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Originally Posted by kimberleyanddarren
I am really sick and tired of sticking to a sensible 'diet' for months, losing several stone, then suddenly one day fancying something like a Chinese and suddenly it all just piles back on?
I don't know what it is, but if I have something like a treat now and then it all begins to unravel.
In my opinion, when you find the answer to this question, you start earning $60,000 per pound lost. You write a bestselling book, everyone gets thin forever, you are famous and rich and all of us on here can brag that we knew you "when". Ahh, what dreams we have.
Eating is a natural part of life. It is tiresome and burdensome to have to think about not doing something so natural every single moment of the day. At times, it pretty much takes the fun out of life.
Many years ago, I quit drinking and I quit smoking. I was a heavy smoker and a heavy drinker by anyone's standards. Quitting smoking was the harder of the two substances to eliminate. I almost never think about alcohol or cigarettes anymore.
Many years ago, I went on my first weight loss adventure. I was quite successful at loosing weight, but here I sit today on about my 5th weight loss adventure. I think about food, eating and recipes all the time.
I am not optimistic about my chances for maintaining my weight loss. Statistically, maintenance is unlikely. I quit smoking, for some number of years, four times before I "got it". Perhaps the same will be true of weight loss. Maybe this will be the time I "get it".
I have one small victory to report.
Over the holiday season, I ate several Hershey's Symphony bars. I made a few batches of oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip cookies. I ate batter, I ate the finished product and licked the crumbs off the plate. I ate lasagne and garlic bread. My DH made Rocky Road candy and I ate that. I bought little individual cups of ice cream for when the grandchildren came. I ate those because we didn't get to the ice cream when the kids were here. I ate a couple of bags of some kind of "good for you" chips. You get the picture.
By the end of this orgy of eating, I had gained a few pounds and had a serious sense of impending doom about my healthy lifestyle and weight loss. I had those feelings that many of us get when we recognize that we are about to go over the cliff.
So what was my victory? Somehow, between spending way too much time on 3FC, reading my Martha Stewart Everyday Food: Light cookbook, buying and practicing the newest Volumetrics book by Barbara Rolls, lots and lots of "self talk" and not buying any chips or candy, I have managed to get back on track. I have been on track for about ten days now and have lost the pounds I gained over the holidays. I also switched calorie counting websites, not so much because I like one better than another, but because it feels like a new start to enter my current weight like it was a starting weight.
That feeling of impending doom is awful, and I am so relieved that I might be back in control, just for today.
Kimberley, I think most of us have been where you are. I certainly wish you the best, but as you said, it has to come from within. I didn't mean to make my post all about me, but I hope if nothing else, you realize we are all in this together. Good luck.