Too big for a plateau

When you go to Wendy's for a snack or lunch you already failed.

Bogus. I have eaten at Wendy's a few times since my lifestyle change and have been able to make very sound choices with their menu. Education is key, moderation is key, deprivation is not.

When you go to Wendy's for a snack or lunch you already failed.

Bogus. I have eaten at Wendy's a few times since my lifestyle change and have been able to make very sound choices with their menu. Education is key, moderation is key, deprivation is not.

I stand by what I said. A wendys chili for lunch or dinner 3 times a week is failing. Especialy when there are no fresh fruits or veggies any where. Not to mention the 500-800 a day calories diet.

Ah but you see, you didn't say that originally. You said just going to Wendy's for a snack or lunch then you've already failed. You are wrong. She can go to Wendy's but she needs to make a healthier choice when she goes and not go so often unless absolutely necessary. Half of a small chili and a mandarin chicken salad with dressing on the side is a great option occasionally. It's not so cut and dry for everyone like you made it seem and that is probably why people are jumping your case left and right.

I do agree with you she needs a wider variety of fruits and veggies.

To the OP: Have you printed your food diary and shown it to your dietician and dr? What do they think about your lack of vitamin rich veggies/fruits and caloric intake? It's just like forcing yourself to exercise, sometime you have to force yourself to eat some things you don't like or you'll never develop a taste for them. Have you thought of maybe including v8 or a superfood juice with veggies/fruit combo in it into your diet? Talk to your dietician about this option and they may be all for it! GOOD LUCK and STICK WITH IT!

Woah!!!!! Is this how we treat people...we gang up on them! Some of you people are acting like the diet police and yet I don't see your faces on the cover of not one fitness magazine or the poster child for weightloss and health!!

Watch the advice you give because sometimes you can be doing someone more harm than good (selfesteem wise). There is no point on feedback if you come off tearing someone down. It's not about what you say, it's about how you say it. Forget your so called diet lessons...how bout YOU dear weight loss police take a lesson in humility and tact! What's the use of looking good and feeling bad!? Health is supposed to be wholistic (mind, body, and spirit).

Mandy, do you girl! The best knowledge is the one's you research for yourself!

Um lefty pump ur brakes friend. Your a bit too aggressive for my liking. I appreciate your feed back but mind your manners. I do what I do and it is doing just fine. I asked for suggestions and I got them. Now step.

Best Wishes in all you do.

keep lying to yourself. You don't even log you weekend food in your diary. If you are eating so little during the week makes you wonder how you must binge on the weekends. You tell us you are under a doctors orders to eat 500-1000 calories. Which if true you need a new DR.

You have not eaten FRUIT in 2+ weeks. You have had Wendys 4+ times. These are facts. I ain't here to be your friend. I am telling you to hold yourself accontable.

There are reasons people fail at weight loss. And you are doing many of those things. I would love for you to hate me and you are thin. But you won't get there straving yourself.

Lefty ... I think you'll find that there are enough people already speaking out about your harsh comments to Mandi.

Weight loss is not easy to get started and Mandi is trying.

Take a step down now and get off her back.

She has asked for advice by posting.

There is no need to be so nasty.

This is a place for SUPPORT and ENCOURAGEMENT and HELP and HONESTY.
Not nasty insulting comments that do not actually spell out facts.

If you actually wanted to help you could have been more CONSTRUCTIVE and less INSULTING.

We all make bad choices sometimes and it takes a long time to readjust our taste buds to healthy foods if you have been brought up on anything but. Your blaming Mandi but there could be a hundred different reasons for her eating this way.

I think people should consider very carefully before posting in these topics as you ARE speaking to a REAL PERSON with feelings much the same as yourself. No one likes to be barked at :grumble:

I so often see people post and they are trying to show off and put people down.
This should not be allowed.

We are here to help each other nothing more nothing less.
If you can't be nice then be quiet xxx

Mandi your doing great sweetie. :flowerforyou:

Lol. If me pointing out the facts are too much that is sad. I wouldn't want some one to spare my feelings by pointing out something as simple as failure to eat fruit or log weekend food.

I see alot of enablers lol. That's not support. The minute she says she is under DR orders or eat wendys chili 3-4 times a week as a meal and no fruit some one has to call bs.

And please show me where I am showing off. Reading her food diary was shocking. Have you looked at it? I feel bad for her.

I lost more weight before I came here. My scale no longer could record my weight at 330lbs. I threw it out. I gained much more weight after that. The low was when I could not buckle my own seatbelt.

That was a year ago. I started eating healthy. Little while ago I bought a scale cause I wanted to find out how much I still weighed. That was right before I found MFO on my Iphone an started actually measuring portions. But I started my weight loss long before now. I must have lost atleast 70-80 pounds.

Would help if I added this to my bio. So I am only new here. And I am not trying to bash her. This doesn't have to be hard.