I started out on Jenny Craig .. but it was mainly to get me eating properly again ... I was the sort of person that would binge eat and mainly at night .. and not particularly healthy foods (having a takeaway 3 doors down and another over the road wasnt good lol) and as a chocoholic I would go through bars of chocolate and packets of choc biscuits at a time ... I also quit smoking almost 5 years ago and really packed on the pounds then.
JC got me eating breakfast and lunch ... and the odd snack in the day too and cut back on sweets, but not to deny myself them because that is something I know I couldnt stick to for life lol .. same with no bread .. eeeek.
So now that I got back into the routine of eating at least 3 meals a day (the extra snack times are still an issue Im overcoming - which means Im not hitting my cal intake target each day yet), I have a simple cereal for breakfast (sometimes I have 2 pancakes from a mix) .. but I try to have no more than about 1200 kj for breakfast, lunch is usually a salad, either a bread roll or a couple of pieces of bread and some fat free ham or other meat for a sandwich with a piece of fruit, then dinner for me is mainly chicken with vegetables - I tend to rotisserie the chicken breast and usually add lots of spices to it .... my treats on the weekend tho is that I have Subway for lunch , and I have some gelato in my freezer that I treat myself to a couple of spoons of when I have the urge (fortunately ice cream isnt a big craving for me or Im sure that wouldnt be enough rofl) ... and the other thing I do is work out a treat box which have usually a lollipop, a couple of sugar free sweets and one of those snack size treat bars .. the total kj usually works out to be about 600kj for the box ... so Im only allowed one of those if I havent had any other splurges through the day and I have done my exercises
Its really choice ... and the main 2 are:
1 - choose something that you can live with for the rest of your life .. its not a diet .. its a new lifestyle ... remember to add in treats and splurges because otherwise you will feel deprived sometimes (although I have been told that after a while those treats and splurges dont really seem as wanted anyway!)
2 - Guilt is not a button to keep pushin! You will fall off the wagon, track, rail, whatever .. that is a given ... but you have to accept it .. learn from it (what triggered it??) and then the next day start again!
Be honest with yourself too ... we can be your accountability team if you feel you need it .. no judgement .. but I have found that if you write things down for others to see that it makes you more aware of what you are doing all the time if you know you are going to have others see what youre doing too
We will cry and rant with you .. and cheer you on .. so be real and honest .. if not with us .. then yourself .. because you are a very special person who deserves the honesty
Big hugs and welcome to your new journey .. its a long road .. but youre not travelling it alone .. no matter how far off the track you veer