Lose Weight 11

beanielou

Honey
Sorry to hear about your freind & sending you a hug

victory

Thanks honey I am very sorry to hear of your friend .

Thanks loopy and beanie

Thanks consultant I am not on SW, I do not have syns as I am diabetic and stick only to wholemeal, high fibre, low calorie, virtually fat free stuff. Never eat sugary things or cakes or biscuits etc.

Please excuse the sensitivity to this next line but I do not feel in any shape of form my weight loss is down to luck, I have upped my excercise, do not sit down all day, eat very little, have become obsessed, determined, one track minded into this healthy eating plan , (watch all the t.v shows biggest looser, fat doctors, gilliant etc and read all the books over and over!!)have never eaten anything that I am not allowed to (i.e veered off or cheated) dropped the coffee for water, eat 1,200 calories a day or less.

consultant31

victory wrote: »

Please excuse the sensitivity to this next line but I do not feel in any shape of form my weight loss is down to luck, I have upped my excercise, do not sit down all day, eat very little, have become obsessed, determined, one track minded into this healthy eating plan , (watch all the t.v shows biggest looser, fat doctors, gilliant etc and read all the books over and over!!)have never eaten anything that I am not allowed to (i.e veered off or cheated) dropped the coffee for water, eat 1,200 calories a day or less.

I know you have worked hard, it's been obvious in the results you've had. I didn't mean to belittle your efforts at all, what I meant was that there are others who work hard too, but don't get those results consistently.

There are always going to be outside factors which control what your body weighs from day to day (sometimes even from hour to hour).

I worry a little about your comment on 'eating very little and becoming obsessed'. I'm sure you're aware that people who suffer from eating disorders often feel this way. Eating too little is not necessarily good unless you plan on eating very little for the rest of your life, and the words 'eating' and 'obsession' don't belong in the same sentence as far as I'm concerned.

Victory, forgive me for being blunt and please don't think I'm having a go at you. You have done remarkably well, and I'm only trying to make you feel better about a perfectly natural slowing of the rate of loss.

victory

consultant I meant eat little and obessive, not in any other form than eat little of all the healthy good stuff, what I should have been eating all along really, the fruit, veg, oatsosimple, weetabix,wholemeal bread, sugar free jelly, muti-grain ryvita crackers, all those kind of good stuff things....

I meant obsessive as in I never bothered watching fat doctors, biggest looser, any of those weight loss t.v shows or read any of the books and now will wait with baited breath for 9pm tonight on living to watch it to give me more pointers , I go to the library constantly and get out the food bible or gillian's book or Rosemary Conley etc and read cover to cover as well as buying SW and WW mags...........

consultant31

I see what you meant Victory. Chin up, you must look great! Have you been measuring yourself as well? How many dress sizes have you gone down?

Everyone must be able to see how well you've done so far. Don't stress too much about a paltry 9lbs when you've already lost 2½ stones.

It may well take a little longer to lose this last bit, but think positive and keep telling yourself how well you've done.

victory

Thanks consultant yes just measured and it is all still the same:D
Dress sizes? Just one!!

The 9 lb hangs in fat on the front so has to go:rotfl: :rotfl:

victory

What changes can you make?

1. Zig-Zag Calorie Intake
Zig-zagging, or calorie cycling is the process of varying daily calorie intake, while maintaining the same weekly intake. Instead of consuming (for example) precisely 1800 calories each day - you can mix it up. Eat 1500 calories one day, and 2100 calories the next. This can be as simple as halving then doubling a portion size, or adding a post-workout shake into the plan. Just keep your body guessing.

2. Strength Training
If you are not doing this as part of your program or lifestyle, then it's time to start. Working your muscles will help to strengthen bone tissue, increase lean mass, and ultimately boost metabolic rate.

3. Change Your Exercise Routine
So you go walking a lot? Then try jogging, or swimming, or cycling -- anything that will change the way your body is working. If you are doing low intensity cardio work, then try some high intensity exercise (such as HIIT).

