want to lose "puppy fat" for my wedding, any tips?

seafarers_wife

I get where your coming from, i can count on both hands the fruit and veg i will eat. I want to eat more as all the cookbooks have lovely receipes, but i go through them thinking need to remove that that that and that which isnt the point of a cookbook. I have tried to improve on what i will eat, but i throw up when i try it, OH has tried mashing onion and various other veg up really small and not telling me and hiding the evidence, but i still throw up, even if its in something like a burger and is practically invisible i just cant eat it.

I am very overweight as i love high fat foods and that used to make up the main part of my diet. but i have switched to skimmed milk or purple top milk from full fat, i have gone from full on lurpack to lurpack light, cant have fresh bread in the house as its gone in seconds so i buy the small healthy danish type loaves, i go to the gym at least 3 times a week sometimes 4 and its slowly but surely starting to come off me. im not weighing myself every week but once a month and i am doing weight watchers online so i can track what i am eating. i do struggle with it cause i only like certain foods, but that gives me the push i need to do more at the gym to earn extra points that can be used for food.

It is the little changes im finding that are making the big difference, i havent really lost weight as such, but i have noticed that my clothes are getting bigger and that by drinking around 4 litres a day of sugar free squash im not as hungry as i was. i think i was confusing being thirsty with being hungry so now i make sure ive always got a glass of juice near by.

Kayleigh09

I completly understand where you're coming from with the fussy eating. Most people think I am a nightmare with food as I am that fussy!

I am quite lucky though as I drink gallons of water a day, I am addicted to several fruits, I adore peas and corn and I can stomach most vegetables.

Since setting a date for my wedding though, I have put loads of weight on which I am determind to get off before the wedding (I put this down to stress though as the OH is in training to be in the armed forces andI am tackling the majority of this wedding on my own hehe). I work full time (on my a*se all day infront of a computer) and as I am planning this wedding on my own I am finding it hard to get 5 minutes to myself to do 30 sit ups a night! I have a wii fit, and a gym membership, and I really should get back in there. I am trying though!

I think my advice is... get yourself an ipod, get in the gym and just go as often as you can. SOMETHING is better than NOTHING! When I used to go to the gym, I used to feel really tired at first, but after I used to feel so damn good! Take 3 days a week out (say Monday, Wednesday, Friday - still leaves you the weekends!!!) and try 20 mins to start with, then 30, 40, 50 mins until you reach and hour. Don't kill yourself, but a 20 minute walk on the treadmill and a couple of leg extensions later... you'll soon be back into shape. When you have a spare 5 mins in the house, get yourself doing 10 sit ups... anything, anywhere! Surely this has all got to help.

I do agree you need to maybe look at your diet too... but maybe get your endorphins going and then you'll feel on top of your game.

Now, if only I could take my own advice...! :rotfl: