What’s been something you have been struggling with on your weight loss journey?
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My biggest challenge is also emotional eating. However, when I am really stressed or depressed I go the opposite and don't eat enough. My weight loss journey started with the death of my daughter (not a strategy I'd recommend for anyone). Because of the upheaval losing weight was relatively easy. Once in maintenance, it is a problem though. When I am having a tough time my weight goes down and it is a huge struggle to bring it back up again. I am sure this is all a means of control. When I feel like I am losing control of what is around me I take tighter control of what I eat and how much I exercise. I am on a great role though with 4 days in a row of eating in excess! I just hope I can keep it up.20
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Lately everything. I can't find a workout regime that I want to stick to/seeing results. I feel clueless about food sometimes. Should I eat 1200 cals or just make sure I'm eating healthy food but yet not stuffing my face either. I just feel so conflicted I guess on what I should and shouldn't be doing. And that hasn't helped my motivation...6
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Wishing it didn't go so slow. No matter how many times I've done this, I know it takes weeks and months and years to get where I want. But it is frustrating when I feel I've been working so hard for a few weeks and barely anything has happened. Or I see no change myself in photos or the mirror. Just that desire for it to HAPPEN.20
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I KEEP EATING! I was doing my own thing for a year and a half. I lost 75lbs on my own. Then I plateaued. I sought out the help of an online coach. I lost 20-22lbs in 3 months. I was happy with the results but the diet was VERY restrictive. I think I went crazy after I got off of it. So I think i'm still dealing with residual food deprivation syndrome©. I just made that up; don't steal it!
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As the scale numbers go down, the amount of effort I have to produce to get the same calorie burn (on my FitBit) goes up.8
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I screw up when I get to even numbers, 180, 170, etc. It's like my brain says "woo hoo, let's party!" I eat all the things, gain 3-4 pounds, and have to fight it back down. I know I do this. I even recognize it happening, and I still can't seem to not do it.26
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Emotional eating3
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quiksylver296 wrote: »I screw up when I get to even numbers, 180, 170, etc. It's like my brain says "woo hoo, let's party!" I eat all the things, gain 3-4 pounds, and have to fight it back down. I know I do this. I even recognize it happening, and I still can't seem to not do it.
This is me as well. I get so excited every damn time and go crazy.4 -
Exercising! Far too many times I have found myself in the midst of a Netflix binge instead of at the gym4
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Cutemesoon wrote: »I KEEP EATING! I was doing my own thing for a year and a half. I lost 75lbs on my own. Then I plateaued. I sought out the help of an online coach. I lost 20-22lbs in 3 months. I was happy with the results but the diet was VERY restrictive. I think I went crazy after I got off of it. So I think i'm still dealing with residual food deprivation syndrome©. I just made that up; don't steal it!
I feel like people shouldn’t feel so deprived about eating and feel so guilty if they end up getting a bit off track. I think my advice is enjoy your journey and don’t let cloudy days rain on your parade. You got this!
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casillasdiana51 wrote: »Cutemesoon wrote: »I KEEP EATING! I was doing my own thing for a year and a half. I lost 75lbs on my own. Then I plateaued. I sought out the help of an online coach. I lost 20-22lbs in 3 months. I was happy with the results but the diet was VERY restrictive. I think I went crazy after I got off of it. So I think i'm still dealing with residual food deprivation syndrome©. I just made that up; don't steal it!
I feel like people shouldn’t feel so deprived about eating and feel so guilty if they end up getting a bit off track. I think my advice is enjoy your journey and don’t let cloudy days rain on your parade. You got this!
In my case, I kinda need to deprive myself. I lack self control. I just finished working out & i ate 4-5 cookies for snack. Before I sat down to eat, I told myself to only eat 3 cookies & some fruit. But the cookies were tasty and I had more than I planned to.4 -
Bored eating. It's a habit that goes back to childhood as a latchkey key without anyone paying attention to what I was eating. The worst is that because I feel that I NEED to have something (and fruit or veggies won't cut it) so I convince myself that no, no, I'm definitely hungry even though dinner was 1 hour ago. Some days are better than others.
It's such a hard habit to break that I would compare it to quitting smoking (for me). That sort of nagging feeling that gets worse and worse until it's all you can think about it.9 -
The mirror. I'm about a quarter of the way to my goal and the number on the scale continues to go down slowly but nothing looks different in the mirror.7
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My main problem is consistency. I do "good" for a few weeks, lose weight and then stop for a week. Which often turns into 2. So I need to stay consistent and stop stopping.8
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Patience. The “I want it off now” mentality doesn’t work for me. Restriction and binging are two sides of the same coin. When I cut too low, it leads me to binge. I’ve finally found success in maintenance after figuring this out.15
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The fact that I’m a perfectionist. I’m afraid if I don’t do everything exactly right my progress will stop.12
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I am wishy-washy. I don't do anything consistently. I track and eat "appropriately" until I get home (or on the way home) and then go off the chain. And what am I supposed to be eating anyway? CICO? Low Carb? Keto? And then there is exercise....Have not been able to find anything that I stick with.3
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I've hit the weight I listed as my goal weight and want to go down a few more pounds, but my current caloric intake is too close to maintenance to get there without really dropping down more, which I don't want to do. So I basically have to either: a. say YAY, I made my goal weight, now how can I add back a few calories to my day and not gain, or b. suck it up, drop down to around 1250 or so a day for a month or so, which sounds crazy low compared to 1380. It's a common dilemma for me as soon as I cross below 135, and in the past whatever I did resulted in me GAINING, which is not want I want to do!!!11
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Nutritional biases. Good food fixes everything but food bias can become a religion. A moral high ground, assigning moral judgment to foods. We're in the IF/Keto/Paleo/Primal/Food Group Elimination era. Has it changed everything for you then?
Gathering your thoughts in the midst of so much dieting bias is a challenge.
Not the short term of 1 or 2 years but over the long haul. Look waaay down the road at the big picture. If it's not sustainable after a year or two, how about 10 years down the road. Less than 5% maintain a large weight loss after 5 years due to dieting and rebound weight gain plus friends. It's only 7% for those with WLS after 5 years.
You can be a cheerleader for any dieting bias agenda until the cows come home or chickens come home to roost. After so many dieting phases and eating it all back, the dawn eventually comes to light. Dieting doesn't work.
Then you're finally ready to Open. Mind. Insert. Possibilities.
You should've never started dieting the first place. Create your own Positive Food Management Plan. Track it.
That way you'll know when you've meandered too far out of your normal river banks. Eat all of the foods that you enjoy and find movement that you really like. Do everything on your own terms.
Embrace your personality, your likes. Rid yourself of huge rationalizations that dieting has all of the answers for you. Go back to your original factory settings. That time in your history when dieting was not in your thoughts or a part of your life. You may have been a child but there was a time when your world was right without dieting for weight loss.
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The bane of my existence has been the online ordering/deliver apps like favor. Deleting them off my phone hasn't helped I'll redownload just to have someone bring me taco bell on the weekends...4
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