Lost weight and put loads on - Cant stop eating!

jojogirly

Hello all,
Last year I was on Slimming world and lost nearly 4 stone. I was at a weight I never thought I could achieve and feeling great. I stopped 'dieting' and tried to stick to the basics the majority of the time but things have gradually got worse, since then I have gone back to class three times (never staying longer than a month) I have lost half a stone and then put on more - I just cant stop eating!

Has anyone been in this situation - I am slowly creeping up back to where I was and I feel really really bad. I have heard a few people say these lost a lot of weight and put it all back on and more. I cannot handle the thought of this but seem to have lost the wonderful motivation I had last year. Help!

Dizzy_Ditzy

I think pretty much everyone who has ever been on a diet gets and feels like this sometimes. I am 4 stone heavier now than I was two or three years ago, and while I have always known what I have to do, the motivation to do it just wasn't there.

Sometimes, you'll just wake up and the motivation will be there.

I forced myself to start using myfitnesspal again and it showed me just what a pig I was being. It opened my eyes to what I was doing and now I am well back on it again. First weigh in tomorrow

jojogirly

Thanks for the reply. I am so glad its not just me x

ciderwithrosie_2

It's a well known thing called the 'Golden Shot' where your mind's focussed, your willpower is at max, all the planets are aligned....etc (I may have lied about the planets!) and you just go for it.


I've had several of these golden shots on various diets, the most spectacular was losing 8st in 9 months on the Cambridge Diet. Now I can't imagine lasting a week on soups and shakes, never mind 9 months.


The weight took over 2 years to go back on and then I added a bit more... just for good measure!


Maybe it's time to try something different if you can't get in the zone with Slimming World? I started Weightwatchers in the New Year, and have lost nearly a stone and a half so far.

tomtontom

The problem is that you are seeing it as a diet and not a lifestyle change. This is not something that you can stop and start, the changes need to be for life.

Lily-Rose_3

It's so depressing isn't it? Working so hard to lose it and then just piling it all back on!!! :mad:

WHY is it so hard? WHY?!

jojogirly

Thank you all, I just feel embarrassed that friends I will see over this summer will see me with all the weight back on again. Its awful - I feel like I have let myself down. I really felt I had made a lifestyle change but slipped back into old habits so easily. Really need to get rid of all the negativity and bring back the positive.

Anoneemoose

I feel your pain! I have done it like a gazillion times!! And I have finally come to realise that what tomtontom says is totally true. In my past attempts at weight loss, I have ALWAYS had the mindset that it was a temporary thing, not intentionally though. I think most people who struggle do.

I have decided to calorie count through myfitnesspal and this time I have the support of my DH (not that he wasnt supportive before, he is just more involved this time). I have about 3st to lose and I am prepared for it to take a long time. I have lots of health issues that make life (and weight loss) difficult and in the past I have used these as excuses, again, sometimes without realising it.

One of my issues is a form of OCD and the obsessional side of this often spills over into other areas of my life, in that once I start cal/points or syn counting, I get fixated on that and it is all I can think of. This has made things very difficult in the past. This time, I am making a big effort to use myfitnesspal as a tool of information while I get used to how much calories are in different foods. I appreciate that it is about the types of calories you eat as well so I am making sure they are healthy calories. Lean meat, fish, veg, fruit, pulses. My treat is frozen berries with greek style yogurt.

I read somewhere once that 95% of diets fail. Can totally believe that!

Slinky

The only way I've ever lost weight and kept it off is by eating low carbohydrate. I've mentioned it on several posts (sorry if it seems like I'm banging on about it), but at least read the reviews on Amazon for Escape the Diet Trap by Dr John Biffa. The book explains exactly why most 'diets' fail and why you end up putting on more than you lose.


I'll never go back to eating cereals, bread, spuds, pasta and rice in any significant amounts again (the odd treat is OK), now I know these are the cause of my weight gain.

Mojisola

tomtontom wrote: »

The problem is that you are seeing it as a diet and not a lifestyle change. This is not something that you can stop and start, the changes need to be for life.

Plus, if you eat because of emotional issues, you need to sort those out otherwise the weight will always come back.

asajj

Mojisola wrote: »

Plus, if you eat because of emotional issues, you need to sort those out otherwise the weight will always come back.

Yes exactly!

Also, are you exercising?