To go cold turkey on shit food..Who is with me??

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I am fed up with being overweight. Been fed up since I was 12 years old. I am going to be 30 this month and enough is enough is bloody enough.

No more chocolate, cake, takeaways, ice cream. NOT EVEN crap Weight Watchers deserts or low fat crap.

Just fruit, veg, lean protein and good amounts of carbs (my fitness pal).

I will not fails. I have 3 stone to lose. I have done it before and fuck it - I am doing it again.

Good for you OP, you sound very determined and I hope you succeed

I don't think cold turkey is the best way to do it. It's very easy to feel 'deprived' and blow it.
Sensible eating and treats in moderation are the way I'm going (via Slimming World) and have lost 13.5lbs in the last 3 weeks.

Me me me.... Can i still have hummus ?

Getting a running machine tomorrow and will use it not for washing/ironing

I am starting tomorrow and I'm having humous, its not a shit food IMO

Can I start tomorrow I just ordered pizza

I'm in. I weigh less now than I did before I got pregnant last year.

DS is 10 weeks old, my baby weight has gone, BUT I've started putting it all back on due to the convenient crap I seem to be constantly eating.

I have to stop it now, i'm still 3st heavier than I was when DH and I met 12 years ago

OP, if you cut it all out, you will most likely fail. Because all along it will be "when I lose the weight, I can eat it again", and there begins the vicious circle... been there, done it.

The best trick is to allow yourself a small amount of what you really enjoy within your diet. If, (like me) you love chocolate and ice cream, then have a compromise, and get the Ben and Jerrys chocolate frozen yoghurt, you can have the choc fix and the ice cream fix, but with a fraction of the fat and calories.

Diets do not work. Completely changing your attitude to food, for life, does.

What squeaky said. I've lost quite a bit of weight recently, fairly painlessly too. There's nothing that I can't have, I just know the meaning of moderation now and have made a few changes here and there. Going cold turkey sounds far too grim and is a short term solution.

WTF is that link all about? was meant to to be the big/slim/whatever weightloss topic.

Looks like you're using a proxy to surf MN

Going cold turkey is stupid. Are you going to avoid sweet things for the rest of your life? no? So why do it?

Ooh are you trying to get round a ban by using a proxy? Naughty naughty.

I'm with you on the weight loss OP, but I can't go cold turkey. A little of what you fancy and all that.

I think going cold turkey will be very harsh and might lead to increased chance of failure. Why not go by Paul McKenna's principles? Google for the full details but the basics are eat only when you're hungry, eat whatever you fancy, eat slowly and consciously, and stop when you feel full.

I have tried time and time again 'a little of what you fancy'.
But I cannot stop myself.
I feel I have an addiction to primarily chocolate and cake. A very real addiction. One bite again and all my hard work goes to shit.

I am 2 stone overweight - but would like to lose three. So - I may well have some crap food on a night out for dinner etc but absolutely no way am I having cake or chocolate.

IABU - but I have to be.

I was using a vpn to get bbc iplayer out of the UK! Naughty.

Did it work?

yes for a while but then it kept dropping out and I'm not sure why.

I know where you're coming from OP. Go. For. It.

Remember to drink copious amounts of water, and for the next 3 -5 days, have lots of pain relief handy because of the detox symptoms you're guaranteed to have as your body flushes out all that crap. Head-ache city for you, for the next few days, but it;ll be worth it.

A friend of mine has been on some sort of Whole Food diet and doing lots of exercise. Her body was baggy (like mine ) and after having 3 kids, she was about 3 stone overweight. She's done a decent amount of exercise, but now, her body is transformed. She looks amazing. Not just lighter, but toned and strong.

Go for it OP. You CAN do it!

Sounds good - might give it a go with you - and for all you talking of moderation - if we could do moderation we wouldn't need to lose 3 stone!!!

You can do it if you really want to. I cut all the crap about 4 months ago. I've really reflected on my diet and we all eat so much better these days - very low GI. I have done a bit of cooking with a healthy and natural sugar replacement called Xylitol (wholesome cakes and buns). Xylitol on popcorn is also a healthy low GI sweet treat and will avoid the blood sugar swings which cause havoc to our bodies.

I'm on my fitness pal too, I love it, I have dropped slowly and steadily since using it, it makes me much more accountable for what I eat. I did it more to stop me eating so much junk, I need to watch my cholesterol and have another blood check coming sometime this month. I still eat a few treats now and then, usually some gummies or a frozen yogurt with some treats on top, but the weight still comes off.
I love that it tracks exercise too.
Your going to love it once the scale starts dropping. Go for it!

Im with you op. Am going to sw today. No more crap for me too! Ive never heard of xylitol-am off to google it now. Good lvck op.

Go for it. Look into the Paleo/Dukan/Keto diet stuff as well - even if you find it too faddy the science is sound. I don't know if you've been watching "The Men Who Make Us Fat" on the BBC but the gist of it is:

Fat: makes you feel full after eating, unfairly blamed for rise in obesity, despite the fact that as a nation we consume far less fat than we did 30 years ago; and

Sugar: is addictive and habit-forming, leaves you craving more sugar, is present in extremely high amounts in "low fat" foods, is actually responsible for the present obesity crisis and is highly represented and lobbied for despite the evidence of the last 30 years that it is actually far more dangerous to your health than fat, the original food bad-guy.

My husband has been cutting out carbs and sugar for the past few months (he lost a stone in the first month before adding carbs back in so he wouldn't lose too much weight from muscle mass, just fat) and I'd still be doing it with him if I wasn't pregnant and couldn't bear eggs/red meat! But we both found that when you're working hard to cut down your carbs and sugar and eat healthily, a baked potato or a slice of toast is what you'll find yourself craving once you break the habit of sugary foods. When you think that a bowl of pasta is a once-a-week treat, you won't give the cadburys shelf a second look.

So yes, if little-by-little isn't working for you, go for a complete lifestyle change. Maybe a shift in thinking is exactly what's needed!

Nymia can I just ask, what is wrong with carbs? I love pasta and can't imagine only having it once a week!