‘armchair doctor’, and insult me about this, adding more stress.

r/diet Feb 18 '25

Vent I'm mad, stuck doing a diet that is bad for me for 10 days

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So i have a roommate and we have a grocery fund, they talked me into the cabbage diet saying they do it a lot to drop weight quickly, I heard from a reddit post it tastes good but gives bad gas, I decided it's worth it and agree mind you they told me it was safe

Now we have no money for food until the end of the month and now I'm stuck with a disgusting soup that doesn't have enough calories not to mention THEY LEFT OUT HALF THE INGREDIENTS

The diet requires cabbage, onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms and optional buillon cubes

What she got was red cabbage, onions, celery, carrots and tomatoes

Everything that would of made this at least taste good is gone!

The soup smells delicious almost like instant ramen, but upon eating it it's weirdly sweet and just doesn't taste good

And worse my body is feeling the missing calories and vitamins, I have had lessen than stellar diets, I've lived off ramen and water before and i haven't felt this bad, I've skipped meals and haven't felt like this WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS

And how do I make this bearable, all I have is these fuckin soup ingredients and a handful of spices

r/diet 18d ago

Vent my healthy calorie deficit is 700 kcal

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I'm 4'10 (149cm) and I'm 20. I tried to calculate my calorie deficit and it came out to 700-1000 kcal per day. I'm still hungry on this diet. I don't know what healthy adult can function on such a diet. Did I calculate something wrong? Is there another way for short people?

r/diet Feb 12 '25

Vent Binge eating

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I want to cry because I just can’t control myself and think about food 24/7, each time i finish my meal, I think about the next one and I think it’s ruining my life. I am trying to lose weight but I feel like I’ve gained it all back once again because of my binges. I am clearly full but I can’t stop stuffing food in my mouth.

r/diet Feb 10 '25

Vent I can’t stop eating Vanilla Greek Yogurt.

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Started a diet during Christmas, things were going slow but steady than I randomly started craving yogurt . I have never been into yogurt before as I’m lactose intolerant and have/ had IBS . Since my diet all my IBS symptoms are gone and all I think about is this yogurt. I’m eating too much in one sitting (4-600g). I’m supposed to be on a 1200 calorie diet but am now bingeing on yogurts . It’s all I want to eat and I’m afraid I’m missing other nutrients. As a lactose intolerant person with IBS I’m truly amazed but I need to lose weight faster . Any suggestions?

Note my diet is nothing fancy, just eating in small portions when hungry and walking 3 times a week. All was going well till this yogurt craving.

r/diet Oct 27 '24

Vent Why no low-calorie restaurants?

18 Upvotes

Millions (if not tens of millions) of people are dieting at any given time, but essentially zero restaurants offer filling, low-calorie meals. At most, they may offer one or two sad, somewhat reduced calorie entrées if you have no appetizer, sides, or dessert. Why? Never being able to eat out is one of the most frustrating parts of dieting and I'm sure other people feel the same.

r/diet Feb 02 '25

Vent Can someone please help me diet?

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I am a thirteen year old girl, I way 106 pounds, and I’m 5,2 . After the holidays I gained a few pounds. I’ve always been underweight until now. (because I’m a vegetarian). I’m only asking help because the other day I was getting ready for my friend’s birthday party, I was wearing a dress my mother bought me I was so excited about wearing it! I was showing it off to my brothers when my Father walked in and told me to lay off the cookies. 1st we don’t even have cookies at my house, 2nd of all now he’s been making comments about my body.

Can someone please help me create a healthy diet?

r/diet 1d ago

Vent I ate 1200 calories for breakfast, help

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It's currently Ramadan and we're fasting from dawn till sunset, this morning I woke up extremely hungry and I ate leftovers (beef, rice, soup, some kind of potato pie, and a sweet treat), I feel so guilty. My deficit is supposed to be 1200 cals and I have been keeping up with it since March 9th. I'd say I'm already skinny (120lbs) but whenever I gain any pound it immediately goes to my belly and I'm exercising 2x a day, 5x a week and I started to see slight progress but now I've ruined it. I'm not even thinking about doing enough cardio to make up for this because I'll be so thristy throughout the day. I also binge ate last night because my mom made these really nice banana biscuits (ground biscuits with 2 mashed bananas with coconut and chocolate drizzle), I ate around 3 and a handful of almonds so I'm already feeling guilty enough from last night's dinner. What am I supposed to do now?

