Feel like diets won't ever work
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elliejayneday132
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Right, I feel like a fat potato! Doesn't seem my diet (healthy eating) is working....i feel miserable!
Anyone else feel this way?
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Anyone else feel this way?
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Healthy eating doesn't guarantee weight loss. Only a calorie deficit does.14
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Why would you think healthy eating would create weight loss?
I could eat all the healthy foods that I want and still gain weight.
Weight loss is about creating a caloric deficit. It sounds like you may need to go back and read the stickies in the beginning of the forum.5 -
I got fat eating healthy foods. It was easy. Then I got thin again. It was simple (not always easy).
Eat foods you enjoy, in appropriate quantities. From foods you enjoy, choose the ones you find most filling and tasty for the calories you have to spend on them. Strive to combine them in ways that create well-rounded nutrition most of the time. That will work.
Weird diets where you eat in ways you don't enjoy to punish yourself for losing weight, or redeem your sin of having gained too much weight? Those don't work, at least not for long.
You can find a route that works. Best wishes!
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Ok. My diet is (and always has been) what you would call "healthy", I am a good cook, enjoy cooking, and understand nutrition. And in 2015/16 I got fat following an injury/hospital time because I ate the same. I should have eaten less because I was pretty much bedbound for a while. That's why I ended out on here for a year getting everything back under control.
Tracking what you eat works, you just have to be patient and stick with it.6 -
Are you fat (obese)? If so, it's a good idea to lose weight. To lose weight, you need a calorie deficit over time. Diets don't work. They create a calorie deficit, but they are impossible to stick to. Your diet is what you eat. A healthy diet is balanced and varied, enough of everything you need every day, and not too many calories over time.
To make sure you're eating less, use your food diary and a food scale. To decide if you're really losing weight, weigh yourself regularly, and monitor your weight for weeks.5 -
Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.4 -
elliejayneday132 wrote: »Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.
As I said above, you don’t have to workout to lose weight. Get a food scale, weigh everything you eat on it, and log those amounts in MFP, making sure you’re in a calorie deficit.3 -
Stop with the "diets" and eat less. You can eat healthy, just eat less of it. I lost my first 50 lbs in 6 months as a total couch potato-no exercise at all. Wasn't till I started recording everything I ate that I realized why my idea of eating "in moderation" hadn't been working for all the years up till then--I was simply eating too much. It's just physics--if you are maintaining your weight then you are eating enough calories to sustain it.7
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elliejayneday132 wrote: »Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.
I'm waiting on a double knee replacement at the end of the year..... bad knees don't make workouts impossible, you just need to be more creative.
As mentioned above, diets don't work, motivation is fleeting, creating new habits take time.
But................ if you start by purchasing a food scale (they aren't expensive), weigh and log your food every day and stick to MFP's daily calorie limit it gives you when you load your stats............. you WILL lose weight.
Commit to one month..... that's just 30 days! Trust in the process and you will create new habits that will last long after the motivation wears off!!1 -
Don't think of it as a diet. Secondly, you have to have a calorie deficit to lose weight. Healthy eating can mean eating just as many calories of different foods. Weigh and measure everything that passes your lips and log it all, honestly. It is hard but believe me, a few weeks in and you'll be seeing progress.0
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elliejayneday132 wrote: »Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.
Have you tried determining an appropriate calorie target based on the amount of weight you want to lose and logging all the foods you eat, ideally with a food scale for accuracy?3 -
elliejayneday132 wrote: »Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.
as others have mentioned, have you tried weighing/measuring the food and logging to see what the calories works out to? I know what I thought/felt was a "moderate portion" was wayyy off. especially once i measured it on a scale.
"Healthy" foods can add up to many calories. Nuts are a good example of a healthy good food but it adds up in calories very fast.
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At the end of every day, when you complete your diary on here, is it less than you are given?
If it is, then in theory you lose weight.
If you cheat, then why bother?
You are only cheating your self
You hurt your knee. Go swimming.
Lose weight = eat less + move more0 -
Felt the same way until I started Keto life and logging the food on here. In 7 minths I went from 300lbs down to 225lbs and from waddling up the road to running 5k twice a week by using C25k app on a tredmill.
I soon realised that all these "healthy" foods are full of sugar which caused me to endlessly put on weight.18 -
elliejayneday132 wrote: »Literally finding it so difficult to budge the weight...i injured my knee last year stopping my nans dog getting humped and fell down a hole. So workout is abit impossible with my knee (waiting on surgery)
I eat healthy and have stuff in moderation but it's not helping 😒 I've tried all sorts of diets and nothing worked.
Eating healthy or dieting does nothing without a calorie deficit. Use the free tools that MFP gives you, log everything that you eat or drink daily and stay within the calorie goal it sets for you and the weight loss will happen. No amount of silly diets will work unless what you're eating is less than what your body burns in a day.
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antiChairForce wrote: »Felt the same way until I started Keto life and logging the food on here. In 7 minths I went from 300lbs down to 225lbs and from waddling up the road to running 5k twice a week by using C25k app on a tredmill.
I soon realised that all these "healthy" foods are full of sugar and fat which made me overeat on them because they tasted good and I caused me to endlessly put on weight.
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See if you can do some upper body exercises with weights while seated. I've been through knee surgery on both sides and know it sucks. If you get some dumbbells you can do an upper body workout. Not that this is going to burn massive calories but it helps to cut down on any muscle atrophy from inactivity while awaiting surgery. Muscle tissue burns more calories.0
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I'm sorry to hear about your knee! I'm just coming back from a knee injury myself. Restricted activity levels make things harder, but there's still plenty you can do.
Stop with the diets and start measuring and accurately logging your food to eat the calories MFP gives you for your daily goal. This is really all you need to do.
Then if you want a few more calories, and to stay healthy, you can exercise within your limitations. All kinds of arm, back, and abs routines are possible with a knee injury! If you don't have access to special equipment you can fill water bottles and use them as dumbbells. Depending on what exactly is up with your knee there may be some activities which won't aggravate it.
There was a guy who posted earlier this month who is in a wheelchair and lost more than a hundred pounds without being able to exercise, just by counting calories. It does work! I had to stop lower body exercise for a couple of months when my knee was injured and lost half a pound a week during that time just by eating slightly under maintenance. You can do this.3
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