Ok technically I won't be a teenager for a couple of months more, but I just wondered if there might be any young 'uns on this site at the moment...it's not that I really appreciate reading everyone's stories because they have all really helped me, so thank you. But I would just find it interesting to see if there are any other people around my age who are doing this diet and what they think of it?
On the whole it is really, really strange. It seems that your friends never want to offend you and are always saying "No! You look great!" when they are 9 or 10 stone or whatever and by this age, aren't too fussed about dieting. And also being at uni was the time I put on serious weight; I found it wasn't so much even just drinking alcohol, but whenever you go out there's always some kind of junk food involved too. It's not only cocktails and bars but some weird fried thing on the way home, which I really regret the next day.
But it's also going out; right now in summer, all my friends are saying let's go for lunch here, let's go to this pub garden there, last night I went to Wetherspoons and luckily it wasn't a night aimed at drinking just chatting, so I got away with water very easily. But I'm ashamed to say that all the stress and problems that have been affecting me lately made me crack when I got home and I snacked on ham. I'm so disappointing in myself, I went for 8 days not cracking whatsoever and I've already done so. With everything going on at the moment - parent issues, counselling, anxiety and depression, re-doing my university year because I cracked so badly - I always felt I could rely on this diet at least for one part of my life to be under control. Argh!!
But anyhow, I'm up and doing it again for sure. What I just want to know is how people deal with socialising - because it's only now I realise how socialising goes hand in hand with food and drink! It's practically impossible to get away from it. I don't want to be holed up at home all summer because that'll drive me crazy, but I don't want to put myself in another anxious situation like yesterday to cause me to break it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Being an overweight teenager is like never really having an adolescence. You never went through weird phases of different clothes because you never had the confidence or drive to - I now never care to go shopping. You never really find your own identity because it feels like "the fat cheerful friend" has always been it. I just want to know if there are any other young guys going through that on here, because so often it feels like any issues you have at this age are put down to 'teenage angst', which is not only infuriating but upsetting.
Lily
On the whole it is really, really strange. It seems that your friends never want to offend you and are always saying "No! You look great!" when they are 9 or 10 stone or whatever and by this age, aren't too fussed about dieting. And also being at uni was the time I put on serious weight; I found it wasn't so much even just drinking alcohol, but whenever you go out there's always some kind of junk food involved too. It's not only cocktails and bars but some weird fried thing on the way home, which I really regret the next day.
But it's also going out; right now in summer, all my friends are saying let's go for lunch here, let's go to this pub garden there, last night I went to Wetherspoons and luckily it wasn't a night aimed at drinking just chatting, so I got away with water very easily. But I'm ashamed to say that all the stress and problems that have been affecting me lately made me crack when I got home and I snacked on ham. I'm so disappointing in myself, I went for 8 days not cracking whatsoever and I've already done so. With everything going on at the moment - parent issues, counselling, anxiety and depression, re-doing my university year because I cracked so badly - I always felt I could rely on this diet at least for one part of my life to be under control. Argh!!
But anyhow, I'm up and doing it again for sure. What I just want to know is how people deal with socialising - because it's only now I realise how socialising goes hand in hand with food and drink! It's practically impossible to get away from it. I don't want to be holed up at home all summer because that'll drive me crazy, but I don't want to put myself in another anxious situation like yesterday to cause me to break it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Being an overweight teenager is like never really having an adolescence. You never went through weird phases of different clothes because you never had the confidence or drive to - I now never care to go shopping. You never really find your own identity because it feels like "the fat cheerful friend" has always been it. I just want to know if there are any other young guys going through that on here, because so often it feels like any issues you have at this age are put down to 'teenage angst', which is not only infuriating but upsetting.
Lily