Need help with yoyo dieting.

Dreamers1217

Dreamers1217

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Hello everyone! I'm Stephanie and I am new here to the threads. i'm 27 years old and I have been on my diet and weight loss journey since January of 2007. When I started I was at a high of 255lbs. I decided I was fed up with being fat that's were the journey began. At first I just started to eat more healthfully. I cut out a lot of sweets and junk food and I ate more fruit's, veggies and lean meats such as chicken breasts, fish, and lean beef. And I tried to go easy on processed foods. Then I incorporated hour long walks. During the first year I lost 70 lbs. During the second year I joined a gym and started running on the treadmill and using the elliptical trainer and gradually lost about another 30lbs. In total I lost about 100lbs in the course of a year and a half...

So now basically for the past 2 1/2 years my weight has been yoyoing up and down.... The most I gained back was 30lbs! As of now I'm 179lbs. It's a struggle for be to keep the weight off because all I do is eat! My biggest weakness is sweets, anything from cookies, cakes, pies, candy especially chocolate. I also find that I eat a lot out of boredom. At meal times I tend to always overeat and go back for seconds. My goal is to get down to 150lbs and stay there. I also have binges where I eat and I really feel like i can't stop! If anyone has any helpful tips on how to end this bad yoyo dieting cycle of mine please help.
 
Dreamers1217 said:
Hello everyone! I'm Stephanie and I am new here to the threads. i'm 27 years old and I have been on my diet and weight loss journey since January of 2007. When I started I was at a high of 255lbs. I decided I was fed up with being fat that's were the journey began. At first I just started to eat more healthfully. I cut out a lot of sweets and junk food and I ate more fruit's, veggies and lean meats such as chicken breasts, fish, and lean beef. And I tried to go easy on processed foods. Then I incorporated hour long walks. During the first year I lost 70 lbs. During the second year I joined a gym and started running on the treadmill and using the elliptical trainer and gradually lost about another 30lbs. In total I lost about 100lbs in the course of a year and a half...

So now basically for the past 2 1/2 years my weight has been yoyoing up and down.... The most I gained back was 30lbs! As of now I'm 179lbs. It's a struggle for be to keep the weight off because all I do is eat! My biggest weakness is sweets, anything from cookies, cakes, pies, candy especially chocolate. I also find that I eat a lot out of boredom. At meal times I tend to always overeat and go back for seconds. My goal is to get down to 150lbs and stay there. I also have binges where I eat and I really feel like i can't stop! If anyone has any helpful tips on how to end this bad yoyo dieting cycle of mine please help.
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I believe we all enjoy our sweets and have a weakness for them! "Sweet Freedom fudge bar" always satisfies my hungry for sweets (they are about 35 cal a bar), eating water melon helps me too. I can have two SF bars a day (2 (4) 1 point, weight watchers), you can buy them at the grocery store. Try eating foods that will stick with you longer through the day.

Good luck to you!:seeya:
 
YoYo dieting is really more of a psychological problem than a physical one.

The thing you need to come to accept is that a good diet plan isn't just temporary, it's something you need to be able to maintain your entire life.

What really helps me is making changes in lifestyle and not think of these things as temporary changes. For example I knew that if I cut out fizzy drinks that I would go back to drinking them once I was at my target weight, because I have earnt the right to eat whatever I want right? WRONG!

Try and make as many lifestyle changes as possible, these need to be subtle so they are easy to manage and adopt if they're not realistic you'll end up reverting to old behaviour because they're too hard to manage.

For me it was an easy change to make by switching to diet drinks, if I had tried to cut them out entirely it would have probably lasted a few months at max, then I would be drinking them again and putting back on weight.

Basically it's better to make one TINY change that you can stick to forever, than a BIG change which you give up on straight away.
 
I used to have that problem in the past. One thing that I would do that helped me was to not even have those sweets around me. It was very tough at first but I eventually got used to it. It just takes time and a little bit of determination.

Hang in their! It will get better for you!
 
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