Losing weight.

Right, anyone who is interested, a new thread is starting - my new lifestyle progress. It is not just weight loss based but healthier lifestyle. We will start with No Snack February, only 28 days to do that one. So, I'll start the thread off, post my current weight and please, come and join me, obviously weight does not have to be disclosed. Let's do this and end the year fitter and healthier. Love to all X

If you want to improve your will power when dieting or to improve your diet why not try the new free app. developed by a team of psychologists at Exeter University ? It is fun, quick and it works wonder with some people. If it works for you, you will eat 200 calories less per day (on average) simply by retraining your brain !
www.exeter.ac.uk/foodt/
only available to work on Android at the moment. Let us know if you have tried it and what you think. I like it !

Brilliant Ruby

Well done Ruby.

Another Slimming World fan here. I've lost a stone and a half in 15 weeks, but still have a way to go to get to target. As well as the discipline of being weighed regularly, I enjoy the meetings, and the support of the other members of the group and have picked up some good tips from them. I've tried loads of 'healthy eating plans' in the past but, so far, this seems to be the best one for me.

Well done Ruby
A new year. A new you.

I have been promising to start healthy eating since Jan 1st!

You have spurned me on.
Also the No Snack February is a great idea (sorry can't remember GNer who suggested it as on previous page)

How about keeping GN up to date with your progress.

Well done to all you that have managed to lose weight its next thing on list for me !!

Ruby well done . I agree that slimming clubs make you obsess about food . I lost the most weight when I got a new job and was on my feet all the time coupled with just eating when very hungry- eventually I stopped being hungry so could eat only for nutritional reasons . I loved being a small size 10 , my clothes looked so much better . Now 20 years later I am overweight again but started cutting down this week in the hope that by summer I will be slim(ish) . I really hate being bigger and don`t feel like myself at all more like an old frump !! I don`t think I will achieve a size 10 but a tight 12 would be great .

Well done I have just started trying to lose weight (lost 5.5 lbs last week) so I know it's hard. I' m sure you feel better having lost such a lot already.

I lost weight slowly last year thru Slimming World which is a very healthy plan. In the past I yo yo ed continually but I stuck to this and am at a healthy BMI. This was because my husband was diagnosed diabetic and this plan was recommended, and because my daughter is getting married and I don't want to be fat mother of bride. I really like the consultant, the plan, and have made lots of friends. Now I'm at target I pop in free every so often , buy some chocolate snack bars and the odd really good recipe book. I lost two stone last year and am four and a half stone less than my worst weight. It's a way of life really and so far I'm managing to stay around target.

Well done to you!!! My diet aid was the fact that I have had little control over just about anything over the last twelve months but at least I could control what my hand put in my mouth!!! Lols xx

I don't "diet" as such but as a Type 2 Diabetic follow their guidelines, Porridge & fruit for Breakfast, Light Lunch, mostly salads in Summer, Winter is a bit more difficult but home made soup when possible & nice bread. Dinner is balanced plate of about quarter protein usually chicken or fish, about quarter carbohydrate, love baby potatoes cooked in their skins & half vegetables (which I love). For snacks I often have fruit (2 portions per day) or handful of nuts. Biggest downfall is cheese which I adore but am supposed to restrict.

I don't worry when I go out & eat what I like & occasionally have treats like a nice coffee & cake if I'm out shopping etc.

I always have good quality dark chocolate in my cupboard, it can however sit there for months without me touching it. Crisps also but I buy those mainly for my cat (he loves cheese & onion)

I find it difficult to lose weight as I can't exercise but love being in the garden. Go for it Ruby & I wish you well

Congrats, Ruby... that's a hard thing to have done. You go for it!
{hugs}

Well done ruby, that's an inspiring post. I'm off for a weekend with some old friends after which the unfulfilled good intentions I had for January need to kick in for February.

Hi Rubylady

A friend has had the operation you have referred to and had to lose weight a couple of months beforehand. She was so obese that she was having problems with the strain on her heart and knees and whichever diet she would have used would have taken years to help her.

