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[Claw75]

I decided a couple of weeks ago that I really needed to change my eating habits.  To be frank, I pretty much ate junk most days, with the odd bit of fruit and veg thrown in.  I'm sure this was in no small part responsible for me having not felt 100% health wise for a pretty long time.  The other downside of course is that I am carrying too much weight, which has got noticably worse in the last couple of months.

So, time to change arrived, and I've been doing pretty well for the last couple of weeks just by eating healthily.  I decided to put something on here to help me keep a more public track of my progress, and am hoping that will help me to achieve my goal, similar to the way the quitting smoking thread seems to have helped people also.  And it's got to be better than the public humiliation of facing Marjorie Dawes types at Fat Fighters once a week

I'm aiming for 1-2lbs a week, so with any luck I should be down to my goal weight of 9 stone in 3 months or so.

[KingPoker]

WD keep going claw. Im sure you will get all the support you need from the forumites!!!
Thats a very realistic goal you have set for yourself. Keep us updated!

[Poppet7]

Good Luck Claire, I'm on a diet too and have lost 1st 3lbs already. Keep going, it feels great!

[Claw75]

WD keep going claw. Im sure you will get all the support you need from the forumites!!!
Thats a very realistic goal you have set for yourself. Keep us updated!

thanks - hopefully it looks even more realistic now that I've removed the extra 10lbs I'd accidentally added to my starting weight!!

[Claw75]

Good Luck Claire, I'm on a diet too and have lost 1st 3lbs already. Keep going, it feels great!

Thanks Soph - and well done you!  Keep it up, and we'll both be looking foxy for BB4

[Poppet7]

Too right!!

[pokerdave69]

Best way i found to lose weight is to go down the paint shop

















apparently you can get Thinner down there 

[tantrum]

1. Good luck with your new healthy lifestyles

A bit of lecturing here:

Poppet - don't think of food as diet, as it means you are depriving yourself of something.

Enjoy your meals and stick to 3 a day, providing they are balanced, losing weight or feeling better will be a walk in a park.

Most people put on weight because they snack, and they don't treat those snacks as 'food'.  As long as one eats 3 meals a day following the rule:
big breakfast- medium lunch - small dinner - plenty of fluids - weight loss is easy

The body will adjust fast to 3 meal regime and the need for snacks will diminish.  

If you drink alcohol - cut it down - empty calories are the most invisible.


Gl to you ladies.  

[Yogi-Bear]

My meals go the other way tantrum. Small Breakfast, Bigger lunch, huge tea, which seems to stretch all the way till i retire for the evening with snack food. No wonder i am slightly larger than i should be.

Best of Luck Ladies. I guess I should join ya and try to loose some of my excess weight. I just got NO willpower.

yogi

[barhell]

Claw 1-2lbs a week is definately what you want to aim for gradual loss is superb, i'm a bit of a yoyo person weight wise i went from 16.5 stone to 12 stone and am slowly creeping back up to 15(all since i've been married my wifes a good cook).
I lost all my weight just by eating more healthily and excersing(online poker doesn't encourage this), all very easy and no need to diet.

[taximan007]

I wish you ladies well in reaching your goals:

Remember its NOT the size of a person thats important, its the person inside that counts.

[Poppet7]

1. Good luck with your new healthy lifestyles

A bit of lecturing here:

Poppet - don't think of food as diet, as it means you are depriving yourself of something.

Enjoy your meals and stick to 3 a day, providing they are balanced, losing weight or feeling better will be a walk in a park.

Most people put on weight because they snack, and they don't treat those snacks as 'food'.  As long as one eats 3 meals a day following the rule:
big breakfast- medium lunch - small dinner - plenty of fluids - weight loss is easy

The body will adjust fast to 3 meal regime and the need for snacks will diminish.  

If you drink alcohol - cut it down - empty calories are the most invisible.


Gl to you ladies.  

Don't wanna hijack Claws thread but I'm following the Slimming World diet which is the only way I have found that works for me. Means I can eat as much as I like, just of the right food group. Therefore, I'm not hungry, don't want to snack anyway and I'm eating healthy food. I already feel much better for it. I'd definitely recommend it.

[matt674]

Was going to suggest details of a new fitness regime Claw but then i remembered you are married!! 

Have to own up myself to purchasing a cross trainer / exercise bike after new year which now takes pride of place upstairs in my tree house. Now i can take the laptop upstairs on the wireless network to play poker and exercise at the same time!!

[I, Zimbra]

 

[Nem]

You should go to the gym Claw - then again you're married