Healthy Weight Loss

why cant i lose weight?
I am 16 years old and 5 foot 4 and 130 pounds. I run cross country for my school in the fall and play soccer in the spring and generally am pretty active in the seasons in between. I am not entirely overweight but have been trying to lose fat in my mid section for several years. I am super apple shaped with zero curves which sucks but i would be fine if i had a flat stomach. As I said I have been trying to lose weight for years but I am just so addicted to food. It is constantly on my mind and I regularly overeat. I get bloated really easily. I think the only reason I am not overweight is because I have been super active since i was little but my eating patterns are kind of like an obese person. I eat secretly and am ashamed whenever i overeat but still go back to it. I am just really embarassed and i never wear tight clothing only loose shirts to cover it up. I have tried everything like cutting out sugar or limiting portions or journalling but I never seem to follow through with anything. All of my friends are super skinny and I just want to be confident like them. I may sound dramatic because i am at a healthy weight but i just want to stop feeling like a bloated walrus all the time. I guess my real question is how can you follow through with any healthy weight loss plan? any personal stories would be very helpful. Another thing is I eat really healthy when I am not at school like on the weekends and during breaks but once school starts I fall into really bad habits... why is this?

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Online diet meal planner?
Due to serious medical issues I've been very sedentary for quite some time now. As a result I've gained A LOT of weight. My medical problems are resolved now and I'm ready to start hitting the gym again and I'm looking for a good, healthy weight loss meal plan. I used to work out daily and was messing with I think it was diet.com? They had a meal planner and shopping list and made it all so simple. I'm looking for something along those lines, just spits out a weekly meal plan and a shopping list, ya know? Anybody have any suggestions as far as online plans I can look at? Free or not free, doesn't matter to me. I need to lose a lot of weight and if I'm going on an weight loss diet I really don't want to screw around with calorie counts or some stupid weight watchers points system, just generated meal plans, if anybody's tried one of these before and it worked for you I'd like to hear about it. Thanks. Jenny Craig isn't exactly what I had in mind. Don't they send you frozen food for about $500 a month per person? I have a family to cook for, I'd really rather have a meal planner I can shop for. :P

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I keep binging on the wrong foods. Would someone help?
Recently, in the past four months, I have lost 70 pounds. It was a healthy weight loss that consisted of eating extremely healthily and partaking in constant exercise. Now, I look great and everyone keeps telling me to stop losing weight because (not only am I at a healthy weight) but I supposedly look very good. Anyway, in the past three weeks, I have binged on the wrong foods in 7 days. I do not exercise as much, but my metabolism is so skyrocket high that my binges have not done much to my physique, if anything at all. I think I even look thinner, but I understand that my binges are not only physically unhealthy but psychologically detrimental. I just become weak, mentally and emotionally. I've worked so hard to earn a healthy, more fit body, but now I am beginning to destroy it again with these binges. I just binged earlier today (one whole medium sized pizza - equivalent to 12 pieces - two cheese burgers, six cookies, a scoop of ice cream, two orders of fries, three cups of fattening milk, a chocolate walnut brownie, a Hershey's almond chocolate bar and a large glazed donut), and it was all in the course of one and a half hours! I need help. Any advice. Some kind words or even aid based on experience.

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