What I Hate About Watching My Weight/New Lifestyle/Dieting, etc. (A Place to Vent)

How disappointed people look when I tell them I lost the weight by counting calories.
Also, how big my stomach is, especially when compared to people who are at a similar weight.

I dislike that I'll have to count calories the rest of my life. Everytime I stop I gain back weight so I proved I cant stop tracking. It's so daunting. More daunting that retirement isnt for a minimum of 25 years and probably more like 30. No end in sight...

People saying "Nobody ever keeps the weight off. Just look at <Biggest Loser Person, Friend-Who-Gained-Back>."

Saving calories on purpose so that I can have chocolate and a glass of wine at the end of the day, only for someone to say "You'll never lose weight if you do that".

I want to scream at them. Biggest Loser Person and Friend-Who-Gained-Back both did it by INSANE crash dieting that I wouldn't even contemplate. And that chocolate and wine? I paid for that from my calorie budget! That's allowed! Gah!

I do miss being able to chill out on the sofa and scoff an entire bag of kettle chips. But when the only way to fit them into my calorie budget would be to skip my dinner, I find that I don't want them as much.

Of course, it occurs to me that I was never really 'able' to scoff an entire bag of kettle chips. I just let myself do it anyway, regardless of the consequences...

I hate that I can't just go out and grab something quick to eat. Well... can't get anything other than a salad. Something that places overcharge for for prepackaged lettuce and whatnot.
I hate that I can't have my fav fried chicken and french fries and biscuits b/c my body sucks and can't deal with the carbs.
And I really flippin hate that my body is holding on to the stomach fat like my life depends on it!! I'm tired of looking like I'm still pregnant!! Start dropping the tummy fat already damnit!

I hate going out to eat with friends or family and they just order whatever they want and devour it all right in front of me. I mean kudos to them but I want to eat like a pig too..

quiksylver296 wrote: »

That I can't eat two of these for breakfast...

Ah yes - Costco muffins. The size of a small cake. But not a "Chantilly" cake.

Awkwardly sneaking nibbles of a food bar while out dancing at a bar/restaurant because the bar food isn't worth the insane calories. (Thankfully, at least the liquor is worth it and burn-able via dancing..so I don't have to feel too guilty about it).

I hate how easily I screwed up maintenance (gained a stone back in 4 weeks). I hate that I'm going to have to think about food, track calories, plan meals etc forever - I just don't have the intuition to do it a different way. If I eat what I want, when I want, there will be no food left for other people! I would love to have a healthy relationship with food where I just eat nice meals and then forget about it. Am so sick of food taking up 90%+ of my waking thoughts, and the constant binging.

I hate that I have to justify why I'm losing weight to some people
"but there's nothing of you" they say.
"Except the 14kg of fat keeping me above the "normal" bmi range you mean" I say

I hate how ignorant some people are and how blindsided they can be when it comes to weight loss. "My BMI says I'm obese, but I have lots of muscles from dance so BMI doesn't matter for me" but then will winge about weight related issues.

I hate how some people will see my weight loss as a personal attack at them. No I'm not judging your for eating that food, I just don't want any myself. I am not losing weight to damage your self esteem. I'm losing weight for my health.

I hate how some people will try and justify their bad choices by somehow trying to convince themselves that it's healthy and then try and get me to back them up. This happened yesterday. There is a lovely lady in our office who I ended up getting breakfast with yesterday from the canteen. She had a scoop of scrambled eggs and two large slices of black pudding. Now whatever she eats is up to her and I don't really care. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except she says to me "I mean it's healthy right? It's pretty much just protein" trying to justify it.
Now what do I do? From experience sausages are surprisingly calorie dense thanks to the fat in it, and I can't imagine that black pudding is any different. Personally I try very hard to never judge people on their food choices as I know that you can lose weight on what might appear to be an "unhealthy" diet (heck, my breakfast was a pain au chocolat and a latte). But what she was really trying to do was make me responsible for her food choices, and I'm not really comfortable with that. I shrugged and made non committal noises, but it's annoying that she was aware that this might not have been the most healthiest meal for her, and for some reason she was trying to justify her food choices to me. Get over yourself love, I really don't care what you eat.

VeryKatie wrote: »

I dislike that I'll have to count calories the rest of my life. Everytime I stop I gain back weight so I proved I cant stop tracking. It's so daunting. More daunting that retirement isnt for a minimum of 25 years and probably more like 30. No end in sight...

Just a friendly suggestion, don't wish your life away.