Friends need to keep me on Target

Dillie001
Dillie001 Posts: 6 Member
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Hi you lovely chaps. I have been a part of this site before and it was really motivating and best of all, free!
I am looking for a support network as I am trying to lose a stone by the second week of March and a further stone by the end of May. I struggle with dieting as I seem to have a pattern. I usually start so well! You know? I am motivated with a plan and a spreadsheet and have my game face on and everything! It is intense!!!

Then by the end of that first week, I feel so sorry for myself that everyone else can eat what they like and I am here with my lettuce leaf and diet coke and lose a heart weepingly petty amount or worse.. GAIN!!! As a result, I often throw the diet to the (also starving) wolves and go back to the good times. Needless to say, this is not good. Please be my chum so that I have someone to bounce ideas with and go through this with.

Thank you

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  • iamheatheratwaood
    iamheatheratwaood Posts: 2 Member
    Try getting off the Diet Coke and move to water - you may be surprised with the results. Try for 1 week!
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,128 Member
    iamheatheratwaood wrote: »
    Try getting off the Diet Coke and move to water - you may be surprised with the results. Try for 1 week!

    How will that help? Diet Coke is zero calorie, weight loss requires a calorie deficit.

    For the record I've lost 35 pounds whilst drinking Diet Coke most days.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,128 Member
    edited January 2018
    OP don't overcomplicate weight loss, it's simple eat a little less, move a little more.

    Have realistic expectations, if you have 28lbs to shift, you probably aren't going to be able to sustain the rate of loss you'd need to shift the 14lbs in 6 weeks. You will be able to healthily lose around 1-1.5lbs per week.

    Brace yourself for the gains they are totally normal, weight fluctuates daily from digestive processes and water retention.

    This is what 6 months of steady weight loss looks like when weighing daily:
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  • Jtucker19742018
    Jtucker19742018 Posts: 12 Member
    Makes sense to me :)
  • AKTipsyCat
    AKTipsyCat Posts: 240 Member
    I get it, I do the same! My spreadsheets are a thing of beauty that would make the math angels WEEP... I have projections for losses at .5 lbs a week, 1lb a week, 1.5 lbs a week and 2lbs a week. It's bordering on ridiculous, but it gets me going #nerdgirlproblems. I would love to help you - I'm on my last day of Whole 30 and will be slowly introducing some of the foods back, so I need some help/support making sure I don't say *screw it* and bring it all back! LOL. As for Diet Coke, my vice was Diet Pepsi, and I had to cut it out, along with all other artificial sweeteners - because it just made me crave more sweets and sweet foods. I even had to give up coffee for awhile because I couldn't drink it black. Not going to give you any scientific arguments one way or the other on that... I just know that when I quit everything with artificial sweeteners - my asthma went away. A completely unexpected and much appreciated side effect.... and since it's potentially life saving and all, not even tempted by soda anymore... LOL Tinker up there is absolutely right about weight loss going up and down, even when you are doing the same thing and eating the same amounts, I almost screamed this morning when I looked at the scale and was up 1/2 pound after having eaten perfectly all day and getting my goal steps in for the day. My goal is to lose 1-1.5lbs a week and I have about 65lbs to go.
  • Jim_1000
    Jim_1000 Posts: 52 Member
    I used to love Pepsi. One day I bought 2L of club soda. It was hard to drink but by the time I finished it, I had acquired a taste for it. Now I love any kind of sparkling water, no sweeteners of any kind required. :)

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