Why do I always do this?

I've had a bad couple of weeks on mine. I've lost 23lbs since mid September. Just a l lb or so per week calorie counting. It's been really difficult because I'm not as active as I used to be.

My nemesis is white wine. I love it. I've been trying to have a little at weekends only but past two weeks have occasionally 'snapped' (we're all upside down due to building work) and slugged down a bottle. So weight has remained static. If only you could buy willpower in a bottle

Loretta Am in identical position, and have had a peanut feast today .

bUT I needed it...just a short break,as I am fed up with constantly needing to control food. So today is now a diet holiday...won't pigout too much . Afterthis evenings dinner , my holiday STOPs and I ambackhome to the diet! Planning another short break on Easter Sunday
Once the short break is over I return to work ( the diet) .dont beat upon yourself, tomorrow this biscuit feast will be Be behind you . Good luck fellow food a holic.... we are doing well! ?????

Firstly congratulations on the weight loss. Slimming World never worked for me neither did other weight loss programmes or diets so now when I want to lose weight I eat healthy food and restrict calories, not having breakfast works for me. I have one day a fortnight when I allow myself to have treats but always feel bad about myself if I over-indulge.

I think it all goes back to how we were rewarded as children. Rewards were always in the form of sugary, fatty, things, especially children of my generation who experienced sweet rationing. I don’t recall my mother ever saying I’d been good and rewarding me with a stick of celery! So we are conditioned to think of such foods as a way of rewarding or comforting ourselves. It is hard to change that mindset but it can be done if we substitute other things such as a new item of clothing or makeup as a reward.

Some Psychologists say that there are restricted eaters and non-restricted eaters and non-restricted eaters are more successful at keeping their body weight in check. At first thought this seems illogical because you’d think a non-restricted eater would be eating cakes, biscuits, chocolate and crisps all day long but because they haven’t been restricted they do not view such foods as so desirable as restricted eaters because they have always been able to have them if they want and sometimes they just don’t want them. Eating regimes place restrictions on us and I personally think they are doomed to failure because as soon as the restriction is lifted you over-indulge in what you have been denied. In fact slimming clubs make their money by people not being able to stick to their regime.

Just my opinion and if Slimming World works for you it’s all good.

It's a new day -it's a new dawn - start afresh. Don't worry about things you can't undo but learn from them. Think of the compliments you've had. You can do it!

As a Diabetic I follow a healthy diet although I do need to lose weight I refuse to go along the SW other diets are available route preferring to follow the advice given by my Diabetic Nurse.

Be wary of replacing biscuits/cakes etc with fruit as they are also high in sugar, I'm allowed 2 portions a day. Now veg apart from parsnips/beetroot/sweetcorn are good substitutes.

Cheese is my Achilles Heel

Thank you Jenechka! I have just installed Nutracheck on my phone and it is just the kind of thing that will be very helpful for me!

Could be your addicted to sugar, and its a comfort food like smoking, try keto diet no sugar low carbs. Sugar , palm sugar and frutose are addictive sweetners and added as a preservatives. and the body will store as fat and not burn. Once off sugar habit which may take sometime you will not be tempted.

Tomorrow is another day. You feel annoyed with yourself but on the days when you follow the rules you feel good. Bet those far outweigh (no pun intended) the bad.

Being 'on a diet' makes people obsessed with food. We're always thinking of our next meal or whatever we're 'allowed'. It just doesn't work. Weight goes back on. It's how all these slimming organisations make their money. and

I was tempted yesterday when I went out to buy a magazine. The treats were right beside the magazines and somehow the two things go together. I resisted and bought a pot of fresh fruit. These little pots may work out expensive but they're so handy for a snack.

Dear Loretta, so glad I am not alone. I eat too much for comfort, because I am bored, tired, annoyed and so on. Other people can be disciplined and tidy and organised. I am none of these things.
But don't beat yourself up about biscuits. I do think control over the kitchen is important. No temptation but OH doesn't help. If I were living on my own I would not have any cheese or biscuits or icecream in the house.
But I'm not so must develop strategies.
Good luck to you all.

