Lose Weight 31

alliwantistosave

I have had to weigh a day early due to commitments tomorrow after work but I am happily reporting a 2LB LossThanks Fred :j

Cough all but gone now so been trying to do some more exercise, and from today back on the 30 day shred to get some fitness before skiing in 3 weeks :j:j:j

Also my visceral fat has gone down to 9 today so I am really over the moon. I'm just a little disappointed that my muscle mass doesn't seem to go up by much each week..... this week it went up by 0.1% is that bad? does this mean that I need to consider some more strength training and if so what could people recommend? Also can anyone recommend some exercise to try and reduce my tummy skirt( empty skin YUK) as mine doesn't seem to be reducing and I hate it
Sorry to ramble ........

Betty - if you get the DVD's let me know what it is like as my power of 5 is no longer playing it just skips so I need to look into a replacement.

Victory - that is a lot for you to take in and change, I hope SW is working for you. Did you hand in your resignation?

Puddings - That plan you posted looks ideal for you if you work that way. Keep to it and see what a difference it makes.

romylou - your comment about your a$$ made me LOL. My sister has a powerplate machine at home. when I went on it last year it made my feel sick due to my eye's vibrating. But I did feel it the next day. I hope your bottom is feeling a little less sore today?

Well done on all the losses posted so far :T:T Looks like we are in for another good week loss wise. And good luck to everyone who is yet to weigh. Make the luck of the weight loss fairies be with you

lolly101

romylou wrote: »

Hahaha, if only it was that easy. You have to strike a few poses and there were loads of squats. My legs felt like jelly afterwards. When I woke up this morning to let the dog out, I swung my legs out of bed and nearly fell in a heap on the floor. :eek:

My legs/muscles and backside have been so sore all day, I can hardly walk. This has got to be good - right? It hurt so much I've already booked my next session. I feel like i've run a marathon and I didn't know my a$$ could ache so much.:rotfl:

Wow, I didn't expect them to be that effective! Hope you recover soon!!! I'm a bit nervous about trying mine now, it should be here tomorrow.

efrieze wrote: »

Morning all. Pleased and relieved to report a 4.4lb loss this week please, thanks fred. Two consecutive zumba classes Sunday and Monday nights definitely helped. Onway back down. Phew.

Congratulations, that's a great loss! :T


Well by Sat AM I'd lost 1lb and a bit, by this morning I'd put 'the bit' back on, so it's a 1lb loss for me this week. Was hoping to have lost a little more, although I probably shouldn't have had a 'day off' dieting the day before weigh in :doh:

I'm going out for dinner and drinks later so will have to be careful about what I have - I've been looking at the menus and calorie counts to see what I should go for... some of those numbers are scary!!! :eek:

Eric_Pisch

alliwantistosave wrote: »

Also my visceral fat has gone down to 9 today so I am really over the moon. I'm just a little disappointed that my muscle mass doesn't seem to go up by much each week..... this week it went up by 0.1% is that bad? does this mean that I need to consider some more strength training and if so what could people recommend? Also can anyone recommend some exercise to try and reduce my tummy skirt( empty skin YUK) as mine doesn't seem to be reducing and I hate it
Sorry to ramble ........

V fat of 9 is bloody superb, im bordering 19/20 atm

the resistance measuring of muscle mass is not super accurate, even less so on machines that do not have hand grips, even the better ones are +/- by 3-4% so some variation is inevitable but they do pick up trends (drinking, eating, exercising, tom and salt intake all effect the result)

it is harder for a lady to build mass than a guy (go go testosterone) and a lot depends on the condition you are in when you start, if you have done no exercise for 5-10 years then it should come back pretty quickly to start, if you where pretty active then it will only go on slowly, i have chucked on loads of mass in the last 6 months, will be interesting to see the bodpod results when i get my !!! in gear and go back

a lot depends on the type of exercise you do as well, to build faster you really need to do heavy lifting and not many girls want to do that and its unlikely doing so would make you look anything other than toned.

