For those who try to loose weight

[JanieB]

Sorry to be the most awful pedant BUT loose is dangly bits and I think you mean lose as in to get rid of. Ie Lost.

[bubblewrap]

Sorry to be the most awful pedant BUT loose is dangly bits and I think you mean lose as in to get rid of. Ie Lost.

My dangly bits are not loose and I don't want to lose them.

[JanieB]

My dangly bits are not loose any I don't want to lose them.

Quite , I've been told my reply has to be at least ten characters. Have I made it?

[moggssue]

I started weight watchers in November, at first I 'done good' and lost 1/2 lb a week, then christmas happened, and now despite all my best efforts I'm still heavier than I was before I started I reckon to have a healthy diet anyway apart from the alcohol - but I never do breakfast, never have. Now, my question - I keep reading that eating a healthy breakfast helps lose weight. BUT since I've never eaten it before, won't I just be consuming more calories if I add a breakfast? I dont snack, and have either a couple of sarnies or a pasta salad or veggie soup for lunch - all homemade. Any thoughts folks?

And Maria - a little more info on the diet????

[Tracey]

For moral support whilst dieting these are good poscasts:

Podcast: Inside Out Weight Loss - Aligning Mind Body and Spirit for Lasting Change | Diet | Weight Loss | NLP | Motivation | Fitness

[Nicos]

I have read somewhere.....

That to warm up a glass of iced water in your stomach uses up the same calories as you get in half a digestive biscuit!!!!

Now that's my kind of diet!!!!!!

[Tracey]

I started weight watchers in November, at first I 'done good' and lost 1/2 lb a week, then christmas happened, and now despite all my best efforts I'm still heavier than I was before I started I reckon to have a healthy diet anyway apart from the alcohol - but I never do breakfast, never have. Now, my question - I keep reading that eating a healthy breakfast helps lose weight. BUT since I've never eaten it before, won't I just be consuming more calories if I add a breakfast? I dont snack, and have either a couple of sarnies or a pasta salad or veggie soup for lunch - all homemade. Any thoughts folks?

so
Moggssue, if you don't have breakfast could it be that you eat your last meal too late? Do you manage to last until lunchtime or do you have to snack before lunch?

[Tracey]

My problem is that I yoyo between two extremes. I'm either on the healthy diet where I eat healthy and cut down or stop drinking . Something comes up like a social occasion, pmt, etc. and I swing towards an unhealthy diet of junk and too much booze . Then I start to feel awful and swing back towards the healthy diet. I've never been good a moderation.

[mapcr77]

I'm no expert, but the theory goes that after a good night's sleep, your body is low on glycogen (sugars), if you do not consume some more early in the morning, you go into starvation mode, and hang on to your reserves, and as soon as you eat something, say at mid day, your body already thinks its going through rough times and has to keep on building its reserves. If instead you have breakfast, you use up the energy from it for the first few hours of the day and your body does not ring any alarm bells... maybe I'm wrong, hopefully someone out there has more specialist knowledge and can enlighten us!

[Farmer_Gyles]

i'm fairly fit and healthy - i'm 38, 5ft 10in, 13st 11lbs
about a stone of that is on the belly - too much choccy - i'm a chocoholic
and if i get a packet of biscuits i'll eat the whole packet
and i spend a lot of my sitting at a computer, working, or skiving off work to join in here!

as the weather improves i'll be outside digging and getting more exercise - will get even more if i get an allotment
i gave up with girlfriends and got myself a dog - he's only 4 months old so we only do short walks at the moment - but will be longer walks as he gets older
and i know the weight will drop off gradually - and i'll still eat choccy and bikkies!

[OverWyreGrower]

I try and eat healthily, and I actually get plenty of exercise.

I cut out drinking alcohol during the week and lowered my intake for the weekend (now I will probably drink 1 bottle of wine over friday and saturday night, instead of 4 or 5)

I make the majority of our food from scratch, hardly any processed or fast food at all.

My weakness is diet coke and green and black's chocolate, but I have cut down on the chocolate.

I walk 4 to 6 miles a day with the dogs, more at weekends!

I still haven't lost the weight. My doctor can't work out why, and can't understand how my cholesterol can be fantastic but my blood pressure is sky high.

I've done Weight Watchers and Slimming World a dozen times and find it terribly restricting.

I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm going to be overweight most of my life, and even the doctors don't know why....

[moggssue]

so
Moggssue, if you don't have breakfast could it be that you eat your last meal too late? Do you manage to last until lunchtime or do you have to snack before lunch?

I have my evening meal around 7.30 generally, then dont eat again until noon the following day. No, I dont usually snack between times, and have eaten to this pattern for as long as I can remember. I'm simply not hungry when I wake!

If, as mapcr77 suggests, my body is then going into starvation mode then I do need to start having breakfast - but since I have never eaten it won't I just be used to that sort of regime? Oh, confusion (just for a change!).

[SarzWix]

OWG, have you tried taking/eating something with iodine in it? It sounds like you might be the same as my friend who has a slightly off thyroid, not enough to really show on the tests, and iodine can help to regulate it a bit. She takes Holland & Barrett 'KLB6' which has helped her to lose some weight (along with excercise).
Worth a try? Although it doesn't sound like you're at all unhealthy...

Unlike me - I've just found out I have a BMI of 36, which is terrible, much worse than I thought I was. So I've signed up for WeightWatchers Online (I lost 4 stone with WW before I had a hysterectomy and knacked my back...)
Wish me luck (or willpower!) everyone

[lottie dolly]

hi sarzwix,good luck with weight watchers,just over 6 years ago i got to goal with them,having lost almost 5 stones this i kept of with a struggle for nearly 5 years,with ref,to the thyroid ,some tablets from the health shops,says in the small print,if you have a thyroid problem do not take,i used to have a compensating thyroid but 12 month ago was diagnosed as gone altogether and are now on thyroxin for life,is still not settled yet i get many a sh---y day,anyway is another story,the thing is i have put 2 stones back on because of it,so i can sypathise with you and any one else strugging,as yet i just cannot get my head in the right place to rectify the weight,i have noticed it has not gone up to much more since bin on thyroxin,but still have to find the courage you have done,welldone and all the best,the will power you already have ,you signed up girl,knowing whats to come so that shows yourwillpower and the courage,again all the best,keep us posted

[bluemoon]

I'm not overweight, I'm just too short for my height.