Healthy Dieting

Hi,

I have been counting calories for years but this theory is not getting any weight off. I think the trouble is thatI sometimes calcuate it wrong or bend the truth a little.

If calorie counting is the best way to go about weight loss, what is the best way to manufacture some will power.

Help!

I have to say regrettably that I too have not yet found the place where they manufacture will power.

But I will say that it's one thing to mis calculate calories and even lie a bit to other people as to what we have eaten. But under no circumstances should we try to deceive ourselves. We must be true to ourselves over what we are eating if counting calories or we will never succeed. And we will never be able to establish where we are going wrong.

A trick I use to motivate myself is this:

I try to imagine myself in 6 months from now. Will I have those nice jeans on I've been trying to fit in for months. Will I go into a clothes shop and try something on in the changing rooms and actually feel good about it.
Or will I feel like a fat frump!!

The choice is MINE. I have the opportunity to help my 'self' in the future. If I don't make the right choice I am doing my 'self' 6 months in the future a great dis-service.

I hope my ramblings help a bit.

tricking yourself can work better than will power. i'm not so good with the will power when there's food in front of me and options (with an angel on one shoulder saing one thing and a devil on the other). i dont start counting til my evening meal. i make a salad/pack up for work and thats all i take with me, - no snacks and no money for snacks so i cant cheat through the day and know the evening before how many (or rather how FEW) calories i'll have had by evening meal time. then you can generally afford the calories you want at tea time without feeling like you have to binge, plus you get a buzz out of sticking to it, rather than the guilt you get from cheating on the calorie counting that causes the binge. just a theory, works for me.

I find that because I have been aware of my weight for so long that I can not help but know and count the calories. It is like a built in function.

Because I cant shut it off and still cant lose weight, I am clearly not a success story for the technique. What I need is a pair of magic glasses that makes a big cake look like a pile of maggots. Anyone who invents some Diet Illusion Shades is going to be rich!

I've heard of that technique before. Paul Mckenna does something similar. Where you press your fingers together and imagine slugs crawling across your food.

My mum tried it and she stopped eating boost bars!!

Maybe I stop taking money to work so I can't buy snacks either.

As for the illusion shades here they are everyone:



Gonna be rich now.

Yes the Paul Mckenna stuff always seems to get good reviews and it is nice to hear that his works have had a positive impact on someone.

Has you mum started eating Crunchies instead? That would be a snag

It would be interesting to hear more about this. Get you mum to join in our conversation or ask her some more about it then come and tell us more.

Thanks

Well possibly not crunchies, but she eats other stuff.

She hates worms and imagined them crawling all over a boost bar!

But she needs to imagine loads of stuff such as cheese, bread, ice cream etc. covered in worms and slugs
for it to have the full effect.

My weakness is cheese. Will have to imagine cheese swept up from a dirty floor before served up!!!!

I watched something on TV once that said if you eat cheese you may as well just squeeze it directly into your arteries it is that bad. Not sure how much truth was in that but I does have a bad reputation.

Luckily I dont like cheese but if I were you I would be tempted to start pretending it i something horrible.

Try this..

Er.........Gross!!

I'll never be able to eat St. Agur cheese again.



I'm left not knowing what to eat now. I need some sort of diet sheet or plan or something to follow.

I'm sure I would stick to it!

HELP!!!!!!

It is very hard to find a good diet plan without paying a fortune. I think that would be a good idea for this site. nudge nudge

cheese really needs holding to a minimum. If find I will eat less of it if I buy less. He he. The technique involves not going down that particular isle in the shop.

Meatball wrote:
It is very hard to find a good diet plan without paying a fortune. I think that would be a good idea for this site. nudge nudge

cheese really needs holding to a minimum. If find I will eat less of it if I buy less. He he. The technique involves not going down that particular isle in the shop.


I agree. Cheese is my weakness at the moment. The trouble is there is nothing else to replace it for taste. I dont want to have to try every food going to sort this out because I will get even bigger. I read somebody had said spinach was good.

I must admit I had a lovely italian meal the other day and the spinach was a very nice addition. the Italians seem to live healthy and long on olive oil, spinach and pasta. Perhaps we should all move there...

I recently spoke to a hypnotherapist. It was not an official meeting although I took chance to absorb some of the wisdom as she had seen many people in the past to help them lose weight.

She said that there should be no such things as diets and calorie counting but instead, lifestyle changes. I think this is true. Make healthy eating a lifestyle choice! Calorie counting is such a drag and with the bordem that inevitably occurs, you are bound to lose your way.

somebody I know just got diabetic and now they are forced to make what they are calling a lifestyle change. This has to be a sign for me

I need a lifestyle change.

I like this hynosis idea. Can you direct me towards this person? I think stress is a big thing for me at the moment and comfort eating. I cant really talk close people because they are sick of hearing me.

What I need is a regime, put in front of me that helps regulate my calorific intake.
Some sort of plan that says what I can eat and what snacks if any, I'm allowed.

And if I'm still hungry that's just tough! As long as I know I've had the correct amount of calories
and am fully nourished, I'll suffer a bit of hunger, anything to lose this excessive fat!

I have looked through so many calorie counting books and they dont seem to be consistent with each other. It is hard work learning the values of everything.

A decent planner is what is needed that does not cost a load of money. Better still, somebody make me one for free