Hi mirimo,
The trick is you have to change your thinking about it. As long as you think about it as a diet to go off and on depending on your weight at the time, you're going to keep repeating the lose & gain cycle. I would also say not to look at it as an "all or nothing" choice. Don't polarize yourself and think "I can only eat a,b,c while I'm dieting but when I'm at goal, I'm going to eat the whole alphabet again." You might be thinking in terms of "deprive now, reward later" but that usually turns into "deprive now, binge later." You're thinking off diet=back to normal. I'm saying to find a middle ground somewhere that can still satisfy you and make that a new normal.
You can allow yourself that nice meal and not feel guilty about it if you don't go overboard and have too many of them too often. It's about moderation. It's about finding the right foods and way of eating for you that you can live with long term and make a routine. It's about having perspective about what you eat and how you eat. Fettucine alfredo every few months or whatever won't pile on the pounds. Several of them a week would. Your mind has to really come into play about food. That doesn't mean to obsess about it, just to be aware of it...how much you want it, how much/how often you can be satisfied with, eating when you're hungry or craving something as opposed to eating because you're bored, unhappy, whatever.
Try to find a balance between what you were eating on diet and what you were eating off diet and adapt to that new balance.
Last edited by trekkiegirl; 03-22-2007 at 02:12 PM.
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