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

gettingready

AND I want this to be something that I can actually maintain - all those "fat camps" etc etc are short term too.

Can anyone imagine someone doing THAT amount of really hard exercise every single day for the rest of their lives?

Sharon87

Yeah the Biggest Loser style fat camps aren't suppose to be permanent - this is what you do every day. They lose the weight and get fit and learn new lifestyles. Works for some, not everyone though.

I just think Cambridge and Lipotrim are actually too expensive as well as not being a permanent solution. £40 a week?! Expensive. I spend a lot less than that on food and I don't need to cook every single day either, living by myself I cook 2/3 meals at once and save the rest for other days. This is an MSE forum after all! Fruit and veg can be cheap, obviously not the berries and out of season fruit. But for example you can get an onion (18p), 2 carrots (20p), 5 mushrooms (30p), 1 potato (30p) from a multipack comes in less than a pound. Shove them in a casserole with gravy and your choice of cheap cut of beef or left over turkey/chicken and you have a meal for 2 days, and is healthy and comfort food!

I might put up recipes up here I try that I enjoy that are healthy throughout my weight loss. I love decent food, but hate paying loads of money for it, so have found ways they can be cheaper.

gettingready

Sharon87 wrote: »

for example you can get an onion (18p), 2 carrots (20p), 5 mushrooms (30p), 1 potato (30p) from a multipack comes in less than a pound. Shove them in a casserole with gravy and your choice of cheap cut of beef or left over turkey/chicken and you have a meal for 2 days, and is healthy and comfort food!

... but one will not drop weight eating this way.. that is the problem

Miss_Information

Hi there, I am in the same boat. I joined SW last year and it did really work for me. I lost 3 stone and felt fabulous. Over the last 12 months though I have put 2 stone of it back on as I stopped following the rules and now I look at myself and feel awful. I stopped going to meetings as I couldn't afford to pay almost £5 to stand on scales and find out how much I'd put on! I never stayed for meetings, not enough time, but I did find the diet really easy to follow, so I'm going to start again in January. My Mum has bought me some new scales so I can weigh myself at home.

I think I really can make this work on a budget - you can eat so much pasta and rice, which is so cheap and filling. I make bulk portions of bolognaise sauce etc and freeze the rest, then I have loads of meals ready for the week when I'm too busy to cook from scratch. I'm determined to do it again, as I also feel I blame my weight for such a lot in my life (being single being one of the things!)

Ideally I'd like to lose about 3 stone, but even if I just lose the 2 stone again, that would be brilliant.

gettingready

Just spoke to the pharmacy I used to get the Lipotrim from, it is now £38 for 21 sachets (1 week supply, 3 per day) BUT they do not have chocolate flavour till.... 3rd Jan

Yesterday, emailed 3 CD people listed as local to me but none of them replied so far...

Hmmmmm

gettingready

OK- called one of them, can see me tomorrow.... hmmmmmmm

OK, called another one, she is closer to me....

Cambridge works out at £40.95 per week (sachets only) with ready shakes being 20p extra each so a mixture around £43.00

She is going to send me a form which I need to get sign by my doctor (got an apppointment on the 3rd with my GP anyway) and I can see her on the 7th Jan....

Hmmmm

ali-t

Getting ready, be prepared that your GP won't sign the form as this isn't NHS work. I got stung for this before when doing lighter life and cambridge. Both times the GP took the form but said it was private work rather than NHS and it cost me (£25 I think).

gettingready

Opsssssssss... seriously?

My previous GP never had an issue with those forms but then - he was a friend and I worked in NHS with GPs (among others) for over 10 years...

My new GP seems like a very reasonable guy - will see but no way I am paying for this, no funds for that..hmmmm

ali-t

exante is the only one I found that you don't need GP sign off for. the exante website asks medical questions but you don't need corroboration from medical professional. I prefer the taste of the cambridge ones, and really like the ready made cartons of chocolate but the GP permission thing is a PITA.

gettingready

WEll, I got a GP appointment around 5pm on the 3rd, if he does not want to sign/wants to charge for signing the CD form - will go for Lipotrim as they already have my record from GP from before and are happy to use that.

Prefer CD but.. will see - no way I am paying for a signature, sorry...