Help please Does anyone know of a good website (free) that gives the number of calories in different foods please? After years of diet clubs with the help of my Gp surgery I am going back to good old calories !!

It is rare to find food today that does not have the calories per portion weight on them so you won't really need a website. Just a note pad a pen to keep track :-)

There are some good books on calorie content.Even in book clearance shops there should be something available.Anyway,whatever you get,when you are looking on the packaging,take special note of the fat content and go for the under 5% options.A plateful of veg is filling and so good for you,with a nice bit of fish or a slice or two of lean meat.No inbetween snacks that aren't fruit
plenty of water and regular movement,working up to a good walk every day,swimming or some other activity that you enjoy and isn't boring to do regularly.If you aim for 2lbs a week loss,in just 7 weeks you'll be a stone lighter and you'll feel very proud of yourself.Get the Paul Mckenna book(with cd),which Amazon have,it's very good.

And slightly smaller portions (if necessary on slightly smaller plates, or spread out more on the usual plate) helps amazingly well. Slow and steady weight loss, so the body doesn't start to compensate for the sudden 'fast' by slowing the metabolism, is the way to go. The weight didn't go on fast so it's wrong to try to lose it fast.

> Help please Does anyone know of a good website (free)

[tthttp://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/lostart.htm?gclid=CLWWjrbkiZsCFaAU4wodp1iJpg]Weight Loss Resources is a calorie-counting website that offers free trials, I was a paying member a few years ago and found it a great help as there is so much support from other members it really helps keep you on track. They also (used to) provide lists of calories expended for various exercise, including different types of housework - now there's an incentive to get the hoover out!! I haven't been on that site for a few years, so I'm not sure what else it offers now. The good thing about that website is it will work out your daily calorie allowence based on your height, weight, age & activity level, you can then choose the rate at which you want to loose weight & it will give you your daily calorie ration (it won't let you have a calorie deficit too low, to avid health problems, so if you haven't got much to loose, you may not be able to loose at a fast rate).

But as far as completely free, google should pop up plenty of lists of calorie contents of foods, and most foods have calorie contents on the packaging anyway. You just need to keep a note of the caloreis you are consuming, weighing out portions instead of guessing is a good idea untill you're used to the portion sizes, as it's far too easy to under-estimate the weight of something and end up consuming more calories that you thought you had.

I found when trying to cut down what i ate that if you plate yourself a smaller meal, on a smaller plate and put your cutlery down between mouthfuls really helps you to feel full. If you give yourself time to chew food properly and slowly you will feel fuller more quickly :) best of luck and Let us know how you get on, what works best for you!!

>If you give yourself time to chew food properly and slowly you will feel fuller more quickly 

Yes, I'm told it takes about 15 minutes for the message from the stomach (that you've eaten enough) to reach the brain. In that 15 minutes you could have eaten a lot more than you actually need or even want - and end up feeling overfull and stuffed. So eating slowly helps prevent that. It takes a while to learn to listen to your body, but it's worth it.

and even harder if it's something reeeaally yummy...like Indian food or ice cream or pizza.... lol :)

I am not a lover of low fat foods or sugar substitutes, I couldn't be bothered with calorie countiing.

The only way I lost it was to have no bread or potatoes during the week. But ate what I liked at weekends in smaller quantities.  I lost a stone and a half in six months and more importantly I have kept it off six months later.  Whenever I went on a traditional diet it came off, but never stayed off.

Thanks everyone will take some of the tips you have suggested. i have dieted (yo yo ) for so long I could put it on my cv as a career by now LOL
BUT ever since the kids (20 years next month( Ia n never kewpt it off for long and am now my heavist i have ever been hence the new start.)
Like the idea of no bread or potatoes during the week, I must agree I hate all the low fat sugar free substitiutes. It seems now matter how hard I try to say I enjoy them I cant retrain my taste buds permanently and if I have to eat one more of the well known brand of low fat lioght yoghurts I shall scream ! Think I will start that one tomorrow. Onlyt 3st 7lbs to go !either that or I need to grow by 6 inches !
I think it was Garfield who said "I'm not overweight just under tall "

Don't weigh yourself either,go by how your clothes feel.They'll soon get looser and you can treat youself to the next size down.Don't keep your larger clothes or you'll feel free to grow into them again.forget the watery yoghourts.You can actually eat anything you like,just not as much as you like and train yourself to only eat when you're hungry and stopwhen you're full.
If you chew and savour every mouthfull and put your cutlery down,as already said,after each bite,you'll be well on your way.Also make your mealtimes special everytime and if possible sit at the table.If you eat from a tray,set it up properly,with a tray cloth and little salt and pepper pot,so that it looks the business.If you eat what you like,only less of it,and have a good old platefull of veg,you'll look forward to your meals.If you have a sweet tooth,leave dessert wherever it is until half an hour after your main course.You may forrget about it,if not have some as a small treat,and enjoy every spoonful to the full.In between,put some lively music on and dance and prance around the house,you'll soon be a slip of a girl  :)

Thanks guys will keep you informed

Sainsbury's do a calorie counter book which is good.