Depression and Obesity. Thats me!

Horasio

I find depression and weight gain go hand in hand

I find it relates to how often you can goto the loo properly. I started to put on weight when I couldn't go properly, so I find constipation is a contributory factor to weight gain which is related to depression.

seraphin_2

Slimming world sounds like it would work for you, red/green days or both. I never feel hungry, can eat lots of good food, it makes you look at your eating habits, i loved white bread,cheese,pasties,etc,etc, and i know full well thats what made me fat in the first place !

I can still have my chinese takeaway on a sat pm, and eat normally whithout having to say "im not allowed that", you can eat anything as long as you work out the "syn" value, but beleive me at 15 syns a day, that packet of crisps isent worth it at 9 syns for a normal bag of crisps, when beef chow mein on a green day is 8.5 syns, i know what id rather eat as a treat !

Its limiting fats and sugars that seem to be the key for me, as i say its really easy, and the meals fit around my family as well.

Maybe have a look on e-bay for the packs, and if you need any help, please feel free to pm me, if i can help you at all i will.

Theres also a slimming world thread on here, really helpful and offers brilliant support.

Im determined to lose me weight, I also have about the same as you to lose (i hide it well,as im tall !!) but find losing steadily has boosted my self confidence no end, ive gone down 2 dress sizes already, so the exercise is helping me lose inches as well as pounds.

Good luck whatever you decide

sarah

lisa_martin_2

Bobsa1 we can do it!!!

I am going to somewhere quiet at the moors where me and hubby can walk!!

I can do it! you can do it! we can do it! I'll post later and let u know how I get on,

on another note I weighed this morning even tho I know i shouldn't have as I weighedon Sunday and scales tell me I have lost 5lb!! see one day off the crisps and good things happen!!

Ted_Hutchinson

Anyone who thinks increasing the amount of exercise they do will make them lose weight permanently should read this link
Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner? -- New York Magazine

To understand what makes us fat try spending the hour and a half listening to this Berkley lecture by Gary Taubes.
The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care

If you can persuade you library to buy it the newly published book
The Diet Delusion: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Loss and Disease is well worth studying. I've still got a couple of hundred pages to read but since I altered my diet to severely reduce the carb element I've lost 10lbs which is pretty good going for 2 weeks, especially as I don't feel hungry and have lost the craving for food & alcohol. I'm not doing the Atkins type regime but basing my diet on this Lowcarbohydrate Diet. For Weight Loss and Good Health.

belfastgirl23

Ted_Hutchinson wrote: »

Anyone who thinks increasing the amount of exercise they do will make them lose weight permanently should read this link
Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner? -- New York Magazine

To understand what makes us fat try spending the hour and a half listening to this Berkley lecture by Gary Taubes.
The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care

If you can persuade you library to buy it the newly published book
The Diet Delusion: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Loss and Disease is well worth studying. I've still got a couple of hundred pages to read but since I altered my diet to severely reduce the carb element I've lost 10lbs which is pretty good going for 2 weeks, especially as I don't feel hungry and have lost the craving for food & alcohol. I'm not doing the Atkins type regime but basing my diet on this Lowcarbohydrate Diet. For Weight Loss and Good Health.

I guess in terms of dieting I think there's a certain amount of truth that you probably eat a bit more when you exercise. However in terms of how you appear exercise certainly helps. To illustrate, I have a pair of trousers that (when I wasn't exercising) were impossible to wear at 12 stone since I couldn't sit down in them . I am now a bit over 12 stone and they fit well. So the fact that I'm exercising means that although I weigh roughly the same, I fit into slightly smaller clothes.

I do also think that since the OP mentioned depression exercise will also be really important to make her feel better.

I do think you're probably right on carbs though. Not on all carbs but on the white bread and white pasta type carbs which are really just sugar in another form much as I love them. This relates to CCStar's point as well, this kind of diet also lacks fibre which is another important element.

Guess it's all related really but I stand by the importance of exercise. It makes life seem better. You feel better about everything. Even taking out any benefits for weightloss it's still good for both physical and mental health.

How are you getting on OP?

lisa_martin_2

Hi Belfastgirl I am going to have a look at the link you gave later.

Thanks for your help :-)

Lisa

lisa_martin_2

I ordered Paul McKenna I can make you thin (or something like that it is called) from the library so I am going to give that a try too when it arrives :-) hehe

lisa_martin_2

owens3116 wrote: »

hi
Just read your first post and i can sypmthise with you a few years ago i was 6 stone overweight and my husband had a affiar whilst i was in the middle of fertlitly treatment !!!!
I sufferd very seriuos depression anhows i left my cheating hubby and joined ww its the best diet going i love it cos its sooo flexible . I lost over 6 stone with them
Im now remarried with a beatufull daughter (no fertility treamtnet) and ive rejoined cos ive put some back on with a bad pregnancy but i know with this fantastc diet i can do it again .................oh and the depression is finally under control i still take meds but im soo much better and i lead a noral life

xxxx

Hey, am glad you are back on track. I am hoping to be up there with you too.

I will be slim again and I will be able to go out and be 'normal'

xxx

lisa_martin_2

moomin_white wrote: »

well, i'm doing it at the moment and really determined! the book is very inspiring and makes me feel very confident and even if i have a bad eating day - i don't worry about it and eat healthy the next day
it's a bit cheesy but very positive and is working.
if you're depressed/down, a good website (recommended by my GP) is livinglifetothefull.com
good luck with it all

Will visit this site too.

Thanks for your help :-)

lisa_martin_2

fluffynit wrote: »

hi

well done for making the first step in dealing with the issues you have to tackle.

I have been doing slimming world since Nov and have lost a stone. Nice slow steady weightloss and have never gone hungry, infact I have just had a plate of slimming world chips

You can be referred to slimming world by your gp, and it is paid for 12 weeks.

good luck with whatever healthy eating plan you choose to follow

http://www.slimmingworld.com/healthcentre/synergies_slimming_on_referral.asp

I can do that? Can u use join online or does it have to be the "meetings" dont think I can do that just yet :-(

Thanks, Lisa.