Obviously that wasmeant to be 1.5lbs :D :D

Anyway today I was 12 stone 4.5lb, so now over half way, having lost 44 pounds and wanting to loose another 39.5 :D

Come on girls and boys where have you all gone, it is getting lonely here.

It was you lot who got me started even though it took me a few weeks to crystalise my resolve.  Well actually6 I had been gaining weight over the last 9 years.

Hi Brainless

Was just skimming though this thread and came across you post where you lost 105 lbs - wondered if you had cut your head off and were just counting that :D

You are doing well though, keep it up (or should that be down?)

Good God Christine I have been a headless chicken for years, but sadly must be the lightest part of me :D :D

Well we are now down to 12st. 1 1/2lbs, so nearly sown into the next stone.

Can't find the newer topic, maybe it was in idle chat, and they disappear after a week.

ive lost 3lbs in the last 2 weeks, not as much as i would have liked but at least its something, i need to get back down the gym and go swimming that i havent been doing

That is exactly the same as me, half a pound last week, and 2 1/2 this.  I think it is a girls thing this erratic weight loss.

I felt bad tho cos these are the first 2 weeks of my diet and i expected to lose a lot more than a lb the first week

I was surprised that I oost at all the first week or two, as in the past have often found that it takes two weeks for your body to realise what is going on.

I have usually found that the good weeks where I have been strict, don't show results for a week or two, conversely if you have had a not so good week and find you have lost anyway don't get complacent, as you may find it will out the next week when you may have gained or failed to loose.

Time of the month sems to play a part too.

Also I don't know which diet you are following, but I found that my metabolism is such that I had to be just a little stricter to loose at a rate I am happy with (1 to 2lbs a week).  If I ate all my alowed points I found I would only loose half a pound, which if I was closer to goal I would be OK with, but need the boost that a higher (but healthy) weight loss gives.

If you are with Weight Watchers try cutting one point a day off your consumption, and it may just be enough to get you moving quicker.

Well I am under 12 stone at last.  Weighed in at 11 stone 10 Pounds.

That is a total weight loss of 52 1/2 lbs (or 3 stone 10 1/2 Pounds) since 1/3/'04, just over 4 months ago.

31 lb to go :D

Mind you I have had an awful bug with mega cattarh adn bad chest, adn lost 5lb this week, whereas had only lost 1/2 the week before.

You're doing brilliantly, Brainless!

I lost 2lbs this week - which was good as OH who is also on a diet lost nothing altho hes a lot smaller than me and hardly has anything to lose anyway. Mine was probably helped by the 5 hours solid walking on sunday around the royal show

Wow you have done so well ! :D I am at a loss to why I cannot seem to shift any weight :( 11 months on from having Indigo and I am eating healthily, a low fat balanced diet, I am excercising but nothing :( The poor dogs don't know what's hit them as I power walk them round the village ! No time for sniffing ! :)

Could be your guestimates to quantities are off.  Try weighing everything you eat.

I have found that to loose at a satisfactory rate I need to be that little stricter.

I kept to 18 points last week of the 20 allwed and am back to loosing the average 2lb a week, though my bad weeks have been when I have done less excersise, either was hot or wet and dogs got just their minimum allowance rather than as much as we felt like doing.

I never convert Bonus excersise points into food, just think Oh the weight will shift faster.

Write everything down you eat, you may be surprised how the odd biscuit, left over baby pudding etc etc add up.

I am not sure as it really doesn't matter what I do it doesn't seem to be happening ! I have never had to diet in my life before now and have been lucky enough to have lost weight after I had Flo 11 years ago. Must be my age, they did say I was an old git mother at 36 :rolleyes:

My freind has just had her first at 36 1/2 years of age :D

Your metabolism does become more efficient during preganncy and after.  It is why men can eat more to maintain the same weight.

Unless you have a metabolic disorder it really does boil down to fuel in versus energy out. 

You can only loose weight if you take in less fuel than your body needs.

