Do you ever look back and say.....

_lyndseybrooke_

...what the *kitten* was I thinking?!

No, I'm not talking about the time you gave that guy a handy behind Walgreens, or the time you made a fool out of yourself going after a girl that clearly wanted nothing to do with you.

I'm talking specifically about nutrition and fitness related things. I look back at my 1200-calorie cardio-only yo-yo dieting past and wonder why the hell I insisted that worked for me when it so obviously didn't. If it worked, I wouldn't have kept gaining the weight back. Now I'm eating plenty of delicious food, lifting heavy, doing very little cardio, and I'm so much happier with how I feel and the changed I'm seeing in my body. I'm no longer obsessed with what the scale says and I actually ENJOY working out. It's awesome.

How about you? Do you wonder what the *kitten* you were thinking back when, or were you always a diet/fitness genius?

skippygirlsmom

Oh yes, during the apple diet, the atkins diet, the salad only diet etc etc.

CaddieMay

Now you got me thinking about the guy behind Walgreen's...

Llamapants86

I remember thinking that if I wasn't hungry all the time I wouldn't lose any weight. Now I am hardly ever hungry and still losing, just a lot less painful for me to go through.

ponycyndi

Yep. I used to think I would always be fat because starving myself never worked.

kk_140

Eating 650 calories a day and losing 4 pounds a week. Yeah, it WORKED really well for the time being, but I always gained the 20 pounds back without fail.

I feel so much better now and maintaining has become something that makes a LOT more sense, you know, like actually EATING everyday. :P

Staniel_2013

Yeah........

There is a part of me that is fairly upset I didn't figure this all out before hand. I'm never hungry, growing strong and enjoy being at the gym. Actually I'm rather upset if I can't make it to the gym, it's my happy place.

Used to just be a grumpy &*%#er all the time because I was hungry and felt like crap.

Don't really want to think about that girl though.....sad day.

Efflictim

Yes..
A long while ago eating 1200 or less calories and staying far far away from fat because i thought it would me me gain weight.
Now im eating 1900 calories and on a high fat diet :happy:

ribye

Deffinitly a good point, cant diet forever as some point you have to find what works and you enjoy

_lyndseybrooke_

Now you got me thinking about the guy behind Walgreen's...

Iwishyouwell

Several attempts at the "3 Day Diet"
Calorie Counting

JustSomeEm

I look back at my oblivious weight gain, and acceptance of myself as an obese woman, and wonder WTF I was thinking. So, yeah. Totally.

SezxyStef

Heck yah...let me think here...

oh the soup diet...where one day was just soup, chicken and bananas...wth
atkins...AMG..wth was I thinking
my cardio queen days...1hour on a treadmill...trying to get those 3-5miles in and allowing any excuse to get in the way...including the guy at walgreens...:bigsmile:
the yo yo for the last 3 years alone is enough to make me mad at myself...
The low fat thing...I am still trying to get myself out of that mindset...I buy light mayo and cheese still...never mind my sister thinks all food should be 'non fat'...ick

I am so glad I found MFP....and got educated...1900 calories a day last week and I still lost 1/2lb...:drinker:

endermako

the yo yo 1200 thing for sure. when I lost 30 pounds a couple of years ago I sometimes wouldnt go past 900 calories a day. That was from a lot of monkey see monkey do from my "best friend" at the time...

itodd4019

oh yeah, I have one. When I was 40 I did Ironman 140.6 (185 lbs), then I got a hair up my hiney and decided to go to the complete other extreme and try to compete in Heavy Games. I gained over 70 lbs in the attempt- and look at this picture.



I am the one in the middle!!! Like I was ever gunna compete! LOL

WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!! Not only did I nearly destroy my physique, I got injured all the time. Now as I work to get my athletic body back, and train for a 100 mile ultra, I just can't understand what could have gotten into me. I'd like to say, because I am Welsh, but I didn't even find that out until I was trying to join a team! hahaha

soxobsessed

Yup, all the time...also I look back and go, why didn't I get into running sooner

Fit_Fox88

Yes, all the time. 1200 calorie diet when I first started MFP- I lost 10-12 pounds but I gained back about 20-22. If I had just started out slower I could be so much farther along now. But, live and learn and now I know. It helped put me in the right frame of mind this go around

happysherri

Yes, but that ben and jerrys did taste good! lol

BarbieFromHellx

I used to try and eat between 500-800 calories a day (as well as cardio) and INSIST this was going to be a lifestyle change forever and I would always eat this way and I would be a size 0 by now hahaha what an idiot. I was a dumb 16 year old though.

sabified

I thought that during and after my 2 days on the cabbage soup diet.