SherlockFan85

Hello All,

Am feeling a bit despondent, as I weighed myself to find I'm STS, which I know isn't exactly terrible, but I have eaten such healthy food (in smaller quantities than I used to as well) and exercised my butt off daily. Booo Oh well, I just don't want to creep up to 11st again. I've also got a pain in the middle of my right foot which really hurts when I walk/run, caused I think by my new daily jog, so I've decided to only jog on the rest days from the EA workouts.

My Exercise Diary for yesterday
Wii Fit: 5 mins step plus, 10 mins box, 15min jog. JD2 - 3 songs, and EA Active 20min low intensity workout. Burnt approx 350kcal.

Food Diary for yesterday
Breakfast - 2 sunflower seed ryvitas with spread, 1 light cheese triangle, probiotic yog, coffee, wheatgrass juice.
Lunch - chinese chicken salad, 1 wholemeal roll (no spread) Mint tea.
Dinner - 3 sausages, new pototoes with sundried tomato dressing, broccolli.
Snacks - clementine (morning), 2 small glasses choc oat milk (afternoon)

I can't have hit my plateau already! Does any of the above look hideously wrong?

Thanks and please be gentle

victory

Thank you so much betty, I understand exactly what you are saying and very grateful for your time, to answer your questions I am fed up to my back teeth of veg so was trying out SW to get away from veg, at night I always have a massive and I mean massive fill up 5-7 different veg and then my dinner, the kids are used to seeing me do that and when I had the chicken curry without any veg they kept commenting and were very miffed:rotfl::rotfl:

I thoroughly enjoyed not having the veg and my OH loved the chicken curry:D

Lunch I get that to add the bacon (banned in this house because I have a bacon/belly pork black spot so best to avoid) but lunch I did not enjoy so much as I felt it was a fuss to make all that when I usually have a batchelors healthy eating soup, sugar free jelly and 2 jumbo snack a jacks. Easy, I always have the snack a jacks for carbs (insulin requires it) sugar free jelly for fill up and the very high syned no added sugar choc angel delight :eek: a couple of spoonfulls because it makes me think I am eating choc and do not feel the need to actually eat the real thing:D saving cals and binges.

Dinner I loved the change and get the extra veg to put in for bulkiness but I so wanted for a little while to get away from the veg:D

The jelly is rowntrees, the fromage frais is fat free and the 0% greek yog also, we have masses of muller light yogs in the fridge and always WW ones as the boys love them but I never have a whole one, I put a bit over the sugar free jelly to flavour it along with the frozen berries and put the rest back in the fridge for another time.

I SEEM to be very conscious of the calorie intake because I love with passion fromage frais and only every have a few spoonfulls here and there but could easily eat the whole tub but hold back because WW did not let you do that calorie wise and it is not exactly filling just lovely and reminds me of double cream:D

I have between 2-4 snack a jacks a day at 3 syns eat that is hefty, I have the ryvita crackers with sainsburys coleslaw hefty syns again, am making my own as you say and have made for lunch SW minestrone soup, a filler but even that worries me as there are pots and haricot beans and canneloni beans in there that are high in cals but never the less as SW says filling.

I do getting SW just struggling with how many cals having and last night with the rice only have a few tbsp worth because kept looking at it and thinking cals.

I have taken to eat a lot more fruit but that worries me also because I know it is natural sugars but have to be careful with the melons and grapes etc because of the insulin/blood sugar ratio, at the mo it is water/honey dew melon, have to be quick because the boys take it off the side faster than I can slice it, that and oranges, having masses of fruit:D

Eric_Pisch

an interesting article which is pretty much what i had worked out from the various bits of research that i had read, except i think counting calories is also important (teaches portion control) and so is a bit of exercise, especially resistance training.

and as i keep saying, its all about insulin control !!

http://www.drbriffa.com/2011/01/09/a-brief-fat-loss-guide-for-men-or-women/

bettyB_2

Hey victory
hope that my comments helped.
was thinking this might help you too: http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/100149-slimming-world-advice-new-comers-including-extra-easy.html

you seem to be focusing on calories far too much - you have to stop counting and just trust the SW system.
Honestly you can eat bowlfuls of rice and pasta on SW and still lose weight - the idea is that it fills you up and stops you snacking.

