Lies I told myself
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I don't look that overweight. Reality: Um, yes you do. I saw a picture of me and knew it was time to start getting serious.
Yep that was me!
Me too! And...
** Not everybody can be skinny...I've been skinny and it didn't last so I need to learn to be happy with being a "big" girl
(that thinking only works if you like being larger and it's not causing you health problems. Not exactly right for me!)
** I'm already fat, so what difference does it make if I gorge one more time?
(it's never one more time and the fat just keeps on coming...)
** I'm so stressed out...do I really need to deprive myself of my only comfort too?
(ummm...yeah...that's part of why you're stressed, depressed and otherwise unhappy)0 -
How about this one?
Me and my friend Ginger while making cookies, brownies, whatever...."The kids won't eat the broken ones and they don't really count - they're just crumbs."
Do you have any idea how many "broken" cookies or brownies Gin and I consumed?!?! OMG! Ack!!!!0 -
Awesome thread! Hmm...
1. I wear my weight well. -- Yes, I do...but that doesn't make it any more acceptable to be this heavy, and doesn't mean there isn't a point at which it looks and feels awful.
2. I'm tired because I'm a single mom. -- True, once in a while. But I neglected to mention the vicious cycle I put myself in. Poor eating habits = Lack of energy = Lack of exercise = Lack of sleep = Lack of energy = Poor eating habits (not feeling like cooking) = Lack of energy....you get the idea.
3. I'm healthy...compared to a lot of people. -- Well. Isn't this just the stupidest thing you've ever heard??? Yes, I'm healthy compared to a lot of people...dead people, people with fatal illnesses, people living in famine areas....... What's your point again?
4. I don't like to exercise. -- Not really. I was just too lazy (and tired, see #2) to find an exercise I enjoyed doing.
No more LIES!0 -
My lies ...
That 10 extra pounds wasn't serious enough to take care of.
That I have to lose the weight as fast as possible otherwise I'm a failure.
That fruit and vegetable calories don't count.
That I can have just one. (I can't)
That this month's brand spanking new diet is THE ONE that'll hold the secret to weight loss.
I can't live without _______.
on the other hand and perhaps the saddest ...
I would wait and do all the things I wanted to do "when I'm thin".
I'm 50. I've waited for decades to get out there and live my life.
10 pounds would've been a helluva lot easier to take care of than 100.
I've been *trying* to lose weight my entire adult life. If I would've lost 1/2 lb per month for all those years, I'd be thin now.
My doctor was very put off that a major weight loss program is saying that fruit and veg cals are free. They're not. Calories are calories no matter what their source. She lost 85 lbs using MFP.
There are certain foods that just set me off and I have to be adult enough to accept this. It's just food afterall.
Counting calories, exercising and discipline is what it takes to lose the weight permanently. And lots of patience and perseverance. Also accepting that it will be hard to say no when I want to say yes.0 -
3. I'm healthy...compared to a lot of people. -- Well. Isn't this just the stupidest thing you've ever heard??? Yes, I'm healthy compared to a lot of people...dead people, people with fatal illnesses, people living in famine areas....... What's your point again?
Bahahahahaha! Now THAT was funny. And sad. And true. I've said that a million times. :laugh:0 -
Lie: I have lots of muscle and a heavy "frame".
Lie: Cheese is healthy in moderation (and then she promptly ate half a block with a box of crackers).
Lie: I have no clue where the scale is.0 -
It's odd, I just sat here for a really long time trying to think of any lies I've told myself over the years and couldn't come up with any. I never really tried to convince myself that what I was doing was okay or that any of the unhealthy stuff I ate was really okay. I knew I was overweight, I knew I'd gained some of the weight working in an upscale grocery store and then packed on a few dozen more pounds when I got a desk job that always had food availble to eat, which I did, no matter how bad I knew it was. I skipped breakfast every morning cuz I didn't want to get up early enough to make it and often ate fast food for lunch and/or dinner simply because it was cheap and easy. I was ultimately just lazy. I knew what I needed to do to lose the weight and really just needed the motivation to finally do it.
