What diet???
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What everyone else said already. Plus... forget all of the trending diets and nutrition advice. Stop making it a science project. It doesn't have be confusing. Eat what you like, just eat less of it. It's really that simple. Unless you're an athlete in training for a competition or doing a comp prep for body building you don't have to follow any rules, just have to live in a caloric deficit. And guess what.... it's OK to feel slightly hungry. Who ever said we have to feel completely full all the time? In fact for a while I'd let myself get truly hungry on purpose so that I could learn, or re-learn, how to listen to my own body.4
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If you like Richie you'll like James Smith I think. Instead of Betty he has Sheila.0
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Do you have trouble focusing in other areas as well? School, work, hobbies, getting places on time? Too many experiences with trust being broken, for instance in relationships? Weightloss is just about buckling down and stop overeating, but not starving or depriving yourself. Day in, day out, taking each meal, each day as a challenge as well as a wonderful opportunity to learn and enjoy. Blame this or that and cry and believe in magic, DOES NOT WORK.
Relationships definitely.. mainly cheated on which is where my insecurity comes from and my personal view on my body image. I’m also 28 years of age not 3 so do u really think I believe magic will work... I just get frustrated on here of people thinking they know everything when people are different. I’ve been doing mfp for 3 years now and still not working for me so yeah frustrated that I can’t stick to it but I would kill to be slim.. figure that one out lol
People are different in the foods they enjoy eating, what satiates them, what stresses they have in life and how they respond to them, etc. they aren’t different in how they lose weight - everyone is the same there, we lose weight from creating a sustained calorie deficit over time.
Your frustration comes through loud and clear, but so does your impatience and your desperation to find a singular solution to your challenge of not being able to lose weight. People have explained to you time and again on this thread and your other - you only need to consistently eat less than you burn, and you must be patient. I’ve asked you questions about your triggers for your situational overeating in an an attempt to help you come up with some coping strategies , you’ve ignored all my questions. You say you’d kill to be slim - but yet you are lashing out at all the people who are truly trying to help you. You’ve referenced a couple times a new baby - is this the kind of healthy attitude you want to model for your child? What about learning to be healthy and happy because you don’t look for a quick fix, you aren’t focused on the end result of being slim but the process of learning about nutrition and satiety and fitness. And insulting people that try to help you - is that what you want to teach your little one? Lastly, gaining back some weight after you have a baby? Completely normal. I don’t know how recent this is but it took me 3 years after my youngest was born to get serious about weight loss, and to be in a good frame of mind - enough sleep, enough mental focus, enough desire - to make a lifestyle change and not just want to lose baby weight.
Take a deep breath and start over at the beginning of this thread, reread the responses and try to take the emotion out of it. Read those stickied helpful posts that people have posted links for. Read lots of them. Then think about what you really think the issue is and how you can solve it. If you truly believe the root cause is your inability to stick to the diet, then again, stop looking at it as a diet and stop restricting so heavily. If your issue truly is that you believe you have some addictive behaviors around food - then work on identifying those triggers. You aren’t addicted to food. No one is. You might have emotional triggers that cause you to overeat, but those are emotional and behavioral related and not an addiction. There are lots of people who have struggled with similar situations and overcome them - again, read the stickies!
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »Unfortunately patience is something I lack, I’ve lost 1st 5lb since August on different diets but still isn’t giving me the spur on that I needsammyj19902015 wrote: »Unfortunately patience is something I lack, I’ve lost 1st 5lb since August on different diets but still isn’t giving me the spur on that I needsammyj19902015 wrote: »Unfortunately patience is something I lack, I’ve lost 1st 5lb since August on different diets but still isn’t giving me the spur on that I needsammyj19902015 wrote: »Unfortunately patience is something I lack, I’ve lost 1st 5lb since August on different diets but still isn’t giving me the spur on that I needsammyj19902015 wrote: »Unfortunately patience is something I lack, I’ve lost 1st 5lb since August on different diets but still isn’t giving me the spur on that I need
Have you guys heard of intermittent fasting? Research it. I’m doing intermittent fasting and calorie counting.4 -
cushman5279 wrote: »What everyone else said already. Plus... forget all of the trending diets and nutrition advice. Stop making it a science project. It doesn't have be confusing. Eat what you like, just eat less of it. It's really that simple. Unless you're an athlete in training for a competition or doing a comp prep for body building you don't have to follow any rules, just have to live in a caloric deficit. And guess what.... it's OK to feel slightly hungry. Who ever said we have to feel completely full all the time? In fact for a while I'd let myself get truly hungry on purpose so that I could learn, or re-learn, how to listen to my own body.
