Weight loss/healthy eating help

Anoneemoose

Also, there is a massive difference between eating healthily and dieting.

Toni'sfriend

Maman - I agree. The vast majority of people know exactly what they should do to eat healthily but a lot benefit from the support and social aspect of organisations like SW.

pollypenny

madlyn wrote: »

I have thought about giving that a try, but the thought of starving myself for 2 days a week is not my idea of fun, and as I said I cannot bare feeling hungry.

You certainly don't starve yourself.

5:2 is no harder to get used to than any other diet. If you feel peckish a good slug of water, cup of tea etc will take the edge of it. The bonus is that you eat normally, but sensibly on 5 days a week.

We found that our appetites soon reduced and I amended my target down by a further 7lb.

It's also great that you don't have to make a fuss if you're going out and refusing things because you're 'on a diet'. Nothing is banned. There are no 'sins'.

Anoneemoose

Toni'sfriend wrote: »

Maman - I agree. The vast majority of people know exactly what they should do to eat healthily but a lot benefit from the support and social aspect of organisations like SW.

That’s the thing though, they don’t. Places like SW tell us that fat free foods are healthier than avocado because they’re less ‘syns’.

Then there’s no carbs, low carbs, low calorie, no sugar.

No wonder people get confused and fear food.

No one food is inherently good or bad. Just like man couldn’t live on Big Macs alone, nor could they live on nothing but salad.

maman

pollypenny wrote: »

You certainly don't starve yourself.

5:2 is no harder to get used to than any other diet. If you feel peckish a good slug of water, cup of tea etc will take the edge of it. The bonus is that you eat normally, but sensibly on 5 days a week.

We found that our appetites soon reduced and I amended my target down by a further 7lb.

It's also great that you don't have to make a fuss if you're going out and refusing things because you're 'on a diet'. Nothing is banned. There are no 'sins'.

I have a number of friends who've had good results with 5:2.

Nothing is banned with SW either. The syns are a guide to how much you can eat in a week of the food groups like fats and sugars. I eat out frequently and save syns for those occasions. My friends on 5:2 make sure that when we eat out they make sure it isn't a fast day. There are similarities.
And I never feel the need to say I'm on a 'diet'. It's a plan for healthy eating, just as 5:2 gives a structure.

trailingspouse

madlyn wrote: »

I didn't say I fear feeling hungry, I said I cant bare feeling hungry. And when I do feel hungry I reach for the wrong king of food/snack.
So I either need to eat more food that fills me up at breakfast and other meal times or reach for the healthy king of snack.

So, why can't you bear to feel hungry?


This is a genuine question, and I really do feel that getting to the root of it will help with your relationship with food.

moneyistooshorttomention

I admit that I couldnt do 5:2 or any similar diet - I'd just get too hungry.

I think there is an element of people have to work out what suits them personally as a method to tackle this.

I've found, for instance, that there are two elements to being single (as I always have been). So now that I'm retired and have the time to take a bit more time preparing/thinking about my food than I did what I figure works for me is that I'm going to be on a diet (of the Slimming World green plan type) every day apart from DOD days. DOD meaning - Day Off Diet.

Having DODs will be something I do when I've got a day involving "social" eating (so there's been 2 DOD's in the last week) or when I go back on visits to my home city (as it's a foodie location - with new restaurants/etc popping up at a rate of knots - and I want to try them all and generally take advantage of having the variety of food to buy that I'm used to).

So - even on DOD's I'm not going to "go mad" and splurge or "eat just because everyone else is - and they're doing it just because everyone else is". I'm not going to do things like taking a plate full of food at a buffet just for the sake of it and then turn round and tell the person beside me "You know - I didn't actually want that" as a friend of mine did at one of those buffets. I'll just eat if I'm actually hungry and stop when I'm no longer hungry/have tried out any new-to-me foods I spot.

I figure I'll only have to keep that up for 2-3 months and I should have my figure back to normal and, with the way I eat so healthily these days/won't have food I'm not hungry for basically that should do the trick for rest of my life.

I'm very aware that I'm not going to be able to buy the new clothes I need - whilst I refuse to look in the mirror at the "label size 14" I currently am. But will be able to look with pleasure once I'm back to "real size 14" and slim again.

Those are my motivators - and not wanting to re-buy perfectly decent clothing I still want to wear - just because I'm not currently a size to fit into it. I'll spend money if I have to/want to - but I don't want to waste money on buying "temporary clothes in a bigger size than I should be".

BananaRepublic

Toni'sfriend wrote: »

Maman - I agree. The vast majority of people know exactly what they should do to eat healthily but a lot benefit from the support and social aspect of organisations like SW.

Are you sure they know what to eat? I see an awful lot of people eating junk food, and high fat food. I find a lot of food too sweet and/or rich. Ready meals tend to be full of sugar and fat. Why on earth does tomato sauce need sugar added? I suspect people become habituated to unhealthy food.

One big problem is junk food at work. It is commonplace for there to be biscuits and cakes on open access. The unhealthiest condemn/torment the rest.

Anoneemoose

BananaRepublic wrote: »

Are you sure they know what to eat? I see an awful lot of people eating junk food, and high fat food. I find a lot of food too sweet and/or rich. Ready meals tend to be full of sugar and fat. Why on earth does tomato sauce need sugar added? I suspect people become habituated to unhealthy food.

One big problem is junk food at work. It is commonplace for there to be biscuits and cakes on open access. The unhealthiest condemn/torment the rest.

See, this is another thing. There’s nothing wrong with having biscuits on open access, as you say. I constantly have around 6 packets of biscuits in the house. Doesn’t mean I have to eat them. But funnily enough, when I was on a diet (best part of 20 years), I couldn’t sleep if there was any form of ‘junk’ in the house.

There’s nothing wrong with eating to appetite. That’s how our bodies were designed.

There’s also nothing wrong with sugar and/or fat.

madlyn

Feeling hungry and I mean proper hungry not just peckish makes me feel ill. It affects my mood and my work. And I just don't want to feel like that.