anyone else fed up with their weight.

swampduck

Sometimes not eating enough can trigger the body into thinking you are starving it so even if you watch what you eat - it is counter-productive.
Personally speaking for me I have only ever been on two diets in my life and that was 1) Rosemary Conley and 2) Portion caution with a bit of Paul McKenna thrown in too.
I lost weight with both but portion caution is by far the easiest diet to follow. You can eat whatever you are feeding the family but give yourself smaller portions - and then use a bit of Paul McKennas' theory. For example you make your packed lunch and in it is - a sandwich, packet of crisps, choccy bar, apple, and a cup-a-soup.
So you eat your Cup-a-soup and your sandwich - stop eating and put your butty box away. You may still feel hungry but in reality you are not! How can you be hungry you have just had a soup and sandwich? - it's all about re-educating yourself. Wait half an hour and ask yourself if you are still hungry? Chances are you wont be - your body has sent a message to your brain to say - I'm not hungry now. But if you are hungry you may eat one more item from your butty box eg the apple. If you do it right you will take your butty box home with your choccy bar and packet of crisps. Eventually you wont even bother putting the crisps/choccy bar in your box and the weight will begin to go.
When eating with the family - cook less - give yourself less to eat and apply the same principles. If you are hungry half an hour later have a yoghurt or piece of fruit - no one is saying you cannot have more to eat - you are giving your brain time to send the right messages. Get this right and you are setting an eating pattern for life - you can eat more when you really want and if you are genuinely hungry not just being greedy!! It does not cost you anything to try this other than borrowing Paul's book from the library - But I have to admit I did not do the eyebrow tapping!! Making a fool of myself deliberately is not in my nature!!:rotfl:

Swampy

margaretclare

MaryAnne, I find I need protein to start the day. Usually that means a boiled egg with a slice of wholemeal toast. Protein helps you to feel fuller for longer. It also avoids that 'spike' of high sugar in the blood, which triggers an insulin response, which makes it difficult to burn fat. Look up what Eric Pisch writes in 'I wanna do it....' lose weight.

You have no protein at breakfast and very little at lunchtime (only what is in the yogurt). A cheese sandwich would be better for you (wholemeal bread, of course).

I've just about given up on any of the commercial breakfast cereals. Most of them are high GI (glycaemic index). The only breakfast cereal I eat these days is Dorset Cereals berries and cherries muesli, and I usually eat that as a tea-time snack with yogurt.

ciderwithrosie_2

Lost 12lb in two weeks and 5" collectively from waist, bust, hips, arm & leg. I don't have a problem physically with losing weight, I'm really lucky in that respect - it's my head demons that are a daily battle, I have lost faith in having more counselling after the last experience. I've started up a graph so I can plot my weightloss - I have done a projection that I can be at my goal weight by November

spirit

I too am fed up with it. The meno really has made a difference since I don't eat differently than before.

I don't eat cakes, crisps, chocolate etc or drink alcohol.

It's depressing when you go to a store and try clothes on - they just don't make mirrors like they used to :eek:

so now am resorting to liposuction. Have booked it for mid June :T

maman

MaryAnne wrote: »

Hi,
hope you don't mind me joining in...

Basically I don't have a huge weight problem, I'm larger than I would like to be, but I manage to keep my weight pretty stable through the year but always try to loose a bit for the summer (which goes back on in the winter!!).

I'm 5'10 and currently weigh 13 stone and wear a dress size 16.
DH insists I don't look big, but undressed I feel that I ought to weigh less. I'm lucky in that I have fantastic will power - once I start to cut down it's easy for me to stick to it despite having a hubby and 3 kids who all eat the stuff i'm currently avoiding (so I know I'm very lucky on that score).

Mid February my weight was 13stone 10oz when I decided to start loosing a bit for the summer (i hate my flabby arms and am a bit too heavy around my bum). For the past 3 weeks I have been 13stone and not budged an ounce.
I can only assume I'm not eating enough to be loosing weight and have gone into the dreaded starvation mode .

Basically I currently eat:
B'fast - cornflakes with ss milk
Lunch - 2 x low fat yoghurts and 2 pieces of fruit
Tea - whatever every one else at home is eating (all home cooked good stuff - I don't feed the kids carp!!).
No snacking, no alcohol during the week, just a couple of glasses of wine on sat'day and sunday night....

So, what do you think?? Do you think I need to up my intake? I have to say that it seems rediculoius to be on a diet and not to be eating enough, and the thought of eating more fills me with dread as I've been sooooooooooo good so far......

I just had to reply because your description could have been me! I'm 5 ft 9 and weighed 13 stone 9lbs last September. I didn't look fat and flabby but was a bit too statuesque for my liking and, until a few years ago, was used to being slim. I started Slimming World and have since lost almost 2 and a half stone and I'm loving it. You may not want to join a club but the way you describe what you eat could so easily be tweaked to fit the SW eating plan. There's a good thread over on the Fashion, Beauty and Health board. Post 1 describes the basics of the plan and then people ask/answer questions and post their menus. The thread will help but the cheapest way is to go to a single meeting and get the books and the introductory talk (about £10) then do your own thing. Try it!