Lose weight 30

kksweety

Hi all,

I'm looking at losing a bit of weight and would love to do the race for life 10k run (im so unfit at the moment). I'm looking to find someone I can do this with in the liverpool area. Would be great to have a running partner and someone that is hoping to lose weight doing it.

If there's anyone out there please PM me, or if anyone knows a better place to post this.

Thanks for reading,
Becky

bettyB_2

thanks for the advice BB

Fred, please zero me on the chart till next week's result
thanks

kirstyjessen

Brighton_belle wrote: »

BettyB - I would take 10.6 as your stat weight - that is your starting pioint to this round of weight loss. I wiould not post any formal weight loos until next wednesday i.e. giving your self a good week and 2 days to get on with it and be sure the ressult is a result.
I would also always weigh with the same factors i.e 1stthing in the morning, naked, before any food or liquid has passed you lips. That way you are always comparing like with like. Any weight adding on in the day is only the physical weight of what you have consumed and liquid you are temp stroing: it hasn't had time to pass through you bpody or been converted to permanent fat stores yet.

Kirsty: you family are seriously worrying me: you were dangerously underweight and addicted to losing and know they are telling you you are fat????!!! They sound damaging.
Fortunately the BF finds you are highly fanciable as you are.
I would avoid any 'quick weight loss' idea as that make be a risk to you given your history. Do you eat fairly healthily - not too much junk or boscuits. It is always worth cutting down on them. But don't go hungry, just eat good food. Going hungry is bad for you - your body will go into panic mode and hang on to every ouch of fat it can.

I think the exercise to tone up might work better - you can lose a dress size just with exercise. Is there anything you fancy tryng -it's got to be fun to work!


Go Mazza!:T
congrats to: eric margaret clare (if it i holiday weight and you were straight back to'plan' then it does come off quicker Margaret)

sts for me

Hi There,

It hurts that they are saying what they are saying I said i was feeling comfortable as i am which i was before they started calling me fat and they said that I was being selfish.

I eat healthily no chocolate or sweets i have a plain croissant for breakfest a banana as a snack normally a lettuce sandwich for lunch with a packet of walkers salt and vinegar chrisps and a can of Dr pepper for lunch.

For tea I normally have pasta with pesto salmon and fresh veg

For excrcise I walk for 1 hour a day to and from work and during lunch break I also have a cross trainer and a cycling machine at my home which I do 15 minutes on both 2 times a week so around an hour a week and at weekends I do 3 long walks roughly a hour a time somestimes 3 hours depending on where me and my partner goes.


My partner is very fit and healthy they did a sports fitness programme. I am quite toned and size 12 top and size 14 trousers due to legs are quite big my partner says its muscle as its not flabby.

I'm not sure what more i can do. I suffer from low sugar problems, epelepsy, Irrital bowel syndrome, low blood pressure and I also have alopecia.

I am worried that if i try to eat less or take something else out of what I am eating is going to set one of my conditions off but if anyone can suggest anything i would be really grateful? x

Vixstar

Kirsty Deciding what weight/size you feel happy with is not being selfish - it's your body and your decision. Sounds like you have the exercise and diet right and a BF who likes you just the way you are.

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Brighton_belle

Honestly kirsty, I could weep for you: what do they mean 'selfish'. What is there definition of 'selfish'. In what way are you harming them? They do sound very damaging. Accusations of being selfish are a mean and nasty way to make someone do what they want sometimes. And in the light of your dieting history I am truely stunned at their attitude. This is not love in my opinion.

Whatever you do, don't eat less, just make tweeking changes to what you eat. But only if you really think you need to.
You boyfriend sounds like he knows what he is talking about re muscle.
Ultimately you have a lot of health issues that only you know how to balance and it is you that has to cope with the consequences.

Personally i don't think a lettice sandwich sound filling enough, but it is certainly healthier than many options. With low sugar probs, you do need to eat regularly. Perhaps 5 small meals a day rather than 3 bigger ones (Not that your meals sound very big to be honest)
I don't know enough about irritable bowel to advise but i am sure there must be online ideas about eating with that condition.

You could try cutting out the crisps, as everyday isn't brilliant ( a lot of fat and salt) and add fruit instead. Don't just cut them out and eat nothing else. You also need treats to look forward to.
Perhaps in the evening, if you always have pasta, try not having pasta on say 3 nights week and having a baked potato instead, with your protein or just more protein and veg.
I often have more protein and veg and cut out the carb on an evening meal and find it very filling. I do not totlly cut out carbs in the rest of my day though.

