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I think I have become a person I never wanted to be - obsessed with my weight.:embarasse

Over the last year I've put on 2 stone :eek: mainly due eating takeaways and being lazy.

I've tried Slimfast but got bored after 5 weeks (did lose 6lbs though). My friend does Lighterlife and has lost an astonishing 6stone since November 08. However, I cant afford £66 a week!

Can anyone help? We've cut out the takeaways and I eat very healthily now - plenty of fresh fruit, veg and 2 litres of water a day. I have noticed my skin is a lot clearer though, but I cannot shift this extra bit of weight. I work pretty much 7 days a week, plus college two nights a week and walk my dog every day.

Other than going to a gym (cant afford that either), what else can I do? Are there any cheapo diets I can try?

(BTW I'm 26, 12 stone and 5ft 7)

thanks guys xx

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  • binkyboo_2
    binkyboo_2 Posts: 675 Forumite
    i am a fan of exercise dvds, if finding the time to exercise is a struggle perhaps you could try getting up a bit earlier than you need to a few days a week. I find that although i am dopey first thing in the morning exercise is really the best thing for making me feel awake!
    once the weather gets better you could maybe walk on lunch breaks or after dinner in the evenings.
    Maybe check your local freecycle for exercise equipment, exercise bike, mountain bike or dvds.
    i have 2 stone to lose and these are all methods i am trying at the moment. i am also doing weight watchers but i have the literature and work from that rather than paying to go to meetings.
  • I am loving this as I need to loose some weight for my wedding and need to think of money saving ways
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  • lana22
    lana22 Posts: 329 Forumite
    Run - it's free.
  • Ted_Hutchinson
    Ted_Hutchinson Posts: 7,142 Forumite
    Dr Dahlqvist's way of eating just stop eating those foods that require your body to store fat rather than burn it.

    Gary Taubes Berkeley lecture

    Wheat elimination is probably the first step. but eliminating all forms of flour and sugar will help. I'd also cut down on the fruit intake. Fructose is probably as bad if not worse than sugar for causing weight gain.

    Using coconut oil will help the changeover from carb burning to fat burning.

    Although it's great to exercise if you enjoy it, don't think it will do much to improve your weight loss.

    I didn't exercise at all an managed to lose all the weight I needed to lose, so although if you enjoy exercise it will do you good, if you can't don't worry it won't make any difference to your ability to lose weight.
    My weight loss following Doktor Dahlqvist' Dietary Program
    Start 23rd Jan 2008 14st 9lbs Current 10st 12lbs
  • poppyolivia
    poppyolivia Posts: 2,976 Forumite
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    cereal for breakfast...anything will do but not things like coco pops lol.

    cereal for lunch...anything will do same as above

    any dinner within reason....chippys not a good idea lol

    lost 5 lb in 5 days.

    heaps of water
    You may walk and you may run
    You leave your footprints all around the sun
    And every time the storm and the soul wars come
    You just keep on walking
  • Bronnie
    Bronnie Posts: 4,169 Forumite
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    I think I have become a person I never wanted to be - obsessed with my weight.:embarasse

    Over the last year I've put on 2 stone :eek: mainly due eating takeaways and being lazy.

    I've tried Slimfast but got bored after 5 weeks (did lose 6lbs though). My friend does Lighterlife and has lost an astonishing 6stone since November 08. However, I cant afford £66 a week!

    Can anyone help? We've cut out the takeaways and I eat very healthily now - plenty of fresh fruit, veg and 2 litres of water a day. I have noticed my skin is a lot clearer though, but I cannot shift this extra bit of weight. I work pretty much 7 days a week, plus college two nights a week and walk my dog every day.

    Other than going to a gym (cant afford that either), what else can I do? Are there any cheapo diets I can try?

    (BTW I'm 26, 12 stone and 5ft 7)

    thanks guys xx

    I would say if you've got the time and the patience, go back to basics and count calories. There are lots of websites that will help you and guide you if you google. Eating healthily alone won't make you lose weight unfortunately! Taking in fewer calories than you burn, from healthy foods will and help you maintain optimum health at the same time.

    Sorry, it's a boring reply. I'm in the same place myself at the moment, similar height and weight, but older than you (therefore needing fewer daily calories! Sob!) having just lost half a stone with SW and another stone+ on Lipotrim (like Lighter Life, but without the counselling, therefore £35 per week). When I come off the Lipotrim in a week or so, it is the calorie counting route I'm going down for the first time in many years, together with keeping the carbs lowish.

    I'm not completely convinced now that diets like SW that don't encourage you to control portion size are the long-term way forward for me as I get older.
  • glowgirl_2
    glowgirl_2 Posts: 4,591 Forumite
    Cutting out/down on carbs worked wonders for me, I know its not for everyone and can be hard to get used to but it soon becomes a way of eating rather than a diet, no need to exercise either unless you choose to.
    Thank you for this site Martin
    The time for change has come
    Good luck for the future
  • Just lost 15lb in 5 weeks and have 7 more to go. I have a weightwatchers yoghurt and a nana for breakfast, a homemade curry or chilli with rice for lunch (no fat added) - have a micriwave at work and a slimfast shake for dinner followed by a weightwatchers youghurt and an apple. For snacks I have apples or allow myself 2 caramel snackajacks. I've been knitting in the evenings to stop me picking. I drink green tea or sparking water and the results are very good. Having a reunion party with people I haven;t seen for 20 years in 3 weeks and its a real incentive.
  • Ted_Hutchinson
    Ted_Hutchinson Posts: 7,142 Forumite
    edited 7 May 2009 pm31 5:53PM
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    If you leave the carbs then Tom Naughton shows you can lose weight eating low carbohydrate fast food.

    This article may help you understand why it's not the fat that makes you fat but those foods that raise insulin and cause excessive fat accumulation.
    Study demonstrates the key role insulin plays in obesity
    My weight loss following Doktor Dahlqvist' Dietary Program
    Start 23rd Jan 2008 14st 9lbs Current 10st 12lbs
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