What kind of food do you eat.  Try varying the carbohydrate, meat and fruit and veeg as much as possible.

I am one of those people who love my carbs, and have dome with most meals.  I use flour, pasta, rice, bread and breakfast cereals with everything.

I have totally cut out all spreads that go on bread (butter marg) fat for cooking, chocolate, Hard Cheese, Jam, very rareky have red meat.  SAid I would never do it, but actually can palate skimmed milk, and use a lot of herbal tea.

I have increased my itake of vegetables hugely.  I do not peel most veg, and have my potatoes with the skins on, boiled or baked.

Strangely enough you need to drink lots of water, dehydration actually inhibits weight loss.

We eat a low fat healthy diet with plenty of veg,never peel vegs and eat more chicken and fish and really only have red meat once a week and that is normally very lean mince meat in a bol sauce which is normally bulked up with mostly veggies. We eat wild rice and pasta. Anything we buy has to be under the 5% magic grams of fat per 100 grams.

We do not eat lots of bread only at weekends when we have a bacon butty which is lean bacon with any fat trimmed off !

I think I might go and see my quack and see what they say as it is really frustrating as I am doing everything right ! :)

So how is your friend coping with the new addition then ?

Lucy
xx

She had a very hard time poor soul.  Early labour began Thursday night, in hospital sunday night, absolute Agony Monday morning, (rang me to let the dogs out), and by Midday still only 3cm dilated (they then put her on an Oxytocin drip and Epidural) at 5pm she had only got to 4cm, so they said they would do C section if she hadn't progressed further by 6pm.  Litttle Carl (6lb 12oz) made his very bruised entrance into the world some time after 8pm.

If she has any more it will be ellective C section as he Pelvis is to small.

She is very sore from the C section but is doing great with him, he is a good baby sleeps from Midnight to 6am so sleep not bad, and her Mum comes in everyday to do housework, as she is rather houseproud and we all know she wouldn't rest if someone didn't make her :D

As for your problem the type of food your eating is great, and a doc visit to check thyroid may be an idea.  It could just be worth weighing everything appart from veg.

I had a lush brekkie today, 300g strawberries (1Pt), 3 Aprivots (1/2pPt), 200g Verylow fat Fromage Fraise (1Pt) and 30g rice Krispies (1 1/2Pt), total 4 points and I am stuffed :D

I shoould now be on 20 points a day, but know to loose I will need to stay on 18 (have been using 19 a day for weeks, when I was allowed 22), so you do have to tweak a little with you Point allowance, especially in weeks where you are walking less.  If I am having a hungry week then I will use all my points.

Glad she is recovering well with some greatly needed help !

I will see my doc when I get a minute which will be in a week as I am off for a week recovering from my OP ! Might loose a few pounds when they remove the lining of my womb !

I do think you have done so well though and deserve a very big pat on the back ! ;)

Well am now exactly 4 stone lighter than when I started.  Now wearing size 14 in closthes, where I was bursting out of the largest size 18s in stretch that i could find.

It is interesting as it took me from March 1st, to April 27th (just under two months) to loose first two stone, and from then until 19th July to loose the next two, so of course it gets slower.

Hopefully I can shift the last two stone by Christmas :D.

I'm dead impressed, Brainless - that's brilliant! I bet you feel better for it too.
:)

Yep my dodgy ankle doesn't hurt me after a day on my feet at a show anymore.  Walking the dogs is no longer the hard work it was getting.  The speed I walk I found my feet hurt, and I was getting loud in my breathing.  You need to walk fast with five Elkhounds, if you don't want to be glued to the pavement :D

Well thought I would update.  I suppose summer is over really but on 31st August I had lost 4stone 12lbs, taking me to 10st 8.5lb, just 2.5lbs short of a healthy weight for my height.

I actually want to loose another 16.5lbs, so looks like I may well make it before Christmas.

