Starting over...REALLY!
supermaniac123
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I had been doing GREAT with watching what I ate up until the end of July and then for some reason I began to go crazy with my eating habits. I would eat all day with the thought of starting over the "next day" (which never came.) My problem has been that I LOVE experimenting with different foods and also LOVE tasting my experiments. (Such as Hmmm, that marshmallow would be great with a little Nutella...that was delicious...now I will try peanut butter...YUMMMM...well now I have to try all three together!) And it never ends! I am not overweight...but I am here because I know habits will get me there soon if I don't start behaving!
SOOO...I am starting over! For real this time! Here it goes!
SOOO...I am starting over! For real this time! Here it goes!
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Welcome!! I'm in the same boat as you!! Congratulations on starting over - and I wish you the BEST of luck!0
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I'm exactly the same. For a couple of weeks I do really well, log in to MFP record everything, exercise and lose weight. Then something will happen; things like this are usually like going away for the weekend, having a bad day or going out for a meal etc. i'll think 'oh it's a one off i'll eat what I want and enjoy myself!' but then after that I just can't seem to stop eating, I eat then for the sake of eating and I'll spend like a week or two binging, then I'll feel completely awful as I gain back what I lost and then start eating healthy again, and the vicious cycle starts again!!
I'm starting over AGAIN but this time I'm determined that there will be no Day 1 again. I keep thinking about those horrid and guilty feeling I have after a binging week, and hopefully that will keep me going. Like you, I'm not overweight (about 10.5 stone) but I'd like to get into shape now while I'm young.
See starting over as a good thing rather than a bad thing - at least you have recognised that you need to change your habits sooner rather than later. Good luck!! 0 -
Kill it.0
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Same here! I had lost 13lbs with MFP. Kept it off for almost a year but due to a big move new city, new job, and a bad break up I not only gained the weight back but added an additional 7lbs. My goal is to be 170 by the end of the year. So last week I officially started over.0
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The first days back after going overboard is the hardest! I decided to give myself a "cheat day" on monday for a special occasion, the first cheat day in 6 weeks, I even managed to stay under calories but my carbs and sugar were through the roof! I didn't feel guilty though, because it was one, planned day.
BUT the next day?!?!?! OMG, I wanted to eat ALL THE THINGS! I went over my calories for the first time in 6 weeks. It was a real challenge to keep my excess to just a couple hundred calories, and I managed to stay away from junk food, but wow my cravings for sweets and carbs was crazy! I didn't beat myself up about the extra calories, because I had allowed for them, and not used them, the day before... but it became painfully obvious how each day has an effect on the days to follow. I indulged in those extra calories yesterday, but made a point to limit sugar and carbs, and today, I feel much better and more in control. I even went grocery shopping without putting any ice cream in my cart.
my point being... if you DO decide to indulge, as we are all going to do sometimes, you just need to be really strong for the couple of days that follow, and then it really does get easier to stay away from all the sugary goodies.0 -
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Starting right now, I will REALLY start over. REALLY. ARG. Somebody hold me to this. I am seriously out of control
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I started over again...again...AGAIN this past Saturday. Congrats on starting again -- you can do it!0
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Starting right now, I will REALLY start over. REALLY. ARG. Somebody hold me to this. I am seriously out of control
I'm holding you to it!!!0 -
I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.
(Dang. Tried to post a pic of Dorie from Finding Nemo that said "Just keep swimming. Fail. :laugh: )0 -
You sound just like me! I love experimenting with food too much!0
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You cant get serious again.
You werent serious last time.
No its not ok.
No its not cool that you keep doing this but claim to want a healthy lifestyle.
Youre living a contradiction and you cant split your goals and your behavior this way.
Stop it.
And not tomorrow - for the rest of the day.
if you drop your phone, you dont pick it up tomorrow, do you?
Knock it off. Youre a human and we are cool as sht and excuses and starting over all the time because its easier than actually standing up and testing our willpower that we are soooooooo proud of... is LAME.
My darling girl, its time to show what you are made of.
tomorrows?
or todays?0 -
I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.
unfortunately your body doesnt see eye to eye with you on this. It ALWAYS feels and shows the consequences of the yesterday you pretended to erase.0 -
I used to do that and the idea of "starting over" always gave me an excuse to pig out up to that "start over" day. I've decided now that it's just an ongoing process. I overdid lunch today with calories so instead of scrapping the whole day and starting again tomorow I'll adjust the rest of my day. Starting over just does not work for me 0
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You cant get serious again.
You werent serious last time.
No its not ok.
No its not cool that you keep doing this but claim to want a healthy lifestyle.
Youre living a contradiction and you cant split your goals and your behavior this way.
Stop it.
And not tomorrow - for the rest of the day.
if you drop your phone, you dont pick it up tomorrow, do you?
Knock it off. Youre a human and we are cool as sht and excuses and starting over all the time because its easier than actually standing up and testing our willpower that we are soooooooo proud of... is LAME.
