Naturally slim people to post

Wooops! that extra weight has stayed ON!

My problem is that I should be 5' 10"

I am 5ft5 and weigh 8st 8lbs. Lost a stone through flu and found it really hard to get the weight back. Have always been skinny (sparrow legs) was my childhood nickname! Don't eat large portions and am always happy to get a child's portion or share with DH. Had gallstones when I was 19 and had to go fat free for a year and think this changed my eating habits. Don't eat fried food at all and am known for eating tiny portions. Dont have a sweet tooth, prefer savoury but can be tempted by cake! Do ten thousand steps a day, so pretty active too.

I'm fat, 14 stone. Since January I've had a sore foot and can hardly walk. The weight is creeping on. I have an appointment tomorrow to see what's wrong with my foot. I know I eat too much bread. Two slices of toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, then about three biscuits in the afternoon with a cuppa. I used to drink wine every day but now only have about three gin and tonics a week. I am exactly the same shape as my gran was. Maybe it's all down to genetics.

Having an injury or problem feet can make exercising difficult inishowen
People who say they 'do thousands of steps a day' or 'walk miles with the dogs' make me very

My diet is very similar to PamelaJ1. Porridge made with water for breakfast and a little fresh fruit on top eg half a pear or plum and a splash of milk plus a mug of tea. Lunch is two slices of brown bread with ham or cheese and salad filling. I eat butter but spread very thinly. Dinner is meat or fish,three or four smallish new potatoes, broccoli, or any other fresh vegetable, or perhaps pasta or flan and salad. Might have a small slice of cake or yoghurt afterwards, plus mug of tea. I do like homemade cake but DH and I make it last a few days.

I am 5ft 3 and 9 stone. I am considered slim but not thin.

I'm a size 8/10. Was an 18 after my second baby and couldn't shift the weight till my doctor put me on what she calls the Stone Age Diet, not to lose weight but to sort out a problem with poor blood sugar control. (I would get low blood sugar a lot and was hungry every 2 hours.)

Stone Age (SA) is no gluten, dairy or sugar, and eating fresh unprocessed foods. It's also low-carb.

Yesterday:

- Redbush tea with soya milk

- 2 fried eggs with mushrooms

- Coffee (splash of soya milk). Cashew nuts.

- Cold chicken, lots of salad, salad dressing, blueberries, soya kefir (like yogurt)

- 2 oatcakes with hazelnut butter and rocket. Banana.

- Gluten-free spaghetti (not SA) with lentil and tomato sauce. Chard.

- Hardboiled egg with salt. Cashew nuts. Kefir.

I feel a lot better on this diet, don't get hungry and enjoy food more. In case anyone is interested:

www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Stone_Age_Diet_-_this_is_a_diet_which_we_all_should_follow

Is this the Paleo diet Skyandblossom?

I'm 5'8" about 9 stone. I eat a hard egg, half toast, and coffee for breakfast. Coffee and fruit mid morning. Salad or yoghurt, fresh veg, coffee, for lunch. Tea and nuts in the afternoon. A small piece of meat, large quantity and variety of veg, salad, and red wine for dinner. Cheese, fruit, or a pud later.

Some days I eat a larger variety and include carbs, it depends on my activity levels.

There was an article I read recently that studies show we eat on average fewer calories these days than in the seventies. There were lots of theories as to why, that despite that, we are getting fatter. I will try and find it and post link if I can. Theories included increased stress, sedentary lifestyles, pollution, all sorts!

I'm 8st 7 and on a typical week day. I eat toast or weetabix for breakie, a sandwich or nothing for lunch. Do. We is homecooked casserole/ ham egg chips, chilli, chicken and a jacket with salad. I do like my choccie but not every day and i only have a dessert on a Saturday ( unless tempted) Sometimes my diet is very good and sometimes not so. I never eat ready meals alway home cooked

I cant say I am slim . I am a size 14 and 5ft 7ins. I am not "fat" either but I have found I am getting flabby and my weight is settling round my middle and is impossible to shift. I dont eat that much I dont thin. I dont have breakfast at all. I have salad for lunch with a baked potato. My firm supplies lunch for free but if I had the main meal I would be 20 stones now. When I get home I usually have a light meal, something like a piece of toast.

My downfall I think is chocolate. I dont do much exercise. About 20 mins walking a day (to and from car)

However, I post because I was tryin g to diet a little ( with friends) and we all asked a colleague who is slim how she does it.

First she said "You have to want to". She comes from a family of biggies and has seen the problems.

She had a list of thin gs she wont eat - anything with sugar, no cakes, no biscuits, no chocolate. She didnt eat bread or potatoes or rice. Then ( you need to grab this) she walks for over four hours a day. Much of it deliberately. She walks her dog for 20 mins in a morning, half an hour at lunch, she walks the dog two hours before work and two hours after on an evening. She also plays golf weekly.

Her main meal is lunchtime. She has the works set meal( the meat or curry or whatever, never a large portion though) with a salad usually and some soup (ours is homemade). She only drinks water. As far as I gather breakfast is a small piece of toast ( she has that at work too) and she does the same on an evening, having a very light tea of fruit and custard. No snacks between meals. She sticks to it.

My friends and I heard this and decided that we were too miserable already to feel able to be even more miserable to want to try this.... but at least she gave an honest answer there.

Hi Jalima, it's similar to Paleo but on Stone Age you can eat beans and lentils and on Paleo you can't.

