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What I Hate About Watching My Weight/New Lifestyle/Dieting, etc. (A Place to Vent)
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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.11 -
What I hate is dreading maintenance....that being vigilant will never end. But what I hate the MOST is my husbands excitement for eating out or grabbing dessert. Am I forced to eat? No, but he's hurt if I don't join in a little. 9/10 I find a way to work it into my diet but then that means not eating when I'm hungry later (or just having cucumber to eat). Most of my diet is just CICO but a scoop of ice cream at a family party can throw me off my game.
I hate that it takes so much work to see so little result. I'm not saying it's not worth it, it's just annoying.
Also as much as I love shopping, replacing everything I own is expensive, and I have this mystery moment every day "So will this fit me still?"24 -
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...24
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I work in a restaurant, so temptation is always present😭😭😭 I somehow need a way to overcome temptation7
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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...37 -
QFTFloatingpencil wrote: »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...
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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!14 -
How easy it is to eat poorly and strange serving size portions on packets.13
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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..16
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That I can't eat two of these for breakfast...
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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.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »That I can't eat two of these for breakfast...
I haven't banned many foods, but muffins are a 'once a year *maybe*' thing. So not filling at all for the calories, and I'd rather have something else.9 -
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).6
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quiksylver296 wrote: »That I can’t eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s every night. I sooooo want to!
I do miss cookies and cream cheese cake core
My favorite was Cinnamon Buns! One of the only Ben & Jerry's pints I could never stop at just one serving.3 -
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.32
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Im sick of people criticizing heavier people as if that will motivate us to hurry up with the weight loss. Motivate us to exercise at that moment by using them as a punching bag, maybe.
Instead of paying attention to my weight, why don't you spend that energy trying to fix your own insecurities about your life? #F**koffDumba$$11 -
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.26 -
Cookies in the break room, office meetings with a table full of subs, clients that send chocolate/gift cards/baskets of food as a thank you. The giant box of Halloween candy hidden in the hall closet. The baked goods section of the grocery store.
Oh the list goes on!14 -
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.
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I have a few friends who never seem to be hungry and have only the slightest interest in food. They're not skinny mind you, they are about my size (after a major weight loss), average. But I am jealous in that I am not a person who can skip lunch unintentionally or doesn't have a strong opinion about pasta sauce, fruit, etc. I have to count calories and watch myself in order to avoid gaining lots of weight and some people just have a natural self-control and lack of interest in food that makes it easier for them to maintain a healthy average weight. For me it's a struggle. I'm not claiming that some people are naturally fat/thin, I know that's a hot topic on these forums. I acknowledge that I tend to use food for celebration, consolation, etc, and all of that. I'm just a bit jealous of people who don't do that and have healthy or "don't care" attitudes about what they consume.
The only bright side of this I can see is that I've funneled my energies into getting very good nutrition and hitting my goals and some of my aforementioned friends just have coffee, fast food burger, and a bunch of gummi worms in a day. While that's maybe typical for a teenager, we're 40. Hoping the nutrition will help me continue to feel great!22 -
Fluctuations up and down up and down 🤚6
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I hate the thought that, because of loose skin and stretch marks, I might still hate how my stomach looks after I work so hard to lose all the weight.26
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jennifer_417 wrote: »I hate the thought that, because of loose skin and stretch marks, I might still hate how my stomach looks after I work so hard to lose all the weight.
Oh I absolutely hate how my stomach looks since I've lost all the weight. Makes me want to just have it all cut off.12 -
Every new item at the stores labelled protein this and protein that. One new bar had less protein than half an egg. Such false advertising.....19
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I get tired of making my food... I wish they had healthy low cal food for delivery.14
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I hate that I don't have my own pool so I didn't have to wait for lanes at the gym.
Also - I hate people pointing out that I lost weight.. like several times in a month. Yeah I am trying to lose weight, I don't need the outside "encouragement" which actually makes me feel awkward trying to acknowledge.
Same! When I first started to seriously lose weight in late 2012-early 2014 (maintenance) I had went from 300-150's (now around 204 hoping to get to 150-160) & work with the public! You can just imagine the gamut of comments, advice, & critiques I received. At times I'll admit it was hilarious to hear some of the bad bro science/woo/Dr. Oz kind of advice.
Just a few months ago I had a customer tell me they had asked a coworker at my thinnest if I was dying of cancer.7 -
Managing my depression and not stress eating. Staying on track is easy when you’re feeling well, but when I’m really depressed I have to dig DEEP to not give in. I hate it. It’s exhausting.22
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I hate having to think about food so much of the time. I wish I could not think about it and not have to plan out what I’m going to eat. I wish I could not give a single thought to food until I get hungry, then eat what sounds good at the time. Sigh.24
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