Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

~Chameleon~

Tink2 wrote: »

B vitamins

The B vitamins do not give you energy!

They unlock the metabolic processes that increase energy levels but that can only happen if you're eating a healthy diet containing all the right nutrients.

If you're not prepared to cut out or reduce processed junk food to a minimum then I'm afraid you're going to end up very frustrated and disappointed. The fact you're not doing any exercise whatsoever will have a huge impact too. You will really struggle to lose body fat as your metabolism is very slow. The only way to increase it is to increase muscle mass via exercise.

How about swimming? Low impact, shouldn't cause any pain?

Bonglecat

I one thing that really helped me was .... Paul McKenna!! I know, I know. But I actually really like the psycho babble stuff and actually he has quite a sexy voice IMHO

Anyway the whole point of his system is to help you eat less take away the emotional triggers and enjoy food. He also points out any kind of movement is exercise so you don't have to keep thinking oh I hate the gym, just walk to the shops etc.

After doing the CD every night I ended up with meals that looked something like 1 large quorn sausage, 1 spoon of mashed potato and 1 spoon of peas and seriously that is all I wanted I was full. If you get hungry a hour later then eat something else but even that wouldn't add up to the calorie intake of me thinking a real meal was 3 quorn sausages 3 scoops of potato and peas.

I don't think I did it for long enough because when I stopped listening every night I fell back into bad habits. So I'm now trying again.

Hope that helps.

Tink2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Yes, this is exactly what I am doing. I'll eat a choccie bar for about 300 cals (for example) and i'll deduct that from whatever I eat the rest of the day.

I really just want to not eat the choccie though, so I am continuously on a mission to cut it out.

I hope you manage to do it, you're doing well with the weight loss

RockPaperScissors wrote: »

I'm on SW :-)

I started beginning of Jan and lost a stone in 5 weeks. Then I went out for dinner/drinks with my SW buddy and totally lost it!

I completely went off the rails which is daft because slimming world is so easy to stick to and gives you so much more food freedom!

So yes I have been struggling - put on 1.5 stone since coming off the tracks but have started again yesterday!

Keeping motivation this time (at least until my holiday in Italy in May :-/)

I would say from my experience with MANY diets that you begin to expect the large weight loss numbers you see in the first few weeks EVERY week. This just won't be the case as your metabolism changes - just keep eating healthy and trying to work in exercicse when the loss slows down (I HATE exercise but have just started Couch 2 5K and it's actually OK!)


good luck and don't give up!
x

I won't give up! Good luck with your weight loss

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

The B vitamins do not give you energy!

They unlock the metabolic processes that increase energy levels but that can only happen if you're eating a healthy diet containing all the right nutrients.

If you're not prepared to cut out or reduce processed junk food to a minimum then I'm afraid you're going to end up very frustrated and disappointed. The fact you're not doing any exercise whatsoever will have a huge impact too. You will really struggle to lose body fat as your metabolism is very slow. The only way to increase it is to increase muscle mass via exercise.

How about swimming? Low impact, shouldn't cause any pain?

I've reduced the junk food

Swimming is something I will try as the weight comes off, I don't feel confident enough atm for a swim suit

Izadora

Tink2 wrote: »

Swimming is something I will try as the weight comes off, I don't feel confident enough atm for a swim suit

If you have a pool near you which does a ladies only night it might be worth going along to that. Although I still felt a bit self-conscious at first, it was a lot less scary than going to a mixed pool and I never felt like anybody was judging me for my size.

Dieting's never easy, I've just had to start again after not bothering to count points for about a year and my weight creeping up little by little until I'd put on 10lbs, but I find that imagining looking better for a holiday/birthday/some other event and not allowing myself to buy any clothes until I've reached a certain goal can act as a good incentive when I'm tempted to have a full on blow out.

~Chameleon~

Tink2 wrote: »

I've reduced the junk food

Swimming is something I will try as the weight comes off, I don't feel confident enough atm for a swim suit

If eating an entire pizza is reducing junk food then I dread to think what you ate before _pale_


If you think you can continue to eat this level of processed junk food, when by your own admission you eat virtually nothing healthy (veg, fruit, meat, eggs etc) then you are severely deluding yourself.

