What diet are you on?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited April 2015
    breathless575 wrote: »
    One thing that I do, which I know I shouldn't is this: When I'm out with others, I'll eat something really fattening and decadent so that they won't know I'm trying to watch my weight. Sort of like what the famous people call DIPE (documented instance of public eating). In other words, I like for people to think I'm just a normal woman with a healthy appetite. I might do this once a week. I wonder how bad this is for derailing my progress?

    Are you saying you aren't a normal woman?

    This concept confuses me greatly.
  • breathless575
    breathless575 Posts: 140 Member
    What I mean by normal, is eating normally, aka not on a diet.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    breathless575 wrote: »
    One thing that I do, which I know I shouldn't is this: When I'm out with others, I'll eat something really fattening and decadent so that they won't know I'm trying to watch my weight. Sort of like what the famous people call DIPE (documented instance of public eating). In other words, I like for people to think I'm just a normal woman with a healthy appetite. I might do this once a week. I wonder how bad this is for derailing my progress?

    No coment on your concern for what other people think of your eat habits.
    As far as having a decadent treat derailing your fat loss effort, it is simple.
    If your total calories for the time period are less then you burn you will lose fat.
    If that decadent treat doesn't put you over your calorie goal then it is fine, if it put you over your goal then you didn't lose fat during that time period.
  • Jgasmic
    Jgasmic Posts: 219 Member
    breathless575 wrote: »
    I know this is an old thread, but I'm always looking for weight loss advice. LOL.
    I'm pretty impressed you remembered a thread you created two and a half years ago!
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    Wow! OP! Almost 3 years later! Impressive!
  • breathless575
    breathless575 Posts: 140 Member
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    Wow! OP! Almost 3 years later! Impressive!
    I never forget. Guess I'm not "normal" in more ways than one. :)

  • Allelito
    Allelito Posts: 179 Member
    The "eat 1400 calories of whatever" diet!
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    breathless575 wrote: »
    One thing that I do, which I know I shouldn't is this: When I'm out with others, I'll eat something really fattening and decadent so that they won't know I'm trying to watch my weight. Sort of like what the famous people call DIPE (documented instance of public eating). In other words, I like for people to think I'm just a normal woman with a healthy appetite. I might do this once a week. I wonder how bad this is for derailing my progress?

    This sounds sort of..disordered to me. Rather than ACTING like a "normal woman" (your words) you should BE a normal woman with a normal appetite. That doesn't mean you can't watch what you eat/diet.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    im on the ' eat less move more' diet.

    works really well, too ;)
  • breathless575
    breathless575 Posts: 140 Member
    I'm going to try the "eat less move more diet". In the meantime, I don't know if I can get a handle on why I act the way I do in public. I realize it sounds disordered and I don't know why I feel the need to prove to people that I'm just a normal woman with a normal appetite. In private, of course I'll eat less and move more. In public, I'd rather have people think I eat heavy meals all the time and am just naturally slim. They'll see me order something unhealthy, for example a cheeseburger and fries, not knowing I saved up my calories for days ahead of time. They will think I eat like that all the time, which makes me a normal person, at least in their eyes. The question is, why do I even care?
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