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Wanna lose 100lb
Been struggling with weight all adult life, forever on and off diets. Started trying to lose weight when I hit 15 stone, 33 years ago.
Last August weighed 26 stone 1 lb (365 lb hence my name desperate360)
Chocaholic, emotional eater, habitual overeater, hedonistic eater, habitually eat when not hungry. Willpower and self-discipline come in bursts, I lose a few pounds, then they both desert me and I slip back into my usual overeating ways.
Hypoglycaemic, also have hyperinsulinism and PCOS, and menopause. Must avoid wheat, caffeine, artificial sweeteners. Ideal diet Atkins. Am habituated to living without grains/sugar/rice/potatoes; however, weaken almost daily and eat chocolate.
Did zero carb, meat only diet for 4 months Aug-Nov, lost a stone but regained 3lbs.
Net loss 11lb.
Last time I weighed, in November, I was 25 stone 4.
Since then, been off the rails quite often. Holidays, Christmas, Chinese takeaways, Indian restaurants, fish n chips, cake, crisps, and a humungous quantity of chocolate. 100g most days.
Added to that, I stopped going to the swimming pool (my only exercise) and have been I think twice this year. My membership ran out in January and I didn't renew.
In the six months since I last weighed in, I have become increasingly frightened to weigh myself. I've been feeling heavier, more sluggish, can walk less distance than I could even in March. It got to the point where I thought, if I weigh myself and find that I have re-gained the stone that it took me 4 mths to lose, and have gained more on top, I might become suicidal.
A few weeks back I stocked up on meat again intending to restart the meat-only diet, but found that I am so addicted to chocolate that I just could not give it up. I tried again and again, to no avail.
Thing is, if I cannot give up the sugar (ie chocolate) then I must not eat a high fat diet, because the two together are a deadly (literally) combination. I like the high fat sugarfree diet, my body really thrives on it. However, a few days ago, after wolfing down TWO x 100g bars of Swiss Milka (1066 calories!) I realised that I would never, ever be able to give choc up, so I decided to build a new type of diet that could incorporate SOME chocolate in it.
And so my new daily diet consists of counting calories and limiting myself to between 1,000 and 1,500 a day. And it is based around eating the following:
One, two or three cup-a-soups (about 80 calories each)
4 oz chopped cooked chicken or pork added to the soups to give protein (300 calories)
Prawns and salad with fat free or very small amount of fat as a dressing. (300 calories)
One fun size Mars Bar or similar per day for about 80 calories. [If desperate, can have two bars.]
Occasionally a chilled or frozen ready Weightwatchers meal for about 300-400 calories.
An apple or pear etc (80 calories)
Various vitamin pills
To get fitter, I also today paid a year's pool membership in advance, so working with water weights, aqua fit and swimming lengths will again become part of my life.
Lastly, plenty of early nights, sleep and rest.
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Progress so far:
Wednesday 19th -- cup a soup, chocolate, prawn salad--- 1,000 calories. Not hungry but stomach rumbling.
Long walk around supermarket
Thursday 20th -- an apple, cup a soup, Mini Mars, one bite of boyfriend's chocolate bar, prawn salad and 8oz ham offcuts. total under 1300 cals.
Not hungry in mouth, but stomach rumbling v loudly!
One hour water weights in the pool
Walked one mile home
A bit of wriggling about during sex (LOL --it all counts as exercise!)
Forgot the vitamins both days .... grrr!
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I was forced to pluck up the courage to weigh myself at the pool this morning because, obviously, I need to know my "start" weight in order to see if there is going to be any progress. My heart really sank as I stood on the scale. I felt so bad about myself that I could not even remove my blouse, vest or denim skirt (I normally weigh in just a swimsuit). I had butterflies as I waited for the machine to go through its processes and print my weight ..... a horrible, sinking feeling.
Well, I was absolutely thrilled to bits to find that ... wait for it! .... not only have I MAINTAINED the weight I lost last autumn, but I have dropped a further 2 lb, plus I guess we have to subtract another 2 lb for all the clothes I was wearing. My weight on the printout was 25 stone 2, so I guess my real weight is 25 stone.
I felt incredibly HAPPY and was really cock-a-hoop in the pool. I feel my new regime has been given a kick-start because I don't have to go through the painful process of RE-losing the same stone I lost last year.
So I guess that, despite all the bad stuff I have eaten over the last six months, I must have been "good" for quite a lot of the time, to not regain what I'd lost.
My main thoughts are:
1. to get the most food for the least calories
2. to keep going to the pool
3. keep reminding self to drink more
4. don't forget the vitamins
How to slim is the cause of many passionate arguments. Whichever diet one follows, someone will throw their arms up in horror and entreat one NOT to follow it. Magazines, doctors, dieticians and successful losers all contradict each other and issue dire warnings.
And yet the bottom line is, we each have to find something that is sustainable, that we as individuals can keep up minute by minute, month by month. I'm not saying that I will keep up this diet forever. I just want to lose five stones. Then I will see where I go from there.
The best help anyone can give me right now is:
1. tips for quick and easy foods to eat to give the biggest bulk for the fewest wheat and sugar free calories. Until I have learned to control portions, I particularly want tips on packeted foods because they are portion controlled
2. tips on how to make fat free food taste GOOD to someone habituated to a lot of fats, oils, mayo, butter etc. How to make chicken breast palatable?
