Lose Weight 12

dellybelly_2

Thanks for that katmad.... I really needed someone to confirm that I wasn't just being negative against the diet and that it really was a bad idea to cut out so much. I mean, I can probably live without yoghurt, but why should I? It's not bad for me or anything!.

Good luck with the exams... and don't worry about the M6M's, you can climb back up on the wagon at any time!

Erlqueen_2

Morning everyone,

Flying visit as I'm finishing work at 12 to go to the hairdressers. Hope everyone has a good weekend

Kat - good luck with the final exam tomorrow and enjoy your blowout afterwards. No guilt trips about it.

victory

Morning peeps:D Gout is less painful today, I am such a lucky person, ear infections, gout, diabetic, arthritic, bring it on:rotfl: :rotfl:

I was on 1,200 calories for a while, after having dropped from 1,500 to 1,200 but it is not intended long term as has been said because it is very low.

As for cutting out dairy products and bread, makes sense the bread as it is bloating and that is what the doc says, cut out bread if you have a bloated stomach but then again I switched to wholemeal as it is high in fibre and filling, must say I do not have much of it and the cheeses cut out all together because of the high calorie content although they have half fat and cottage cheese, I switched to skimmed milk instead of semi-skimmed. You can switch all your high calorie puddings/yogurts etc for low fat or fat free fromage frais, 0% greek fat free yogurt, muller light...

Your calorie intake has to be less than your energy out, in the Rosemary Conley book on the first pages it tells you how to work out your BMR and mine is 1,458 to stay at the same weight, to loose weight you have to decrease that by at least 300 calories, keep up the exercise and that should give you a weight loss per week of 1 to 2 lb.

kat good luck with the exam

Gill1976

I don't know if this is allowed or not so if it isn't then I apologise in advance.....I used to go weekly WW meetings but I stopped going a while ago and I really need to lose the weight I've put back on. Is there anyway of getting hold of one of the codes for WW e-source? I did try the online WW but I've had to make savings and that was one that had to go

newster

I lost 3 1\2 stone 3yrs ago following a SW diet. I recently went back on it because I was starting to up the scales abit (though not overweight) but stopped, because quite honestly it was working out to be expensive. Now, I'm just eating healthy. Not too many cake stuff lol. I wouldn't have thought 1,200 cals was enogh personally. I would have thought 1,500 to be the norm. Perhaps you can ask why the calorie intake has to be so low Denty? I would have thought a 1,500 cal intake plus some excercise like a brisk walk a day or something like that would be enough. Usually it's when you're near your target weight you drop to lower calorie intakes. While you are still losing, I always thought it was better to keep to a higher one????

I think, for what ever it's worth. As long as you eat healthy. Cut out a good amount of sweets, crisps, un needed fats etc. Un needed junk foods and so forth. Up your veg and fruit intake and so on, you should find yourself losing weight at a nice steady pace.

I find the food pyramid a help as a guide to how much I should be eating.

I do recommend Judith Wills Food Bible as a help. I think you would find it very useful :-)

arthur_dent_2

I did telll the nurse I thought it was a bit low for my size (nearly 18 stone at the start) that is when she said it was plenty and that it was what she ate in a normal day

I am really not in this very long haul just to put it all back on again:)

Good luck Kat, I don't know you but I wish everyone well with what they do.

Erlqueen_2

Oops - sorry victory

I did read earlier about your suffering gout and forgot to send get well wishes - glad to hear it is less painful.

newster

No Denty You don't want to lose then put it all back on again, this is why I think you have been set to low a calorie intake. You will feel restricted and unable to to keep up with it, give it up and end up putting more back on then from when you started. You need to find a diet plan that suits you. The important thing is, is that if you have to lose weight, you lose it. When you first start a diet you lose several pounds at first, then you need to steady with a 1-2lb loss a week.

What I find best is having a good breakfast, a light lunch, then a filling dinner. There is a saying that goes eat breakfast like a king, lunch as a prince, and dinner as a pauper. I can't do it quite like that, because we have the "prince" meal at night. lol.

