What I Hate About Watching My Weight/New Lifestyle/Dieting, etc. (A Place to Vent)
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Get over it, this is a way of life if you want to be healthier as you age!15
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ferrenmariec97 wrote: »My beef is myself. Not in a degrading hateful way. BUT I get so caught up in eating right and exercising and then I get bored or it isnt happening fast enough or life gets tough and I just quit. I just wish i could get over that hump without going straight back to unhealthy.
You're not alone. We've all felt that way. I can feel that attitude creeping up on me right now. My aim is to be "good" until Christmas but I don't think I'll last that long.
I'm on around 1400 calories a day plus 10,000 steps with means I'm actually between 1200-1300. (nobody @ me about how this is all wrong. I'm not asking to be corrected - it's working for me). When I get the grumps about the hard slog that is "being good" then I take a break and go up to 1500-1800 calories a day plus 10,000 steps. I usually find that allows me to eat a bit of what I want but still keep me on the right track. I don't lose a lot (if anything) but I don't gain. I stay around the same.
Sending you love x
I was going to say something similar to this - when you can't stand being good anymore, decide how bad you plan to be. Own it, log it, do it on purpose, and then you won't feel as if you are out of control. That feeling of control can help you get back to it when you're ready.7 -
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I am trying to change my too sedentary lifestyle by walking each day. But oh does it hurt when some people say "walking isn't exercise - you should jog".12
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Going to the movies and not getting anything to eat. Everyone around me is dipping their hands into giant bins of delicious-smelling popcorn and I sit there with nothing. The one theater used to have coffee, and I'd get a sugar free vanilla cappuccino, but now the new owner took away the coffee bar. So I don't even have my coffee anymore.7
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PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.7
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njitaliana wrote: »PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.
Gotta admit, if I'm going to the movies, I'm having the damn popcorn. Overpriced, overoiled, too many calories, whatever. I need the movie theater popcorn for the experience to be complete.
But you are not wrong.9 -
When your home scale decides to have a hissy fit! This morning I went through my usual morning weigh in routine, was right about where I expected to be, but accidently bumped the scale as I got off, so moved it back and decided to re-weigh. It came up over 1/2 pound heavier - then reset the scale position, reset it, and then it weighed me at 1.2 pounds heavier! WTH?!?
I gave up after that and just used the original since that's where the scale has been the past couple weeks - but still, so annoying! I "know" it's just a number, and only one day, but I like to track my trend and make sure I'm keeping headed in the right direction.4 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »njitaliana wrote: »PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.
Gotta admit, if I'm going to the movies, I'm having the damn popcorn. Overpriced, overoiled, too many calories, whatever. I need the movie theater popcorn for the experience to be complete.
But you are not wrong.
I usually don't. In fact, we usually plan to eat dinner right after the movie, which means I have an incentive not to eat it (we do have coffee at the theaters I normally go to, however, and I might get that, might get a diet coke).
However, every once in a while I feel like going to an early afternoon matinee and having a small popcorn instead of lunch. Sometimes it just hits the spot. (No clue how many calories, I do prefer it without butter, at least, but I'm sure it's a lot.)0 -
njitaliana wrote: »PS, Yes, I know I could have popcorn, but those tubs have 1200 calories and I'd rather save the calories for a real meal after the movie.
..especially when you know how to make it tastier yourself for way fewer calories (aerosol butter flavor oil spray sprayed on in smaller batches -and, my personal preference, topped with grated parmesan...as opposed to the movie theater mix of super-over-gobbed on oil on some kernels and plenty with none. Fake-butter-flavored oil works SO much better in aerosol spray form then a pump.4 -
maylingsmom wrote: »I am trying to change my too sedentary lifestyle by walking each day. But oh does it hurt when some people say "walking isn't exercise - you should jog".
I lost 120 lbs only walking for exercise. Want me to tell them to *kitten* off for you?17 -
HoneyBadger155 wrote: »When your home scale decides to have a hissy fit! This morning I went through my usual morning weigh in routine, was right about where I expected to be, but accidently bumped the scale as I got off, so moved it back and decided to re-weigh. It came up over 1/2 pound heavier - then reset the scale position, reset it, and then it weighed me at 1.2 pounds heavier! WTH?!?
