Have you regained weight after a diet plan

paulineb_2

lee111s wrote: »

People often go on a diet, lose what they want and then go back to eating how they did before they were fat. Guess what happens? Yup, they get fat again!

The best way to lose weight and keep it off is a lifestyle change, not a "diet" for 6 weeks. Eat healthy food, lots of protein and vegetables along with some exercise. Don't snack and drink rarely as opposed to regularly!

It's not hard, people just don't want to change is the main reason. Habitual creatures!

It can be hard for people, otherwise the diet industry wouldnt make millions

People overeat for numerous different reasons

I do lots of exercise, probably 6 days a week but I have the capacity to put weight on very easily and I always have to keep my eating in check.

cheeswright

yes lost it, still loosing but not so dramatically as when I...
wrote down everything I ate

I know - it seems a bit ...well..underwhelming but it just forced me to think about what I really was eating as a whole
as opposed to just focussing on fat content or sugar or calories

who today dosnt really know what they should be eating and doing to be and stay a healthy weight ? its not like the information isnt everywhere
the problems for me were
not lying to myself
and to stop wishing and start doing
wishing is a zero calorie exercise

daisiegg

Carl31 wrote: »

If you want to be thin, live like a thin person

Do thin people go to weight watchers or use faddy diets? No, they eat sensibly and exercise regularly, day in, day out everyday of their lives

This should be true but I'm not sure it actually is. I know lots of thin people and none of them exercise regularly. Actually, thinking about it, the only people I know who exercise regularly are those who want to lose weight! My husband is a healthy weight and he rarely exercises. My dad runs a few times a week and did a marathon last year but is still a bit overweight.

I stayed with a friend recently who is very slim, always naturally a size 8, and she does no exercise and her diet is awful...she doesn't eat breakfast or lunch, instead having three packets of crisps and endless full sugar lemonade all day, and then eats dinner. Rarely has any fruit or veg. Loads of salt in her meals and barely any nutrients. I don't call that eating sensibly even if it does keep her thin. I could tell loads of anecdotes about slim people I know with weird and definitely not sensible or healthy eating habits.

I am trying to think if I know one person who exercises, eats sensibly and healthily (i.e. no weird habits like skipping meals, liquid diets, very restrictive diets etc) and is thin and I don't think I can!

paulineb_2

daisiegg wrote: »

This should be true but I'm not sure it actually is. I know lots of thin people and none of them exercise regularly. Actually, thinking about it, the only people I know who exercise regularly are those who want to lose weight! My husband is a healthy weight and he rarely exercises. My dad runs a few times a week and did a marathon last year but is still a bit overweight.

I stayed with a friend recently who is very slim, always naturally a size 8, and she does no exercise and her diet is awful...she doesn't eat breakfast or lunch, instead having three packets of crisps and endless full sugar lemonade all day, and then eats dinner. Rarely has any fruit or veg. Loads of salt in her meals and barely any nutrients. I don't call that eating sensibly even if it does keep her thin. I could tell loads of anecdotes about slim people I know with weird and definitely not sensible or healthy eating habits.

I am trying to think if I know one person who exercises, eats sensibly and healthily (i.e. no weird habits like skipping meals, liquid diets, very restrictive diets etc) and is thin and I don't think I can!

My brother is a PT and doesnt have a restrictive diet and hes in great shape, but if he didnt have the job he did, hed be heavier, am sure of that.

My mum has struggled to put weight on all her life, shes 8 stones 7 just now, she was heavier a couple of years back but she went through some stressful times, lost it all and hasnt gained it back

She said that at 9 stones 7 she was a 14, shes now a ten and could fit two of her into her size 14 clothes.

Even at a 14, shes small and I look different from her body shape wise when Im a size 14

She doesnt count calories, she'll have unhealthy food when she wants to, but her diet is probably a lot healthier these days than it even was 10 years ago

I do think some people who are struggling with their weight underestimate what they eat

I watched a documentary recently, two friends, one who was slim and who by her own admission ate what she wanted, junk etc and the other who said she hardly ate anything

When their diets were tracked it was found that the slim woman wasnt eating enough, even with all the cake and the overweight woman was taking in far too many cals.

To be honest, I know a huge cross section of people who exercise and they are all shapes and sizes

But I do think some people will put weight on much more easily than others.

