Problems of weight loss

margaretclare

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

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.

There's fat but there's very little carbohydrate. One slice of wholemeal bread has 17.5g of carbohydrate.

I did look at Slimming World. My stepdaughter has had a lot of success with it and did her best to explain it to me. I couldn't get my head around it. I did say at the beginning of this that I'd looked at, or tried, almost everything else known to man.

I got this book on Monday and since then I appear to have lost 1 kg, or 2.2 pounds. I said I'll stick with it for one month, until we go to Tamworth in late May.

Cloudydaze

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

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.

Nooooo....


People need to stop believing the fat is bad myth.


I'm a great believer of the type of diet Margaretclare is following. I think the breakfast sounds perfect (and tasty!).

onlyroz

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

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.

There's nothing wrong with fat. Kippers for brekkie is far better than a bowl of cereal.

blossomsuz

I have struggled with my weight since my early 20s now early 30s. On and off I have tried numerous diets and health kicks, I lost a lot of weight before my wedding but that was through a lot of exercise that was impossible to keep up with working full time also.


14 weeks ago I started the Fast Diet, where two none consecutive days you eat 500 calories and the rest of the week stick to a healthy calorie intake. I have in 14 weeks lost 1 stone 4lbs.


It is hard on the fast days and some days I go to bed hungry BUT always look forward to breakfast the next day and I believe that this way of dieting has actually made me stop and look at what I am eating. I do still exercise but only really dog walking.


Overall I am pleased with this diet and I think I will stick to it, I firmly believe that I may have to follow it for life even when I get to my target weight and just up the calories on none fast days as I believe a lack of structure in my eating has been my downfall for the past 10 plus years.

closed

The stress of worrying about weight may be more damaging to your health than the weight itself, there are diminishing returns to a punishing and miserable diet the older you get.

The you're not eating enough idea is clearly nonsense, however many websites and forums and psuedo science blogs dressed up as fact to make money claim it.

Too many calories in is the cause, fewer calories in is the way to reverse it.

No books, courses, fad diets, excuses, expense required, eat less always works.

Mojisola

blossomsuz wrote: »

14 weeks ago I started the Fast Diet, where two none consecutive days you eat 500 calories and the rest of the week stick to a healthy calorie intake. I have in 14 weeks lost 1 stone 4lbs.

Overall I am pleased with this diet and I think I will stick to it, I firmly believe that I may have to follow it for life even when I get to my target weight and just up the calories on none fast days as I believe a lack of structure in my eating has been my downfall for the past 10 plus years.

Once you get to your target weight, you could try doing just one fast day a week. It's enough to keep you aware of what you're eating and what being hungry feels like.

This way of eating is very flexible - you can swap between 4/3, 5/2 and 6/1 as needed.

margaretclare

If you've found something that works for you then stick with it. My problem was that most of the things I'd tried did not work. I've now found something that - apparently, early days yet - does work.

Kippers contain oily fat which is good for us. We get them from the local fisherman's co-operative. They're not so heavily-dyed as the supermarket ones, and they're bigger too.

I agree with Cloudydaze. 'Fat is bad' is a mantra which has been fed to us over the last 30 years or so but there is now a lot of research which says 'not so'. Most processed foods which are labelled 'low fat' will have sugar, in some form, added.

Going back a few years, if you wanted/were advised to lose weight (fewer people did then) you were advised to cut out or limit carbohydrates: bread and potatoes mainly, because not so many people ate rice and pasta then. My mother was admitted to hospital in early 1975 with a coronary thrombosis. I'll never forget seeing her looking at a plate of steamed fish. She hated the idea of fish-bones getting into her throat. All she wanted was some bread and butter and that was the one thing she wasn't allowed because of her weight. She weighed 11 stones. This, I think, had mainly crept up in the last 2 or 3 years since she stopped being so active and running around after other people, riding her bike etc. Me, I couldn't imagine ever weighing as much as 11 stones, I suppose I weighed about 9 then. Over recent years I was approaching 12 1/2, now down to 11 stone 6 pounds. But I'll never forget, what my mum was forbidden was bread, what she was given was fish - pure protein.

margaretclare

closed wrote: »

The stress of worrying about weight may be more damaging to your health than the weight itself, there are diminishing returns to a punishing and miserable diet the older you get.

The you're not eating enough idea is clearly nonsense, however many websites claim it.

Too many calories in is the cause, fewer calories in is the way to reverse it.

No books, courses, fad diets, excuses, expense required, eat less always works.

DH's mantra is 'eat less and less often'. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for him and it doesn't work for me. I'm a great believer in: find something that works for you and stick with it.

closed

I'm a great believer in not looking for a complicated solution to a simple problem.

If you eat nothing, you'll lose weight

If you eat lots, you'll put on weight

Clearly somewhere between the two is stay the same weight, and lose weight. If a diet isn't working, your calorie intake is too high.

Brown bread usually has more sugar and calories in it than white.

Cloudydaze

closed wrote: »

I'm a great believer in not looking for a complicated solution to a simple problem.

If you eat nothing, you'll lose weight

If you eat lots, you'll put on weight

Clearly somewhere between the two is stay the same weight, and lose weight. If a diet isn't working, your calorie intake is too high.

I agree to an extent but simple calorie counting is not enough. You've also got to factor in that you do need certain 'nutrients' for a healthy body (and mind). Low calorie doesn't mean it's good for you and high-calories doesn't mean it's bad.

Then there's the added complication for people with allergies, food intolerances, low budgets, moral & ethical reasons for not eating certain foods.

The key is to eat less calories but make sure each of those calories have a nutritional value.