Straight talking please

[Sonas]

Hi All
I am all over the shop. I started S N S 14 weeks ago and although I found it hard it worked fantastic for me. I went from 14 and a half stone to 11.3, continued it through weekends away and lots of parties. I never felt so good and in control in years and really believed this might be the " time" when I would get conrtol of my eating habits. Until eleven days ago and every thing has gone horribly wrong and I feel way worse than when I started the diet. I had a mild tummy bug and ate some toast to settle my stomach but it was like a snowball effect , which led to some soup then full dinner and before I knew it I was going to start again the next day - which I havnt . Instead I started bingeing -planned massive last eating feasts before I start the diet again.I consciously avoided minimins and the weighing scales , burying my head in the sand. Today I weighed my self and I was 12.3 ( a whole stone after 11days of gluttonous eating). I am horrified with myself . How do get out of this cycle, My initial problem is to get back on the wagon (SnS) but I am even more worried that if I do attain my weight loss that this cycle of unncontrollable eating/ dieting will continue. Can anyone give me some stern words to motivate me or hope that this cycle can be controlled. I am so aware that i consciously ate all this rubbish knowing that it would bring me to this horrible place of weight gain and feelings of failure and loss of control . Any words of wisdom welcome
Sonas

 

[bettyd]

Hiya im worried about exactly the same thing but im planning on following the slimming world diet as you can still eat loads on that and stick to the same weight! also you've got to think about the hard work you've put in to get there you are and think about is it worth having a binge for a few days to go through this again!! you can do it. good luck x

 

[WelshJojo]

Hiya im worried about exactly the same thing but im planning on following the slimming world diet as you can still eat loads on that and stick to the same weight! also you've got to think about the hard work you've put in to get there you are and think about is it worth having a binge for a few days to go through this again!! you can do it. good luck x

I think you need to be careful with that mentality tho-you can eat til you are satiated on sw yes, but if you are coming off a VLCD, you will inevitably put a few lbs back on during refeed. S&s recommend you lose a few lbs more than you need to to allow for this.

 

[WelshJojo]

But obviously back to the OP, only you can decide what you want to do. If you want to lose that stone again, then get back onto s&s, and you know it will work. When you get to your desired weight, make sure you follow the refeeding advice. Maybe work on the reasons you ate all that food too to prevent it happening again