Lose weight with us here!!!

[bupster]

Ha - Posie, that's exactly what I told myself.  ;D

That's brilliant news, Jeannine, you're making great progress. How come you're not using the pain patches? Is it just because it feels like giving in?

All the best to everybody, we'll crack this.

[bupster]

[norfolklass]

yeah, me too posie and bupster – I've been to the gym regularly so it must be muscle, right?? although I haven't lost 3 pounds my trousers are definitely feeling looser, so something's happening!

big congrats to everyone, especially you Jeannine, for being so determined to do this and for the results achieved so far ;D

[Old bird]

Hi all - sounds like you are all really doing really well.

Some have lost 3 lbs - now imagine those as 6 packs of butter that is a lot of weight and blubber isn't it.  I think it helps to picture actually what you have lost!

Another tip is to chew chew chew every mouthful chew at least 32 times.  The more you chew the quicker the body breaks down the food you have eaten it is all to do with enzymes or that sort of thingy in your saliva!  Plus your brain tells you you are full before you would normally feel full.

Muscle is heavier than fat so well done norfolklass!  Yes it sounds very much like you are on the right track!

Another factor how about not buying some of the dreaded biscuits, chocolates, sweets, crisps for the whole family.  If you haven't got them in the house you are less likely to hit a weak moment and eat them.  Your family will probably moan but I am sure they will live quite happily without them and perhaps you can get them to eat fruit instead and help them to have a healthy future?

Plus -  I re-iterate water, water, water. 

Even if you can't exercise in the conventional way there is still room for movement of sorts - lifting cans of beans (weights) etc.

Keep going - I think I will set myself up as chief cheerleader!!

Only joking!

Old Bird

;D

[bupster]

Done really badly today, very cross with myself. Going to force myself out for a run (ha!) tonight and go to the gym or for a swim tomorrow. And ban myself from chocolate etc for the rest of the week.

[GrannieAnnie]

Just read the following which gives me some renewed interest in slashing my weight:

"At what point does being overweight start to increase a woman's risk for breast cancer? Should women be concerned if they gain 15-25 pounds of "middle-aged spread" as they age?

Feigelson: Breast cancer risk begins to increase when adult weight gain (defined as weight gain since age 18) is more than 20 pounds. A recent American Cancer Society Study found that women who gained 21-30 pounds since age 18 were 40% more likely to develop breast cancer than women who had not gained more than 5 pounds, and women who gained 70 pounds doubled their risk.

Further, excess weight greatly increases the risk for metastatic tumors, which are more difficult to treat than tumors that have not spread. Women who gained more than 60 pounds since age 18 were 3 times more likely to have metastatic breast cancer than women who gained less than 20 pounds as an adult.
Q: Will losing weight reduce my risk of breast cancer?

Doyle: Recent studies do show that losing weight can help lower the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer. The key message for women is it�s really never too late to start living healthier.

[Twirlie]

Went to WW tonight! Last week I had gained a pound BOOOOO!!!  But this week I have lost two and a half! Yipee!!  Didn't have my treat last week so as I'd lost I could have my treat! Yep... went to the chippee for tea! 

[Old bird]

Hi Twirly,

Well done for losing that 2 and a half pounds! Brilliant.  But is it really a treat for your body to go to the chippy? If you look at the ingredients that are used in most chippies - some use lard or animal fats others use vegetable fats to fry in and if you have things in batter there are some fairly ghastly ingredients in that.

I think that when you are losing weight there is a mentality that you are missing something and doing without - whereas if you eat healthily - all the time - you shouldn't ever feel that you are missing out on something and all your efforts will be wasted when you have struggled to lose this weight only to put it back on - to give yourself a "treat"!

I am speaking from experience and now eat a healthy diet - yes I do occasionally have a choccy binge - but very rarely - as I know how slippery the slope is!!!!

Keep going though and well done so far!

