Debt Free & Fat Free Wannabees??

QueenB.

Kept to the healthy eating today and once again drunk lots of water, in fact only other thing i had to drink was one small cup of herbal tea so pleased with that.

Still could not do any real walking because of my toe but at least it seems to have healed by iteslf so thats a good sign.

Should make up for the lack of walking over the last two days tomorrow. We are taking the children up London for the day which means hours of walking. Will be bandaging the toe up so hopefully it should be ok and will be doing the trip will barely cost anything so that is great.

Annando

2 whole boursins?????????????????????? Only?????????????????
They are about 150gr each that is A LOT!
You are really getting me intrested on Atkins now. Although when I do manage to do Slimming World I do quite well.
Thanks Amos!

amosworks

My mum went Slimming World and got a certificate for Slimmer of the Week once then she put it on the frige door and used it as an excuse to pig out. The next week, well, it wasn't so good for her :rolleyes:

clairey_em

Hiya,

If you ate all the food on the atkins menu every day surely, eventually, you would have a heart attack due to immense consumption of fat and cholesterol, all furring up those arteries? whatever happened to healthy eating and exercise, atkins is so extreme, and I have several family members who have done it, lost loads of weight and then, after year or so, come off the diet and put half if not more of the weight back on.

some people, my dad included, lead a very healthy life and then have to endure major heart surgery for no explainable reason, apart from supposed 'stress' don't bring on unnessary health problems, it's not fair on you or your family. maybe i'm going a bit over board but when I hear about things like this it worries me!

eat healthily and safely!!! x x

MinnieSpender

And it didn't hurt a bit!

I haven't consciously "dieted" just eaten a sensible breakie, big salad with fish or cheese for lunch every day for a week and a decent home-cooked dinner in the evening. I've snacked on apples (about two a day).

Done a bit more exercise this week and upped the fruit and veg.

I think the secret is no ready meals and no obsessing about food.

I hope next week is this easy! :T

amosworks

clairey_em wrote:

If you ate all the food on the atkins menu every day surely, eventually, you would have a heart attack due to immense consumption of fat and cholesterol, all furring up those arteries?

Unfortunately that's the biggest misconception about the diet. Saturated fat occurs naturally in other animals which we eat, there's nothing actually bad about it. However, when combining this with man made "bad" carbohydrates - that's when it turns bad. Somehow they combine to make the bad cholesterol. On it's own, saturated fat will promote your good cholesterol. After a year on the diet, my cholesterol level dropped to 3.9 which is great (my diet is 40% saturated fat, 5% carbohydrate). All the studies involving Atkins have shown that 99.something% of people had a lower cholesterol level after being on the diet for just 3 months.

clairey_em wrote:

whatever happened to healthy eating and exercise, atkins is so extreme, and I have several family members who have done it, lost loads of weight and then, after year or so, come off the diet and put half if not more of the weight back on.

Can you get any more natural than eating what the earth provides without chemically processing or altering it in any way? Eating what's nature provides, that's local and in season is the healthiest thing. What on earth (quite literally) could be healthier than that?? Not eating things that were made by humans in factories that contain chemicals, e numbers, additives, preservatives, hydrogenated oils and all the other crap that most people tend to eat is not healthy by any means. Do you know that there's no such thing as white bread. It's brown bread that's bleached white. I wonder why so many people have bowel cancer.

Forgive my ignorance, but your family members went on the diet and lost weight. Then they stopped the diet and gained weight. Atkins is a life long eating plan, not a fad diet or binge diet. If a person returns to the same destructive eating patterns after coming off the diet, why are you surprised that a person should return back to where they started? Of course, this change won't have happened overnight. Surely somebody would have noticed they're putting on several stone and stopped and thought about what they're doing to cause this?

clairey_em wrote:

some people, my dad included, lead a very healthy life and then have to endure major heart surgery for no explainable reason, apart from supposed 'stress' don't bring on unnessary health problems, it's not fair on you or your family. maybe i'm going a bit over board but when I hear about things like this it worries me!

I'm sorry to hear about your dad's heart surgery. There are of course many factors that contribute to "health", from genetics to bad lifestyle choices to external environmental factors. Now I'm not saying your dad had bad genes or a bad lifestyle or a bad environment, but there's a rich tapestry of variables that contribute to the many things that occur. If your dad did have to have heart surgery after coming off the diet and regaining lots of weight, maybe the return to previous eating behaviours was what caused that? Maybe not? As you said, stress, is a factor. Never underestimate how powerful stress can be at destroying a person's health.

