I find the process to be stressful, and it worries me about my long term prospects.

Tl;dr: Calorie counting feels tedious/mentally taxing and it makes want to quit. Especially when I realize that, if I make my goal weight, I can never stop counting or I'll regain the weight. This makes me sad.

I find calorie counting quite stressful. The biggest culprit is the anxiety ridden countdown running through my entire day as I spend my calories. It's not the foods themselves, it's the uncertainty and the dual threat/promise that this daily, budgetary puzzle might never end, if I'm (un)lucky enough.

I've lost weight before and I know that, without calorie counting, I can't maintain a healthy weight. Part of the reason counting was so much more bearable when I was in college (when I initially lost weight) was the idea that I would "make it" some day. Pain now, happiness later.

When I regained the weight, I realized there was no later. There's just mental load now, and then mental load forever. If I'm lucky/determined, I'll count calories until the day I die, and I'll be shape (as much as I can be) until I die. This makes me sad.

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