As you seem intent to continue I'm wasting my time offering any further advice. Good luck, I think you're going to need it

Tink2

Izadora wrote: »

If you have a pool near you which does a ladies only night it might be worth going along to that. Although I still felt a bit self-conscious at first, it was a lot less scary than going to a mixed pool and I never felt like anybody was judging me for my size.

Dieting's never easy, I've just had to start again after not bothering to count points for about a year and my weight creeping up little by little until I'd put on 10lbs, but I find that imagining looking better for a holiday/birthday/some other event and not allowing myself to buy any clothes until I've reached a certain goal can act as a good incentive when I'm tempted to have a full on blow out.

I want my OH to be with me, well he needs to be really

Good luck

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

If eating an entire pizza is reducing junk food then I dread to think what you ate before _pale_


If you think you can continue to eat this level of processed junk food, when by your own admission you eat virtually nothing healthy (veg, fruit, meat, eggs etc) then you are severely deluding yourself.

As you seem intent to continue I'm wasting my time offering any further advice. Good luck, I think you're going to need it

Woah woah woah, where did you get that I eat virtually nothing healthy? :huh: I do eat healthy things

I don't eat red meat or poultry because I'm a pescetarian so obviously I'm not going to

I eat a lot of fish (tuna, salmon, trout, seabass, sole, cod, haddock) I even love sushi

I do eat veg, I love sprouts, sweet peppers, jalapeños, salad

Fruit, as I said I'm eating a little daily to get my body used to it

My OH is cooking more home cooked things (curry, pasta bake, tuna burgers etc)

And we bought both of the hairy bikers diet books so will be trying things from them

Flick216

For what seems like forever!

Although I know what I should and shouldn't be eating, I have the personal organisational skills of a pebble. I forget about breakfast, never know what I want for lunch so ending up eating biscuits at 3.00pm because I feel ill.

We do cook from scratch at home, but I do like to cook with wine, butter and cream! And cheese. And if I am honest - a large portion of my calories used to come from booze! I am trying not to drink in the week now but I do rather make up for it at the weekend. And booze makes me munchy.

I find it helpful to keep eggs in the house as they are quick and delicious.

System

I started a week and a half ago, after many attempts before. For some reason I seem to be finding it easier this time round and am getting some results! Am having to be pretty strict with what I eat, I've cut out most of the crap I was eating and now trying to have a healthy breakfast and a healthy dinner. Also trying to eat more fruit and veg. And have been drinking tons of water instead of pop. And am exercising a few times a week!

It really helps that my bf is also doing the same as it's spurring me on, as I don't feel like I'm alone and if I have a bad day where I am craving crap I can turn to him for a bit of motivation! He's been doing it a month and has already lost nearly a stone! (Jammy sod )

I'm kind of trying to not see this as a "diet" but rather a change to my eating and exercise habits

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Simple things work best.

1. Acknowledge that you eat too much. 5-6 sausages is a binge, 3 is too many. 1, maybe 2, sausages is reasonable. Half a frozen pizza is probably more than you need. One small (440g loaf) slice of bread is enough, two at a pinch.

You could put a small amount of mozzarella on a half baguette with some tomato puree, sliced tomatoes, a drizzle of pesto, random veggies you like, bung it in the oven for five minutes and still consume significantly fewer calories than the grease filled slab of nastiness you've just hauled out of the freezer. And you'd feel fuller because it takes longer to eat.


2. Acknowledge that you waste the amount of energy you need by having things that are calorie dense but give you little in return. Pastry will account for going wayyyyyyyyyyy over your requirements. It's fat and starch. Nothing else. Fair enough, you like it - but you'd be better placed cooking the tart filling in a nonstick pan and thereby leaving enough calories for another meal.


