Willpower when losing weight

Gloomendoom

rachel90 wrote: »

Its not that I'm hungry, I just get bored of what I have to eat all the time. Not to mention getting bored of not having a bar of chocolate/bit of cake when everyone else is!

You seem to get bored easily. Maybe getting involved some new activities, exercise has been suggested, might take your mind of being bored by your food.

There is no easy way to lose weight, you have to really want to.

loztredders

rachel90 wrote: »

Its not that I'm hungry, I just get bored of what I have to eat all the time. Not to mention getting bored of not having a bar of chocolate/bit of cake when everyone else is!

There's no reason eating healthy has to equal 'boring' food and also no reason you have to eat weetabix every morning. If you limit yourself so much with food variety then its going to be totally unsustainable and no wonder your bored.

Have you tried simply calorie counting? If you google for a 'maintenance calorie calculator' you will be able to find out the calories your body needs to maintain your current with. To lose weight safely and effectively you should aim for a 1 or 2 lb loss a week, so a daily calorie deficit of 500 under your maintenance calories would be ideal, both though diet and exercise.
myfitnesspal.com is an excellent source for calorie content of food and allows you to track your progress, and chat with others etc if you so wish.

cheekytinkster

Oooh good luck with it.

Personally I didn't like Slimming World at all, really wasn't suited to me. If you tell me I can eat as much of something as I like, I will! I'll see it as a challenge and chomp away.

I'm a vegetarian so found I was eating what I eat normally anyway so with no portion control I simply wasn't losing any weight. I'm incredibly slow at losing weight so whilst my sis-in-law was losing 3 or 4lbs every week I'd lose 1lb every fortnight.

I found Weight Watchers much better suited to me as it is portion control, there's a really good app for your phone which tracks everything you eat so you can bargain this element for that - not both.

In reality I've found the only thing that works for me is if I'm in a strict healthy eating and fitness plan. I lost 2.5st by doing this which was going to the gym 5 times a week, a personal trainer once a week and writing down EVERYTHING I ate.

I think if you are serious about it, and you'll know if you are, you should write down everything you eat - no cheating. Also start exercising, if you don't like it simply go for a walk, at least half hour 4 times a week and walk fast so you get a bit of a sweat/healthy glow happening. If I'm going for a walk for fitness reasons I do a 4.3m loop (clocked it in my car) which takes me about 65 mins at a fast pace.

I think if you simply cut down on what you're eating your body will learn to adapt to what you're putting in.

Overall make a fitness plan which you think is feasible and fits in with you life and write down everything you eat (including cals content) so you can actually see how much you're consuming plus mix it up. Don't stick to the same food as you'll get bored!

If anybody wants my excel spreadsheet I put together to jott down their daily cals give me your email address and I'll send it over.

GOOD LUCK!

piglet74

rachel90 wrote: »

I'm following Slimming World but I am just so rubbish at it, my fiance and I are planning on going to Greece in September and I have around 3.5 stone to lose in total. Obviously I want to lose as much of that as possible before I go away!! I just struggle so much to stick to the diet. I've been on and off it for a while now. Did lose a stone but put a lot back on over Christmas.
Does anyone have any tips for me? Just want to do it properly this time! Fed up with feeling like I do.

where do you feel like you fall down Rachel?

is it nite time, or with a certain food?

i lost 5.5stones in 37 weeks at SW, im now just 9lbs from target, they say in our group if you are bored, or hungry, u are doing it wrong, cause you should never feel like that with the amount of food on offer.

krlyr

I'm not following a diet - always been too fussy to do a set diet, and when I've tried doing a complete "no naughty food" diet, I end up caving within a week as I miss all my junkfood!
Lately I decided enough was enough, I as at the point where I would really need to buy a new wardrobe in the next size up, but a) it'd cost a fortune and b) I knew it was just bad habits causing me to gain weight.
So I got it into my head that I would get back into my clothes. Not lose x lbs, or y inches - I haven't stepped on scales or touched a tapemeasure in years. I just decided I would cut down on food, and increase my exercise. Nothing major, but when I found myself reaching for that pack of biscuits at 11am at work, I asked myself if I really needed one - could I not wait the hour until lunch? I'd go and get a glass of water to sip on instead, and make a note to bring in something for breakfast to stash in my drawer to avoid that mid-morning hunger (no time for breakfast before work). It's not even a particular healthy breakfast, I like the cereal Start, so I have a small bowl - it's probably quite a sugary cereal but I found it easier to control the portion (pour a bowl, put it away - no keeping a pack of biscuits on my desk and having "just one more") and it fills me up for longer.