I'm enjoying cardio though, running is awesome.

ETA: Come to think of it, I used to think that I would never be able to run...

ValGogo

...I wish I had loved myself when my body was fly instead of learning to love myself after it got busted.

The fly days are coming, though. I will post pictures one day and say, "LOOK, I did it!"

(doing a little sexy dance)

Pirate_chick

yup, as in why allowed myself to gain 160lbs, after fighting so hard to lose 80. I ruined all that hard work and gained double back, because I was depressed, heartbroken, weak. But it is a new day, new me,with a new attitude. And damn it I am worth the effort it takes to be happy AND healthy.

maz504

Spending close to $700 for "quick weight loss centers" supplements and highly restricted eating plan. Mind you, $700 is NOT something I have just laying around. I put it on a credit card and I'm still paying it off. Over a year later. :explode: :explode: :explode:

Allterrain_Lady

I had nothing to do with the guy behind walgreens. It wasn't me, I'll deny it until the day I die.
That said, I agree with everything else. I hate cardio but it did because supposedly it had to be done. I starved / binged / starved again and cried all along.
I did all the 'blabla diets' you can find. I was afraid of carbs and fat. Chocolate was like a drug triggering DAYS of overeating.
Now I lift heavy, eat plenty, feel and look better than ever.
There's no coming back. I was a fool. For 15 years, at least.
Upside: it's never too late

BigT555

nah
being fat was fun, i was always happy and i was young, so i didnt really care what i did or what i ate/drank. never had any social issues with it, i was happy to be the funny fat kid.

restricting calories is kind of a pain sometimes when i want to have a night on the town but im glad i enjoyed my teenage years. if i dont do this now then yea, ill be thinking that i was an idiot in 5 years time

eta; i didnt realize this was specifically about dieting/fitness lol
in my teenage years when i did try to lose weight (didnt happen often) i just ran. no change in diet, just running. and id usually eat enough to compensate for it and then some afterwards

Mikkimeow

That one time I thought hydroxycut was a good idea, lost 15 pounds in a week, and promptly passed out at a softball game.

sheenarama

Oh.. I thought you meant look back at my own a$s and say.. Dayum!!! That's the only time I look back.

cebreisch

Hmmm.....In a word, I'd have so say.....YES. And I think everybody suffers from this too! LOL

There are so many things that both my husband and I would eat thinking we were being "reasonably healthy" and it SO WAS NOT!!

Thought salads were the "way to go" - would have an "OMG salad" (as an old WW leader used to say), bury it in cheese, salad dressing different forms of proteins (diced chicken or ham), croutons, etc. I remember seeing a "biggest loser" one night when the nutritionist took everyone to the store and talking about how people need to read the labels, particularly on salad dressings to see just how small a serving is, and how detrimental to the food journal it can be. One of the contestants said, "So by the time I add all that dressing on it, I might as well have just gone ahead and had the cheeseburger, right?" RIGHT!!

A friend at work made an OMG salad - just lettuce, a few "craisins", a few slivered almonds, and swimming in dressing. This was supposed to be her lunch. I looked over and said, "Where's the protein??" She said, "Oh, am I supposed to have that? Will it really help?" Ugh

Fittykitty11

- Diet pill phase. Sure I lost weight, but I gained it back quickly and felt panicky the entire time while taking them.

-1200 or less calorie counting. That was a nightmare.

- I was never bulimic but there were times that I was so disgusted in myself that I'd immediately make myself 'get rid of' what I just ate. Yep, that was a failure.

- Missing out on a year that I could have started lifting but feared 'getting big' so I only ran... a lot.

- Using 'bulking' as an excuse to eat whatever the hell I wanted.

jlgemma

Ugh...the Master Cleanse comes to mind. After 3 miserable days I snapped and ate a medium pizza all by myself. :laugh:

jlgemma

Oh.. I thought you meant look back at my own a$s and say.. Dayum!!! That's the only time I look back.

Hahaha...awesome!