Since you have to have snacks to help your insulin levels, perhaps you could replace that snackajack habit with rice? Bachelor's savory rice is nice (and free!) and you could have a few spoonfuls of it cold from a tupperware box when you'd normally have the snackajack.

As for the choc angel delight there are some low syn chocs - for example those mikado sticks are only 0.5 each (you could have 4 for 2 syns!) or options/highlights hot choc are both 2 syns per serving and help me out a lot when i am craving chocolate

fat free yoghurt and fromage frais is free (check the back of the tub tho - make sure it is fat FREE not just 'low fat') so you can have a bowl of that with fruit every day if you like.

Now, as for veg, SW is very focussed on veg and fruit, especially the Extra Easy plan where you have to make sure 1/3 of your plate, or your daily menu, is superfree fruit and veg.

However if you are not keen on veg that much then think about ways you can adapt recipes to add veg in (for instance, chicken curry sauce could contain tinned toms, onion, mushroom and red peppers - all superfree!) That way your plate will be 1/3 rice, 1/3 chicken and a1/3 superfree - but concentrate only on this ratio and not on the overall amounts - SW never tells you to cut down portion sizes but just to ensure that your plate full, however full it may be, is well balanced.

your soup sounds fab - i bet there is superfree veg in there - and seriously dont worry about the beans and potatoes, these may be high in cals if you were counting cals but they are free on SW for a reason -they are full of goodness, low in fat and very filling.

You have to trust the plan for a while in order to see it working.

perhaps you could follow some of the SW menus for a few days just to see how it goes and get yourself used to the plan: http://www.slimmingworld.com/healthy-eating/non-vegetarian-menu.aspx#menu-buttons

Sary - where are you? i need back up!!

Eric_Pisch

and for puds item 3

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/womenshealth/features/dietmyths.htm

bettyB_2

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

and for puds item 3

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/womenshealth/features/dietmyths.htm

Interesting but I dont quite agree with the way they handle this topic:

Myth

Low-fat foods help you lose weight.

Fact

'Low-fat' or 'fat-free' doesn't necessarily mean low calorie or calorie-free, warns Lyndel Costain.
Check the calorie content of foods, especially cakes, biscuits, crisps, ice creams and ready meals.

Low fat food can also include wholegrains, pasta, rice, veg, beans and lentils - perhaps high in calories but very filling and nutritious
I think they should clarify they mean food 'marked as low fat' ie crisps, junk food and not all food that is low in fat!!! (if you see what i mean)

puddings_2

Beware the angel delight! Theres definitely nothing angelic about it when youre trying to lose weight :-)

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

eating fires of the metabolism and puts it in "wake mode" it really is critical to start early with the food even if its only something small probably very true advice about starting early, but i just dont seem to listen! ps. i dont do "something small" lol
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I am like you, I can not sleep if I am hungry so I have massive evening meals, 40% of my daily calories but i eat 3-4 other small meals over the day, i had to retrain myself to do this to start with
I dont have massive meals in the evening, they are equal size throughout the day. Never seem to have trouble sleeping either though full or empty! Its definitely better to have several smaller meals I agree.
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nice graph! I remember you saying you keep track somewhere but cant recall what you said it was on. Is it on an internet site somewhere?

I bet you so would do Davina. It's on a standard dvd so i assume youve got all the necessary equipment to do her

Rablovesroo: nothing looks hideously wrong to me, sometimes the scales appear unfair for the effort put in over the week. Think of it as the scales "owing you" a couple of pounds. There are all sorts of reasons why it happens (water/muscle mass/undigested food etc) If youve done the work then eventually you will see the reward on thescales, it might just take more than a week to show up. So all I can say is be patient. Next week or the week after you might deserve a 1lb loss but get a 3lb loss instead.

Lolly - looking at the menu before you go out tonight is a top idea