sorry, bit of a rant...

[smokey26]

Well, today i weighed myself thinking i'd lost weight over 3 months and i haven't. This depressed me. Even though i've lost 2 inches from my hips i still feel fat. I know muscle weighs more than fat, but i already had muscle.. i don't know..

I want to lose 24 pounds over the next three months. In fact it's time to start thinking positive. So I will do it!!!!

My main problem area is comfort eating. Most of the time i eat healthily and exercise quite a bit, but it's when i'm snuggling up to watch a film or something similar that i go and get snacks to munch on.

I'm 11 stone 3 and i want to get down to 9 stone 7. I am confident this can be done in 3 months.

It's a mental battle to not use food as a comforter for me. I need to learn to be my own best friend at comfort myself in other way, not using food. I am not going to snack in between meals from now on, unless my tummy in genuinely rumbling.. sometimes i think, oh just i'll just snack this time and then that happens every time, so no more!!

 

[Steve]

If you're losing inches in the right places, who cares what the scale says? I suppose that's a stupid question since you obviously do. So why do you care?

 

[San2]

There is nothing wrong with snacking, it just depends on what you're snacking on. I used to consume huge amounts of chocolate (as much as a whole 4 lbs box of belgian chocolates in about an hour) in between meals. Nowadays, instead of chocolate, I make myself some carrot or cucumber sticks with a nice yogurth dip, have a handful of sweet peas, a yogurth....still keeps me going to the next meal, and after a while, that stuff tastes quite good actually. *lol*

And I agree with Steve, as long as you lose the inches, what does it matter what the scale says? In the end it's your body you want to see the difference in, not the scales....