Weight loss for greedy fuckers

[Choupette7]

Hello, I'm starting a diet today.

The reason that I am fat is I am a greedy fucker with no self control. I massively over eat sweet things, mainly chocolate and cake. I have no cut off point unfortunately.

Just weighed myself and I am 11st 2.5lbs. I'm not very tall, 5'4 and every pound shows and hangs off my stomach and back.

Anyone care to join me?

Thanks for this, I’ll look at it. My struggle isn’t with all junk food in general but sweet stuff and alcohol. I really do need to go cold turkey with sugary shit, which is what I grab during stressful situations. I haven’t had any wine since last Thursday and am hoping to stretch this out until next weekend. I’m trying to picture a doughnut in my head every time I think of a nice big glass of cold Sauvignon, and it’s very effective for me so far.

I gave all the Lindor chocs to my DC and their friends who came round today, they couldn’t believe it!!

Can I please join you?

Unfortunately I also don’t have an off button, I’ve just ate a Lidl Almond & Chocolate ice lolly and desperately want to eat the remaining 2 but I know my partner will say something (quite rightly) so I’m sitting here thinking of how I can eat them without him knowing - how sad am I?

I’m 5’6” and weigh 11st 10lb. I follow the Slimming World diet and go to weekly weigh-ins, I actually enjoy the SW diet and it works for me when I stick to it, but my problem is I’m either good or bad. There is no in between so when I’m good I can loose 1-2lbs but when I’m bad I can EASILY put on anywhere between 3-5lbs in a week.

I think I need hypnotherapy so I can stop thinking about food.

PS - decided that as soon as partner takes dog out for a pee, I’ll grab an ice-lolly 😳.

Hello. Hope its OK I pop on. It is on page 4 so don't know if its to late.
I love food. Just love all of it. And now at 32 I don't seem to be able to shift it as easily as I dodnt at 21 before 3 children 🙃

Don't do it! It will still be there tomorrow and you will be cross with yourself if you have another one.

KETO allows you to stuff your faces with the sexy bad fat and it kills your hunger massively. Just do KETO!!

love from another greedy fucker

Problem with keto is no carbs or sugar, I would struggle!

No - you have got this the wrong way around!

You struggle because you are addicted to sugar and carbs. Sugar is the number 1, most addictive carbohydrate.

Start cutting out sugar and instead eat protein, plus lots of vegetables/fibre and some healthy fats, and you won't feel hungry, and in time the cravings will reduce to a manageable level. This isn't keto but a healthy, Mediterranean diet based way of eating tthat doesnt leave you feeling deprived.

The Sugar Solution by Dr Mark Hyman explains it all. His 10 Day Sugar Detox Diet is pretty drastic, but a good place to start. I used a modified version and the change was astonishing.

Dr Becky. Gillaspy on YouTube also has a lot of explanatory videos.

Relying on restricted diets that require huge amounts of willpower rarely work long-term, particularly as we enter the menopause.

There's been a lot come out recently about the risks of Keto. Is there anything to counter that? I just want to get it right long term this time.

But there is no need to go full keto!

See my post above.

Hello! 👋 you definitely sound like my people!
I have a 2 month old (third child) and crave sugar constantly. Can't go a day without chocolate/cake etc and evening snacking is atrocious. I wish to cod I drank coffee so I can something to replace the sugar fix with!

Those of you saying breakfast doesn't help, pre baby I was have a slender blend shake for breakfast, as eating before work was too early and made me feel sick, but not having breakfast made me eat wayyyy more. So I'd drink it on my way in and it filled me up enough until lunchtime!

I have found my people!

About five years ago I discovered CICO and MyFitnessPal. I did really well and thought, what if I did even better? And began cutting calories so much that I was down to about 700 calories a day. I lost a lot of weight and was very proud of my 'hard work'.

Well this backfired and I began bingeing. I put it all back on plus more and never managed to get back on the wagon. Then I got pregnant and allowed myself to eat whatever I wanted because, hey, I was pregnant. Promised myself I'd begin losing weight when baby was here, then baby arrived and I thought well, I have a newborn so I should eat whatever I want and when I return to work I'll begin my weight loss journey. I returned to work months ago and I'm still stuffing my gob.

I love food. Nothing brings me more joy than eating, it's like a hobby of mine. But I mean takeaways, pizza, McDonald's, Chinese, kebab, KFC. My partner and I will order takeaway three or four times a week. Well it's him that orders it (I've never asked why, I just rarely have the spare cash for it and I can't say no when he offers!). I love crisps and chocolate and malibu with sugary orange juice. Funnily enough I'm quite strict about sugary drinks (aside from the aforementioned malibu), I don't have sugar in my coffee or tea, I only drink water or squash or coke zero / zero calorie fizz.

I've tried eating in the recommended calorie deficit which for me is about 1350, but it's just not enough. By the time I've had my lunch (sandwich, crisps, maybe a chocolate bar) I've got about 600 left for dinner! I just love eating so much but I absolutely abhor the way I look. But we both work full time and have a toddler, by the time we're home from work we feel like we never have the time or energy to cook and we never bother with any sort of meal prep. Let's face it, it's a million times easier to open an app and order a heart attack or diabetes in a few clicks.

I wish I had someone who lived with us who did all of our grocery shopping and only bought healthy and nutritional food. Someone to talk us out of ordering takeaway every time we got the craving.

