Let's lose a bit of weight.....

[sammy_roser]

I need to lose a stone too! Tried Diet Chef which worked to get me to lose the first stone but I found the food so dull as I'm a big home cook and these were all ready meals. But now I'm just eating too much rubbish and drinking lots of iced coffees!

[Greenfingerpaula]

I need to lose about 1 stone, but I think I may have an underlying problem - I eat healthy, salads for lunch, fish and veg for dinner, porridge or toast for brekky, fruit for snacks at work - gym average 3 times a week depending on shifts - and I'm stuck


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[Hazel at the Hill]

I wish you luck G4. I found it so easy when I went to WW, but as you've probably seen on this thread, I haven't managed to shed the extra stone (or so) that I've gained since then. It's just lucky that I'm tall. If I was 6" shorter, I'd be fat.

Another 3 months of WW? You know it works - and if you give yourself a realistic goal/timeframe, and you have the drive, you will be able to do it again.

I need to lose a stone too! Tried Diet Chef which worked to get me to lose the first stone but I found the food so dull as I'm a big home cook and these were all ready meals. But now I'm just eating too much rubbish and drinking lots of iced coffees!

I love 'proper meals' too, SR, you know what you're eating! You know what the problem is, but the sound of it (junk/coffee), and so have a good start point for getting to where you want to be.

I need to lose about 1 stone, but I think I may have an underlying problem - I eat healthy, salads for lunch, fish and veg for dinner, porridge or toast for brekky, fruit for snacks at work - gym average 3 times a week depending on shifts - and I'm stuck

You sound supper healthy, GFP! Try cutting down each meal by say 5-10% and see if that calorie reduction does the job.

Hmmmm. We have a Hypnotherapist in the next Village...

Please go and have a chat with them - it would be very interesting to hear what they say!

[Glutton4...]

I have to go and collect Mr.G's prescription this week, so I may have a word whilst I'm there. One of my Horsey chums has just started on HRT and feels like a new woman within a week! Our Docs are pro Natural Remedies, too, which widens the options considerably.

Meanwhile - I'm gonna finish the rest of that loaf by the end of this week - I LOOOOOOOOVE toast!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Moral Support, Anyone?

I've popped back on here for a few weeks for a bit of a hand - I know I can rely on you all to help me out!

Although I run, which keeps my legs toned, and my fitness levels are not too bad, I am not quite 'beach ready' in the midriff dept, and there's an all over less-than-tautness consisting of about half a dozen pounds that I want to get rid off whilst I am about it in the next month.

So it's a case of keeping up with the running/cycling and adding in some toning exercises - then watching the snack factor. The accountability of daily food logging helps me, so you all get to see what a boring diet I have, and just how much wine/beer I put away...

Week 1: 10st 1/4lb

Target weight: 9st 7lb before the end of September

[Sheneval]

Hazel,

Good luck - I recommend digging an allotment, preferably an overgrown one. I lost about 2 stone between last Nov/Dec and April doing just that. Follow that with plenty of chicken salads for dinner.

Alternatively, take up hill walking and you will, after time, shade away to a skelf although if you do enough you will get footballer's legs. :-)

[Hazel at the Hill]

Here we go then...

Week 1, day 1 (day 1)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: open chicken sandwich (i.e. a sandwich with just one slice of bread )
Dinner: farm shop sausages, ratatouille, runner beans
Snacks/treats: 1 glasses wine, 1 choc chip cookie, couple handfuls raspberries

Calorie tot (logging on My Fitness Pal): 1206

Exercise: cycle 9km, toning exercises per Rosemary Conley, 1 hour woodchip shoveling

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 2 (day 2)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: half small can beans, 2 x toast
Dinner: 4oz frying steak, courgettes, french beans, salad, spoon coleslaw
Snacks/treats: 1 1/2 pts bitter, small slice sponge (it was d*mn small too - weighed 35g & it looked tiny even on a saucer. Gone in two ladylike bites)