I keep lunch in my drawer/the fridge and stopped buying crisps at lunchtime. My lunch filled me up, the crisps were just something for me to do in my lunchbreak (I work on an industrial estate so lunchtime is really boring, there's nowhere to go). I found it helped to prepare my lunch in two lots - so if I had, for example, some cream crackers, I'd put butter and cream cheese on half of them, eat them, then butter the remainder. That way it felt like I was having "extras" despite sticking to the amount I'd normally eat anyway. Tricking my brain into thinking I was snacking as such!

Portion control at dinner time - just because OH has 3 sausages on his plate, do I need 3? Nope, I'm usually full after 2 anyway so why not just cook 2. Or if I feel full up 3/4 of the way through, do I really need to finish the rest? Can I save it for lunch tomorrow, or give it to the dogs? It's a shame to waste food but am I not still wasting it by eating it when I'm not hungry? I don't need the calories and it's doing me no favours to overeat, I have nothing to gain by eating it, so why not stop when I'm full up.

I stopped buying snacks for the house. OH is a nightmare for snacking and won't go without a little supper in the evenings, so I bought things that only he likes, e.g. hot cross buns (I can't stand cinnamon), no temptation for me that way.
I find the evenings tough, especially when OH is working late and I'm home alone - boredom eating is my big weakness. But not physically having any snacks has helped, I'm too lazy to go to the supermarket to buy them, and it gives me the chance to stop and ask myself if I really am hungry.
I haven't given up snacks completely though. If I really do have a huge hankering for a packet of crisps after lunch, maybe I really am hungry (or just PMSing!) I'll go and get one. If it's someone's birthday in the office, I don't say no to cake. If I spot a dessert on offer, I'll buy it and enjoy it. I just buy less in general, and it really has made a difference.

Even without extra exercise (I have two dogs so my only real exercise is walking them), my clothes started to fit me better. Last week I took up C25K, I haven't done loads of it so not really enough to make a huge difference, but I fit into some shorts yesterday that I haven't fitted in comfortably for a good couple of years! It's 30 minutes, 3 times a week, and aimed at beginniners/couch potatoes - I'm seriously unfit, had dodgy knees (the reason I quit the gym & put all the weight on a few years ago) and prone to a bit of a bad back, and I'm managing it OK I'll be honest, the first couple of runs were tough, but tonight I really got into it and I'm still on a buzz, rather than a knackered sweaty mess!

I'm really finding it a whole lot easier this way, I'm not really denying myself anything so I don't have that craving to have a giant binge of it all. I'm just slowly changing my attitude towards food - it's no longer the first thing I turn to when I'm bored. Who knows, I may even turn to running when I have nothing better to do! Hopefully this way the weight will stay off, because it's not another fad diet that you'll eventually get bored of and revert back to your old ways of eating - which is how you gained the weight in the first place. It might not quite suit your goal of getting 3.5 stone shifted by a certain date but the weight is coming off me quicker than I expected, even without a goal date or weight to work towards, people are noticing it and commenting on it, especially at evening class where they only see me once a week - so I must be making a steady loss to look different each week

VitaK

It is when people begin noticing your weightloss and/or better mood it gets realy fun to lose weight.

For us it was my wife getting diagnosed with diabetes that prompted our lifestyle change. All the sudden we got our eyes opened to so many 'new' vegetables and a number of new ways to prepare them. Our goal is to know two 'healthier' and good tasting recipies to any vegatable we can posible run into. I think its important to have fun when trying to lose those extras. And remember it has to be sustainable.

ps. Shocking your body into weighloss can be dangerous.