I agree with you 100% and this is exactly my approach...I went out for pizza on Sunday with my BF (even had a starter) and I still stayed within my calories for the week. Yesterday I had a rubbish day in work so ate 2 packets of crisps in a row but it was counted and logged then I adjusted my dinner slightly to make sure I didn't go over my limit. I eat what I want but have become much more aware of what I'm putting in my mouth.
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First off there is no Magic, lol. I think you already knew that. I was obese my whole entire life. It took me until I was 59 to get serious about losing. I kept jumping from diet to diet and would lose some then gain it back. I tried all of them. The trick for me was to find something I could live with for life.
Losing weight and keeping it off isn't about doing something until the weight drops off and then getting back to "normal". Our "normal" is why most of us were/are overweight. Find an exercise form you look forward to or at least can enjoy, eat less but eat things you like. Think about what you eat and find healthy alternatives whenever possible. Eat smaller portions (you can always have seconds if you are really still hungry). When I started on this I was amazed at how little food I really needed. Weigh your food and log it every single day. Don't guess about your portion size.
TAKE YOUR TIME. None of us got fat overnight I don't know why we think we should get thin overnight. Learn everything you can as you are losing weight. Accept that this is a lifesyle change forever. You can never go back to your old habits.3 -
My baby is 7 months old and I started back on diet straight after I had her, as I’ve said before I just get a bit frustrated on here that some of the responses make me out to be stupid/thick which is one thing I’m not lol I was just wanting to see what worked for different people0
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »My baby is 7 months old and I started back on diet straight after I had her, as I’ve said before I just get a bit frustrated on here that some of the responses make me out to be stupid/thick which is one thing I’m not lol I was just wanting to see what worked for different people
What works for different people is eating less calories than you burn on a consistent, ongoing basis. No matter how you arrive at that happening, calorie deficit is the only way weight loss occurs.8 -
cushman5279 wrote: »What everyone else said already. Plus... forget all of the trending diets and nutrition advice. Stop making it a science project. It doesn't have be confusing. Eat what you like, just eat less of it. It's really that simple. Unless you're an athlete in training for a competition or doing a comp prep for body building you don't have to follow any rules, just have to live in a caloric deficit. And guess what.... it's OK to feel slightly hungry. Who ever said we have to feel completely full all the time? In fact for a while I'd let myself get truly hungry on purpose so that I could learn, or re-learn, how to listen to my own body.
^ THIS. Also stop focusing on what "diet" to follow. Most "diets" are bs and restrict foods we enjoy eating, hence why you've claimed to have tried them all with little to no success. Diets are short term, so I highly suggest you focus on a lifestyle of eating. Losing weight is truly as simple as burn more calories then you consume.
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rianneonamission wrote: »If you like Richie you'll like James Smith I think. Instead of Betty he has Sheila.
I'd recommend against James Smith. He "borrows" nearly all of the information he puts forth.1 -
rianneonamission wrote: »If you like Richie you'll like James Smith I think. Instead of Betty he has Sheila.
I'd recommend against James Smith. He "borrows" nearly all of the information he puts forth.
Seconded. A couple days ago he was caught putting Lyle McDonald's new Women's Book online in .pdf format so his Facebook group members could pirate it without having to pay for a copy, with the hashtag #donttelllyle in his post announcing it. He has also been caught plagiarizing information from Lyle and others in the past (he apparently also had Kelly Starrett's Become a Supple Leopard book in his dropbox for people to pirate). Thieves don't deserve respect.4 -
But....but.... according to you, OP, you know everything about how weight loss works- you *actually* want advice about a medical issue!
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I asked for advice on what diets people do, if I knew it all I’d be thin wouldn’t I!!
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »I asked for advice on what diets people do, if I knew it all I’d be thin wouldn’t I!!
The simple answer to this is: people do best on their own diet that they found most sustainable and were able to achieve a calorie deficit consistently. It's usually found through trial and error by that person and can't be generalized for everyone. It may or may not align with some named diets, mine surely doesn't, but it's a fact that chasing crash dieting is not a long term solution and only habit building works. Most people who have successfully lost weight have learned from experience with many bumps in the road that didn't deter them from continuing to figure out what works best for them. Scale weight is one of these bumps, and is the least challenging to get over because you know weight fluctuates, it's just a matter of making peace with the fact that it's normal and it doesn't necessarily mean something is going wrong.
