Problems of weight loss

newcook

that book sounds quite interesting - my downfall is I enjoy a drink of a weekend! are you allowed to drink alcohol with this diet?!

pingufan

Carl31 wrote: »

This isn't mad at all

its processed carbs that cause people's weight problems, not fat and not proteins

I have started cutting out all processed carbs from my diet - I now eat plenty of lean meat, fresh veg. Little fruit - only berries and no potatoes, parsnips or sweetcorn.

I have lost 12lbs in 5 weeks and never feel hungry as I eat at least 250g of meat at every meal

Oh and 2 eggs a day, tuna, salmon etc

Basically anything unprocessed

onlyroz

"Starvation mode" is a myth. If you don't fancy eating dinner then there's no problem with skipping it.

I think the most important thing "at your age" is to keep active, even if it's just a lunchtime stroll each day. I sadly know of quite a few people who reduced their activity levels later in life and now have major mobility problems. E.g. my mum's cousin installed a stair-lift "for her brother" when he came to visit but started using it herself. She can now barely get up and down the stairs on her own.

As for diet - as long as your portions aren't huge and you avoid the refined carbs (e.g. white bread, white pasta, cakes, biscuits, sweets etc) then you should be fine.

margaretclare

newcook wrote: »

that book sounds quite interesting - my downfall is I enjoy a drink of a weekend! are you allowed to drink alcohol with this diet?!

Not beer because that's basically carbs. He says 'a moderate amount of alcohol (as wine or spirits) will not cause weight gain on this diet'. 'One glass of red wine contains less than 1g of carbohydrate'.

The one day in the year when I normally drink a glass of beer was yesterday, St George's Day. And I didn't!

dandelionclock30

If your not a vegetarian MC then stick to eating lean meat like chicken breasts,steamed fish, salad vegetables and fruits and you should looose weight.
Cut out bread and spread/ butter/cheese/sweets/ cakes and bicsuits and fizzy pop. For puddings have low fat yoghurt and fruit.
It will drop off you.

peachyprice

Funny you should update today, I was thinking about your thread only this morning.

I dawned on me that I was actually the slimmest I've ever been in my adult life when I was eating one meal a day, at lunchtime, no breakfast and no dinner. Rather blows the 'starvation mode' myth to pieces.

margaretclare

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

If your not a vegetarian MC then stick to eating lean meat like chicken breasts,steamed fish, salad vegetables and fruits and you should looose weight.
Cut out bread and spread/ butter/cheese/sweets/ cakes and bicsuits and fizzy pop. For puddings have low fat yoghurt and fruit.
It will drop off you.

No, not low fat! Low fat items have usually had the fat content replaced by sugar.

Cut out bread and spread/ butter/cheese/sweets/ cakes and bicsuits and fizzy pop.

One slice of wholemeal toast a day with English butter. Nothing wrong with cheese. I don't eat any of the other things anyway.

I'm following this man's book that I mentioned - am giving it one month to see how we go. A month from now we're going to an Anglo-Saxon dinner and we chose the food a long time ago. I shan't have any mead, though!!

Started on Monday and I seem to have lost a pound already.

Onlyroz, yes, it's the refined carbs which are the very devil, not that I ever ate much of them anyway. But obviously, given lack of success if following various other systems, something different had to be tried.

tesuhoha

If you are happy with this diet then it is fine. However, the thing that bothers me is that it is another restrictive diet and anything like that is hard to sustain as a way of eating for life.

Maybe I didn't explain things very well before but there are reasons I think you would do well on the 5:2. For one thing it is highly sustainable as for 5 days a week you can eat what you like, a wide variety of food including carbs. If you have the willpower to restrict your diet to protein then I think you would find fasting easy.

Personally I would find eating high protein very difficult but fasting is simple. I was fasting today and I just didn't think about it all day. However, it is not a complete fast as you are allowed 500 calories on the fast days which do seem plenty if you have been fasting all day.

