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OK me too.

Carrying a couple more stone than I should and really need to change my habits.
Also starting to suffer with bloating and cramps depending on what I have eaten, so am taking a really careful look at what I eat and how much.
Another motivator is the nuptials planned for next year. Don't believe crash diets work, so would like to get healthier habits now.
Going back to the gym, let it slide when I first got lottie but now thats more under control I can start going again. The weird thing is, I enjoyed going as its a little place, everyone is friendly and all different shapes and sizes!
THanks for the link Two Sheds, going to check it out now.

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I know it's fashionable to have "allergies and intolerances" but I have definitely found shop bread to bloat me and cause abdominal pain. I suspect too much yeast, because home-made bread is fine.
Chocolate gives me IBS symptoms too.
Alcohol makes me fall over

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I find it happens mostly after breaks at work, probably because we talk and eat at the same time!! Also we eat at times when we wouldn't normally at home, also the chocs left by grateful patients and relatives are a HUGE downfall of mine.
I love bread, spuds and pasta. Methinks smaller portions and eating slower to start with.

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updated 14 May 2008

I feel too uncomfortable with my shape to go to the gym instead I have found my old exercise videos and I have used those for the last few days.

Also found the Times Health Club site very useful for charting my calories and exercise.

I used to HATE exercise big time but now i love it and treat it as 'my time' and the swim at the end is the best bit, i get to the gym at 7am 3 mornings a week and get home around 9.30am to be honest if you are not in the right frame of mind to lose weight it is a waste of time, i have been there many times and got many t shirts (all very big LOL)
Im doing the race for life this year, 2 years after my womb cancer and 3 years since my sister died of cancer took me 2 years to get my head sorted to lose the weight and i soooooo want to win theis time
Good luck to all its flipping hard work !!!!!!!

Hey !! if i can wobble my way round a gym anyone can !! i started at 27st !! I even force myself to go swimming and thats NOT a pretty sight but i go to the adult only time and most people there know me now and we all speak and pass the time of day
I could only use the treadmill to start with but i was sooooooo determind i can use everything now (some i swear are trying to kill me LOL).

flowerofshona,,,WELL DONE,,and all the best to you,

I am working on it at the minute too. I have lost one and a half stone already, but still need to lose at least one more (preferably about 20 more lbs).

I swim 2/3 times a week on the way to work - about 20 lengths (but it's a short pool) and more when I can create a few extra minutes, and use the stairs at work rather than lifts (can end up going up and down over 20 flights a day that way). I actually started properly almost by accident last summer, when I was eating my own lettuces so bringing salads for lunch to work. And eating more veg in general at dinners. I joined weightwatchers in Spetember, and am following the core plan there (no pointing for me as I am useless as real dieting!).

So I try to avoid bread except for the weekend, eat as much fruit and veg as possible, stop eating once my tummy says I am full (meant learning to listen again rather than having to clear the plate every time). I am bad at the minute as I am stress eating so lots of sugar again - but the stress should be finished in 4 weeks and I should also be starting to get ore from the garden then as well. I am still managing to bring my salads to work a few days per week all winter (big box of stuff, usually something like 2 carrots, 2 sticks celery, couple tomatoes, 4/5 olives for flavour (no dressing), some lettuce, half a sweet pepper) and I have switched to using skim milk in my cereal and tea (I even bring in a pint to work everyday, rather than using the teaclub full fat version).

That said, I still enjoy proper dinners, the odd pudding, a few glasses of wine per week, occasional bits of choc etc. I am not into deprivation. (And I find if I eat really good choc - like the Leonidas dark squares or a couple of squares of one like Lindt 70% - I only need a small bit rather than a whole bar or 2 of a cadbury's).

We recently bought a cross trainer and I've been doing 15 (sometimes 16) minutes every morning before work, sometimes in the evening too. I usually cover about a mile or so (just over) and burn around 250 calories.

Not really doing anything else differently, but especially felt the difference from lack of exercise during the winter months. We cancelled our gym memberships as we'd find it hard to get motivated to go, as we have a "gym" in one of our bedrooms it's hard to find an excuse.

I'm not one for weighing myself, I'd rather use the mirror as my "scales" - according to the charts being 6ft 7 and 17.5st is borderline obese. Personally I just want to get back to a 36 waist (I'm now nearer 38).

