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Frodobaggins

Amazingly I have STS this week. Don't know how this is possible and will have to be extra good this week so it doesn't catch up with me next week!
I can only think I got away with it because what I now consider as being bad, is nowhere near as BAD as what it was 6 months ago lol.:D

margaretclare

66.4 kg today. That's - 0.5 kg down on a week ago.

margaretclare

Mics_chick wrote: »

I have a BMI of 49 and need help - a lot of help...
Planning on starting a diet with my OH in the new year but he's nowhere near as overweight as me.
Is anyone in the same boat (or been in the same boat) ?
I have zilcho willpower
I want a diet where I don't feel hungry, hopefully don't crave sweet things but don't feel I'm thinking about food ALL the time - does such a thing exist???

With a BMI as high as that, have you asked your GP for help/suggestions? You could, at the very least, be referred to an NHS dietitian who might be able to lay down the kind of plan that fulfils what you want: "I want a diet where I don't feel hungry, hopefully don't crave sweet things but don't feel I'm thinking about food ALL the time".

What has helped a lot of people is to sit down and write it all out: why you eat the things you do, that you think you shouldn't, why you want/need to lose weight, how your life will change when you've lost weight, what steps you need to take, when to start etc.

Why are you thinking of doing this 'in the New Year'? Why not now? Today is the start of the rest of your life - how will the New Year alter anything?

HTH

mandz1

My sons have been messing about with my wii and have deleted my weigh ins. Today i am 15st 4lbs. Lets see if i can get this down further in 2012

jess444_2

I want a diet where I don't feel hungry, hopefully don't crave sweet things but don't feel I'm thinking about food ALL the time - does such a thing exist???

Welcome Mics-chick - You have come to the right place for support. Keep posting and join in with the challenges, it does make a difference. Unfortunately I don't think there is a 'magic' diet, but I do know that when I cut my carbs - bread, cereal, cake - my cravings go. I still get very hungry sometimes but it is more manageable.

Anyway ..... after just 4 days of overindulgence I have managed to put on 6lb in weight :eek::eek::eek: How is that possible!!! Back to eating normally now, no more booze untill New Years Eve and hoping to get to Bootcamp tonight to work some of it off. Hoping it will come back off as quickly as it went on.

Well done to all of you who have STS or lost this week :T

Mics_chick

margaretclare wrote: »

With a BMI as high as that, have you asked your GP for help/suggestions? You could, at the very least, be referred to an NHS dietitian who might be able to lay down the kind of plan that fulfils what you want: "I want a diet where I don't feel hungry, hopefully don't crave sweet things but don't feel I'm thinking about food ALL the time".

What has helped a lot of people is to sit down and write it all out: why you eat the things you do, that you think you shouldn't, why you want/need to lose weight, how your life will change when you've lost weight, what steps you need to take, when to start etc.

Why are you thinking of doing this 'in the New Year'? Why not now? Today is the start of the rest of your life - how will the New Year alter anything?

HTH

Thx MargaretClare this is the sort of help I need I think - what alot of other folks have done that has helped them

As for New Year I'm not saying my diet starts on the last stroke of midnight on 31st/1st - it wouldn't bother me if it started a couple of days before or after - I think I just want to do a bit of research before I start to give myself the best possible chance

A few diets I've read in the past have said that if you can get thru the first fortnight then it becomes second nature - has anyone found that this is true or is it another myth?

margaretclare

Mics_chick wrote: »

Thx MargaretClare this is the sort of help I need I think - what alot of other folks have done that has helped them

As for New Year I'm not saying my diet starts on the last stroke of midnight on 31st/1st - it wouldn't bother me if it started a couple of days before or after - I think I just want to do a bit of research before I start to give myself the best possible chance

A few diets I've read in the past have said that if you can get thru the first fortnight then it becomes second nature - has anyone found that this is true or is it another myth?

There is such a thing as a 'sugar addiction' or addiction to sweet things. You might find that, as jess444 suggested, cutting back severely on the carbs may help. Cutting back/cutting out anything containing refined flour, white sugar etc may also help. What some people also do is to go through their cupboards and throw out everything and anything that may be bad for them. Cakes, biscuits, crisps, sweets of all kinds, sweet drinks, ice-cream - get rid. Eat natural foods cooked at home. No takeaways, no ready-meals. Mostly these have a long list of ingredients, additives etc and the fewer of these there are the better. If you can't pronounce it and don't know what it does, then don't put it into your body!

I've been doing the Dukan Diet since the end of July and in that time I've lost a stone, my BMI is now only just in the 'obese' category and I now wear size 14. This starts with protein only and then protein-with-veg. I'm on the third stage now, where I'm allowed 2 slices of wholemeal bread and one piece of fruit daily. I haven't eaten a potato since end of July. Nothing wrong with potatoes as such - it's what is done with them that matters: once you've peeled them you've thrown away the most nutritious part, and then what do you do? Cut them into strips and fry them? Not good.

DH and I have just been to Waitrose and bought a cooked organic chicken, we had broccoli with it and we shared an orange. There's enough cold chicken left for another meal, and I've made sugar-free raspberry jelly with fresh raspberries - we'll have that at tea-time with half-fat creme fraiche (we had that on Christmas Day instead of Christmas pudding!) We had a fried egg on wholemeal bread for breakfast. Our local baker bakes fresh every night and there are NO additives in his bread! If you get there early you get some, otherwise he sells out. Mushrooms on wholemeal bread are very nice.

Just a few ideas for you.

sarymclary

Matryoshka wrote: »

Hello everyone,

Just popping in to say a quick hello and ask how the festivities went I haven't been on this thread for ages (?3 months or maybe more?) :eek:

I was lurking for a bit and was reading the posts daily as had nothing to contribute. There were posts with, "Where's Eric? Where's Victory?" etc etc but not one person asked "Where's Matryoshka"? :rotfl::rotfl:It made me realise I was only surplus to requirements and perhaps not contributing to the thread so I stopped lurking altogether.

I'm still doing turbofire (almost finished 20 weeks). Not that anyone is interested

Anyway, wishing you all da best in the New Year. Back off to the competition forum :T

I haven't been on here for many months either. I sometimes read the thread email I get automatically, having subscribed to the thread, but sometimes I'm too busy to even do that.

As a lurker I don't expect people to especially think about me, but you should all know that I do think about you, and admire the continued efforts being put in by you all - especially Fred who is still doing the weekly chart :T. I wish I could say I've been doing the same diet-wise, despite not posting, but I'd be lying. I'm back up to where I wish I wasn't weight wise, and as most people will be doing, I'm making a fresh start from the new year to tackle it once again.

I hope you all had a great Christmas :xmassmile, and wish you all a happy, healthy, and slender new year _party_

S xxx

cazmcf

jess I'm in the same boat a massive 4lbs on, but hopefully it will come off quick again. Santa brought a wii to our house and although we dont have a fit board it has still been good fun and tiring getting up and doing the sports and dancing.

I think I managed about 4 miles this week, not much but it's hard to get out when the kids are off school.

fredsnail

Ok time to put your thinking caps on for next months challenges.

I'm going to go with a climbing one for the exercise (you can change it to a distance one if you're unable to climb).

But we need something for the team challenge - unless anyone fancies a rematch if so please let me know which you'd like :j

There will be a chart tonight - I will try to do it later rather than earlier as there are normally some late results (which is not a problem as I'm a nightowl by nature :o)