The losing of the weight

[caddyman]

The on-off-on-off attempt to get healthy is on again.

Having lost a few pounds with zero to desultory effort earlier in the year, I now appear to have regained them. So much for getting to the stage where I can button up my spiffy leather jacket.

Oh well, we give it another go; never say never and all that malarkey.

Part of the trouble is, I have will power that is slightly less strong than tissue paper. I also dislike doing just about anything that is good for me. The whole thing, therefore is an utter chore. I acknowledge that I need to shed tonnage, but frankly…

Still, I suppose I must give it a go. I am getting a bit long in the tooth to carry around an extra person all the time, so I will just have to grit my teeth and get on with it. “Gritting my teeth” was there ever a more apposite metaphor? If I could literally grit my teeth, I wouldn’t eat so much and half my troubles would take care of themselves.

In the meantime, some well-meaning bastard has brought chocolates and chocolate biscuits into the office for communal consumption. How am I supposed to survive the temptation?

I have an apple.

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I have an idea, and it´s no dream because I have been practising this for nearly thirty years (it helped me balance out my previous eating disorder as side effect): just keep starchy food and protein foods apart (widely speaking, is not possible in exact detail and this is no diet, just a different way of eating). I know it sounds silly but it actually works! For someone like me who loves food, it is ideal. If you can manage to get used to it, the weight slowly adjusts itself to a healthy level and it works for underweight people too! Is not for everyone but if you are interested, I´d gladly give lots of tips. If one can get used to it one can eat heaps of food and still be fine (losing or putting on weight as wished for til the body seems content at a pretty much ideal state). Most people never notice I do anything of the sort and also at invitations I of course never mention it and often just eat "normally" mixed food as served not to be impolite. Most restaurants will always give you salad or non-starchy vegetables instead of mash, frites, or whatever with your meat or fish. And the other way around. Or you just leave those. That simple, really. It´s just important to not start eating one-sidedly. One leaves a few hours inbetween a starchy or proteiny meal (the side-effect being, one automatically eats lots of salad and vegetables to have something to go with) and no weighing or counting food because the amount doesn´t matter. Butter and sauces included! And sweets for dessert...how about that? I await my cheque...

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

Good luck with it!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

I had a pretty good experience with Weight Watchers. I stopped counting points a couple of months ago and have only regained 5 of the 40 pounds I lost, so it seems pretty maintainable.

One rule I still observe: No eating "free" office food ever. (They have a lot of free food at my office--not just from generous co-workers but from events held in the building--so this was a big issue for me). You don't have to talk yourself out of each individual thing every time; it's just always already "No." This really does make it easier.

[phil99.livejournal.com]

I hope you manage better than me. Given up on the idea for a while, busy life and a love of the greasy side of food...

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

My sympathy, I have found that the Slimming World way is pretty darned good - food optimising they call it and it seems to have stopped the upward trend of my weight so if I concentrated and took it really seriously I would lose weight too.