I feel like I have definitely met my tribe! 😂 Not only am I addicted to takeaways and junk food, but I also have a massive sweet tooth for cake and chocolate. A coffee shop is a total trigger for me because all I want to do is order a hot chocolate and get a caramel square or slice of cake. So it takes all of my willpower to just order an Americano and nothing with it.
I have so many bad food habits. On a brighter note , I lost 2 pounds from yesterday, so I'm back to 11 stone.
Another thing is, I eat everything on my plate and I mean everything, even if I'm completely busted! And I know I'm not hungry anymore but I just keep going till it's gone. I also can't buy packets of certain biscuits or they will be gone within the day. So for example, I'm ok with a packet of digestives but a packet of chocolate digestives? No way, I would just keep going back and eating them.
I've thought of getting hypnotherapy as well for my sugar and takeaway addiction

I'm going to the farm with my son today, I find being out and about is hard as there are food vans, drive thrus, cafes everywhere all serving the food that I'm addicted to. Plus I spend a fortune on food when I'm out, I wouldn't want to add it up, it would be shocking.

Sorry just wanted to add, my confidence has been knocked due to some man trouble, I was doing online dating and it has just been a shit show! Hence why I turn to food to forget it but food is the cause of so many of my problems.
My plan today is have breakfast so I'm not starving when I go out. I'm also going to bring a pack of extra strong mints with me, to pop in my mouth when I start wanting to buy a bag of chips or something. I find the strong taste of the mint in my mouth helps me not want to eat stuff.
I also bought a ridiculously expensive sugar blocker spray which I haven't really used but I'm gonna start using. You spray it in your mouth and it makes chocolate and cake and anything with sugar in it taste really bland and sugarless..
Anyway I will stop rambling, I hope yous all have a successful eating day and I will check in before I go to bed, it's nice to have this for accountability, almost like a diary. Noone in my real life is addicted to food or uses it how I do.
Someone said earlier they use food as a hobby, this is 100 percent what I do.

I'm sorry you've had your confidence knocked @Carrotcake85 That sounds tough.

I've come to the conclusion that there's too much going on for me at the moment to truly knuckle down with my eating.

However I do want to feel better about my body/intake/energy levels etc. So this is my plan:

• not worry too much about what I'm eating but make sure I'm treating my body kindly (not stuffing myself with food that makes me feel crap).
• 10k steps a day.
• gym sessions x2 a week.

@TheBeautifulTeapot thank you! That sounds like a great attitude to have, just to treat yourself with respect and kindness and not stuff yourself with junk and try and get your steps in, I think if you have that mindset , then the weight loss will be a by product of that

I’m feeling smug today because a pair of work trousers that were feeling too tight a few weeks ago are suddenly feeling comfortable again. I’d been avoiding them since I could barely pull the zip up.

I avoided the chocolate biscuits during a very long and difficult work meeting that I have just come out of. I’d have usually scoffed several without even thinking about it.

I’m planning on a long walk this evening, will encourage my youngest to accompany me. And will drink only water when home.

That's amazing! Well done!

@MenoFattie well done, that's brilliant. It's all those small decisions during the day that add up to weight loss long term.
Today I went to McDonads drive thru as my son was hungry while we were out, he got a happy meal and I went for the chicken salad. It wasn't very nice tho, really bland , I should have just gotten one of the under 500 cals wraps.
But still pleased with myself. I did have some carrot cake up at my mum's. I bloody love carrot cake, hence my username 😂
But it's been a good enough day, have had about 1600 cals and just over 10,000 steps.
That is def a good day for the likes of me!

That does sound like a good day @Carrotcake85

I weighed this morning and I'm down 0.5kg. This is super reassuring.

I've definitely had to fight the inner voice over the past few days saying "you've had one ice cream......it's all fucked, you might as well have crisps/chocolate/etc etc"

I just need to carry on eating "kindly" and moving my body in ways that feel good (for me this is walking and lifting weights).

@TheBeautifulTeapot Wow that's brilliant! Seeing the scales go down definitely makes it all worthwhile.

I am the same, if I have a chippy for example, I say to myself, oh I've already messed up so I might as well get a sharing bar of galaxy and ice cream, that's my mindset.
I follow this guy on Facebook/Insta, called Sean Casey, he is a PT and very down to earth and realistic about weight loss. He doesn't tell you that you can't eat carbs and he makes the most simple recipes, just the low fat version.
He said something interesting, "if you get a flat tyre, would you go and deliberately burst the other 3 tyres?"
That sort of struck me and made me realise that's essentially what I do when I throw the head up and just keep eating like there's no tomorrow.

I've also weighed myself this morn and I've lost a pound, so I'm delighted with that. I just need to keep the momentum, my problem is I see the scales go down a bit and then am like oh I can relax a bit and then I go back up again. It's like I don't have the tenacity to keep it up. Hoping this thread will help with, thanks to the OP for starting it.
Hope you all have a great day 😊

Well done @Carrotcake85 and @TheBeautifulTeapot on your losses!🥳🥳🥳
Also loving the flat tyre analogy. I think that one might stick with me - it’s such a logical way of looking at it xx

out of curiosity, which days do you all have as your weigh in day? X

@Hartleyhare1206 thank you.
I don't have a set day for weighing, I'm just doing it on impulse at the moment 😂

I have decided what I need is a diet app
Like duolingo
That nags me : I have kept a streak going for 100 days I don't think I have ever done 100 days consistently of anything before

"You've already had one, why not have them all?"

This is me!! It's like I'm all or nothing. Either I eat super well and within my calories deficit, or I go 20 calories over and think well I might as well keep eating, I've ruined it now. I always regret it and resolve to start again tomorrow.