Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

mummyroysof3

I don't like shop bought pizzas much. Love takeaway ones though just once a month ish. I've done quite badly today I'm afraid as haven't had time it energy to prep things.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Tink2 wrote: »

Eh? If I was afraid of being smaller I wouldn't be losing weight

It's not self sabotage if I'm losing weight

And it's one pizza a week, it's not like I'm having one a day, again people focussing on the one treat a week, not the fact the rest of my diet is improving

If you aren't self sabotaging, why haven't you lost the weight over the last three years? Why are you allowing yourself to avoid swimming when you know that nobody else cares what you look like? Why are you automatically looking for ways to increase portion sizes when you are so inactive? Why are you arguing that it's working but say you're struggling so much that you've started a thread about it? Why are you responding by saying it's not that unhealthy to have a whole pizza a week, but forgetting that you've told us you've also chugged four (not the three you originally claimed) packets of crisps in one go when you didn't even enjoy them? If pizza is your one treat a week, where does the chocolate fit in?


It's not just about being thinner. It's about being healthier. Yes, eating a wider variety of foods is good. You've already said my suggestion for an alternative to frozen pizza sounds nice. It's healthier, too - because it's real food with vitamins and minerals and less saturated fat and less salt. I doubt whether the calories are the same, it's probably lower but I don't know. What I do know is that you would feel better for eating that than a box of crud on a disk of cardboard.


It's ridiculously easy when you actually want to make the changes. Not in an 'I hate myself' way, but in a 'I want to change my health' way. Clinging onto processed/junk foods/large portion sizes and deflecting attention onto something else isn't making a sustainable change, it's making it a period of temporary deprivation.

You're female. You're inactive. You cannot match your boyfriend's portion sizes. You aren't going to feel better eating junk in slightly lower quantities, and the way they are designed is to get you to eat more of them than you need.



You've made a great start. But it's a start, not the finish. You could be at target size/weight easily by Christmas and finding it easy to maintain. But if you're struggling now, you need to look at what you are doing that's making it harder for you.

System

Tink2 wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with the tuna and sweet corn pizza




I may end up doing that, who knows

Me and my OH have decided to lay off the energy drinks for a while, we are having them almost daily and it's affecting our sleep (7 hours in two days)

So yeah, another thing that's gone

If it's any consolation I was a massive Pepsi max fiend, I could quite easily get through a litre a day! :eek: have cut it out completely and switched to water now. Wasn't easy at first and for the first week I felt crap, but it's gotten a bit easier this week. Good luck with the energy drinks

Tink2

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I don't like shop bought pizzas much. Love takeaway ones though just once a month ish. I've done quite badly today I'm afraid as haven't had time it energy to prep things.

What have you had?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If you aren't self sabotaging, why haven't you lost the weight over the last three years?

Because for one I didn't do it in a way I could stick to, I cut everything I liked out and couldn't stick to it, secondly my calories were too low (900-1200 every day) and lastly I wasn't ready, I was waking up very day thinking urgh diet, it i had something planned (such as a meal out or a party) I was literally counting down the days till said thing, I was dreaming of the things I would be eating

I'm not like that now though, I'm not thinking urgh diet when I wake up, I wake up plan what I'm eating, log the cals and get on with it, I'm not thinking urgh can't have that or that or that

Why are you allowing yourself to avoid swimming when you know that nobody else cares what you look like?

Again it's not about others it's about me not being comfortable enough in my own skin at the moment

Why are you automatically looking for ways to increase portion sizes when you are so inactive?

If its fits in my calories why not

Why are you arguing that it's working but say you're struggling so much that you've started a thread about it?

It is working, I've lost 15.8lbs so far

When I started this thread I was struggling to get back I to logging food as it was on the back of meals out where I couldn't count calories, I was struggling but now I'm back to logging and counting

Why are you responding by saying it's not that unhealthy to have a whole pizza a week,

It's not, lots of people on diets have a cheat meal

but forgetting that you've told us you've also chugged four (not the three you originally claimed) packets of crisps in one go when you didn't even enjoy them? If pizza is your one treat a week, where does the chocolate fit in?

Lol, since I've mentioned people focussing on the crisps two or three times I clearly haven't forgotten and when did I say it was three packets? I didn't

Chocolate I don't have that much

It's not just about being thinner. It's about being healthier.

For now it's just about losing weight

Yes, eating a wider variety of foods is good. You've already said my suggestion for an alternative to frozen pizza sounds nice. It's healthier, too - because it's real food with vitamins and minerals and less saturated fat and less salt. I doubt whether the calories are the same, it's probably lower but I don't know. What I do know is that you would feel better for eating that than a box of crud on a disk of cardboard.

You idea did sound nice and I will try it but I like the iceland tuna pizza and I doubt very much I could make that

It's ridiculously easy when you actually want to make the changes. Not in an 'I hate myself' way, but in a 'I want to change my health' way. Clinging onto processed/junk foods/large portion sizes and deflecting attention onto something else isn't making a sustainable change, it's making it a period of temporary deprivation.

I have made changes I can stick to, cutting out everything I like I will not stick to, I doubt anyone/many would cut out their favourite food for the rest of their life

I'm proud of the changes I've made, it saddens me that people are still kicking me for it

You're female. You're inactive. You cannot match your boyfriend's portion sizes. You aren't going to feel better eating junk in slightly lower quantities, and the way they are designed is to get you to eat more of them than you need.

Actually me and my OH do have the same portions, he gets his calories up with calorific drinks, usually milk, having tuna in oil (I have brine or spring water) unless we are having a tuna pasta bake and we will both have brine or spring water, he will have normal oil for things like stir fry where as I will have the one cal spray, having a more calorific bread etc

You've made a great start. But it's a start, not the finish. You could be at target size/weight easily by Christmas and finding it easy to maintain. But if you're struggling now, you need to look at what you are doing that's making it harder for you.

I'm already doing better than I thought, I've lost more than I thought, I set myself 52lbs in 52 weeks, I'm ahead of target, I'm happy with that, I've made changes, I'm sill making changes and I will continue to make changes as I go

Tink2

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

If it's any consolation I was a massive Pepsi max fiend, I could quite easily get through a litre a day! :eek: have cut it out completely and switched to water now. Wasn't easy at first and for the first week I felt crap, but it's gotten a bit easier this week. Good luck with the energy drinks

I do like Pepsi max, I have a few cans a week but I do drink a lot of water and green/herbal tea

Every drinks are something else I'm not enjoying atm, we have none left now, won't be buying anymore for a while at least

System

Tink2 wrote: »

I do like Pepsi max, I have a few cans a week but I do drink a lot of water and green/herbal tea

Every drinks are something else I'm not enjoying atm, we have none left now, won't be buying anymore for a while at least

Ahh green tea

You've just reminded me I have some gathering dust in my cupboard

Will have a cup when I get home

Tink2

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

Ahh green tea

You've just reminded me I have some gathering dust in my cupboard

Will have a cup when I get home

Nettle tea is my fave atm

mummyroysof3

Honey nut cornflakes and a yogurt. A bacon and cheese panini and crisps and a horrid goodfellas pizza and some Turkish delight chocs with my vodka and coke....must be better tomorrow apart from some of my daughters birthday cake I made

Tink2

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

Honey nut cornflakes and a yogurt. A bacon and cheese panini and crisps and a horrid goodfellas pizza and some Turkish delight chocs with my vodka and coke....must be better tomorrow apart from some of my daughters birthday cake I made

It's one day, write it off and put it behind you

What was the pizza?

mummyroysof3

It was a goodfellas frozen one and had chicken on. Was thin one and don't like them.