Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 4939 Gender: Female
Posted: 04 January 2008 at 9:55pm | IP Logged
I think it's time for me to completely fess up and fully admit that i am so unhappy about my weight.
I know that no woman is every satisfied with her weight or how she looks, but belive me when i say I truly dont. I'm at breaking point now.
The thing is I need to lose about 4 stone. I'm a size 16 - 18 on a bad day.
I have no will power whatsoever. I want to lose weight but the minute i tell myself I'm going to eat healthy or im cutting this out or similar, I go in to a panic and all i can think of is food. I think I have some kind of over eating disorder.
I dont eat breakfast - which I know is my down fall but i cant stand to eat before lunch. I very rarely eat lunch so i eat a big tea, then pick. I comfort eat and I always have done.
Its only now, that I have admitted it to myself I want to do something about it.
How do you motivate yourself to get motivated?
Edit: Just read that back and it sounds rather odd, but I guess you know what I mean. I am according to my bmi obese for my weight/height. I just dont know where to start. Well, I do but I just cant seem to get my butt into gear
Joined: 11 September 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 2741 Gender: Female
Posted: 04 January 2008 at 10:25pm | IP Logged
Hi Hun
Strangly i'm the same if i go on a diet i crave the food so badly i actually hide it in the house and eat it in private!
I have found a slow way to cut down on what i eat..... try not to buy so much of every thing and try to section the food off i put for example chocolate in a frezzer bag (the blocks broken up) and mark the bags mon, tues etc and make the bag last all day which is hard but i'm now able to do it...... i also have the fruit bowl full and kept infront of chocolate so if i'm hungry i'll more often have fruit over digging the choc out as i know it's there and i can eat it later....
The other thing i have found is having a glass of water with dinner or a meal and when you eat chew slowly, put food down if holding in between and knife and forks etc, chew slowly and take your time.... i find i'm full quicker this way than before......
i don't really know what else to suggest hun, i'm doing this and it's a slow process for me but i know i couldn't do the gi diet as for me it means not eating a lot of the foods i live off. hth but your not alone hun xxx
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5913 Gender: Female
Posted: 04 January 2008 at 11:51pm | IP Logged
Maybe it's not the amount you eat but the way you eat that is causing you more problems. I hate my weight at the moment and before Christmas did start to loose some using the GI diet although we weren't as strict as the book suggests because I know we wouldn't have stuck to it if we were but we did make some good changes to our diet. We have slipped slightly and are now in the process of still plouging our way through the post christmas chocolates....
I never used to be a breakfast eater and to a large extent still don't because I don't get up in time in the morning to have breakfast as well as get ready for work and spend 5 mins with Ols. When I am not at work though I do have breakfast but maybe about an hour after I wake up as I can't face it straight away. I normally have porridge as that is part of the GI diet and Ols likes to help me eat it. At work I tend to have a cereal bar you can get lower cal alpen bars, you can nibble at them and eat them on the hop. Keith always makes me lunch and I pop home most days. I only take fruit back with me to work in the afternoon so stops me eating bisciuts and rubbish like I used to. Then we have dinner about 7pm normally. In the evening before bed I can pick if the food is in the house but by the evening if it's not in the house I can't be bothered to go out in the cold and dark to buy anything so that stops that.
I think a lot of times you need to find a diet that you like and works for you. Or maybe you don't have to change your food at all if it isn't unhealthy but walk for 30mins a day every day which is meant to be a good way of getting fit and staying thinner....
Joined: 06 September 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 537 Gender: Female
Posted: 05 January 2008 at 6:36pm | IP Logged
I know how you feel. I tell myself I have to loose some weight, and my brain goes into aaarrrggghhhh mode. I have eaten a whole box of chocs today and had two bottles of beer!! so far!! I know if I cut out both then I would loose a couple of pounds straight away. But I have nothing else in my sad little life at the moment that I can look forward to. They re my treats. I dont go out , I dont smoke, I very rarely buy new clothes, so....
I know I m the only one who can kick myself up the behind, but its hard init?
Maybe we should start our own little shame yourselves section!!! tell everyone what we ve eaten/drunk and how much excercise weve done....
maybe that would be motivation enough? pm me if you have any ideas?
Joined: 24 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 2547 Gender: Female
Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:56pm | IP Logged
As of next week I am starting on the GI Diet - got the books for a quid each in poundland!! Have just done my shopping online and im very suprised to say that I havent spent as much as I usually do, in fact I thought I would spend more!!
Hunny, I have been overweight all of my life and even now, after having a gastric bypass operation, I am a size 20+ It gets me down too hunny, but Im determined to make this work cos I shouldnt be this big, what with the op and all, its just my lifestyle. Im also going to the docs to see if he will change the form of morphine im on from patch form to oral form so that I can go swimming again, as that is the only form of exercise i can do.
There are a few of the members who are embarking on weight-loss plans, we are all here for each other, and I certainly dont mind if you want to pm me or have a chat in one of the main-chat rooms to get it off your chest hunny.
Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 1420 Gender: Female
Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:48pm | IP Logged
i am going to start the gi diet on monday too, i dont have sweet tooth so i know that isnt my downfall, mine is probably exercise and the contraception as i was a size 10 b4 i went on the pill then i was a size 18 then a 16 after having wentworth, i went shopping last week in new look didnt try the clothes i bought on when i got home i had to take them all back i had to get a 12 top and 14 trousers so im hoping that the implant has now started to balance itself out as ive stopped bleeding all the time and now it will be easier for me to lose weight.
oh i just bought a rowing machine too so im going to be using that daily too.
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 8519 Gender: Female
Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:55pm | IP Logged
Rin, I know exactly where you are coming from, I was there exactly about 3-4 years ago. I was 18-20 on a good day! I never eat breakfast, if I remember, I will eat lunch (I'm usually too preoccupied sorting the 2 lo's out to get me anything)and I very rarely eat a proper meal at night. I will cook for the kids, and dh but I usually end up cooking and deciding half way through that I don't fancy whatever it is I am doing. I have found it's not how much you eat it's more the time you eat it. I found having a couple of ginger biscuits with my first cuppa a way of getting round brekkie, either that or them breakfast bars, they may not be much but at least it starts your motabolism working, then by 11 I am startig to feel hungry, maybe toast, or something light, or a couple of pieces of fruit, I love satsumas, so I munch on them anytime, I would suggest giving yourself a pudding (like a bar of chocolate) to make sure you eat lunch! but only if you have had lunch. I found not buying in loads of treats was a better way of doing thins, and no eating after 7 is hard in this house as dh doesn't come in til 8 or 9, so restrict all the biscuits cakes and choccy til before 7pm, if you want to snack after that eat fruit or veg, Grapes are a fantastic one or sultanas etc, you can eat plenty and they have a good effect if you have(like me) been eating crackers rather than bread etc. Hope this helps, but if you do have a day where you slide, start again the next day, don't sit feeling guilty, it's not worth the extra hassle! I am now alot slimmer (I won't tell you my size you'll be jelous) but believe me it does work! Good luck. I also found that I didn't worry about my weight and never weigh myself, I went by the size clothes I wanted to fit.
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