Will I ever lose weight????

Have you tried having a cheat meal opposed to a cheat day?

I eat pizza, cookies and all kinds of "bad" things... I eat these things when i want to reward myself but i make sure to skip juice at breakfast or leave a quarter of my sandwich at lunch. It is all about moderation. I have to eat this stuff occasionally or i will be missing it so much that i will eat too much of it.

I love pizza and cake too and its hard to stay away from them. I took a really good look at myself this morning and thought how disqusting I look to myself. This will keep me from eating that crap and if I do it will be a thin crust pizza with veggies and a salad on the side to fill me up. Veggies and salad are the answer no matter what and we can make sure that we have chicken breast on the pizza instead and make it mutigrain. I am going to succeed no matter what this time around and you can too. Positive thinking and take a good hard look at your body image and your mind will be made up for you. :flowerforyou:

Portion size, and also logging everything helps. And I'll maybe have pizza OR cake... not generally both. Or if I do really want both, I'll have a slice of pizza, and a very small piece of cake, and then do some extra exercise.

If you are really having a craving for the flavours, you can always do better alternatives, like a pita pizza, or a slice of angel food cake with some sliced strawberries and maybe a bit of 95% fat free cool whip. That said, I will have a piece of chocolate cake, but I have a small one, and have small bites to really savour it.

Just my two cents.

I still eat pizza and ice cream! (sort of)

The only difference from then to now is that we make our own pizza's on a smaller base with healthier toppings rather than munching a large, greasy 8-12 slice pizza from a take away and for the ice cream we started to eat frozen yoghurt instead - still yummy but lower in calories )

I eat sometimes 'junk food' - I love McDonads I love the KFC chicken wings and I love other junk too.
If I eat some of it I ll hit the gym and loose the calories of if I know I ll do it I ll go to the gym before and then enjoy my deadly meal in peace. However, I don't do it too often because I feel is bad for me - I feel it - these are foods that give you no nutrition but mostly bare calories. I know it doesn't help but I also know that if I keep on eating those foods very soon I feel powerles, I m lethargic and I just need to eat more and more while eating other stuff helps me and keeps me healthy and energic.
If your 're fine and u fell well with eating that then just control the portion sizes ( although is hard to get the nutrition u need from a fast food without going over the calories) and also go to gym to balance the meals . U ll loose weight but if u plan loosing it by eating fast food then u ll have to work in the gym 3 4 times harder.

Binging a whole day on junk food will set you back. Like others have suggested, just try binging on one meal rather than a whole day's worth. Changing your eating habits and diet are a part of this program. It's definitely hard to break out of but once you have you'll look and feel amazing.

I didn't, for over three years. Since CC and eating back my exercise calories I've had crisps, chocolate, chinese rice, chippy chips, puddings.....and lost 6lbs in 4 weeks!

Yes! It's not what you eat, it's how much you eat, and workout. Eating I think is the easy part. Getting a workout routine that makes you sweat and barring through the pain, is the hard part. The pain will subside, but that nagging infliction is just telling you that what your doing is right. If it's unbearable, maybe tone it down a bit. If you can workout for 30 to 60+ minutes per day, non stop, I'm sure you can loose the weight. If you eat little portions every few hours, you wont get hungry. Eating a huge breakfast, about a 1000 calories, then workout for 30 minutes afterwards. The fat you eat can't develop. Then eat a lite lunch, about 200 calories. Walk, walk, walk. Dinner should be 3/4 of the calories you eat for breakfast. If you seem to be doing what I suggest, then maybe you should get a check up with your doctor. Everyone metabolic state is different and needs to be attack in their own way that works. GL! Keep me posted! Oh, drink water! At least 8 cups a day, and not all at once. Not soda or juice. Those liquids should not be counted as a water source. Water is separate. Don't confuse oz. with cups. It's 8oz. of water to 1 cup.

Any "junk" that I crave i either make a lighter substitute or build it into my meal plan for the day. For example, home made pizza with a whole grain crust, less cheese (2% instead of whole fat), more sauce and toppings, richer fresher herbs, and voila my craving is gone in half the calories and I've managed to load up on veggies while I'm at it. For a sweet snack I do fat free sugar free home made pudding pops made with skim milk . . . they're like 16 calories for a half cup and take a good long time to eat. If I want a cup cake I eat a damn cupcake, I just don't do it every day (and I usually only do that on days where I burn 1000 calories in exercise so that it fits into the count). The trick is to eat smarter, and still have what you want by building it in or making it healthier.

Have you counted the amount of calories you're taking in on that one day? I mean, if you're keeping it reasonable throughout the week and then exploding into the 4000 - 6000 range binging through one day a week it makes sense that you're gaining it all back. However, if you're just pushing your limit by 500 or so pounds on that day it doesn't make much sense.