Old Style Weight Loss 2019 Part 3

FrugalLina

Thanks Brambling and Honeythewitch, you both give great advice.

DundeeDoll, well done for getting straight back to healthy eating after the lapse - that is half the battle, not giving up.

Hi Katie_J, welcome, I am glad another newbie has joined us.

So, I started the book that I was talking about, The Obesity Code and it is very lengthy, but the crux (near the end, of course) is intermittent fasting. Not something I have successfully tried before, but my sister has done the 5:2 diet and raves about it. This book seems to advocate a more 4:3 fast to normal ratio. It also stipulates cutting out added sugars and snacking. :undecided

I've always calorie counted and exercised (a bit too much as I have an obsessive personality:wall:) and can lose a good amount of weight, but never been able to keep it off long-term.

I am eating out this evening, but intend to get started tomorrow.:eek:

Katie_j

Thanks everyone for the welcome. I'm an emotional eater and have put on quite a bit of weight in the last year as it's been a tough one. So I'm hoping for any sort of a loss. FrugalLina I'm interested in how you get on with the book you've said about. I have previously joined SW but feel that has made food an issue rather than helping.

honeythewitch

FrugalLina wrote: »

Thanks Brambling and Honeythewitch, you both give great advice.

DundeeDoll, well done for getting straight back to healthy eating after the lapse - that is half the battle, not giving up.

Hi Katie_J, welcome, I am glad another newbie has joined us.

So, I started the book that I was talking about, The Obesity Code and it is very lengthy, but the crux (near the end, of course) is intermittent fasting. Not something I have successfully tried before, but my sister has done the 5:2 diet and raves about it. This book seems to advocate a more 4:3 fast to normal ratio. It also stipulates cutting out added sugars and snacking. :undecided

I've always calorie counted and exercised (a bit too much as I have an obsessive personality:wall:) and can lose a good amount of weight, but never been able to keep it off long-term.

I am eating out this evening, but intend to get started tomorrow.:eek:

It sounds like it will be effective, because anything that cuts the calories will work, but doesn't sound very sustainable. Unless you just cut calories on one day when you reach target?

I tend to be able to lose weight ok, but the minute I stop making a huge effort i am porky again in no time.
This time I am attempting to not do anything drastic, and not cut anything out in the hope I can carry on.

Katie_j wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the welcome. I'm an emotional eater and have put on quite a bit of weight in the last year as it's been a tough one. So I'm hoping for any sort of a loss. FrugalLina I'm interested in how you get on with the book you've said about. I have previously joined SW but feel that has made food an issue rather than helping.

SW is a healthy way of eating, but can have the effect of making you feel like a failure when you cant stick to it because there is too much pie and not enough syns.
(To be fair, they do have something called "flexible syns" where you eat what you want up to a decided amount, and start again the next day for special occasions)

Todays food...

Chicken, broccoli, potatoes, onion gravy.

Corn on the cob

Peaches.

Eggs on toast.

(I need to find something not sugary to make with egg whites, because I only use the yolks. The things I used to use them for, like meringues and pavlovas, are the reason I have to go on a diet! )

FrugalLina

Katie_j, I will let you know how I get on once I have figured it out, I am thinking I may as well give it a go.

Yes, Honeythewitch, that is how I am - brilliant when on plan, but it is sustaining it that I can't manage. I don't know how the book suggests one maintains their weight, maybe that information is further on in the book, I still have a bit left to read. But my sister, who did the 5:2 diet, just does the odd day here and there and has kept her weight off for a couple of years now.

Need2bthrifty

Morning All and welcome Katie_j

I've only just caught up with the thread after a busy weekend decluttering (a bag of clothes and a bag of curtains/tablecloths for the charity shop, also dealt with a few years worth of paperwork resulting in 1 bag of shredding) oh it feels so good to finally get around to doing all that.

Brambling I did Tai Chi a few years ago when I was still working and loved it, I was in a stressful job and it really helped to relax me, clear my mind and focus on something else. I must do a search and see if there are any classes on around here.

A 1lb loss for me this week. Change in weather and temp had me thinking less salad and more comfort food and a bit like DundeeDoll I slipped a bit over the weekend adding some chips, fish finger sarnies , garlic bread to the meal plan and am now thinking if I hadn't it might have been 1.5 but heigh-ho its done and I'm back on track again.

