Have you regained weight after a diet plan

spender

Oh well weight all regained yet again, I have decided that the Cambridge Weight Plan is fine for losing the weight but not for maintaining weight loss. I have started the 5:2 diet and hope that works. I don't funny enough eat to excess but my weight always goes back plus a little bit more. Being short is is noticeable and I think my age also makes it harder to maintain weight loss.

My colleague is also a Cambridge Consultant and she has maintained her large weight loss, but every week she uses Cambridge products which I do not feel is the way to live.

neverdespairgirl

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

I know lots of thin people who eat terrible diets and never exercise! It's really not quite that simple.

One of my sisters, for example, was at her thinnest in the months before she was diagnosed as a Colaeic. She could hardly eat, was sick and tired and knackered.

I have another mate who is very slim, lovely figure. She doesn't exercise, eats either junk or nothing for a few days at a time.

System

I think it is harder when your older

At 16 I lost a lot of weight (probably too much but it fell off me)

Now at 27 even if I do all the right things, it's proving very very difficult to lose weight (though 5 years of heavy duty psychiatric drugs haven't helped with the weight gain)

meritaten

Diets Don't Work! cut out junk food, sugar and overeating. eat healthy foods. don't worry about eating real butter - its better for you than factory made gloop. eat reasonable portions and................if you aren't hungry don't eat! its amazing how many people eat just cos the clock says its lunchtime or dinnertime.
eat slowly and when you feel full - stop eating! (this is your bodies way of regulating your weight).

grey_lady

There have been a couple of threads on mumsnet recently along the lines of - if you are slim what do you normally eat in a day? which has been interesting. Not having time to exercise and being rather fond of food means i am a few pounds over-weight according to the bmi thingy.

I used to be obese but read/went to a weekend conference by Gillian Riley who has a CBT approach. I can't remember the name of her book now but her thinking is along the lines of not dieting but making healthy choices because you really want to.

I did notice that the super slim girls i have worked with in the past usually have a small bowl of fruit or healthy cereal for breakfast and a salad (no bread) for lunch and exercise most days. Maybe i should have found out what they had for dinner

continualdiamond

I finally accepted that it is a lifestyle change and not a diet. A diet to me now is a quick fix that more than likely cannot be followed for life.

It took me 3 years and 1 month to be exact to get rid of 8 stone. I kept that off for a year and then decided it was time to have a family. As soon as I got the okay from my Dr after having my baby I was back at weight watchers.

So this is my 5th year following weight watchers. I've been back at weight watchers for 22 weeks and 24.5 lbs lighter.

Carl31

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I know lots of thin people who eat terrible diets and never exercise! It's really not quite that simple.

One of my sisters, for example, was at her thinnest in the months before she was diagnosed as a Colaeic. She could hardly eat, was sick and tired and knackered.

I have another mate who is very slim, lovely figure. She doesn't exercise, eats either junk or nothing for a few days at a time.

There will akways be exceptions to every rule, but in general a sensible diet and exercise regime as part of your everyday lifestyle will work for everyone. These faddy diet things are businesses, they exist to make money, for that they need repeat customers.....its not hard to work out why they don't work long term

Eating nothing for a few days is not really a good way to live

Carl31

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I think it is harder when your older

At 16 I lost a lot of weight (probably too much but it fell off me)

Now at 27 even if I do all the right things, it's proving very very difficult to lose weight (though 5 years of heavy duty psychiatric drugs haven't helped with the weight gain)

Its harder as you get older as your body has stopped growing. Most people can eat what they like up to their late teens or early twenties as their body uses the calories to grow. They stop growing but carry on the eating

As we get older, we also get more sedantry, sitting in the office or at home changes our metobolisms and makes them less efficient, hence our bodies become even less efficient at burning calories, hence middle age spread

Most people really need to exercise as they get older to retain muscle mass that is gradually reduced due to lifestyle, and watch their calorie intake

meritaten

Fasting just puts the body into 'starvation' mode. then anything it receives usually gets 'stored'. its not a good way to live.

grey_lady

The eight stone weight loss is fantastic - and well done, but as someone else pointed out - diet plans like slimming world/weight watchers have something like a 5% long-term success rate.

Actually the last weightwatchers meeting i went to - every single helper/leader i would say was morbidly obese including the area 'diamond' leader - and yet they still take your money. Cheeky !!!!ers.