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xkime

I'm so on and off. I fell off the wagon more times than I can count. Now, I'm twenty pounds heavier than I was at the start of the year:/ Exercising isn't a problem, but the food? I LOVE eating. My family LOVES it. I don't know how to stop my food addiction Sorry. Just a little vent thread.

dimidola

Hey, I hope you are feeling a bit better about yourself these days.. I am also an on-off kind of person and although I excercise 3-4 times a week I find myself on the heavy side of the scales. When I am on the wagon I try to make sure everything I eat is something I like. I have been on too many diets where I had convinced myself that "I could eat lettuce and tuna" ending up hating every minute of them! I try to prepare my meals when I am well-fed so that my brain decides what goes in, not my cravings. I try to have little access to snacks and have dry fruit and other low-fat options that I normally don't like within reach. Also if you excercise like you said you do, don't worry about sugars and carbs - avoid fat and complex foods.. To sound like a bad TV commercial: it's all about changing your lifestyle and your attitude towards food, not just a six week starvation to get you in your beach body.
I am not sure if I am saying these to show you support or to convince myself as I am currently trying to get back to this kind of mentality. In any case, I know what a struggle it can be. Feel free to let me know about your progress - even if you have fallen off the wagon.

xkime

Thank you. It's nice to talk to someone who understands. I see the success stories and I wonder how these people can do it...whilst I'm eating my slice of Pizza Hut pizza.

1966spen

Keep at it. I cook all dinners from scratch and have now found a new hobby....cooking. Me and hubbie eating better and much nicer food than we ever have and both lost 21 lbs in 5 months. We still eat out....just not every week. We still enjoy a drink. We just make sure we calorie count. We are enjoying our food.

MVarghese418

so I lost 30lbs over the last two years and my husband has lost 40. He has been able to maintain while I fell off the wagon back in October 2014. I gained 10 back. We have all been there. 1966spen, I started out cooking and lost a bunch of weight, but then I got pretty good at the whole cooking things and now I cook too much! I can't win.

Nicshtik

I do a lot of cooking, and lot of eating. BUT - it just boils down to portion control. I still eat all the stuff I want to (last night we made ribs...I skipped the potato salad, only had a couple of bites of corn on the cob and had a HUGE salad and a couple of ribs, I WAS STUFFED).
As long as I generally stay within my calorie goal, and I feel good, then it doesn't matter what is keeping me in there.