like jerusalum artichoke which i have taken before by biggest problem is bread and cheese

i ate a lot of bread and cheese last week and i noticed clothes were a bit tighter

any tips and advice greatly appreciated

g

The best natural slimming aids are:

willpower - deciding what you want to do more, eat or be slim
your mouth - deciding whether you will open it or keep it shut :D

Join a slimming club. I lost a stone & a half since I joined ww. Its good going to a class and speaking with the other folk that go.

Jean

Agree - Willpower!  I lost 3 stone and really all I have done is cut out all convienience foods, eat fresh fruit/veg, Chicken/pork, eating sensibly - sticking to 3 meals a day - NO snacks - have also cut out alcohol in the last 2 months too.  Feel I have more energy, Hubby is well impressed too(if you know what I mean!!)

Sweep x :)

well done sweep sounds like things are looking good for you ..... willpower and sticking to it .did anyone one see that programme last night about the lady who ate all that junk food channel four i think ????? I lost a lot of wieght on my own at home then joined ww for some support it does work ..

Yes I saw prog, thought it was good - was it a one off or is it on next week?

Sweep

I think its on next week too.  I wish some of these reality television programmes didn't think it was no necessary for people to swear continually.

Last night I had to put up with foul language on You Are What You Eat, then on Wife Swap, then on Big Brother!!  I know that its my choice to watch the programmes and I can switch over if I want to but its not the point.  I want to watch these programmes without all the constant bad language!!

And before anyone says that I'm being a moany old woman - I'm only 26!!!

yea i know what you mean I can't say i like it but I guess thats what some people are like , they think it makes them look big by being bad mouthed ....my mum used to say to me you don't need to swear if you are inteligent enough to talk ..... good point eh ?

I have found Weight Watchers great.  Have been going since first of March and have lost 3 stone 5 1/2 lbs.  It is all about changing what you eat, and substituting high cal/fat foods with low fat/cal ones so that you can still ahve decnet meals and feel satisfied.  yopu can't do deprivation for long, the willpower just konks out.

For example sunday I was at My Dads.  I had a chicken thigh with no skin, 200g of boiled potaes and cucumber with lemon juice.

The rest of the family had full fat home made gravey (I had some herbs and Horesradish sauce on my spuds), they had double cream with their cucumbers.  for desert we all had Fresh Strawberries.  They had double Jersey cream (something like 470cals per 100g) and lots of sugar on theirs, I had 300g of Strawberies and 200g of Very low fat Froamge frais (at 46cals per 100g).

I left the table just as well fed but had eaten loads less calories. 

At the classes members will share all sorts of real life ideas, that work with everyday life.

E.g. going to cinema I by a pack of Jumbo snackajacks, while kids have popcorn.  If you like crisps choose wotsits or walkers french fries, they have 1.5 ww points compared to 4 or 5 for most crisps.

choc digestive I think is about 2 poins, but those Pink and white wafers (ice cream wafer with marchmallow in middle) are 1/2 a point as are the jumbo snack a jacks.  Use skimmed milk instead of whole, fat free yogurst fill ahole, as does a Sugar free jhe;;y with one mixed in to make a huge plate of mouse.  Or you can set some soft furit in it,a dn have with fromage frais (very low fat oprion) with granualted sweetener.

Must say I have never eaten so well.

Had beans on toast this morning (no butter).  will be having a jacket Potatoe later, with fat free soft cheese with herbs, and a Saad for lunch (no dressing just lemon juice and salt and peper and some parsly and chives).

My sis went to weightwatchers a couple of years ago and lost over two stones. Unfortunately she has put it all back on.

She's starting again soon, think I better join her.

I think you do have to accept that you will need to adhere to the Healthy eating principles for good, obviously adjusting the intake up slightly once you are the weight you want.  It is the old eating habits after all that caused the initial or rpeated weight gain.

Unlike many dioets this is a way of eating that can be followed for life.

I lost two stone with weight watchers a couple of years ago, I put it all back on when I gave up smoking :rolleyes:  I tried to do weightwatchers at home but it just didnt work, ive been back five weeks now and have lost half a stone :) (it should have been more but I had a few alcoholic weekends and some weeks I gained :(  )  As well as counting weightwatchers points I also try to cut down on my carbs, just the obvious ones like potato, bread, pasta and rice.  Weightwatchers isnt really a diet it is just healthy, sensible eating - and it works :D :D

I agree you do need the Group support and enthusiasm.  I don't know about you but when I have lost weight in thapst (I started off the weight I am now) and went down to 9 1/2 stone I got a real feel good factor, and of course everyone commented favpurably on the change. 

This kept you feeling good, but you don't get the same feeling or acknowledgment from weight mainteneance, so when you are down you go back to binging, or kidding yourself it is only a few poounds, and you can easily shift them. 

That is how I put on 6 stone :D

<<kidding yourself it is only a few poounds, and you can easily shift them>>  thats how I put mine back on too, I thought that seeing as id done it once I could do it again easy - wrong !!  This time it is much more difficult :(

As a rule I dont have time to attend the meetings and I have just changed groups to a lunchtime one where you just go in and get weighed (no meeting) what encourages me is looking at my card, I was so chuffed when I got my silver 7 this week :D

If I do have a spare evening though (which is rare) I do attend the meetings because they are quite informative.  Ive also started doing proper cooking from scratch with the help of the WW cook book - the 0 point veggie curry is great :)

They have a lovely new cook book called eating out at home, and it has all sorts of low point recipe alternatives to all the take awya food s and things we like to eat out.

I would love it if they had restaurants with speiclly chosen recipes that are low point and tasty.  Make eating out so much more fun.  I know they have pointed up a lot of the standard menus at many chains of restaurants which is a help.

Now how about campaining for Retaurants to have low fat/low caql tasty menus.  Many now have vegetarian menus, with a v symbol.  with one in four men and i in five women clinically obese in this country I think it time for all parts of the food industry to do it's bit.  It is pleaseing that so many supermarkets have lite versions of many foods and sauces etc, even Pizzas.

Tescos even put WW points on their foods :)

I agree resturants should do more low fat options, at the moment it is jacket potato or salad :rolleyes: Because I am also veggie I have real problems trying to get low fat meals when I eat out because veggie stuff is usually covered in cheese

It is something weightwatchers should approach large resturant chains with.

can anyone recommend a natural slimming remedy suppliment as this is what i am kind of looking for i have been eating fish and salad for te last few days and feel a diffference already

no more meat and cheese for me

gina

Kaloss Trimmers are good.  They are herbal slimming pills.  I have used them and lost two stone just eating as i normally would.  The only thing you have to do is drink plenty of water or squash.  I know plenty of people who have took these and had good results.  Hope that helps.

Michelle :)

Michelle where did you get these tablets from?  I've just been reading up about them.  I'm a size 10-12, but am trying to lose probably half a stone.  Do you think they would be effective on me?  I'm doing loads of exercise and eating really well but finding it hard to shift this bit of weight.  :(

You can buy them on E-bay but if you put in kaloss trimmers on google ask yahoo etc you should find them.  They are also available in our area in sunbed shops and some hairdresser/beauty salons.   They should work for you my friend takes them and she has about half a stone to lose too.  Hope this helps .

Michelle :)

They keep advertising herbal tablets called adios tablets on tv

I saw an advert for a takeway pizza that is lower fat - although I am sure it is still not LOW fat.  I have never had a problem with my weight but with this pregnancy I am having cravings for all the bad stuff, especially pies and veggie sausage rolls!  I had better remember all these hints for 7 months time!!!!! :)