Weight Watcher's Thread

[sep1988]

Thanks for advice everyone! Will try and put my finger on what it is and then hopefully it will drop off. Here goes...

 

[4F]

Thanks for advice everyone! Will try and put my finger on what it is and then hopefully it will drop off. Here goes...

Have you tried changing things by switching from the extra easy plan to green ? For me I find this works the best and eat meat as either a healthy B or points.

Restricting / cutting out bread from my diet I found made the biggest difference.

 

[sep1988]

Have you tried changing things by switching from the extra easy plan to green ? For me I find this works the best and eat meat as either a healthy B or points.

Restricting / cutting out bread from my diet I found made the biggest difference.

I did try this a while back and had good results but changed back to EE for the ease during a busy time. I think I may have some green days next week :-)

 

[4F]

I did try this a while back and had good results but changed back to EE for the ease during a busy time. I think I may have some green days next week :-)

Ease really is they key and the easier it is the more likely you are to stick to it. Some weeks I find so much easier than others but stick to it and you will get there.

 

[sep1988]

Ease really is they key and the easier it is the more likely you are to stick to it. Some weeks I find so much easier than others but stick to it and you will get there.

Thank-you :-)

 

[lulubel]

allows you unlimited pots, pasta, meat, fish (obviously all fat removed and not cooked in fat) Then all fresh/frozen fruit and veg etc is unlimited

This is most likely the problem. Unlimited anything means you don't know how much you're eating. From my experience of several years on a diet forum, this kind of diet only works if you don't really like the unlimited foods very much. Otherwise you will eat too much of them.

As your weight gets lower it becomes more important that you "account for" every morsel of food that passes your lips.

 

[Sittingduck]

I'm fearful after this week's indulgance... I'll have to step on, in the morning and see what the damage is.

Finally stepped on, this morning. A stone put back on, since mid July. 13st 8, as of this morning but the fight back starts here! Will be happy enough to get to 13 dead by the end of Jan (although alive would be prefrable). I'll enter phase 2 in the Spring and aim for 12st by May.

 

[potsy]

Finally stepped on, this morning. A stone put back on, since mid July. 13st 8, as of this morning but the fight back starts here! Will be happy enough to get to 13 dead by the end of Jan (although alive would be prefrable). I'll enter phase 2 in the Spring and aim for 12st by May.

Just shows how easy it is to take your eye off the ball and let things slip, you were one of the real success stories in this thread SD.
I did a similar thing and put 8 or 9lbs back on but thankfully have gotten rid of it again now, struggling to move from 13st 8lb myself now though, think maintaining it will be the real challenge for the rest of this year

 

[defy-one]

I have been stuck at 13st 4 lbs for a few weeks now. Really must focus and stop eating the treats. Exercise more!!! Been riding less with the wet weather, no commuting

 

[mrandmrspoves]

SImple diet advice.......forget diets! Eat what you like. Don't join Slimmer's World or any other diet scheme and save the money for something you like instead.

So how do you lose weight?
Take in less calories than you burn and burn extra calories by exercising (cycling is perfect)
It really is as simple as that. Don't try and crash diet to get rid of the weight, make sure you get a balanced diet, but if you fancy for example a Mars bar (other fattening chocolate bars that won't help you work rest or play but will make you fat if you eat them too often are available!) just remember it's 260 calories gone from your daily allowance.
Work on the basis that 1lb of fat = about 3500 calories so to lose 2lbs a week you will either need to take in 7000 calories less than usual +/- exercise more than usual.
Myfitnesspal is a great mobile app to monitor your progress on and keep your food diary. A food diary really does help as overweight people do have selective memories or seriously under estimate how much they eat.

I know the above works - I used to weigh 17.5 stone with a 40 inch - now I weigh 12.8 stone and 34 inch waist.
Another rule is if you fail to stick to your calorie allowance for one day - don't give up - just compensate over the rest of the week.

I know I have made it sound easy and it isn't....but the science behind it is - and the starting point is accepting that you're overweight because you take in more calories than you burn.

 

[vernon]

I did try this a while back and had good results but changed back to EE for the ease during a busy time. I think I may have some green days next week :-)

I've used nothing but extra easy and I find it works well. My weight gains are when I fall off the wagon and go mental at festivals - Knockengorroch put ten and a half pounds on me in a weekend!

Paradoxically a four gig week where I ate out ever night witnessed a one pound weight loss.

When I am in serious mode all treats with syn values are abandoned and I replace them with free and super free fruit.

I don't miss the weekly meetings as they occasionally throw up some great ideas and rarely fail to deliver entertainment.

 

[MattHB]

Im now at a happy winter weight of 14st (+/-2lbs). Thats 3 stone 5lbs in 18 months. according to body fat scales and callipers Im around 15.1% body fat so thats good enough for me! Ill take it down again in the spring when Im going to start road racing.

The good thing is, once you know how, its easy to put on/take off at will. The hard thing is stopping taking it off as it gets addictive!

 

[ColinJ]

I am holding steady at 14-10 after a blip caused by family members visiting me and showering me with cake, biscuits, cheese, chocolate etc. I'm doing my own shopping again now so few of those things are slipping through my defences. The only problem is a chocoholic friend who comes round 2 or 3 evenings a week. I usually buy treats for her but she often gives half back to me ... We resisted last night - I said that I hadn't got any chocs in but would go out to the shops if she was desperate for a sugar fix. She settled for half a teaspoon of honey in her tea.

No alcohol for over 3 months now! That has saved me - I would be ginormous by now if I were still boozing while subject to enforced inactivity by illness.

I am starting to move about more now, so I'm hoping for a gradual loss until the NY and then step things up in 2013, health-permitting.

 

[doctornige]

I seem to be winning. But it is clear that watching what I eat is going to be a lifelong exercise.

 

[sep1988]

Really struggling to shift any pounds :-(