Need help committing !

KLM9733
KLM9733 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
I need help commuting to not cheating on this diet. I’ve been so unhealthy and unhappy for so long. I need help staying on track. I need someone to hold me accountable !

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  • llbrixon
    llbrixon Posts: 964 Member
    Start slow...eliminating some extra stuff you have been eating. Watch portions controls.
  • twistedhailstone
    twistedhailstone Posts: 26 Member
    Persistence. Move on from your slip, learn a lesson from it and get back to what you need to do to reach your goal.
  • pogiguy05
    pogiguy05 Posts: 1,583 Member
    edited November 2017
    Buy a food scale and weigh and log everything. Like they say start out slow.

    The other thing is dont call it a diet, call it a change in lifestyle habits. No one is perfect and we all have cravings and eat things we probably should not have. Just put it in the past and move onto the next day.

    The key is Calorie in Calorie out. I have tried to cut out or back on refined carbs and sugar. Do I have sugar from time to time, yes I do, but just not like I have in the past.

    Also your not cheating any anything, but yourself and you need to make a commitment to YOURSELF to do better for you.

    Is it going to be easy NOPE, but I promise you that if you commit to eating healthier and exercise you will feel better over the long term. Some of my best days at the gym are the days I really dont feel like going, but I make myself go.
  • ekim2016
    ekim2016 Posts: 1,198 Member
    I have a blown up picture of me with no shirt on posted on the refrigerator......... works like a charm. I also get reminded WHY I am on this journey and that I want a better body MORE than I want to snack.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    "This diet" - what does that mean? Are you undereating, eating strange things, at strange times, or not able to eat what you like? Don't do that. Healthy eating is getting in enough of what you need every day, but not too much of anything over time. That can be arranged in a billion different ways, and I'm certain there's at least one way that will make you happy. No foods are healthy or unhealthy, it's all about dosage, frequency and context.

    Don't set yourself up having to rely on other people. You are accountable only to yourself. Nobody can or should yell at you or slap food out of your hand. You're an adult, and you can eat whatever you want, and it's up to you to eat responsibly, or not.
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,544 Member
    Committing is something you have to do alone.

    But try another perspective. Agree with others, quit the diet mentality. Embrace the process. Just concentrate on your food diary.

    Just get all of your intake, all of it, in the tracker. Don't even think about the numbers now. Just log on how ever many times per day it takes and record your intake. I did pen and paper. The computer was a pain to me. Whatever makes your life easiest while tracking, do that.

    How many weeks of tracking equals a commitment? You will know when you get there. Then start on the numbers. WL is a lot of little things.

    Last- When I started tracking, I suddenly could hear my 5th grade teacher from many years ago- "You're only cheating yourself." All this time I had thought that was a joke.
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