Has anyone following the NHS weight loss plan

I read some good diet advice recently. It said
Eat Less, Move More.

rosie1959

I have borrowed an exercise machine for the week no excuses you have to walk
I actually go to WW but probably more for the company each week

Mine isn’t much help: we’re currently both hibernating….

My assistant for weight maintenance was my wonderful friend - my dog. But when Jesse got older and left us, I had no desire to go out for a walk or run. There is no longer that mood, and everything reminds me of it. Because I continued to eat the way I ate before but stopped doing the same physical exercises, I gained in the abdominal and hip areas. It's almost a tragedy for me. I took a sample supplement with laweekly.com, and it seems to me that the effect is excellent. Of course, it would have been much better together with training, but everything extra has disappeared, and now it's nice for me to look in the mirror.

Just downloaded the app today- I'll give a go .

Have just downloaded the NHS app - I'll give it a try, Day One today !

Hi all. I've just started the NHS plan. It was going well, I added breakfast, snacks and lunch, but I didn't add on my dinner yesterday. The calorie count looks great!
Does anyone know please how I can go back and add to yesterday? Thanks

Has anyone else had difficulty getting the nhs app. Im having a nightmare. Telling me password and passcode are wrong. They’re not ! I have now been locked out for several days because I made too many tries.?

I havent started a diet as such yet but have downloaded Active ten NHS which keeps a log of Your walking.( we walked 5 miles today and 3 yesterday )I have had a lightbulb moment in regards to exercise...I'm the happiest I've been in years with My Partner of six years and recently became a Nana...I've cut out Alcohol during the week,drinking more water ,cut out caffeine mostly ,I dont eat after 8pm until at least 10am the next day.
I have also started doing The Body project on You tube...Daniel and his Wife Alex have "ordinary people"doing the routines along side them with many of the free videos being low impact..

I still need to look at My diet but have been taking small steps..Will cut down on Carbs and Crisps next
Even so I've lost 5 pounds ♡

Give Noom a try. I was diagnosed as prediabetic and for once took things very seriously. it has a psychological approach and they contact you many times a week. You get a fitness coach and a personal coach. It teaches you why you eat when you are not genuinely hungry. I had given up and decided that in my mid-70s I would just have to get used to carrying extra weight. Since joining Noom in June of this year I have lost 16 ILbs and can realistically envisage getting back to where I should be. the arthritis in my knees is benefitting from the weight loss too.

I follow a low carb/ketogenic way of eating which suits me. I don’t weigh myself but I do notice changes in my size. I have never been big but have benefitted from this way of eating.

Read a book called Bright Line Eating which I got secondhand by Susan Pierce Thompson who is a neuro scientist purely after seeing a recommendation here on Gransnet last summer. I was in despair after trying every type of diet over the years - lost over four stone since then and know how to keep it off - feel brilliant!

Alarmed by recent BP readings have started the 16/8 diet... All eating happens within an 8 hour window then just non calorific drinks in the 16 hours. I like this because yes, I'm a bit hungry in the morning, but I know lunch is coming and you can eat (sensibly) what you want in the 8 hours. Clearly binging in this wouldn't work, but you don't normally have to exclude things you like, presuming it's not hourly Big Mac's ?etc. Slow but steady weight loss, meant to be good for prediabetes and BP plus other nasties and for me, easily sustainable comparatively. Good luck to you.

I've become a vegan due to health reasons and I admit the weight is slowly coming off. I still have treats and I cook from scratch as hubby on meat eaters diet. I have found it easy to alter diets to suit both of us. I have found vegan diet easy to follow and feel so much better for it.

Oh forgot to say… if you fancy giving this a go and want some help with it then get in touch.

Since lockdown……. I’ve lost 7 and a half stone.
No clubs, nothing fancy except for wanting to make sure ‘COVID’ didn’t kill me.
I used an app. Only the free bit of it called MyFitnessPal.
The idea is you can eat what you want but you diarise it.
You can see how much protein, fat and carbs you eat in a diagram. It’s maybe tough to use until you get used to it. You can also scan the barcodes of food to add it to you diary.
I have recently retired from the NHS and sat all day working in an office. An awful lot of NHS staff are over weight and this way of eating was originally promoted to us at work.
I’ve also gone from doing very little exercise to walking a minimum of 20,000 steps a day - approx 7 miles.
I had been over weight nearly all my life and for the first time it’s perfect. My friends, family and doctors are stunned at the change in me. I also have total strangers coming up to me in the street and saying really nice things as they’ve noticed the difference. And neighbours who I’ve never spoken to before commenting.

Vague recollection of looking at it. Was all about calorie counting. Decided it was all too complicated. Have lost a stone this year with weight watchers. Half a stone to go

Mattsmum2

I’ve been told the Michael Mosley 800 diet is good and my gp suggests it. No carbs I think is the message. I love bread so unsure how it’s going to work but going to give it a go.

I limited myself to two slices of toast in the morning on a daily basis and a sandwich twice a week. I also only ate breakfast and dinner with unsalted nuts at lunch time (a small handful). It worked for me and improved my diet no end. It also lead to change in taste buds and I don’t enjoy sugary things very often anymore.

Buy smaller dinner plates, or even use side plates.

If you’re diabetic the NHS diet does not take this into account. As someone up thread said carbs are the problem so cut down on bread, pasta, rice, cakes, biscuits, sugary tropical fruits, other root veg, alcohol, crisps etc.

Increase legumes, green veg and protein including salt free nuts. This encourages your body to begin to burn fat and no calorie counting. It may also help your diabetes. Michael Moseley reversed his diabetes by following this regime.

Over lockdown I lost a stone in weight and am no longer prediabetic. Diabetes.co.uk have discussions about the NHS weight loss programme. The programme seem to be run by weight loss companies and Weightwatchers has been mentioned.

Anyway, good luck

You say you can't stick to WW & SW or any other diets. Chances are you won't stick to the NHS one either.
Sorry to be blunt.
But unless you're in the right frame of mind then no diet plan will work. A diet plan is a tool provided for you to use. If you don't use it, it won't work.
I too am awaiting the magic diet that will melt away my flabby bits but I'm sorry to say, without will power, it's not going to happen.

I found the online Slimmers World really good and easy to follow.

I also think that different things work better at different times in our life. For example, although I enjoy walking I couldn't now always guarantee that I would feel like walking a long way every day.

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde.

So true!

It’s hard Itsnell, the spirit may be willing but our flesh is weak as they say. Agree whole heartedly with those who say you have to try different diets and find the right one for you and I think what’s s right may change over time. I would say expect to fall off the wagon at regular intervals, forgive yourself and get back on as quickly as you can manage and always leave room for small treats. I lost 7 stone 18 years ago and have kept it off, with fluctuations, since then. Good luck.

I’ve been told the Michael Mosley 800 diet is good and my gp suggests it. No carbs I think is the message. I love bread so unsure how it’s going to work but going to give it a go.