When my mum went through a period of extreme stress last year she ended up very underweight and it took a good 3 months to get about a stone and a half on and that was feeding herself with very high calorie foods

I think tbh we are all unique and as such our capacity to be slim, fat or anything in the middle, will be unique to us as a human being.

lee111s

paulineb wrote: »

It can be hard for people, otherwise the diet industry wouldnt make millions

People overeat for numerous different reasons

I do lots of exercise, probably 6 days a week but I have the capacity to put weight on very easily and I always have to keep my eating in check.

We all have to keep our diet in check. I'm a gym freak and quite a bit more muscular than that average gym goer, I'd love to eat bags of minstrels, m and m's, chocolate digestives, tubs of ice cream and pizza etc but I don't because I know doing so will make me gain unwanted fat.

While they may have reasons for over eating, are any of those reasons enough to warrant heading for diabetes or heart failure? It's only hard for people who can't be bothered to do it properly.

Most people want a quick fix, which is possible, but it's not practical. Rapid weight loss by severe calorie restriction only puts your body into starvation mode forcing it to hold on to a lot more, hence why people see good results for the first two weeks on these fad "diets" then the weight loss tails off. Eating consistently around 20% fewer calories than your body needs in a day and I guarantee you'll lose weight. It's mathematically impossible not to. Every body is different so you need to work out what YOUR body's Total Daily Energy Expenditure is (plenty calculators online)

70% diet 30% exercise. You can't out exercise a bad diet. I'm sorry but I have very little time for fat people who claim they can't lose weight when really they can't be bothered to eat well and exercise consistently. Very very few people have a genuine medical reason for being overweight.

continualdiamond

I lost 8 stone with weight watchers. Took me 3 years though and after goodness knows how many attempts at different plans over the years, including other attempts at weight watchers this slow/steady pace = me actually loosing the weight & keeping it off.

I kept it off for a year which was always my goal before trying for a family and of course am now expecting my 1st baby. I have continued to follow weight watchers whilst pregnant as it's just counting calories in a different format, I just adjusted to have more points as my body needed them through the stages of my pregnancy.

Basically I'll always be following weight watchers and that's fine with me. Rather put in the effort I know I need too and be a size 12 than a size 26 I was in 2009.

cakeforbrains

daisiegg wrote: »

This should be true but I'm not sure it actually is. I know lots of thin people and none of them exercise regularly. Actually, thinking about it, the only people I know who exercise regularly are those who want to lose weight! My husband is a healthy weight and he rarely exercises. My dad runs a few times a week and did a marathon last year but is still a bit overweight.

I stayed with a friend recently who is very slim, always naturally a size 8, and she does no exercise and her diet is awful...she doesn't eat breakfast or lunch, instead having three packets of crisps and endless full sugar lemonade all day, and then eats dinner. Rarely has any fruit or veg. Loads of salt in her meals and barely any nutrients. I don't call that eating sensibly even if it does keep her thin. I could tell loads of anecdotes about slim people I know with weird and definitely not sensible or healthy eating habits.

I am trying to think if I know one person who exercises, eats sensibly and healthily (i.e. no weird habits like skipping meals, liquid diets, very restrictive diets etc) and is thin and I don't think I can!

At yet people (including medical professionals) will automatically assume that the slimmest person is also the healthiest/the fattest the unhealthiest. It's as if we've all been brainwashed.

Carl31

daisiegg wrote: »

This should be true but I'm not sure it actually is. I know lots of thin people and none of them exercise regularly. Actually, thinking about it, the only people I know who exercise regularly are those who want to lose weight! My husband is a healthy weight and he rarely exercises. My dad runs a few times a week and did a marathon last year but is still a bit overweight.

I stayed with a friend recently who is very slim, always naturally a size 8, and she does no exercise and her diet is awful...she doesn't eat breakfast or lunch, instead having three packets of crisps and endless full sugar lemonade all day, and then eats dinner. Rarely has any fruit or veg. Loads of salt in her meals and barely any nutrients. I don't call that eating sensibly even if it does keep her thin. I could tell loads of anecdotes about slim people I know with weird and definitely not sensible or healthy eating habits.

I am trying to think if I know one person who exercises, eats sensibly and healthily (i.e. no weird habits like skipping meals, liquid diets, very restrictive diets etc) and is thin and I don't think I can!

