So angry at myself

[shannen]

Bloody hell why do I struggle so much simply to not eat crap??

I am the type of person who eats when I am stressed and have been v stressed of late therefore have been stuffing my face to the point of feeling bloated and sluggish in the evening.

The last few days I have felt better about things and I swore to myself I would start my healthy eating again today. It was going fine, I had cereal for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch and planned grapes for a snack. Then something just ame over me and I ate THREE kit kats. Now I could kick myself.

Why can't I control myself?? I'm not massively fat, but certainly not thin, I know that eating sensibly and exercising are the way to go but I just can't seem to get into it.

I have lost weight before but it creeps back on again.

Why do I associate unhappiness/stress with stuffing my face??? I know that the only thing it will lead to is getting fat and the one thing I don't want to be is fat, so what is my problem???

I probabaly sound like a complete nutter, but does anyone have any advice on how to motivate myself to get healthy???

Sorry, no advice, but you do sound perfectly human to me

Thanks Bubbles. Right, normally I would think oh sod it for today I'll start tommorrow, but I'm going to have a tuna salad for dinner, do my aerobics vid and start NOW.

I just wish I could either eat what I wanted without feeling guilty or just eat healthily and be satisfied.

I'll stop moaning now!!!!

I think starting now is the best idea but IME tomorrow never comes. It doesn't matter if you've had three Kitkats today, it's what you do about it now that's important. The aerobics video is a good start but may be difficult to keep up, do you have a leisure centre near you that does classes? I find the mix of the company of other people together with an instructor shouting at me is a winner when it comes to exercise.

I am not one to give advice as I was clicking on this forum to start a thread very similar to this one! I have piled weight on since having my daughter and cannot seem to make the connection in my stupid brain between the weight and the fact that I eat crap day and night. I make a resolution to stop and get healthy and manage to last a day before buying a 200g bar of dairy milk and eating the whole thing. What's the deal with that? What is in my head? I'm miserable and none of my clothes fit.

I felt like you did for absolutely ages - still wearing my maternity jeans when ds was well over 1, ok closer to 2. I thought about my weight CONSTANTLY. What did it for me was I'd on and off kept a record of my weight & one day I did some comparisons & saw that I was exactly the same weight as I was a year ago. And I felt so p*ed off & thought about all of that mental energy I'd wasted over the year, honestly believing I was being 'good' and would therefore slowly loose weight. Ha. So I was so cross I just found this determination. I am now loosing the weight. Do not go & buy myself sweets anymore & have even given up alcohol which is a big thing for me - also something I've been wanting to do for ages & thinking about it & thinking about it.

The weight is coming off far too slowly for my liking, but it is slowly edging in the right direction, so I'm keeping focussed.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think many (most?) people feel like you & I guess lots of people have a moment that changes everything, be it seeing their weight is exactly the same as 1 year ago despite half hearted efforts & constantly thinking about it, or the holiday snap looking liked a whale, or the wedding picture etc etc. You just need to find your trigger & it WILL happen. You can find the strength & determination. If I can find it to give up my lager & red wine you can ditch the chocolate. c'mon we'll all help

It took me 15 months to start loosing weight after giving birth to ds. I went through a stop start routine where all my good dieting intentions were abandoned by dinner time on many occasions.

The only thing that worked for me was going to a Slimming Class - a combination of paying £4.25 per week for the 'privilege', being weighed and having it recorded by someone else and seeing others successfully loose weight gave me will power when I hadn't had any before when attempting it 'solo'.