Would it be ok to fast until I get hungry?

Question

I am overweight (currently) and just got so full on a plate of pasta with butter and 2 slices of toast that I had to make myself eat the rest of it. I feel so bummed about my mom's passing and other major issues in my life and have a history of depression. When I get too depressed I tend to shut down (not want to eat, just want to stay in bed but have to force myself to do anything). The only thing that is helping me eat so much is numbing myself by watching t.v. to try distracting my mind but even then I have trouble eating when dead things or people die on t.v., or when a certain holiday is on it, and I will put my food down until I watch something else to distract me & then resume eating. I am thinking fasting until I get hungry will get me out of the mess of being overweight and will keep me from gaining any more weight, which I seem to be doing even when I'm eating the same amount every day.

Answer 1

Please, you sound like my best friend. See a counselor and consider going to Overeaters Anonymous. Fasting until you get hungry will only make you overeat. Frankly, it doesn't sound like you ate too much tonight... but sad issues and food are tied together for you, and people can help--lots of people feel the same. Also, consider an antidepressant, such as Wellbutrin, which may also cause weight loss.
Good luck, and best wishes, and my sympathies for the loss of your mother.

Answer 2

Fasting is a bad idea, you will either do it for a loang time and it will make you tired and not feel any better and then you will eat again and actually gain weight. My advice to you is to do your best to eat normal, dont watch tv while you eat, focus just on eating. Start exersiising, that will help you with you weight and relieve your stress. Do something fun, that takes your mind of things, turn on some music and dance! I hope this helps you and makes you feel better.

Answer 3

fasting actually causes your fat to feed off your muscle - resulting in more fat. You should eat a good breakfast (youll burn more calories throughout the day) then 2 more healthy meals with small snacks inbetween. You really need to see a doctor about the depression. It's nothing to be ashamed of .
He will probably put you on an anti depressant and that should really help you with your eating issues. Good luck to you

Answer 4

Why are you weight-reduction plan? you mustn't be weight-reduction plan. the wonderful wager is to save on with a time table. eat the right meals and eat distinct, small foodstuff in the course of the day. you mustn't experience hungry. starvation is your body's way of exclaiming it needs something. purely ascertain you're ingesting the right meals and also you have become each and each and every of the nutrition and supplements your body needs. you should likely talk with a nutritionist to be certain out a sturdy ingesting time table. also, controlling weight isn't practically what you eat and how a lot you eat, its more desirable about how lively you're. exercising is 100x more desirable affective than weight-reduction plan!

Answer 5

O god that is the single saddest thing I have heard. Life is for living. There's no use in it and if that's what you're thinking and you'd just rahter die than you might be right except that the only point in life is living and pursuing happiness and making other people realize that life sucks unless you use this time to live, and then you go an die. Everyone dies. Its what you can do in the mean time that matters.

About your question, yeah, sure, it's what most people do everyday.

Answer 6

I think this is a very bad idea -- it sounds like you might developing an eating disorder in addition to exhibiting some symptoms of depression. I think you should have yourself evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist and see if perhaps your mental health is affecting your eating habits in unhealthy ways.