by melissa07 » November 11th, 2007, 9:08 pm
Hey journal,
After thinking long and hard about certain decisions I have come to the choice to not follow MF 5&1 plan word for word. I do however still have a lot of MF meals that I will incorporate into my new decision but it will be based on my own choices and how I feel verses following a written diet, book, video, pill, or anything else I have followed for practically my whole life. What I mean is, my whole life I have followed something. Whether I was following a new diet fad, or following a diet book, I was always trying to lose weight by doing it someone elses way. I don't want to do that anymore. I am the type of person that sticks to something for a few weeks, and suddenly loses interest in it, and goes back to my old eating habits. With Medifast I thought it would be different. The hundreds of success stories and forums I read motivated me to stick with it a little more than a few weeks. In the end, as usual, I slipped up, and never got back on track. Honestly, who am I kidding? I have decided that I want to eat healthy, not restrict myself, but not eat the way I used to. I would like to form these new habits into a completely new lifestyle. I don't want to measure foods, count calories, add up points, or anything like that. I want to life a normal life, in an over weight body. "Thin" people do not deal with the every day stress and thought of food. Thin people do not surround their life around food. Thin people do not get depressed, and look towards food for comfort. Food is not their enemy. I have come to realize that dieting is a lot more than following a plan like MF. I need to fix the relationship I have with food. I need to correct it and if I want to do that, I need to start eating healthier, and not looking at food as a source of emotion, comfort, enemy, or any type of feeling. Restricting calories, or restricting carbs in my opinion will not to justice for me. For ME it will not teach me the correct way to eat. The reason in my opinion, is because I am following a laid out plan for me. Stick to the plan, and you will lose weight. In the end, how is the teaching me, how is that helping me? Anyway what I am trying to say is a lot of people opened up new doors for me, and the people on here are great for support and motivation. In fact many of you made me realize that MF really wasn't for me. It is a great diet, and I still intend to discuss it for my research paper in Human Bio (what's NOT to brag about it? lose 2-5lbs per week!) My point is I intend to limit my portions, eat healthier foods, make wiser decisions, only eat whole grains, no whites, no refined carbs or sugar, healthier snacks, and try to cook home more often, no fried foods, limit fats, you know, the whole shibang. Hopefully I will make this into a habit, and hey if I start eating like a thin person, I will eventually look like one! I am not basing this about how LONG it takes me to lose, I am over that. I am simply tired of always letting myself down with diets and following diet plans. In a way I know I am following my own "diet plan" but it is more lenient, flexible, and permanent. Even though it is still considered a diet plan, it is something that any nutrition dietitian or doctor would recommend. EAT IN MODERATION. I have known this for years, why couldn't I just follow it? Because I wanted to spend my money on hundreds of diets, because other people were losing weight doing something else, because I was trying to look for the easy way out, because it was fast weight loss, whatever it was, I was making excuses for myself. Now, now I am going to follow my own way of eating, stick with it, live with it, be happy with it, and I HOPE everyone on here will be with me no matter what i am following or doing. You guys are great, and I wouldn't want to lose the support and motivation. We are all in this together, and we are all reaching the same goals, to lose weight, be healthy, be happy, to feel confidence: to live a normal life.
Melissa
Start date: August 31, 2007
Start Weight: 197lbs
Goal Weight: 145lbs
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