The General Diet & Emotional Support Thread

Sunnyday

Wow! :j Thankyou Alias, i can post without feeling a fraud

I`ve just been and bought sausages to stick in the freezer ready for lcing again:D

I saw a friend that i`ve not seen for ages in the supermarket and she is now sooooo thin made me feel enormous. She was in the supermarket as she had popped in whilst visiting her mum as she lives miles away now but it was nice to catch up. She`s been doing slimming world but stopped going to the classes ages ago but still eats that way.

Made me think a bit. I wonder if i could do lc induction for two weeks and then do a version of sw, does anyone think that it would work? Would be easier on the old purse too. Still have one of the old book somewhere. I shall have a look for it i think.

My reasoning being that i would get used to eating less again and my tum would shrink a bit so wouldn`t need filling up as much:o

MM something to think about maybe, opinions please.

Not tried hypnotherapy for weight loss before but i did try it to get myself off the ciggies Course of three sessions and tbh it didn`t stop me with the ciggies but i used to be such a stressed out mess a lot of the time:o and it did help with that. It made me so zoned out that the house could have blown up around me and i still wouldn`t care That effect has lasted to some extent and i`m no longer like a coiled spring so all in all it did some good.

I love this thread already and don`t feel guilty about posting here so its now my fave

SD

aliasojo

Sunnyday wrote: »

Made me think a bit. I wonder if i could do lc induction for two weeks and then do a version of sw, does anyone think that it would work? Would be easier on the old purse too. Still have one of the old book somewhere. I shall have a look for it i think.

My reasoning being that i would get used to eating less again and my tum would shrink a bit so wouldn`t need filling up as much:o

That's crossed my mind too. Simply because it would help ward off the boredom and the thought of being able to eat banned foods every now and then would help me. BUT, I'm like Mazzers in the respect of eating carb means you crave more. I find it hard to balance things, its often all or nothing for me.

I've regularly got to the stage where the fridge has loads of healthy stuff in it but it's just not low carb friendly, which means it then costs me more money as I have to buy extra food.

Bubby

Yayyyyyyy a thread for diet support:T

I haven't started my diet yet, its that famous old saying "i'll start next week":mad:

I was always slim before having children, I could eat what I wanted BUT I worked full time and often went without brekkie/lunch then would grab a snack and dinner was something easy tbh I never gave food a second thought now however I think about food ALL the time:( I enjoy food so much and when I feel down/stressed/hormonal I like to "treat" myself with nice food:mad::mad:

Viscious circle or what???

I have tried WW and it worked but I had 2 bad weeks and it stopped me going:(, then I tried Slimming World but I just couldn't get my head around it and the lady that ran it only ever made time for her "favourites" so I gave up in the end. A friend has suggested LLife but I don't want to have a quick fix and then gain it all again. For me it has to be something gradual and something that still includes nice food and not just salads......any ideas?

Any help and support would be soooooooo appreciated as I really need a diet buddy/buddies to keep me on the straight and narrow:rotfl:

Sunnyday

aliasojo wrote: »

That's crossed my mind too. Simply because it would help ward off the boredom and the thought of being able to eat banned foods every now and then would help me. BUT, I'm like Mazzers in the respect of eating carb means you crave more. I find it hard to balance things, its often all or nothing for me.

I've regularly got to the stage where the fridge has loads of healthy stuff in it but it's just not low carb friendly, which means it then costs me more money as I have to buy extra food.

Lol, i can have a major carb blowout every day if i let myself (and often do), its the changing shifts at work that do me every time, if i could work the same hours each day i could get into a routine and be fine. I work the same shifts for 4 days at a time and then the times swing drastically, no wonder my poor bod dosent know where it is

Wonder if there are sw recipes that can be used in conjunction IYKWIM, like a piece of steamed fish with leeks and cauli for example, no butter for the sw bit but lc as well? I know that lc needs the higher fat to work well but maybe there is some middle ground somewhere.

If we could find it we could make a menu, all eat similar and see who loses

When i`ve a bit more time i shall maybe experiment a bit.

SD

Sunnyday

Hi Bubby :wave:

if i did try sw i would do it the old way, red days and green days and not the way its done now, it all gets far too complicated and puts me off

Someone at work did Lighter life - three times, he spent an absolute fortune on it as its really expensive and he did lose but he always put it all back on an more too. I know that can happen with any diet but it cost him hundreds of pounds to do, his wife did it at the same time and she was exactly the same.

SD

Bitsy_Beans

aliasojo wrote: »

I tried hypnotherapy once. The bloke got me to visualise a time when I was thin and to concentrate on what outfit I was wearing and how it felt to put it on, zip up the skirt etc.

I didn't find it effective but I don't know if that was because of his particular technique or if it generally wasn't going to work for me. (He did make a peculiar mouth noise and I found myself concentrating on that more than anything else.)

I am a great believer in you are what you think. But like most things in life you have to put the effort in and practice. I have my negative voices in my head when I have a "fat" day and I try and change how I hear (to sill squeaky voice) to lessen their impact.
Sad fact for me is I spend most of my days running round after kids I don't have 5 mins to sit and do some visualisation techniques and by the time it's time for bed I just fall asleep
Visualisation (and a very hot bath) go me through the majority of my labour so my gut feeling is if I could make more effort to see myself slimmer and happier then I can start to feel better about myself.

That being said though I do need to accept how I am now.

thanks for the starting this thread

sarahs999

Re: putting it all back on again

I think this is the key with any diet. You have to address the head stuff - why did you get fat? How can you learn to eat like a normal-sized person? Only when we've cracked that will we be able to face the future without fear of weight gain. I have a half-formed plan to get my two best friends (who are admirably slim and have been their whole lives) to let me tail them for a week food-wise, so they tell me everything they eat and I see how it tallies with what I would have eaten. Just really want to know how the skinnies do it! I'm sure it's portion size and balance in the end.

foxy-roxy

Ooh goody a thread I can join, I am about to embark on a low carb diet.
I have PCOS and really need to do this diet, not quite atkins as I still want to eat fruit and lots of veg, more like a permanent slimming world red day.:D

I am just searching easy recipes at the moment for breakfast, lunch and dinner:cool:

aliasojo

Sarah, when I was younger I was one of those who said 'no thanks, I don't like that', whether I'd tried it or not. If I didn't fancy it too much I just wouldn't try it. You could play tunes on my ribs I was so thin (size 8 at one point). I ate loads, huge portions and did little to burn it off. I had no clue how lucky I was.

I got older and more willing to try things and found there was really rather a lot that I liked.

I also think if you have a full and emotionally fulfilling life, then food takes a lesser role whereas if you are not as fulfilled as you maybe could be then food becomes more important. That's certainly the case for me unfortunately. Again, when I was younger I had lots of interests and things to occupy me, now it's just you lot. (Said lovingly of course. )

Alexnikov

Just curious here (don't want to get anyone's back up!) - to all the low carbers, do you see it as something long term and sustainable, or is it just a quickish fix until you're at target? I've peeked my head into the lc thread a few times and there seems to be a fair amount of falling off the wagon. Suppose this is common with most diets though!