To just give up on diets completely?

[Sugarnut]

You name it, I’ve lost weight on it.

And then put all seven stone of it back on. Repeatedly.

I started my dieting decades as an extremely overweight eleven year old. After a particularly nasty bullying episode I decided I needed to be thin.

I put myself on a 700kcal a day diet after reading about it in a magazine. I managed to lose five stone, which quickly returned when I started to binge after restricting myself for so many months.

Now I’m thirty years old, have been yo-yo dieting for twenty years and am still* seven stone overweight. I cook home meals from scratch mainly, lots of fruits and veggies. But I inevitably end up massively overeating after so long on a ‘diet’

I’ve done every diet there is - simple calorie counting, soup diets, slim shakes, Atkins diet, cabbage diet, slimming world, low carb, weight watchers and many many more.

I think about food, agonise over it, every second of every day. I hate myself constantly when I eat ‘wrong’ full fat stuff and And I’ve had enough.

I completely give up. I don’t want to count anything anymore. I don’t want to keep failing and feeling like the shittest, weakest person in existence.

I’ll carry on going to the gym because I actually enjoy that.

I’m just going to try to stop obsessing about food and see what happens. Aibu?

Bold fail NewPapaGuinea

GP here. We don’t prescribe slimming world in my area anymore as the funding was pulled

Sorry, that wasn’t helpful! I think on the outside SW encourages eating good, whole foods. However when you try and do it (as I have) you realise how much artificial foods are encouraged! I think for many people it can be helpful, and I have had some people have great success on it. But I wouldn’t encourage it anymore.

Sugarnut I feel for you but please don't lose hope! I have tried the 5:2 a couple of times but have found continued success with a variation of it - I do the 18:6/16:8 - only eat during a 6 or 8 hour period every day. Have very slowly lost weight but find it unrestrictive and have bags of energy and concentration at work much improved. I think the idea is that it is a livestyle choice and a pattern of eating, not a diet per se. Wishing you all the best xx

What is the evidence against slimming world?? It's never worked for me..I'm vegan ,with a lot of weight to loose.and curious as to this evidence that says sw dosnt work( might make me feel better)

Had quite a busy day today and didn’t really get to eat until just, it was a Chinese takeaway.

Not great, but I did end up eating probably only a third of my usual potion of chowmein so I’m still happy with that.

Really trying to work on the ‘guilt’ at the minute. Actually the rebelfit group looks like it can really help with that, it’s been a bit of a revelation reading about how nutrition/fat burning works.

So many people in exactly the same boat

Thedietstartsnow someone else on here will hopefully be along shortly to explain it much more eloquently and comprehensively, but in essence SW and their ilk are engineered to ensure you fail - it’s a commercial enterprise, after all. They need to make money and make it they do - via peddling their nutritionally questionable and shitty products, and paying members many of whom are returning ones

Have a look at Rebelfit on Facebook, it will really open your eyes.