11-10-2016, 01:04 PM
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Re: OFF slimming club---open to everyone.
Originally Posted by
susiejaeger
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You're very good doing on your own, I can't.
I just had scrambled eggs on one of those round toastie tings.
I've always done it on my own. One, I'm not a social person and don't feel like sharing my weight and what I've eaten that week, etc, with total strangers. Two, I've got better things to blow my money on. So I figured it out for myself.
I get that some people like the support of others, though. I, however, prefer to do
everything on my own, regardless of what it is (I could never stand having anyone go shopping with me, either) because, well, that's just my nature.
Originally Posted by
mariana
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Any meat can make me feel ill-that is why I rarley eat it...
I don't blame you.
Originally Posted by
mariana
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Well done Jainie---I think most people seem to think that maintaining is more difficult than actually losing weight !
It is. Losing the weight is only half the battle.
Keeping it off is the real challenge and, sadly, most people do not succeed. They say more than half of people who lose weight put it all back on (and sometimes more) within the first year. And there's a simple reason for that, which is what happened to me - I lost the weight I wanted to lose, became complacent and got careless with my eating and, little by little, right back on came most of the weight I had lost.
The key to losing weight and keeping it off is making permanent lifestyle changes that you can live with comfortably. And the biggest thing I've found that never worked is deprivation. Severely restricting or even eliminating a particular food group or your favorite foods is only setting yourself up for disappointment and failure. Some people have 'trigger' foods that they have to stay away from completely or they'll eat themselves sick once they finally get their hands on it and that's perfectly understandable. With some people, just being around certain foods can cause loss of control; similar to shoving a bottle of vodka into the face of an alcoholic who's trying to abstain from drinking.
But if you can squeeze in a piece or two of your favorite pizza now and again without eating the whole pie - i.e. you're satisfied with those two pieces until you get your craving again maybe a couple of months later - then there's no reason to completely deny yourself such things. I've found allowing myself occasional small portions of a favorite 'sinful' treat keeps me happy and on track for a good few months until I get my craving again. Just knowing, in the back of my mind, that I CAN have those foods once in a while is what keeps me plugging away.
If you deny yourself those foods, but then cave and eat them anyway, you suddenly feel you've blown the whole thing and may even end up throwing in the towel altogether. It's a mindset, a mentality thing. And it's really not worth it in the end. You just have to learn to trust yourself.