Dieting Really Really Stinks!
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Dieting Really Really Stinks!
| Thu, 05-06-2004 - 3:11pm |
As if it's not bad enough to try to lose weight before summer, all three of the boys are in growth spurts so they are eating CONSTANTLY!! LOL! My whole house smells like home made macaroni and cheese right now (which they insisted that I make for them for dinner). I'm thinking of raiding the fridge, but the picture that I hung on the door of me bent over in the flower bed is a powerful deterant. Hubby was snapping candid shots out in the yard while I was weeding and the kids were playing, and lets just say that I was shocked by the view from that particular angle. Maybe I should just buy a mu-mu, and tell everyone that I'm afraid of getting sun burned. UGH#%)!)+!~
Angela
Starving, again.
Angela
Starving, again.

What I would recommend is to go on a specific diet and find out what the safe foods for that diet are. I am on Weight Watchers and foods like carrots, egg whites and such are practically point free. But if you are on Atkins (or one of the variations), then I don't think the same safe foods are allowed. Stock up on the foods you can eat with moderate abandon and try to keep the really trigger foods out of the house. Your family can eat them elsewhere!
Good luck!
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hey, maybe the diet will help you get over the baby blues. just remember what it's like to feel like a beached whale as you sit by the pool in the world's ugliest maternity suit, lol. remember when you couldn't see your feet?? you don't REALLy want to be knocked up again do ya??
clarity
Last night we had cheeseburgers (minus the bun for him), but what is a hamburger without fries so I had cheesefries with mine. He stole just one fry before I threw away what was left on my plate. Oops! I guess I should try harder not to tempt him, but I think the atkins diet is unhealthy anyway. It's all fat, at least the way my husband does it. I don't know how he loses any weight, but he does.
Tanya
So, yes, staying away from maternity suits is a very very admirable goal LOL!
I have a good friend who has your same problem--she's like the food terminator, but she just stays itty bitty (not in that svelt way, but in that almost looks like a pixie way...). I tell her that she has a calorie polarity problem--they refract off of her negatively charged bony hips and stick right to my positively charged butt. Makes about as much sense as anything... :)
Angela
Angela
I wanted to give you a littel tip I got..chew sugar free gum while cooking, it will limit your tasting.
I also use online help that is free called freetrainer.com, you enter your profile and they give you specific exercises catered to you. You can even click on home work out and they tell you how to use things in your house to help you exercise..that's the one I use.
Think it's working but I only weigh myself every two weeks..
Good Luck and think positive!!!
Traci
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with my first pregnancy i was really into the whole "looking pregnant" deal, so i went shopping for a swimsuit, but left in tears. not about my body, just in horror at the things they wanted me to put my body IN!! it's bad enough when you can't see your bikini area well enough to shave, do they really have to make you look like a whale too? i ended up just borrowing a more well-endowed friend's normal suit and just living with the leg holes being stretched up to my armpits by my ever expanding belly, lol.
isn't it funny how friends always end up being mutt and jeff? i'm tall and scrawny, and my bf is short and round. she's always telling me that i screw up her diets because no matter how little she eats i'm hogging the whole freaking buffet down, and since i never get any fatter i must be sending all the calories her way. i'll have to tell her it's a polarity problem :)
she gets her revenge when we try on swimsuits though, she looks all nice and curvy while i'm desperately searching for something cool in the little girls section! i used to fit in normal clothes, but then i nursed my son and i swear the little bugger ATE what little boobs i had, so now i'm resigned to the pre-pubescent kinda suits!
clarity
clarity
Try do lots of walking. I don't know if you can walk to the store where you live. But instead of driving 10 blocks, maybe you could try walking instead. It does help you know. It really does help.