Just getting started on my new over haul on fitness and eating habits

windaryl
windaryl Posts: 5 Member
edited November 30 in Getting Started
I started on weight watchers and didn't find it helpful for me since I think of food in terms of calories and content and not points. Anyone else have trouble with that? Now that I am committed and the weather is starting to get nicer (highly motivating :) Now I need ideas to break bad habits...eating too late at night...and sometimes I have a terrible sweet tooth, and when I indulge...then I think, I blew it now and just eat anything :(

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  • beverlyemerson
    beverlyemerson Posts: 2 Member
    I've never tried weight watchers but I have heard it doesn't work for some people. I have tried a lot of things and my problem is I get going doing good then I quit.
  • windaryl
    windaryl Posts: 5 Member
    Yes I have had that trouble too. This time I feel like I need to get healthy and I am tired off the dieting roller coaster. I think the hardest part is constantly starting over!
  • bodymindmusic
    bodymindmusic Posts: 118 Member
    You have to change your brain to make it work and it's going to be one he hardest things you ever do. You have to commit to it each day and when you want to give up or give in, you can't. You have to just put your had down and keep going forward, it takes blood, sweat and tears but the pain you feel today will be the strength you find tomorrow.
    Day 235, 677 miles, 31 lbs down, 80 more to go.
  • faramelee
    faramelee Posts: 163 Member
    Keep reading the advice on here and I think you'll find that it'll debunk a lot of what you may think are 'bad habits'. For example eating late at night. Now I am generalising as every one is different but it doesn't matter what time you eat. If you're eating at a deficit you can eat any darn time you want and you will lose weight. If you are finding that your daily meals are not keeping you full and you're reaching for the snack cupboard in the evening then you need to rethink the sustenance of your meals and think about what you are doing when the urge hits. Are you sat in front of the television? Can you take your mind off of the urge and possibly 'walk it off'? As far as the sweet tooth that's fine too, get yourself some good quality, high cocoa content chocolate, you won't need as much but you'll still get the cocoa hit. There is also a thread which I read just recently (I'm sorry I can't find it now, maybe someone else will be familiar with it and post a link) which is based around the 'Ooops I've eaten too much/I haven't worked out/X, Y and Z happened so I have now failed and I might as well give up'. It's not true, what have you failed? No-one is perfect and life can be precarious.

    I wish you the best of luck! :)
  • windaryl
    windaryl Posts: 5 Member
    Thank you for the inspirational kind words! :)
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