That motivation came last March when I saw two friends at a party that had started counting calories with an app and running and they'd already lost about 15 pounds each and looked great. I downloaded the app they told me about, didn't like it so searched the app store for another and found MFP, liked it and started tracking the next day.
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LOL I used to tell myself that getting breakfast at McDonald's once or twice a week wasn't that bad. WOW! What a terrible lie!! : (0
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Love this thread! I have to jump on the bandwagon...
Everyone gains weight as they gey older...
I exercise more than my friends and am still bigger than them so it must be natural weight!
I was taught never to waste food...
Food is love and by ordering a salad and no alcohol at a restaurant, I'm being antisocial and irritating!
I need to lose 20lb- have been doing this for a week now and slipped up twice but am focussing on the positive, such as completely cutting out diet pepsi which I've been drinking every day for 10 years...and eliminating caffeine which has also been a morning staple for the last 5 years. It's the small steps which I hope will make the difference- can't see it yet but am giving myself a month in which to see some changes! Motiviation helps so add me as a friend if you want to go on this journey together!0 -
A friend at work sent me this in an email:bigsmile:
1. If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
2. If you drink a diet soda with candy, they cancel each other out.
3. When eating with someone else, calories don't count if you both eat the same amount.
4. Foods used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes any chocolate used for energy, Sara Lee cheesecake (eaten whole), and Haagen-Dazs ice cream.
5. Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one's personal fuel. This includes (but is not limited to) Milk Duds, popcorn with butter, Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears.
6. Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage causes calorie leakage.
7. If you eat the food off someone else's plate, it doesn't count.
8. If you eat standing up the calories all go to your feet and get walked off.
9. Food eaten at Christmas parties has 0 calories, courtesy of Santa.
10. STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward.0 -
I love this thread! Very funny.
I'm still doing it now! I am two weeks into MFP and have lost 5 lbs. But I haven't *really* lost 5 lbs because I didn't weight that much in the first place. LIE!!!!0 -
9. Food eaten at Christmas parties has 0 calories, courtesy of Santa.
LOL!!! I love this one!!! :laugh:0 -
I have been told my whole life by my family that I am tall, and as such have a large frame, so my (larger) size is normal. I did this thing online last week where you measure your wrist to give you your frame size...and I am medium!!! Not even top end of medium, just... normal!0
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HHHAHAHAHAHA.... How did you all know what I was thinking and believing? You were right in my head!
Lies I was choosing to believe:
1. I am tall and carry my weight well! Who can carry 233 lbs gracefully? Not me it turns out. Friends saying, "What! You're not fat, you're tall"
2. Some people are meant to be big. I have a large frame! Yes I do! But it is hiding under a layer of fat!
3. My body can't lose weight, it seems to come back to this weight all the time; every time I lose weight, even a little my body goes running back to that magical # 233! I even went to an Obesity specialist to get him to tell me that I was meant to be fat, that it is genetics. He wouldn't say it!
4. I don't like exercise and I can't because of the arthritis in my knee, I need knee replacement surgery! I do like to be active, I feel better. And you can adapt exercises to protect your knees.
Thanks for the thread.0 -
Wow.....thank you so much for posting this/
I have been lying to myself for years. I don't eat that much, I don't look like I weigh 200 pounds. Every female in my family is thick so it's ok. I am not fat just thick.0 -
If no-one seen me eating it it didn't count... Ermmm it all goes in and it all counts!0
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"the calories in alcohol are different and don't count"
"i've had one slice of pizza/chocolate/other junk so i might as well have another since it will make no difference now''
"walking to uni is as good as the gym''
"breakfast is a waste of time and calories''0 -
I don't look that overweight. Reality: Um, yes you do. I saw a picture of me and knew it was time to start getting serious.
