Honest and keeping it real

michelefullerton72
michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
edited November 22 in Getting Started
I will be brutally honest if I'm struggling, cause the only person I'm kidding is myself

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  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    Looking for like minded newbies, on this food roller coaster
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    It's at night watching TV, that hour or so before bed, I'm like a women possessed, mm what can I eat!!! It that just me, eating outta boredom x
  • glinse0610
    glinse0610 Posts: 3 Member
    Battle of the will. I'm hung up on carbs. I try to cut calories and move the weight down slowly. I am now on a fast. I realize that I eat not because I am hungry, but because of habit.
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    Totally, sometimes I can't open the fridge to get milk without eating a slice of ham, or dipping into what ever catches my eye first x
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    You'll laugh at 45 I've started to try and chew my food more, and it works, you feel full, knackered with chewing
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    Right back at you, I get it, last week I was feeling so hungry. Eating all the time, empty crisp bags and biscuits wrappers in my dressing gown, while I've been watching TV, so this week when I felt like eating crap, I tidied out a drawer, by the time I was done, no longer hungry, and ready for bed, win/win
  • Johns_Dope_AF
    Johns_Dope_AF Posts: 460 Member
    michelefullerton72 wrote: »
    Right back at you, I get it, last week I was feeling so hungry. Eating all the time, empty crisp bags and biscuits wrappers in my dressing gown, while I've been watching TV, so this week when I felt like eating crap, I tidied out a drawer, by the time I was done, no longer hungry, and ready for bed, win/win

    have you tried intermittent fasting? Really helps with my night time cravings.
  • EliseTK1
    EliseTK1 Posts: 483 Member
    Yep- I eat out of habit, emotions, and especially a tie to whatever activity I'm doing. Popcorn in front the TV at night is my favorite, so I eat the light kind and fit it into my calories for the day. I am a social eater too- it's the most difficult when I go home to see my family in Louisiana because everything we do revolves around food and drink. I'm still negotiating with myself on that- I plan my treats and calorie overages now so I won't feel deprived instead of planning to be so strict that I break halfway through and eat/drink everything in sight, then feel terrible.

    I'm feeling much better nowadays. I guess we'll see how things go when I visit LA for the holidays. :D
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    Wow, when I think of lousianna I think of deep fried buttermilk chicken
  • sbrown6
    sbrown6 Posts: 334 Member
    now Im craving fried chicken
  • need2belean
    need2belean Posts: 358 Member
    edited October 2017
    michelefullerton72 wrote: »
    It's at night watching TV, that hour or so before bed, I'm like a women possessed, mm what can I eat!!! It that just me, eating outta boredom x

    Days like that, I reach for the 2L of diet rootbeer and pour myself a glass. Something about the diet rootbeer taste that makes me thinking I am drinking a rootbeer float. Zero calories and gets me until bedtime.
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    So, was that first week not as bad as you thought it was gonna be, keep on keeping on
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    I'm on fire if I prep, if not I'm like a zombie, away to the vending machine spending money on food I know I will regret eating, cause after I finish my can of diet coke and eat my bar of chocolate, I am full of wind and fit to burst x
  • dwilliamca
    dwilliamca Posts: 325 Member
    Night time snacking (and wine drinking) is what put on most of my weight....plus just slowing down in general. I used to eat about 4-5 snacks a night plus 2-3 glasses of wine, sometimes including another "meal" like waffles or pancakes. Now I save 200 calories for after dinner (which isn't much). However it will let me have a couple things such as a diet dessert (5-100 calories), a piece of fruit, celery and low-fat cream cheese, a few nuts, an oz of beef jerky, or light popcorn, and almost every night I have a cup of Hershey's cocoa with cashew milk, Stevia, and a shot of whipped cream (total 50 cals) which keeps me from going to bed hungry. I'm not suffering most of the time. I did have to quit the nightly wine drinking, but allow myself a couple glasses when I'm in social situations and make up for it later. I pre-log all my calories (when I don't I regret it) and adjust as necessary before the damage is done.
  • michelefullerton72
    michelefullerton72 Posts: 52 Member
    I've been brutal this weekend, had a Halloween party, drank and ate too much, I'm here to tell the tale, then ate comfort food today, so back on track tomorrow, what's done is done, onwards and upwards, the truth, I loved every minute of it❤❤ x
  • Sarahmeridith
    Sarahmeridith Posts: 298 Member
    I am in the same boat, it’s hard to make yourself change old habits :/ I lost 70 lbs and gained back almost 40... back at it again this time I’ll do better. pls add me if you would like!
  • amylahminute
    amylahminute Posts: 613 Member
    OP, feel free to join us over here if you want to continue reckoning with yourself. It's what we do. :D We're starting up a new challenge again to get us through the holidays. Decide where you want to be by early 2018, and work with us on your goals over at...

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/120445-mindfulness-nerds

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  • LiftHeavyThings27105
    LiftHeavyThings27105 Posts: 2,086 Member
    +1 to @YepItsKriss said.

    It is a mental thing, for the most part. How is your relationship with food? That is what it all boils down to. For me, food is fuel. Sure, I like this better than that, and I enjoy food at social events. But it all has to fit within your budget. I also think of food like money. I have so much money to spend today. Think of Dave Ramsey and his 'envelope system'. You have an envelope for the rent, you have an envelope for gas (car), you have an envelope for your car, and and and. You can do the same thing with food.

    There is no real 'good food' or 'bad food' (very general statement.....there are, naturally, foods that are not good for people because of some medical condition or food allergy.....but, generally speaking, there is no good food or bad food....).

    One of the keys is to put yourself in a position for success. If you love pizza but have been told that pizza is bad and that you should not eat it.....all things being equal....don't listen to those telling you that. Just make sure that once you figure out how many calories per day you are going to eat to meet your current goals that you have a 'Pizza envelope'. If it fits!

    And, just know that if you want that Pizza that you might have to go without something......just to make the pizza fit.

    Does that help?
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