Suffer in Silence? When Do You Talk About Your Diet???

Diet is a four letter word. I do not consider myself to be on a diet, it is a way of life.

Don't view it as a diet. Make a lifestyle change.

I like to be fit, and I like to eat healthy so that's what I do. My friends know I'm a crazy endorphin junkie. Though two of my aunts have decided that I need to "stop losing weight" (though I did that ages ago.) I just smile and ignore them. I want to be healthy for me, and though they still like to remember the fat version of myself and somehow think there is something wrong with me every time I see them, I know that my body is happier than it has been since I was a kid playing in the dirt and climbng trees.

I dont avoid talking about it if topic comes up - but zealots who talk healthy eating in every sentence do tend to get a bit boring, so I try not to over do it.

I talk about it a bit too much, to be honest. I'm also not "suffering". I eat three good meals a day, 1-2 snacks and something sweet most nights, but then I also exercise for at least an hour most days including fairly serious weights three times a week.

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Keep eating yummy meals, especially with a chef in the house, and just rein in portion sizes and cut back on rubbishy snacks. "I can't eat that" is diet thinking not healthy lifestyle thinking! :flowerforyou:

I think a lot of what was said above was really great advice.

I'm not on a diet, I have made a lifestyle change and am getting healthy.

Also, there are absolutely no foods that I can't have. That's not sustainable in the long run. I eat whatever I want and I track it, knowing that sometimes I am going to go over on my calories and that is OK. I will just go to an extra yoga class or accept that this week I may not see a big change in the scale. You still have to live your life!

To answer your question, only those closest to me know that I have joined Weight Watchers to try and get the pounds off once and for all. I am a pretty private person in my real life and not prone to share things like that with others. But I don't let it affect me- I still go out for lunch, and I still eat junk food. Now I just eat a lot less of it and write it all down so on Monday when I weigh in I already know what the scale is going to tell me!

I used to talk about the diets I was on all the time to friends and family, but at a size 10/12 and 5 foot 9 I used to get 'oh but you don't need to loose weight, don't be silly' I tend to not mention my diet very much at all now because of that.

I do think it is important to keep your other half in the loop though. If I didn't tell my bf what I was doing with my eating he would bring back all kinds of naughty sugary treats, and that would just make me feel like a failure because I would HAVE to eat what's there haha.

I've only talked about it with a few people. I mainly come here when I need to talk about it, or I talk to my husband or a girlfriend.

No one cares what I eat. I am fortunate that my wife is pretty much on board with what I do. When I need to, I shop for things. She's sees how I order when we go out, and for the most part that is what she cooks.

Occasionally people say "wow, you have lost weight." but that's last about 5 minutes.

After 2 years I am not allowed to say calorie or exercise in the house. hey are kind enough to ask how i did at a race, or wish me good luck when I head out the door.

I only talk about it when people find out about how much I've lost. 9 out of 10 times they are disappointed when I tell them about MFP, tracking what I eat pizza, cheeseburgers, etc etc in moderation. It's like they are expecting some sorta magical food, eat only veggies, or I am avoiding certain foods. There is one thing I don't drink anymore and that's soda pop. I don't bring it up or brag in anyway unless they do first.

This too! All my friends and most of my co-workers know by now that there are *NO* unhealthy foods, just unhealthy diets!

I dont talk about diet, i do talk a lot about the lifestyle change and my current eating habbits because I am rather passionate about nutrition and excercises now.
So if they want to listen I DO talk a lot about all that stuff. Managed to get most of my friend to eat healthier and move more , so i like to think I do a lil good for the world like that and this: plus , you know, my body itself, seem to be isort of inspiration for people.
So siting in silence when you can do GOOOOOOD for people you care about ...dats hella crazy talk!.

Don't treat the change as something terrible and strainfull and torture like. Its joyous adventure and i never knew as much about human body as i do now. Learned hella lot last year

I will talk about my diet if someone asks, or with other fitness friends, otherwise I don't cuz I don't want to bore people.

I don't talk about it either, since I don't consider that I'm on a "diet". I've made a healthy lifestyle change -- forever!! Diets imply that it's something short term, which most "diets" are. And then people say diets fail -- they don't. But when we go back to eating the way we did prior to the diet and gain back all the weight, WE are the ones that fail, not the diet! So this time, I'm not dieting. This is the way I will eat for the rest of my life. I don't believe in cutting out foods completely either. I've cut out some things for now, but only because alcohol and junk food are not daily "requirements" in sustaining health in my opinion.

As for what you weigh or will weigh, that's nobody's business but your own! I don't get on the scale in front of other people, and I don't watch others get on the scale, so no one needs to know the number! It's my business only. When I'm happy with the number and how I look, I will stop losing weight and maintain that weight. If someone asks how much I've lost, I will share, but otherwise, they don't need to know the number!