Binging

Wow,, that's great my friend.. losing 18lbs!..^_^ I have been trying to loss weight but still i cannot control myself. I still eat a lot..Hope i have your discipline.. hayzzz... T_T

I hate myself...why why why...

You are normal, imaginative and I congratulate you on the success of your diet.
I´m dieting too because I put on 20 pounds when I quit smoking. I said to myself: if I quit smoking, I can do anything. I am 6 pound thinner now and I also use some mental pictures to keep me away from food I shouldn´t eat. I have not left out completly sdome "unhealthy" food, but the quantity is significantly less.
Think of a reward when you reach a goal. Like a blouse, a scarf, something to make yourself more beautiful.

That's great to hear that you've lost 18 lbs! Great JOB!! It's not easy to lose weight - and you're doing a great job losing all that. However, doesn't weight watchers have some "wiggle room." For example - you can have cookies as long as they're oatmeal cookies, or something like that. Or the points in an oatmeal cookie is lower than the points to a chocolate chip cookie. Anyways, isn't that designed to keep you from binging?

I personally don't like dieting - I can't stick to it very well. I'd rather run it off, which I do. And I also "watch what I eat" - which means just keeping track of calories. Both what goes in and what I burn.

I guess if it keeps you from eating unhealthy foods - then it's definitely a coping mechanism. My coping mechanism is - "if i eat that, I'm gonna have to run another mile or blah blah miles (1mile for every 100 calories)." And I definitely don't have time to run anymore than 3 miles lately ( I gotta invest some time online to make extra cash). So that keeps me from eating unhealthy.=D

Good luck and keep on losing eh!?=D

I feel for you. Keep in mind that it really is never easy, especially with all the yummy food out there. I've set my mind to always eating healthy, but there are days when I give in to my little temptations - BUT I eat them in moderation, especially now that I know, how much calories are in a certain food, more or less, I can gauge from that. If it's a doughnut that I like, what I do, I buy my cousin a piece and I have a bite or two. It's really just to get the taste of it then I'm already satisfied.

I have realized that a lot of the food that I want or crave - most of them don't really have that much nutritional value. Yikes. The ones that I don't like are the healthy ones. Goodluck! Continue eating healthy and exercise like you're supposed to. It can be tedious, but always think of your long-term goals. Let's compare notes if you like.

Good you eat because you have nothing to keep your self busy. I think you should try to gain at least one interest activity. Join friends and try to enjoy the time of being busy and forget the importance of eating too much. more and more you will eat healthily.

Wow! you must taken a lot of guts refusing for such great temptation. sometimes my resistance kept failing me so because my favorite food was just around the corner. how long before you lost your weight, that's surely was a lot to take.

its cool eating unhealthy foods, what really sucks is the fact that the weight you gain is difficult to shag, and its really difficult to exercise if you are lazy . so good to hear your methods works good for you,.. kampai!

congratulations on your weight loss, 18 pounds is alot to lose so well done, also welcome to mylot...i do get pangs every now and then if i see a nice strawberry tart sitting on the shelf, but i think of the weight i have lost and the time it's taken me to lose it and all the hard work i put into losing that weight, so having that moment of weakness is a aste of time and effort, i generally just walk past and get myself a nice low fat strawberry yogurt to suppliment the sweets pang, keep going, it's mind over matter and it soon passes, so don't cave into these little cravings because it's so easy to gain that weight back....well done to you, i am in the middle of dieting right now but i have not lost as much as you, i do get them pangs but like i said, i supplement it with something else.

if you can find foods you love in a healthy and even raw veriation, it will not make yo gain weight. for example i make this fruit cake that tastes great and will not add extra lbs. I take whole grain wheat, oat, buckwheat and other healthy flowers mix it with water brown sugar and egg replacer and put it on a loaf bread form (on the bottom and walls leaving middle untouched) i bake it af 250 F till it'd done (usually takes about an hour) then i take berries and mix them with raw honey and put this mixture inside the dough. once the juice saturates the dough, it's simply great... I love it so much i can't weight to get more berries and make another cake...