4. Alter Macro-nutrient Intake
Although it sounds complicated, once again, the idea is to change what you are eating. If (for example) you are eating a moderate diet that is higher in carbs - try eating less carbs and more protein. There is no need to get super-technical over the whole thing. If you have a carbohydrate snack every day at morning tea time - change it to a protein snack. Whatever you are doing consistently - try mixing it up a bit.

5. Change Meal Frequency
If you are eating three square meals a day - start adding snacks in between (which may mean reducing the portion size of the main meals). Eating often is an old and common style of eating - once again, you are trying to boost your metabolic rate.

I know all that - What else is there?
Some of us seem to have more adaptive bodies than others. I remember when I was eating a fairly rigid diet, having three strength training sessions per week, and as much as seven (often intense) cardio sessions a week. After 3-4 weeks - the fat simply stopped coming off. The frustration was enough to make me take my meal plans (stuck to the fridge), screw them up and throw them away in disgust. I was furious and disappointed. I felt that I was doing everything "right". So what was the answer?

Chill out and back off... I was becoming obsessional. I started eating more, and gradually reduced my cardio levels. I gave my body and mind a break. In the process I have learnt to eat more intuitively. Every person is different.

I copied and pasted this from the internet when I asked the question of weight plateau and how to get over the barrier....pasted it here, may help some of you to know what to do to get past the lack of weight loss:D

petrichor

Hi :hello:

Can't believe how many posts there were to catch up with - I'm glad that some from the OS thread are sticking with us :beer:

victory wrote: »

Just been to get weighed at boots and I have lost 1/2 pound, words can't express how devastated I am, I am sitting here crying (big woosh ) after all the restraint of the long weekend and carrying my dinner around with me, eating as I normally do and drinking lots of water, all the same stuff I have been doing for months without wavering once however many chips I saw and I loose 1/2 pound-gutted does not come close to it.

9 lb still to go, BMI 26.6, nothing else to say.

Oh Victory dn't cry :grouphug: Although I know what you feel, this week I could have smashed the scales when I saw that I'd only lost 0.8lb, because like you I hadn't had anything that I shouldn't and I was feeling so good about everything. It's true though as many others have said, that you have done magnificently and now only have 9lbs to go, and it's the last few lbs are the hardest to shift. YOU WILL DO IT.

Honey :grouphug: to you as well. You are so right about living for today, it really surprises me just how many young people are dying suddenly, last year a neighbours daughter died suddenly, and even now her parents do not know why, which I think makes it worse, if it can. The girl was a friend of my daughters and as children played together, I felt guilty for thinking that I was glad it wasn't my DD.

Yay Connies back Hope you had a swell vacation With all the walking in NY you should now be looking like this :rotfl: :rotfl:

Welcome to Mirry and well done Marion :T I hope you have a good time in Malta

xxxx

rach!_3

well, i just rang the local sports centre as i couldnt make head nor tail of their website price list, at present they have a weight maintainance (sp?) thing going, where it is 2 sessions a week tues and thurs.
tues session starts at 10am with a talk on healthy eating and weigh in etc then you have an hours excercise from 10:30 am til 11:30 am, thurs session is 1:30 pm til 2:30 pm and there is no talk or weigh in just an hours excercise, and it is currently subsidised by the NHS and so it is just £1 per session (which i thought was pretty good). So have just rang my sister and my youngest child starts nursery after this hols so she is gonna pick him up at 11:30 am for me on tues and meet me with him and then look after him on thurs for the hours work out too, so now this weekbefore they go back to school im gonna go charity shopping for trackies and t-shirts and start the sessions next week, go me, lol

honey28

Oh Petrichor - you do brighten up my day - where did you get that picture of me though :rotfl:

Victory - thanks for that, some interesting reading. Since you only have a few pounds left to go and so do I (about 7 and I will be happy) why dont we be "last-few-pound-online-buddies" Phew! Maybe we can spur each other on to lose those last stubborn pounds. Cos if you start to crumble and lost motivation then I think a whole lot of us on here will as you definately one of our leading lights. Speaking of leading lights, where's our male version Suggs?