Hi any advice for an obese person and how to lose weight? any diets, suggestions??
Pleaseee help!

My tip is simple.  Don't think of what you are doing as a diet - consider it a permanent "this is what I eat now" lifestyle change.  The word diet in itself is enough to turn most people in the direction of the biscuit tin!!

I've managed to lose 2stone (yep, back on track after a slight hitch over Christmas) and rather than dieting I've made a life change in the way that I eat.  Out have gone the bacon sarnies for breakfast, cheese baguettes for lunch, chocolate mid-afternoon and then a huuuggge dinner and pudding!!!

I am now just counting calories and am amazed at how much I can eat trying to stick to approx 1500 cals per day.  A bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, a chicken salad roll, packet of low fat crisps and an apple for lunch and then a stir fry, lots of fish and white meat and watching my intake of bread, potatos, white rice etc.

I used to be a potato and bread obsessive I think!!  Used to eat chips at lunchtime, and jacket potatos with loads of butter for dinner.  Potato Cakes (fried) or potato waffles for a Saturday grill-up - so many!!!!

Good Luck and keep us posted - I often find that support from others helps too!!  :D

Hi

I have just started the slimming world diet and I must say it is the best diet I have ever done, I eat more now than I have ever done.  I have lost half a stone in my first 2 weeks. I still have a takeaway once a week.  I really don-t feel like I am missing out.  I now have nimble bread, I am allowed 3 slices of this on slimming world, diet drinks, low fat versions of products etc.  The idea is you are on either an original day or a green day, original days I can eat as much meat and certain veg as I like, if I wanted to eat a whole chicken I could, so I can have grilled bacon (as much as I like), egg fried with fry light, mushrooms, tomatos, my 3 slices of wholemeal toast for breakkie, followed by a bowl of fruit salad if I want to or cereal with my milk allowance, for dinner I can have roast beef and yorkshire pudding (which would be classed as a syn) with veg and potatoes (a syn also), then at the evening I can have a bacon and mushroom omelette or a piece of steak etc.  On a green day you just eat potatoes, pasta rice with veg and use your syns for meat.  I am allowed up to 15 syns a day.  It really is the most amazing diet I have ever been on.

The best tip I can give worked for me. I HATE exercising, I mean, I really do. It feels to me like going to the dentist or something. Anyway, I knew i had to exercise as I am short (only 5') and was worried about putting on weight after my mum was put on a diet by her doctor as at 4' 11" she was very clinically over-weight (obese, and getting bigger), and it suddenly made me realise how much junk I ate, and how I needed to change my lifestyle). I had tried the whole Dr Gillian thing (there was a point where if I saw another pumpkin seed I thought I would go stir-crazy) and then I invested in a flywheel exercise bike from Argos. I started out small, in front of the TV, and eventually went from barely being able to do one mile, to doing 14 miles on this bike 5 times a week. I loved it, and because I could do it in front of the TV, it didn't feel like exercise, and also because you get engrossed in the TV, you end up going much further than if you were sitting there watching the calorie/speed/ distance calculator, and concentrating on how your legs feel. I now have an elliptical machine as well (from QVC) which is much harder work than the cycle (I can only just do about 7 minutes before my legs ache and go wobbly!) but again, I am building up, and go from doing 10 miles (45 minutes) on my bike, to 7 minutes on the elliptical machine. I started with no stamina, no motivation, and feeling generally depressed about myself and my body image. I find it much easier to be healthy with food 6 days a week and then eat what the hell I liked one day a week (chinese takeaway and cake usually... but I would start the day with just fruit if I knew I was having a splurge dinner) and just be stict about exercising 5 days a week, and that has helped me a lot, but it is what works best for you and your lifestyle that counts. Good luck with it, and I really mean that, as I know it is hard, but stick at it!

Diets.........nooooooooooooooo :(

The words diet makes me hungry!! :-D

Just do what everyone here has told you to do... and watch what you eat, i'm also trying to lose weight... and 1 day i will be that slim 9 stone.. that i have always dreamed about lol

Take care
love kerry xxxx

Well done you :)

My only advice would be to make sure you 'treat' yourself once a week.  I'm doing Weight Watchers, and I find that if I fancy something on Monday, just telling myself that I can have it on Wednesday, after I've been weighed, gives me the will power to wait until then, where as if you're telling yourself you can 'never' have that chocolate/pudding/pizza then you'll find it much harder to stick to.  Give yourself one day to treat yourself, and have what you fancy on that day - getting straight back to it the following morning of course.

i need help sticking to a deit aswell im very good during the day i have tuna salad with 2 slices of weight watchers bread for lunch and veg and a ww meal for dinner,but by 8 pm im starving and always go for the biscuit tin,its terrible i just carnt resist and i have to buy them for the kids and oh ,so if anyone has any thoughts about how i can stay away from the dreaded biscuits please let me know !!

Aren't there any biscuits that your kids like but you're not so keen on?

no i love all biscuits,i think im addicted to them !!!

Weight Watchers do some really tasty biscuits/cakes - could you get yourself some so that when you fancy a biscuit its a WW one rather than from the kids tin?

"Weightwatchers" and "biscuits" - two words that should never be said in the same sentence, akin to "Decaf" and "Coffee" LOL

i could but arnt they only o.k if you have one this is part of my problem i can never just stop at one !!!

Put the kids on a diet and don't buy any biscuits at all :D :D :D :D :D

i can imagine their faces now !!they would probably report me for being an unfit parent if i didnt buy biscuits l..lol