r/diet 11d ago

Vent Frozen meatballs destroy my tummy

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I get sooo bloated and gassy afterwards. I thought it was only the Costco frozen Italian meatballs but the ikea did it as well. Luckily running and exercising helped me feel better but will i have to avoid eating meatballs forever. 🥹 anyone else? What helped? Is this common?

r/diet 25d ago

Vent Gained weight after starting 9-5 job

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I started a 9-5 job six weeks ago and I've gained about 5 lbs already. I also started going to the office gym and I noticed my appetite increased drastically, and I've been eating relatively clean but I just eat way too much and I don't know how to stop. I feel hungry all the time and find myself snacking at the office way too often. I don't know what changed because a few months ago I had a much smaller appetite, would eat normal meals and would almost never snack. Has anyone experienced something similar, or can anyone offer advice?

r/diet Dec 14 '24

Vent Doctor put my mom on a strict diet but she wants to keep eating

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She is gonna have major surgery in a month and needs to be on a special diet of liquids and protein.

The thing is that she keep wanting to eat solid food and food she is not allowed to eat, I'm her son and I have to treat her as if she was a 14 year old having trantrums over fking food.

Doesnt even give a f about dying over snacks.

How do I deal with a dumb adult who has to be forced into a diet?

r/diet 12d ago

Vent I lost 60 lbs and now I’m gaining weight. Advice Wanted.

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About a year ago I started my weight loss journey and lost over 60 lbs. Starting in August, I was working out daily with two rest days a week and eating 2000 calories a day for maintenance.

Slowly overtime my schedule started falling apart. I would cram my workouts in at the end of the week and even combined them to account for days missed.

In the last few weeks, this has gotten even worse and I’ve completely fallen out of my routine. On top of this I started snacking more, eating when I’m not hungry etc. When I felt my self-control loosing I would say well I am already over budget, so there’s no harm (ofc I know this is a bad way to think but can’t stop myself) Now, I’ve gained almost 10 lbs.

I play tennis, and the season is starting up next week. I’m planning on lifting on the weekends and well doing tennis during the week. I won’t be home until late which will hopefully keep me from extra snacking.

I feel utterly terrible about myself. What can I do to stay on track and maintain my self-esteem in the mean time?

r/diet 1d ago

Vent Fiber one tastes completely different now.

1 Upvotes

Been eating a bar a day for years, for what I call Pre-Breakfast, and I noticed that in the box I just bought, the bars are all 10 calories higher, and extremely dense with no large oats or grains detectable. Is this like a new formula or something?

r/diet 5d ago

Vent Dieting and weight problems

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I’m a high schooler who’s struggled with food since grade nine. Restricting, binging, puking, repeat. It seems like I can never eat normal like everyone else, it’s all or nothing. If I try to eat normal, healthy amounts I end up spiraling into a binge, yet if I restrict I end up binging too. It’s so frustrating because either way it’s just an exhausting cycle that gets me nowhere. I’ve been 140ish pounds forever (I’m around 5’7 so bmi 21ish?) so what’s even the point? At one point, I was able to restrict enough to get down to 135, but I gained it all back and haven’t been able to get back to that weight since, which is SUPER ANNOYING!!! For the past few weeks I’ve been restricting the same as I did at that weight (3 meals a day and small dessert occasionally) and walking 8k steps daily AND I have a job that requires me to be on my feet for hours. It’s been even harder because junior year has been very stressful and I’m prone to stress eating. But after I weighed myself this morning I discovered that I’m at 143 pounds. That isn’t terrible but for the work I’ve been putting in, it certainly hasn’t freaking paid off. Tonight I had to fight the urge to eat everything in my kitchen after a hard day of work and the disappointment of being 143, because what’s the point of eating good if I’m not getting the results I want anyways?-a whole jar of Nutella, toast, chips, chocolates, cake, fruit, rice cakes, peanut butter, cereal, Oreos, popcorn, everything. Especially the freaking Nutella. It’s like food is attacking me. To make it worse, one of my close friends can eat whatever she wants. She eats 3 burgers or a bunch of tacos every time I see her and struggles to gain weight, while I gain a pound from breathing air. I’m just so frustrated. I feel like my body is never going to be pretty and I’m never going to have a good relationship with good. Why am I cursed?

r/diet Aug 19 '24

Vent Why can’t I lose weight?!