Good luck one and all.

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I've just calculated that the litle 15g green and black's choccie bars are just 35 calories. That's ok with me as a choc fix when needed.

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Chocolate makes me feel good, alcohol makes me feel like death........I agree that shop baked bread is yuck, look at the ingreidients!
On a diet myself, except my OH keeps deflecting me away from it with meals out!

Once i am back on lottie it will all drop off lol........

Well done to everyone who has lost weight!!! Well done, its huge accomplishment!!

I know its very difficult, I lost 42lbs myself, which is 3 stone about a year, I find it very difficult to maintain considering my BMR and metabolism is low, I would like to lose about another 7lbs and 'tone up', I pretty much hate the gym but enjoy certain exercise classes.
Congrats to those working on a healthier lifestyle, I haven't ready everything posted but My main points of advice is drink plenty of water, cold, warm, whatever! when you start to feel hungry try drinking water first.
Base meals around veggies, try to limit what you eat after 8-9pm as I find I reach for crap around this time.
O I just signed up with Food Focus - Permanent Weight Loss which is a nice lil way for tracking what you've eaten.

Best wishes!
Hannah

Hi angeleyezy

Thanks for the link, I've signed up too. Do you know if you can add the calories for a food that isn't listed if you know it?

Tracey

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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yeppers, I havent used that yet, but on the food log on the right of the calories chart, there's an 'enter foods' button

Love it This is really going to help me.

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Food Focus - Permanent Weight Loss

This has shown me that I am under estimating the amount of calories I am eating however I do find it difficult to search for the foods that I have eaten.

Weight loss in a week 2lbs so I am very happy at the moment

well done Borage. I think most people underestimate how much they eat (and how many calories). Mr Sheds told me he didn't eat much (like a lot of overweight people he only had 3 meals a day, but they were enormous portions of high-fat foods like cheese, kebab, creamy curry, chips...)

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sez, ive been trying to lose weight too have found homemade soup helps is low fat and health plus easy to cook. heres a basic to start you off depending on family size adjust quantaty accordingly as receipy is for 6 people. chop veg to really small sqares and never liquidise you body burns more calories digesting lumps than liquid. heres the receipy4 veg oxo cubes 2 medium carrots 1 medium potatoe 20 stands spagetti 1 spanish onion 2 garlic cloves 3 pints of boiling water. chop everything and put in pan together boil on high heat for around 40 minutes or simmer around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. smaller veg chopped quicker it cooks. eat with a pitta or for extra protein add handful of red kidney beans or pearl barley. be aware too much bread will cause weight gain due to starch and yeast. hope this helps ive lost weight with this as its delious and makes me think of dinning out.

too much of anything will make you gain weight. Yeast of itself doesn't cause weight gain.
Soup is terrific for filling you up. It can be quick too, it doesn't need to boil for an hour ...just long enough to cook & soften the ingredients. I made a veg and borlotti bean soup from scratch in 15 mins at the weekend.

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I love having a bowl of soup lunchtime so I tend to make up a big pan full and keep it in the fridge to use throughout the week.

I am a yo yo dieter, have been a Weightwatcher for more years than I care to remember. I do try to eat healthy, but sometimes go off the rails at weekends. I also like wine, but have cut down. I find the weight sticking as you get older, when I my joints allow I have two plots on my allotment to keep me busy, also have two dogs that are walked every day. But it is difficult to shift, will try again, perhaps we can support each other.

Best of Luck everyone.

Liz

I think it is def harder to shift weight when you get older. Not fair!
I wimped out of vlass ths week due to sickness bug.. maybe should have gone and been delighted with the 'false' loss!

There are lots of soups with zero or very few calories to help. I also find in summer having a bowl of chopped mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, baby sweetcorn... all very sweet veg helps take the edge off hunger.

janeyo - 30 lbs and counting. Not got any clothes that fit! Even pjs and pants are too big, lol.

I've been downloading this Podcast: Inside Out Weight Loss - Aligning Mind Body and Spirit for Lasting Change | Diet | Weight Loss | NLP | Motivation | Fitness on to my ipod and I've found it really supportive.

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Michael Pollan