You can keep your weight within bounds without having long lists of things you do not eat and making your life a misery. The number of things on my avoid for weight reasons is 0. I have food likes and dislikes, but so do we all. I do not snack because that is the way I was brought up. Three meals a day and no eating between meals.

I also do not have a sweet tooth. I have a box of biscuits in the kitchen for when visitors come. They have been there months and I have dipped into it once and eaten two biscuits, after a long very busy day. Most of the time I forget they are there.

It is the same with exercise. I do agree that keeping active helps to keep your weight steady, but you do not have to drive your self to relentless daily activity. I am a walker, I have walked by choice almost every day since my early 20s. I have walked to work, to the station, got off buses and tubes one stop early so that I could walk. When I drove to work I would go out for a walk at lunch time. I enjoy it and miss it if I do not do it. I have always been a fidgetty person. I rarely sit down for more than 10 or 20 minutes without needing to get up and walk round the house and my family tell me that when I do sit down I tend to jiggle my legs and keep moving around on my chair. All this uses up energy.

I think the answer is getting yourself into the right frame of mind, check what makes a healthy diet, keep portion sizes under control and keep active.

The most important of those is in the mind and I suspect more people would lose weight if they could see a counsellor. I suspect the reason Slimming World works so well is not the recipes but that the Counsellor, and that is what SW calls them, keeps up a constant dialogue with Slimmers to help change their mental attitudes to eating, as much as the nutritional help they get.

It's all down to metabolism. My BF is super skinny- actually far TOO thin. She eats like a horse! When we were much younger (20s) she was quite plump & after a long bout of bronchitus she lost masses of weight & has never been able to gain weight again. She really does look skeletal & would love to put on a few pound but just cannot.
Am I envious? Well yes & no. I'd like to be a bit slimmer but not so all the bones show.

It's the luck of the draw I think.

I've come to believe that after about 50, metabolism slows down or stops altogether. I was about 8st in my late teens, and never much more than 9 until I hit my mid forties, and weight has crept on since then, although I have a healthy diet with lots of salads and veg. We don't snack between meals, and rarely have cake, sweets or biscuits. Very depressing. I now look like my Aunt Em.

Absolutely agree, I started putting on weight with the menopause, and, never having had a problem dropping a few pounds before, began to find it very difficult to lose weight.

I have done it, but I now eat much smaller portions than before. Anyway, my appetite has shrunk and I cannot eat as much as did, even if I wanted to. When we eat out, it is usually at lunchtime, and if I have two courses, I am usually too full now to eat in the evening. In the past I would have eaten three courses and had supper as usual.

Thanks Sky

Take a deep breath and good luck!

It takes about 40 days to establish a new habit e.g. of eating a different diet.

You NEED to eat each day:

1. a portion of protein (yogurt, cheese, egg, meat, fish, nuts)
2. as much variety of fresh / cooked fruit and vegetables as you like (anything unless you want to lose weight when avoid potatoes & bananas) You will then have all the nutrients you need and no extra calories.

If you eat these, you will not be hungry once the new diet is established.

Oats are probably the healthiest of the grains and seem to reduce cholesterol, heart disease & diabetes. (Try banana porridge or oats to make a crumble topping.)

Treats are non essential = anything MADE with sugar or flour/ starch - eat only with discretion. Use sultanas / bananas dates etc. to sweeten apples or gooseberries and so on.

You need essential fatty acids in dairy, fish and meat for your brain (it is 80% fat to insulate nerves) so use full fat yogurt & cheese, butter & cream. Olive oil is good for you so that is the oil to be used.

Please note that the Government advice is now carefully avoiding reference to fat as this is very seldom causing the problem. Overweight is predominantly the result of too much sugar and starch (flour)

Good luck and enjoy discovering new foods and combinations.

I am 5ft 4 and weigh about 8 1/2 stone and I am always eating junk food cakes sweets biscuits you name it I eat it and never put on weight though I do walk my dogs for over 3 hours a day but not sure if that has anything to do with it as all my family are very slim.

I really do think that the answer is to eat what you want, although with an eye on nutrition, but not to have large portions. Small planned snacks that you have at hand to eat instead of the biscuits. And don't let ypurself get over hungry.
It is not easy.but your stomach does get smaller Really! And if you are with friends join in with what they're having and don't fret. Likewise with biscuits, cake etc. The odd treat doesn't matter, in fact probably helps in the long term
DONT FEEL DEPRIVED OR THINK YOURSELF "on a diet"

You are kidding me?

You are making the normal into something that is requiring special albeit informal investigation/ survey? In order to justify why you are not?

How about: 3 meals a day?

I haven't read all the comments, but I have an underactive thyroid and since getting on thyroid hormone I have lost 2 stone.
My friend lost 7 stone since getting her UAT diagnoses and treatment.
So get your thyroid checked if you haven't.
My friend didn't eat well before she was diagnosed, she missed breakfast preferring to smoke and drink coffee instead, ate very little for lunch and then ate crap food late at night and drank coffee, then too xanax to help her sleep.
She hit rock bottom, then started eating little and often which scared the hell out of her as she thought she would put on more weight, but over a year the weight just fell off.

Yesterday,
Coffee with cream for breakfast
Lunch, cold chicken, tomatoes and boiled beetroot celery
Supper half slice of bread tomato paste cheese slice of ham, banana
I'm a size 26, weigh 17 1/2 stone and weighed 10 stone when I was ten years old, I've eaten a low carb high fat diet to control my blood sugars for some time, medication gives me the poops nearly every day. I dispair