How to lose weight - it's simple

gemmajenkins0208

Bogalot wrote: »

Your metabolism will be all over the place if you're doing that every day. Three balanced meals (coffee and sugar is not a meal!) and healthy snacks, you'll be consuming more but your body won't be fighting against starvation mode for half the day.

I never go hungry, i am just doing too much with my time to be thinking about food all the time.

I don't drink, i don't eat sweets/chocolate and i very rarely have takeout(maybe a small handful of times a year)

I get full up on what i do eat/drink throughout the day.

I naturally get tired when it gets close to 11pm so i go to sleep at 11. I am up at 6am sharp every morning without any alarms.

When i have time off work like a week off or something my eating habits remain pretty much the same despite me sitting around doing basically nothing for the whole week, or in other words, relaxing!

Bogalot

gemmajenkins0208 wrote: »

I never go hungry, i am just doing too much with my time to be thinking about food all the time.

I don't drink, i don't eat sweets/chocolate and i very rarely have takeout(maybe a small handful of times a year)

I get full up on what i do eat/drink throughout the day.

I naturally get tired when it gets close to 11pm so i go to sleep at 11. I am up at 6am sharp every morning without any alarms.

When i have time off work like a week off or something my eating habits remain pretty much the same despite me sitting around doing basically nothing for the whole week, or in other words, relaxing!

You've not read what I've said, this isn't about you feeling hungry or not, it's your body not knowing what is going on because you're not feeding it properly.

Weight Watchers have sample plans online, as do Slimming World. Both place an emphasis on balance and eating a decent breakfast. Why not have a look at them?

Alternatively if you're not willing to make changes, then you can just continue to carry around all that excess weight.

bsod

gemmajenkins0208 wrote: »

I have 1 milky coffee with 2 and a half sugars for breakfast

So, please, explain to me why I am 3 stone overweight...?!

Not quite a simple as "eat less move more", is it really?

Same reason as everyone else, too many calories.

2.5 sugars x 10 years, or 312 litres of sugary energy drink = 3 stone of fat

It's even simpler, eat and drink less, move the same.

brown bread and processed meats aren't particularly healthy

gemmajenkins0208

Hmm, i haven't been having coffees in the morning for very long(about 6-7 months maybe) but i used to have nothing at all in the mornings, at least I'm having something now which is better than before but still...

When you do the math on the sugar like that it kind of puts it into perspective.

Maybe - if I've gone from nothing at all to having a drink - i can go one step more and swap out the drink for water and a very small piece of fruit, or a small handful of grapes/berries.

The main reason i don't eat in the mornings is because 9 times out of 10 it makes me nauseous. I'm not pregnant! It's been like that for years!

Leear

If only it was that simple.

The body adapts to less food and makes you burn less and slowdown,

This is why after a few weeks, people hit a fatigue wall and stop loosing weight .

As muscle is heavier than fat, it is normal that weight gain is common, so people tend to think they are getting fat again, because their weight goes up and they loose the motivation to continue.

gemmajenkins0208

Leear wrote: »

As muscle is heavier than fat, it is normal that weight gain is common, so people tend to think they are getting fat again, because their weight goes up and they loose the motivation to continue.

I have heard about this. I've seen the picture showing a pound of muscle and a pound of fat. The pound of muscle is tiny in comparison!

So as per my previous post, it's all well and good me saying I'm 3 stone overweight, but I'm not big like that, i take a UK size 14 in most clothes(depending where i buy from) and as i said i do manual work, so i expect it's mainly muscle. I was most probably just looking at a very generic chart telling me that a female of my height should be x stone in weight... :think:

Leear

Its not just an equation of how much you eat and how much you burn that makes fat (or muscle) its the quality of what you eat is important. It is a question of balance and your metabolic rate, and we are all different with different lifestyles and ambitions.

The key is not what you weigh, its what you are happy with as your body and what you do (or don't do) about it.

bigfreddiel

gemmajenkins0208 wrote: »

I have heard about this. I've seen the picture showing a pound of muscle and a pound of fat. The pound of muscle is tiny in comparison!

So as per my previous post, it's all well and good me saying I'm 3 stone overweight, but I'm not big like that, i take a UK size 14 in most clothes(depending where i buy from) and as i said i do manual work, so i expect it's mainly muscle. I was most probably just looking at a very generic chart telling me that a female of my height should be x stone in weight... :think:

And when that pound of muscle turns to fat as t surely will, just think how large you're going to be!


Cheers fj

bigfreddiel

Leear wrote: »

Its not just an equation of how much you eat and how much you burn that makes fat (or muscle) its the quality of what you eat is important. It is a question of balance and your metabolic rate, and we are all different with different lifestyles and ambitions.

The key is not what you weigh, its what you are happy with as your body and what you do (or don't do) about it.

Cobblers, we all start of at about 8lbs so there is no excuse for getting obese in later years, about 10 years old now!

fj

bigfreddiel

gemmajenkins0208 wrote: »

I work in a manual job where I am constantly on my feet for 6-8 hours every day. I have 1 milky coffee with 2 and a half sugars for breakfast as I'm never hungry enough but know I need something. I have 1 brown bread sandwich with ham and no spread for lunch and a fresh, homemade cooked meal when I get in the door every evening and I carry a litre bottle of water around with me all day which is empty by the time I get home.

So, please, explain to me why I am 3 stone overweight...?!

Not quite a simple as "eat less move more", is it really?

Sugar is a problem for you.

The reason your fat is all that snacking you do between meals. You don't know you're doing it but that's the reason.

fj