What worked for me personally to lose more than 100 lbs was simplifying the process. No food is bad, some foods cost more calories so if I really want them I need to plan accordingly, some foods I found more filling and satisfying from experience so I eat more of these, some foods are satisfying but not filling so I eat them when I feel they are worth the calories and mentally prepare to be slightly hungrier that day because it can be worth it sometimes, and as long as I'm within calories consistently I know any stalls or spikes up on the scale will dissipate within a few days/weeks so I just continue doing what I'm doing regardless of what the scale is doing. Even after a few years down this road I'm still learning new things and trying to manage some of my issues, I know I'm not immune to regain but I'm capable of learning from it to minimize the chances of that happening in the future. The easier you make it for yourself the easier it will be.7 -
sammyj19902015 wrote: »I asked for advice on what diets people do, if I knew it all I’d be thin wouldn’t I!!
The thing is no one on here actually "does a diet" everyone lives by CICO, whether it's from protein, carbs, fat, veggies, it's a simple matter of a controlling how many calories you eat. Wrap it up and call it anything you want but it's all the same principle. Sticking with it is the hard bit.
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »I asked for advice on what diets people do, if I knew it all I’d be thin wouldn’t I!!
My diet (noun) is the foods I enjoy in appropriate quantities. Mostly home cooked, fairly high carb (veg, fruit, grains....), lots of fish, lots of variety.
My diet (verb) to lose weight was the 5:2 diet - 5 days at maintenance, 2 non-consecutive days at a large deficit.
It might suit you as you say you struggle with patience and sticking to a diet long term/falling off the wagon.
Effectively you only diet (calorie restrict) one day at a time and no foods are off limits. It's easy to be determined for a day at a time knowing that tomorrow you eat normally.
Everyday calorie restriction bores and frustrates me - sounds like it might do the same to you.
https://thefastdiet.co.uk/ for more info.1 -
Time to call troll yet?2
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »I asked for advice on what diets people do, if I knew it all I’d be thin wouldn’t I!!
And we have said over and over in this thread and others but you just keep ignoring it.
DON’T DO A DIET
I’m really not sure what else you want to hear. Some of us have taken time to offer you sincere advice from our experiences. You keep ignoring it.
Since you are insistent about the “diet” - then I do the
EWYWWACDAMM
DIET
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moosmum1972 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Time to call troll yet?
Looking more and more isn't it....
use the emoji, use the emoji....
(i cant, too many warnings :laugh:)0 -
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My diet is the paperpudding individualised variety of foods I like and have available diet
Must think of catchier name for it. 3 -
moosmum1972 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »moosmum1972 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »Time to call troll yet?
Looking more and more isn't it....
use the emoji, use the emoji....
(i cant, too many warnings :laugh:)
I can't. ... just got out of jail...
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When I see people on restrictive diets I look at my "I eat everything in moderation" diet and feel rather
CICO for the win.2 -
No troll.. just a frustrated mummy who feels *kitten* about the way she looks. I seem to have tried every ‘healthy eating ‘ (Daren't say diet!!) I possibly know and don’t seem to get get anywhere.0
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rianneonamission wrote: »If you need some extra no bovine excrement sort of approach, check Facebook for Richie Howey (sweary Geordie) or James Smith PT (sweary Berkshireman, currently living in Aus). Both do regular live videos and explain CICO, BMR, TDEE, why fad diets don't work, and why keeping track of macros does help in addition to CICO. Although I am not signed up to either, I like their no nonsense approach and regularly watch their videos.
But at the end of the day you have to want change. You have to be ready to make small lifestyle changes and force yourself to stick to them. I eat everything, just in moderation. If it fits my calories and/or macros I will have chocolate, cake, alcohol, you name it. The best thing is you don't have to do it at once. Gradual changes make them part of your life.
I started at Easter last year and have gradually gotten healthier. I have lost close to 20lbs and kept it off. My plateau (December/January) has reduced significantly, and my desire for bad food has declined, which is amazing. I still have it, but if I have it in the quantities that I used to I start to feel dodgy. Which is great! Long process, but worth every minute.
Love James Smith on Insta!1 -
Have you tried keto?6
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »No troll.. just a frustrated mummy who feels *kitten* about the way she looks. I seem to have tried every ‘healthy eating ‘ (Daren't say diet!!) I possibly know and don’t seem to get get anywhere.
Again, have you tried, "eating foods you enjoy that provide nutrition and satiety in a moderate calorie deficit with reasonable expectations for a sustained period of time without getting discouraged and giving up"?8 -
The food-scale diet worked wonders for me.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p13
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