Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
Please keep doing the good work! Sometimes during exercise programs you gain a little more muscle which can weigh more than body fat, so you don't always see the change on the scale right away. The awesome thing about the increase in muscle is that it will also increase your metabolism to help you burn more calories throughout the day. You will see the changes on the scale.
Keep the intensity up in your workouts!
You can do it, so can I!
I look for "free foods" that I can eat when I am nervous. Raw veggies work for me, as long as I don't salt them, or use them to dip into sour cream based products!
You should also eat something small before and after your exercise, to make sure you keep your energy levels up. Doesn't have to be big a banana and a glass of milk are perfect.
Also keep in mind, the food habits you have had in the past have months/years of learned behavior behind them, the binging, the over eating, the emotional connections we have with hunger and feeling full. Don't expect they will just go away, you need to work as much on your mental state around food as you do the food you eat. Really put time aside to learn from your mistakes, Every binge, Every overeating episode, comes from you, not from a weakness, but a overwhelming strength to satisfy something inside you. You need to find out why you react the way you do, and what need (emotional or otherwise) it fills. Then you need to replay that moment, the emotions, the fears, the loss of control. What in that instant of 'Oh yes' that we all have, did the food relieve? Before the guilt takes over. Then you need to replay it in your mind with how you would have liked to have handled the moment. The ideal outcome, that presumably didn't lead to a binge. If you don't adress the mental reasons why you seek comfort or relief in food. Once life gets hard, and the diet gets broken, all the weight will come back. It does get easier, but dont expect that hard work that you plan on doing in the short term will undo what took your whole life to create. Dont expect a loss every week, but be consistent, and your determination and effort will pay off. It is the sum of your actions that count. So be strong and Never give up.