Lose Weight 21

Suggs

Summer is on the way :j

Welcome to the place where we encourage you not to save £'s but to lose Lb's instead

So you wanna lose weight? You've come to the right place!

Pull up a chair and join in the chat, whatever plan you're following to lose weight, be it SW, WW, RC, or just plain old reducing what you eat and increasing the exercise, there'll be someone here that can help and advise, or offer moral support.

There are plenty of regulars here who follow all types of plan and will be willing and able to help you out or at least point you in the right direction.

During the course of the week, feel free to post your weekly loss, gain or no change, and see your results in a chart that's updated every Wednesday evening. To help us older folk quickly spot the losses, please post the loss as BOLD and Colourful as possible (Its helps those of us with bad eyes )

Also you can take part in the 5lb monthly challenge - Next one has just about started so get your name down quick and post your name and start the new list. Also you could be Slimmer of the Week, or Slimmer of the Month! :j:j The chart is currently maintained by one of our delightful ladies, Efrieze

We have plenty of recipes to help you in the recipes thread (link below) and there are links to useful websites below.

• Latest Weight Loss chart

• My Story - Suggs' Story :j
• Starlight_xx 's Story :j
  

• Various SW and WW style recipes can be found HERE

• BMI calculator
• BMR calculator
• Daily calorie needs
• Calorie intake to lose weight
• Food Focus Website
• 20 ideas to get started

• Slimming World
• Weight Watchers
• Rosemary Conley

• Lose Weight 15
• Lose Weight 16
• Lose Weight 17
• Lose Weight 18 - Before and After Efrieze
  
• Lose Weight 19 - Before and After Suggs
  
• Lose Weight 20 - Before and After Starlight
  

There are some friendly peoples 'Before and After' Pics on Lose Weight 18, 19 and 20

So come and join us, we're a friendly bunch! There are even one or two gentlemen hiding amongst us! Well one of us is gentle

Suggs
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Brighton_belle

great, well done suggs:D I really appreciate the effort you put into this.
Edit: yeah, I'm first. I'm first.

Suggs

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Edit: yeah, I'm first. I'm first.

I have heard that about you

PinkLipgloss

Ooooh shiny new thread - thanks Suggs!

So - what special prize has Brighton Belle won?

vixarooni

woo hoo.

Ive been waiting for this one. Being 21 an all i see that this thread can only be the start of good things

thanks sugarooni

Suggs

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

Ooooh shiny new thread - thanks Suggs!

So - what special prize has Brighton Belle won?

Ahh its a mystery prize!! as in I dont know either :rotfl:

purplecatlover

ooh shiny new thread, thanks suggs.

last night i got told i have lost weight. one of the girls in my class hadnt been for a couple weeks and she said she could see it. now why wont the scales agree?

victory

thanks suggs:D

1 and a half hours to wait for a blood test:eek: anyway came back and I have won a british pullman lunch on the orient express when I entered the comp thread, I have actually won something yeah:j :j :j only one lunch one ticket mind so will have to go alone (not paying for OH to come otherwise I have not won anything:rolleyes: too tight and skint to buy him a ticket when I have won mine:D )

Always wanted to go on the orient express:D

Suggs

Well done on the win Victory, :beer: Hope you enjoy it

petrichor

Thanks Suggs for starting the new thread, didn't the last one seem to pass quickly?...

...Well done to all who are posting losses :j keep it up :j ...

...Reasonable weekend for me foodwise; I went and bought the ice cream :rolleyes: but in my defence it wasn't really my fault, as my mother needed some frozen veg that she particularly likes so I couldn't justify the travel costs otherwise :rotfl: I will however limit myself as to the amount I eat each day and try and have a bit more sbstantial food instead...

...I like the sound of that bean dish you mentioned ajax just the sort of stuff I like. I'm glad you mentioned canned rataouille, it's such a versatile stand by product :j I think you're the first to mention it here. Anyway, keep posting because you make me laugh ie:rotfl: ...

...Good luck with the dissertation Vix ...

...There have been some lovely posts over the weekend that certainly helped me even though they weren't aimed at me, but thanks anyway :T ...

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missyg_3

Thanks Suggs for the new thread!

Procrastinator - please, please get your calories up hon! What you have written for today's menu could be as low as 500 calories, this is not enough for a day. If you're exercising on this too, then your body is almost certainly storing everything it can get as fat and this is why you are gaining.

I have been exactly where you are - the harder it was for the weight to come off, the more I reduced calories and increased exercise and in the end it had the opposite effect. It was then that I started learning about calories and getting the right balance and things started moving again. I've run into the same thing again recently (though not as extreme as last time), and I'm just trying to sort the balance out again. It CAN be done, you really do not need to starve yourself.

Please at least add some wholegrain - a couple of slices of wholemeal bread, some ryvitas with spread, or something like that to today's menu to get you up towards 1,000ish, and preferably another snack of about 200 cals as well. On a typical 'minimum' day I eat one full meal (usually lunch, which must include protein), cereal with semi skimmed milk & a yoghurt drink, and 2 slices of toast. Sometimes I can have a snack too depending on what the meal was That is still very low but remember I have low body weight and correspondingly low BMR - someone with higher BMR would be able to eat more and still lose the same amount as me.

Jump on the scales as much as you like but remember it's only the 'official' weigh in that counts! Mine goes up, quite dramatically, for seemingly no reason too sometimes - I think the exercise affects this in a big way, and I think Suggs would agree there. I know I'm still getting to grips with that.

I'm going to post this straight away as it's lunchtime and I'll come back in a bit to catch up with everything else.