Beginner...

[Samantha1980]

Hi,

Just joined today and have done a few diets, lets say I'm more of a yoyo dieter...really good, go to the gym lose half a stone then have a blow out and lose motivation.

Me & my partner enjoy eating out but it's not helping my waistline or my motivation towards keeping up with anything let alone socialising with friends with meals out etc as well. I do exercise during the week, I try and go at least 2-5 times per week.

I'm hoping if I can focus more on the good things and what's better for me and not think about what I'm missing out on. Creating a diet I enjoy, although diets I do initially enjoy and get bored....

First start with calorie counter, I'm thinking this could be addictive.

[RedPanda]

Hi Samantha! Finding food you enjoy is definitely important, otherwise you just end up giving up. My healthy eating went downhill after my blender broke since at the time the part of my diet I enjoyed the most was my fruit smoothie concoctions! Now we're back to ordering too many takeaways

Might be worth saying to yourself you'll try a new healthy recipe every week or something to keep your enjoyment of your diet going? I know I find that initial healthy food shop really exciting.

[Samantha1980 in reply to RedPanda]

I know what you mean. We're moving at the weekend to a nicer area with a decent butchers etc etc I kind of don't see the point in starting anything until then. I'm hoping for a whole new change of life when we get there

It is hard to get back into something, go and invest in a new blender....hehe

Good luck to the both of us

[RedPanda in reply to Samantha1980]

That sounds like a good idea to me! A new environment might be the perfect opportunity to make new habits

Hope it works for you.

[Marguerite2013]

Hi Samantha:

If you are used to calorie-counting, one tots up the calories automatically I find, being a yoyo dieter myself. Now, having returned from holiday I am starting again, but feel happy and hopeful (cor don't want to tempt fate), but was reading an article on Mindfulness - in respect to overeating/bingeing - and these are all over the Net.... So have a look, as what they say is extremely helpful.

Eating out can pile on the calories with so much tempting food around not to mention the addition of wine - similarly to when on holiday food is presented to one or there is a buffet - but what I have recently found helpful is to fill up with CUCUMBER which has all sorts of wonderful nutrients in it, say half a cucumber for inbetween snacks - but that's me, only have this if you enjoy cucumber. \ So, when I eat out, I PLAN what I am going to eat in advance - I love chops and salad, and stick to that and avoid avocado-prawns but have a huge plate of asparagus with a scraping of the Hollandaise sauce on it; then I can spend my extra calories on 2 glasses of wine, which is my max. Good luck with this Eating Regime..

Red Panda: I have just had a Frozen Mango Smoothie that contains 98 calories, after my evening meal of a Greek Salad with 4 oat cakes..Have you tried these frozen smoothies - very tasty and low in calories.

D.