I feel I look the size of a small planet :rolleyes:  I keep saying I am going to lose weight but only keep gaining it :rolleyes:

I feel inspiration from the non-smokers and have decided I really have to make a start now.  I've just eaten my last mince pie

Does anyone want to join me on here?

Can I recommend Tesco's Ediets, my sister has just lost a stone doing their low GI one, non faddy, totally in line with the health department recommendations on food and no silly exclusions of whole food groups :)  My sister has had no trouble sticking to it, enjoys the food, and really does find it very sustaining.
It'll cost ya, £2.99 a week and you have to fork out for 10 weeks initially but what better incentive to stick to it that being out of pocket :)  You can get books and stuff but Sis works more than full time on 2 jobs and found having it all worked out for her every day a big bonus.

Thanks, I'll look into that. :D

After loosing a lot of weight in 2004 (5 1/2 stone) last year I allowed 2 stone to creep back on (partly I felt I ahd lost a bit too much in some areas like my face and bust), and over Christmas I am ashamed to say I have gained another stone.

January 1st back on the Weight Watchers points!  Very practical reason, I can't get into my clothes, most of my wardrobe is size 12 (some very nice stuff my friend gave me too) and I only had a few items left in size 14 which I burst out of at Christmas, and have had to dig hard and find two pairs of Jeans in the next size, gulp

This is the only trouble with dieting, and having a weight problem.  Once I really decide to go for it I can loose the weight, especialy if I can get through the first two weeks, as you see the scales showing a decrease and want to keep it up.

But why oh why is it so hard to keep the weight off???:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

It is all very well for people to say just eat sensibly until you feel comfortably full.  I have come to the realisation that the reason people like me get overweight is that their bodies just don't have the mechanism that tells them when they have had enough, so they cannot control their weight using their appetite at all, so sadly it means always watching your weight and what you eat, which is such a drag

I like the WW point system, but find I get into a mess when eating out or when I buy products that haven't nutritional values listed (Lidls are bad fr this, and coming from continental roots I like continental foods whcih don't get listed in the WW guides), or eat at relatives houses, and once I have had a bad day I tend to binge.  I also can't stop at one chocoloate, biscuit, piece of cake etc.

I suppose most dogs are the same, some would just eat and eat, very few (and I do have two) would only eat what they needed.

>once I have had a bad day I tend to binge.

Ditto!  When I was dieting if I 'fell off' it and had one chocolate bar, I figured my diet was blown for that day so I may as well make the most of it, and I'd eat more chocolate, a takeaway for tea, crisps, whatever I could stuff in my mouth, then try to start again the next day - which inevitably didn't always happen so I continued stuffing (again thinking 'this is my last chance') and here I am now nearly 4 stone heavier than I was, and I'd worked so hard to lose 3 stone and looked fab :( :rolleyes:

Of course now dieting is off limits, but as soon as I've finished breast feeding, WW will be my first stop!!  (She says now!)

Sounds exactly like me for the past year!!!  Have you seen the adverts on Sky One for Paul Mackenna?  From 9th January Paul Mackenna will get you thin, something about changing our attitude and relationship with food?

My Dads wife is one of those who would feel il after eating more than four squares of chocolate.

I did feel good about the weight I had lost, and at the moment I have a leg that I think has some trapped nerves in it, a hip and foot that hurt, so I know it is not good to be overweight.

I wnet out last New Years in a lovley long dres feeling great, this year I refused invites

I loved weight watchers, but all last year because I had gone above the 5lbs over target weight I wouldn't go back and have to pay!!!  Bit ashamed too.

Have you tried low GI foods, Brainless, they have such a slow release of energy it changes the way your body reacts in terms of insulin release etc, which is why it is the way recommended to diabetics and has been used by them to control their condition for years now.  Sister claims they really do sustain her and she never feels it is a question of resisting temptation, she just isn't tempted.  She eats out, she orders salads and has the dressing brought seperately so she can add a couple of teaspoons, which is nicer there are usually horribly overdressed anyway.  Nothing is excluded so she can have about 3 new spuds or a nice chunk of brown bread with that.  Fish dishes can be ordered of course, again she asks for any sauce to be brought seperate so she can limit the amount going on.  We go for indians, she orders a tandori dish like chicken tikka and a vegetable side dish and swaps about half her chicken for a couple of spoons of rice from some willing fella :)  It does help if you enjoy salads, pulses, wholemeal bread, brown rice, etc, I eat these things anyway and have always kept a low BMI apart from a bit of a rise when I first gave up smoking but I wouldn't say she was a big fan of them before she got into having them regularly but now she loves them.  She is so contented I don't think I will ever see her change this way of eating now, it truly is a diet and not just a reducing one. 

