Lose Weight 6

Good luck to the newcomers!

Turbo: I, like many others, are biased towards the SW diet but some of the problems you have with it seem to not be problems at all.

My boyf and I are getting better at making SW curries. Spices are free but using cream and/or too much oil is something we avoid. Using fat free natural yogurt doesn't always give the same results in a curry sauce, at least i think so, but, as i say, we are getting better!

You don't have to eat a single leaf on a green day if you don't want to. The staple free foods specific to green days are potatoes, pasta and rice. Avoid the leaves and fill up on them instead! Rennie and others probably do have a small syn value as well (i can't check for you now), fyi.

SW took me a while to really get into insomuch that some of the stuff i used to make was very bland. But these days i'm much more experimental and can't get enough of it!

The fact that there's a sw consultant here on the boards (even though some of us aren't even paying to go to sw classes ) is a big a bonus too!!

Edited to say: I'm afraid i'm ignorant of PCOS and your dietry requirements because of it so excuse if i've mentioned something in the post that you can't have!

Afternoon all!

Just thought I should put my tuppence ha'pennys worth in for good measure.

Been on the diet since February 13th 2006, and this is my second big attempt at losing weight.

So far I have lost somewhere approaching 3 stone, this has been done by going down the gym and cutting back on what I eat. I have a weigh in with the dietician at the GP's on Friday.

I try to get down the gym 3 times a week, Since I started a new job recently which will, eventually, be based at home, I hope to move back up to 4 or 5 times a week in the gym.

Currently my session is

15 min cycle
20 Efx (Its like a cross trainer, but your arms don’t move!)
100 - 150 stomach crunches
10 min Arm Bike
15 min Treadmill - Fast Walking, trying to jog 30 secs rest 90, jog 30, rest 90 repeat as required.

According to the counters on each machine my session consumes around 950 - 1000 calories per session, if time permits I go and lie in the Jacuzzi for good measure.

In the main it has been going well, but I still am a 'fat bloke' and to be honest have accepted I probably will always be, but I want to be a slimmer fat bloke and I also want to be fitter!! For good measure I play rugby for my local rugby team at tight head prop

Why am I telling you this? Well I feel like I am slowly slipping down that slope of not putting in the effort and although I have being on MSE for a long while, never thought to venture in this area, so please forgive my tardiness. I just felt that if I wrote down my thoughts and what I have done, then it might start to encourage me again. Its be very hard to get down the gym in this recent warm spell, especially as the office if 75 miles away. Still I got my laptop today so should get at least 2 days a week at home.

You may recall that I said this was my second big attempt, the last time, I was suffering with depression and used the time off work to really ramp up my gym work and cut down on what I ate. I realise that it was the wrong method, but I had it in my mind that 'no-one loves a Fat Bloke' and used that to motivate myself. I lost nearly 7 stone! :-) I got fairly fit and was playing first team rugby again. However twice in the space of 4 months I almost ruptured my medial ligament in my left knee and then started to get referred pain in my hands from a neck problem :-( So although I did continue to play once fit, I stopped going back to the gym and with my old job, stayed away from home due the distance involved. This didn’t help and the weight came flooding back!!!

My Fault and I have learned a valuable lesson. (getting fit means you get injured more!!) :-D

Hope I haven't bored you too much, if you don’t mind I might blog myself in here from time to time.

Suggs,

You've just worn me out by reading all that!

Welcome to the forum along with Jan and turboshandy.

I know what you mean honey28 all weigh ins are a challenge...but must be done otherwise I will end up too fat and too unfit for me.

:eek: Counting down the minutes now.

Debs

I'll be back!;)