Trouble Staying Diet Track

brebre757
brebre757 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am having a hard time staying true to tracking and am falling off the way of my diet and gaining because of it. What is a good meal plan or method you guys use to stay on track? Anything will help! Thanks!

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  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    be an adult....do it.... Use a food scale and some self control.
  • katthouse499
    katthouse499 Posts: 50 Member
    Not sure if this will help but I meal prep for the week as well as my snacks so I can grab and go
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    Can you expand on what you are challenged with about it?

    I do easy repetitive meals using my phone, but if something is more complicated or a new food (not in my recent), I do the entries when I'm on a PC.

    Can you start a ritual of updating it at the end of the day, and adding anything you missed. Some people pre-enter their food for the day or the week, which helps them stay on track with their meal plan.
  • Hello_its_Dan
    Hello_its_Dan Posts: 406 Member
    Future serial starter?

    Seriously though I do have a question!

    What's stopping you from following through?
  • fubarfornow
    fubarfornow Posts: 40 Member
    Planning ahead really helps me. If I have meals for the day worked out ahead of time, I don't have decisions to make when I'm hungry. I don't literally pre-log my food (though I know many people here do, and that works for them) but I have meals planned -- I have all the ingredients (which means the box, in some cases) and I have lower-calorie salad dressing, or sour cream etc. on hand and planned in to the meal.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    edited March 2017
    fubarfornow wrote: »
    Planning ahead really helps me. If I have meals for the day worked out ahead of time, I don't have decisions to make when I'm hungry. I don't literally pre-log my food (though I know many people here do, and that works for them) but I have meals planned -- I have all the ingredients (which means the box, in some cases) and I have lower-calorie salad dressing, or sour cream etc. on hand and planned in to the meal.

    all this ^^ helps me, too. Also planning foods I genuinely enjoy a lot and look forward to eating makes it easier to say "no thank you" to unplanned treats. Good luck, OP.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Some folks find pre logging their meals the night before helps them be accountable.
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
    It comes down to how bad you want it. It's easy saying you want to do something but when it comes to the crunch people bail. Plan your meals in advance that may help.
  • SierraFatToSkinny
    SierraFatToSkinny Posts: 463 Member
    Therapy
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    If you're serious enough not to let yourself use excuses on yourself, you can manage. If you're playing games with yourself, have a good think about that.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    brebre757 wrote: »
    I am having a hard time staying true to tracking and am falling off the way of my diet and gaining because of it. What is a good meal plan or method you guys use to stay on track?
    What do you mean by "staying true to tracking"? What about it is difficult?

    What diet is this? If it's your diet, you don't fall of. Is it really someone else's diet?

    I don't go on and off track, I just live my life. I eat anything I want, but not all the time, and not everything at once. I stick to foods I can eat to satiety. I plan meals I want to eat. I eat regular meals and wait until I'm hungry before I eat, then I eat what I planned. Occasionally I eat something else instead or in addition, but that's just that... occasionally. I don't worry about eating "right", but I do make an effort to fuel myself properly.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,120 Member
    It depends on what is hindering you:
    • Are you being too restrictive or trying to eat an unsustainable diet (too low calorie)? Try eating what you would normally eat but in smaller portions. Don't set an overly agressive weight loss rate, set it lower and it will come off steadily and you won't feel like you're dieting and it will be something that is sustainable.
    • Are you expecting too much, too soon? It can take over 4 weeks to see progress
    • Do you have any support for accountability? Add some friends on MFP that have similar goals to yourself.
    • Are you honest with your logging when you "fall off"? If you go over your calories, log it and move on, don't dwell and don't give up because you've had a "bad day". If you are serious about losing weight there will probably be bumps in the road, but just drive over them and keep going.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    You need to just log. Log, log, log. Log EVERYTHING. Don't use overeating as an excuse to quit logging. So you went to the Chinese buffet and ate everything in sight? So what? Log it. Just keep logging.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    You either want to lose weight, or don't.

    If you do, then you know what you need to do. If you don't then do whatever and eat whatever you want.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    edited March 2017
    asykers wrote: »
    I was where you are not too long ago when I had my ah ha moment. I have always wanted to lose weight but I always thought losing weight required a massive change to my current diet and I always had reasons that made it impossible to lose weight. So while I agree with the comments "it depends on how bad you want it," I don't think it is as simple as that. I got to the point where I was done making excuses and was going to do what it takes to lose the weight. I lost the weight by a restrictive diet and since that's all I knew I was planning to do it again. To get inspiration I started reading the success boards here. The theme I saw when reading them was it wa all about calories in vs calories out. That was my ah ha moment. These people didn't do a special diet they just changed the amount of calories they ate. I decided I was going to give calorie counting one last chance and if it didn't work I was going to go back to my original plan and do the restrictive diet. I threw everything I knew to be true about dieting out the window. I am not a snacker so I only eat 3 big meals a day and sometimes I only eat two. Big meals seem to keep me fuller longer than eating small meals and to me they are more satisfying. I also love carbs and my diet before my "diet" was mostly carbs and I still eat mostly carbs. I also didn't make any foods forbidden except for soda but that is more because I eat really crappy when I drink soda. I eat everything else, I just eat less. I also didn't want to stick with a 1200 calorie diet so I eat 1700. I have lost 23 lbs in 8 weeks and it hasn't felt like I was on a diet. If I knew I could eat like I do and lose weight I would have started long ago. I just didn't know how to do it. My advice is do what you are already doing, just eat less. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. If you are a snacker then eat 5-6 times a day. If you are not, eat like I do and eat 2-3 times a day. The more you can eat like you do currently, the less like a diet it will feel like. I know if I would have done the restrictive diet I would have either quit by now or I would have lost the weight just to gain it back when I started eating normally again.

    ^^ great post! Would like twice if I could :flowerforyou:

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