Diet buddy
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Hi all, I am aiming to lose 5 stone mainly to be fitter and also for health reasons. Anyone want to join me as a diet buddy and encourage one another?. Ive done a week and lost 6lbs so far. Mail me if you are interested. Andy
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wow 6 in a week is pretty excellent. how did you do it?
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Just cut out the things like crisps, snacks etc, used smaller plates, smaller portions of food, managed to have a glass of red each evening, but much smaller glass
64 lbs to go
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Keep going PTD - well done! Are you exercising as well?
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Thanks Bern, I am doing a little but not going mad and starting a regime that would get me into the Olympics. After a few years of being the proverbial couch potatoe, suddenly going to a 5 mile run at my age may land me in A & E so i am being realistic about what i can and can't do. I think just walking for now and see where i go from there.
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There is a diet plan out there called the 'Dukan diet' which seems to be very good, I know two people who are on it at the moment and have lost a stone each in 4 weeks and it isn't all rabbit food either!
I plan to start a diet in January (doesn't everybody) and I'm seriously considering this one, I only want to shift about a stone so this might be the one to do. Good luck with yours PT. |
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I use weightlossresources as any diet is fraught with difficulties when you eventually come off it.
Im trying to maintain a more long term healthy approach and this site acts as a diary for food and exercise adjusting the targets as you go. Ive lost a fair amount but rapid weight loss brings some issues along with the obvious benefits. |
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I have had an e mail to suggest I could do as part of Children in need, not a bad idea. I have given it a little thought and for every Lb I lose, i will give 50p to the cause.
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Interesting side effect from the diet, the supermarket shopping bill was £58 last night as opposed to its normal £70 or £80. No cheese, and no things like scotch eggs or other 'goodies' that i used to snack on. Did buy lots of fruit however. treated myself to a low fat curry, along with an 'eat smart' trifle and still had my small glass of French red last night.
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Sounds good, well done. Its good to make sure that you can continue to have one or two things that you really enjoy.
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Day 10 and down a full 8lbs as of this morning. Nothing seems to have changed yet, other than i have noticed the belt line getting a little slacker. Still a long way to go though.
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That's great, well done
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That's a very respectable loss for a good start. Judging by that, you might be able to hope for 2-3 from now on per week... well 2, given that Christmas parties are coming.
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Hi
I thought I share my experience of losing weight. Please don't follow what I did, it was extreme diet and exercise. I was 10 stone+ with a pot belly in May 2011. Went on low calorie high protein diet. Ate lots of eggs, meat and drank high protein supplement drinks. Did eat fresh vegetables and fruit. Cut out all processed food and drinks (very hard at first). Followed Jamie Eason weight lifting plan on bodybuilding.com. It's free and you don't need to register. I did 2-3 hrs weighting 4 days a week and 20 mins a day fast walking (hate running). The plan recommended 45 min max a day but I was really slow doing the weight reps. I really enjoyed the weight lifting and increase the weight levels over time. I'm now 7 stone 6lbs and the weight loss was too much. Should be around 8 stone for 5"5 height female. The problem was I kept focussing on my belly and not realise that the rest of me was disappearing! Muscle weighs more than fat, so the Eason plan discourages you from weighing yourself all the time. As fat level goes down, the muscle level will go up. I finding it hard to break the 8 stone barrier. I'm eating junk food but my muscles are consuming a lot of calories. Oh well... |
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Hi there I don't know if anyone is still reading this thread but I wanted to share my dieting experience:
I will give you a bit of my history - I wasn't overweight until I was 25 but I ate nothing but 'bad foods' all my life. Once I hit 25 it was like everything I had ever eaten caught up with me and I put on weight continuously for the next couple of years. Last year I decided enough was enough and began the research on which diet would work for me. Following advice from my auntie and my own research I started the GI diet in mid August. I would recommend it to anyone - Basically you have three meals and three snacks per day and all foods are put into three groups; red, yellow and green. Red you avoid altogether, Yellow you can have occasionally and Green you can eat as much as you want. You also exercise for half an hour everyday. The book gives you all the tips you need on portion sizes, recipes and eating out. I follow this diet but have to admit I struggle with the exercising. The book is always in my bag when I go out to eat and when I go shopping, also I weigh myself once a week and record my progress. According to my latest weigh in today I have lost 2 stone. I must add that during December I wasn't nearly as strict and put 5 pounds back on (I challenge anyone with even the highest amount of willpower to strictly diet over Christmas). I hope that gives some of you inspiration
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