SUPER HAPPY I started with FatSecret. For the first time in years I feel I can achieve a healthy lifestyle and long term weight loss. All the comments have helped me so much!! Thank you to each and every member for taking the time to support me. xxx
I have had a total mindset change!!! I am a calorie counter. The only thing that has ever worked for me. I love logging my food and seeing what I am putting into my body, so making much better choices.
One perception I have changed and is really helping me at this point in time is not to focus too much on my daily calorie intake, but my weekly intake. THIS has helped me so much to stick to a restricted calorie diet.
I love to stick to "the book" to a T and that is the main cause of my failure time after time after time. Once I fail to stick to the book 100% for a day, I give up completely. Looking at my calorie intake on a weekly basis and focusing on a week instead of a day is really so much easier to maintain. I restrict my diet so much; I set myself up to fail and that I have come to realize after reading all the comments. THANK YOU GUYS & GIRLS!
I now focus on my weekly calorie intake and deficit, instead of my daily intake & deficit. Doing this makes me feel so much more motivated & positive that I will succeed this time around. STILL cutting out complex carbs as much as possible and limiting my sugar intake. (STILL NO JUNK FOOD etc etc.) Still allowing myself to have my fruit I SO LOVE and miss. Still watching the sugar & carb content though, BUT ALLOWING MYSELF FRUIT!
This is creating a lifestyle I KNOW I will be able to maintain. If you know from the start you will never keep to "the rules" you create, there really is no point in torturing yourself. Inevitably you will lose the weight, just to put it back on again.
FEELING SO MUCH MORE POSITIVE!