Have been going to the Gym (special offer unlimited use for six weeks since 31/7/04, so ends this Thursday) and have been going two to four times a week.  Have been doing around 45-60 minutes on cardio vascular equipment (Cross trainer, rowing machine, bikes etc) aiming to burn up between 500-700 calories and in between have been using the weight machines for thighs, abs, arms etc.

That is helping to tone me up as well as boosting the weight loss which gets harder to loose the closer you are to a good weight.

The next challenge will be WEIGHT MAINTENANCE!!!  This is where the weight watchers healthy eating ethos comes in.  You carry6no counting points, but just up them to the stage where your weight stays steady, so really it is a life change in eating habits and not just a diet you stay on and then come off when the weight has gone, as all that does is allow you to slip back into the habits that got you overweight in the first place.

Having changed the way I eat, and mostly not been hungry over the last 6 months I can see myself staying on this way of eating for good.

well done brainless :)

I'm trying the excercise first thing idea at the moment, I go to the gym at night but were taking Leo for his walks first thing before breakfast as that is supposed to help. Ive found this time around and in previous diets that it really is eating in between meals thats a problem, you can have a slightly more fattening meal once or twice a week and still lose weight (of course its better if you dont) - I suppose with weight watchers you would have to save up your points with that.

Ive got a friend though who seems to be turning into a yoyo dieter, shes trying to survive on 500 calories a day and going jogging and then she spends the weekend pigging out because she can't take it anymore.

Thats kind of how i did it . Not on 500 kals but 800 or 900 Always add a treat excersise added . Ive reached my goal a long time ago still the same weight i dont want to be a rake but thats practacaly how i did it . as long as she dosent pig out during the week ,
one or two days off fools the body that your not starving yourself and she may see that she gets sudden boosts of weightloss .when the body goes on a diet it thinks its in starvation mode 3-5 days after you have started it so will try to hang onto the fat if you suddenly up your food it wont register your starving so carry on loosing weight so when monday comes she looses that little extra.

Lots of diets about ecourage you to save some kals  for the weekend  some diet specialists only count the whole kals for the week not by each day . its a bit interesting isent it , what works for one wont work for another ,  me i was with weightwatchers  dident loose anything in months so I stopted going I lowerd my kals had a few days off monday comes back on and im now a size 10 . fitness routiens is the key , diet on its own wont work . you will just stay as you are . you have to burn kals to loose them .

I do think you have to look on food as fuel and those machines do half put it into perspective when you realise how much work needs to be done to shift x calories.

I am tending to do around 700cals work (around 45 minutes on the cardio vascular machines), and then some weight work, but of course I also walk to and from the Gym, and walking the five dogs an hour or more a day is extra.

I think food manufacturers should also take some responsibility for not producing far healthier convenience food.  so many people do not cook these days.

I have found that I can cook a decnet meal for the calories in foods one would only consider a snack.

Weighed in at 9 stone 13 1/2 pounds today, which means I have now lost exactly 5 1/2 stone.  Just 7 1/2 pounds to go to get to the weight goal I have set myself.

I am now doing Gym twice a week, doing about 1000calories of Cardio Vascular work (half hour each on Cross trainer and Rowing machine, and 15 minutes cycling or treadmill).  I also use the weight machines for thighs and upperbody, tu avoid the ones that build calves, as I have huge calf muscles anyway :)-

Wow! That's a fantastic achievement, Brainless! Good on you!
:) :) :)

Do you have any examples of say what you would eat on a weekday or diet day and how you change that at the weekend to up the calories?

Id have mabe boiled eggs for breaky or toast with a light spreading of somthing then a ham salad sarny for lunch and a reasonable meal at night , scampie with salad or you can buy stir fry meals where they give you noodles veg and beansprouts with a sauce in a packet you just have to add chicken or turkey .that meal really fills you up . then i have a low cal icecream just for a treat , and the weekend do what you want within reason, dont go to mental though like having a whole big bar of chocolate lol .on saturday im still careful i do have a few extra badies :P . i have a fry up on sunday a packet of crisps mabe and a small chocky bar or cookie i have a sunday roat , its basicly your day of to do what you want .