Do you ever get angry you have to count calories?
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I don't get angry about doing it, but sometimes I do get tired of doing it. However, it isn't something that anyone is making me do. It's something that I chose to do. I could stop tomorrow, but if I did, I realize that means I most likely wouldn't continue to make progress towards the goals I have set for myself.
I agree, I get tired of it as well. That's when I usually give up & gain weight back. That makes me mad... so I guess I should try to stick with counting.
What does annoy me is being short. I wish I could eat like a 6'5" man and not gain weight. I hate that if I want a dessert at a restaurant it's almost my full days allowance where as a tall man it wouldn't be. Things like that. I guess that's more jealousy than anger though.0 -
At first, I struggled with some emotion over it. I was jealous of my sister who was able to just "watch" the amount of sugar she puts in her coffee and the number of desserts she eats to drop into the healthy weight range. I wanted to be like that. I tried for a year to just be mindful of my intake, but didn't lose a pound.
I started off by bargaining with myself. I was going to track for a month and see if I lost weight. I wasn't committing to doing it forever, just for a month. Once I started, I realized that it wasn't as big of a deal as I was making it out to be and I stuck with it. It takes ~5 min out of my day and helps be get results.
Looking back at it, I pretty much went through the stages of loss when I was learning to accept daily logging as part of my life. Apparently I'm a little over dramatic.0 -
It frustrates me when I'm making dinner, because it always seems like the food is cold by the time I'm done measuring out my part. Like I'm making mashed potatoes. So first I have to weigh the potatoes before they go in the water. Then I cook them, drain them, season them, weigh anything else I put in (milk, butter, whatever), scoop them into a bowl, put them back on the scale. Find out the total weight of the mashed potatoes. (In this case, 637g). Figure out what the "serving size" is going to be. Probably a fourth of it? (I used four potatoes). Measure out 159g of mashed potatoes, put on plate. Write all of this down on a scrap of paper so that I can enter it all into MFP after dinner.
Then repeat the process for every single thing. And I can't ever reuse recipes because *this* time I used 497g raw potatoes and yielded 637g cooked. Next time my quantities will be different. I use roughly half a million dishes and bowls getting everything weighed and then plated. The kids and boyfriend are hungry and ready to eat and I'm running in circles trying to figure out how to get a meatloaf on a small food scale. So yeah. It's occasionally frustrating. But it's also freeing in a way. I can eat anything I want, including mashed potatoes with butter and my grandma's meatloaf recipe, because I've got the recipe builder, I've got my food scale, I can figure out how many calories I have to play with, and I can create a portion size that fits my goals.0 -
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SergeantSausage wrote: »In the same way I get angry I have to do laundry, and work a job, and mow the lawn, and file the taxes, and stand in line at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to renew my driver's license ... yeah.
It's just another of life's everyday, boring, menial task time-eaters that must be done to avoid even worse negative consequences.
^What he said. And actually the tiny annoyance is forgotten every time someone tells me how good I look
How "annoying" is it to check your bank balance either. Think of it this way: Logging your food is like being fully awake. Blind eating is sleepwalking. I love being fully awake now. I look at overweight people differently. They look like zombies walking around through a life of denial searching for that next meal. That used to be me. Logging forces me to have my eyes WIDE open. It's nice.0 -
So who's fault is it??azulvioleta6 wrote: »I DON'T deserve it and didn't do it to myself. I've never been a fast food or junk food eater. I've had a lifetime of pretty clean eating. I've never had a twinkie, a poptart or a hamburger--EVER. I managed to lose my first 55 pounds just by eating mindfully and adding exercise back into my life after a long illness.
If I want to be thinner and healthier, though, tracking is just something I have to do. I've made peace with it.
What does make me super angry is when strangers judge me by how I look and decide that I must be lazy and/or out of shape. I am in extremely good shape, eat great and exercise nearly every day--I still carry a bit of fat due to very serious health issues, but I can outdo just about anyone at just about anything except running--including people half my age and size. Woe to the next person at the gym who tries to show me how the weights work!
YOU!!!!!!!!! Nobody else unless they put gun to your head and said eat it!! JS
My body shut down and I very nearly died. I WAS SICK. I was unable to exercise at all for two years. I could barely walk and had to stop working completely.
The only way that I am able to lose weight now is because I take injections every day to replace some of what my body no longer makes. I also have to exercise for a couple of hours a day, plus I am on a very restricted calorie and carb intake.
If I had a normal, healthy body, I would not have to track. I have always had good eating and exercise habits. What I do not have is a working pituitary gland. It's kind of important.0 -
It's like learning anything new, at first it's frustrating, even maddening. And there are times when you start logging and reality hits on how much you really did consume. The thing about it is it's training, just like you train your body - you have to train your mind.
Those folks that are envied because they seemingly can eat anything and everything without worrying about portions aren't as populous as everyone thinks. They just "do it" instead of make a deal of out it.
Weight is all about calories in vs calories out. Those people just make it look simple because they've been at it longer. I weighed and measured and portion controlled like a crazy woman for the first 6 months, then I started testing myself, seeing if I could do it without the scale and the cups and the spoons. And now, a year later, I know what a cup of something looks like and what 4 oz of this looks like on a plate and how full I feel when I've eaten.
I go and I do and I look like one of those people I thought had the world by the tail because I trained myself to do it.
Stick with it, grumble under your breath, but stick with it. I've no regrets and I now have a lifestyle I can handle instead of addictions that were out of control.
Good luck!0 -
Is anyone else mad that they have to do this, weigh and measure all their food? I deserve it. A lifetime of fast food and overeating has put me in this position but tonight I'm really angry. I spent a significant amount of time entering a recipe, making dinner and then weighing it all out so I could have the correct portion. I couldn't even take some of what I made out of the pan. I had to put it all into a bowl, weigh it, figure out the portion, calculate how much I could eat, etc...I know I did this to myself and now I have to suffer the consequences but it's still depressing. Most of the time it isn't this much work because I tend to eat the same thing a lot but when it's something new, cooked from scratch, it takes forever. But the good news, I'm going to keep doing it!
No anger here. It is how I cook / live now. It really doesn't take much time for me. I find it easiest not to try and jump around . For many recipes, I weigh everything first and place ingredients on single plate; then I just go about my cooking with no further calculations needed. Just an idea. GOOD LUCK.
Some of the meals I make for myself – over a year and still never bored or hungry--
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