I gave up after that and just used the original since that's where the scale has been the past couple weeks - but still, so annoying! I "know" it's just a number, and only one day, but I like to track my trend and make sure I'm keeping headed in the right direction.
Oh, I feel you! My scale has a certain spot it has to sit in to be a consistent weight. It's just a number but it also affects my morale!
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rheddmobile wrote: »HoneyBadger155 wrote: »When your home scale decides to have a hissy fit! This morning I went through my usual morning weigh in routine, was right about where I expected to be, but accidently bumped the scale as I got off, so moved it back and decided to re-weigh. It came up over 1/2 pound heavier - then reset the scale position, reset it, and then it weighed me at 1.2 pounds heavier! WTH?!?
I gave up after that and just used the original since that's where the scale has been the past couple weeks - but still, so annoying! I "know" it's just a number, and only one day, but I like to track my trend and make sure I'm keeping headed in the right direction.
Oh, I feel you! My scale has a certain spot it has to sit in to be a consistent weight. It's just a number but it also affects my morale!
I swear these scales are conscious. Sometimes mine will just randomly turn on. Like I'm not even near it and then I see the light turning on. And i'm like 'excuse you.. can you please stop judging me! I can fit this chocolate bar into my calorie goal for today, okay thanks.'
Well, it's either conciousness or I've a ghost living here that's also trying to lose some weight.. not quite sure which one I prefer.
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maylingsmom wrote: »I am trying to change my too sedentary lifestyle by walking each day. But oh does it hurt when some people say "walking isn't exercise - you should jog".
Screw them! "Just" walking you're still doing a hell of a lot more than the dingbats sitting on the couch! Walking is my only form of exercise, and I'm doing just fine with it. Don't let those *kittens* bring you down!
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Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo1
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FutureMrsCarver89 wrote: »Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo
I have to work tomorrow so not really going to eat a ton of food.
I have in my diary already to eat a pint of Talenti's Pumpkin Pie gelato.0 -
FutureMrsCarver89 wrote: »Well, Thanksgiving is tomorrow sOooOoooo
I'm giving myself maintenance calories tomorrow (so about 2500). That will let me fit in coffee for breakfast (my norm), snacky stuff for lunch (sausage, cheese, veggies and dip, deviled eggs) and a dinner with mashed potatoes, turkey thigh, gravy, stuffed mushrooms, carrot and turnip mash, green beans, stuffing and ham. Also half a bottle of wine and a small piece of chocolate mousse pie.4 -
Most goals can be reached faster and with better quality if you put extra work into it. I got out of debt fast by getting an extra job, cutting out all non essential expenses and shoveling every single cent into my loans. I finished some reno projects quickly this summer by working on them every weekend and sacrificing some vacation days. But with weight loss... it's 1-2 lbs per week... that's it... There is absolutely nothing you can do to speed it up. If you try you'll lose muscle at best and cause serious health problems at worst. There are times when I have nothing to do and I start thinking about how I can spend that time to make progress on my weight loss and the realization that there's nothing I can do is infuriating.17
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coderdan82 wrote: »Most goals can be reached faster and with better quality if you put extra work into it. I got out of debt fast by getting an extra job, cutting out all non essential expenses and shoveling every single cent into my loans. I finished some reno projects quickly this summer by working on them every weekend and sacrificing some vacation days. But with weight loss... it's 1-2 lbs per week... that's it... There is absolutely nothing you can do to speed it up. If you try you'll lose muscle at best and cause serious health problems at worst. There are times when I have nothing to do and I start thinking about how I can spend that time to make progress on my weight loss and the realization that there's nothing I can do is infuriating.
The pace is a learning tool! Lean in to it, you're developing habits to stick, hopefully, so might as well get used to them
My gripe: been whittling my calories down for ten days or so and edging down under the middle of my maintenance range so I can act like eating is my job today, but the kitchen was so clean and the fridge so full of prepared food we went out and grabbed some fajitas last night. The unusual for me salt content kicked the scale up a pound. You know what scale, you don't own me!3
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