Consistently Overeating and Missing Target Caloric Goals

vivo1972

This doesn't work for everyone but it works for me.

I'm 47 and have been overweight since a child.

I stopped dieting last summer, eating diet foods and went back to traditional eating like generations before me.

I eat butter, peanut butter, a pudding every meal, generally a fruit crumble because I can measure the amount of sugar/spelt/butter etc etc. I try to make everything I eat satisfying. That's the key word for me.

I set myself a very small target of a stone in 6 months and I achieved it relatively easily. My weight went up and down but I just shrugged it off, it's my body digesting and removing waste (I don't have periods anymore so it's not that).

I'm not a perfect 'dieter'. I splash out sometimes on ice-cream and pizza. But hey veggie pizza is good for you! Ice-cream is my vice and I treat it like alcohol - sometimes I party and sometimes I just cannot bear the sugar hangover the next day.

I also have increased my vigourous exercise for just 20 mins 2-3 times a week. I like that, it gives me a buzz.

Plus NEAT - walking the dog a bit further, cleaning the house more and walking with the shopping.

So after all that waffle I haven't put on or lost weight in two months. I should lose another 2 stone, but hey it will go eventually. Under that layer of fat is muscle, I know it's there I can feel it.

Mental satisfication leads to results. Good luck, I hope you find your way xx

hookandy

This losing wieght thing is a pain, lots of good thoughts in the posts above, my thoughts are mainly around relaxing and taking the pressure off yourself. If I "diet" and "cut out" cake, all I want all day is cake. Is some of your issue just that? You have this figure in your head and that is causing you to focus on this?

What about switching to closer to maintainance maybe 100 cal under, and trying some of the suggestions above?

Eat more often, plan out, eat less often, swap foods about, hey what ever takes your fancy.

Or try and up the exercise, either cardio, walking, or weights, another good distraction from that "darn" number in red/green

Dontkillbill

Only thing I have to add is that when I eat too little for a few days it usually spells disaster for the week. I can't tell you how much you need to eat that's so hard to figure out but you may need a few hundred more calories and 200 extra planned calories are a lot easier to manage than 1000 calories you eat out of cravings etc. Good luck we all try hard and biology makes it hard for some BUT you can do it.