General hysterical diet related rambling: From Flab to Fab.

Hey, hey, a very belated reply. You look great! Congrats on losing 1.5 pounds in 6 days - that is bloody marvellous. And you are losing the weight while eating fabulous meals. Im in awe of that. Come to Geneva and cook for me, :)
 
AThanks :)

I am in the middle of yet another mini crisis (they follow me, I swear).

Not in the right head space to write, but will be back tomorrow x
 
AI hope everything is, or will be, okay. You know where to find me if you want to talk or rant or have a shoulder to lean on.

And when you come back, we'll be here waiting for you, ready to cheer you on again.
 
Hi ho ruthy. Sorry you've just had to go through that bingy thing. I totally know what you are going through. Or at least i think do, don't i. I hope you can recover.


Thanks for the recipe for gnocchi. I am going to give it a shot today but i am going to use ricotta instead of philadelphia cheese. Except i don't have any spinach in the fridge. So maybe i won't make it today but soon. I do like the sound of it and i've made ordinary gnocchi before so i know its not hard.


I don't know what i'm having for breaky yet but its that time of day so off i go. bye bye.:driving:
 
AAw, darlin, hope you're okay. Remember how special you are, okay? Really. You are so sexy and sassy and all those other fabulous S words.

Sending you a bajillion hugs and a martini or two. :)
 
AThank you both so much.

I have eaten the largest amount of total shit yesterday and today. I was going to make a pizza for dinner tonight, then at the last minute decided to be good and make a large salad. Then I went to the shop and bought two chocolates. A guy in the corner shop said to me that Lily is cute, just like me, which cheered me up temporarily, but I am just feeling quite pessimistic in general about things. Including the diet. The idea of jacking it in for good has been playing around in my mind. I like coming on the forum tho, you lot are all so lovely. And I can't sit there all day eating crap and then come on here at night can I? :)

I am thinking that maybe I will eat whatever I want until next weigh day, then make another effort again. Maybe gaining a pound will be the kick up the butt I need.
 
APlease don't jack it in, you are doing so well. Think about all the lovely things you've been making while on your diet – if you haven't learnt anything about low-calorie cooking in your time here, I certainly have! Would you like me to find some low-calorie alternatives to particular junk? Did you see the low-calorie pizzas that I used to make? Even my boyfriend's not so healthy barbecue chicken and "bacon" (low-calorie ham) variety was only about 400 cal. (You can probably tell I'm using my speech recognition program. For some reason when I say calorie, it writes the word out in full, but when I say calories, at least after a number, it only writes CAL. Silly computer)

I don't want to suggest things that will only work for me, so I'll say the things I've been saying to other people recently. What are the things that have been working on your diet, and why? What hasn't worked? What changes do you think might help that? For me having some bad food in my diet stops me from bingeing (most of the time) – and it's worth eating less calories most days to be able to have a binge once in a while (as I discovered on the day I nearly got hit by a tram!). But your mileage may vary. Would it help to get your kids involved in cooking, to help keep you motivated and enthusiastic? (I really have no idea – I'm pretty hopeless when it comes to kids) How much support you getting from your partner, and can that change? I'm not trying to be critical – I just want to help.

You're a really important part of this community. It would be incredibly sad to see you go.

Do what you can to get through to the next weigh in, but if you can, don't completely go binge crazy. A little bit of binge can undo a hell of a lot of work. But whatever you do – we've got your back.
 
A[quote name="overtherainbow" url="/t/48892/general-hysterical-diet-related-rambling-from-flab-to-fab/560#post_804133"]The idea of jacking it in for good has been playing around in my mind. I like coming on the forum tho, you lot are all so lovely. And I can't sit there all day eating crap and then come on here at night can I? :)

I am thinking that maybe I will eat whatever I want until next weigh day, then make another effort again. Maybe gaining a pound will be the kick up the butt I need.

