Setting yourself up for failure???

you call it setting up for failure, i call it trying another approach!  I have yet to lose weight where I was 100% comfortable.  I HAVE to feel hungry for some time period of the day to lose. I hate that, but it is true. It's partly NOT being okay with hunger feelings, and partly learning it's okay to feel them once or twice a day. It is part of the scenery when you are on less calories.  period.  When people play the "you cannot call it a diet" card, I tend to think it is a word game. Diet is simply, no more no less a term for food intake.  It's an ugly word when the stakes are set too low, and I think I get that angle.  I vehemently oppose it when I see very heavy people try to lose on 1000 cal "diets", talk about setting up to fail. That is overkill and why most people cannot do it for very long. We NEED to eat restrictively to LOSE weight...some of you call it a way of life, I call it a diet plan. When you no longer need to LOSE, you eat a maintenance diet plan. I have come to realize that when you are obese or recently so, for the rest of your life, you are on some kind of diet plan.  I have one personal friend who has controlled her weight nearly all her life with slimfast. When she puts on a few pounds, she trades out one meal, usually lunch, for those damn things. She is within ten pounds of her hi school weight, who am i to berate her?  I use protein drinks and get the same kind of flack...how is that teaching you anything?  Well I fail how to see where eating an egg and one piece of toast and feeling hungry an hour later is any different than the hunger I may feel one hour after a protein drink. It sucks, no matter how you do it, what you call it.

Hey Neecee, I'm just still trying to figure this whole thing out, you know?  I think this was a gravely stupid error on my part.  I like feeling hunger too, before I eat a meal.  but I don't like feeling hollow!!!  That's what it was, hollow.  I so totally did not like that feeling I know that it is all a "diet" plan.  I guess I just kinda freaked out when I got THAT hungry and suddenly I realized I was bringing myself back to square one again.  I do not want to do that, I've worked too hard to go backwards now. Yup, it sucks, no matter how we do it or what we call it.

I'm going back to what I was doing, at least then I felt normal!

You didn't set yourself up for failure, just tried something new.  Thank goodness you had a backup plan in case the shake didn't work.  Isn't it funny how certain things works for some, but not others.  For instance, I actually use the Slimfast Shakes 4 times a week for breakfast.  It's an easy meal on the go, plus it breaks up what I have for that meal.  Thing is, it keeps me full for 4 - 5 hours.  Now those South Beach diet bars people on the forum were talking about a month or so ago, those don't hold me more than an hour at the most.  After that, I need to eat something again.  For others, it keeps them until their next meal. At least now you know this approach won't work and can look at other ways to mix up your meals. Now as to setting myself up for failure...Oh I did that BIG TIME.  I brought Dove Unconditional Chocolate ice cream into my house...BIG MISTAKE.  Last night I figured I'd have a little treat.  Well a little, turned into might as well have a 1/2 pint and then that turned into the whole freakin thing.  I should have known better.  Thankfully I've dusted myself off from my pig out, confessed to my DB (he was sleeping at the time), and I'm back to eating better today.  Thank goodness I don't have any other good ice cream in the house.  Now I know that item is on the growing "NOT TO BE BROUGHT IN THIS HOUSE" list.

I can't believe that SlimFast keeps you full for 4 hours.  I was at an hour and I hadn't felt hunger like that in the over 2 years I've been doing my program.  I thought I was going to die! LOL  now the South Beach Bars are fine.  I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with chewing? I have no idea!!! You are right, this approach doesn't work for me.  It didn't work for me 18 years ago after my son was born, same issue.  Now I can drink one as a mid-afternoon snack or if I am on the run and no able to eat.  but it doesn't sustain me at all. I'm glad you dusted yourself off after the Dove incident.  LOL Even the pope would cheat with Dove Icecream!!!!

OMG i do this all the time! i'm all down on myself. so when i'm at the target or whatever i decide i'm going to go on a strict diet of shakes. then i stand in the shake aisle for like 20 minutes arguing with myself and eventually convincing myself what a ridiculous idea that would be. i do the same thing whenever i see those Medifast ads in magazine. i go to the medifast website. i'm like, hey i could do that for a few weeks and lose 10 lbs. but then i'm like i could just eat lean cusisines for every meal and it would be cheaper and taste better. i have even gotten so far as to place my order on the website, just before you get to the enter your credit card part....  sometimes those feelins of desparation just take over and we are defenseless. you can't conquer quick fix human nature.

Andrea, I really figured I could do it for like a week.  **** who couldn't do it for a week?? Um, ME!!! That's who.  LOL I couldn't make it through a meal for godsakes. so I'm back to eating like I did, but I am going to be a little bit more honest about those hidden calories, I think that is becoming my issue a little bit.