Help Me!!!!!

 

OK this is the first time I have posted on here but I really need help.

When I first started this on Dec 28 and I was so addicted to this site. It was the first place I went to every morning and I always logged my food at the start of the day just so I could make sure I was in my correct amount of cals. And I was doing great I had lost 14 in one month. I know mostly I lost so much was because I really didnt realize that the food I was eating was so high in cal and really not good for me at all. I am eating around 1300 cal a day but the last week I have really fallen off the wagon. I get on here in the morning and put in what I am eating for breakfast but after that I dont come back here until the next morning. I have no longer been weighing my food and have been eating sweets like crazy. And plus I bought a new scale and I dont know if it is the new scale or I have REALLY fallen off the wagon but now I weigh 9 lbs more than I did on the 27. I know i really just need to commit to this again and I need to get excited about this again and hopefully that will help me get back into the swing of things here.

So far today I have been very good, I just hope I can keep this up.

Everyone falls off the wagon at some point, but it's not like the wagon has sped up. You can still get back on! Try to get back into the good habits you'd been practicing before and remember that you'll always have support on here!

Just think about the goal and how good you'll feel for summer

Just take it one day at a time--you know you can do it because you've done it before.  If you slip up, just take a breath, concentrate on your goal, and keep on working toward it.

Good luck!

Thanks so much for the kind words I really need to hear them. And also thanks for reminding me about the summer. My husband and I are going to Las Vegas around June. So that is what I will be thinking about everytime I go for the sweets, ok almost everytime.

Thanks again

antonia, you sort of lost your way for a week or so but that doesn't mean you're sunk. Remember how good you felt when you were on track and loosing? Is any food really as sweet as that felt? Even if you log in just once a day, you can still enter your food for the preceding 24 hours. As for the scale, I can see how that would be discouraging. Most likely you gained a couple of pounds but also picked up some water weight. (Have you been drinking enough H2O during your time off?) Then there may also a couple of pounds difference between the scales too.

There are 19 weeks until June. Time is going to pass no matter what. You can eat junk the whole time, feel bad about it, and give up on your goals. OR you can get back on your program and head into summer up to 38 pounds lighter and feeling great.

I sure hope you'll stick around!

Chris -- I just wanted to say thanks so much for making me feel better and thanks for giving it to me straight. You are right June is going to come not matter what so I might as well try to be healthier in that time. As far as water goes that is all I drink now. When I started this I use to drink sweet tea but saw it really wasnt good for me, we use a lot of sugar in it, so I just stopped drink it and switched over to just water. And I have a glass with me all day and drink quite a bit of it now. I took a sip of my husbands the other day and there is no way I could drink that now. It is like syrup, it that funny the tea is too sweet for me but chocolate isnt.

Well thanks again.

Well, you know .. Chocolate IS one of the basic food groups! ... LOL

Actually, something you might want to try, instead of denying yourself ALL good things ... Give yourself the opportunity to enjoy your healthy eating.

Did you know that a 1/4 cup of Semi-sweet chocolate chips is a rather enjoyable snack/dessert every once in a while and really, from what I can tell, only about 70 calories? I make room for that sort of thing in my eating plan.

This doesn't mean that every day is chocolate day ... but I treat myself to a skinny cow ice cream sandwich on those days where if I don't add something I will be too deep in deficit from working out or activity or whatever. No, I am not bribing myself with food either, just recognizing that I WON'T get through this if I deny myself everything I enjoy out of life. Moderation is not a dirty word ... LOL

Anyway, you will make it through this, and on to the next goal, and the next, one step at a time ... And I leave you with the words that have been MY inspiration this week ... "We cannot change everything we face, but we will not change anything until we face it!"

Keep it up and feel free to message if you need to hear encouragement or you need someone to lay it straight! 

Namaste!

~Katt

Good for you for realizing that you need to get back on the wagon!  As others have said, you've done it before, so you can do it again!

I agree with Xaspar - don't try to deny yourself all treats.  Just remember to have them in moderation.  Try to think ahead and schedule them in as much as you can.  If you know you're going out to eat one night, try to eat light the rest of the day so you have more calories to spend at dinner.

Order dessert, but only eat half.  I did this with cheesecake a couple of weeks ago and I felt so decadent having cheesecake!  And I still lost weight that week because I only ate part of it and didn't go overboard.  Make sure you eat slowly and savor every bite that you have - make the most of it! 

