I want to be slim/healthier but I love wine and cake too much

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That is all...

...AIBU?

Exercise. You want a 500 cal slice of cake? Run 7k. There is the trade off. Want 3 glasses of wine? Run more or run a lot faster. And that won't reduce your weight but will stop the gain.

Just don't buy cake or the ingredients to bake. Can't help with wine as Im not a massive fan, perhaps switch to something lower in calories?

Used to do 5:2 but find doing daily fasting much easier - look into doing 16/8 or 18/6. You only eat during a 6 or 8 hour window. Feel heaps better and have lost without really trying and still get to eat cake and drink wine!

I follow 2 diets.

One doesn't give me enough to eat

I’ve eaten two cakes today, a Danish pastry and a mince pie, kidded myself that I was being healthy by eating a satsuma afterwards

I feel your pain. Wine and cake are the two reasons I exercise. Have lost 1.5 stone through strength training with v little change to my diet.

Plus I take all my agression out on the weights.

Oh me too OP

It's a bummer that wine and cake have calories. I wish lettuce was as satisfying

The solution is simple. Eat only foods you love. In this case, wine and cake. The pounds will melt away!!

Nah, what you want is to snack frequently on healthy things like bananas.

YANBU.

I love wine and cake and cheese and chocolate.

I also like fitting into my existing clothes.

Which means I have to be very disciplined about exercising. At least 30 mins (and preferably 50 mins or an hour) 5 or 6 times per week.

Tis the only way I'm afraid.

NoS diet. No snacks sweets or seconds except for days beginning with S. So three plates of food in the week and treats at the weekend. I have lost 2 stone (slowly!) and am maintaining it. More importantly I have a normal relationship with food for the first time in my adult life (I am 43). Try it!

I gave up dieting as such and just over hauled my diet. I still have the food I love —just no longer daily and in vast quantities— I joined the gym a year ago and have managed to lose 2st 13lbs and still enjoy food. I had Greggs for lunch as a treat and included an iced ring doughnut.

I’m now a size 6/8 on bottom 8/10 on top. However up until recently I was going gym 6 times a week for around 2-2.5 hours a night and aim to be back to that by new year. (Recovering from surgery currently).

Take up running! Then you can eat all the wine and cake you like. It's not even a trick!

I stopped drinking. I would usually drink a couple of glasses of wine a night. I also eat off a small plate. Both really helped me to lose weight. At the beginning of 2014 I was a size 16, I now wear size 10 jeans, but they are big around the waist (primark). Although I can get away with an 8 in Next. It does work, but you do have to be disciplined.

I have world class willpower for all food and zero willpower for wine. Having said that I have gone just over a week now without a drop and I definitely feel noticeably flat tummied and less bloated which is now motivating me to be tee total. Me being tee total will never happen long term and I predict failure before the week is out.

Were it were that simple. Being miserable is the only thing that works for me. 😬

5:2 is brilliant. 5 fags and 2 glasses of wine per day and nothing else. Works for me. Also known as the Aquitaine diet for you Francophiles.

It's a balance, OP balance.

Are you practicing mindfulness?

old I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not....

Give all made me feel so much better ....it’s not just me then

I could have written this OP! I am just the same ......

Take up long distance running and you will never need calorie count ever again .

@pippioddstocking that is very much my approach!

I speak as a runner when I say "just take up long distance running" is not a very helpful comment.

I'm doing slimming world and I'm struggling a bit because I've been just eating what I want for years (sugar mainly). I wanted to eat healthier and cut down on the sugar which I suppose I am but don't think I'll see much movement on the scales.

I just like food too much in general been on a diet (sw) since July and managed to lose the grand total of 5lbs. It was up to nearly a stone at one point but a few parties and that was that