What do YOU do?

TakinSexyBack
TakinSexyBack Posts: 300 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have been on this trip for over a year. I have had my months I did well, and months I just sucked. I guess the main thing I should say is I stopped the gaining and have lost some. I got rid of a lot of bad habits but need to seriously build on more new good ones. I have recently gotten back into the game and I am not going to stop until this race is finished and I am in first place. The problem I find myself in is that over the last few months of 13-14 hour work days five days a week, interviews, a promotion, moving, new job, etc............I have fallen back into my old bad habits of wanting WAY more food than I NEED when I eat. I catch myself wanting to eat mindlessly also and some days I just think about food all day until I eat again even though I damn well KNOW I'm not hungry. When you are faced with these challenges to get back to where you need to be, what do YOU do? *kitten* doesn't count!!! :-D

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  • Joebob8
    Joebob8 Posts: 69 Member
    I eat more protein, fat, and vegetables and cut back on carbs to curb hunger. The more sweets, pastries, pasta I eat the hungrier I get!
  • allshebe
    allshebe Posts: 423 Member
    Several options
    1. plan tiny meals to be eaten every few hours
    2. find ways to distract yourself - take a short walk around your "office", do some other exercise, check the news or email (keep your mind and hands busy)
    3. Drink some water or coffee or tea (no cream or sugar)
    4. I eat something, but only after careful consideration - never mindless "noshing"
  • joshdann
    joshdann Posts: 618 Member
    I just think about how much more I want to drop fat than I want to eat whatever food is on my mind. Going for a walk helps a lot, too. For example, I'm a big guy and when I go to subway or another sub type joint, I eat a whole footlong sandwich. It's not overfilling, it's just right. Sometimes I want to spread that out a bit, since I know I'll be hungry later. Walking to the sandwich place (about 3.5 miles round trip) makes it super easy to eat half then and half later. I'm not as hungry when I get there, and I'm not hungry at all when I get back. Satiety helps a lot with the cravings and exercise generates satiety, at least in the short term.
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    This may sound silly, but I ask myself which "me" wants to eat--the old me or the new me. The old me ate portion sizes that someone 7' tall should eat. The old me ate when she wasn't hungry. The old me caved into peer pressure. The old me wasn't very active any more. The old me loved sweets.

    The new me still loves sweets, but can resist them most of the time. The new me eats portion sizes that someone 5' tall should eat (I'm 5' tall). The new me eats only when she's hungry (90% of the time--nobody's perfect--I'm a work in progress still), the new me doesn't have to eat just because everyone else is doing it. And the best things yet are that the new me consciously makes better choices even when she's "bad" and is lots more active now!

    Just make 2 or 3 small goals for the week and stick to them. Then next week, do the same. And so on and so on...
  • sk_pirate
    sk_pirate Posts: 282 Member
    This may sound silly, but I ask myself which "me" wants to eat--the old me or the new me.


    Whoa HELLO!!! This is the best thing I've read in a long time! I'm stealing this. (For me I think it's mind over matter at this point!)

    Cheers friend! :drinker:
  • NikkiSixGuns
    NikkiSixGuns Posts: 630 Member
    I've been maintaining for pushing three years now, and I still have days where I want what I know I don't need...

    I still log and have a calorie budget. I treat it like a real budget - if I spend too much on one day then I know I've got to make it up on the next. Sometimes just knowing that going overboard today is going to cost me tomorrow is enough to make me realize that I really don't want what I think I want.

    When I just want to eat because I'm bored/stressed, it helps to recognize it. Then I can choose something that's going to fix the real issue.

    Other times it's just cravings that make me want to eat when I'm not hungry. In that case I find something reasonable that will fit in my budget for the day and take care of the craving.

    I don't think that these challenges ever go away -- you just get better at coping with them.
  • bellesouth18
    bellesouth18 Posts: 1,071 Member
    This may sound silly, but I ask myself which "me" wants to eat--the old me or the new me.


    Whoa HELLO!!! This is the best thing I've read in a long time! I'm stealing this. (For me I think it's mind over matter at this point!)

    Cheers friend! :drinker:

    Feel free to use it! It works for me. :flowerforyou:

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