The General Diet & Emotional Support Thread

fizz

Bring on the chocs!

Bunnie1982

How tall are you? That weight is nothing at all

Speaking as someone who battled through an eating disorder during my teenage years, losing 3 stone in a month is a horrific thought. You leave yourself open to so many side effects and consequences such as depression, fatigue, fainting, seizures, malnutrition, dehydration etc.

Please please speak to your doctor before even dieting, they might be able to provide you with assistance.

No partner is worth extreme dieting, they should love and respect you for who you are, whatever size you are.

CheeseCat

It's not even a month its exactly 2 weeks away.

Zero chance like the others said without amputation. If it was easy enough to lose 3 stone in 2 weeks i'd easily reach a size 10 before I got bored of dieting

pinkclouds

There are only two ways to lose weight - eat less or exercise. Tbh, eating less is the easiest way. It's got nothing to do with what you eat, just how much you eat. Considering the amount of weight in question (6 stone) is it actually "baby" weight that is being referred to? If so, it will come off quickly and effortlessly through breastfeeding. However, IMO, it is highly unlikely that anyone could lose 6 stone in less than 3 months or so, even if it was baby weight (it comes off at the same rate it went on).

Btw, A healthy BMI is 18.5 to 24.9 so you could easily be about 5 ft tall and weigh a healthy 7 stone.

anderson8

this must be a wind up!

anyone else check previous posts?

Bloomin_Freezing2

This isn't for real, surely?!

pebbles88

oh dear god.... this must be a troll! hmm a partner that will only come back or be interested if you lost a stupid amount of weight that would put your health at risk......my what a catch eh!!

if this is for real, and i really dont think it is, run away - as fast as you can (which will help with weight too) and find someone who loves you for you, curves and health and all!!!!

Running_Horse

Stop eating. That'll do it.

tcr_3

Running_Horse wrote: »

Stop eating. That'll do it.

No it won't. The OP will have to contract dysentery too to get anywhere near 3 stone weightloss within a fortnight.

OP ... please don't even attempt it. Nobody's worth putting yourself through that for. You'll end up in hospital. And I agree with what others say, your GP's advice is total whack.

margaretclare

willhelpifican wrote: »

how do i do this is there a quick weight lost? after christmas i want to lose another 5 stone total of 8 stone i am currently 13 stone a size 16 and doctor said i need to get to 7 stone but want to get to size 8 by jan/feb to get my partner back..... any ideas

As others have implied, this is a ridiculous question anyway, but it does throw up some interesting points.

If the OP weighs 13 stone I would submit she is wearing much bigger than size 16. I have recently got down to just below 11 1/2 stone, it has taken me a year and a half, and I am wearing size 16. When I weighed almost 13 stone I was wearing size 22.

Most doctors will tell you that, at 13 stone, you need to lose some weight, but I doubt if there is one that knows his/her job who will tell you you need to be 7 stone. Usually they suggest losing 5% or 10% or your current weight, even that will improve your health and lessen the risk of Type 2 diabetes and other nasties.

A lot depends, also, on how tall you are. If you are what they call 'petite' i.e. 5 ft 2" or less, you lose weight at a much, much slower rate than someone 6 inches taller. Most people who know about it will say that losing 2 pounds a week is the absolute maximum that anyone can lose (except in the first week or so when it is mainly fluid) and for a shorter person, one pound a week is realistic.

Exercise is not the be-all and end-all. Most of us need to be more active than we are, but we can never be as active as people used to be as a matter of course. I used to walk 2 miles there and back to school, later when I had 2 small children I was the slimmest I've ever been. It was the lifestyle then - just to make a phone call involved bundling them up into the pushchair and walking to the village to the phone box.

Energetic exercise can actually increase weight because of the damage to muscles and the fluid retention to repair that damage. It all evens out in time, of course, but it won't happen overnight.

To talk about losing huge amounts of weight for a date on the calendar, or for a dress size, is just ridiculous.

I am managing to lose weight with the help of a site: www.weighlossresources.co.uk I log everything that I eat in a food diary and any exercise that I do, and I find I can only lose weight by sticking as closely as possible to 1100 calories a day. Even then it is slow, but then, it did not go on overnight - it built up gradually over a very long period of time, so it would be completely unrealistic to think that it can come off at great speed.

Start by keeping a food diary.

HTH