weight loss

Brighton_belle

Hi Josie! Well done for finding us on this thread. Stick around and post lots for maximum support and benefit. There are people on here who have lost a lot of weight and plenty with the sort of issues you talk about - you are not alone in this.

And welcome cheese cat - no one is ever too late to join us:D

jess444_2

Hi Josie,

Not sure if it was Lipoband, but about 5 years ago I tried some tablets that were meant to absorb the fat and therefore reduce calorie intake. I took them for about a week before I started having severe pains in my stomach, indigestion and felt hungry all the time. Having said that I do know someone who lost about a stone over the course of a year using them, but did adjust her diet as well, so how much is due to the tablets is hard to say.

Fred can you put me down for another 5.5 miles.

j-josie

Looking at what you eat I would surmise that you're not having enough protein. From experience, I have junked practically all the so-called 'breakfast cereals' because even those trumpeted as 'slimming' e.g. Special K are loaded with sugar. They do not keep you going throughout a busy morning, so you're hungry and need to snack by mid-morning. The only thing that will hold you down for longer is porridge made in the traditional way. Nowadays I have an egg in some form for breakfast along with a slice of wholemeal toast. Rice krispies are useless and are full of sugar. Special K bars - again. You don't seem to be having any fruit. You'd be better off with a banana than Special K bar! At least a banana grows on a tree and hasn't come from a factory. All those processed foods are not going to do you a darned bit of good in the long term.

When I've done it before, I find that 2 shredded wheat/weetabix will take me through to lunch, then a sandwich and a piece of fruit for lunch, with some sort of treat bar (under 100 cals) mid afternoon. Home for a normal tea with my family and maybe a weightwatcher biscuit before bed. Need something before bed as otherwise I wake up ravenous at 3! Intend to stick to 1200 cals a day when dieting. (Happy not to have rice krispies - shredded wheat is my norm; I know i need to educate my palate to regard fruit as just as nice a snack as chocolate but that does not come easy. And the Special K/snack bar thing/Aero biscuit bar is just something I prefer to have within my 1200 cals)
So far no ill effects from LipoBind

Wee_Pilsbury

Hi everybody

Can I join in please? I've never been on the "I Wanna" threads before but I really, really want to lose some weight. I've done it before (went from 18.5 stones to 10.5 stones:eek:) but unfortunately I've found some of the weight I had lost .

The scales say I am 83.9Kg today (I'm going all modern and metric now - only because it's easier to record it on my spreadsheet though ) and I'm aiming to get to about 67Kg again, hopefully at a rate of three-quarters of a kilo a week if all goes well.

My downfall is sweet sugary stuff - I seem to be totally addicted to it so I plan to just go cold turkey to break the habit. Fingers crossed that will work :cool:

Eric_Pisch

jess444 wrote: »

Fred can you put me down for another 5.5 miles.

ner ner

FS put me down for 6.6 miles :rotfl:

Eric_Pisch

Wee_Pilsbury wrote: »

Hi everybody

Can I join in please? I've never been on the "I Wanna" threads before but I really, really want to lose some weight. I've done it before (went from 18.5 stones to 10.5 stones:eek:) but unfortunately I've found some of the weight I had lost .

The scales say I am 83.9Kg today (I'm going all modern and metric now - only because it's easier to record it on my spreadsheet though ) and I'm aiming to get to about 67Kg again, hopefully at a rate of three-quarters of a kilo a week if all goes well.

My downfall is sweet sugary stuff - I seem to be totally addicted to it so I plan to just go cold turkey to break the habit. Fingers crossed that will work :cool:

welcome

there's good science for why we crave sugars and what they do to us to !!!!!! up weight loss

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=43631276&postcount=389

Wee_Pilsbury

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

welcome

there's good science for why we crave sugars and what they do to us to !!!!!! up weight loss

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=43631276&postcount=389

:eek: An eye-opener and pretty much what I was beginning to think after various bits of internet reading.

Cheers :beer:

tibbles209

Hi guys!

I would really love to join in with the weight loss! I'm a university student and I always put on weight around exam time - probably comfort eating combined with being stuck in front of my computer studying all day in the run up to exams. My exams are over now though so I want to lose the exam weight and start to feel good about myself again! Unfortunately I won't really be able to join in on the monthly weight loss challenge because I don't have a set of scales at my uni flat :-/ Just thought it might be nice to join in here anyway to help with my motivation and to make me a bit more accountable if I fall off the wagon! I'm not fat, just a bit 'tubby' and I really want to get in shape for summer so I can wear nice summer clothes without feeling self conscious.

Good luck everyone, you all seem to be doing great so far!

polkadot

There's loads of posts for me to catch up on later-but I thought I'd pop in before I cook supper.

Tesco's shop came today,loads of fruit and veg...I repackaged all of the meat in meal portions-prepared according to recipe.So if it wanted cubed I weighed it out and cut it up,and so on.I also did a few pork skewers assembled in a marinade for the freezer.

Cooking my weight watchers meals and serving them according to the recipe (so serves 4 being split into 4),I have a total of 36 meals:Tand if I cook them as per recipe Im cooking on average every other night and having lunches of leftovers in the fridge for DH for work,so even though Im spending more on because of the fresh produce-the meals are stretching further...Im thrilled about it:D

Another interesting thing I discovered-a pack of pork chops weighing 690g at a cost of £4,only contains 400g of meat,the rest is fat and bone:(

beanielou

Hey wee pilsbury :wave:
Great to see you ever here.
Just keep posting.

tibbles~good to see you too.