Jen's Journey

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Hi, all.

After two months of dieting and a loss of around 10lbs, I found my snacking picking up again and slowly I’ve gone back to how my eating was before, although thankfully the weight hasn’t been regained yet and I’d like to change my habits before I erase all of the good work I did.
I have terrible self-control and I’m hoping that by confessing things here I’ll be able to keep my over-eating under control.

I’m looking for advice from all of you guys on things that you’ve found to work for you. I’m unsure about writing down all the food I’ve consumed in a day in case it makes me utterly miserable and I find myself wanting to give up. Have people found a food diary is helpful to them?

I’m looking to simply cut down on the amount of food I eat to start with, not changing the foods I eat and cutting foods out, otherwise I know that I’ll never manage this. Once I’ve improved my self-control and stopped myself from snacking so much I should be able to cut out foods without missing them too much and just having them as rare treats.

I’m 18 years old and I’m about 5’3. I’m not sure of what’s a good weight for my height but my overall, eventual goal would be for me to weigh about 125lbs. That would be a bonus though as my main goal to start with is 140lbs.

I’m currently weighing in at 184lbs and wear a UK size 16/18. I have very low self-confidence and I want to change that and actually not feel ashamed of myself. I think that by admitting my weight and size to you guys will help me as I know I have a lot of trouble talking about my weight with people “in real life”. People make “remarks” about how I look and I’m sick of feeling like hell because of that, I want to lose weight and be able to surprise people – mostly myself.

In November I’ll be buying myself a new dress for whatever size I am then so that’s what I’m aiming for to start with. I also have a pair of size 12 jeans that I’d love to fit into one day and I WILL do it.

Thank you in advance for all your help and advice, even just stopping by and reading how I’m doing will mean the world to me! :)
 
I will force myself to get back into this diet!

Still been eating way too much but thankfully last night my friend dragged me on a walk to the shops with her via the longest, hilliest way so I must've burned off a few calories anyway.

As for today, the serious weigh-ins begin and the food should start being controlled.

Today's Weight: 183.4 lbs

I'm home all day today which scares me :( I feel like I'm going to snack since there's all sorts of goodies in the house at the moment. I'm trying to control myself into thinking that since I'm home all day, I could break out the exercise video or the exercise bike instead and be grateful that I'm not working, where, obviously, I wouldn't be able to exercise like that.

Anyway, I'll be back later with an update on my day. Fingers crossed for me...
 
Whats helped me is starting the food diary, and actually figuring out how much that food is costing you. Once I realized that that Venti white chocolate moca was 550 calories, which equates to almost 40 minutes on the cardio equipment, I quickly realized it's not worth it (Ok so I occasionaly reward myself, and them beat myself up later at the gym for it).
I hear you on being home. When I "work from home" it's way too tempting to just walk up to the fridge and snack away. Maybe try keeping some fruit within reach and having a nice cold glass of water always available. Most often your not really hungry, but thursty.
Good luck! You can do it!
 
I ended up snacking a little yesterday (although I did have a smaller dinner than usual after too, thankfully) but at least I did an aerobic workout as well, which is better than usual.

I'm going to have to get round to taking my measurements today as well, so I'm not only monitoring my weight but my sizes too.
 
Take-away for dinner last night, although I ate next to nothing throughout the day so I was pretty hungry by then. Not sure whether to feel disappointed that I ate the take-away or forgive it easily since I was hungry.

Must bring out the exercise video dramatically today.

Must also measure myself and set myself some achievable targets to make me feel better when I reach them...or worse when I don't :(
 
After a week of hardly any exercise because I've ended up really busy (and not the sort of busy where you're rushing around a lot) :-

Weight: 182.8 lbs

Loss from last week: 0.6 lbs (Well that's something!)

BMI: 32.4 (obese)

Body Fat: 39.1%
 
Hey at least it's a loss :)
Anyway you could take a walk at lunch or something simular, even when your busy?
Oh, and the food diary is so worth it. Even if it depresses you at first, dont give up. So many people see it and go "oh well I should just pork out as the damage is already done". Nonsense, just start right back up tomorrow. Everyone will have bad days, no exceptions, we're human, and food tastes good :)
Just jump right back on the path and things will work out.
 
Thanks :)

It's a real help to have support and kind words like those :) I plan on starting the food journal tomorrow but I'll probably be much too embarassed to post it on here but it's a start anyway.

I've not even had a lunch break the last few days but things should be easier from now anyway and I already managed a couple of little walks today :)
 
I wouldnt be embarased to post it here as:
1. we dont really know who you are anyway :)
2. Ours are just as bad as well.
:)
 
Jen,
you have the first piece of the puzzle, which is you really want to lose weight. If you maintain that motivation you can do this.

