Have you regained weight after a diet plan

maman

Battleaxe44 wrote: »

It is so much easier to lose weight when you are younger, this is a fact.

As you get older your metabolism slows, so instead of reaching for a biscuit, I have the OH reaching for fruit. The other thing I do, is refuse to make cakes and biscuits, so he can't be tempted.

Re my previous post, I was a size 20 three years ago.

Apologies as I've not read every post but this jumped out at me.

I don't know where this 'fact' comes from but I must be the exception that proves the rule.

I have been slim all my adult but started to put weight on gradually when I hit the big 5-0. It was mostly due to lifestyle changes and probably a few hormones.

I hated being fat so went on a 'diet' for the first (and last I hope) time in my life. I had always been a size10/12 and drew the line when size 16 was getting tight. I'm 5ft 9 so it was relatively easy to carry excess weight without looking like a blob.

I chose Slimming World as it seemed less 'faddy' then many others. I lost the 3st+ I needed within 9 months and have kept it off for 2 years. I still follow 'the plan' but really it's common sense: eat loads of fruit/veg/lean meat and limit sugar/fat/flour but have a few treats along the way.

Strangely, my group is full of far younger women who are finding it really difficult.

onlyroz

I was thin up until I hit about 30. I was a size 10 for years, weighing around 8 and a half stone. I could eat what I wanted, exercise as little as I wanted, and my weight didn't change. But then I got a bit older and had a few children and the weight gradually crept on, without me really noticing it. Around 18 months ago I stepped on the scales and found that I weighed 10 and a half stone. I wouldn't say that I was "fat" but for my height that weight was on the overweight boundary of the BMI charts.

And so I embarked on the first diet of my life. I'd always relied on convenience food because I was "too busy" to cook properly. And I also was a bit of a crisp-a-holic. I started out by cutting out the convenience food - so no more frozen pies, no more pre-packaged meals. I now bake my own pies and quiches, and I make a conscious effort to put more veggies and fewer refined carbs into the meals I prepare. Just doing this enabled me to lose a pound or two a week.

But then I discovered the intermittent fasting regime, which I've been doing for over a year now. On mondays and wednesdays I have a light breakfast (usually porridge because it has a lower glycemic index than bread or cereal), I skip lunch, and I have a child's portion for dinner. On the other days of the week I eat "normally" - in that I still avoid processed foods and snacks, but otherwise don't restrict what I eat. Saturday is my "anything goes" day - where we will cook a more extravagant meal (steak is always a favourite) and I treat myself to whatever snacks I fancy.

All this works well for me, and I'm now back to around 8 and a half stone again and hope to stay there.

spender

Thanks for all the replies it is refreshing that people are being honest as I can never find people who say actually I did regain weight. I think I am going to have to reassess the Cambridge as it is pricey and tbh I do not fancy it a second time.

Mojisola

spender wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies it is refreshing that people are being honest as I can never find people who say actually I did regain weight. I think I am going to have to reassess the Cambridge as it is pricey and tbh I do not fancy it a second time.

Come on over to the 5:2 thread -
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4115289

It's much easier to restrict your food when you know it's only for a day at a time. Most people find that eating less on one day makes them much more aware of what they're eating on the other days.

geoffky

Diets long term never work..Sensible eating and regular exercise results in weight loss but once you start slobbing again it will go back on...
Finding the right balance is the key...
Keep trying..

Battleaxe44

Just back from our afternoon walk..and banana for potassium. Nothing now until tomorrow morning today is the Fast day. It is easy to do the 5:2.

Tomorrow is Social Sewing day, so cut lunch. My problem is I have to remember to eat, this is why I often miss lunch.

angeltreats

Years ago I lost about three stone with weight watchers. I also took up running and was doing a lot of exercise. When I got to my goal weight I started eating more normally but kept up the exercise and the weight stayed off for quite a few years, but unfortunately due to injury I had to give up running and didn't adjust my eating habits accordingly and piled it all back on again.

I'm now back at WW again and have started going to the gym regularly again and running (although not as much as I used to as I will never be able to do that again due to the injury) and the weight is coming back off. I do find that WW works for me and I find it easy to stick to as it enables me to eat absolutely anything I want (just less of it) and I can plan ahead, and it fits in with eating out. I do think exercise is just as important as diet though.

spender

I am going to look at the 5:2 thread. I have been googling Cambridge results but it appears that threads get started on various forums but then stop. No one ever comes back to say whether the weight remained off I spent about £42.00 a week on the products

meritaten

back in the late nineties I put on three stone (still have no idea exactly 'why'?) and did a variety of diets - I think I must be the only person to gain a stone in a month following the Rosemary Conley diet! It did occur to me that I was eating much more than I did before though! I tried calorie counting etc and nothing seemed to work.
then, by chance I started a part time college course and a part time evening job - which left me no time to eat a meal before finishing one and starting the other. I used to 'stoke up' by having breakfast, a snack at 11.00am and a two course lunch in college! Then a sandwich or salad in my break at work at about 7.00pm. (very stodgy college lunch - think old fashioned school dinners). the weight dropped off me! I lost a stone the first month and a half stone each month after. I maintained at my ideal weight.
I found out later that Joan Collins endorses this way of eating - it isn't a diet although you are recommended to eat healthy foods.

all this time later - I still eat like this and my weight is constant. I rarely eat after 6.30pm and still eat like a navvy during the day! but its spread through the day! of course, if invited out I will eat whatever is put in front of me and enjoy it! though I do find sleeping difficult now if I have a really full tummy!
this may not work for everyone - you have to find YOUR way of eating - but yoyo dieting is IMHO a really bad way of losing weight. so is starving yourself! or bingeing two days and starving three!

pawsies

It's ok to have a chocolate milkshake occasionally. Cutting out everything that is bad for you is not the answer and will make you resentful and more likely to give in. Moderation is key i.e. don't have one every day!