Yep that was me!
Me too! And...
** Not everybody can be skinny...I've been skinny and it didn't last so I need to learn to be happy with being a "big" girl
(that thinking only works if you like being larger and it's not causing you health problems. Not exactly right for me!)
** I'm already fat, so what difference does it make if I gorge one more time?
(it's never one more time and the fat just keeps on coming...)
** I'm so stressed out...do I really need to deprive myself of my only comfort too?
(ummm...yeah...that's part of why you're stressed, depressed and otherwise unhappy)
Yep all of those! Excellent thread.0 -
That having a blow out takeaway 2-3 times a month is normal and perfectly acceptable.... so why is it that after my unavoidable (It really was, honest) chinese on saturday night I gained 3 pounds??!!! NEVER AGAIN!0
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When someone mistook me for another woman I work with, I was mortified! What??? I'm nowhere near as big as O!!! (Fact is, yeah, I am that big!)
I'll just eat this final bag of chips and then start back up for real tomorrow. (Reality is, I don't need that bag of chips and that by the time tomorrow came, I'd come up with another excuse to delay starting again for a week, month...etc.,)
Of course I have to take blood pressure medicine! It's hereditary!!! My mother and her mother before her had blood pressure issues and they're not fat!!! (Reality, my blood pressure issues probably aren't helped by this excess weight at all. And, there's a very real possibility that I take after my "blood - pressure - of - an - 18 year-old - dad!)0 -
"the calories in alcohol are different and don't count"
LOL another one I still try talking myself into believing!!:sad:0 -
My biggest lie and obstacle,"I've never been skinny so I must be destined to be fat forever. This is just how my body is supposed to look."
yep me too!0 -
When I've tried tracking calories/points before, I'd tell myself that if I didn't track it and no one else knew I ate it then it wouldn't matter... no wonder why I didn't lose anything. This time around, I track everything no matter what. Just because I don't track it doesn't mean it didn't happen!0
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So many of these hold true for me as well! Wow! How about, I am eating healthy I don't know why I am not losing weight when I am eating 2 to 3 times what a portion really should be! Talk about a wake up there.0
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"the calories in alcohol are different and don't count"
LOL another one I still try talking myself into believing!!:sad:
I will just count the calories, I still need some once in awhile. I even bought Bud Select 55, it is the longest a 6 pack has stayed in my fridge (lol)0 -
How about the emotional one " I deserve to eat what I want." Life has been unfair to me so I should be able to eat what I want! That's a big one for me, changing my mindset to I deserve to look and feel good!!!!0
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Lie I'm not that fat-- Truth I'm only 12lbs away from one of the contestants on the biggest loser.
Lie It's ok to eat like this once in a while. -- Truth, once in a while turns into 3/4 days a week.
Lie it's only one chocolate cookie. ---Truth one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one after dinner.
Ohhh Boy!!! I could go on and on and on.0 -
My biggest one has always been that because all the people on my dad's side are huge, I have no choice but to be big. If I had maintained my weight for the last 10 years, I could even manage that, but since I spent those years gaining, I think I better see the light and realize that just because they don't know how to handle food (and don't exercise) doesn't mean I have to be the same way.
Oh I spent 7 of those 10 years blaming the weight gain on birth control too... When I changed methods, I expected to stop gaining. Um, can you say, REALITY CHECK!
I just needed to get off my lazy behind and get moving!0 -
it's hereditary! my dad's family is all big, and i'm just like them. reality-i was the same size as my little mom, until i tood prednisone for 2 1/2 years, and packed pounds onto my already overweight body! now, i have to attempt to work it off. reality-it IS very hard to exercise when you have truly bad joints. but there are still some things you can do! i spent the money and bought a horse-he's great exercise, especially cleaning the corral!!!0
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Samples don't count! Do you have any idea how many calories can be eaten in one morning at Sam's Club!? It is dangerous!0
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