What is low GI.  My worst failings are Carbs (love bread and pasta) and Dairy desserts, like Yogurt, Rice Pudding , Custard (both kinds), and of course Sweets.  I have quite low blood pressure, and can get very dizzy when hungry, and have often used sugar for a quick fix, and seem to crave it.  Fainted and hit my head, leaving a lump that took months do dissipate

It's foods that are rating low on the glycaemic index, there, are you any the wiser! :D
Here you go of course this is aimed at diabetics but of course it is very important for them to keep their weight down in order to have good control over their insulin responses not to mention the difficulties they can have with circulation in legs, etc.  It's not at all faddy no foods are entirely excluded although obviously sugars and fats are going to be within limits.  Bread and pasta are fine and you can have your other treats although they recommend the low fat versions but you should find because of the effect the slow release has you will feel generally satisfied and should find it easier to keep these things in moderation.  I have to say some of the portion control the diet has excercised over my sister looks pretty alarming on paper but she is always surprised herself at how filling it is.

That could help me when I feel low on energy too, I wi have to study that.  Do they include it on food labels now?  Also why is it that soem foods don't ahve the nutritional labels even when they are from EEC?

Yes some products are marked low GI now, including some convenience foods, but an important aspect of the regime is that foods are often raw or very lightly cooked, although this doesn't have to be everything, on the the basis that your body will actually use some calories in the act of digestion because it is more difficult that food that has been processed further or cooked longer and the ongoing digestion provides a boost to the metabolism.  Any book on the subject will give you a list of low GI ingredients and the Tesco's ediet my sister uses also give you a list of all the acceptable convenience meals, not just their own but the other brands and supermarkets own too, in fact you can choose to opt for a convenience based diet rather than a recipe based one devised for you.  My sister uses the recipe based one but there are lots of very quick options, for instance, lunch can be low fat cheese on brown toast with salad and fruit even a lot of the more complicated recipes are pretty quick being mostly chopping up time with quick cooking, stir fry type stuff.
I've no idea why some foods don't need nutritional labels, I've often wondered that myself, it must be certain groups but never quite worked it out.

If you are trying to diet you should start to drink lots of water, get your weight in st divide it by three and thats the amount in lt you should be drinking everyday. Its really hard at first but it does get easier, when I first started I could drink a lt and 1/2 then gradually got to three lt. I was told by the doctor that most people cant tell the difference between being hungry and being thirsty. It might help.
In the last year I have become a dress size smaller but have gained 1/2 st, I know that it is due to all the excercise I do so I dont mind everything is more toned and thats what I want.
Mary

Tesco's are selling those exercise balls for about £4.00 !!  I've had it for a few days and it really does make the harder exercises tht you usually do on the floor a lot easier! 

Hoping for a flat stomach soon :d  Oh well I can dream.

Spot on going back on WW points Barbara :)

I have been going to weight watchers since October and have lost 29 lbs!  Yipeeeeeeeeee.  Had a break over christmas and have now been back on it for 3 days.  I am hoping by the time I go back next monday for the first time since christmas, I wont have gained much/any

I find WW so easy to follow.  Still have the odd bad bingey day but I have so far managed to get out of that feeling of 'well, I 've had a bad day, might as well binge for the rest of the week! and get back on it the next day. 

I feel very motivated this time and have signed up for a WeightWatchers/British Heart Foundation trek in Italy this September!  4 days of walking through the Italian Coastline. :D

I think I am going to follow the Slimming World diet. I did it before and I was stupid not to continue because I did really well on it.  I lurve potatoes and pasta and I can eat as much of that as I like plus all the fruit and veg

I did the Slimming World diet too and it was the easiest food plan ever. I lost nearly 5st and went from a size 18 to a 10/12. Sadly, I stopped following it and now weigh in at more than I did in the first place!! Size 18's are now very tight on me (when I can fit into them). Slimming World....here I come !!

That is just what I did went from a tight 18 to a a 12 being comfortably loose.  Well the 14s are just too tight and had to dig out those size 16 Jeans hidden in the wardrobe.

If you can just get going the Weight Watchers Points do make it easy, just wish there was more stuff pointed and I didn't want to eat stuff where the nutrional analysis isn't on the labels (continental meats).

my hubby bought me a stepping machine for christmas, it works from side to side :-D and when i use it i can feel every part of my body working :-D It was advertised on teleshopping......but he got mine from jjb sports for 44.99 :-D

Mine looks similar to this one

http://www.uzzi.co.uk/index.html

>But why oh why is it so hard to keep the weight off???<

:-D :-D 

Me to brainless. I go up and down like a see saw. 