Denty, find a diet you are comfy with that isn't one of these celebrity crash type things. Aim for a gradual weight loss. Eat healthy .Plenty of fruit and veg.and give yourself a moderate treat during the day. Drop as much junk food as you can, chips, crisps, too many cakes, chocolate etc. Eat small amount of these. Concentrate on wholesome stuff. If you feel nibbly, have fruit or a carrot stick or something like that rather than attack the biscuit tin, of grab a bar of chocolate. Drink alcohol sparingly. Drink plenty of water and fluids.

Have you got someone you can diet with?

daysieblue

:hello:

hello again I briefly said hello on Wednesday, and have been waiting for a quiet couple of mins to come back and post. I have been reading the posts though and would quickly like to say well done to everyone on their achievements this week.

My story is this - I'm about 50 lbs overweight (rounded slightly to give a round figure to lose!) Have always been "chubby" but puberty helped kick start the real gain. Could also have been the bars of cadburys, but we'll gloss over that!

I have dieted successfully twice - once about 12 years ago, got to around 11 stone, which was a vast improvement, and again around 5 years ago just after having my DD. Again I reached 11 stone, and was wearing some size 14s. It all went to pot when I went back to work and the scones and bacon sarnies crept back in again! Both times I used WW, the second time on the points scheme.

I know the theory about weight loss, I know that calories out must exceed calories in, that it's better to eat a chicken salad than a KFC (but not a KFC chicken salad ). I know I should get 5 portions a day. I know a lot of stuff, and I am using all of that information to help educate my children - lunch boxes contain crisps, but only the really low fat ones, they have HM bread for their sandwiches, HM cakes and chocolates for their sweet thing. I just have a lot of trouble applying that knowledge to myself.

I have become so disillusioned with "diets" that I am currently not on one. Instead I am trying to eat more healthily. Since finding MSE, and OS in particular, I am cooking more, baking more and making bread more. I now know everything that goes into the vast majority of my food. This is something I want to keep doing, but I need to work on making it a weight friendly way to live too. (too many delicious recipes for flapjacks and muffins on these boards!)

Away from my weight issues, I am 34, married with a DS(9) and DD(5), a lovely DH, and I work full time as an accountant. I had (until recently) a gym membership, but my DFW status meant it had to go. I do walk 3 miles a day, split into 4 20 minute chunks (to and from work and train stations!)

I think that's it! Thanks for listening (reading) and sorry about waffling on!

db xx :j

petrichor

:hello: Everyone

Welcome to the newcomers and any visitors.

Gill1976 Sorry I can't help you with the WW e-source, some folk here are doing WW online and maybe one of them will be able to advise you later. As you already know the WW method just keep following it, and stay with us here for support. I put the money that I would have paid to a class into a jar instead, and I now have £95 (and it's all for me!!!!) ....

....newster Well done for climbing back on the wagon before you regained all of the previously lost weight, that can be a lesson to us all :T As you say it's all to do with healthy eating and this should be of great value to...

...daysieblue As you can see, you are not alone, in that we have all been there, done it and got the t-shirt and then grown out of it again :mad: so you can waffle on as much as you like here, because while you're here you're not eating. I notice that you bake your own bread and things, I love cooking too and like to try and adapt any meal that I enjoy in a pub etc into a healthy one at home, I now find that I don't want to go out much now as I can do better stuff at home and a jolly sight cheaper too! BUT at the moment I have to draw a line at baking bread because I would not be able to resist it at all .

I like this...

dellybelly wrote: »

.... (I'm on a weightloss wagon, not a weighloss ferarri)...

... What a lovely analogy delly :T I wish I could think of things like that instead of just waffling, but you are spot on. We are so impatient to lose weight but it is far healthier to lose it slowly. I'm surprised that your trainer advised you to cut out dairy products too, as long as you use the low fat sorts I can't see why . How much is he a nutritionist as opposed to a trainer? It seems as if it's processed foods that he's not allowing, but if a 'treat' keeps you going then have it, I have a couple of packets of crisps a week as long as they fit into my calorie allowance. Anyway, good luck with the gym work it'll do wonders for your body tone.

xxxx