Diet fatigue was to two week binge

[Pliser]

I’ve done well. Had lost 40 pounds in 4 months. Weight loss is slow. I feel better but there are days when I feel like progress is just imperceptible.

I ended up just getting really fatigued with dieting. I’m only 5 ft with mobility challenges and pcos. So to lose weight it is quite a challenge.

I ended up bingeing for two weeks (food and plenty of wine). Too scared to step on the scales. I’ve done the maths and I could easily have gained 7 pounds (I was making milkshakes with baileys and ice cream). And so much peanut butter and marmite on toast.

I feel so bloated and heavy now. My stomach tyre is back. I’ve only been feeling good in recent months.

I was so close to a mini goal but gave up on myself. It’s overwhelming. I’m so disappointed in myself but feel like it’s inevitable I will fail. I have this monster inside of me.

I will pick up tomorrow but as a SAHM food is one of my biggest and only comforts. I was doing SO WELL. I was almost high on the progress but I just lost the plot.

Im just sick of low calorie meals. I don’t calorie count but make very clean meals and try not to snack on anything but fruit or veg. It’s so boring.

Just wanting to get it off my chest

Tomorrow is a new day. It is a hard Road, so be kind to yourself. You have done so Well, and You Will again 🌺

i don't know whether it's been proven, but I do find if I've put weight on fast like that, it also comes off quickly. It's the stone that been there years now that won't shift.
10lbs down a month is brilliant and I agree on the peanut butter.

40lbs in 4 months isn't slow, how low are you calories? Might be worth upping them a bit so you don't feel quite so fed up and accept that your weight loss will be slower however thinking about it if it makes you less likely to binge it shouldn't make a great deal of difference in the long run!

Look at the last two weeks as resetting your metabolism, drawna oine under it, and give it a few days of eating healthily before you weigh yourself again so you don't get a scare from any water weight!

Im doing 1500 calories plus an hour dog walk and swimming 3 or 4 times a week.

I just don’t lose weight on a lower deficit

Fingers crossed my metabolism has been improved. Just so discouraging.

Im so over this

I totally understand how you feel

I've been trying to lose weight for the last few weeks and it's so bloody tough. Been doing a similar strategy to you , calorie wise and exercise wise. I'm probably losing around 2lbs a week or something ridiculously low. I feel like I should be losing 6/7 lbs a week!! 😂 Not blardy likely

The hunger is real! How do slim people do this, all the time?? They are must often be hungry to keep that slim.

I was 9.7 stone at one point, and man that was tough. Loads of salads, high protein, low carb. And I wasn't even skinny or anything! Just slim (I'm 5'5).

40lbs in 4 months is fantastic op. That's around 2.5lbs every week, NOT slow at all!

Whatever weight you've put on in your two week binge, some of it will be water weight and will come off quickly. The way you feel will also be partly due to just bloating, again easily fixed and not 'true' weight gain.

Don't focus on the past two weeks, focus on the 4 months before that. You've done amazingly, pick up where you left off and keep going.

I hear you op, I have lost 3 stone and still 15 stone so plenty to go.
The last few weeks I have crashed eating everything in sight and more!

I don't know how to pull myself back round, have made some soup for lunches this week but it's more the stuff I grab between meals that's awful.

I don't want to get on the scales as I has snuck under 15 stone and don't want to see I have gone back into that bracket.

God another day and i just had no will power. I think i have checked out of the diet mentally.

its crazy because before i really was finding it easy to turn down wine, pudding, chocolate, cake etc. it justvwasnt worth it in my mind and i didnt fancy it.

I think because i no longer feel empowered. I feel like a failure 😩

Today is another day @Pliser make a plan that includes things you love.

Are you still overweight, OP? What's your BMI?

It's normal for weight loss to slow down over time.

You won’t have undone all your hard work so don’t beat yourself up. What kind of things were you eating when in a deficit? Perhaps spreading the calories out more over the day would help? I’m back in as of yesterday and have already dropped 1.5 pounds which is because I didn’t eat lots of salt like I did in the Easter holidays. You can do this.

Don’t be so hard on yourself, your body must need this break from the diet x