Diet and losing weight

Daddima

My Fitness Pal is a free app where you can log all your calories ( the app has loads of calorie values) and tells you your daily targets of protein, fat, sugar, and salt, and keeps a record of them.

I used this last time I did any serious dieting and found it very useful. You can use the free version effectively, you don't need the paid version. I found the daily target part was very useful, you can balance them out with the last meal of your day.

You don't need to eat less. In fact eat more, but healthy. No processed food, more fruit and vegetables. No alcohol.

I'm GF too with Coeliac Disease and Thyroid problems. I've put on about 8kg. My metabolism has really slowed and I've had to overcome the malabsorption from Coeliac intestinal damage. Nightmare...also found the more I've put on the less energy I have for exercise. I wasn't overweight to begin with but any processed GF food is full of sugar, not to mention the cost of GF foods. I seem to be constantly hungry but aim for lots of fibre.

The only guaranteed way to lose weight is to eat less calories than you use. And exercise.

Both me and my husband felt really fat on holiday last September. Clothes too tight and just not looking like we wanted so as soon as we got home we decided to try and lose weight. We cut down seriously on carbs & sugary foods and we’ve both lost two stones in the six months. Determined to keep it off too so fingers crossed for you. We are very keen walkers and I think being active does help.

GRAMERCY

First of all Twaddle, you can't eat calories, they are a measurement of energy.
Secondly, the best and easiest way to lose weight is to cut all carbs. You may not like it but it works.

I know you can't "eat" calories. Why do you think I don't like cutting carbs? As it happens, I don't eat many carbs, although it would be folly to cut all carbs because they're the main constituents of fruit and veg. Cutting carbs and replacing with fats or excess quantities of protein won't help anybody to lose weight. It all comes down to amount of energy (calories) you're putting into your body. To lose weight, your body needs an energy deficit.

The Mediterranean Diet seems to be very supported by clinicians including I think the twin doctors who have diet programmes.

I have been steadily losing weight since the start of the year. It is not easy to me because l have an underactive thyroid and lipodoema - the fat cells of which are diet and exercise resistant. However, I also have more weight than I would like and don't want to put any more on. I can't afford the weight loss injections and am somewhat sceptical of the long term outcome so there was only one thing for it and that was to do it for myself in a way l could manage long-term. I find intermittent fasting works for me and effectively means I have two meals a day rather than three. I love chocolate but allow myself to eat it on Sundays, along with other treats. Sunday is my relaxed eating day and, knowing l can look forward to treats then, helps me to stay on the straight and narrow the rest of the time. Would this help you, do you think?

I’ve recently joined Slimming World. The weight’s coming off slowly. It’s basically low carb, high protein, healthy eating, although you can have as much meat, fish, plain potatoes or pasta as you like. Our fridge is bursting with fruit n veg! The problem for me is chocolate.…

DO, The Human Being Diet, it is a bit low on food, so you can't stay on it forever, but you will certainly lose a stone. It was written up in the mail last week, and the book can be bought on Amazon. It has a lot of interaction on Instagram with everyone supporting and encouraging each other. Then you can follow it with a better balanced long term healthy eating recipe book. Finding Balance by Jemima Prest. She lost on the Human Being Diet often referred to as HBD diet. The Human Being Diet is written by an experienced Nutritionist who has spent years helping people successfully lose weight and get healthier. The following book is by a housewife who has devised healthy easy recipes for freinds to keep fit and healthy incorporating wnough fibre and protein. You can find helpful resources on her instagram page @jemimas.table

Another vote for MyFitnessPal

Thank you for very good advice, I might try the free app to help me keep on track. It’s only vanity on my part…also I know that most of my clothes will look and feel better without the extra weight, which I fully intend to keep off!! Carbs are my weakness.

We found the 5:2 did the trick for us. Two days of cutting right back and 5 of eating normally. It's the only diet I've tried which doesn't make you spend every day thinking about calories, and we found that we were eating less on the 5 days without trying. Good luck!

Melathome

I need to lose a stone for my daughter’s wedding. There’s so much information out there and so many adverts, can anyone recommend what really helps and what works?

I’ve been going to slimming world since last summer. I’m now 3 stone lighter than I was before.
Best diet I’ve ever been on. Highly recommend it

Another vote for My Fitness Pal app. You can log all the foods and drink, including branded and homemade foods. Try to get a balance of 1/3rd protein, 1/3 fats, 1/3 carbs. If you think you're eating healthily (i.e. a meat and 2 veg, type, diet) you will be amazed how many carbs there are in some veeg (mostly root veg).
Good luck with your weight loss, and keep us posted how you get on.
Don't forget to mix in more activity each day.

I needed to loose weight for surgery I started on mounjaro and its life changing my surgeon advised me to take it so I did 5 stone in 8 months

First of all Twaddle, you can't eat calories, they are a measurement of energy.
Secondly, the best and easiest way to lose weight is to cut all carbs. You may not like it but it works.

It is your DD's wedding. Who is putting this pressure on you?

Losing a stone if you are unhappy with your weight is one thing- but doing it for a wedding is another entirely.

What happens after the wedding? Will you be happy to put it on again?

My niece came to me in a state because her half- sisters were pressuring her to lose weight for their mum's wedding- but they said it was only because they didn't want her to 'spoil' the photographs.

I told her to tell them to go hang, and she did. She looked stunning on the photos just being herself, all the same.

Gran22boys

Can anyone advise me how to lose my sweet tooth? I eat a healthy meal but then crave something sweet afterwards. I find myself eating cake or chocolate.

I have the same problem and have decided that after my main meal I will have a small bowl of frozen summer berries ( high fibre) with a small tsp of Honey - pinged in the microwave to defrost the berries and then add a dessertspoon of cultured yogurt ( good for your gut and digestion) .

Grammaretto

It would be great to lose a stone but it shouldn't take over all your waking thoughts
Concentrate on your DD
Find yourself a beautiful MoB outfit that doesn't depend on you squeezing into it, and enjoy the day.

Why not have something small to eat, a suare of chocoate or something like that. Enough to give your mouth a sweet taste and no more.

Yes, muscle weighs heavy. For years I have been told hat my weight (using the silly, out-dated BMI scale) shows me as very overweight. I do not look it.

Each time I tell medic that I was a dancer in my earlier years and then very involved in sport and even as I have got old, still have those heavy weighing muscles - always I got ignored.
Recently, I have put on to an injection every four weeks, to try to 'zap' a non-malignant grown I have, which effects growth and hormones.

After the last one, I noticed that I had suddenly developed lots of loose skin around my stomach and thigh area - (where I always had strong well developed muscles). Most definitely no dieting at present as my newly discovered condition has ben a shock to me and I have been consolation eating, in between virtually weekly hospital appointments

So I weighted myself and discovered that I had lost nearly one and half stone inside a week since that injection - ALL to do with the soft tissue of muscle.

Gran22boys

Can anyone advise me how to lose my sweet tooth? I eat a healthy meal but then crave something sweet afterwards. I find myself eating cake or chocolate.

I resolved it for MrJ by not having sweet stuff in the house, if it’s not there, you can’t eat it.

It would be great to lose a stone but it shouldn't take over all your waking thoughts
Concentrate on your DD
Find yourself a beautiful MoB outfit that doesn't depend on you squeezing into it, and enjoy the day.

Can anyone advise me how to lose my sweet tooth? I eat a healthy meal but then crave something sweet afterwards. I find myself eating cake or chocolate.

My Fitness Pal is a free app where you can log all your calories ( the app has loads of calorie values) and tells you your daily targets of protein, fat, sugar, and salt, and keeps a record of them.