Wedding Diet Thread....

daisiegg

Usually when I diet I lose 2 - 3 lbs a week quite easily for the first few weeks without much harship and then it slows to 1lb a week but this time I've had to work really hard just to lose 1lb a week. I'm guessing it's the medication I'm on that causes weight gain...but it's frustrating, I have lost 4lbs in just under a month and when I've lost weight in the past it would have been more like 10lbs in the first month

daisiegg

LisaJane, at least you had a good day before the MacDonalds, and you did netball so it's not all bad! Just draw a line under it and be good for the rest of the week and it probably won't make any difference

johannalf88

I didn't have the soup yesterday... Didn't feel like it so had pasta and garlic bread instead! Oh dear....

Gym again today, and SOUP this time!!

daisiegg

Just did a BMI calculator and my BMI is 32 Which I know is awful. But to get it into a healthy range I would need to weigh 8 stone (I'm short)...I don't think I've weighed 8 stone since I hit puberty, and I was a Size 8-10 through my teenage years so it's not exactly like I was overweight! Booo it seems so huge

johannalf88

Last Friday my BMI was (according to the wii) 22.29. That is within the healthy range (ideal is 22) but I still don't feel healthy! It can't really tell the difference between fat and muscle either, do I could drop a dress size and still have the same BMI theoretically. What I'm saying us don't put too much thought in to it!
When I was 16 I had a BMI of 18, which is apparently really underweight. However, I ate loads, did loads of accidental excercise, I just ha a high metabolism back then! N i never felt or looked ill. Agh those were the days....

daisiegg

Despite being short I'm naturally curvy (E cup even when I was a size 8) and quite wide...I think if I weighed 8 st I'd look ill. My sister is exactly the same height as me but a completely different frame (no boobs, narrow shoulders) and she currently looks skinny but healthy and weighs about 7 st. I think I'd like to see what I look like at 9st and try not to worry too much about BMI.

Em88

I don't think any kind of calculator for healthy weight, being it BMI or otherwise, are ideal as they don't take into consideration different body types.

Jo I don't know how you have soup so much, aren't you bored? Dinner is my favourite meal of the day, so many options and eating with OH

Breakfast was porridge, lunch is carrot, cucumber and pepper sticks, with a banana, fruit bar and some hoola hoops

johannalf88

Yeah, BMI is useful if actually calculated by a professional, because they take into account muscle etc. but other wise... Well I know in the grand scale of thing I am a healthy weight and technically healthy, dont need the BMI to tell me that! But it doesn't mean I feel healthy compared to how I used to feel! Just do it until you feel you are at your best.

OH said I was looking a lot skinnier last night- WITHOUT prompting!!! Wahoop! :j That's why I gave in and let us have pasta! :rotfl:

johannalf88

I do get a bit bored, BUT it means u don't have to cook, and it's quick and easy when I come back from the gym... And healthier than the chip shop at the end of the road! :rotfl:

We only have soup about 3-4 days out of the 7. So it's not too bad, and it does seem to work at dropping the pounds!

daisiegg

My OH is so sweet - he keeps telling me I look like I've lost weight - I know it's not true as 4 lbs wouldn't show and I can't see or feel any difference, but it's nice of him!