I was reading my diary here, to remind myself of the things I did before, and to try and avoid the mistakes I keep making, and I came across a post I did about Mid Diet Crisis. I always seem to do well to begin with, then I hit the 6 months mark and start to waver. As I have a lot of weight to lose and I think the summer hits and everyone is eating icecreams and beer. So How do I stop myself hitting this crisis stage, where I tend to give up and put all my weight back on. I dont want to give up, I want to acheive my goals, but thats very hard sometimes. So what idea's do you have, and do you have mid diet crisis's of your own?
Hello sweetie,
I think everyone has them at some stage, in the beginning the losses are always better due to having more to lose and my body not being use to the plan. Once I settle in and losses slow down I get frustrated and start to stray. Its like the good old phrase 'what gets praised gets repeated' once you stop seeing the results and getting that self praise it gets a lot harder to keep up the motivation.
I have been to target once in my entire life, the smallest ive ever been at 10st 10 and i lasted their a whole week!! That was a completely different senario in that i rewarded myself for getting their with food, a connection which in my head i need to break.
For some people the issue is 'less is more' at first the plan is AMAZING because of the realisation that you can eat as much as you want. People then try to improve losses by cutting down portion size, Im not talking super size to sensible portion. I mean when people think that they will lose more if they only have 1 slice of toast for breakfast, salad for lunch and dinner. Its not true, if you graze all day (which is how many of us start the plan) you keep your metabolism going which burns food, etc which is why we have good losses!! Not eating enough just means that we store it and its harder to lose. This just repeats the frustration/straying process!
I think the point is variation. Your body can never get use to the plan if you are mixing it up all the time and then gradually if your losses do start to slow then reduce syns from 15 to 10 - this should start the 'body shock' again, once your body starts to get use to that then introduce exercise for another shock.
I think you have the thought process right, take each day as it comes, learn from your mistakes. Continue as you are for now as you are doing fantastically. When the day does come that you question yourself then read back through your diary to see how you felt last time when you gave into the temptation and then read how amazing you feel with your losses!
Other tactics such as if you know that you have to have naughty things in the house and that might be the temptation, put them all in one cupboard and stick a picture of you at your biggest and you at your ideal weight on the inside of the door. That should trigger the 'think before you eat' something even simpler is to look up the syns before you have it, at least then it gives you a chance to process it, if you can have it within plan and if it is worth it if not. It also stops accidental over synning where usually you would turn it down if you realised.
Sorry this is such a long post lovie, hope it helps though xxx
