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Originally Posted by lucky216
I love carbs and sweets. They are my weakness. I have done the weight watcher plan with great success. It's just that I let myself have a treat and then another and then another and so on.... I am out of control! I love healthy food, but I love crappy food as well.
Well except for the WW plan, this is my past. I also once was doing really well with a weight loss program some years ago. That was in about 2000 and i had taken up triathlon. Got all lovely and skinny and super fit and then guess what, i injured the ligaments in my knee, got a job or vice versa and then things rapidly went downhill. I don't remember sweets being a huge for me at that time. They became a bigger issue for as the years have gone on.
Three years ago i did my first diet when i thought thats it, no more sweets and i thought a fair bit about quitting sweets forever. That diet that started out with three months at home and turned into another two months of a cycle journey when i got really skinny. Then i came home and i can't remember the details now but it all came undone. I think it was 2011.
My weight has gone up and down since then until January this year and i decided ok i'm doing a diet this time with exercise not being a formal part of it, though later on in the year i want to train up for a 10km race (which could bugger everything up again if not careful).
So i am on the quit sweets method again. I just eat good nutritious foods and sweets of all kinds except fruit is NOT verboten. Fruit is not as sweet as everything else so it doesn't cause me to binge or over eat. I find sweets make me less interested in healthy food. So they are gone gone gone. And i don't miss them at all. that's the beauty of quitting sweets.
I am also getting more and more comfortable about not eating them in my diet, except on really rare occasions when i feel it might be safe to do so. But i don't want to push my luck so the sweets on offer have to be pretty darn good before i will indulge and it has to be a situation with other people around where i can't keep on eating them. But i am scared it could be the thin end of the wedge. So anyway no sweets and i really like it like that.
No special exercise though i do things like take the dog for a walk sometimes (its not my dog so its not my responsibility to take it daily. But it is this week so i enjoy doing it then. ) and i work in the garden when i can motivate myself.
I take antidepressants and my diet feels like its at risk when i get stressed about things so i am trying very hard to get stress under control asap. I try to deal with problems sooner in some way. Often just finding someone (a counsellor) to talk through them with helps a great deal to alleviate stress and pressure.
But i self talk a lot about my commitment to my diet. I find that really helps me keep on track.
To get started i found self disgust with my weight was a motivator but i was already in a fairly good mood. YOu may not be and might need to sort out your mood first. Though of course deciding to start a diet can fairly quickly lift a mood sometimes.
But i know it can be difficult. When i am fat, just like you i think about it all a lot before i am actually able to switch into action mode and start a diet properly.
to help you switch into that mode, you can try doing things that will lift your mood and set your motivation more effectively like say going to see a dietician, or starting a yoga class or some other positive helpful thing. See a counsellor. Or start a volunteer job an afternoon a week. Anything that might lift your mood and make you feel more optimistic and positive. Just keep looking for possibilities.
Who knows even reading some of the goal achieved threads on here might help you. Just keep trying to find some way to lift your mood and kick start your motivation and stay right away from sweets.
Be kind to yourself but don't indulge in food things as a reward. Get plenty of sleep.
Keep trying.