I know this is true as its the lifestyle I follow, I'm 33 now and still wear the same size jeans I did when I was 18

Its not easy, and the level of exercise I do some say is extreme, I don't agree I think its one that suits the sedantry lifestyle that people have got used to. People say my diet is plain and boring, but I know the calorie levels I need to consume

Calorie counting is really the best way to learn what the right foods to eat are, its a bit time consuming at first, but after a couple of weeks you get used to it. That is essentially what we etc disguise in their plans, but the secret is they don't tell customers why they lose weight on their plans, just that using their plan they will

People that struggle with weight usually have a poor relationship with food or exercise, or both. If that is not tackled properly then it will never changed. I too trained as a PT years ago, so admittedly I do have some knowledge that helps me, however I work as an accountant, so I sit at a desk all day. The knowledge is out there, you just need to find it

Yes there are skinny people that can eat what they like without worry, that is due to their ectomorphic body type. Depending on how you look at it, you could say they are lucky or unlucky. They are skinny, but generally tend to worry and get more stressed easily due to their hormone balance

cakeforbrains

Carl31 wrote: »

I know this is true as its the lifestyle I follow, I'm 33 now and still wear the same size jeans I did when I was 18

Its not easy, and the level of exercise I do some say is extreme, I don't agree I think its one that suits the sedantry lifestyle that people have got used to. People say my diet is plain and boring, but I know the calorie levels I need to consume

Calorie counting is really the best way to learn what the right foods to eat are, its a bit time consuming at first, but after a couple of weeks you get used to it. That is essentially what we etc disguise in their plans, but the secret is they don't tell customers why they lose weight on their plans, just that using their plan they will

People that struggle with weight usually have a poor relationship with food or exercise, or both. If that is not tackled properly then it will never changed. I too trained as a PT years ago, so admittedly I do have some knowledge that helps me, however I work as an accountant, so I sit at a desk all day. The knowledge is out there, you just need to find it

Yes there are skinny people that can eat what they like without worry, that is due to their ectomorphic body type. Depending on how you look at it, you could say they are lucky or unlucky. They are skinny, but generally tend to worry and get more stressed easily due to their hormone balance

I disagree with you here. Listening to your own body is the best way to learn how to eat. The body will send 'I'm hungry' signals, as well as 'I'm satisfied' signals. They can be difficult to hear, though, because they've been buried in years of following food rules (eat three meals a day, eat breakfast, skip breakfast, don't snack, eat little and often, eat X calories, fast two days in seven, finish your plate, don't eat carbs, eat savoury before sweet, eat because it's lunchtime, and so on).

When people tune into their bodies they find that their bodies (slowly) respond by reaching a weight that is healthy for them. It sounds easy, but it requires a lot of work because, as you point out above, people who struggle with weight often have a poor relationship with food. They (we) often use food to try to fill emotional needs, and that's where the work needs to be done.

Battleaxe44

Both of us are overweight, according to all the experts, BUT

We are well past 60, still active and I mean we walk, we garden, we swim, both of us were althletes in younger days and very muscular.

OH was like a donut on legs when I met him I was well nudging the scales but no problems healthwise.

We talked over the weight we were both carrying and decided that we would look at what we ate and when we ate, OH's diet was appalling, he lived on his own and admitted, he thought he would never meet someone who wanted to sahare his life, At this time I was comfort eating, having gone a very traumatic time and being on my own.

We have been doing the 5-2 eating plan before it became fashionable,

In three years OH has lost 4 stonesm I have lost 1 stone, but have lost inches and dress sizes and before anyone strats regarding my weight loss, I have low cholesterol readings, normal blood pressure and do not take medication for anything, neighter does OH. GP has done six monthly MOT and can find nothing wrong with both of us.

We sleep well and exercise daily we walk three miles. OH is 71 and he works three days week, his job is not sendantary.

I am happy I am losing inches and can do things I have always done, eventually the weight drop off.

I did have a total hip replacement five years ago, wear and tear on the joints from marathon running,

Not gaining weight, eating well, plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, do not drink alcohol, neither of us ever smoked, so i don;t think we are in too bad shape for the age we are and the lifestyle we lead. At least we are not drain on the NHS with health related problems.

Oh I am a size 16 weighing 87 kilos.