Stupid things you used to tell yourself.....

"I'll eat a salad for lunch. That'll balance out my ****show for dinner."

So many of these ring true for me.

"I've eaten one oreo, I may as well eat them all, since I'm going to eventually anyway"

After having one bad day, "Well, there goes that diet. I'll start again next week." Like diets can only begin on Mondays.

The biggest one that I was telling myself though, was that the food was making me happy. That I wanted to eat a plate of cheese fries more than I wanted to be healthy. That sure, cleaning up my diet and exercising might add years to my life, but what miserable years those would be without Krispy Kreme. And I had no interest in moderate indulgence, I only got joy from eating until I made myself sick. I can't imagine now ever believing that deep fried lard made me happy. Not to sound cheesy, but I make myself happy. And I still enjoy a doughnut now and then, but it's not the source of all joy in my life.

"Just one won't hurt"

This is me. And then one turns into 20

it doesn't matter if I lose the weight I still won't be pretty....

and

if I can find someone who loves me for my weight, THEN I can lose it and that person will be meant for me...

no....no...that person is just a different kind of predator...

i must have a medical disorder

i worked out for 30 minutes I'm going to McDonalds.. why am i gaining weight i go to the gym all the time

calories in vs out doesn't matter as long as i go to the gym i'm obviously going to lose weight

a sammich without fries won't fill me up (meanwhile eating all the fries and not the sammich)

I'm guilty of all of these! I think one of my worst is:

"Those skinny girls are just unhealthy. They must starve themselves, or do nothing but work out".

love everyones post at sometime or other i've said most to myself. Mostly it was i'll start working out soon, uhm soon finally got here!!

As a trainer for lots of years, I used to tell myself the BS that a lot of the Fitness Industry still follows today:

Eat multiple meals to keep metabolism burning
Eat breakfast to "jumpstart" your metabolism

I'm one of those troublemakers that believes, "all science is bunk." Those two lines seem to be working well for me.

" I worked out today, a few slices of cheesecake or a huge bowl of icecream wont hurt"

^ This was me.

As a trainer for lots of years, I used to tell myself the BS that a lot of the Fitness Industry still follows today:

Eat multiple meals to keep metabolism burning
Eat breakfast to "jumpstart" your metabolism

I'm one of those troublemakers that believes, "all science is bunk." Those two lines seem to be working well for me.

What works well for you is because of preference and not because metabolism is raised or kept burning due to eating that way. If science were bunk, we wouldn't have medical cures nor any understanding of actual weight gain/loss. Thanks for playing.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

I have to eat what I am given/what I take, even if I am full, wasting food is worse than eating too much.

I need extra food/calorie-dense food to fuel my brain when working hard academically and under stress.

"It's a drink, not food so the calories don't count."
"It's easier to find somebody who likes me for me and not my body while I'm fat."
"I eat less and exercise more than my 80lb sister (true) so my metabolism must just be broken."


I need to invent a time machine to go back in time and slap my former self in the face.

Not exactly about weight loss, but:
I'm having a bad day, I deserve some crisps.
I'm having a good day, I deserve some crisps.
I'm bored, I'll go buy some crisps.

Yeah...

that it was okay for me to drink soda because it was diet

If I eat a large pizza with a side late at night (usually after three meals at like 12am) and wake up late it will cancel out. I clearly thought I do workouts in my sleep :P! x