Are you a Dr. jekyll & Mr. Hyde with your food?

santd

Looking back over my diary, where I eat socially- I can either be really good! or really bad. Its as though I'm Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde sometimes; and do you know, I know which one is going to come out before i get the party.

Sometimes I think to myself what the heck just eat what you like, other times I'm like a bird eating. I feel, it is according to my mood that I'm in, and I don't mean am I enjoying the party. I mean- do I want to be nice to myself or not. If I want to be healthy and nice it doesn't matter what do i go to, I will be good, but when i get the devil in me....I don't care! but I certainly regret it the next morning.

I've just come back off holiday, where I've put on 7 pounds, but my holiday in April I lost 3 pounds. In April I deliberately wanted to do a hiking holiday to lose weight. This time I just wanted to relax and do nothing..........but eat, obviously. Now I feel consumed with guilt, and I'm hating myself. But more determined now to get back on the straight an narrow to get to my target of 11 pounds before the end of this summer.

I started my diet again today with doing 4 hours hard gardening, I can hardly move this morning. No pain no gain, or lose in this situation.

I must find away of controlling Dr. Jekyll, does anyone else have the same problem. If so, do you recognise it straight away and how do you deal with Dr. Jekyll?

JustLindaLou

I can really relate!!! Sometimes I go to parties and I "try to be good", then I get home later and stuff my face, regretting that I passed up the goodies at the party, feeling deprived.....

Sometimes I go and find myself mindlessly munching the chips just because they are there/it's Day 28/I'm bored... Then later I really regret it because I don't feel well, eating all that junk....

Sometimes I have the mindset in advance of what I will allow myself to eat, then I get there and see the options and say "oh screw it!" and load up the plate...

What really works best for me, is to see what the options are, and decide what I really like the most, maybe things I don't get to eat very often, and try to focus on them. If there are veggie or fruit trays, I try to have a good selection of them.

If it's a birthday party or other occasion when cake is served, I pretty much always have a piece because it is what I call "a controlled environment" - I will only have 1 piece and enjoy it, unlike if I had a cake at home and would eat the whole thing...

I have lost weight on vacation, I have gained or maintained... all depends on how active, what the eating options were, etc... But it's VACATION, so I try not to beat myself up about the results when I get home, just get back to it...

I am still trying to figure out how to manage my Mr Hyde, who cannot have a portion of pasta, slice of pizza or piece of bread without it turning into a feeding frenzy.... some foods I just have to be "nothing or it's all!"