B - boiled egg, oatcake.
L - lentil soup, crispbread, then some fruit to follow
D - gammon, new pots, cauliflower & sweetcorn

honeythewitch

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Morning All and welcome Katie_j

I've only just caught up with the thread after a busy weekend decluttering (a bag of clothes and a bag of curtains/tablecloths for the charity shop, also dealt with a few years worth of paperwork resulting in 1 bag of shredding) oh it feels so good to finally get around to doing all that.

Brambling I did Tai Chi a few years ago when I was still working and loved it, I was in a stressful job and it really helped to relax me, clear my mind and focus on something else. I must do a search and see if there are any classes on around here.

A 1lb loss for me this week. Change in weather and temp had me thinking less salad and more comfort food and a bit like DundeeDoll I slipped a bit over the weekend adding some chips, fish finger sarnies , garlic bread to the meal plan and am now thinking if I hadn't it might have been 1.5 but heigh-ho its done and I'm back on track again.

B - boiled egg, oatcake.
L - lentil soup, crispbread, then some fruit to follow
D - gammon, new pots, cauliflower & sweetcorn

A pound is a really good loss, Need2bthrifty. Well done. :T

FrugalLina

Need2bthrifty, that is a good loss considering the chips and all!

So, I weighed myself this morning, although Weds are going to be my official weigh-in day, I needed a start figure. Oh dear, oh dear, I am quite upset with myself. I have 7 stone to lose and can't believe I am doing it for the 3rd time in my life. :eek:

Anyway, it has to be done, because I am feeling quite ill with the extra weight, a lot of joint pain and tiredness.

So, despite going to France with my sister in 9 days I am aiming to lose 6lbs by the end of September (there is always water weight in the first week or two anyway). Brambling, please add me to the list.

To be honest, I am more likely to lose weight while spending time with my sister because she is very strict with her husband's diet and her own, plus she likes to walk a lot.

So, here we go! :T

honeythewitch

FrugalLina wrote: »

Need2bthrifty, that is a good loss considering the chips and all!

So, I weighed myself this morning, although Weds are going to be my official weigh-in day, I needed a start figure. Oh dear, oh dear, I am quite upset with myself. I have 7 stone to lose and can't believe I am doing it for the 3rd time in my life. :eek:

Anyway, it has to be done, because I am feeling quite ill with the extra weight, a lot of joint pain and tiredness.

So, despite going to France with my sister in 9 days I am aiming to lose 6lbs by the end of September (there is always water weight in the first week or two anyway). Brambling, please add me to the list.

To be honest, I am more likely to lose weight while spending time with my sister because she is very strict with her husband's diet and her own, plus she likes to walk a lot.

So, here we go! :T

I think I need to go and stay with your sister too!

FrugalLina

Honeythewitch, she could run some kind of weight loss retreat and make a fortune! Last time I holidayed with them I lost 2lbs and that was only a 4-day stay, LOL.

Need2bthrifty

FrugalLina wrote: »

Need2bthrifty, that is a good loss considering the chips and all!

So, I weighed myself this morning, although Weds are going to be my official weigh-in day, I needed a start figure. Oh dear, oh dear, I am quite upset with myself. I have 7 stone to lose and can't believe I am doing it for the 3rd time in my life. :eek:

Don't be upset, you know that you can do it.

I was really good Mon - Fri with no alcohol, nuts, crisps, cakes or other sweet stuff, the only snacks I had in between meals were orange segments, cucumber & carrot sticks with tzatziki and after Brambling mentioned it I've also started nibbling on sugar snap peas if I feel the hunger.

If I start to feel hungry before it's the time I usually eat my meals I have a glass of water and that usually staves off the hunger for a bit. But also for me it's about portion size, a couple of years ago I got rid of all the HUGE dinner plates I had and managed to get some 22cm ones which are perfect for me. Also I measure things like pasta and rice even oven chips by the handful and now know what is comfortable for me to eat, no wastage, no leftovers unless I factor that in.

Boredom and bad habits are my downfall as well as the downside of cooking for 1, with that little bit that's leftover - not big enough for another portion or worth freezing so rather than waste it !!!!.