I now what you mean with all the snacking. It's the hardest habit to break. I always associated watching TV with eating. Doesnt matter what show/sporting event, if i was watching TV i was eating. It it was never a serving of something. It was either the whole box, bag or pint of something. I knew i had to break this habit. I then found a hobby, i would do that hobby 2-3 hours a night. I didnt associate eating with the hobby. (it was fantasy baseball, so i sat in front of a computer for 3 hours a night and followed baseball.) Yes, my wife hated it but she understood why i was doing it.

Anyway, maybe you could try this. Best of luck with your journey.

Matt
 
Thank you both so much!
I've been comforting eating this past week so I know I've done bad.
I finally weighed myself again this morning though so I'll post all of that in a minute.

I'm back to really trying to motivate myself to want to do this and I know that since I've put all of my weight back on I've been feeling more and more miserable so that's a pretty big motivation for me.

I'll try to find myself a hobby to occupy my time to stop myself snacking so much. I am definitely someone who associates sitting in front of the tv with eating.
 
Yea snacking and eating late is my bad thing as well. When I get teh munchies, it's like a freigth train runs through the kitchen. Pretty soon I've finished off the bag of chips or bag of cookies and still going. You know what helps, is to have fruits at the ready when you get the cravings. While it's still calories, it's far healther than junk food, and it works! Also, try to keep hydrated as much as possiable. Often times when we snack we're really just thursty. You'll meet your goal, and dont beat yourself up if you have a bad day, or go off track. It happens to all of us. Just jump right back on board the train and dont look back. I see people all the tiem who get a little off track and then just seem to say" oh well might as well keep going now that I've blown it". Dont fall into that trap.

You can and WILL meet your goal!!
 
GregOlso said:
You can and WILL meet your goal!!
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Thank you :) It really does help to have the support of others.

Due to some sliiiiight stress lately I've been looking perhaps my worst and it's really getting to me. I know that if I had the choice I would change every last piece of myself physically and that thought depresses me a lot. Losing weight is one thing but there is so much more to it that I feel like giving up because I could never have what I want.

But I want to try to lose weight to see how much better I can feel. And ok at the end if I still feel like hell then maybe it wasn't worth it but nothing is worth the way I feel at the moment. I'm looking forward to the day where I wake up and don't have to worry about all my weight-related issues.

I can do this :cool:
 
Just been reading your posts...

And I wanted to say YES YOU CAN DO IT!! I was stuck just like you for about 5 years - did atkins, slimfast, starvation, exercise - then I'd blow it on snacking every weekend. I feel for you - but you can do it, you just need to find what works for you.

For me, in the end, it was Herbalife - I'm not involved with them now, but the products are great and I loved the energy so much I never wanted to cheat!

The other thing I wanted to mention was Leptin - I just heard about this on the internet myself a couple of days ago - it's a hormone that really screws with you trying to lose weight - wish I'd heard about it before. I'll try and find a useful link and post back here, but if you check out Google, there's all sorts of information and suggestions on how to get around this hormone.

Oh - and NEVER give up! You're meant to be 125 kg!!
 
There is one post on this board that I look at when I get down and think I cant do it :
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/before-after-between/21213-half-my-size.html

Every time I look at it, I get excited on how Im going to do the same thing. Dont get all hung up on changing every peice of yourself as that will just bring you down. Start small, and make sure the changes you make are for you, no one else matters. People can be harsh asses, and most of the time there just trying to make themselves feel better. Thoses types of people are not worth your energy. funny thing is family is often the worst in their mis-guided attemptes at "helping". You can do this, your young and once you get going it all will fall into place. Dont worry if you screw up here and there. It Will happen. Just get right back on the hourse and keep going. try and start a food diary, and it will open your eye to whats going in. It blows me away all the time whan I sit down and figure out that the "healthy" Chicken salad I had for lunch, turns out to have 1800 calories in it. After seeing that it makes it easier for me to turn it down and look elseware. But yes I "cheat" sometimes, but thats ok, we're only human.

You will get to your goals, just take it one day at a time!
 
WooHoo nice work!!!!
Keep it up, you'll be at you goal in no time. Once you start seeing it melt off, you'll be hooked into it for life.
 
Today:
Weight: 183.2
BMI: 32.5

Loss of 1.6lbs

I'm very happy for another loss and am still determined to keep this up. Over the last couple of days I've eaten a lot less than usual and ended up getting a fair amount of walking in so I'm hoping to make this week more of the same and that next week I'll have lost even more.

I'm thinking I need to set myself specific goals. Does anyone here have any advice on doing so? For example, how often do you set yourself goals, what should you really aim for etc.
 
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