I'm really over this whole "dieting" thing.

MsLexii

It drives me bonkers when people are attempting to lose weight but they call it "dieting" ... It is NOT a diet. It is NOT temporary. You can NOT go back to eating how you did after you lose the weight, because the weight comes back!! Sure it's okay to have a treat (within moderation) once in awhile, but the weight didn't pile on by eating a treat once in awhile.

- I love my active MFP friends that take an active approach to their health. That realize that this is a lifelong journey and changing our eating habits is the only way we will maintain our goal weight once achieved. I love people that do NOT make it a habit to eat fast food every day, log one meal, and call it healthy because they were under 1400 calories. I love people who are NOT dieting, but are making small permanent changes to better their overall health and maintain that health!! I love love love people who realize that motivation is something that comes from within you, it goes deeper than "I don't feel like it today" .. and no amount of MFP friends can spark that inside of you!! Though, friends do help and I love my MFP friends!! (Just saying. Motivation ultimately has to be a strength that you find inside yourself.)

I LOVE open diaries! Mine is open to my friends! (You are welcome to add me, if you feel as though you fall into the above category!)

lenoresdream

I hate the word dieting. I say I'm eating healthy or on a journey to healthy.

Dieting has such negative connotations for me.

MsLexii

lenoresdream wrote: »

I hate the word dieting. I say I'm eating healthy or on a journey to healthy.

Dieting has such negative connotations for me.

I agree!! "Dieting" is such a temporary word. It's what you hear on TV when women want to lose an unrealistic 5lbs. It's a horrible word, that should have nothing to do with weight loss LOL!!!

GigiShy

Me too. I don't think I've ever "gone on a diet." It's a set-up for failure in my own head. I just work on learning and making good choices with a fair amount of splurge. What's life without discipline and grace?

MsLexii

GigiShy wrote: »

Me too. I don't think I've ever "gone on a diet." It's a set-up for failure in my own head. I just work on learning and making good choices with a fair amount of splurge. What's life without discipline and grace?

Exactly!! I think it's totally okay to splurge once in awhile, I agree with you 100%. If you don't indulge once in awhile then you could end up obsessing over it. Which is never healthy. Maybe I'm being too harsh? I think people should do the best they can do, educate themselves, widen their knowledge of what "health" means and is, ask for help, ask where to start, TRY, and once they know better, DO better. When they don't - I have no tolerance. Maybe that's my own flaw, haha!

I am not perfect. I screw up. I fall on the wagon. But I get back up and I try again. I get back on the horse the next meal, the next day, the next opportunity that I have. I think having a healthy and realistic mindset about weight loss is so important!!

cookma423

I don't like the idea of "going on a diet" or "[fad] diets". But I don't hate the word itself. I just use it as the easy reference to my eating habits. I've been sticking to my summer "training diet" again, just meaning that I'm more closely tracking my intake again compared to the last few months.

I just look at this way anymore: there are some foods that are good for the waistline and others that are good for the soul, and you have to have some of both in order to eat happy

BekahC1980

I'm on my lifestyle change is, what I tell people

upoffthemat

I agree and I have given up trying to explain it to others, especially my Mom. It seems like to some people if you are losing weight you must be on a diet and the concept of a lifestyle change just leaves them with a furrowed brow and gaping jaw.

Pascoe76

I use the words life improvement. Ive come to the realization that i can't eat what the person next to me eats. i have to monitor what i shovel into my head. once i got over the whole its unfair why can he eat 2 big macs and stay skinny and i watch him eat 2 big macs and put on weight ive pushed forward. dont get me wrong i have bad days and ive only lost 9kg of my 30kg goal. we have let ourselves get like this and only ourselves can change it

MsLexii

Brett_Pascoe wrote: »

I use the words life improvement. Ive come to the realization that i can't eat what the person next to me eats. i have to monitor what i shovel into my head. once i got over the whole its unfair why can he eat 2 big macs and stay skinny and i watch him eat 2 big macs and put on weight ive pushed forward. dont get me wrong i have bad days and ive only lost 9kg of my 30kg goal. we have let ourselves get like this and only ourselves can change it

Oh. I am right there with you!!! I have friends that can (and do) eat SO unhealthy. Junk food. Processed food. Fast food. Daily!! They are thin as a rail. They have weekly family brownie bake nights. Yet are still crazy thin! Me though. I gain 5lbs if I eat a cookie LOL!!! I had to get past the "my body is just different" .. I've been on hypothyroidism meds for about 6 years now. Had to stop using that as a crutch and just do it! I have bad days too. We all do. People lie if they say they don't haha!! I have a long ways to go too! But you are 100% right on - only we, ourselves, can change us!!!

MsLexii

makingmark wrote: »

I agree and I have given up trying to explain it to others, especially my Mom. It seems like to some people if you are losing weight you must be on a diet and the concept of a lifestyle change just leaves them with a furrowed brow and gaping jaw.

Yeah. Those people. I don't do stagnant, stale people. LOL

Machka9

I'm dieting.

My lifestyle is when I'm on maintenance, and that's different from when I'm trying to lose a few kg to readjust things a little.

Right now I'm trying to lose a few kg ... so I'm dieting.

In a month or two, I'll be back onto maintenance again ... that'll be my lifestyle.

When I'm dieting, I keep my net calories below 1350.

When I'm on maintenance, I usually try to keep my net calories around 1500-1600.

When I'm dieting, I don't eat out at restaurants on a whim ... I prefer to have more control over what I eat. I like to know my calorie count. I eat a variety of food, and I eat foods I like ... I'm just not particularly spontaneous.

When I'm on maintenance, I don't care so much -- I'm more spontaneous -- as long as the number on the scale stays within a certain range. No way would I want to stick with an un-spontaneous 1350 cal/day for life! When I'm on maintenance, I return to my normal way of eating ... the way of eating that helped me maintain a normal BMI range weight most of my life.

But right now, and for the next little while, I'm dieting.

UnicornAmandaPanda

I agree!!!!!