I also have a Dove Dark Chocolate square scheduled in for each day.  It is 42 calories and it is big enough that I can break off little pieces, and let them melt in my mouth, which makes it last a long time.  Completely satisfies my craving for sweets, and dark chocolate is good for my blood pressure and heart.

So, look at your diet plan, figure out where you can cut things back, make substitutions, but keep the things that will make you feel satisfied and go for it!

When June gets here you'll be feeling great!

Hey there,

Good for you for realizing that you've slipped.  But don't punish yourself too much becasue we are only human and make mistakes.  I agree with everyone that says you need to treat yourself once in awhile.  We all need to induldge every so oftern so that being healthy doesn't seem like a punishment.  You just need to find what your indulgence is, recognize that and maybe set aside a day when that's when you can treat yourself.  Just not everyday, ha ha.  Anyway keep it up and before you know it you'll be back on track.  Oh yah Remember "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!!"

 

Lynn

Just a suggestion but if you're only logging in once per day right now and that's about all your internal motivator can do, then make the most of that single visit!

I think it would be wise for you, during that visit, to plan out your menu for the whole day. Really think through what you're going to eat for lunch & dinner with associated calories. Plan in a few snacks too so you can look forward to them.

This is what I do every day. And if I ever feel like I'm starving or craving something, I think about my food log and take comfort in the fact that I have actually planned to have a cupcake or chips or a sandwich and that it's alright! I think preparation is power. You can totally do it! 14 lbs is HUGE - 9 lbs. is HUGE TOO! Don't let that scale get you down. Just start from square one with it.

Are you sure you eat enough? You say that you eat 1300 cals, but (and please don't take offense) you need to lose more than a few pounds so I would guess that the eat meter would put your higher on the ladder. I don't have exact numbers for how tall you are and what your current weight is, but 1300 seems a bit low. It could be that you do not eat enough. But then.... I don't know your numbers.

If your numbers are correctly entered in the account then maybe you need to drink more water. Another aspect is that you are sensitive to processed sugars, so try to leave them out for a while and see how that makes you feel. Also lots of wheat can take your sugar levels off (wheat changes to sugar in your mouth already when you chew). Also eating more fiber (at least 25 gr per day) will help you stay out of trouble.

Hope this helps,
Jolanda

I dont think I am eating to little. I am 5'4" and as of right now I weight 174.1, I started out at 180. My daily burn calculator says I burn alittle less than 1900 cals a day. I really dont exercise right now, I know really bad but it is really hard to with two kids needing me for something every five minutes (I have had to stop typing this two times already). And I drink a lot of water everyday, all day long. That is all I drink now except for a glass of OJ everyother day but it is a good kind of OJ just 100% orange juice with nothing added to it. I would like to get down to around 135 and I know it will take time, even more time if I am not exercising. I really think my problem is 1. If I have sweets in the house it seams I have no will power. I usually dont buy sweets but I read on one of the boards about fudge bars being a good snack if you are craving chocolate. So I thought hey that would be great but I eat one everynight and sometimes even eat one during the day. And then my DH brought me home one of those big bags of the heart candies with the words on it and I was eating those every night along with my fudge bar, I know really bad. So I guess the only way to fix this is to not buy it at all, and if I do just get like a small chocolate bar. I really dont crave sweet thing unless I know it is here, if it is not I could care less about it. And 2. I need to eat a lot more fiber, on average last month I eat a total of 8 g a day.  I know this is bad but I am really clueless about what foods have fiber in it so I will do some searching to find out.

Well thanks everyone for your kinds words and for those of you that were really straight with me, I really need to hear it all.

try weaning yourself off the sugar. Sugar is a drug. I've read somewhere (bummed that I didn't remember the URL) that if it again had to be aproved by the FDA that it would get an okay. It is really nasty stuff and they put it in everything. You will find sugar in all your preprocessed foods that you eat.

Sometimes Ithink that there is a sugar maffia (when I'm having my paranoia moments :-) but you can help yourself by cooking only clean food, that is what you cook yourself and prepair yourself. It will be a hassle because you will feel ill for a while but you will get there.

Good luck, I know how hard that cold turkey part is.... I did it too and now after a couple of months I can eat *some* sugar again without getting my levels all mixed up again (and me acting like a fool).

Jolanda

I really think that falling off the wagon is part of my lifestyle. I imagine I will do it on and off for the rest of my life. However, if I don't make getting back on the wagon part of my lifestyle too, I will never reach or maintain my goals.