Weight Loss Discussion Thread

[DrMekon]

Change your relationship with food; learn to love it and stop treating it like a cheap date.

What if you aren't into the commitment thing, and a cheap date is all you are after? There's a right dirty pot of chunky monkey I have my eye on for tonight.

[RichForrest]

Just eat it then. But don't eat it every day 
Yesterday I had 3 doughnuts at work as they were going to be wasted!! Not worried about it as I'm not on a diet.
I've just changed eating habits, the main one is to cut out the shed loads of bread I was eating. That's not religiously either as I had some last weekend when cycling.

Rich

[citoyen]

When you say you started taking it more seriously, do you mean more cycling or was this through other forms of excercise ? A lot of questions i know, but i used to be 12st 8 now at 14st 5 after quitting the fags, and can't seem to shift anything despite more cycling.

Like Rich, I don't worry about what I eat, just how much of it I eat. You just have to be scrupulously honest with yourself. Which, admittedly, is a lot easier to say than do.

I find that keeping a food diary helps (I use mynetdiary.com).

d.

[Wonky]

I've been making steady progress since restarting the cycling, of just under 1lb per week.
Then one night out raving, and I dropped 3lb overnight! Totally skews my graph!

[Ham]

mwah.hah.hah.hah http://www.trend-corner.com/index_flash.php?pid=471

Some people will probably buy these..........


(sorry it's in french, icba to find the UK version)

[Auntie Helen]

I've just changed eating habits, the main one is to cut out the shed loads of bread I was eating. That's not religiously either as I had some last weekend when cycling.

i've been reading this with interest. I've put on loads of weight recently and just had to get my size 18 clothes out of the cupboard, which means lots of my cycling stuff is a bit tight now.

I eat loads of bread. I wonder sbout having a go at reducing it significantly but what do I have instead? Lunch each day currently is french stick with ham or cheese (maybe a third of a french stick) or two rounds of sandwiches. I can't just eat the ham for lunch...

[Chris S]

I eat loads of bread. I wonder sbout having a go at reducing it significantly but what do I have instead? Lunch each day currently is french stick with ham or cheese (maybe a third of a french stick) or two rounds of sandwiches. I can't just eat the ham for lunch...

Eat the ham with some salad, tomato, an avocado, some couscous or whatever you like in a salad, and follow with fruit.

When I'm paying more attention to my eating habits - I hardly ever eat bread. Another lunchtime favourite is soup. If I'm getting ready to audax, I'll probably "fortify" it with pasta.

[Ham]

Ham's off.


 

[hellymedic]

Ham's off.


 

Spam's not Kosher but I wish Bezeq would stop bombarding me with junk...

[citoyen]

Another lunchtime favourite is soup.

I don't think it's bread per se that's the problem, rather it's how to eat enough to feel sated without piling on the calories. To that end, soup is ideal. Just don't have bread with it.

Another personal favourite is vegetable curry. Soften some onion (in veg oil, or you in water if you want to reduce the fat), stir in some Patak's curry paste (or curry powder to reduce the fat), chuck in a load of bulky vegetables - squash, sweet potato, swede, carrots etc - and a tin or two of tomatoes and simmer until the veg is cooked. Add some tinned chickpeas (very high in fibre, low in fat) and you don't even need rice or bread with it. Filling and highly nutritious.

d.

[Gandalf]

I've definitely found that being careful with bread has helped. I limit myself to two slices of wholemeal per day, but I do slip sometimes.  I don't touch cake or biccies though.

[Riggers]

Weighed myself at Sainsbury's Friday evening, and have finally beaten the 12 stone barrier. Now way 11st 25lbs. 

It's the only sensible way to look at these things.

[Jakob]

Bounced up a bit after coming off the Paleo, but have now stabilized it, with maybe 1lbs gain and hope to translate that into a more steady weight loss.

[Wonky]

Norovirus.

4.5 lb in 24 hours.

Effective, but NOT reccomended.

[Notsototalnewbie]

Norovirus.

4.5 lb in 24 hours.

Effective, but NOT reccomended.

I can confirm that having a wisdom tooth out also falls under the ‘effective but not recommended’ category.

Typically I’d already got down to my target weight (I wanted to lose the 6kg that had crept on over the last year, by going to Spinning classes and controlling my portions carefully, and had all but managed it over a period of 3 months). But at least this will give me some wiggle room for Xmas!

[hellymedic]

Weight lost by short-term starvation is easily and rapidly regained.
NSTN should be drinking rice pud, Yazoo! and Audax slops...

[Butterfly]

I'm avoiding the scales at the moment

[clarion]

Not many people keeping up the weigh in, I note. 

[Butterfly]

Not many people keeping up the weigh in, I note. 

It's too cold to take your clothes off to stand on the scales. 

[clarion]

I managed it

[citoyen]

I feel more inclined to do it when I'm actually making progress towards my goal. 

d.

[Butterfly]

I feel more inclined to do it when I'm actually making progress towards my goal. 

d.

This the main problem

[nightrider]

Not many people keeping up the weigh in, I note. 

I allways do mine a day late on Thusday,thats when I go to SW.

[Oscar's dad]

The Current Mrs R is still doing well at SW.  16lbs lost, 2 stickers gained     

[madeinleeds]

I haven't read all 138 pages of this thread, so might have already been covered, but I lost 7 kilo over 3 months, helped a lot by cutting out my daily ham & cheese sandwich/bagel and eating Ainsley Harriott couscous for lunch. I have had it now nearly every lunchtime for 4 months. I fear possibly not healthy for me, but neither I think is a large bread/cheese consumption. I recommend the one with the camel on the front, though I do have visions of Ainsleys face in my dreams now.