3. If you like diet fizzy drinks, have them. I won't criticise those if the only acceptable alternative is full sugar ones. However, the caffeine in them could make you feel more stressy and, if you overeat when you're anxious, something that will mimic the symptoms of anxiety is not going to help.

4. Sounds like you're chasing the carb hit. The dizzy thing is a giveaway there, as are the energy drinks. Yeah, carbs make you feel warm and sleepy and contented (not full - contented, as they cause the brain to release happy chemicals) - but they also make reducing their consumption to appropriate levels uncomfortable for a few weeks. It's probably chasing the carb hit that's making things difficult for you right now.


Nobody cares what you look like in the pool. Your weight and health is not your OH's responsibility - whilst it would be good if he were supportive, don't rely on him being there before you'll take control of your own health. It's a way of pushing your responsibility onto somebody else and it means you're self sabotaging.


Ultimately, the responsibility for your weight lies with you. Ask yourself genuine questions when you are looking in the fridge, the freezer, at the microwave. Are you really hungry, are you looking for a carb hit, are you looking for excuses, are you eating that to change your mood? Now you know why you're doing it, make your decision - do you NEED this food? How much of it do you actually NEED? Do you even WANT it anyway?



And, for Heaven's sake, get yourself out of the flat into the daylight. It's been a flaming miserable winter and we all need sunlight.

rainbowfairydust

i have been overweight for the majority of my adult life (not by a huge amount (this is in my mind - its probably loads by others standards - i think about 4 stone when i was at my heaviest ).

I have tried every diet (slimming world, weight watchers, slimfast, dukan, south beach, calorie counting ) under the sun several times over and failed to keep the weight off. and as a result my weight has been yo yo'ing up/down - up/down pretty much constantly in the past decade .

I also have low self esteem (although this has actually started to slowly increase :j) and because i was unhappy i ate and then ate some more. Of course i ate all the wrong things (pizza, chinese, chocolate, crisps etc) which made me more unhappy. Its a vicious circle and it is a HARD one to break.

It is only in the last 2 years i have started to "educate" myself about food - and reading on the internet about benefits of certain foods (fruit, veg, grains etc). I chose to try all these "new" foods i swore blind i hated..turned out i liked them actually.

I didnt bother attempting to lose weight - just kept on trying new foods until i realised that my diet had changed by itself rather than me giving it a total overhaul and then going back to my old ways. I didnt lose any weight - i guess because i was eating rather large portions (ie 2 slices of toast at breakfast when just the one slice is needed) and i wast exercising.

Anyway fast forward to this year.. on a whim i decided to try the 5:2 diet as my house mates have been following this for the past 18 months (they lost a bit of weight -perhaps a stone i think but now just for maintenance and i guess because it became a habit) so i thought i would give it a go.

Since i started i have lost 22lbs in total - just had the one gain of 1lb ( and this is because i got too big for my boots and started eating shed loads of peanut butter ) . This for me is amazing because when i was following a diet plan i had 2 good weeks then 2 bad..it was a never ending cycle and of course i just got fed up of seeing me go up/down all the time so i didnt stick to it.

I am still 5:2'ing and I also have re-introduced exercise and cycle to work once a week -my relationship with exercise has been previously hit n miss but i now cycle come rain, shine or pea souper fog (as it was last week).

This combination has seen me lose steadily since January..and i hope to lose more for when the summer officially lands. So the point of my epic post is educate yourself about food - i choose to eat a lot of quinoa now ( a couple of pounds a bag ish in supermarkets) . A little goes a LONG way. Its filling, nutritious and very yummy. You can throw frozen veg in it, and some meat . Jobs a good un :T. The quinoa is an example.. there are plenty of other foods that are filling and just as nutritious. Cut down on portion sizes - do you need 2 slices of toast? Just the one is enough for me now. Follow the recommended guidelines on packets, Weigh EVERYTHING out.. I weigh cereal, rice, pasta, cheese, quinoa, bulger wheat etc .

You can do it.. its a slog and i still have bad days where i want to just eat a load of rubbish but they are fewer. Take one step at a time .