Thread: Smelly Elle's fantastic diary: Weight Loss? What Weight Loss?

Have you tried playing with protein/carb ratios? Often low calorie diets are high in carbs and that can make one more hungry...if you hit a plateau again it's worth a try to up the protein and lower the carbs (apart from the complex ones which will be smaller portions), as you can eat more calorie wise and still lose fat/weight.

i'd probably end up living all on readymeals and prepackaged stuff if i was cal counting so i knew exactly what i was having... not a great idea really...

abz xx

yep abz that's why it's not something i'm keen on continuing. nex i'm wary of cutting down carbs too much because of the problems the aitkins diet caused me. however, you make a good point so i may try lowering my carb intake a bit

right today i had the 186.6 cereal
264 tasty carrot and humous sandwich
35 pinapple, yum yum
47 apple...
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532.6

Not bad methinks. We'll see what i'll have later. The one bad thing with this is that i'm thinking about food MUCH more, i'm a bit like a druggy wondering when her next hit is coming. It's making me quite uncomfortable, but hopefully it'll have been worth it. x

if you do it just to get an idea of portion sizes etc elle then you should be able to stop worrying about it too much soon

sounds like a good menu so far to me

abz xx

im hungry but i dont want to eat yet i couldnt do this for more than a week. plus my sister is gorging on some of my most favourite chocolates, and i appear to have started craving every food going since i drove past the chip shop lol. i could eat everything bad right now. im seriously having to stop myself. maybe i should just eat now..

531.6 +
313
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844.6 +
28
36
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908.6

That's so far tonight including 4 gherkins (love them) soup and one slice of bread and 1 satsuma. I think i shall have a yoghurt and another piece of fruit tonight perhaps.

xxx

Calorie counting makes my head hurt literally...Well done you for keeping it up, it would drive me dilly...I just use the gym to balance it all out for me now...

Ah yeah Atkins is weird for some, but you don't have to take your carbs too low to make a difference or change...

Sounds like you are doing well, no idea how you can keep so low. I never could! 1500 did me!

so, another day over the 1000 barrier miss elle? still going strong ey

scales showing your effort?

abz xx

well i think i came just over 1000 abz. the scales still say 12st 11 though :S and this fewer cals thing has made me feel a big groggier and seems to be upsetting my stomach/digestive system even more lol, though I can't think why to be fair. in all honesty i was having stomach cramps from last sunday so its not necessarily to do with this. i think my main problem is not drinking enough water, so i have a 750ml bottle that im getting through now and i shall buy a litre one with my lunch today.

tonight im going to meet my friend for a catch up and some dinner at beefeater. I think it might do me good to have a proper dinner, i've lived on soup for the past few nights. obviously i will try and pick the healthiest thing on the menu, and i rarely eat everything on my plate when i'm out and more concious about what im putting in my mouth. so im hoping it will just end up being a bit of a kick for my metabolism. If you calculate it, so far this week i have cut down my weekly cal intake (that i should be getting) by 1800 cals, if you take it that ive been having 1000 a day, and apparently my body needs 1600 cals a day (or that would be how much it would burn if i lay in bed all day). it's all very interesting but a bit too mathematical if you ask me lol. x

p.s. thanks everyone oh and puggs, being batman, you do a lot more exercise than me so you can afford to have more cals. that and being a man:P x

That meal may just kick start your metabolism again...don't go too crazy...sometimes upping your cals can help get out of a slump oddly enough...good luck!

yeah. i wont be eating overboard, something veggie cos i'm not eating meat at the moment, no starter or pud.

so, today's round up so far:

186.6 Usual brekkie

285 Fresh beetroot, cream cheese, ginger and pumpkin seed
sandwich with spinach, it may sound weird but it was well
tasty.

65 shapers hula-hoop type crisps. i've gone crazy on the fruit in
the last few days, needed something else lol.

536.6 altogether.

Originally Posted by elle2585

p.s. thanks everyone oh and puggs, being batman, you do a lot more exercise than me so you can afford to have more cals. that and being a man:P x

I didn't back then though minus my oodles and oodles of walking.

And yup, men are better so we get more

Or - women are best cos we need less to keep us going. We're stronger people. Plus women have twice as many pain receptors as men. Isn't it strange that we feel pain worse but complain less?! hmmm:P

lol chick i think the oodles (of noodles) of walking you were doing counts as exercise!