I miss food

And how do you raise your metobloism. I lift weights. What else.

Look up reverse dieting.

Rebel against mom in this regard. Eat like you want in moderation. Just not all at once. You have some great healthy cravings. I'd save the flaming Cheetos for once a month but everything else daily. Just not on the same day. I feel bad for you. Feel free to friend me. I eat all of these things and lose weight. You can get your metabolism working if you make it work.

I understand this - I have to exclude my trigger foods as well or I just won't stop eating them until they are gone. A handful of chips won't do if there is a whole bag waiting in the cupboard for me to devour. So, I don't eat them. I try to find a substitute that is a better choice, for me, that is flavoured rice crisps. Maybe you just need to find a substitution for the foods that you don't trust yourself to eat. Dust isn't an option, either.

Have them then. There's no reason you can't eat these things in moderation

The key word here being "moderation". It's like telling someone with a gambling problem it's OK to just play one game.

For some of us, once we give in to eat the tempting foods we can't eat them in moderation.

I can relate to this ..... that's how I am with certain foods.

Have them then. There's no reason you can't eat these things in moderation

The key word here being "moderation". It's like telling someone with a gambling problem it's OK to just play one game.

For some of us, once we give in to eat the tempting foods we can't eat them in moderation.

I can relate to this ..... that's how I am with certain foods.

You might want to bump up your calories by a hundred or so. Once you are eating sustainably and know that you can have more of whatever is tempting you whenever you can fit it in your macros, things lose their hold over you.

If you avoid things, you kind of spend energy scanning your environment for the things you're avoiding, so you spend more time thinking about them than when you make an active choice to fit them in when you can .

For instance, if there are donuts in the break room, I'll look at them, assess how hungry I am. Assess what I've eaten that day and then decide whether or not to eat one. Case closed.

If I'm avoiding donuts, I'll avoid the box and then spend the next four hours trying not to think about the fact that there are donuts in the break room. If I eat a donut, the problem just doubles, because now I'm actively feeling bad about what I just ate, which reminds me that there are MORE donuts that I'm not supposed to be thinking about in the break room.

Have them then. There's no reason you can't eat these things in moderation

The key word here being "moderation". It's like telling someone with a gambling problem it's OK to just play one game.

For some of us, once we give in to eat the tempting foods we can't eat them in moderation.

I can relate to this ..... that's how I am with certain foods.

You might want to bump up your calories by a hundred or so. Once you are eating sustainably and know that you can have more of whatever is tempting you whenever you can fit it in your macros, things lose their hold over you.

If you avoid things, you kind of spend energy scanning your environment for the things you're avoiding, so you spend more time thinking about them than when you make an active choice to fit them in when you can .

For instance, if there are donuts in the break room, I'll look at them, assess how hungry I am. Assess what I've eaten that day and then decide whether or not to eat one. Case closed.

If I'm avoiding donuts, I'll avoid the box and then spend the next four hours trying not to think about the fact that there are donuts in the break room. If I eat a donut, the problem just doubles, because now I'm actively feeling bad about what I just ate, which reminds me that there are MORE donuts that I'm not supposed to be thinking about in the break room.

^This. Sometimes it is worth it to endulge yourself and remember that it is extremely difficult to undue all of your hard work with one or two days of treating yourself to what you love to eat.

Donuts...

I had read all of the feedback to your post and then went on my merry way to make dinner. Now, I am not the epitome of weight loss success. In fact, I just started this journey here on MFP although I have "dieted" before in the past, and I was not about to comment as so many seasoned, successful dieters had already done so. Yet, something kept nagging at the back of my brain. You commented on the fact that you've been lifting weights. How heavy? I am a bit worried that you are not eating enough to even build muscle. Why not eat at maintance level at least...or a bit more and focus on strength. Build the muscle which from what I've heard would boost your metabolism and then in turn burn more calories. Then you wouldn't have to eat so little.

There's a lot of food I miss, but I don't miss the damage it did to me.

Yesterday you were telling us how you could/should eat 800 calories. And we were telling you why it wasn't a good idea.

See how this works?

I beg you to please consider taking the advice you have gotten so many times from so many people: eat at a deficit but enough to FUEL YOUR BODY, move more. Nothing fancy.

And I'll post this one more time:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

Not going to bother reading all 7 pages, but, OP, I have a secret to tell you......


*You're doing it wrong*.

A lot of that stuff you mentioned in your first post? I eat regularly And I'm losing weight. Slowly. But losing. Moderation and portion control, sweetcakes. That's it.