My weight is getting me down just now. Need to rejoin one of the clubs.   I worry sick about my health whilst still putting food in my mouth.  No logic in my behaviour I know

My friend and I are starting Weight Watchers in the next couple of weeks.  I have soooooooooooooooo much weight to loose it is horrible but I will just take it one step at a time and hopefully this time next year I will be a lot slimmer.  Loosing weight has been my New Year resolution for so many years and it has never really happened.  I just seem to get bigger and bigger

Dust off that bouncer Pam   :D

I'd better put the legs back onto my bouncer again and start bouncing around :d

LOL :D

I daren't get one.  2 reasons

1 - Black left eye
2 - Black Right eye

:D  :D

LOL Ali :-D :-D :-D

29 lbs that brilliant balibee i lost 1 and 1/2 stone with weight watchers for my wedding in April, i am joining again with my mum and sister tonight as the weight has slowly crepy back on.

Thanks Louise :)

I am well chuffed.  Still a way to go but I am on the right track.

Losing weight, although hard enough in itself, is the easy part.  Keeping the weight off and maintaining a healthy weight is the hardest part :(

I am hoping that once I get to my ideal weight I can go by the 80/20 rule.  80% pointing and 20% being careful but not pointing.  Not saying It will work but that is my goal.

My ultimate aim is to lose my weight so I can get another horse and not feel like a sack of spuds in the saddle and have another baby :D

Good Luck for tonight :)

I am afraid that I don't believe in diets :) My sister is bigger than me and spent the last 20 years going to weight-watchers etc. She has lost a lot of weight, but ALWAYS puts it back on (and sometimes more). The only answer to losing weight is to eat sensibly (but not frugally) and to do lots of exercise :) I put on a few pounds at Xmas and need to lose a fair bit as well :) Yesterday we cleared the fridge and cupboards of the left-overs from Xmas and today I've started back on the treadmill when I come in from work :) THIS IS MY MASTER PLAN :D :D :D I'll let you know how I do in a month :)

Daisy

Ooohhh B*M, I wish I could lose weight!! I'm about 5 stone overweight, diabetic, hypo thyroid, high Blood Pressure, but find it really hard to execise or walk as I have terrible Arthritis! Had major surgery on my back in 2000, spinal fusion and this year had 2 Hip replacments...but I get so down, I don't work and get bored and fed up and guess what...I eat!!! Doesn't make it any easier that my hubby adores me whatever! LOL Do you think WW really works?? Love Dawn X

I've been very good today but then the first day is always easy.  Problem will be tonight as when I went to the larder to get some pasta out I noticed that we still have an untouched stollen cake, mince pies, chocolate finger biscuits (whole tin special offer 75% off) box of biscuits (again 75% off) chocolate swiss roll cake with fresh cream in fridge (bought for son but he doesn't like it - wish I didn't :rolleyes:) box of After Eight Mints.

Usually there are 5 of us but one daughter now left and the other is in Australia.  I wonder how much I can persuade OH and son to eat tonight?  They are skinny so they can take it

WW watchers definatley works for lots of people, the i like about it is you can eat what you like but must weigh out the portions, and they slowly get you eating less so your body becomes used to less calories. Works for me anyway.

I think WW are great at reducing diets, I've yet to be convinced that they are any good at directing people to healthy eating for life.  My friend joined and we had rather a laugh as she told me that she knew it was not going to be life changing, when the plump lady collecting the money told her she had been a member for 20 years and had lost weight lots of times with them! :D She still enjoyed going though, enjoyed the food and the social aspect :) but I think if you are looking for a new way of looking at food altogether this may not be it.  To be honest the best way of improving your eating, I believe, is to learn to cook or start cooking again, it really makes you think about what you are actually taking on board, you are far less likely to make a cream based dish, for instance, if you are cooking it rather than buying it in my experience.

Yes it does.  If you really want to loose weight you can do it without being hungry.  You replace food items High in fat and calories with those with very little, so you can fill up on Vegetables and eat a fair amount of fruit.

You do have to cut down the Carbohydrate and Fat/Meat part of your diet.  If you use poultry, and do not use any fat in cooking you can have nutritious filling meals.

Sadly I like lots of bread, and sweets, so have allowed 2 stone,  to creep on, by binging on junk and then a stone this Christmas by enjoying lots of rich food and cakes and choccies.

Third day today, as started on my points New Years day.

>Third day today, as started on my points New Years day.

Well done, keep going. 

Like you said, WW does work.  As long as you make wise ;) choices you can have a lot for your points.  WW do this new thing now, I don't know if you have seen it but it's called switch.  Means no pointing and you fill up on foods from certain lists and then you use your points for weekly treats.

