Thread: New start! New beginning! Aaaand *fizzle*.

I am actually required by the school to eat school food for the rest of this year, and after that it shouldn't much matter. There is a vegan option, but I am incredibly not into it. I do not find raw vegetables or the sort of weird concoctions that they cook up palatable. Really, I've always just lost weight by eating less of what I wanted to eat, or by basically restricting my diet to lower calorie versions of what I wanted to eat,...

Sorry school is so rough. In college, I was pretty successful losing weight by eating the vegan offerings. Lots of lentils and stuff, pretty tasty. What about soups? I avoid cream, cheese based soups, but I'm a fan of anything broth/tomato based. They are usually pretty low cal yet filling. As far as salad and dressing - I swear by the tine method. Get your dressing on the side, dip your fork into the dressing and then spear some salad....

I think lots of people have (many) false starts before they truly get into the swing of weight loss. I know I've had lots! But, that aside, it seems to me like your environment is very healthy lifestyle-unfriendly! Do you *have* to eat the school food? How do they accommodate vegetarians (it might be an option if you have to eat school food)? I think you would be much better off if you were able to eat off the school plan. First of all,...

Ah, freshman year in college. Remember it well. I remember the awful dorm food, and going to Subway almost every night and getting the most fattening sandwich there was, and going to McDonald's almost every time I went to the library and getting a quarter pounder with cheese, large fry and an apple pie. My standard meal. Yet somehow I lost weight. I wish I could have that metabolism again! Seriously, though, it sounds like the dorm food...

It might be time to start eating veggies. Perhaps you are not eating enough of them. By eating only cereals and fruit, you are depriving your body of a lot of necessary nutrients. Maybe it doesn't work any more because you have plateaued... Maybe you body is catching up with you and telling you to do it right. Either way, the previous diet you described is considered an eating disorder, By severely limiting certain types of food and then...