Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

Tink2

purpleshoes wrote: »

Its about your choices as well. If your OH can eat calorie laden food without putting on an ounce, you dont need to join him. What I mean is, he should understand that if you want to succeed at this, that sharing that starter or you having lower cal food than him even on a cheat meal day will be beneficial for you. It shouldnt matter if hes sitting with a pizza dripping with cheese for example and you are having one thats lower calorie, you should be able to continue to make choices that benefit you every day of the week.
If he truly wants to support you in this, he will understand that for you it's going to be much harder to eat even that cheat meal than for him.

You could have a cheat meal at home, cook it. Eat more than you normally would but still make it healthy. If 5:2 doesnt make you feel well, I'd avoid like the plague to be honest.

A cheat meal to me is a meal out or take away, not a healthy meal I would have at home anyway, to me it's something I wouldn't have every day

I basically eat the same as my OH anyway he ups his calories by adding milk, using more oil when cooking, using tuna in oil etc

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

To be quite honest, if you're taking paracetamol at the rate you claim to be on the other thread you won't have to worry about weight issues for very much longer. You appear to have far major issues to contend with and I'm seriously worried for your health

I really wish I could do something to help but it's like talking to a brick wall :wall:

You have no need to worry about me

custardy

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

To be quite honest, if you're taking paracetamol at the rate you claim to be on the other thread you won't have to worry about weight issues for very much longer. You appear to have far major issues to contend with and I'm seriously worried for your health

I really wish I could do something to help but it's like talking to a brick wall :wall:

I'm just confused at the point of making up a new(same!) username
to trot out the same carp as before.
I have resisted posting before,but it seems the exile to the comps board was short lived.
perhaps the OP likes to think everyone has forgotten their misdemeanour's and motives.
I for one have not.

purpleshoes_2

Its entirely up to you. But the amount of food you are consuming on your cheat meal days might end up being the thing that slows your weight loss right down. If I have a blowout, I'll do it on a special occasion, a meal out with friends, a birthday or somewhere I knew it would be practically impossible to eat healthily. You could easily have eaten 4000-5000 cals on your last cheat meal and the amount you are cutting to compensate for that, probably isnt enough.

Id seriously have a rethink and make your treat as you suggested earlier, a sandwich, bar of choc, drink and save the blowouts for once a fortnight or month.

As I lost weight, I found that I couldn't physically eat the quantities of food I was able to previously. In times gone by I could have gone out to a chinese buffet for example and eaten a lot, a hell of a lot. Now its two small plates and those small plates are often made up of salad and fruit as well, not exclusively, but it is there. My tastes have changed to the point where I think something like a bag of cherries is a treat, a couple of squares of dark chocolate is a treat. A treat for me is no longer pizza and chips because for some reason, my body doesnt seem to want it any longer. Perhaps if you cut the treats out altogether or took them right back to once a month or so as time went on you might discover that pizza, chips, crisps and chocolate cake isnt actually a treat after all. It could be anything that you fancy, it doesnt need to be junk food.

Tink2

purpleshoes wrote: »

Its entirely up to you. But the amount of food you are consuming on your cheat meal days might end up being the thing that slows your weight loss right down. If I have a blowout, I'll do it on a special occasion, a meal out with friends, a birthday or somewhere I knew it would be practically impossible to eat healthily. You could easily have eaten 4000-5000 cals on your last cheat meal and the amount you are cutting to compensate for that, probably isnt enough.

Id seriously have a rethink and make your treat as you suggested earlier, a sandwich, bar of choc, drink and save the blowouts for once a fortnight or month.

As I lost weight, I found that I couldn't physically eat the quantities of food I was able to previously. In times gone by I could have gone out to a chinese buffet for example and eaten a lot, a hell of a lot. Now its two small plates and those small plates are often made up of salad and fruit as well, not exclusively, but it is there. My tastes have changed to the point where I think something like a bag of cherries is a treat, a couple of squares of dark chocolate is a treat. A treat for me is no longer pizza and chips because for some reason, my body doesnt seem to want it any longer. Perhaps if you cut the treats out altogether or took them right back to once a month or so as time went on you might discover that pizza, chips, crisps and chocolate cake isnt actually a treat after all. It could be anything that you fancy, it doesnt need to be junk food.

