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How to stay motivated when you have a lot of weight to lose?
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fairy_lights wrote: »How does it do that?
I don't know cos I'm not a doctor
However I did listen to a doctor the other week on the radio
What scientist are saying is the empty calorie of an artificial sweetener cheats our brains. So our body gets all geared to deal with a dense calorie, doesn't get it, so doesn't produce the insulin we need. The more we subject our brain and body to this 'tricking' the more chance we have of our bodies/brains giving up preparing to deal with the sweet stuff it's expecting, so when we do have that cake or bit of chocolate, it's just left to lay as fat
Or something like that
It was really interesting and I've not given justice to the explanation0 -
Id also recommend myfitnesspal (MFP) I was steered towards it by my GP after my cholesterol level was a bit high - prob a polite way of saying watch what i eat as I was overweight.
MFP educates you in portion size and how calorific different foods are. You have to be true to what you eat and fastidious in logging everything, but it soon becomes second nature .
I have lost 6 stone using MFP and by increasing my activity levels by walking - use a step counter, and have kept it off for 3 years!:hello:0 -
Erm, I have to extend a deadline a little further.... put on 2lb on a week's holiday. But hey, I can lose that and then carry on. Started back low carbing with a vengence today. Expect results by next weekend. Then I have another week or so until my birthday - another target date, naturally!
Go us!
M
Probably the main things to remember are;
there are plenty of delish meals you CAN eat so think positively, not deprivedly (I know that isn't a word!),
plan meals and have an appropriate snack with you to avoid food anxiety. Chances are you won't eat the snack but it is very helpful to just know it is available should you find you are running very late etc.I have changed my work-life balance to a life-work balance.
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I recommend the 5:2 Intermittent Fasting method.
DD did it and bought the book for us. After putting on 4lbs in 4 days in Ireland we got real. I read the whole book, taking on board Michael Mosley's ideas, based on research.
Women have around 500 calories on two days a week, men have 600. Eat normally the rest if the time. However, the miracle is that your appetite reduces and for some reason, you eat far less than previously on 'normal' days.
Nothing is banned, so it works psychologically. If you fancy something on a fast day, there's no 'cant', although better to have it tomorrow - by then you probably won't.
We started on April 25th. OH has lost 2st8lbs. Another stone to go. I am 1lb off target, having lost 21lbs.
We feel more energetic and far better.
It doesn't feel like a diet at all. Brilliant recipes in the book and online.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
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You could start just by being "calorie aware", so you know what you're scoffing. Then halve your portions by telling yourself "it's still there if I'm hungry later". e.g. instead of having two slices of toast, have just one. It'll still be there later for another one slice if you really need it - and, often, you find you don't. Often, it's just that initial taste that's the best/nicest and the rest of what you're eating is just because it's in front of you.
If you're "calorie aware" then you can start to make choices about whether to buy something, whether to eat it - and frequency.
Also, don't always go for "best value".
e.g. I know that a packet of crisps is about 100-120 calories. I try to limit buying them to 3x a year. In the shops I know that a 6-pack is better value than one bag, so I buy the 6-packs (3x a year).
However, I nearly got sucked into buying a 30-pack the other day!!
I picked up a six pack, then saw the 30s and they were so much better value I took the 6-pack out of my basket and put the 30-pack in ... then I looked at it and thought "if you buy those you're going to eat them all. You don't NEED to eat 30 packets", so I put them back .... and bought the 6-pack instead.
If I'd bought the 30 I'd have eaten them all by now, 24 extra packets, 3000 calories (1 lb of lard) that I'm not now carrying!0 -
Stick to real unprocessed food, loads of water, and mainly fruit and veg. I am revisiting the F Plan which worked for me a few years ago. You need to think of it as change of eating for life, not just for the duration of the diet.must say NO to impulse buys!GC March Challenge £182/200
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Yes yes Pasturesnew! Totally agree with what you said. I use the calorie-aware thought process but combine it with a desire not to be suckered into buying crud (technical term for food with no real beneficial value!). I realised some time before I started to adopt a diet that I was dismissing certain foods as a rip-off or just a way of getting cheap ingredients into my shopping trolley. So now when I go to a supermarket there are A LOT of aisles that I have no need to walk down, I mean A LOT!
Fresh veg and salads do have a feelgood factor and now the days are cooling I am making soups. What could be more comforting than a bowl of hot soup?!
M
PS a friend of mine does the 5:2 diet and has success. I feel itmis not one for me though. It is not that hard to lose weight if you find a method that suits you personally. It may take a few tries but you will find it.I have changed my work-life balance to a life-work balance.0 -
I cordially loathe exercise. The pedometer was approached with a great deal of dubiousness, but it does nothing other than record the number of steps I've taken. Within a week I am now trying to rack up "a higher score", am inadvertently exercising and not stressing over it.
I will move onto somewhat more vehement changes of foodstuff as I do not want to be a total whale at my parent's 50th wedding anniversary, but all within reason. (Also, if I can get below 80kg [big if, TBH] then I can have a go on the zipwire with scouts & they just looked So Happy.)
Any weight loss will make my knees last longer, fend diabetes off longer and generally improve the amount of voom I've got so I hope to stay motivated by just feeling so much better!0 -
Stick to real unprocessed food, loads of water, and mainly fruit and veg. I am revisiting the F Plan which worked for me a few years ago. You need to think of it as change of eating for life, not just for the duration of the diet.
I did the F plan almost 20 years ago! :eek:
I found that I could not stop losing and became gaunt, although I thought I was the bee's knees in my size 8s!
Once I stopped, there was no maintenance guidance. With 5:2, it's easy to change to 6:1 for maintenance. And there's no fibre-fill to make: that became a drag.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)0
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