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1385

Exercise: run 5km, toning exercises per Rosemary Conley, 3/4 hour woodchip shoveling

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 3 (day 3)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: poached egg, 2 x toast
Dinner: 6oz salmon, courgettes, french beans, salad, spoon coleslaw
Snacks/treats: 1 pt bitter, 1 biscuit

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1321

Exercise: run 5km, toning exercises per Rosemary Conley

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I have used Food Focus - Nutrition & Weight Management to log my daily intake. It is a free service and although it takes time to enter the data and is a bit clunky, you do get focused on sticking to your daily calorie target.

I really needed to shift weight for health reasons and felt that I was not going to stand a chance. Using that site and eating sensibly I managed to lose a considerable amount of weight. I now have a sense of what I can consume each day and *hopefully* will keep the weight off.

I am not in any way affiliated to or linked to the aforementioned site.

[Florence Fennel]

You are so dedicated Hazel, I am sure you'll reach your goal. I'm just being aware of what I eat at the moment, tummy still a bit iffy on odd days. I'm beginning to wonder if I've got IBS. I had cut out bread for over a week (and lost 2lbs) but we had white tiger bread last night and tummy upset this morning Which beach are you training for?

[Hazel at the Hill]

I have used Food Focus - Nutrition & Weight Management to log my daily intake. It is a free service and although it takes time to enter the data and is a bit clunky, you do get focused on sticking to your daily calorie target.

The internet excels at these info gathering sites (which have a community element too should you want it) - I can scan the barcode of what I'm eating (assuming it has one) and the site returns the full nutrient stats and retains them for next time. Imagine calorie/carb/fat counting before? Get your 'calorie counter' bible out, and get looking up!

You are so dedicated Hazel, I am sure you'll reach your goal. I'm just being aware of what I eat at the moment, tummy still a bit iffy on odd days. I'm beginning to wonder if I've got IBS. I had cut out bread for over a week (and lost 2lbs) but we had white tiger bread last night and tummy upset this morning Which beach are you training for?

I treat it as a project as any other, Flo - being accountable to you lot somehow helps to keep you on the straight and narrow (although I am toying with opening a bottle of wine for the weekend at which point it may well all go pear shaped!). Still the whole shebang is pretty simple in principle - use more calories than you eat and you will lose weight. A lot of voodoo-ery out there would mystify the whole process, but it really is as simple as that.

I think that the digestive systems is still largely an unknown to the medical profession - our diets have changed beyond measure in the past 50 years, and evolution has yet to catch up.

As it happens, I make most of my meals as that's how I was brought up, and 'ready meals' (of the basic stuff I do anyway) don't taste as good as mine do; but I do think that it's the processed cr@p (including Chorleywood bread e.g. the vast majority of shop bread, and anything with corn syrup in e.g. virtually anything factory made) that we stick down our necks is responsible for a multitude of problems - especially when we start to feed that stuff to our little ones whose digestive tracts are still developing.

Try eating 'proper' bread for a while - if you were having some sort of wheat reaction to cause IBS it would be showing up everytime you ate cereal/biscuits/crackers/pastry etc etc, not just a couple of slices of (admittedly processes/bleached/additive stuffed) white bread.

Right - better get me hemp knickers on, and get out of this cave and club a bison for dinner!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 4 (day 4)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: tuna open sandwich
Dinner: 4oz pork hock cooked & minced, courgettes, french beans, salad, spoon coleslaw; small bowl rasps
Snacks/treats: 1 biscuit, cup options hot choc

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 910

Exercise: run 5km, cycle 8.5km (to the Hill and back), toning exercises per Rosemary Conley

[Glutton4...]

... Right - better get me hemp knickers on, and get out of this cave and club a bison for dinner!

^^ Nutter!

[Florence Fennel]

It's not just this one instance Hazel, so I'm taking notes. At least it's making me watch my intake, so I'm hoping I continue to lose weight