I Blew It this Morning!

I am a failure when it comes to dieting. I always crave for chocolates when am on diet. I envy those who succeed in losing weight. Losing 15 pounds is a great accomplishment. I wish I can lose weight as I am grossly overweight.

yummy. that would be the very ones. plus potatoes and bacon. i think i would be terrible at keeping a diet. you've been so good with it. dont know how you've done it. once in a while shouldnt hurt i hope.

Hi Jo I am sure you can enjoy that Breakfast as long as you eat decent for the rest of the Day

Hi Antiquelady, It's okay my friend! the mere fact that you lost 15 pounds in a month you deserve that treat. i am celebrating it with you. i am on diet too and everytime i made my goal i treat myself with one food that i really want to eat...that i deprived myself of just to reach my goal.

wow! congratulations, it's good to give yourself a reward once in a while, for me when I'm on a diet I eat less meat than normal, so that's what I miss when I'm having a diet.

I feel the same. I recently had my son and now trying to take that baby weight off. Im actually trying to take the weight off from all three of my children (lol). I miss my Mexican food. I just can't help but cheat. Thats my heritage and what i grew up on and nothing is better than "Carne Guisada con Arroz y Frijoles" and dont forget grandma's homemade flour torillas. I think I slip because my husband being in the Navy we had to move to Florida and leave our families in Texas and it reminds me of home and my grandma. And believe my Florida Mexican food has NOTHING on Texas Mexican food. Aside from that, my thing is staying on top of working out.

po-ta-to-chips!

As a therapist, I have counselled many people through difficult diets, and problems always begin with the client is feeling deprived. What I discovered was that it was best to have a treat now and again of what he/she wanted to eat, but just do it say once a week. It was also important that if a mistake is made, is to forgive that error and move on. To feel that all is lost and the diet has stopped working, isn't really true. It's OK to make the odd mistake and unless we forgive ourselves, we will get stuck back in the old pattern of overeating followed by dieting, followed again by overeating and then the diet to end all diets that never works anyway! We need to give ourselves permission to eat what we like, but just on rare occasions and not every day or at every meal. Goog luck.. Focus on success, not the odd mistake. _Derek

Hi Antiquelady, Don't be kicking yourself! I've heard from plenty that it is essential to give yourself a day off from dieting from time to time. The reason for that is that if you do not then once you lose all the weight that you want to then you will go crazy overboard on all the foods you've been craving for so long. Then you will gain the weight all back. Congratulations on the 15 pounds! your doing good!

you can have peanuts at evert meal,especially supper.it seems that it makes an impression to me to have a cold dink including ice—cream at breakfast.you must have enough sleeping when dieting.you know,i don't do well---i can't sleep well untill midnight for insomnia. don't worry,i can let myself sleep in the opposite direction of the bed.if you are like me,please have a try like me.

I think it's all right to go off of your diet occasionally. Otherwise, it would get so boring! As Cybil Shepard used to say, we're worth it, lol! I miss cakes, pies, any kind of sweet desserts when I'm dieting. Kathy.

Well I don't think having one 'real' breakfast in four weeks is blowing your diet. Infact I think you did the right thing. Having a little of what you fancy does you good. Just make sure you go another four weeks before you do it again. you are allowed to have a bd day so long as you don't let it ruin your diet completely.

As far as im concern it is also good sometime to somehow reward yourself ma'am. I mean as you said youve been in a diet for 4 weeks and now you blew it. Treat it as a reward for a job well done.But do remember that the next days will be strictly for diet again.On my part i dont need to diet anymore lol because my metabolism is working pretty much fine thats why and im hoping that i will never have to experience missing something to eat at all

Ohh..it happens with my brother anytime.. Try physical excercises rather than dieting.. I eat alot but i play soccer thats why i am slim

I miss sweets more than anything, which is strange because I never used to eat or drink much that was sweet. I think it has something to do with my energy level and that makes it hard to pull out of depending on sugar for energy. I know that when I eat more than just a bit of sugar, I get hungry faster and don't feel as satisfied, so I just need to get used to not eating it.

i am on the thinner side but since my in-laws stay with us and because they have bp problems,we usually survive on fruits and vegetables and that increases my appetite for biscuits and choclates or anything unusual from what we have daily.

Restaurant buffets of all kinds. The funny thing is, if I go to them, I feel sick afterwards from eating so much. Pizza Hut especially, and Chinese restaurants as well. I love thick crust oooey gooey pizza. Hubby has suddenly realized he has gained fifteen or twenty pounds, so we may eat at home now for awhile.

not dieting but I do have to eat my cherrios for heaqrt and cholestrol control but when I breakout its an omlet which dont hurt and that is good for ya too just not gravy and biskets!

You can still have a good hot breakfast when you're dieting. Don't have the same thing every day, change it up a little. Have oatmeal with some fruit one day, and an egg sandwich another. Just don't go overboard on the "good" stuff. I miss the candy and stuff when I'm on a diet. I'll still have some every now and then, but just not a whole lot.

Oh gosh.. I miss any and every sort of junk food! I miss chocolate, and brownies, and fast food... However, I indulge now and then when I feel the need to. Sometimes I fight the cravings off, and usually the cravings come when I'm hungry. The hardest time of day is right after leaving the gym. Normally I head straight home for lunch, but some days I have to stop at the store to pick up something we've run out of or whatever.. that's when it's hard because I walk past all this junk and I'm so hungry, and there's really nothing healthy at the grocery store that you can grab to snack on until you get home for lunch.. at least not something small that doesn't require preparation. Sometimes I will buy a box of cereal bars, they have 3 grams of fat but are whole grain and have some fruit. Sometimes I'll grab fruit like bananas.. sometimes I just deal and make it home. But I'd say I indulge in my cravings at least twice a month.. sometimes once a week even. I think it depends on my stress level, because the more stressed I am the harder it is to fight off cravings and I am a stress eater. Indulging now and then is actually good for you, as long as it's only occasionally and you get right back to the dieting!