totally losing all motivation...help please..........

[Heathcliffscathy]

have been doing ww online for 2 months now. for last 3 weeks have not lost anything (put on one week and lost what i put on). i've lost around 11 lb and have another stone to lose. feeling completely and utterly demotivated. love food. miss eating what i want. feel like i'm working so hard, only for a night out or the weekends to blow it all to smithereens. am now thinking that i should desubscribe as you always put on more than you lost dieting...help me someone please...i feel tremendously demotivated...argh

[champs]

sophable!! don't loose hope, you can do it!! at least you have managed to loose what you put on, we all have times when we feel we are getting nowhere with this dieting lark, at times I just want to give up, then I remember how I want to look like and feel like and how I look and feel like now, and that gives me more motivation.

Is it a certain food that you are missing or just holding back in general? sometimes I feel like why do I have to hold myself back when everyone is eating what they like and I really want x to eat, but It's just tough cos everyone else is normally slimmer and I ate my way to my size, so I have to do something about it.

WW is normaly good as you can choose whether to have the naughty stuff and cut back more, or choose good stuff and have more to eat.

look at how much you have lost so far... nearly a stone!! that is very good, loosing even 2lbs is hard.
you CAN do it.

[marthamoo]

sophable, are you me? Am I you? Did I post in my sleep? I feel EXACTLY the same. Have lost 21lbs on WW online, still have 12 to go to get to my target weight of 9.5 stone. For the past 4 weeks I have just gone up two pounds, down two pounds, up again, down again. Just can't seem to get my motivation going again - keep pigging out and thinking "oh sod it, I'll do it tomorrow..."

My RL friend who joined online at the same time as me has just started going to meetings and she says the public humiliation of the weigh-in is working for her. She's trying to persuade me to go too.

I've been no help I know, but at least you know you're not alone.

[Heathcliffscathy]

thanks champs...

marthamoo, i think we may be ww twins...maybe weigh ins are the answer...

if i could not have weekends or nights out...or down days, i'd be fine!!!!

am going to stick with it for another month and then see. i'm 10st 3lb. want to lose another stone. it's so so so hard...

thanks for your posts ladies
x

[Tommy]

Tell me about it! I'm finding that when I'm tired (which is most days as DSs taking it in turns to wake up throughout the night) I just get really hungry and eat loads of crap.
I would love to be 10st3lb sophable!
I guess it's just perseverance....

[happymummy1]

Hi tommy i know exactly what you mean,its when i'm stuck at home for the day,having a bad day with ds or being really tired or not having enough time to have something healthy,i just seem to reach for the biscuits or crisps it kind of makes me feel better.

[glitterfairy]

Sophable we are all in the same boat and Champs and I even started the Lazy Bloaters club the other day as we felt so bad at our eating and size.

THis is the problem with any diet imo you feel bad when you arent doing it and good when you are but the temptation is there to just binge!

I have always liked the term sensible and healthy eating but of course have never really managed it and alchohol is a real problem as I cant resist whenever I am tired.

I have found abit of exercise good to help motivate me but am not sticking to my plan at the moment and putting back all the wieght I have lost which is really depressing it is a vicous circle!

Anyway lots of luck and a big hug from me!

[Demented]

Sophable I haven't heard from you for a while. Well done on losing 11lbs, that's fantastic! I definately get highs and lows as far as the motivation goes. I find some new low point food helps, new salad or soup recipes, something to jazz up my eating. Don't know if you like ice lollies but Skinny Cow ice lollies are brilliant and apparently only 1 point, Soleros are great too. Don't know what else to say but you have done so well and I am sure you will be back on track soon.

[Demented]

Oh and I echo Glitterfairy about the exercise, it is my saviour many a week, the fantastic thing is you can't eat whilst doing it!

[Demented]

Oh and how about treating yourself to something new, something that is not so tight that you can't wear it but perhaps something that looks good but would look even better with another three or four pounds off, if you get too small for it you can always flog it on e-Bay afterwards. I have decided not to keep a fat and a thin wardrobe anymore, when items of clothing get too big I either pass them on or sell them on e-Bay.

[JanZ]

Hi Sophable. If you look at "on the way to losing a stone with codswallop" thread, you'll see I have been suffering in the same way. A lot of effrot, with latterly, apparently very little return.

I haven't even been binging at the weekend - so haven't even had that pleasure. (I would loosen up at weekends, ie have a couple of glasses of wine, but that would be about it).

I've decided that after nearly 2 months, and now at 10 stone 7 or 8 (from 11 stone 2)(although I DID get to 10 stone 6), which is where I've been for 3 weeks, I'm going to give myself a break this week. I'm not going to binge, but I'm not going to get up tight if I have the odd treat.

Maybe that'll help me get back into the mood to continue the diet with renewed motivation.

I'm also trying to start running again. Did 2 miles on Sunday and meant to go out last night but didn't - and tongiht we're out to see Fahrenheit 9/11, so it'll be tomorrow befre I can run.

And if I fancy some popcorn tonght at the cineam, I'll HAVE some popcorn

The important thing is, my clothes ARE a lot looser - and I'm sure your clothes are too. Maybe you need to allow a wee but of time for your body to "stabilise" at this wegiht, before re-entering the diet race!