Last August weighed 26 stone 1 lb (365 lb hence my name desperate360)
Chocaholic, emotional eater, habitual overeater, hedonistic eater, habitually eat when not hungry. Willpower and self-discipline come in bursts, I lose a few pounds, then they both desert me and I slip back into my usual overeating ways.
Hypoglycaemic, also have hyperinsulinism and PCOS, and menopause. Must avoid wheat, caffeine, artificial sweeteners. Ideal diet Atkins. Am habituated to living without grains/sugar/rice/potatoes; however, weaken almost daily and eat chocolate.
Did zero carb, meat only diet for 4 months Aug-Nov, lost a stone but regained 3lbs.
Net loss 11lb.
Last time I weighed, in November, I was 25 stone 4.
Since then, been off the rails quite often. Holidays, Christmas, Chinese takeaways, Indian restaurants, fish n chips, cake, crisps, and a humungous quantity of chocolate. 100g most days.
Added to that, I stopped going to the swimming pool (my only exercise) and have been I think twice this year. My membership ran out in January and I didn't renew.
In the six months since I last weighed in, I have become increasingly frightened to weigh myself. I've been feeling heavier, more sluggish, can walk less distance than I could even in March. It got to the point where I thought, if I weigh myself and find that I have re-gained the stone that it took me 4 mths to lose, and have gained more on top, I might become suicidal.
A few weeks back I stocked up on meat again intending to restart the meat-only diet, but found that I am so addicted to chocolate that I just could not give it up. I tried again and again, to no avail.
Thing is, if I cannot give up the sugar (ie chocolate) then I must not eat a high fat diet, because the two together are a deadly (literally) combination. I like the high fat sugarfree diet, my body really thrives on it. However, a few days ago, after wolfing down TWO x 100g bars of Swiss Milka (1066 calories!) I realised that I would never, ever be able to give choc up, so I decided to build a new type of diet that could incorporate SOME chocolate in it.
And so my new daily diet consists of counting calories and limiting myself to between 1,000 and 1,500 a day. And it is based around eating the following:
One, two or three cup-a-soups (about 80 calories each)
4 oz chopped cooked chicken or pork added to the soups to give protein (300 calories)
Prawns and salad with fat free or very small amount of fat as a dressing. (300 calories)
One fun size Mars Bar or similar per day for about 80 calories. [If desperate, can have two bars.]
Occasionally a chilled or frozen ready Weightwatchers meal for about 300-400 calories.
An apple or pear etc (80 calories)
Various vitamin pills
To get fitter, I also today paid a year's pool membership in advance, so working with water weights, aqua fit and swimming lengths will again become part of my life.
Lastly, plenty of early nights, sleep and rest.
=====================================
Progress so far:
Wednesday 19th -- cup a soup, chocolate, prawn salad--- 1,000 calories. Not hungry but stomach rumbling.
Long walk around supermarket
Thursday 20th -- an apple, cup a soup, Mini Mars, one bite of boyfriend's chocolate bar, prawn salad and 8oz ham offcuts. total under 1300 cals.
Not hungry in mouth, but stomach rumbling v loudly!
One hour water weights in the pool
Walked one mile home
A bit of wriggling about during sex (LOL --it all counts as exercise!)
Forgot the vitamins both days .... grrr!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was forced to pluck up the courage to weigh myself at the pool this morning because, obviously, I need to know my "start" weight in order to see if there is going to be any progress. My heart really sank as I stood on the scale. I felt so bad about myself that I could not even remove my blouse, vest or denim skirt (I normally weigh in just a swimsuit). I had butterflies as I waited for the machine to go through its processes and print my weight ..... a horrible, sinking feeling.
Well, I was absolutely thrilled to bits to find that ... wait for it! .... not only have I MAINTAINED the weight I lost last autumn, but I have dropped a further 2 lb, plus I guess we have to subtract another 2 lb for all the clothes I was wearing. My weight on the printout was 25 stone 2, so I guess my real weight is 25 stone.
I felt incredibly HAPPY and was really cock-a-hoop in the pool. I feel my new regime has been given a kick-start because I don't have to go through the painful process of RE-losing the same stone I lost last year.
So I guess that, despite all the bad stuff I have eaten over the last six months, I must have been "good" for quite a lot of the time, to not regain what I'd lost.
My main thoughts are:
1. to get the most food for the least calories
2. to keep going to the pool
3. keep reminding self to drink more
4. don't forget the vitamins
How to slim is the cause of many passionate arguments. Whichever diet one follows, someone will throw their arms up in horror and entreat one NOT to follow it. Magazines, doctors, dieticians and successful losers all contradict each other and issue dire warnings.
And yet the bottom line is, we each have to find something that is sustainable, that we as individuals can keep up minute by minute, month by month. I'm not saying that I will keep up this diet forever. I just want to lose five stones. Then I will see where I go from there.
The best help anyone can give me right now is:
1. tips for quick and easy foods to eat to give the biggest bulk for the fewest wheat and sugar free calories. Until I have learned to control portions, I particularly want tips on packeted foods because they are portion controlled
2. tips on how to make fat free food taste GOOD to someone habituated to a lot of fats, oils, mayo, butter etc. How to make chicken breast palatable?
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