Weight loss? Anyone else experience unexpectedly?

I lost like 8 pounds without necessarily even trying. I mean I’ve been watching what im eating for about a month because im scared of heart attacks. And when i come to work it feels like a full blown workout because i walk so much. However im really scared that im losing weight more no reasons. Like im scared that i have a sickness. And i feel like i can definitely tell I’ve lost weight in my face. And that is so scary because what if i just turn to skin and bones and am one of those people who look so unhealthy. I’ve been testing it though. Like yesterday i ate a lot of food to see if i could gain any back and i was up 2 pounds. So that makes me feel a little better but im just besides myself that its noticeable in my face already ☹️

Health Concern OCD

OCDMM

Date posted: 2y

I went through this so had a few years ago. Went to the Dr, went to a nutritionist. Nothing really conclusive. My husband’s personal trainer told me to add peanut butter to my smoothies in the morning and I gained the weight back. I honestly think it was just anxiety messing with my eating. Also I read that being anxious can cause you to gain or lose weight. Sometimes you burn a lot of calories when you’re stressed. It’s hard when you have health OCD because lots of symptoms can be symptoms of something bigger. And anxiety mimics so many other things.

Anon17

Date posted: 2y

@OCDMM Thank you so much. I definitely have anxiety and have been stressed because of it. Hopefully thats why. But my mom just told me about this girl that her brother knows and i don’t know what to think of it. Does she notice that my face looks different? I don’t know why she told me this. But she told me that this women 50 years old lost over 250 just randomly. And now she has stomach and liver cancer. Im sick to my Stomach. What if i have a stomach cancer? 😭😭 why Would she tell me this unless she thought i was losing weight? 😭😭

OCDMM

Date posted: 2y

@Anon17 OCD loves to make connections in what you hear and see to what you’re obsessing about. Losing 250 lbs is a ton of weight to lose, it doesn’t sound like you’ve had that significant of a weight loss. I was at about 115-120 normally and dropped down to low 100’s during that time. Then I bounced back to my old weight. I can’t tell you why you’re losing weight, and I know how badly I wanted reassurance during that time. I try to give myself a two week rule before I see a dr. Obviously if it’s something really bad, don’t wait but if I’m not in immediate danger I try to wait two weeks. Keep track of how many calories you’re eating, if it’s not enough, increase them, if you still keep losing weight after adjusting your food intake, see a doctor. There are lots of things that can cause this that are health related but not terminal. Do you get annual blood work done?

Anon17

Date posted: 2y

@OCDMM Thank you. I do not get annual blood work done. Im only 20 years old and my doctor has never ordered it before. I was 250 in November and now im low 240s. I mean it has been 2 months so 8 -10 pounds in 2 months is not that bad considering that I’ve been watching what im eating. Hopefully im just in my head. Im eating a lot of food today and im going to weigh myself tomorrow morning and hopefully i gained at least 1 pound instead of losing.

OCDMM

Date posted: 2y

@Anon17 Yeah, I also learned that weight doesn’t fluctuate one for one the way you would think. One day of eating a ton would still sometimes result in a pound less the next day. It’s not a bad idea to get annual blood work done but just try to look at your weight over a period of time and your calories over a period of time. Don’t make counting calories and weighing yourself a whole new obsession

its_izzy

Date posted: 24w

I think i need help…..

Idk whats going on…my mental state hasnt been great these past two weeks. My eating is being affected in a neg way due to transition between therapists, school, and ignoring my sexuality….Ive been taking several different kinds of quizzes over the past week regarding mental health and ED and i realized that if i dont eat enough to feel full i’ll end up sick or worse dead. It doesn’t help that i also just started my period. And i just woke up in the middle of the night with food, hydration, and possibly not waking up in mind. And tried going back to sleep but then i realized that I might actually have a problem on my hands and that jolted me awake. Now im scared of sleeping and not making it through the night….i could easily get up and make myself an oatmeal even though im not hungry atm, but dont wanna wake family that are sleeping in the living room. Im scared of dropping more weight than I already have been and having my nutritionist intervene…. Im realizing that im fucking myself up from not eating well and being too picky and i wanna slap a bandaid on it and just eat everything to hopefully gain some weight before my next nutrition appt. I’m just scared of things getting worse….is this part of OCD or is it just me just plain out ignoring my body cos in feeling like it??? Idk what to believe about myself anymore….

anniebanannie

Date posted: 24w

Constant battle

I hate feeling constantly conflicted no matter what. I have noticed with food intake, I find myself going back and forth between obsessing over eating too much and fear of gaining any weight to obsessing over eating too little and fear of losing an unhealthy amount of weight and the negative consequences of such. I am getting married this year and continuously think about how I need to be mindful and not eat too much since I need to fit into my dress and feel confident on my wedding day, as I don’t want to look back at pics and be unhappy with how I look. But I also think about how if I don’t eat enough, I will look too thin and will not be confident in myself, and will look back and be unhappy. Idk. It is so hard because I am always trying to figure out what is “right” but it feels like there is no “right.” And I have a really hard time recognizing what my body ACTUALLY looks like physically, not really knowing how I appear to others

Overdramatic...

Date posted: 16w

Weight loss after SSRI?

I know this isn’t directly ocd related but I feel like it’s got to be a shared experience between a lot of us. When I ask in fitness groups no one seems to have anything to offer. Anywhooo I started celexa in October I believe? In January I started going hard in the gym and tracking my macros to a tee. In the past I have done this and got really fit and muscular. This time around the progress has been going at a snails pace. I almost feel like progress has even haulted and hasn’t even been that long. Anyway I really think I have a good amount of knowledge on this stuff and mostly want to know if anyone has had this experience after taking celexa? I can’t think of another factor that it could be. I would almost like to get off of it because of it. I hate to sound vain but with the extra weight I feel depressed and uncomfortable. I’m putting in soooo much work and seeing the results but like I said it’s going ridiculously slow. Any advice for this kind of thing? Thank you :)

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