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frogga

Chin up Beanie :beer: we all love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

beanielou

Blodwen wrote: »

You ok Beanie?

Am plodding on.
Physically & mentally exhausted.
Sorry.

beanielou

CH27 wrote: »

Are you ok hun?

frogga wrote: »

Chin up Beanie :beer: we all love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you both xxx


Sweet potato.
Never cooked it before.
Won some in raffle this week.
Home help has peeled and chopped it.
Cook for 1/2 hour & just mash?

stef240377

beanielou wrote: »

Thank you both xxx


Sweet potato.
Never cooked it before.
Won some in raffle this week.
Home help has peeled and chopped it.
Cook for 1/2 hour & just mash?

You can do or roast it or chip it. Sweet potato is awesome loads more fibre than normal pots and no need for butter etc when mashing. Add a little nutmeg to give it a little kick and its done.

Prudent

Thinking of you Beanielou.

MM about 8 years ago one of my close friends had weight loss surgery. I am not sure how many different types there are; my friend had a gastric band fitted. She paid for it privately and went down to London for the operation. She stayed overnight and then I met her at the airport the next evening. She was very wobbly and I was really concerned about her. It was about an hour and a half drive to her house and we had to stop at the services as she needed the toilet urgently and I think that persisted for sometime for her. She had to carefully follow a plan, but like your friend steadily lost weight. Eventually she looked fabulous. She kept it off for 3/4 years then for some reason it all began to pile on again and she was back to the dieting cycle. I don't know how typical this experience is though.

frogga

Sweet potato is yuck ~ chuck it

There once was a Beanie named Lou
Who just didn't know what to do
Things sometimes got rough
But Beanie was tough
A quitter she's not I tell you!

CH27

Frogga i've been thinking about the amount of food you are eating.

Could it be you ate loads at the beginning & lost loads because you needed to lose a lot?
Now you've lost a lot of weight your body needs less calories so your weight loss has slowed.
I think maybe you are eating too much as even though it's ''free food'' it still has calories & the calories all add up.

Hope this makes sense written down:o:o

stef240377

Wasnt there a documentary on channel 4 or one of the 'freeview' channels a couple of months ago similar which concentrated on various methods used to lose weight. One bloke was hospitalised for his own well being and to be put on a strict 3 meal a day diet where the main meals were chicken, rice/pots and veg but he were buying things on the snack trolley that came round and he couldnt see why he werent losing weight. Another lady would eat brilliantly all week but when it came to friday night she would pop into the supermarket buy loads of prepacked sandwiches, cream cakes, crisps and chocolate etc and lock her self in her bedroom for the weekend where she had her pc and mini fridge so became a recluse bar talking/playing on internet games.She was told that she needed to lose xxx lbs on her own before they would look at her again for weight loss help and looking at food diaries could see during the week she had no issues but the loneliness of being on her own was destroying her progresses.
The third lady was young woman around late teens early 20's who had gastric surgery was seriously ill afterwards to the point she was violently sick and had diarohea in the first couple of weeks with the hospital being concerned she was going to dehydrate because her reaction was so severe and her weight fell off. After monitoring her progress over a few months it showed how she had learnt to cheat the surgery and was binging on cheeseburgers etc and telling the hospital the band/surgery had failed.

Its all quite disheartening and i believe more should be done to deal with the emotional and mental side of weight loss as this programme shows it is ok to walk in to a GP surgery and say i want to lose weight and have the options shown to you but unless there is there is genuine support behind the offerings it will fail. Sometimes it needs more than just will power.

beanielou

frogga wrote: »

Sweet potato is yuck ~ chuck it

There once was a Beanie named Lou
Who just didn't know what to do
Things sometimes got rough
But Beanie was tough
A quitter she's not I tell you!

Thank you
Love it

frogga

CH27 wrote: »

Frogga i've been thinking about the amount of food you are eating.

Could it be you ate loads at the beginning & lost loads because you needed to lose a lot?
Now you've lost a lot of weight your body needs less calories so your weight loss has slowed.
I think maybe you are eating too much as even though it's ''free food'' it still has calories & the calories all add up.

Hope this makes sense written down:o:o

It does, and I think you're right. I've cut down the fruit, and the amount of pots and baked beans