I'm discouraged on my diet. Any advice to keep things fresh and new?

Hey there. I think its great that you are wanting to change things but you must keep positive and not give in. You need to be fit and healthy for your daughter at least! I would say that the diet pills are there to help you start to loose weight but they are not the soultion. It seems as though you know that it is a lifestyle change you need. Definately more exercise. Trying to walk more instead of being reliant on the car. If you enjoy gardening this helps burn calories too. But you are right in that you need to be active otherwise everything you eat wil stay on you. I am unable to exercise as have MS and makes it difficult but I keep active by doing static weight lifts whilst watching the tv et... Might be good way to do it so you dont realise what you are doing and its easier. I think to cut out all fats is wrong just try to make sure you replace high saturated snacks with healthier options. Have plenty of fruit in to munch on and low fat yogurts are good too if you have a sweet tooth! Maybe if you keep a diary of what you are eating this can help you figure out what you are consuming and help identify where you need to make changes. Good luck my friend!

My first bit of advice, as counter-productive as it may seem, is to not be on a diet. I don't know about your mindset, though it does seem a touch down at the moment, but if I ever tell myself 'we are going on a diet' then I get instant rebellion and you can guarantee that the biscuit tin is going to be raided in the next 10 seconds! It is the same with 'well that's it, no more biscuits, we are on a diet.' It just doesn't work. I would advise that if you want to lose that weight, don't focus on it. If it becomes the centre of your world then minor set backs are going to seem like mountains and will ultimately foil you. What you need to examine first is why you got to where you are. Do you eat when depressed, lonely, bored (I eat when bored)? If you can find out what triggers you eating, then you can conquer it. If it is a time thing then find a way to make cooking more enjoyable. Would it be more fun for you to cook if your daughter helped you when she got back home from school, would she like that? Is there anything you really want to try but haven't yet? Think of a way to get yourself motivated to cook, even f it isn't necessarily healthy food you are cooking, anything home-made is meant to be better for you overall. Cooking from scratch could also prove to be a boredom cure, perhaps tackling one of the underlying causes of the eating. In my last phase of depressive boredom I got completely hooked on pancakes - healthy I know! - purely because they took time to make and kept me focused. If foods can't do that I don't tend to bother taking the time to eat them! As for the exercise, do not force it. I have been a touch blessed perhaps in that I can't watch TV without doing something. In the past this was eating, but gradually I made it working out, purely because my father had weights downstairs and I decided I wanted to be strong. You don't have to do much, and I wouldn't recommend going over the top (I think I did and as a result my neck and shoulder hurt and sitting here typing is pretty much all I can manage without pain!), but do little bits here and they will in the end add up. But yea overall, the moral of this in my mind is to not think that what you are doing is a diet. Everyone I know who has been on a diet has failed, and that includes myself. Small changes over a long period of time bring results. Don't be hard on yourself, don't be critical, and most of all don't force things. Just enjoy and embrace your new life, calm and settle your mind, and you should find that happiness and health (probably in that order) will come naturally to you. I wish you luck, and I hope that some of this made sense at least, and maybe even helped :) All the best for the future, Dranz

First off I want to say good for you for even trying. I know it was really hard for me to begin with. I started working with my doctor and the first thing he said to me was no diet. Diets only work if it is something that you could do the rest of your life. He told me that portion control was better. Also do you like to dance. You can do that in your home and the two year old can do it with you. I started out slow only about 20 minutes a day now I can dance 45 minutes and I walk to pick my child up from school (only about 3 blocks) but its better than before. Good luck and let me know how it went.

I know, it's hard to exercise. I can't do much because of my arthritis and scoliosis. But I stretch things out when I feel up to it. Like taking half the laundry upstairs and then the other half. Getting things from the cupboards one at a time. Putting silverware away one at a time. Little things, but they add up. Bouncing my foot when I watch tv or sit at the computer. Keep moving, keep moving! As for food, I lost a lot of weight in a healthy way by portion control. I have anything I want but in a small bowl. I measure cereal, chips, ice cream, anything I eat! It works, I lost 65 pounds that way. I'm ready to lose the last 40 now, and since my hospital stay only have 25 more to lose. I'd lost 10 in the hospital then cut out salt and lost another 5. Not completely, but a lot. I quite drinking soda, not even diet. Look at the salt content on the processed and frozen foods you eat--it's through the roof!! I know it's discouraging but you CAN do it! Take it slow, make your goal a pound a week. Make activity goals--walk from one end of your house to the other once in the morning and once at night. Walk around your yard once a day. Pick things off the floor one at a time, etc. These little things make a really big difference.

