i've hit that point in life too. while my weight's made me a bit self-concious most of my life, i've felt the same as you. diets were always a struggle for me, and i always felt like i was being punished and deprived of foods i liked or that tasted good.
earlier this year, it was like a switch was hit in my brain and has changed my view of eating/dieting. while i am taking a diet pill and supervised by my doctor, i'm looking at eating differently and don't feel that i am depriving myself. i'm still occassionally eat the things that i guess are considered "bad", but in moderation.
i've lost 23 ponds so far. i need to add exercise into my routine. now that's the challenge for me.
woohoo! go team you! :D thanks for the support, it's so nice to have so many comments and realise there are people who bothered to read and care :)
it's a nice feeling - I've given up/quit so many times in the past, but this time I think I've come to grips with the fact that I really need to change my life completely, not just 'do a diet' but change my lifestyle so that I can keep it off!
That's fantastic Leish! It sounds like we have had a pretty similar body history, but I am yet to get to that place of feeling confident to change things. I used to always think that moving out would prompt big changes because I had so many control/insecurity issues related to food.
I have lost significant amounts of weight in the past, and have maintained health kicks for months at a time. Now I find I just can't get things off the ground because I don't really have faith in it all.
I'm thinking of doing Lite N Easy for a few weeks just to kind of reboot my eating habits.
I keep wanting to do Lite N Easy, but my job has had me at different sites every day for months, so it's hard to store food at work. Now I have a fridge in my office :D Very tempting to start up with it!
I did Lite N Easy once for months (my parents were paying) and I did lose a lot of weight (about 30 kilos). I started cheating and then stopped wasting my parents' money. I'm not sure how long it took me to gain it all back...
I don't think Lite N Easy is an easy fix, but I think right now it would be good to get me back into a routine and into portion control. These days it is common for me to go without breakfast, without lunch, then come home from work and just pig out on all kinds of things.
That's the thing, I think sometimes it's hard to work out portion control and the routine of eating regularly without a big push, and Lite N Easy is good for that. It's easy to forget how much food you actually need, rather than how much you can eat, you know?
glad you're doing well too :) and thank you for the positive thoughts ;) they're always appreciated!
sucks about having CFS/ME - though if you're on the right track and keep your body moving then that's the best way to deal, I feel (though i probably don't know what I'm talking about)- My Auntie has CFS and has just let herself become completely helpless. it's sad. my uncle has to cook, clean, look after her, and she never even tried to keep her body moving so her muscles have just gone completely. Whereas I saw a woman who must've been in her 60's at my ZUMBA class the other day who said SHE had CFS, and she'd been talking about how she does a different kind of class every day! yikes! Proof that you can overcome all obstacles if you just get your head in the right space :)
I'm so with you - its not like I want to be lean and lithe and model like but I've used too many excuses, finished a stressful job and started a new one which I like.. I really don't want to end up on the Biggest Loser! Good on you for signing up to that program - keep us posted :)
one of the first steps in this program was to write out a list of all of the excuses you use not to exercise: I don't have time, I'm not fit enough, it's too cold, etc etc and then think about them and write out solutions to them - 'get up an hour earlier' 'you WILL be fit enough, and you can only do your best', 'do a workout in the lounge in front of the tv' kinda thing - I think even without doing what she says, which is to print it out and put it somewhere - those solutions float around in my head whenever I'm lying in bed going 'UGH IT'S COLD, DO NOT WANT' and I just fucking get up and DO IT :D it's hard, but I know it's worth doing :)
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i've hit that point in life too. while my weight's made me a bit self-concious most of my life, i've felt the same as you. diets were always a struggle for me, and i always felt like i was being punished and deprived of foods i liked or that tasted good.
earlier this year, it was like a switch was hit in my brain and has changed my view of eating/dieting. while i am taking a diet pill and supervised by my doctor, i'm looking at eating differently and don't feel that i am depriving myself. i'm still occassionally eat the things that i guess are considered "bad", but in moderation.
i've lost 23 ponds so far. i need to add exercise into my routine. now that's the challenge for me.
keep it up babe!!
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it's a nice feeling - I've given up/quit so many times in the past, but this time I think I've come to grips with the fact that I really need to change my life completely, not just 'do a diet' but change my lifestyle so that I can keep it off!
Good luck to you too :)
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I used to always think that moving out would prompt big changes because I had so many control/insecurity issues related to food.
I have lost significant amounts of weight in the past, and have maintained health kicks for months at a time. Now I find I just can't get things off the ground because I don't really have faith in it all.
I'm thinking of doing Lite N Easy for a few weeks just to kind of reboot my eating habits.
I look forward to reading about your progress!
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I started cheating and then stopped wasting my parents' money. I'm not sure how long it took me to gain it all back...
I don't think Lite N Easy is an easy fix, but I think right now it would be good to get me back into a routine and into portion control. These days it is common for me to go without breakfast, without lunch, then come home from work and just pig out on all kinds of things.
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sucks about having CFS/ME - though if you're on the right track and keep your body moving then that's the best way to deal, I feel (though i probably don't know what I'm talking about)- My Auntie has CFS and has just let herself become completely helpless. it's sad. my uncle has to cook, clean, look after her, and she never even tried to keep her body moving so her muscles have just gone completely. Whereas I saw a woman who must've been in her 60's at my ZUMBA class the other day who said SHE had CFS, and she'd been talking about how she does a different kind of class every day! yikes! Proof that you can overcome all obstacles if you just get your head in the right space :)
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Good on you for signing up to that program - keep us posted :)
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