Don't get me wrong I am not trying to put you off your new diet but all I am saying is if you find it hard to sustain over a long period please do consider trying the 5:2. I would not really describe it as a diet, rather a way of eating for life.

If you watch the Michael Mosley Horizon programme he will inform you better than I can of the benefits of the 5:2 eating plan. These are health benefits in terms of preventing disease, and improving longevity. However, I will tell you my personal situation.

I am 64. About a year and a half ago I weighed just over 10 stone. At 5'3" I was only just entering the overweight category but I had worrying rolls of fat around my waist and was starting to suffer health problems, a worrying pain in my side after eating and terrible heartburn in bed.

Then I watched the Michael Mosley programme and decided to give the 5:2 a try. I will be honest and say that the weight didn't come off quickly. I was losing about 1lb a week and some weeks only a few ounces and then I would plateau for a few weeks. Eventually though my weight dropped and I got down to 8stone 5lb.

After I reached this weight I should have maintained by doing 6:1, which I did do for a while. However my daughter developed a kind of binge eating disorder due to the break up of her relationship. While this was going on I felt that it was insensitive to be fasting and so I stopped. The weight has crept up a bit and I am now just below 9 stone. Now this episode has passed I am back to the fast days as I like what they do for me healthwise and I prefer to drop the weight and be thin as I am healthier that way, otherwise it tends to pile on around my stomach and waist.

I think that restrictive diets make you crave the foods you can't have. For instance I tried a gluten free diet and ended up craving bread. I don't know why fasting is different but it is. It just makes you forget to eat (although you feel hungry and ready for your 500 calories by the time you have fasted all day). Other people spread the 500 out over the day but I find it easier to save till the evening and easier not to eat at all than eat a few calories. It is a natural thing to lightly for a couple of days a week and eating more the next day keeps your metabolism up.

I would add that when you get to your target weight then maintenance is only 6:1 and that is freedom! There is a 5:2 thread in the health and beauty section which you may find interesting.

As I say good luck with the diet and I hope it works for you but its just a little advice for a rainy day.

margaretclare

Thank you very much for this. I may well give this a go if/when I get down a bit further. Having lost quite a bit using the Dukan system and having had reduction mammoplasty last February, I really did not want it all to start creeping back. Yes, I could definitely fast for one day a week, after all I did that when I almost became a nun, we did it in the convent.

I decided to give this a go for one month. I started on Monday and since then have lost 1 kg, that's 2.2 pounds. I haven't found any problems with it so far at all. Today we had kippers for breakfast, my one slice of wholemeal toast and butter, coffee with whole milk. For lunch we're having meatballs with stir-fry veg. Dr Clark is a great fan of stir-fries - he advocates buying a wok! We've had one for years.

We have one night away in late May, going to Tamworth, then our holiday in Switzerland in June. After that, we're invited to a friend's wedding in late August.

dandelionclock30

margaretclare wrote: »

Thank you very much for this. I may well give this a go if/when I get down a bit further. Having lost quite a bit using the Dukan system and having had reduction mammoplasty last February, I really did not want it all to start creeping back. Yes, I could definitely fast for one day a week, after all I did that when I almost became a nun, we did it in the convent.

I decided to give this a go for one month. I started on Monday and since then have lost 1 kg, that's 2.2 pounds. I haven't found any problems with it so far at all. Today we had kippers for breakfast, my one slice of wholemeal toast and butter, coffee with whole milk. For lunch we're having meatballs with stir-fry veg. Dr Clark is a great fan of stir-fries - he advocates buying a wok! We've had one for years.

We have one night away in late May, going to Tamworth, then our holiday in Switzerland in June. After that, we're invited to a friend's wedding in late August.

I'm not being rude but you may find it very difficult to lose weight eating like this. Theres too much fat there. Perhaps you would benefit from looking at somewhere like slimming world instead.