Lose Weight 32

bettyB_2

victory - did you contact the friend? if not, then why is she saying that to you?
Seems like a silly reason not to go. at the end of the day it is a family issue, nothing to do with your mum's friend anyway. she has no right to take sides.

well done alliwant! hope to join u both for a hot choc soon!

puddings_2

Sorry no weigh in for me this week... A few days ago I broke another set of digital scales - its the third time that's happened!

I've done another 74 flights of stairs though, which should take my everest total up to 8678' please.

Brighton_belle

I so sorry to read this latest bizarre twist Victory - I was so pleased previously to hear about the partners DD being a bereavement counsellor and had hopes that that might bear fruit.
I can't see why the 'friend' has any bearing on you going to spain or not, she's nobody, but appreciate you know the whole story. The friend also seems to have forgotten your trip out there to look after your mum when the partner was sick.

sts for me fred if I am not too late (and it doesn't matter if I am)

Very good news mazza:T:T

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congratulations to our SoTW Safesound.

Well done to all our other losers and STSers, commisserations to the gainers - time to dust yourself off and get back in the saddle.

Congratulations to team Other Plans who have won this weeks team challenge.



Here's the latest Everest chart:



Well done to Alliwant who has made it to the top :j

This weeks quote is from Brian Vaszily
"The biggest weight loss secret? Manage your emotions or they will keep mismanaging you."

victory

SOTW SAFESOUND:j:j:j:j

Eric_Pisch

Matryoshka wrote: »

How is this for motivation?

Received junk mail today which I always open and one was from Janet Thomson (Power To change)

banks can clear post dated cheques, i have done it several times

you would have to be a class one spanner to do something like that to motivate yourself

you need to address underlying issues before you can address weight loss and then make permanent lifestyle changes not try fad diets, gimmicks, magic bullet tablets or dangerous VLCD diets, or even worse gastric surgery ...

Eric_Pisch

Dinah93 wrote: »

I can't really think of what else would keep me full till lunch but be less carby.

protein triggers the brain to release the full hormone

Eric_Pisch

bettyB wrote: »

and no one is perfect and you can't deny yourself anything for life, that's why that Saturday/Sunday/Special day exception is there - I see my friend on a Saturday and she will have some cake with lunch, but a part of me says 'she can eat cake with lunch and not get fat why can't I?', but I bet she doesn't do that every day! Treats are just that - treats - rare, occasional, deserved treats that are not 'evil' - they are not the reason I am fat it's the frequency with which I shove them in my gob that is the reason!!

This is the one thing that baffles me about 99.9% of people wishing to loose weight, in that they want to drop the lbs but they dont want to give up there dietary lifestyle even thou they full well know it was all the stuff they dont want to give up that made them overweight in the first place and it will continue to do so whilst on a diet and once they are done, it baffles me.

My logic goes like this

1) you either want to loose weight or you do not, what ever way you go about it you have to make changes / compromises so why sabotage all the good effort by keep eating all the carp that made you over weight in the first place

2) you are a grown up, you control what you put in your mouth, you have no biological need to eat carp. to me the "i wont give up what i like" attitude is just self defeating, its seams to be the same logic as a kid lobbing a teddy out of a pram

3) after a couple of months eating whole foods your body and taste buds adjust, you literally do not want the carp any more, food tastes sweater and has more flavour and for me eating processed foods now makes me feel ill, i can taste chemicals for hours after i have eaten some processed foods, others give me a chronic migraine or worse was a microwave curry that gave me the cold sweats for 2 days ...

4) control the controllable's - live and die by this. If you have underlying issues (demons) that need to addressed or at least come to terms with then do that before ever trying to loose weight, you will just lose. Then change your lifestyle for ever don't buy into the gimmicks and fads. Control the things in your life that you have the power to change, like what you eat and the things that upset you or push you down the wrong path, everything else should be "water of a ducks back" where possible

5) once you have lost weight and are happy then you can go into maintenance mode and then you can have the odd treat if you wish, but we need to be aware that when it comes to food we are the equivalent of heroine addicts so we need to be in control for the rest of our lives, its far to easy to let the fatty inside back out ...

I have dropped 207lbs so far, have I done this with super human will power, hell no, my will power is as weak as everyone else's, the 15 years of yoyo dieting and weighing 34 stone show this ... I have done it by making a permanent lifestyle change, moving over to a diet that is closer to how we ate for 2.5 million years, one that keeps me full most of the time and is very healthy and requires very little will power.

Frogletina

I ate more calories than I should have yesterday - had 3 meals instead of the 2 I have been eating but in no way was I binging, just unwise choices

So how have I put on 2 1/2 lbs? I know I should not weight myself so often, but as soon as I eat the slightest bit more the weight piles back on. In no way have I eaten as much as they say you need to to even put on 1lb of weight and I know the body fluctuates, but by so much!

Well, here is to a better day today - good luck to everyone, it's going to be a longer journey than I thought

margaretclare

teecee46 wrote: »

I am 5' 0" and in all my life was never a candidate for the 7½ or 8st "healthy weight for my height" - I was always around the 9st mark. I have had a recent discussion with my doctor who is of the opinion that, if my BMI is under 30, she would not consider me to be overweight - and she sees me on a regular basis! I am not even considering a target weight that is remotely near what I SHOULD weigh - I am aiming for just around 10st mark which still leaves me in the "overweight" BMI category but so what - I'll be happy and that's what matters to me!

I am not really expecting to get to 7.5 or 8 stone. I've never weighed that, except possibly in the early 1960s with two young children and never stopped running around. Realistically, I would like to get to approx 10 stone or thereabouts.

We have a pretty good group of doctors at our local practice, but I have never been given any weight loss advice by any of them. About 3 years ago now, I needed some gynae surgery and was told by one of the GPs 'you must lose weight'. When I saw the gynae consultant I weighed 80.8 kg and he wouldn't operate until I got down to 70 kg. In fact I never did and he relented and did the surgery 6 months after I originally consulted him.

At no time has any professional said 'how to'. They've all said 'lose weight' but never 'how'. I even went to the weight clinic run by one of the senior practice nurses. She looked at my food diary printed from my membership of https://www.weightlossresources.co.uk and couldn't see anything amiss with it. Except that she talked a lot about 'green days' and 'red days' and 'free foods'. However, all that talk of 'free foods' really contradicted everything I'd believed up to then, because everything contains calories, even fruit and veg - the only thing that doesn't contain any calories at all is water!!

I got a new set of scales back in early November and they measure in 0.1 kg increments instead of 0.2 kg, more accurate. I keep a daily graph and on one page of graph paper I've gone from 7.4 kg on 4th November to 73.0 kg this morning. That's approx 3 pounds lost. However, I did go below that, have been down as far as 71.7 kg a few weeks ago but mostly bobbing about in the 72s. That was at the time I couldn't go to the pool because of shingles and the weather! So is it the exercise which is doing it????