Trying for a Baby Part 7

ikkle87

Nikola I'm really sorry if it offends you but what your doing is seriously unhealthy and is damaging your body not making it healthier, you've even said you've been having seizures! Your body needs more than 1000 calories a day, it needs fats, calcium and proteins. By eating so little you can get anaemia, vitamin b deficiency, weak bones and it can affect your menstrual cycle! Assuming your around 5ft5 your bmr is 1535 so by eating less than 1000 calories a day you would only lose 1lb of fat a week anyway. Anything more lost would be water weight and muscle mass. Plus if your doing so much exercise your not giving your body enough nourishment for it to have a healthy effect.

I'm really sorry if it offends but as someone who struggled with her weight all her life then managed to lose 7 stone in less than a year in a way which didn't involve starvation or verging on the edge of an eating disorder I know there are healthier ways of losing weight.

My best advice would be for you to go to your doctor and ask for help to lose weight in a healthier way. Crash dieting is not good and will do you more harm in the long run.

bigzippy

Lily_The_Legend wrote: »

To the ladies who said about losing weight, I need to do that too. BZ you're an inspiration! Do you follow any particular plan? Was thinking about joining a slimming club.

Thanks not on a set regime, still have foods I fancy and "naughty" foods, but far less of them.

Main pointers:
*Drink mainly water (helps flush all the c.rap out your system from processed foods/drinks too)
*Cook/prepare meals from scratch wherever possible (just doing this often cuts out loads of calories and the processed c.rap you don't need in your foods which - I find - just makes you crave more processed c.rap)
*Aim for 400-600 calories meals ( I often weigh my carbs, as that's where a lot of unnecessary calories are: 50g (dry weight) rice, 50-75g pasta, 200g potato)
*Bulk out protein part of the meal with veggies ( extra onion, mushroom, tomatoes etc in with spag bol etc) and have 1-2 ladles only
*As much fresh fruit & veg as possible (I find if I'm getting the right nutrients from the food I'm eating, I/my body won't crave other stuff)
*If/when I have takeaway I'll usually only have what's sold as a kids portion (Happy Meal instead of the normal meal, fish and chips:1 portion split between me and my husband...as examples) You think it's really stingy at first, but you soon get used to it and realise it's actually a decent size (roughly 400cal)

I don't over think it. I have a pretty good understanding of what foods have what calorie content now and I aim for the calorie intake my gp recommended per day. I still have chocolate and stuff, but I aim for 100cal portions now (1mini roll, "treat size" bars/bags of chocolate etc).

I know there's no way I could do those slimming clubs, personally, and I don't see how they translate to real life (post-weight loss), but I know people that find /found them really helpful, and each person needs to find what works for them short&long term

Only other thing I would say is to work out why you think you're overweight in the first place: boredom eating, comfort, insecurity, bereavement, food ignorance...etc. If you don't identify & solve the problem, when you reach your goal weight & stop the "diet", it'll just creep back on. It also helps with the process of losing the weight too.

Didn't mean that to be such a long post, sorry!!

P.s. Time2deal, I was gonna say that I'd look forward to seeing you post on the 12m+ thread, but that's not quite what I mean... :cool::o I think you know what I really mean ;)

(p.p.s I really hope I sleep soon, I have to be up in 4hrs to pack & travel to my folks'!)

TeamLowe

I really rate the low gi diet, which focuses on what pure putting in your mouth rather than the calories, as I'm the sort of person who'll say 'actually, I could have 5 mars bars for the calories I can consume today'

Instead, I focus on making everything I eat a healthy option, do like BigZ says, less carbs, lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and meat, fish, pulses, nuts etc for protein?
I find this easier as I can take it meal by meal, snack by snack and not worry about what it adds up to.

The low gi diet is also the only one with properly carries out scientific tests to show how healthy it is and how well it works, as lots of studies have been done on type 2 diabetics as ts their recommended diet

I have a little book called 'Collins little gem' gi diet or dictionary. If you've got a smartphone, get the kindle app and download it t there. It uses a traffic light system so it's really easy to see at a glance the foods you should be eating lots, only a little, and very rarely.

I was on ww for six months and didn't lose anything, switched to this diet and lost three stone x x

Gemmzie

Phoning the drs later to book my appointment to have implant out so excited to start trying Post honeymoon so it'll be mid July

TeamLowe

Also I think it's important to point out that if your body decides you are too fat or too thin to sustain a healthy pregnancy you will not have one. Where the too fat and too thin points are are obviously different for everyone but the best thing all of us can do for our future pregnancies is have a healthy diet with lots of lovely nutrients and to exercise but not to any extreme degree. There are very few top athletes with regular cycles, so don't train like one x x

TeamLowe

Gemmzie wrote: »

Phoning the drs later to book my appointment to have implant out so excited to start trying Post honeymoon so it'll be mid July

How exciting ttc is a great excuse for a um, traditional honeymoon x x

Gemmzie

ikkle87 - what's BMR?

I'm not dieting and my BMI is probably around the 26 mark but to me it's more about how I feel in clothes and I want to get back into a 12 before I start gaining pregnancy weight or I'll end up being an elephant!

TeamLowe

Base Metabolism Rate, it's how many calories your body needs to maintain your current weight at your current activity level
If you use one of he calculators on line, then you can either subtract a sensible amount, say 200, calories for your dieting consumption or keep the same calorie intake but increase your exercise.
You shouldn't go below 1200-1400 calories a day as then your body can go into starvation mode x

codemonkey

Oh holy cr*p nikolacarter. Please dont take this the wrong way, but are you sure you want to get pregnant right now? You realise that during pregnancy you will need to eat more than the rda of calories (which by the way is 2000 for women) and exercising heavily will be out because any strain on your heart will be bad for the baby. I know this won't get through, my sister suffers from an eating disorder, but I really think you need to get some treatment to get your body healthy enough before you get pregnant. Pregnancy is hard enough on at healthy body. On one that is already under stress from undernourishment, it could be dangerous for you and the baby.

codemonkey

Personally I like the no s diet which has 3 rules only.

No snacks
No sweets
No seconds

except on days beginning with s (includes special days).

Basically, you eat whatever for breakfast, lunch and dinner but use portion control and only one plateful. You do try to make it healthy because you only get 3 meals so you're not going to make one a mars bar but if you're like me and the meals are ok but you mindlessly snack because you're bored, it works really well. It's sustainable because at the weekend all bets are off and you can eat what you want so you don't break it during the week. If you're dying for chocolate you can tell yourself to wait a couple of days. Also on Christmas and family birthdays you can eat cake and go for meals although its recommended only 2 special days a month.

I also try to go to the gym 5 days a week (when i'm not injured) alternating cardio and strength days and do a zumba class on top of that. I walk to and from the train station either side of my train journey and take the stairs at work. This is because my job means I sit at a screen all day.