Old Bird
;D

[theothermarg]

Stayed the same this week but it,s OK as I have lost 7lb in the last 2 weeks and feel my 60 year old skin needs to catch up :D garden shed putting uping today it,s blowing a gale so it aint going to be easy :'( but we have painted it with preserver without being rained on so fingers crossed
marg

[shaolin101]

Remember to make use of the early sunny mornings coming up - Early exercise makes you feel better through the day and you don't want to eat the rubbish later because you feel good from your hard work. Otherwise you eat the rubbish during the day and exercise the guilty way by trying to get rid of what you have put on - go for the happy, feelgood methods rather than the more depressing guilty exercise methods.

If you have access to a cross trainer, running machine, rowing machine etc - any with a calorie counter - use them. They are great for a confidence boost. Whilst they may not be totally accurate, it is a great feeling to see that you have burned around 100 calories after 20 minutes!

Liam

[wilko]

 ;D ;D ;D
well I had my first weigh in folks, and I've lost 6and a half pounds ........... :o :o

I'm well pleased, I know most of it is fluid.....but even so .good eh!!

2lb target for next week

[Old bird]

Flipping 'eck Wilko - what a magnificent loss!  Brilliant or what!  Doesn't matter if it was all fluid or whatever that is a stunning loss in anyone's book.

Keep going and 2lb for next week - easy peasy!  You seem to have the knack!

Old Bird ;D

[bupster]

That's outstanding! Good for you!

[posie]

Well done Wilko!  Doesn't matter what it is as long it's been done sensibly.  Keep up the good work.  Twirly, I used to do the same thing, come out of Slimming World and go straight to the Kentucky fried chicken place lol - needless to say I dont do it anymore lol.  I think I'm just in the mind set now that no food is "bad" as long as it's in moderation and that seems to be working for me.  If I tell myself something is bad then I want it even more.

[posie]

Yuck, I just had my first "tracker" at the gym, where they take measurements of waist, bust, hips, upper thighs, calves, upper arms and wrists as well measure levels of water etc.  Lets just say I failed the water one miserably (there's water in coffee, how does that work??!! lol), I'm just in the Obese category.  So my target is to lose 4lb in the next 6 weeks and to get my water level up from 40.8 to 53%.  Thankfully my gym is very good and focuses more on inch loss than weight loss, my personal end target is to get from a size 18-20 back down to a 14-16, any lower and I can't maintain it, well I can, if I don't want a life at the same time!

Best thing about my gym, not a mirror or weight in sight - marvellous!

[Jeannine]

Well done to you all, I am very impressed.

Finally plucked up the courage to stick my first pain patch on..last night at 6pm, I seem OK, except feeling sick, so probably not much food for the weekend. I did stop taking all my other pain pills which I was supposed to stay on, so I am seizing up quickly but... I was so scared of the patches I wanted to do it gradually, so will re intoduce them later tonight with half doses. I am hoping by mid week I will be on the full regime, no side effects and much more comfortable, then maybe I can start doing other things again and the weight loss might be easier.

I laughed when I read excercise with tins of beans..I can't even lift one high!!!

Next week though I might be juggling with them LOL

XX Jeannine

[GrannieAnnie]

Sorry about the pain you have Jeanine but congratulations on the wt. loss. Fantastic seeing progress.
Going to weigh in myself now.

[Mrs Ava]

Weigh in this morning at WW and shed 3Ibs this last week.  On the core plan and hoping to do similar next week.  Yay!

[Crystalmoon]

Well done to everyone who has lost weight & a big hello to anyone new  ;D
I signed up for a gym today, a nice simple quiet gym rather than the techno blasting beautiful people type gym  :o
Ive got my induction tomorrow so I expect to be  :-[ feeling abit like this after getting measured/weighed etc.
Ive read the Gary Taubes book 'Diet Delution' & no-longer have any fears about a high protein low carb way of losing weight. I began in earnest today  ;)   

[wilko]

 :) well done Emma, keep up the good work

[bupster]

Lost a rubbish half a pound. Still, at least it's the right direction, and it's two weeks in a row I've been under 11 stone.