If I remember rightly when I was on SW you are allowed Syns per day and can carry some over. I stopped worrying about my odd treat. I love chocolate and cant help it. I am weak!!! but I maintain a steady weight which I am happy - ish with. I know if the time comes that I want to lose weight I can do, and I will restrict my treats. So, you had biscuits. Dont beat yourself up about it. You,ve done so well to lose weight and that is the hardest bit.

Well done you for the loss - try to remember tomorrow is a new day......... at least that’s what I tell myself!

Dont let a bad day become a bad week. It happened just move on maybe have a day eating more fruit or veg.

Accept that you had a blip. Draw a line under the day and start again on plan the next day.

You've obviously got the willpower, because you have done so well. Everyone has off days. Yesterday was yours. And in future, there will be another. Just accept them.

The thing NOT to do (and what I always do) is to say "oh well, I've blown it now. I might as well give up".

I agree RosieLeah. I have been calorie counting for 9 weeks with the help of a marvellous App called Nutracheck. I have lost 1stone 2 lbs. it automatically calculates your calories according to present weight agecand height etc. It means you can eat what you like within reason and it’s working for me after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting. Keep going and don’t beat yourself up over a packet of biscuits. ???

Don't worry about it Loretta. I am a Slimming World target member but had lots of slip-ups on the way. We are all human. Put it behind you and carry on with the plan. Good luck !!

Don't beat yourself up about it, just be 'better' tomorrow. I sometimes wonder if it's a 'fear of success' that makes us falter? I've lost weight at last but I've discovered that I'm an emotional eater.
I try to be good during the week but go a bit mad at weekends. I can eat an entire Swiss roll over the two days and a packet of sausage rolls. As long as that needle on the scales doesn't go above a particular line I tell myself I'm not doing too badly.

You did it because you are are only human and therefore imperfect like the rest of us. So don't beat yourself up about it, just learn from it.
The trick is, I think, to not buy things which you know are no good for your diet.
Good luck! I'm trying to diet too and not very efficiently!

When I scoff chocolate & biscuits I play mind games with myself..I deserve a treat..I didn’t have any yesterday..I’ll walk them off later..I’m quite fit considering..
But when I seriously think about the why’s, I remember the young 16year old me, living alone in a room in London, desperately homesick, frightened and lonely, spending a weeks wages on cakes and bread, comfort eating the lot and wondering why my clothes were getting tighter.
If only I could reassure my younger self that everything would be ok in the long run, perhaps I’d have avoided years of weight struggles, but these habits are laid down early & hard to unpick.
I think our strong emotional relationship with food, and the addictive nature of sugar are huge mountains to climb, so well done to anyone who manages to lose any weight at all, you’re amazing!

We are all human Loretta. Don’t beat yourself up about it, get back on with the food optimising, if that’s what SW still call it, and you will have success. Congrats on what you have done so far.

It is sooo hard to be good al the time. I am guilty of the biscuit thingy too.What i have started doing instead is buying plain rice cakes and when i get the urge for something sweet i mash a banana on top or sometimes spread some jam on top and eat those.

Dieting is super hard. That’s why there’s a whole industry that’s well funded in trying to help us achieve weight loss. If it was ‘easy’ we’d all just do it with no need to talk about it.

Good luck everyone here who is trying to shed some weight (including me).

It's good to slip back to the old habits to remind yourself that it makes you fed up. Onwards and downwards, as they say.
Just clear all your red light foods out . We have several things Mr LD has to hide in my behalf.( my curley wurleys store and his muesli....love the nuts)

Good luck it is hard breaking habits of a lifetime but worth it.

The trick is recognising your triggers for temptation. Yours, this time, tired and fed up. This leaves you feeling you ‘deserve’ a treat.

When you get that feeling recognise it and give yourself a treat first......but something different from sweet food. I don’t know what else might help you (a lovely bubbly bath does it for me) but if you have a lost of your own feel-good treats you can go to that might help.