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Originally Posted by teethwash
Just ordered The Body Fat Solution, hopefully it arrives soon. Will set goals and a date to reach them once it arrives.
Absolutely I have social anxiety. Show me a fat person who seems totally comfortable in public and ill show you a complete facade. Even though I have a reasonable social life and a good amount of friends, I'm almost always uncomfortable in public places and with new people.
I would set the date now. You set the bar and you jump over it. If you set it at 2 weeks from now and the book has not arrived in a week you need to go out to a store and buy it or buy a digital copy to reach the goal on time. I have to audio book. This seems silly but it is learning how to set a goal and reach it. If that book arrives the day before you goal date you stay up all night and read it.
In all goals we set there are parts we can't control. If the book gets lost in shipping or something you need to be aware something beyond your control is hindering your goal and change your plan to reach your goal on or before the deadline. Goal setting is about learning how to plan and setting the goal normally takes care of all the other steps, you will just do it once you set the goal. If it is a goal you truly want to achieve that is, me forcing you to read a book is not the greatest example.
Now social anxiety is tricky and I an as far from an expert on it as you can get. Is it caused by you being overweight or are you overweight due to social anxiety? Several people have poked at the idea of finding out how you got fat and what has triggered this current change in eating habits. Do you even know? Questions like this are also going to seem silly but if you discover the true source of the problem it will become much more likely you can overcome it.
I would like to see the mfp days of how you ate before the diet. Is it possible you ate even more before you tracked those days? I would say yes. What made you eat so much at that time. Tracking food is great because people never track really bad amounts or types of food. Once they decide to track they just don't eat those amounts or types of food. Similar to social anxiety the cause and effect is a chicken and egg type of thing and very hard to figure out.
So I said a lot and it is getting unclear so let focus on the most important stuff.
What do you think are the reasons you overate in the past? Need a detailed answer to this. Are there types of foods that trigger you to binge? I am assuming you are a binge eater. True? Did you use food to alter your mood? What are the situations you eat the most in? Do you overeat in public or is it always in private? How bad is the social anxiety and is it causing you to overeat or is it a result of overeating? There are an unlimited number of questions I could ask so it is impossible. You need to think honestly about it and try to give the true answer to this one and it will be hard to figure out but try your best.