First off...I love you for being so open and honest. That took a lot of willpower and courage to be so...down on yourself as you were. =) What kind of regiment does your doctor recommend? Normally they say to consult with them first before going on a diet blah blah blah. I've watched a show "You Are What You Eat" and in the 6 episodes I've seen, I'm not totally healthy nut yet. I mean, you can cut out all the fast foods and go with rabbit foods, but it's more than that. You know not to starve yourself but to replace bads with the goods. My first advice is drink water water water water! Diet sodas gives you unwanted sugars which leads to more fat. What I don't know about you is (and I'm sorry for using this word) fatness in your family history? Are you eating because you're bored, depressed, busy or lazy? Hey...I'm all that so I'm not about to throw stones into a glass house. (Oh dear...there I go rambling about ME when this is about you...do forgive me.) I can tell you that even though rabbit food is healthy, you'll want to eat that first then your regular meals. Make sure to stay away from having to fry the veggies: steaming is better (though tasteless...). You'll want find some tricks of the trade with some snacks and exchange some of the "must haves" to the "don't want, but you'll try it anyways". Ranch dip...good stuff but bad on fat. How about using low fat cottage cheese and dump in some ranch seasonings with it? Tofu is another good alternative to the fatty proteins. As for the exercise...ain't no one is going to help you with that but yourself. Sure...people can make the meals for you but no one can jog in your place. What I love doing is riding my bike at nights...just by myself. The reason I feel safe doing it at nights is because I ride fast, it's not a stroll in the park. Plus...since it's nighttime, the drivers will have their headlights on so you can tell if there is someone behind you. Then there's the stars up in the sky that you can try to find. I found the Pleiades one early early morning because I couldn't sleep...and that was on my bike ride. See...I told you I ramble. Anywho, good luck! *Pleiades

Hi MissAmie, it's good that you want to do something about your weight problem but you can't be put off by the first reading of the scales. Firstly I have never needed to think about dieting as have remained the same weight all my adult life and I also believe that diets make you fat, as you deprive yourself of things you want, lose some weight, then go back to bad eating habits. You need to change your whole approach and firstly chuck out diet pills. Healthy food is not rabbit food at all and MacDonalds likewise is not healthy but I certainly wouldn't categorise it as food either. Why do you need to drink any kind of soda,it is nothing but sugar and empty calories, drink water, drink black tea, soda is just rubbish. You should check around on line for some good ideas of healthy foods which would appeal to you. Start your exercise routine with walking, you don't need to join a gym. Don't buy processed foods but make your own healthy options, after all you'll have saved lots of money on all that soda you used to drink to buy something tasty but healthy. Good luck with it.

Try some static jogging if you are unable to go outdoors.Secondly, weight reduction should be done gradually, by substituting your food intake with a lot of fibre along with proteins and starch.Take plenty of salads and vegetables.THis gives a fullness to the system and stops craving also. Avoid fatty food diligently.Drink more water than what you normally are used to.Reduce sugar intake drastically[but do not eliminate it totally because you would feel exhausted.]reducing sugar and starch from one's diet helps a great deal in weight loss.But if this is done in a hasty way, it has adverse effects on the digestive system.

Just do not give up and keep on trying. It takes a lot to actually make the decision to be healthier especially when it comes to dieting. Drink plenty of water, walking is a great exercise as well. Also, try cutting even diet soda drink juices and water. If you visit the website on my profile and contact me I have supplements for weightloss that really helped me. I take a lot of my own products and I was taking one of the supplements and actually lost 9 lbs in the first week, honestly. I know results vary but if you send me a PM I can give you more info. Good Luck!

I don’t know my suggestion is helpful or not to you, because now I’m struggling to loose weight too. I think we all know many ways to lose weight, some are good, but some maybe not so. I have two things I kept in past that helped me control my weight. Now I’m back to keep the two things. One is walking. Try my best walking at least two times a day, one time is half hour at least. Another one is skipping dinner. Or at least 6 hours before you go to bed never eat. Personally I think this helps me a lot in past. By the way if you can not control your desire for food, try to brush your teeth just after eating. It will kill the desire for food. It also works to me. Don’t feel frustrating about it. Many people have similar problem and it’s a long way to go.

Hey MissAmie! Guess what? I believe in you! You can totally do this! My parents are both in their 60's and have been large for my entire life. THey finally decided that enough was enough. They didn't go on a diet, the changed their way of life. I am so proud of them and if they can do it, break all the bad habits at twice your age, you can too. First off I'm going to assume that you are the cook in the household? If you control the groceries start buying healthy regardless of what the hubby says. Oh, and just because your daughter is skinny doesn't mean she needs fatty junk foods - that's just setting up bad habits for her, healthy foods are still better and won't necassarily make her smaller. Eating healthy gets easier the longer you keep it up, my mom said that after 1 month she had so much pride in the fact that she had been able to eat healthy for 1 whole month that it overshadowed any weightloss that she had. She also told me that once she got used to the healthy stuff that's what she craved, she had no desire for the junk food. My parents started snacking between each meal. A handful of almonds, a banana, an apple, yogurt, veggies. It kept them from feeling so hungry at meal time and therefore they ate less. No more pop! The most amazing stuff ever is Crystal Light. I swear by it. It makes your water taste great, it has no sugars, and has all of 10 calories per drink. Play with your kids after school! Tag, bike riding, hiking,anything you can get them to do. The exersize won't feel like a chore and you'll bond with the kiddies....

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