Do u face such a situation - General Discussions - General Discussions

HI

i have looking at the forum alomost everyday for the past 2 years. WhenI joined ,with the advise i got from here I lost nearly 7 kg of my weight

Then I got pregnant and was blessed with a son ( my second) . He was a c-section delivery.

After 4 months of rest to my body I started the exercise and tried to loose weight .

Now it is almost 2 months that i have been trying to do what is good for me but i falter

After observing myself i found that the evening time is indeed very bad for me because everydayI get up and start my day telling myself that I will be with in my calorie limits but as the evening approaches and I am exausted i will eat anything in my sight my it be good for me or not .

Evening tea is becoming a time that i just blow off my diet almost every day and then it is i will start the next morning. and the cycle is beening repeated every day .

And the bad thing is that this has resulted in a gain of nearly 2 kg in the past two months.

My major problen is that in the evening I would like to have some thing nice and filling with my tea otherwiseI tend to eat what ever is in my sight

I have many a times posted on this forum

Now about my self I am 35 yrs old mother to 2 sons ( ages 6 yrs and 6 months )

weight 90 kg height 5ft 4.5 inch

breastfeeding

my Rmr is 1600 + 500 ( breastfeeding )

I exercise in the way of house hold work and shopping for house hold stuff

Cant afford to join a gym because i dont have the time I scrub the floors(on all fours ) cook the meals and in find it very difficult to manage measuring the calories each and everytime I eat .

Many a times I do it very sucessfully till lunch but evening tea is a disaster which blows up my diet and i end up feeling guilty as #%@&! and inspite of trying to eat only salad at dinner i will end up eating the veggies the Indian bread called chappati lentils and salad .

and almost everyday i feel like a loser

does any one have an advise for me

Thanks for letting blabber like this

Nir
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Posted: 26 March 2009 03:00 pm

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are you blowing off your diet because you are focusing on extremes?

sure, veggies (and raw ones at that) are the healthiest, lowest-calorie foods, but if you hope to just stick to them and this is the reason you're falling off your plan then recognise that there is a 'continuoum' or 'pyramid', a list foods from healthiest to unhealthiest, from lowest calorie to highest calorie. Generally speaking we're looking at salad veggies, fruits, starchy vegetables, beans/lentils, whole-grains. (Did you know you could make chapati from wholemeal flour and use virtually no oil? that would make it a wholegrain, still not an ideal food but it shouldn't represent a failure unless of course you binged on it).

that said, 'be prepared'. Make sure you always have the food you can consider eating ready to eat, or close to that - or else rubbish will appeal

mt123
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Posted: 27 March 2009 07:50 am

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hi Nir

thank u yes perhaps what u say is true.may be i go to extremes that is the reason i fail every time
there have been times i have given up completely on chapati and in the evening I am too hungry to continue with my diet plan.

I would like to tell u my daily routine of eating and binging

my day starts with a cup off coffee and before that i have one to 2 glasses of water then it is breakfast of oatmeal and milk or chapati ( made of whole grains ) with some filling with low fat yogurt 11 is the time i like milk if i have chapati or coffee if i have oatmeal. sometimes it is fruit too

lunch is salad and stir fried veggies if i can i avoid i avoid chappati and salad is usually a huge bowl the time of 4 pm is very difficult i feel low and week and that is when i give all up

i eat like a glutton weather it is fried or sweet or salad or yoghurt any thing

just want to tell u Nir that the Indian food that u are exposed to is resturant food at home we make chappati with out oil and with whole wheat flour

I would like to hear what suggestions people out there would like to make on this 4 o clock binging pattern

Thank u

cportwine
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Posted: 28 March 2009 04:39 pm

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I totally agree. You can't change everything at once or you will fail. Start out just making small changes that you can stick with daily. Then make more changes.

I think everyone tends to get overwhelmed with it all at some point and then they stray from the diet. I also try to not call it a diet, but to say I am eating healthy. That kind of helps with the mental part of it all.

Also, looking at the way your pattern is. Maybe something like the alternative day diet might work for you. It might break the cycle your in and let you lose a few pounds.

Don't be afraid to experiment. Different things work for different people. You just got to find what works for you...

Hellrazor
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Posted: 28 March 2009 10:50 pm

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Well seeing how you know it is that time try and go do something around that time. Also tap into your will power...If you think you are going TO just remind yourself NOT TO.It may be hard at first but you will get used to it and will end not doing it. When I started I didn't gradually change everything I changed everything immediately . Did I like it at first ???? NO but I got used it and loved it. Don't beat yourself up over it just make a mental note on time and what triggered it on learn from it

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