Back on the straight and narrowish....

[Allybally68]

Well not sure what the heck happened to me last week but fell off the wagon big style!! What is it that makes me so self defeating sometimes, it's like the dieting bad fairy 😈 (or maybe it's the pre-menopausal one!) comes along and whispers in my ear that I'm never going to do it... so why bother!! Right on cue I start to eat myself to a stand still just to prove her right....

Had a really awful negative week...some days I hate food and the necessary evil of having to eat anything at all...and then loosing the control I thought I had!!😨😨

Anyway today I got up and I can see through the clouds a bit 🌞and my motivation is on the rise again. Have to make the most of this new wave of enthusiasm and go for it.

Christmas is still a few weeks away and I can still make sure that the scales are going down and not up before it...I also have to say no to the birthday cake someone just bought into the office and the 'finest'chocolate biscuits sitting in the coffee room. Too scared that even one will bring on the bad fairy again!!!! It's like that Japanese endurance game show....

Anyone else have this going on in their head or is it just me??? 🤔😣🤐

[suzybenj]

...all the time - the gremlins come for me and whisper unhelpful eating messages.

But I do try and hang on in there - as you must too. I look to a number of people for inspiration - lowcal, moreless, less to lose and countless others, as well as the maintainers - who really do prove what can be achieved.

Sounds like you have dusted yourself down - new week and all that - persevere - you will get that reward....

[Hidden]

It's really strange as I often have a lot of "I don't want to eat anything ever" and "I want to eat everything, including that food that I hate" swings and im not even sure why. usually I have good days, but that makes it more of a shock when days go bad as I have no idea what the difference between them is lol.

I used to have a snickers in my bag as I hated them, but could not justify having any other biscuits, chocolate or cake until I ate that snickers bar and as I hated it, I had it in my bag for about a month. eventually I gave in and ate it lol but it worked for awhile ;p not good advice if like me lately, you struggle with self control regardless of what the food is.

This week I am practising saying things like "what would the scales say if I ate that?" or when I crave something rubbish I eat an apple and a yoghurt and then I sort of forget about the craving, even though I didn't want the apple to start with.

I also used to have an elastic band on my wrist that said my weekly weight loss target in pen on it, so when people offered me junk food I'd show them it lol and it was there as a constant reminder throughout the difficult days in the office!

[IndigoBlue61]

Every day just about!! Wake up feeling so determined, do an exercise video . . . Get hungry . . . Eat etc etc 😕 What makes us winners is not giving in and getting back on that wagon 😊

Good luck! You can do this

[Allybally68]

Thanks for the supportive words guys, have had IT issues this weeknwhich has made it difficult to get on to the site. I am going to try and think forward in a positive way and try and stop the self defeating stuff if I can. Someone once said to me that it helps to try and look at yourself from the outside in, step away and try and imagine yourself as a machine that you are responsible for maintaining....put things into your machine that will make it work better and forlonger and look after it. I know that I don't feel my best, I feel lethargic, fatigued and totally unfit and know how much better I feel when I eat properly and get more excersise. I know I am premenopausal and that is where a lot of my mood swings and negative moments stem from. I am trying not to give in to it all. Thinking I will try making small goals like eating 'well' a day at a time and not focusing so much on the weight loss...that should happen anyway. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. 😊xx