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General Weight Loss Support Thread
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Jenny Thalia wrote: »In the last 6 months or so, I've been put on medication that is known to cause weight gain AND increase appetite as a side effect (no, not the contraceptive pill, that has never affected my appetite), something I cannot, not take.
I was doing fine though, till I quit smoking 5 months ago.
Half a stone up now
haven't been this weight for about 3 years. Feel fat and miserable. I felt so bad that I considered going back to smoking because of how nicotine suppressed my appetite.
I'm scared about going to my GP to get my contraceptive prescription because she gives me dogs abuse if my weight fluctuates by so much as a pound.
Ahhh. I need to sort this.
Still eating good food, but too feckin' much because my appetite is ridiculous since I quit smokes.
So, I'm going to just eat less and deal with being hungry. Wish me luck
Steady ! Get things into perspective here. Giving up smoking is more than worth putting on weight even for some time after you've given up. You've done brilliantly to give up the smokes and it should be your absolutely priority to stay off then no matter what ! If you go back smoking you'll be a smoker again AND more overweight than you've even been at the same time - the fat won't just disappear when you light up and then you'll be doubly depressed. Also , it will be even harder to give them up the second time - much harder ! Believe me I know !
Anyway suppressing your appetite is not the right strategy to loose weight. The right strategy is to change your diet to a healthier one so that even if overeat it won't have a fattening effect on you. Anyway ppl tend to overeat on bad food's because they are so tasty and addictive.
Now you don't say what foods you do eat or if you take any exercise but I think the first think you must look into is you diet so educate yourself about good nutrition and try out new healthy meals and snacks. There is a lot to learn there and it's takes a lot of time but is actually fun when you get into it. Oh and please dont' go back on the ciggies. BAD.
Edit: I was on long term medication once , actually anti-depressants. The doc told me I would put on weight. I took up a cardio and weightlifting plan at the same time and the doc was flabergasted months later to see i'd lost a good bit of weight instead of putting it on. So it's not set in stone that you WILL put on weight if you take THAT pill. IMO.0 -
I'm not the heaviest I've ever been, thankfully! Just the heaviest I've been in a few years. Still about 11 stone lighter than my heaviest
I do plenty of exercise (gym four times a week, mix of cardio, weights and trx, with some swimming after), as well as walking for about 40 minutes a day and being on my feet 10 hours a day for work.
Food wise, what I eat is healthy. I'm pretty good with nutrition. I just need to cut back on things like almonds, sweet potato, brown rice and avocado. Good foods, but too many calories and I've been eating a lot of them lately!0 -
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[Deleted User] wrote: »I'm new here so kind of nervous.
After being unemployed for a while, inactive, and going through a tough time in general, my weight increased more than I would like. Over the past month and a half I've been attending a gym 3 - 4 times a week, which I've changed plans, focusing on a more strength-training orientated workout alongside cardio and have been trying to eat as healthy as possible - it's a lot tougher than I had thought.
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29 year old male, 5'11, and I was just over 14 stone. Now, a month and a half later, I'm weighing just above 13 stone, but my body fat % is still higher than I'd like. In another month and a half I'm going to get my body fat measured again to see if there's any improvement at all.
Since I'm completely new to dieting and losing weight, I have no idea if losing just over a stone in a month and a half is good or not ..?
14 pounds in 6 weeks is good going.
I think people see shows like Operation Transformation and think they should be losing 5 pounds a week.
If you're eating healthily and your food and lifestyle is sustainable, then that's even better.
It's a marathon, not a sprint
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Jenny Thalia wrote: »I'm not the heaviest I've ever been, thankfully! Just the heaviest I've been in a few years. Still about 11 stone lighter than my heaviest
I do plenty of exercise (gym four times a week, mix of cardio, weights and trx, with some swimming after), as well as walking for about 40 minutes a day and being on my feet 10 hours a day for work.
Food wise, what I eat is healthy. I'm pretty good with nutrition. I just need to cut back on things like almonds, sweet potato, brown rice and avocado. Good foods, but too many calories and I've been eating a lot of them lately!
Well if it's a simple case of your overeating healthy foods then I would suggest to you giving thought to trying out an Intermittent Fasting diet. I was only raving about my success with it just the other day www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95303771&postcount=3212
It may not be for everyone but I'm just one of those people who can eat all day long and need drastic-ish measures to reduce my calorie intake. It's not just the overall calorie reduction that helps me but the mental food-consumption-reset effect it has that I'm excited about. Like my healthy meals taste even tastier the following day and that's not just because I'm hungry. I feel that I'm naturally eating less on my eating days also.0 -
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Can anyone recommend some low calorie snacks? Stuff that I could prepare at home and bring into work. I am eating fruit now but that's bumping up my sugar intake (it's obviously better than the multiple chocolate bars I used to eat, but still..).
