Hi all. Sorry I haven't been around much recently. Have been really busy.

I was wondering if anybody else has this problem. I can be really good for about 6 days (I am doing slimming world but the diet is irrelivant really) but then I just can't control myself and binge. Once I fall off the wagon I continue to eat junk until I have confessed at SW.

Is anybody else lik this?

hey superwitch, long time no speak ,i have the exact same problem its as if my brains on autopilot and says to itself "come on youve been so good one day wont kill you " normally its a sunday so i try!!!! and have everything planned out so i cant wander from the diet ,and usually fail miserably
kirsty

it always happened to me...would be good for so long then one day of bingeing would lead to the farewell of the diet at the time
now i folloow my own eating thinggy........mostly weight watchers meals and such like, but i only do it for 6 days of the week and i have 1 day off, i dont have a set day either just if i wake up and i feel its going to be a foody day i have that as my day off, you could try it, it has helped me out no end, but then it might not work for everyone
good luck

Sundays are my devil day as well, I have taken to writing up a plan for the day, like a school timetable. But, if I really want something "bad" or as I prefer to say "unhelpful" I'll have it, savour it, and then keep going on the better stuff. There is a really good book called "Dr Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weightloss" Now I am not much for the diet books, but this one is really quite good, and contains some good advice about treats. It has comparison pictures of healthy foods and unhealthy foods demonstrating the calorie and nutritional difference. It's helped my dietary challenged dh to understand a bit more about healthy eating.

I so know what you are going through...I have been seriously contemplating going to overeaters anon...I even looked up my nearest meeting and did their little aa type questionaire and I do have a major problem...Like you its not the diet, I just have no self control!!!

Hiya Super You know bingeing at the weekend is not as bad as it sounds if you can get back to it on Monday I agree with Toot if you can't "do it" one day and you eat something bad its not the end of the world just get back on plan the next day. It worked for me last time I only dieted from Mon-Fri and then it was party time I lost over 30lbs and thats what i'll be doing again this time.

I'm with Weight Watchers, and when I'm on track I save loads of points for the weekend, and usually manage to be good enough to lose over the week, even if I go a bit mad. Having said that, it's getting rather to close to the line to lose at the mo

I NEVER have a whole week that's "GOOD" all the way through! EVER!

Just take it as it comes, if you slip up one day, then get back on it the next. sometimes I have the whole weekend off, but recently I've been trying to be good at least one weekend day!

'Good' being relative, and some of my weight loss lately has been due to stomach bugs and other assorted lurgys. Not a very good advert for Tai Chi, huh ? Some bugs are just so horrible they'll get you no matter what - perhaps they'd have been worse without the old TC ?

Hi Superwitch. Madcow here from Plymouth. Remember we chatted before. I am back again for another attempt at shifting some excess baggage ha ha. Nice to see you are still around. How are you doing? I hope you are doing well. I need a buddy so if interested let me know.

Weekends are tough, i too seem to be ok during the week but weekends are ****. I am the same weight now as I was this time last year. Joined SW and lost a stone but then had some personal problems which set me back. However I am still trying! Must keep trying
Madcow

Hi, I know exactly what you mean, weekends have always been my downfall, it's like a switch goes on Saturday morning and every good intention I have goes out the window. This is one of the reasons I have stopped dieting. I'm trying to eat healthily, and choose natural and unprocessed foods as much as possible, but without telling myself I'm on a diet. What I'm finding is that in the past as soon as I've eaten something a bit naughty, I always thinks "oh well I've blown my diet" and end up in a full-scale binge and always start the diet again Monday morning.

I've found that telling myself I not on a diet and therefore allowed to eat what I like, I just prefer to eat more healthily foods most of the time, I'm not setting off this trigger action of binging whenever I eat something a bit naughty. I still tend to eat a bit more on the weekends, but it's odd treats or even meals, but not a whole weekend of hoovering up every morsel of fattening food in the fridge!!!

I can't tell you how much weight I've lost cos I'm not weighing anymore either (as a gain would depress me and send me on an eating binge too), but I'm losing inches and feeling fitter and healthier than I have in years.

Anyway, sorry to go on, but it's working for me and it may help you. I think you just need to be less harsh on yourself and allow an odd treat and find a way that works for you.

Take care

Jan
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Jan, thats a good idea When you use the word diet its like taboo Myself i'm just substituting lower cal/fat alternatives for what I would usually buy every little helps and nothing is off limits even my chocolate and beer I add it up with everything else and try to keep around 1500cals sometimes i'm up to 1800 or even 2000 but I don't worry about it as long as i'm not being a complete it will come of s-l-o-w-l-y

Well done Cat, sounds like you've got it under control - with your exercising as well, it should come off & they say slowly is the best way to do it. Although sometimes mine's so slow you can't actually see a movement!!!!

Jan
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Weigh in for me tomorrow I want to change my ticker

I'm the same. I am really motivated at my WW meeting, but that only seems to last 4 or 5 days and then I tend to blow it