eye opener and reality check

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  • caranais
    caranais Posts: 101 Member
    PeachyCarol wrote: »
    lemonychild wrote: »
    my God, that just sounds like a miserable way to live. i'm sorry, worrying about a dollop's and slices ... its something I would not commit to, period.
    different strokes for different folks

    And this is why some people don't have success. She stated she wasn't having success, because those extra hidden calories were sabotaging her efforts.

    For some people, they wouldn't make a difference -- taller, younger, active men, for example. Take a short, older, sedentary woman? 100-200 calories in little dabs here and there easily adds up and can make or break one's weight loss efforts.

    Congratulations for finding out what was getting in your way, OP -- and for sharing! Wishing you continued success!

    thank you so much for your kind words and understanding. You are on the button as I am short 4ft 11in, 53 yrs and now unfortunately due to some health issues quite sedentary too! Trying to move more as well now though too, so hopefully it will all come together. I don't expect miracles, but a slow steady loss would be nice. Good luck to you with your journey too xxx
  • rugratz2015
    rugratz2015 Posts: 593 Member
    lemonychild wrote: »
    my God, that just sounds like a miserable way to live. i'm sorry, worrying about a dollop's and slices ... its something I would not commit to, period.
    different strokes for different folks

    There's a number of stories around slimming world that basically charts one ladies day, and how much she eats, and what she logs - she thinks she's done well, but the reality is she has eaten about 3 times more than she thought because of these 'dollops' and 'slices'.

    Some of us have to be super strict, it's the only way we manage, I'm trying to stop the habit of finishing other peoples food, or grabbing a bit of 'this or that' from the fridge, because I know that it's these items that are my downfall, not the food I'm logging.

    Well done @caranais, great post :)

  • caranais
    caranais Posts: 101 Member
    thanks rugratz2015. When my children were young I used to put washing up liquid straight away on their leftovers to stop me picking before I got chance to wash up!! (desperate times mean desperate measures), now I'm thinking of putting a big sign on the door of my fridge saying something like STOP DO YOU REALLY WANT IT? I go for slices of ham or other cold meats, or anything savoury there might be handy in there that I can just grab and go. I might even have logged one of the 2 or 3 slices I ate!!! No more of that carry on. If it goes in the mouth it goes into my diary lol xxx
  • VykkDraygoVPR
    VykkDraygoVPR Posts: 465 Member
    caranais wrote: »
    thanks rugratz2015. When my children were young I used to put washing up liquid straight away on their leftovers to stop me picking before I got chance to wash up!! (desperate times mean desperate measures), now I'm thinking of putting a big sign on the door of my fridge saying something like STOP DO YOU REALLY WANT IT? I go for slices of ham or other cold meats, or anything savoury there might be handy in there that I can just grab and go. I might even have logged one of the 2 or 3 slices I ate!!! No more of that carry on. If it goes in the mouth it goes into my diary lol xxx

    I've seen things like chip clips that moo or oink when you open them. Problem is, they make me laugh, so it's not effective for me.
  • caranais
    caranais Posts: 101 Member
    haha - I would probably giggle too. Although it might just stop me for that mindless second that it takes to grab a slice of something from a pack etc to just make me think don't do it. I've just thought, a photo of myself would probably be the best thing to put there. A few I've seen of myself lately would put anyone off going into the fridge!!! ha!
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    lemonychild wrote: »
    my God, that just sounds like a miserable way to live. i'm sorry, worrying about a dollop's and slices ... its something I would not commit to, period.
    different strokes for different folks

    Welcome to the calorie counting website.

    You know what's miserable to me? Being morbidly obese and cutting carbs and fats out of my diet, when I could eat anything I want in closely monitored quantities and lose weight.
  • bkerr30
    bkerr30 Posts: 131 Member
    Thank you @caranais for this post! I work as a chef and my biggest downfall to weightloss is tastes and bites of this or that! I have maintained my weight for well over a year but I would like to drop the final 9/10 pounds. As tasting is a requirement of my job I'm thinking I should just add a base amount of a few hundred calories to my diary. That should (hopefully) cover the excess ;)
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    Great going OP, those little things do count.
    I even do a best guess logging all the little nibbles given out at Costco! That is a challenge.

    I have just restarted logging, after a 6 month hiatus, to track energy expenditure on my new winter exercise programmes. Usually I can maintain within a 5 lb range without logging, and have done so for the past 6 years.

    When I am logging I have a casual and strict variation.
    Casual is usually just using my own generic entries, ie; I weighed and averaged out my bag of oranges and just use one weight for all. Used generally as a portion size check with no gain or loss problems.
    Strict is when everything is weighed individually, that is generally when I am worried I may gain or lose due to outside influences- exercise can lead to a loss if I don't eat back enough, and being little, light, and old, generic burn tables are too high, so working off them easily leads to a gain.

    Cico can work well for everyone, it is learning how it works best for oneself that can make it sustainable.

    Cheers, h.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Way to go!
    100 calories per day = 10 pounds per year
  • NJCJF
    NJCJF Posts: 134 Member
    Amen OP!
  • caranais
    caranais Posts: 101 Member
    It's really nice that you have all taken time to reply and voice your own feelings and opinions, it's good to know you're not on your own and others have the same issues as yourself. And great to hear from people that this has worked for - Here's to success and happiness to everyone along the way to whatever it is you are looking for. xxx
  • caranais
    caranais Posts: 101 Member
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Way to go!
    100 calories per day = 10 pounds per year

    Ironically that is about how much I've gained over the past year!!!!!

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