And also, are stomach cramps part of a diet change? I don't get them all the time, but last few times they've been quite painful.
Snacking as I understand it is something you do to tide you over for your next meal when you feel you can't wait that long. A once in while occurrence. You sound like you plan to snack everyday at work as if that's what everyone does. If I were you I'd consider eliminating your snacks altogether cause they sound more like mini meals to me. I'd suggest a bag of nuts for those times you can't wait as there noting to prepare - but don't make a habit of just mulching on them everyday.
Yeah the intestinal thing is normal when you change diet not that I'm an expert on that issue. Get professinal medial advice if you feel like you can't stand up 0 -
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Sometimes ye need a day or two of going completely off the rails and feeling like crap in order to reset your priorities, both physically and mentally. If it's been a few weeks, it can be hard to remember why you're doing what you're doing and falling off the wagon for an hour or a day or whatever can give ye a good dose of cop on. All ye can do is learn from it and plan not do go there again, for a while anyway 0
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How long would cooked chicken breasts last in the fridge? Would I get until Friday?
If you cooked on a Sunday? I doubt it. I've never had chicken around that long to find out though
I'd have my stash used by Wednesday, then I'd have whatever food I froze on Sunday for lunch/dinner on Thursday and Friday. 0 -
If you cooked on a Sunday? I doubt it. I've never had chicken around that long to find out though I'd have my stash used by Wednesday, then I'd have whatever food I froze on Sunday for lunch/dinner on Thursday and Friday.
Yeh I didn't think it would. No option for me to freeze anything at the moment.0 -
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Anyone else ever find that smaller losses can actually have a bigger impact on the way their body looks?
I lost 2 kg in the first 2 weeks of May, I felt good but didn't really notice a huge difference in progress pics. I lost .5kg since last Thursday and I noticed a huge difference in progress pics.
I'm heading for the stage now where my size 16 jeans are getting quite loose and I've actually thrown out my size 18s and "fat day" clothes 0 -
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This is my first time posting here, but think I'm going to start posting more frequently! I am very athletic, competing in girevoy sport (competitive kettlebell lifting). I have gained a lot of strength in the last year and a half, and put on 2kgs. I used to always sit at 54kgs naturally, went up to 56kgs but remained the same size, although an inch smaller around my waist and thighs etc.
Recently I've gone up to 58kgs, and I know that really is not much but I'm struggling to shift it. I know it's fat, my jeans are tighter, and it's getting me down. It's only 4.4 lbs like but it just won't budge. I'm 5'2" so even the smallest gain tends to show.
I know what I have to do, just wanted to rant about it. My triggers for overeating are generally stress related to college/work...I just need to take control again. 0 -
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The more control you take of the decisions you make, the less likely you are to feel like a 'victim' and succumb to these forces outside of your control.
Taking ownership of your decisions makes you make better decisions.[/voice of experience] 0 -
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Thanks guys! Wise words I'm back to normal today eating wise, and just came home from a brilliant training session. Have to appreciate what the body can do even if I'm not 100% happy with how it looks! I'll weigh myself in about two weeks and see how I'm getting on, although I can always tell from the mirror. 0
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Have been a lurker here for a while! I started to eat better in Feb and have since lost 11 lbs and am down a dress size. Feels amazing going into a shop looking for the smaller size. I've lost 10% of what I need to lose but I'm doing it slowly, a pound a week n hoping it will stay off for good. Have had a few bad days in between and I can feel the difference in my gut when I've eaten crap. Good luck to everyone else with their weight losses 0
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Oh I have not been eating well! I've been keeping up with exercise, which I suppose is better than nothing but eating badly really undoes any exercise I do. I did to give myself a few days junk food free to break the habit. At least when I tend to binge my body usually does not react well the following day which makes me aware that I need to stop eating junk. 0
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Just to throw in an update. I'm no longer overweight, I've dropped nearly two stone since March and I'm JUST inside the healthy BMI bracket. All my old clothes fit at this stage which is a good boost.
I still have over a stone to lose to get to my ideal weight, and need to get rid of some stomach fat. After that the 'maintenance battle' starts. I want to get there soon and don't plan to hit the wall with the last stone, hopefully it will be gone in the next few weeks.
The funny thing is I was on holiday two weeks ago and had a hectic week, couldn't believe that I hardly put on any weight, probably because I drank more than I ate
Some things I find helpful:
Drink plenty of water.
Get out for a few runs/walks - 3 times a week even.
Avoid anything processed, salt is your enemy.
Cut down on carbohydrates. I hardly eat any rice/pasta now and used to eat a truck load with my dinner. Don't miss either.
Homemade soup is great. Stick some veg, lentils and a stock cube into a blender/juicer and heat it up on the hob. I usually have tomatoes, chillis, pepper and garlic. It fills you up, it's good for you and is very low on calories.
