Any SINGLES on a budget that will try to diet on the cheapfrom January 2012?

rileydog

I looked at diet chef but it worked out very expensive for what it is, it would be much cheaper to buy 'healthy range' ready meals and if you're going to do that you may as well cook healthy stuff yourself!

gettingready

Rileydog - thanks, I have done all that with the shakes on Lighterlife, Cambridge and Lipotrim , they are all same type of shakes> I absolutely hated the banana, strawberry/raspberry and vanila 9with or without coffee).. I used to split my chocolate ones in half too and I had them hot (liked my shakes hot). All the bers I found terrible, every single one of them. Soups - they did not feel me up at all, just the cholate milkshakes... and I was drinking up to 4 litres of water per day - which meant I had to be around a loo (or bushes if out with the dog LOL) most of the time...

And you are absolutely right - loosing weight is not a problem, keeping it off I find impossible.

gettingready

Yup - DietChef is expensive and I dont think I would like those meals.

I like cooking and do not mind cooking, but counting calories in home made stuff I find tottaly mind boggling....

gallygirl

Gettingready I'm going to stick my nose in here (it's big so quite easy to do ).

If your diet is as bad as you say then Lighter Life etc is the worst thing you can do - yes, you will lose weight but as you have seen you will put it all on again. You know your diet is unhealthy but it doesn't really sound as if you want to start eating normally & at regular meal times,but looking for a quick fix? You won't solve the issue unless you form a new, healthy, relationship with food.

I can STRONGLY recommend Slimming World. I was not a 'group' person either but I have found the support invaluable. It helped me lose over 3 stone and keep it off. You don't have to count calories and their Red plan would be good for you - plenty meat . And you can still have a small amount of chocolate :T.

Yes, it costs to join, and is £4.95 a week, but really that is peanuts compared to what you are probably spending on chocolate at the moment!

Please have a look at their website but you need to seriously consider the wider picture if you want to succeed.

Will butt out now . Good luck

gg

gettingready

(checking the bruises from the bashing from gallygirl)

LOL

You are absolutely right, I know very well that VLCD are the worst I can do to myself as I have done them before so....

My memomery of trying to do SW few years back is getting a box of their chocolate/orange bars to have one per day as a snack and... having them ALL at once on the bus back home (5 stops)

As you see, I have tried (and failed) most diets/diet plans on this planet and I know it is self discipline I need rather than a quick fix....

Going to group meetings though... nahhhhhhh not for me...

I do have a SW group fairly near me but... but... but.... will see.

gallygirl

gettingready wrote: »

(checking the bruises from the bashing from gallygirl)

:grouphug:Sorry, have a dodgy hug (and as you like meat have one of these as well :spam: :rotfl:)


Please please please do try the group. If you really want to do this the support is invaluable :T.

gettingready

Ah, just looked at their online membership.....prices... opssssssssssssssssssssssssssss - need to pay up front for 3 months.... nah...

Where can I get SW books? Not receipe books but those "red" and "Green" books with free fodds ect listed that one can normally buy at firt meeting?

Looked on Amazon but they only have proper cookbooks re SW....

gettingready

Nah no groups - I am a weirdo with a GS dog and 4 cats, not a people's person plus wouls always find an excuse not to go to a meeting

May try SW but on my own, just need a book... Hmmmmm

gettingready

Trotting off to my bookshelf.. perhaps I still have the SW books from ages ago?

Hmmmm let me see.

if I do... that is it, no excuse

laurel7172

Sign me up.

I lost mumblety mumble stone on Lighter Life, and it has all gone back on. Actually, it has a lot to do with being single. I had such a nightmare time when I was married that every time a man looks at me I head straight for the biscuits. Fat is safe, you see. But it's not healthy, and it's stopping me doing things I want to do.

2012 will be our year