Unfortunate things in life do happen. Like 1 in 3 people you know are going to get cancer. That's your mother, father or sister. Plus either your brother, daughter or son. Plus either your grandmother, grandfather or partner. Plus either your best friend, your boss or your postman.

Sorry to say that, but there's not any nice way to sex up the truth. Bad things do happen for a number of different reasons, and as I said, there's a rich tapestry of variables that determines this.

Not smoking, eating healthily (as in what's 100% natural and unprocessed, a la Atkins), taking exercise, drinking lots of water (non-flouridated water I might add if you live in Bedfordshire, which I don't touch as Flouride is more poisonous than Arsenic and Lead), taking time to chillout and unwind, and many other things are all activities a person can pursue to reduce the risks of many problems.

We live in a world where nasty and unnatural chemicals are everywhere, from babies artificial bottle milk to the fabric softner in your grans cardigan.

To talk about natural, you've got to look at the wider picture clairey em. But, as I said, I'm sorry to hear about your dads problems and you have my sincerest sympathies.

piglet6

OK, it hurts to admit... I have been a closet FFW since you started this thread, but I think it is time to join your thread (if you'll all have me!!). I have lots of weight to lose (and yes, I became overweight at about the same time as going into debt...). Briefly, I guess I have always had a weight "problem" (although, I guess, like many others, I didn't realise how lucky I was when things were going well for me... :rolleyes: ). I went to university in 1991, weighing under 9 stone (I know, I know, I look back and wonder what went wrong now - admittedly, I probably didn't have a problem then, but I still thought I did!! ). The answer is "£1 a pint and £1 a double" plus regular late night trips to the kebab shop... :rotfl:

Mr Piglet was under 10 stone when I met him (and 5'11'' so, at that point, underweight!! :eek: ). When we married in 1996, I was 9 stone 10lbs, and Mr Piglet was about 12 stone (but looking OK at this stage...having by-passed the nasty "underweight" stage I fell in love with and having become quite a well proportioned gentleman! ).

Fast forward to 2006... 10 years of happy marriage :T , but we have more than increased our weight to match :eek: . My weight is currently 15 stone 11lbs (although I am currently on Weight watchers and weigh in on a Friday lunchtime - and hope to have lost something tomorrow - highest weight 18st 3lbs, so going down now!). Mr Piglet is now 18 stone 7lbs (highest 19 stone 8lbs!!!).

We are both trying to lose weight...and I admit, I also am of the "Beware Atkins!!" brigade... :undecided yet am very much attracted by your menu plan, amosworks - I am very fond of salami, cheese and mayonnaise :whistle: ! I am trying to earn extra bonus points (according to WW) and will report my weightloss every Friday, and would like to report my weekly loss here and encourage others if I can...

Thats it - I am out of the closet...a fully fledged FFW and ready for battle to commence!! :T

Good luck to all in this challenge!

Piglet

Annando

MinnieSpender wrote:

And it didn't hurt a bit!...

I hope next week is this easy! :T

Well done you MinnieSpender!!!! Hurray!!!!
5lbs is fantastic!!! :T :T :T :T But, no wonder you lost so much weight the way your avatar is exercising all the time!!!

Congratulations!!!!

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shazzer22

Morning, I'm hoping I can join your thread too! Realised I really really need to lose some weight, we went out last night and saw some friends that I hadnt seen for a few months and when I stood up I saw one chap look at my rather rounded belly and smile, I knew what he was thinking so i just came out and said it "No, I'm not pregnant, I just like eating"

It was all a bit of a giggle to start with but now I realise I really need to do something more about it! Have set myself a target of 2 stone. I reckon I must be 12 stone now, so for my height a little over 2 stone off would be best. I always used to go to Slimming World but now I work shift work it means sometimes I am unable to go for 2 weeks in a row which just sends me over the edge to pizza land!

Good luck everyone, I'll report back when I've weighed myself properly!

Annando

piglet6 wrote:

OK, it hurts to admit... I have been a closet FFW since you started this thread...

Thats it - I am out of the closet...a fully fledged FFW and ready for battle to commence!! :T

Good luck to all in this challenge!

Piglet

Welcome Piglet!!!
You will see that we are a bunch of very nice people around here!
My next weigh-in is in 2 weeks time and I can't wait to see how that goes, specially when I see how well everyone else is doing!

I was on WW but counting points (and forgetting to count them...:rolleyes:) wasn't working for me, (Also too ashamed to walk through WW door! ) so I decided to go to Slimming World and must say I love their diet, no points counting, all you can eat, just pick either green or red day.

Although I must admit that a certain preacher (any guesses who that might be? ) in our midst is really making me want to try the Atkins diet!!!

Let us know how you get on!!!