Stick to bottles of light beer when you're out, pints are very heavy when you're trying to lose weight. There's 100 calories in a bottle of Corrs light compared to 240 for a pint of Heineken which is what I usually drank, big difference when you add it up over a night.
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I thought I might resurrect this thread, since I found it quite useful last time I posted here Although I was much more of a lurker than a poster back then!
If a brand new thread would be more appropriate, mods, no problem.
Background: Over Christmas and New Year's I ate, well, everything. On January 4th I weighed in at 144 pounds. I had told myself in the past that 140 was to be my absolute upper limit, so this kicked me into gear. I decided to lose somewhere between 14 and 18 pounds (F, 28, 5'7). I wanted my jeans to fit comfortable again, and maybe even go down a size.
I started back with My Fitness Pal, and started using Happy Scale as well (you log your weight regularly and it smooths out the data points, so you have a nice downward curve instead of jagged ups and downs all over the place). I've used various calculators online to figure out my calorie goals and I've stuck to that goal ~95% of the time. I think the odd break here and there is good to keep motivation going, and helps the whole process become more of a lifestyle change and less of a short-term "diet". My calorie goal changes as my weight drops.
As of this morning, I've lost 12.6 pounds in 2 months. No major changes to exercise habits; just a weekly pilates class, some physio for a manky hip and walking the dog for an hour 3-4 days a week (my partner does the other days). I've lost a couple of inches on my waist and clothes are generally either fitting better or are too big. I've had a piece of chocolate pretty much every day, takeaway once, a glass of wine or bottle of craft cider 1-2 times a week. Basically, I'm not cutting out any food type entirely. As long as it fits my calories, and I'm getting plenty of veg and protein, I can eat what I'm hungry for.
Hopefully there are some other people out there losing weight without specific programs, and we can support each other along the way 0 -
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I've been using a subreddit, r/loseit, for extra motivation too. I know that internal motivation is key, but having somewhere to check in every day helps keep me accountable. Plus, when people post about having a crappy day, it helps me realise that little blips are normal and nothing to be ashamed of.
The only problem is they work off American time :pac: so I'm asleep when most people are posting, and they're asleep when I want to share! Having a forum like this, that's active when I am, will be more use 0 -
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Anyway, I've started a system of "5 pound rewards," where every time I lose 5 pounds, I get a non-food reward. I was 149 on the scale today, so I get my first reward - manicure and pedicure, I can't wait!
I love this! I'm not far off a 15 pound loss, so maybe I should treat myself to somethings similar. A manicure would be lovely.
Consider your idea stolen
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The greatest weapon in my weight loss arsenal has been My Fitness Pal. I used a few online calculators to figure out how many calories I should take on every day for a sustainable weight loss, and I stick to that. Myfitnesspal will usually tell women to stick with 1200 calories, which isn't always appropriate, so check a few different calculators. I'm on mobile right now, but I'll post links to calculators later.
I log all my food the day before I eat it. On Sundays I cook a batch of food to do me for lunches throughout the week, and my partner and I plan the weeks dinners together. I work out the calories in each portion and plug it into myfitnesspal.This way I know how my calories will be spent throughout the week. Inputting all these recipes into myfitnesspal is tedious and annoying at the beginning, but without that diary to keep an eye on my intake, i would be grazing and picking up snacks in the corner shop and being completely unaware as to how much I'm actually consuming.
I always leave room for a small piece of chocolate everyday. There are some days when I don't reach my calorie limit, and some days when I overshoot. It all balances out over the course of a week.
I don't know if you'll have time to prep meals in advance with the little ones, but even logging your food in myfitnesspal for one week, without making any changes just yet, might give you some insight into areas you can improve. The important thing is to log EVERYTHING, even the snacks or "cheats" you might feel ashamed of. No one else sees your diary. But if you're not being honest with yourself about your eating habits, you'll never see how to change for the better.
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Oh, one other tip! I should have mentioned it earlier: a food scale. I got a digital one in M&S for about. €10, you can get them cheaper off amazon. This is just as important to me as myfitnesspal, because I am TERRIBLE at estimating portion sizes. I weigh everything as I cook, otherwise my calorie count would be all off.
I even weigh my knife, scoop out some peanut butter, and weigh the knife again so I know how to log the peanut butter and ryvita snacks I have occasionally! Last night I snacked on a handful of mixed nuts and I weighed it out before eating. I always weigh my cheese before packing it into my lunch for the day. It's an invaluable little gadget.
I realise the above might sound a little obsessive or neurotic. However, I know I have to be more accurate with my food than just taking the attitude of "sure feck it, be grand" because that's the attitude that saw me gain weight in the past. So, maybe consider a food scale too 0 -
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