Lose Weight 25

petcorner

For me granny is so right about the reasons I over eat being so very complex. I don't think my life is anymore difficult than most people but it does have its painful points and I seem to have to try and balance the relief from the emotional pain that eating comfort food gives me with the need not to hate myself for feeling so fat and unattractive. Maybe one day someone will have an easy answer to the tightrope many of us walk, if so they will make a fortune:rotfl:
Just my thoughts:)

pet x

nmm

I'm having a rest night :eek: gonna chill out and watch Desperate Housewives Hope everyone has had a good day.

polkadot

Funny that should come up. I was thinking about Granny and Pets comments-I was thinking something similar earlier on today. I quit smoking in October last year and still fight cravings often. I was overweight before though so I don't blame that at all. Like Pet says, we all have stories that make us what we are, and they all have their low points. I was thinking about my family and the habits we picked up and I realised that most of my family have addictive personalities-the addictions differ and so do the way we cope with them and/or shake them.
It made me even more determined to do this now-if I could quit smoking after 10 years, surely I can do this.

Vixstar

Have managed to do quite a bit of exercise today and am suitably tired. Hopefully it will make up for the birthday cake I had this morning - less birthdays required in my office i think. Hopefully I have undone last weekend's bad but extremelt yummy and not regretted work. I am also away this weekend but I think I will be cooking for myself so that should be okay and I knowI can resist buying rubbish if i pop into town for the day. What I can't resist is just general shopping - came back with a random assortment of things last weekend!(All necessary tho)

andyslinz

nmm wrote: »

I'm having a rest night :eek: gonna chill out and watch Desperate Housewives Hope everyone has had a good day.

Ditto!! Fell asleep during DH lastnight....so watching it again :T
xxx

sarymclary

Evening all,
Well done on the losses guys!

Victory - yuk start to the day, hope you've felt better as the day goes on.

I also fill up with fluid during the day, but mine is mainly tea. I only have decaf coffee, but limit myself to 1 cup a day. If I feel hungry, I have a hot drink - I don't do cold drinks very well.

Granny & PetC - I've spent years analysing my eating, my inability to retain control over eating habits. In the past I have been able to control my eating at times when other parts of my life are out of control. When I've felt quite down, I've comforted myself with food, and the knock-on effect from that is to feel worse about my body, and then effectively give up, with a 'what's the point' attitude, therefore giving myself carte blanche to continue to eat uncontrollably. I've used other people as excuses, or allowed myself to be another person's excuse to eat - collusion! What I have realised is that my OH has also affected my eating. My ex had a tendency to gain weight, and overeat, or eat the wrong things, so he'd not encourage me to eat well, or comment if I was eating badly for longer periods. He was also unfit, and could be lazy. My OH now is a healthy eater, although he likes his treats, but he looks after himself, prefers to be active, attends a gym 3 times a week, and has never been overweight. He likes to look good for himself, and for me. I guess his attitude has slowly rubbed off. He's never once complained about my size, I was about a size 14/16 when I met him, that's how he likes me. He always tells me I'm gorgeous, and if I've ever felt bad about myself, it's from within me. I'm grateful for that.

I once read an article where someone, who'd had a lifetime of weight losses/gains, resorted to therapy because she thought the issues may be emotional, rather than her diet. What the therapy concluded was that eating was a way of self-medicating, as well as self-nurturing. She'd been a lonely child, felt neglected by her mother in particular, which continued into adulthood. Several failed relationships reaffirmed the lack of love, and when she hit a 'block' in life, she made herself feel better by eating. The end result was more accurately to create a self-loathing. It was only once she became a single-parent she realised she owed it to herself, and her child, to take better care of herself, and her child had filled the void of love in her life.

Whilst my own experience isn't exactly the same, I did recognise parallels. Now, when I feel I 'need' to eat, I try to remember to ask myself 'do you really need, or is it want?'. So far, so good!:T

Off to get an early night now. I think you may be right about the iron tablets - I'm sure I have some in the cupboard!:o

Forgot to add, food today:
B - 2 slices wholemeal nimble
Snack - snack a jacks
L - Total 0% yogurt, apple, banana sprinkled with cinnamon
Snack - 1 nairn's oat biscuit
D - quorn 1/4 pounder (no bun), 100g mash, 200g veg

x_raphael_xx

Here it is finally!!!
Congrats to SOTW, Debaz again

x_raphael_xx

andyslinz wrote: »

Ditto!! Fell asleep during DH lastnight....so watching it again :T
xxx

:rotfl: :rotfl: I read this as 'Fell asleep during Dear Hubby last night'
I assumed you were up to something naughty!! :rotfl:

andyslinz

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: I read this as 'Fell asleep during Dear Hubby last night'
I assumed you were up to something naughty!! :rotfl:

Lol u know I did think that while I was typing it, but was in a hurry...:rolleyes:
Andy would be a OH in any ways...I am another one living in sin. And theres no way i would be fallin asleep during OH :rotfl:
Thanks for the chart raph...nice to see me on it as a first timer!! :j
Is anyone around?? I am looking at these 3G Hula Hoops, has anyone got one, or had experience with one? As I am interested in buying it. http://www.3ghoop.co.uk/
They seem too good to be true, apparantly doing this for 10 minutes and you can burn 300 calories. It is meant to be the equivelent of doing hundreds of sit ups...maybe I might have that washboard stomach sooner than I thought
Should be in bed now, but I'm reading about these hoops!
xx

katiepoppycat

oops, had fishand chips last night. I'm so stressed with work it flippin sucks. I know why i overeat - i like to eat it's as simple as that. so yesterday was meant to be

cocpops, milk and oj
cn cornflakes milk and oj, apple
cupsoup
vegeburger, rice, tom juice

and ended up
cocopops, milk and oj
cn cornflakes, milk and apple
cupsoup and some more custard tasting
fish, chips, mushy peas and a bit of curry sauce

I've had a TERRIBLE week for food and i need to rein things back in.

Todays plan is

cncornflakes milk and oj
cocopops, milk and apple
cup soup
sausage, mash and sweetcorn, tom juice

i'm determined to stick to this. I am sticking to the daily exercise though, and that is definitely getting results so it's not all bad. have a great day everyone!