Trouble Staying Diet Track

brebre757

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!

JaydedMiss

be an adult....do it.... Use a food scale and some self control.

katthouse499

Not sure if this will help but I meal prep for the week as well as my snacks so I can grab and go

JaydedMiss

Theres absolutely nothing else to it, You either want to lose weight or you dont. Obviously you already know the problem no one here can tell you any different.

Theo166

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

Future serial starter?

Seriously though I do have a question!

What's stopping you from following through?

fubarfornow

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

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

Some folks find pre logging their meals the night before helps them be accountable.

kaizaku

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

Therapy

MelanieCN77

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

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.

running_in_tiaras

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.

tinkerbellang83

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

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.

size102b

I only read the first 2 comments then gave up on small minded replies

1. Your obviously an adult it doesn't make you a child all because you struggle to stay on plan.
2. Of course you really really want this or you wouldn't be on here asking for help.

Losing weight is all in the head - sounds stupid but it is, it makes. me cross people on here say grow up , you can do if stop making excuses

Tough love and all that really doesn't work believe me I long to be a size 10 hence name and healthy as possible super fit but life happens and so I get lax and my attentions taken away from my health goals .... Shoot me now for not being perfect
Im sure those who keep quoting this same things didn't get fatter or drink too much or cheats and lie because they aren't adults or don't want things enough we all do things we don't want to or shouldn't it's life , yes some of us simply have been through things that effect us differently than others
So people stop judging and putting others down if it was that simple as you need to grow up and want it no one would be fat a drug addict a gambler a cheat a criminal and the world wouldn't be suffering a overweight epidemic

You know I feel cross when people have ago at others on here remember you never know what's around the corner for you and yours so remember this when you type without thinking how your words effect others it could be you one day asking help them being put down by a internet I'm better than you person

Back you you , just find a plan that works in your lifestyle ignore all the madness on here of macros and intense exercise basically you just got eat less than your body burns off
It will only work when you sort the other stuff out in your life food is a comfort and a friend but in reality it's not as it makes us fat if you eat too much

Just walk eat low calorie and be kind to you

trigden1991

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

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: