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shuridunno

Hi,

I've just found boards as I am having to take it easy due to being sick.

I want to get fit but keep getting sick, I have done lots of different diets but as I can't exercise enough to keep it off, I need to really address my diet as well.

Currently I can only do about 20mins slow walk as I am on antibiotics and steroids, I have a ventolin inhaler for when I start proper exercise again.

The doc said to give it another week before I swim again and just do my daily slow walk.

So I need to drop 2.5 stone just to be healthy.

I'm female 5'2 and 12st.9lbs.

Presently, I don't eat breakfast, just can't face it, even before I got sick(I used to have porridge or an egg and rye bread)

Lunch..sandwich

Dinner..stirfry or weight watchers ready meal

Fruit for snacks.

I not supposed to eat much fruit as all my fat is on the stomach and was told not to eat too much sugar..which I bloody crave.
It's the rubbish that's my biggest problem.

Can anyone tell me what calories I should be actually taking in as even when I strictly follow weight watchers I don't loose weight easily.

I ahve also done meal replacement, not eating for 8 weeks one time and I came off it as on one week I put up weight....how the hell does that even happen....

I'm just really confused because what's good one day is bad for you the next....any idesa would help.

Thank you if you have gotten this far.

Hanley

Good stuff:
-Improving fitness (running, sprinting, jogging, skipping, rowing etc etc)
-Getting stronger (protects you from a lot of age related maladies and will not make you big and bulky - best methods are bodyweight and external resistance [weights])
-Cleaning up your diet (less carbs and refined wheat based foods, more "natural" food [aka animals and things you could grow])
-Sleeping 8+ hours a night
-Plenty of Omega 3
-Sunlight (but not getting sunburned)

Bad stuff:
-food in brightly coloured cardboard boxes or from the freezer
-not sleeping enough
-stress
-beating the absolute hell out of yourself constantly training
-super high rep resistance exercise (it does nothing)
-short cuts (they don't work)
-crash diets (they don't work)
-shake based diets (they'll eventually cause you to binge and fall apart)
-too much "cardio" not enough "strength"

trishasaffron

It can be a complex interrelationship with food,exercise, weight etc. If you can't walk for more than 20mins that is not good. You can't do everything in one go. If I were you I'd just focus on getting to 45minutes walking and do that 4 or 5 times a week. Time enough then to focus on food.

shuridunno

I used to be sport mad, cycling, running, swimming, anything that took me outdoors, but I hit 30 and something just went wrong...

I'm 35 now, would give anything to go for a run but my lungs would probably blow up. If I get too out of breath, I get really wheezy. The doc had ok'd me so I'm not worried about anything other than mild asthma, which should clear with weight loss and getting fit.

It just seems to be one step forward...3 steps back.

I'II focus on the list from Hanley and try to walk more for the moment.

Thanks

squod

shuridunno wrote: »

I used to be sport mad, cycling, running, swimming, anything that took me outdoors, but I hit 30 and something just went wrong...

I'm 35 now, would give anything to go for a run but my lungs would probably blow up. If I get too out of breath, I get really wheezy. The doc had ok'd me so I'm not worried about anything other than mild asthma, which should clear with weight loss and getting fit.

It just seems to be one step forward...3 steps back.

I'II focus on the list from Hanley and try to walk more for the moment.

Thanks

I used to be up half the night with sinusitis. Spent 5mins every morning getting sick, coughed up a lung all day (still do) and could vomit fairly handy during a bike ride.

Tried acupuncture and dietary advice from acupuncturist. Worked. Still not great compared to some on here. The advice I got was so simple. Highly recommend it.

shuridunno

squod wrote: »

I used to be up half the night with sinusitis. Spent 5mins every morning getting sick, coughed up a lung all day (still do) and could vomit fairly handy during a bike ride.

Tried acupuncture and dietary advice from acupuncturist. Worked. Still not great compared to some on here. The advice I got was so simple. Highly recommend it.

I used homeopathy to get rid of sinitis and it worked, oddly enough, I got a rash on my hands and hey presto..it was gone. You have just made me think of it, perhaps a visit to a homeopath or accu might be worth a try.

I was told to cut out animal fat and refined sugar, so mainly veggie diet and quorn/soya. But sometimes I have a really lean piece of fillet steak, no bigger than my palm.

Is porridge ok for breakfast orr is there wheat/gluten or something in it.

Is there any such thing as a low sugar muesli, will I just make y own with porridge flakes, dry fruit and a few nuts and seeds. Skimmed milk? Would that be ok, in a small amount.

squod

shuridunno wrote: »

I used homeopathy to get rid of sinitis and it worked, oddly enough, I got a rash on my hands and hey presto..it was gone. You have just made me think of it, perhaps a visit to a homeopath or accu might be worth a try.

I was told to cut out animal fat and refined sugar, so mainly veggie diet and quorn/soya. But sometimes I have a really lean piece of fillet steak, no bigger than my palm.

Is porridge ok for breakfast orr is there wheat/gluten or something in it.

Is there any such thing as a low sugar muesli, will I just make y own with porridge flakes, dry fruit and a few nuts and seeds. Skimmed milk? Would that be ok, in a small amount.

The diet I was on was rice, rice and more rice. Home made soups, meat stews......... no dairy and no fatty greasy stuff! Oh and no citrus or bananas.

Painful. Knackered for weeks on end. Worked though.