I prefer the good old points system.  Because I am not very good at judging how full   i need the structure of pointing.  It is also true what they say, that you must write everything down.  In the last 12 weeks at WW, fo 2 weeks I didn't write down and keep a track of what points I was using and those 2 weeks I put on 1lb on one week and stayed the same the other. 

Yep it was tryingh the new system that started the rot.  I have no judgement of full either   That's how I get overweight to start with!

Probably works for those with a few holiday poihds or who just want to shed a few surplus pounds, but are not peopel that ahve always had a weight problem.

I have struggled with my weight since before puberty.

I like the full point system.

I wouldn't be without my WW database (the black folding calcualtor size one), but teh one they brought out with the new system is awful and with my eyesight (or lack 0f) couldn't even see it, I put all my points in there as I go, as it has the basic food list, ww products and soem eating out stuff, and a points calcuator.

Errr where did I put that thing ;-)  :-D :-D  Boy have  I put on weight these last 2 weeks. 

One day I will have a personal trainer with the name of Satan ;-)

Im on Slimming World and LOST 3 lbs over Christmas :-)

I'm being very good so far.  Stuck to the Slimming World diet (I think) yesterday.  Weighed myself yesterday and was horrified to see I had put on about 8lb over Christmas :(

Need to find the SW book so that I can check up on some things.  Not eaten anything really naughty though.  Gave OH and son tasks of eating up rest of Christmas goodies but looks like it might be hanging around for a few days.  Feeling strong at the moment though so hope that feeling lasts. 

well done you :D 

Losing at christmas must make you feel very virtuous :D  That is excellent

I,m absolutely fed up of being overweight I know its all my own fault and still I can,t get motivated. I n the past I lost five stone with weight watchers and felt fantastic now its gradually crept back on with some extra added and I feel awful, all my joints ache and my back even when I get up in the morning my whole body aches I come down stairs like an eighty year old woman and I,m fourty six years old.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Last night I was sat up in bed until one thirty with terrible heartburn and indigestion and then I had to be up at five thirty for work today I feel dreadful and the poor dogs are looking at me and wondering why we don,t get out for a good long walk.
Right thats it rant over as I said its all my fault this weekend I,m going out to buy some bathroom scales and I am going to lose some weight before Crufts I,d love to be able to show my own dog again instead of paying a handler to do so because I am too fat and unfit.
The diet starts here who,s joining me we could post once a week with our weight lass maybe what does everyone else think?

Hi spellmaker, I'd think seriously before getting any scales - I bought some and became obsessed with weighing myself, doing it nearly 5 times a day!!   Not good for you as obviously your body weight changes through the day - and I'd be depressed if my weight had gone up from one day to the next and then I'd end up ruining my diet by eating something I shouldn't :(

Obviously it's up to you - but be warned!!  And if you do buy them and start weighing yourself on them more than once a week then I'd immediately hide them away so you're not tempted!!  You should go on how you feel anyway :)

Thanks  Keeley
I,ve calmed down a little after my rant now and I,m thinking it may be a better idea to call into Boots once a week and get weighed maybe .

Spellmaker - just noticed your real name - snap!!

I'm going to weigh myself, well I did yesterday and was mortified :(

I think what I will do is post my weight loss on here every Friday.  Weighing at the beginning of the week always makes me feel anxious because you've just had the weekend and if you've been out or had a treat you worry like mad (well I worry like mad). If I weigh at the end of the week it gives me real good motivation from Monday onwards and then feel I can have a little treat (glass of wine or something) at the weekend if I have done well.

That's my plan.

I will not expect a great loss this week because I only started yesterday, but whatever happens I will post my weight loss or gain (better not be ) this Friday pm (work Fri am)

Good Luck Cheryl :-) You can do it!

How much is everyone planning to loose?
Anyone got to loose absolutely loads like me? :rolleyes:
I've found it hard through Christmas and put about 4lb on - oh well you lot are a great help, we can motivate each other !!!

I have lots to loose.  4 stone!!!!

Off to SW tonight to see how much I have put on since my 3lb weight loss last week..... I now go spinning 5 times a week too... 

This will make you feel good - I've got to loose double that - bit at a time !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Justlou

I've got at least 4 stone to lose. If I lost 2 before the summer I would be delighted.  I need to lose something before I go skiing in February.  I've never been before and not even had any lessons yet.

I am the same as Keeley.  I feel very old, I have lost strength and my back aches after a while of standing.  OH, 2 daughters, son and even my dog are all lovely and slim, it's only me that looks like a bobo doll :rolleyes:

Lol CherylS :D and I don't know what a bobo doll is :D

You will do it!