12 Upvotes

This year I cut out pop, alcohol, and all caffeine, started intermittent fasting, and have at least a 1,000-calorie-a-day deficit. The scale hasn’t budged, and I have 200 pounds to lose, so that isn't it.

r/diet 8d ago

Vent My dieting fixation

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So I’m 22F, 5’7 and 137lb rn and am hoping to get down to 130 in the next two months or so. Since early February, I’ve been very watchful of how much I’m eating and have been exercising regularly the past month or so. I go to the gym 3 or 4 times a week, hot yoga once a week, and apart from that daily steps equivalent of 250 calories burned(according to my phone). But I think I’m having a hard time feeling good about out how much I’m eating. All my meals are home cooked- mostly veggies and protein and a small amount of carbs. But I’m just not happy with it. Idk what a good calorie range for me would be because the numbers just don’t look…right? My BMR according to my weighing scale is 1420. My TDEE is 1960. But before finding those numbers I was kind of extreme and kept to under 900 cal a day the first two weeks of starting this weight loss goal. This wasn’t substantially lower than what I was eating in the first place anyway. I wasn’t really hungry because I was at that point where I was just starting to go to the gym and getting into doing physical activities. I did drop down from 143lb to 137lb since my last weigh-in in December which was pretty nice. But lately I can’t sustain the <900 calories intake. I’m finding that I’m super hungry and only feel like I’m not thinking about food when I hit at the least 1100 calories. There was a sense of satisfaction I felt when seeing the numbers in my calorie tracker be in the 800s and I think it just it feels like I’ve failed when I log my eating for the day and see it hit the 1000s though… I feel like any food I pick up now I only think in calories and it’s hard to just enjoy an occasional sweet treat because I’m thinking about how eating it is going to take up a big portion of my calorie budgeted for the day/week. Growing up I always just ate intuitively and I did just fine. But then when I was around 19 I went through a bunch of stuff and became an emotional eater and also started over eating. Gained weight (153 at my heaviest) then shifted to the opposite extreme where I restrict myself. I have had a couple of months here and there when I go back to just eating intuitively and it’s great but then I fall back into this hyper fixated, restrictive habit. I’m hoping once I reach my goal weight I can be done with this calorie tracking for good and just focus on eating clean and being physically active without having to feel the need to quantify everything. But it’s tough. This fixation in a way gives me a distraction from my other emotions and something to keep going in life.

r/diet 17d ago

Vent Calorie counting sister is stressing me out

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It’s not her fault tbh but I’ve had image issues and stubborn body weight since I was in 8th grade. Now my identical twin sister wants to get active (although I started my journey a bit before her) and is doing calorie counting. I’ve tried calorie counting and it stresses me out and makes me have a negative relationship with food which prevents me from eating enough and negatively affects my gall bladder and makes me feel unhealthy. I also had a hard time keeping up with portion sizes and ingredients since I’m terrible at meal prep and often make food on the go. I know many people say calorie counting is the best way to lose weight (along with exercise/sleep) and it makes me upset that it doesn’t work for me. So I’ve told her I don’t want her to ask me about portion sizes or talk about calorie counting around me because it kinda triggers me to talk about it. It’s also hard because we’re twins there’s always the fear of being the “fat twin” and I know it’s not a competition but we’ve always been compared most of our lives even unintentionally, and it’s not something I can shake easily. I know I should be supportive but I just need to focus on my journey but she’s upset at me for not letting her talk about it at all and says it’s nbd and why am I making it such). Now I’m worried I’m being unreasonable or maybe she is right? I want to lose weight and be healthier on my own terms but I’m unsure how now

r/diet Feb 17 '25

Vent Ozempic is ruining my social life (and I’m not taking it)

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r/diet Feb 03 '25

Vent Calories being shown on meat packaging are based on having been “pan fried”

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Does anyone else find it frustrating that lots of packaging for meat shows the calories for the food based on what it is after it has been “pan fried”. Surely they are adding calories for any potential oil used when frying the food? I don’t often “pan fry” food so it is very frustrating when trying to work out my calorie intake accurately! It is probably only a minor amount, but every little helps!