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:beating: You can't quit I would miss you so so so so so much!!!!.....I wanted to too...remember....i know its hard...we just have to have more good days than bad days...you look so great...and you are on the down side of your journey...you are past half!! Just hang in there and know we all have felt what you feel now....its just a bad day or two!! HANG IN THERE BUDDY!! WE NEED YOU HERE!!!:grouphug:
 
Aww overtherainbow, I'm so sorry. Don't kick the diet, you can do this! I'm sorry I've been gone for awhile. Doing so really made me realize how motivating and helpful this place really is. This is my AA, only I guess we would call it WLA for weight loss anonymous. :eek:
 
ADya know what Amy, I think you've helped me crack it a bit with your questions. Thank you my lovely.
What works for me? Eating low gi foods. Why? It stops my cravings. I have gone Italian this week which means lots of high gi potatoes and white flour. I thought I had got over my sugar addiction.. but as unrefined carbs are instantly turned into sugar in your bloodstream, its the same difference. I have been putting sugar in my coffees, and craving cakes, biscuits and chocolates so strongly that I have given into it. I was doing badly before I had this worry about my mum, and I am just using what I found out as an excuse to throw in the towel. I would still feel sad otherwise, but I am looking for an excuse to eat shite as my blood sugar is all over the place.
What doesn't work for me Being lazy. Since my mammoth ebay, organisation and cleaning splurge, I have been very lazy. Maybe that is something to do with my energy loss from eating so many high gi foods.I also haven't been exercising.

Yesterday I made a pizza, and it was the most gorgeous pizza I have ever eaten in my life. Much better than papa johns or domino's. It was beautiful. I had some passata left over from yesterday, and sure enough, after my salad and 2 chocolates tonight, I found myself cleaning the kitchen thinking about how easy it would be to make myself a quick little pizza. So I did. I don't think a pitta bread pizza would have compared really. But now I feel sick. The pizza wasn't so little after all. I found myself shovelling it in really fast, like a pig. I am disgusted with myself.

Thanks Tete :) :grouphug: I think being over half way there is some of the problem! I am reasonably happy with the way my clothed body looks (although I'm still dressing to hide my tummy). It was the whole feeling like crying (or actually crying) when I was clothes shopping that gave me my fighting spirit. I know jasper had a few bad days recently cos of this too. I was full of encouragement for her, but I have just gone all hypocritical :eek: On the subject of not listening to my own advice, what I have said to a few people is, no matter what, don't give up. Everyone and anyone will get there sooner or later, as long as they don't give up. And I'm near the end of my weight loss journey (taking a leaf out of Joh's book, not gonna be calling it a diet any more :)), the end is in sight. If I make a huge effort I'll be there in no time at all. I have just gone and bought myself loads of size 12 winter clothes :) I can't put on weight again can I? :D

The last couple of days are over. I have finally just had another little "icandothis" bubble burst from the dark pits of my mind up to the top. Tomorrow I want my brain to be like champagne, with so many fizzy happy bubbles inside it, that I get drunk off them. Tomorrow... will be a good day. If I wait till next weigh day to sort out my food there might be no going back.

Doing different nationalities food is a good idea in theory, but without a doubt I'm getting a load less fresh fruit and vegetables every week than before. I'm going to go back to choosing foods based on their nutrition rather than their country. I would still like a variety, but its going to have to be low gi foods, and it has to have lots of veggies.

I feel like I can't give up because I'd be letting everyone down. That's somehow more important then letting myself down. I know that if I walked away I would be bombarded with messages giving me virtual slaps and the like. I hope you wouldn't let me disappear easily anyway :D So I'm not going to disappear. I'm gonna fake it till I make it. I will get from flab to fab. YEAH!!!!!
 
Hi Ruth, i just need to let you know that unrefined carbs are not instantly turned into sugar. That's a misunderstanding of carbohydrates. "sugar" is glucose. Yes all carbs become glycogen but that's not sugar. Only things like sweets and fruit are turned into glucose or other simple sugars. Unrefined carbs take longer to break down and do not cause sugar spikes and hunger pains. Its your mood that's causing the hunger.


Anyway what i wanted to say was a couple of things. Firstly i'll echo the others please don't go. We love you here. And you are doing well and you will get through this. LIke me.:)


But that's not the gist of my message either.


