Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

paulineb_2

Tink2 wrote: »

Last year I was eating 5-6 meat sausages easily with a load of sauce *shameful*

Its about getting to the 80/20 or the 70/30 or whatever balance you need to get to. 80 per cent of the good stuff and 20 of the not so good on a weekly basis.

I dont eat meat, but I still dont think eating 5 or 6 sausages at a time is anything to be concerned about.

I think what you need to do is educate yourself on nutrition, find information that will bust the myths that are around and find what works for you. What works for you might not work for me and vice versa.

I stopped counting calories because I got to the stage where I felt that I had spent about 20 years of my adult life on a "diet". I lost weight in my 20s. I had never been overweight, but Im certainly not thin. Put on a lot of weight after a relationship ended, but didnt maintain it and spent a very long time yo-yoing between certain weights.

In the end it was exhausting for me. I felt that I was fixated with food. When I had finished a meal I was thinking about what I would eat for my next one. I would wake up in the morning and plan what Id be eating for the day and if it went to pot I felt guilty.
I cant live like that anymore. I eat as healthily as I can with the occasional treat and I feel much much better about myself.

Calorie counting does work for some people, but it doesnt work for me.

You have to think long term, like this is the rest of my life plan. Ive known so many people who have lost stones at slimming clubs, got to their target weight and then the weight just piled on as soon as they relaxed the restrictions.

mummyroysof3

I've done ok I think today but really determined to keep away from the biscuits. My downfall is I don't like eating breakfast and can't stay away from cake

Tink2

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I've done ok I think today but really determined to keep away from the biscuits. My downfall is I don't like eating breakfast and can't stay away from cake

Breakfast is just the first meal of the day so everyone eats breakfast

paulineb_2

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I've done ok I think today but really determined to keep away from the biscuits. My downfall is I don't like eating breakfast and can't stay away from cake

I dont like eating breakfast either and very often I dont, because I do a lot of exercise classes in the mornings and the last thing I want to do is eat anything before running around getting sweaty, particularly the classes where you are pushed very hard.

I eat more things like oatcakes now. Whereas crisps used to be my default snack choice, these days I'll have a few oatcakes.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

paulineb wrote: »

I actually dont agree that 5 or 6 quorn sausages is a binge. You are talking maybe 60-70 calories for a quorn sausage. I dont eat quorn but I do eat the Linda McCartney ones, the rosemary and onion ones are something like 63 cals a sausage, they aren't massive. Ive eaten 5 or 6 at a time. If I wanted to eat 5 sausages and a couple of sweet potatoes with some veg for my dinner, Id be looking at around maybe 500-550 cals, if I were counting calories (which I dont).

Its what you eat the entire day that matters, not whether you eat 5 or 6 of something at a time. Obviously people's opinions are different, but I dont think 5 or 6 quorn sausages could be considered a binge by any stretch of the imagination.

It's the volume that makes it a binge. Not the calorific content - although the accompanying items could easily do it on that count. How much does the stomach need to stretch to take in the volume that an entire packet of sausages, potato, butter, milk, gravy, vegetables?

Tink2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

It's the volume that makes it a binge. Not the calorific content - although the accompanying items could easily do it on that count. How much does the stomach need to stretch to take in the volume that an entire packet of sausages, potato, butter, milk, gravy, vegetables?

I wasn't having all of that, it was basically sausages and sauce

WantToBeSE

Re breakfast- the 1 major change I made to lose the 1st I have already lost, is to always eat breakfast. I now eat half a bowl of porridge oats with a tsp of PB.
It fills me up until lunch

Also- I have switched from white rice/pasta/bread etc, to wholemeal. Has definitely made a difference.

Tink2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Re breakfast- the 1 major change I made to lose the 1st I have already lost, is to always eat breakfast. I now eat half a bowl of porridge oats with a tsp of PB.
It fills me up until lunch

Also- I have switched from white rice/pasta/bread etc, to wholemeal. Has definitely made a difference.

The thing with me and breakfast is I don't like any breakfast food

Hate porridge, other cereals have sugar in which gives me heartburn first thing

Don't like toast (wouldn't know what to put on it anyway)

Eggs give me gas

Wouldn't know what else to eat lol

mummyroysof3

My routine should change after school hols so I can get breakfast but then have lunch a bit later than I do now. Thinking of scrambled egg on brown toast or cereal such as Special K or weetBix with jam as 2 options. Then lunch could be egg salad/ham salad beans on jacket or toast. I like tuna so could have that on brown sandwich thins maybe.

mummyroysof3

I'm not a fan of fruit so could do with some ideas how to fit in without making into a crumble lol