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Ted_Hutchinson

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chickadee

You rneighbour is right really. You have to make sure that your calories burned are greater than your calorie intake. That way you will lose weight.

I think the best thing to do is to make sure you eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. If you fill up on the healthy stuff you will be less likely to eat too much of the fatty/sugary stuff. Remember, fat contains loads of calories so that is why it makes you put weight on.

Why not try a bit of both, eating better and doing a little more exercise. If you find something that you like doing, whatever it is, salsa dancing, swimming, roller skating, if it raises your heart rate it will do you good. You don't need to do long sessions. 20-30 mins is good to start with and is achievable.

Have a look in your library. I borrowed a brilliant weightwatchers cook book a while ago. I don't really need to lose weight but some of the recipes just looked really tasty.

Good luck!

squeaky

There's a long running diet support thread somewhere too - but I can't find it. Does anyone know where it is please?

NixNoo

If you want to join a club I can recommend Slimming World, I used to swear by Rosemary Conley but SL beats it hands down https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk - not expensive to do

billieboy_2

I'd agree with the Weightwatchers comments. I lost about one and a half stone in about ten weeks through counting points and exercising more. I felt really healthy, less tired, etc. I still use their cookbooks. Their eating idea is really healthy. Loads of fruit and veg and cutting down on proteins and carboyhydrates, lots of fish, chicken, etc. Their points system was brilliant (I think they've changed it now?). It really is a healthy way of eating (if you can keep it up!). Classes are about £4.50 a week I think but the camaraderie (spelling?) is great. Good luck.

BoltonMinx

squeaky wrote:

There's a long running diet support thread somewhere too - but I can't find it. Does anyone know where it is please?

squeaky, do you mean this one ?

honey

squeaky wrote:

There's a long running diet support thread somewhere too - but I can't find it. Does anyone know where it is please?

Think this is it.

Doh! you beat me BoltonMinx !

Loadsabob

I am advising my Mum to simply do small things several times in order to lose a bit of weight. I'm going to do this too, as there's no hope I'll stop eating lovely things. I don't so much need to lose weight as get fit, because I'm a bit of a wreck at the moment!

ie: if going upstairs to get something, or nip to the loo, do the stairs bit twice. Then, effectively, you're doubling the amount of steps you take. OR, if you get buses, get off a stop early and walk the last bit. If you get yourself a cheap pedometer, the incentive will be seeing how many steps you do in a day, and trying to beat that each day / week. This way, for someone who doesn't like walking, it doesn't really feel as though you're going on a walk, but you ARE exercising a bit more.

I'm going to do this, and it's making me less lazy in the office. Instead of staying at my desk until I have lots of things that need taking somewhere / moving, I'm doing them all one by one, and walking more.

I have a little "trampette" (mini trampoline thing) that has spent more time propped up than in use, but I think that's a good thing to do while watching TV. Half an hour bouncing up and down with baked bean cans in hand, arms flapping, should do me some good...course, I've been planning that for about two years now... I am RUBBISH! Also, bunny-hopping between rooms (if you're on your own, or have children to entertain), must burn more calories than walking!

Of course, very OS exercise would be hand-washing, ironing, walking back from the shops with huge bags of flour...there will be many more, I'm sure!

moggins

It depends on your metabolism really though doesn't it? I've been very lucky with my weight and have been a constant size 14 for the past 20 years. The funny thing is that all of my family are big, and in some circumstances absolutely huge!! Yet I'm the one who can down family sized bars of chocolate, and burn it off with one session of rapid hoovering.

At the moment I am pretty active with the kids and am having a hard job keeping my jeans up I refuse to go and buy new clothes though, I may have to invest in a belt.

se999

Bonnie - Is the Rosemary Conley diet working? Are you losing weight? If you are happy with the weight loss etc and the clubs and people there, it may be worth the cost and the 'junk' food temporarily. Finding a diet that works to lose weight is difficult, I tried tons before losing the weight, and currently (hopefully) keeping it off.

Long-term, do you know how you put it on? I was a classic stress nibbler on biscuits, plus being brought up in a family where you never left an empty plate. Learning to leave food on a plate, because it was better in the bin instead of on my waist took a while!!

Now I basically stick to the governments 5 day, fruit & veg idea, have a steamer & a griddle pan and trying to watch portion sizes. I eat more fish & vegetarian, less cheap meat, and try not to eat too much processed food with hidden sugar/fat/calories. Kept the weight off for 18 months now, but have to watch the scales regularly, relapses are easy.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm on a constant diet, it's not like that at all. It's more a case of balancing the 'naughties' out with the 'nicer', and also appreciating that a nice tuna steak is just as nice as a cream bun in it's own way!!