I had two points. Firstly you are in emotionally bad place. The other day i read that your binge eating tendency (and mine) is linked to seratonin levels. I am sure you know that seratonin is the chemical in the brain linked to depression. Now this makes a lotta sense to me and explains my emotional binges. I think i googled depression and appetite hormones and came up with this from a reputable source. I am sure there is plenty more to be found on this topic. So given that, i'd say the best way to beat the issue is to find something that will help lift your seratonin levels, ie your mood. And unless you are already severely depressed, the sorts of things i've found to help are seeking councilling or taking some sort of proactive steps towards dealing with the emotional problem. The answer does not lie directly in food but in other things. It helps most of course to address whatever is causing the low mood but we don't always know exactly what that is or how to solve the problem.


I mean at the end of the day we still may need to make an effort to eat well and avoid the junk but to cure our cravings, you need to escape that mood plunge.


But so long as you are in that low mood, well i think its perfectly all right to give in to it somewhat. I mean, i find i can't not give in to it. Sooner or later it seems to get the better of me. But i know that i don't want to stay depressed and stuck in the dead end emotional hole so i do what i can to find a way out now. Now that i've learnt there are options. My latest one is to seek out a regular medtiation place to go. I know that's where i am up to and what i need. You may need something different. I've done about all the councilling i can do and need something to keep my head in the right place. I know that the principles of buddhism if i am assiduous can do that for me. You might want ot look into it. But i am not trying to convert. I am just saying the reason for the bingy cravings and feelings that you were on the verge of quitting are to do with your low mood. I had precisely the same thing last week. Luckily thinking about the forum adn how far we've come, was an incentive not to give up too easily.


I hope you can find a way back that will keep you going for a long time. I hope so for me too.


I have learned that its really important for me to try to keep an even emotional keel. Becuase not only do i put on weight when i lose it, i also stop doing everything that is good and just go stagnant and remain in that state for ages and ages. And it wastes my life. And its painful.


I hope you are not too terribly depressed yet.
 
AHey rainbow, i feel that you are serious about all this stuff.But you got to think that your diet and getting in to shape is going to happen whatever shitty stuff happend in life.Cause when u do loose it you going to have to keep it off and i think that is more difficult than loosing.Cause thats forever.So we cant just give up.I too eat when sad or worse anry.But you got to stop and look back at your HARD work your achieved.Is it worth letting in all go to waste?You can deal with problems and bad feelings in OTHER ways.Try it.Try to exercise when pissed of or go for a walk when angry.This is your life and your health.

I remember that photo in somethinkg pink you stuck up here and i see the pics you recently posted....LOOK AT THEM FOR YOURSELF.
REally go back on pages and LOOK...are u really going to go back?all that work?You look great super and healthier now

Please take what ive said serious.
We will give you slaps and a whole lot of come back messages but the thing is that you wont be happy,you;ll feel bad , like you failed and going to get caught up in a cyrcle.

SO rainbow NO MORE JUNK pleassseeeeee....

\Get back on here with your lovely little tasty meals and the trampolin and FAST!:grouphug:
 
AHiya Ruth. Sorry to hear you've not been doing so well recently. But it seems you're getting your mindset on track once again which is great! We're all gonna go through bad times like this at some point, but if it's what you really really want, to reach your goal weight, then try and stay positive!! It can be hard sometimes I know, but just get back to it as soon as you can. You've already come such a long way and it would be such a shame to throw that away now. Its easier to give in but just think how you will feel when you grow out of your clothes again. You can do it Ruth, i know you can !! Keep going and you'll have an amazing sexy body to be proud of!! :D
 
AHey girly

How's it going today sweetness?

I've been thinking about you lots and trying to send you happy vibes, I hope it has worked :)
You said earlier that you would feel bad if you deserted us, well, i definalty need you, you are one of my life lines here so you can't leave.....Cos i said so.
I am off camping in the morning but i will facebook you from my phone to check up on you sweetie. Chin up sexy

Lots of love and squishies Xx
 
AYou better be back tomorrow!! I bought this smoking LBD with red platforms!!! and I need to to tell me how my bumm looks!!!!!
 
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