She has done really well, losing weight very gradually and only eating small amounts at mealtimes. I think she has also given up on snacks between meals. The gradual weight loss has also meant she hasn't needed surgery to remove loose skin (as some have had to).

You will feel so much better afterwards and you will still be able to eat the things you enjoy.

Good luck with it all.

I don't understand why someone would want to starve the self for 2 days, when you can have a roast dinner

Sorry, can't not cant.

I think you need to keep up the effort to stay slim. I know that one poster on this thread has said you cant diet for your whole life but you do sort of have to in that you have to constantly keep focussed on being healthy. Some practical tips which work for me are:-

-I have a regular diet where I eat similar things in the week (same breakfast, same lunch) and 'ski off piste' at the weekend
-no alcohol in the week
-if I get hungry or want to eat I distract myself until the next meal time with chores, walking or reading
-two very light days in the same spirit as the 5/2 diet. On Wednesday and Thursday I only have soup and a bun for dinner
-I throw away and don't buy tempting snacks like crisps or biscuits
-lots of exercise monitored by a Fitbit. I walk 10,000 steps a day at least
-I substitute gym sessions with useful activities like Hoovering, ironing or grasscutting
-I weigh myself every two days or so and adjust my food accordingly
-I take only one of anything such as roast potatoes
-I leave something on my plate
-if I want a treat I 'go light' elsewhere. On Saturdays I have a big, delicious cake for afternoon tea so have a banana for lunch
-I have regular treats so I do not feel I am deprived and try to over compensate
-I go for foods which are tasty but low in calories like smoked salmon or other fish

These tips work for me.

I've lost quite a lot of weight recently. I'm doing dry January, which helps, and I have learnt that, for me, one large-ish, protein-rich, meal a day and nothing much else except a multivitamin, a bit of fruit, and tea and coffee with milk, seems to be enough fuel for me to function. My metabolism is fairly low and I know that anything over about 1500 kcals a day is likely to mean weight gain for me . It's not fun but it's just about do-able.

That's great news Ruby - so pleased you're finally looking after you after all you've been through! I sometimes think we become regimented in meal times and eat even when we're not hungry just because it's that time - I know i do - I feel guilty saying I'm not really hungry when OH mentions the next meal so end up eating whatever just because it's easier. Hope you continue along the new you path for 2017

DH and I do the 5 2 diet. Works for us and I find that the times we don't manage it, holidays, visits away etc. I really miss those two days when I eat very little. The rest of the time I eat what I want and we both find that we don't want to eat too much because it doesn't feel comfortable.
DH chose the 5 2, he needs to lose a lot of weight, because in his view to diet was to starve and he could manage to "starve" for two different days in the week. ie he could be miserable knowing that it would all be better the next day.
Me? I just love feeling of lightness I get when I eat only what I need.

rubylady you've obviously found what works for you and suits your lifestyle Just imagine how good you'll feel when the nicer weather comes! I'm starting to assess myself too from today - just caring for myself a bit more as well as my family - and it was lovely to read your posts. Thanks for sharing your opinions and good luck with it all!

Rose

Ruby if you can stick with the 'only eat when hungry' approach it will certainly work. That's you listening to your body - well done ??

Dieting isn't the answer Ruby, you can't stay on a diet your whole life. Slimmin World is great. I wanted to lose a stone for my daughter's wedding 3 years ago (I wasn't really overweight) I found it very easy. I still go but as I'm in my target weight I don't have to pay. They teach you what to eat and what not to eat. Can't praise them enough.

Well done ruby, you are really turning your life around. Good on yer girl!

Slimming clubs make you loose money and not much else. 10 years ago i lost 4 stone by exercise, no dieting, not a single change to my diet, still had crisps,chocolate and 6 cans of diet drink, just 1 hour a day everyday of exercise over 6 months. It really was that simple. Now that i dont drink diet drinks,eat crisps, eat more than 1 chocolate bar a week and have no alchohol i have put 3 stone back on !