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beanielou wrote: »

How are things with you victory?

In a lot of pain going to leeds castle today with the mobility scooter, just want to curl up and sob but hey we are looking forward to it:D

victory

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

you got her telephone number?

Yes it is 0800 help me I cannot see myself as other do;)

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Eric_Pisch wrote: »

In my mind puddings has never addressed or even looked at addressing his demons and either hides it with his humour or by going OTT with his weightless regime as compensation which is unsustainable long term

I hope I am wrong.

I think you are absolutely right, I have said that and thought that many times especially the humour, it is all a major mask that does not fool anyone and cannot be a hiding place for focusing on the real whole reason puds is the size he is and what to do now about getting the size down and keeping it down:D

vixarooni

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

In my mind puddings has never addressed or even looked at addressing his demons and either hides it with his humour or by going OTT with his weightless regime as compensation which is unsustainable long term

I hope I am wrong.

oh i think he has to a degree...

I don't think its really fair to talk about ted in this fashion when he isn't here to answer himself.

world_of_tights

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

Ok many things going on here

1) losing weight is 85% about what you eat, exercise helps a little but unless your going full on biggest loser style 8 hours a day its not going to make a huge difference to your total loss. Cardio exercise is mostly about getting healthy. If possible you should do some resistance training as it helps prevent lean muscle loss and it accelerates your metabolism of up to 48 hours.

2) It definitely looks like you are still under a carb addiction, if you can you need to address this. There's nothing wrong with going out for a meal or having the odd blow out, infact it may help weight loss since your body has a nasty habit of adjusting to your environment and reducing calories by too much for too long can put you in starvation mode. If your going to hit the fast food places just try to be a little smarter and pick the lower carb options.

I went to EDs dinner in blue water a few weeks back, i had a double burger with with bacon and cheese, i missed the chips and didnt eat the bun. I avoided there billion calorie shakes as well, you should never drink any of your calories except for some whole milk each day. I still lost weight that week.

If you get a choice for take outs then go for the healthier options, Indian (tandoori meats with a small portion of rice) or a kebabs (chicken kebab with salad and no chips)

3) You had a bad day, so what it does not matter, you can not change it so there's no point in beating yourself up over it. Focus on what you can change, which is what you will be doing in the future. No1 goal to live by imo - Control the Controllables, ignore everything else.

My exercising goes hand in hand with my diet. I eat healthily for the most part, but made two bad choices this week (guess I shouldn't have admitted them here) - ultimately, if I make a bad choice, then I have to deal with that, and exercising makes me feel better about the bad choices. I also do weight based exercises three times a week, kettle bell and dumb bell, mixed in with lunges etc.

I aim for around 1800 calories a day, and try to avoid carbs, and generally unhealthy foods, but it was a bad week - what can I say? I was taken to Mcdonalds for lunch, and my family had take away pizza and I joined in. I accept that I am not doing myself any favours by doing this.

I don't drink my calories, especially not in the form of milk. I think it's vile.

Thanks for the tip with the running socks, I'll look into that. I was wearing proper running shoes though

Apologies for the defensive post, but I guess that's how I react when I feel like an idiot - must work on that :rotfl:

Collie_Collie

How do you address your demons though?
I watch Supersize v: Superskinny and they seem to make psychological breakthroughs by looking at a small selection of old photos.
But in the real world do I have to know why I'm fat?
I start a diet (low carbs seems best to me) but can't keep it going more than a few hours. Hours.
I can't really understand why. I don't have unrealistic expectations but still.
I wonder if it's just plain greed and liking the taste of things rather than being caused by some hidden cause. I think I've eaten too much in every good and bad situation through my life!
I just don't know.
Collie

freudianslip

I have to agree with the 'just like the taste of things' angle and being 'greedy' but the unconscious mind makes you act in an instant and you don't even know what is happening or why!

I guess, as behaviour is learned, that there has to be some sort of link with why we eat and the reasons why because there's something going on...... I don't eat for survival because I never get to the stage where I feel hungry.

Something in my unconscious makes me eat, why I just don't know! I am greedy and I do like the taste of food but if it was as easy as just liking the taste I could 'switch' that off surely because my desire to be thinner HAS to be stronger than 'that tastes nice'.

I can't stick to diets either, my actions always spoil it!

Anyone care to psychoanalyse moi?

Collie_Collie

Psychoanalyse a Freudianslip? An unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings? I wouldt dare try!

But I know for me, eating punctuates the day.
Meals (nice, probably unhealthy ones!) break the day up into its parts and give me something to look forward to. Even when I have other things happening, the rhythm of meals and snacks seems fundamental.
Lesser, healthy meals don't seem to cut it.
I have never been so bored as when I have been on a good diet.
But, I have to do something so I'm trying to watch myself breaking my new diet already and keep on with the self psychoanalysis in the hope that eventually some truth gets through.
Collie

freudianslip

lol

Even though I realise there's something in my head making me behave the way I do around food I can't suss it. The unconscious is so powerful. I just wanna know what my problem is!!

Wee_Pilsbury

Hi all

Just popping in to declare a 1.4 Kg (just over 3 pounds) weight loss in week one :j:j:j

I really thought I would lose nothing because I didn't feel particularly deprived - then again, I really do believe if I take too little the old body will go into starvation mode.

Week 2 here I come!