Losing weight V saving money!!

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Hi how does everyone else feel abut this? I find it hard sometimes struggling between picking cheap food eg sandwiches or making weight watcher points go further by chosing high protein meals ? eg i could esily take a cheese sandwich to work 12 points or have a ham salad which costs more.
Also sometimes we have food iput on in work so i can either have saus rolls eg free or go to canteen and spend?
Hope this makes sense anyone out there find the same?x

MrsTUS

BEAT_THE_DEBT wrote: »

Hi how does everyone else feel abut this? I find it hard sometimes struggling between picking cheap food eg sandwiches or making weight watcher points go further by chosing high protein meals ? eg i could esily take a cheese sandwich to work 12 points or have a ham salad which costs more.
Also sometimes we have food iput on in work so i can either have saus rolls eg free or go to canteen and spend?
Hope this makes sense anyone out there find the same?x

Rather than worrying about a cheese sandwich or a ham sandwich, just eat sensibly and do plenty of exercise which is FREE :j :j :j :j. Only grossly overweight people lose lots of weight with dieting alone.

If it were me, I'd rather eat a balanced diet - you can easily balance out carbs/proteins/plenty of fruit and veg a day on a budget, you don't need to resort to expensive planned commercial diets... Seriously, plenty of exercise is the way forward, in fact most people who do a daily exercise routine actually need to up their calory in take becuase they need to fuel their body...

Seems a shame to just be worried about losing the body fat, but then not do anything to improve muscles, particularly the heart.

Jariya

I personally found it very difficult to just 'eat a balanced diet and do more exercise when I had my 'diet lightbulb' moment.

I put on weight when I was about 11 and for the next 20 plus years I was on diets or trying to stick with the balanced diet whilst going to the gym 3 times a week or aerobics classes religiously. None of this ever worked as a long term solution for me.

I did Weight Watchers for many years. Spent a fortune, mever reached my goal weight.
I was 3lbs off my goal weight at one point and was bony, stick thin and had no boobs left.

I always lost and gained. Always.

I had given up and stopped with WW - at this point I was not only totally obsessed with points and what I was 'allowed' that day but also the day after that and the day after that.

I'd bought a set of four Paul McKenna cds two years previously and tried to listen whilst falling asleep - it didn't work so I shoved them in a cupboard. I also only liked one of the cds - so this was another waste of cash!

When I finally did give up and decide not to diet any more and not try and not spend all the money at the gym and classes I pulled the one cd out and listened to it on a walkman one quiet Saturday afternoon.

There's a hypnosis bit at the end of the cd but what is said in it is common sense - no idea if it was the hypnosis which worked for me or not to be honest.

The principle is switch immediately to normal food and quit all the 'diet' substitutes.
I was terrified of this but did it and threw loads of diet food out.
Next, learn to leave one baked bean, one titchy piece of something on your plate - just to get used to it.
Learn the feeling you get right under the front of your ribs which tells you when you are full up. Take two more mouthfuls and stop eating.
Learn when you are actually hungry too and only eat when hungry.

Two weeks after listening I weighed myself and I had lost half a stone of the three stone I wanted to lose.
I listened to the cd again.

I also decided to be 'easy' on myself and I quit the gym.
Six months later I had lost all the weight I wanted to.

I have never since put on more than about 4 or 5lbs.

Once I'd lost the weight I started power walking (using the backs of my thighs to push me forward instead of throwing a leg forward to walk). Three weeks of that 3 times a week for 20 mins as soon as I got up toned me up in the places I badly needed it. Hips, legs and tummy.
I always now work on posture and use my core (tummy muscles) for that but it takes a bit of concentratin gon.
I still power walk and less than I should (!) I do yoga - but not intensively.

I lost my weight about 9 years ago.

I now eat what I want when I want to.

This is the cd set I had and the cd which worked for me was called 'Secrets of Naturally Thin People'.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PAUL-McKENNA-WEIGHT-LOSS-SYSTEM-4-CDS-LOSE-WEIGHT-/220838344855?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Dieting_Slimming_ET&hash=item336afdb897#ht_2240wt_932

rdchick

Join our group - Nifty Thrifty Weightloss.... we're in the diaries section

MrsTUS

I disagree - it's not hard to look up correct portions of stuff - ratio of carbs : proteins : veg - and it's not rocket science to eat less fatty dairy/junk food/sweet stuff, swap milk chocolate for dark chocolate or a low fat drinking chocolate made only with water and to drink more water and cut down caffiene intake - it's all fairly standard, well publicised stuff.. Don't snack on crisps and biscuits in front of the TV, instead eat some vegetable batons with a low fat dip, or make a fruit salad etc

As for exercise, I wasn't suggesting a full, aerobic work-out for 30 minutes, 7 days a week - but just a walk after an evening meal 3 or 4 times a week, build it up to a brisk walk, swimming once a week, a morning walk/brisk stroll, walk to convenient places rather than use the car - make use of ones stairs and walk up then down in a repetition of ten times etc, just generally try and be more active.

Cat2011

I would have thought losing weight and saving money went hand in hand. To save money, buy less food! That way you also lose weight

Jariya

I'm not quite sure who you are disagreeing with MrsTUS?

My post was simply a 'what worked for me' post.
Simple as that really except that I know that when I was in the 'mode' of dieting I found it a very tough one mentally to break free of.

I love my food - it became an addiction for me - twice over - the food - and the dieting became an addiction - plus the exercise as well.

I'm all for the support threads on here too - if they work for people which they clearly do for some and it's fantastic!

It's all about what works for one singular person. My mind frame at the time was not in the correct place to think about it all sensibly in the way that you do.I had already deprived myself of real food by having diet food to the extent that real food would just make me overload on it - I know that - that was what I needed to lose more than anything was the habit. I did.

I still needed some kind of a boundary though..and the cd worked for me.

I'm 42, 5ft weigh 8st (with all my curves in place and no bones sticking out nor a tum that I can't happily be proud of as it keeps me warm - I now love my tum and used to hate it) and a size 8-10 and happy in my skin now. I have been for the past almost 9 years.

It's not easy losing weight - you eat, you feel guilty, you have 'good' days and 'bad' days - these were all the things that drove me to give up trying. Dragging my cd out was one last ditch attempt.

Things work for different folk - I needed some guidance - it's ok to ask for help and not do it all on your own. :0)

rainbow81

BEAT THE DEBT you are right, protein rich foods often do cost more than carbs but they are more filling. It is easier to overeat on pasta than chicken, for example. There are lots of tips on this site, both in DFW wannabe and also on the Health and Beauty board regarding losing weight whilst not spending a fortune. Also, in the Old Style section there's tips on making your grocery budget go further. So, for example, instead of having a ham sandwich you could roast a chicken and use the meat from that in an exhausting amount of ways for the same price.

It's none of my business, and some people swear by WW, but if you saved the fee for that you'd have more money for healthier foods. It is basically charging you to count calories and publicly weigh you, both of which you can do yourself. There is a free site: www.sparkpeople.com - it can do the work of WW for you for no cost and there's lots of resources on there.

Last of all, a tin of tuna is full of protein, no fat and is cheap if you get it on a deal. It may sort your sandwich dilemma in the short term

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Thanks for all your replies i have taken comments on board from all of them so thankyou. You would think losing weight would go with being skinty wouldnt you?
I am not a big excersise person but i will try to do more. I dont pay a fee anymore to ww just follow what i learned and i still have books etc.
I will look up nifty thread x
Thanks ALL X