Again, I will not stick to it if I cut them out, I would have given up already

We are doing bella next time we go out and then probably will be sandwich and crisps

I very much doubt it was 4000-5000 calories

~Chameleon~

custardy wrote: »

I'm just confused at the point of making up a new(same!) username
to trot out the same carp as before.
I have resisted posting before,but it seems the exile to the comps board was short lived.
perhaps the OP likes to think everyone has forgotten their misdemeanour's and motives.
I for one have not.

I have no idea why she has a new username, nor do I care. I had minimal interaction with her previously so taking her at face value now. And to be honest, I'm genuinely worried about her. This is far more than just a diet thing.

purpleshoes_2

Tink2 wrote: »

Again, I will not stick to it if I cut them out, I would have given up already

We are doing bella next time we go out and then probably will be sandwich and crisps

I very much doubt it was 4000-5000 calories

If you added up those calories, I bet it would surprise you. Im not sure whether the food you logged was shared between you and your OH or not. I googled Frankie and Bennys, they seem only to list the cals of the lower calorie options. But somewhere like wetherspoons lists their cals on the menu. I was in wetherspoon today with my mum and she was looking at the menu, she was astonished to find that their chocolate cake and ice cream was 900 cals.

From everything that you listed Id say easily 3000-3500 cals if not more. As I said previously, logging your cheat meal cals might help keep you on track, because one thing I do know as someone who has spent a long time struggling with their own weight is that we tend to underestimate and not overestimate the food we consume, thats why many people end up overweight in the first place.

~Chameleon~

purpleshoes wrote: »

Its entirely up to you. .....

P[STRIKE]B[/STRIKE]S you're wasting your time

Indie_Kid

purpleshoes wrote: »

If you added up those calories, I bet it would surprise you. Im not sure whether the food you logged was shared between you and your OH or not. I googled Frankie and Bennys, they seem only to list the cals of the lower calorie options. But somewhere like wetherspoons lists their cals on the menu. I was in wetherspoon today with my mum and she was looking at the menu, she was astonished to find that their chocolate cake and ice cream was 900 cals.

On Wetherspoons website, they do have a list of the lower calorie foods too.

~Chameleon~

purpleshoes wrote: »

If you added up those calories, I bet it would surprise you. Im not sure whether the food you logged was shared between you and your OH or not. I googled Frankie and Bennys, they seem only to list the cals of the lower calorie options.

Most of F&B foods are listed in MFP. And yes, I did do a check and she ate almost two days worth of kcal in just one meal


The fact they don't publicly list a nutrition sheet is shameful and one of the reasons I refuse to ever eat there.

Tink2

purpleshoes wrote: »

If you added up those calories, I bet it would surprise you. Im not sure whether the food you logged was shared between you and your OH or not. I googled Frankie and Bennys, they seem only to list the cals of the lower calorie options. But somewhere like wetherspoons lists their cals on the menu. I was in wetherspoon today with my mum and she was looking at the menu, she was astonished to find that their chocolate cake and ice cream was 900 cals.

From everything that you listed Id say easily 3000-3500 cals if not more. As I said previously, logging your cheat meal cals might help keep you on track, because one thing I do know as someone who has spent a long time struggling with their own weight is that we tend to underestimate and not overestimate the food we consume, thats why many people end up overweight in the first place.

Oh yeah it's prob at least 3000 but I don't think as high as 5000

MFP said 250 for a serving of salmon fish cakes I dunno if that's 250 for one or for both

I tried logging calories but could only find the fish cake one, I even asked F&Bs if they had the calories on a site and the said no

Wonder if bella do