You obviously are suffering as a result of your family's comments and feel a bit desperate. Have they ever made compliments about your appearance? or is this going to be a case of nothing actually satisfies them and what ever you do, they will always be nit picking something?
You deserve to be valued and cherished for the type of person you are: you have overcome your weight loss obseesion: that takes incredible strength of charater. You are also dealing with alopecia - how difficult, and epilepsy. You deserve a standing ovation in my opinion for getting out of bed and getting on with a life. Not criticism.

kirstyjessen

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Honestly kirsty, I could weep for you: what do they mean 'selfish'. What is there definition of 'selfish'. In what way are you harming them? They do sound very damaging. Accusations of being selfish are a mean and nasty way to make someone do what they want sometimes. And in the light of your dieting history I am truely stunned at their attitude. This is not love in my opinion.

Whatever you do, don't eat less, just make tweeking changes to what you eat. But only if you really think you need to.
You boyfriend sounds like he knows what he is talking about re muscle.
Ultimately you have a lot of health issues that only you know how to balance and it is you that has to cope with the consequences.

Personally i don't think a lettice sandwich sound filling enough, but it is certainly healthier than many options. With low sugar probs, you do need to eat regularly. Perhaps 5 small meals a day rather than 3 bigger ones (Not that your meals sound very big to be honest)
I don't know enough about irritable bowel to advise but i am sure there must be online ideas about eating with that condition.

You could try cutting out the crisps, as everyday isn't brilliant ( a lot of fat and salt) and add fruit instead. Don't just cut them out and eat nothing else. You also need treats to look forward to.
Perhaps in the evening, if you always have pasta, try not having pasta on say 3 nights week and having a baked potato instead, with your protein or just more protein and veg.
I often have more protein and veg and cut out the carb on an evening meal and find it very filling. I do not totlly cut out carbs in the rest of my day though.

You obviously are suffering as a result of your family's comments and feel a bit desperate. Have they ever made compliments about your appearance? or is this going to be a case of nothing actually satisfies them and what ever you do, they will always be nit picking something?
You deserve to be valued and cherished for the type of person you are: you have overcome your weight loss obseesion: that takes incredible strength of charater. You are also dealing with alopecia - how difficult, and epilepsy. You deserve a standing ovation in my opinion for getting out of bed and getting on with a life. Not criticism.

I only put on the weight as my partner was worried about the way i was eating and lost so much weight i met them when i was at my skinniest and they have been helping me put on weight to be the size i am my family preferred me the way i was. I have had alopecia since I was born and only when i lost all the weight and my hari grew back were they happy.

My brother has mental health problems (asfergus) and my sister has adhd and I am the middle child.

My epelepsy has only just been diagnosed and I think the medication I am on for that and my alopecia both has steroids in which dont help on the weight side of things by what I have looked up. I love my partner so much.

She's worried that I am going to llose weight because of my family. I am happy with my size its just my family thats making me not feel happy with it. I am not saying this for attention but my life has been really bad until my partner and she means more to me then life itself and I never thought i would be happy being with anyone until I met her. I wont go into the things that have happened through my life in case it affects anyone but i just sometimes wish my family would understand that i need to be healthy and not skinny.:(

mazza111

Some very wise words spoken there Kirsty. I would love to be your size. If you are happy with your body right now, I would be tempted to tell your family to !!!!!!. I know it's not easy, but them saying this to you is appalling given your history.


Again, I will say what I did in a previous post. Given your history, seek medical advice on this issue. You have obviously had a hard battle to get to the weight your at now, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to go though that battle again. Eating healthily is more important than anything, take it from a fatty who knows. Little and often is good for low blood sugar, fatty foods for a boost when it goes too low. Fruit is a good one for raising it a wee bit too. But seriously, seek medical advice on this. My blood sugar goes pretty low, but have found a glass of lucozade is enough as give it a little boost

bettyB_2

kirstyjessen wrote: »

She's worried that I am going to llose weight because of my family. I am happy with my size its just my family thats making me not feel happy with it. I am not saying this for attention but my life has been really bad until my partner and she means more to me then life itself and I never thought i would be happy being with anyone until I met her. I wont go into the things that have happened through my life in case it affects anyone but i just sometimes wish my family would understand that i need to be healthy and not skinny.:(

Your partner sounds very wise, and I would not listen to your family. They are not perfect I bet, and you have enough to deal with as it is. If you are happy then the next time they get at you about your weight you should simply tell them that you are happy, subject closed, discussion over.