My darling girl, its time to show what you are made of.
tomorrows?
or todays?
Brutally honest but brutally true! Thank you!0 -
I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.
i disagree. if we ignore what happened yesterday, we will never learn. if we don't learn, we won't ever change.0 -
Sometimes this happens when you deprive yourself too much when you are in "weight-loss mode". Try upping your calories and eating more "normal" meals and set your goals for 1 pound per week. Of course those extra exercise calories never hurt! Good luck.0
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I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.
unfortunately your body doesnt see eye to eye with you on this. It ALWAYS feels and shows the consequences of the yesterday you pretended to erase.
love that quote ! well said0 -
Starting over the next day is always such a bad thing! One bad meal or day does not a failed diet make! Try to change your thinking maybe? Look at the odd slip up (not that you're going to have more) as an isolated meal.
Welcome back anyway!
Let's get going!0 -
It's a life journey, not a quick fix....nothing worth while is easy....so never give up....you will lose the weight you want if you keep trying...stay the goal and set your goals.....0
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Sadly, I've been doing the exact same thing since a knee injury in April
Until I had a very frank talk with an old friend who has turned her life around by getting healthy. She looks amazing, and what's more important - she is in amazing health now.
One of the most impactful things she said to me was something so simple, and it has yet to stop spinning in my brain:
Quit quitting.
Ridiculously small and simple, I know. It's been the dime that I've stopped on. And now I'm back at the gym and on MFP, and I'm determined to quit quitting.0 -
My starting over means I'm back logging in MFP. Just dont' know what happened, but the 3 pounds I lost is still gone! Yay!
We can all do this.
For me, it's 1 day at a time and less chocolate0 -
I think that "starting over" is not the phrase I want to use-more that I "take a small break" and then continue where I left off (even if I have gained a pound or ....) because we really do not start all over we just have a little break-melt down. I find myself eating for many different reasons, a bad day at work, worry about money, spat with spouse and the main reason is I am a great cook, love my own cooking and love to cook all the "good" "bad" things in life-butter, cheese, fried.........I have been large my whole life (except when I was doing speed (I mean doctor prescribed diet pills) then of course I had a great weight but not health so when I stopped I gained it all back including more than I had to begin with. Now I am learning what the right choices are and really isn't it a choice. I think what is so sad is the fact that to eat healthy it costs more in the grocery store than to eat junk-and with the economy today it makes it that much harder. Just keep looking forward because the past is not the anwser after all it has passed by. 0
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I actually really needed to read something like this. Sometimes I just need to put on my big girl panties (no pun intended...) and stop feeling sorry for myself. And this comment was the kick I needed.
Thanks for the honesty!You cant get serious again.
You werent serious last time.
No its not ok.
No its not cool that you keep doing this but claim to want a healthy lifestyle.
Youre living a contradiction and you cant split your goals and your behavior this way.
Stop it.
And not tomorrow - for the rest of the day.
if you drop your phone, you dont pick it up tomorrow, do you?
Knock it off. Youre a human and we are cool as sht and excuses and starting over all the time because its easier than actually standing up and testing our willpower that we are soooooooo proud of... is LAME.
My darling girl, its time to show what you are made of.
tomorrows?
or todays?
Brutally honest but brutally true! Thank you!0 -
When I first started on MFP last year, someone said something like this
You don't just decide to lose weight once, you make multiple decisions to lose weight DAILY..
it's really true 0 -
I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.
unfortunately your body doesnt see eye to eye with you on this. It ALWAYS feels and shows the consequences of the yesterday you pretended to erase.
love that quote ! well said
Every day IS a fresh start, in every aspect of the word. Every day I have a new opportunity to do better, to try harder, to step it up over yesterday's missteps. Not to ignore them or erase them, but to learn from them and strive to do better. I refuse to feel guilty about yersterday, because we cannot change the past, and guilt only feeds the beast.0 -
I wish MFP would place a "like" button on comments, because I would be clicking it all OVER the place on this thread! Awesome words, everybody!!0
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I have been feeling like this for some time. I always seem to be 'starting over'! There have been some great comments on this string and I think I can relate to all of them. Good luck and feel free to add me as a friend.0
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When I first started on MFP last year, someone said something like this
You don't just decide to lose weight once, you make multiple decisions to lose weight DAILY..
it's really true
I like this!0 -
When I first started on MFP last year, someone said something like this
You don't just decide to lose weight once, you make multiple decisions to lose weight DAILY..
it's really true
I like this!
SO TRUE!!!
I' was recently in a place of self loathing because I fell "off the wagon" so to speak. I had been working so hard for many months, exercising 5 days a week and logging my foods religiously, then I got bored of it all. I think my problem was I stopped being creative with my healthy meals and just went for the fast meals on the run. Well, I've started back on Monday, re-energized:)0 -
SO SO SO true!0
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