Losing weight

carolanivey

You CAN lose weight without heavy exercise - it just takes longer. I think the best way to go is strict portion control - often what you think is a "portion" is actually 2 or 3 times what you should be eating.

Another thing is to be conscious while you're eating. Now, don't laugh! What I mean is, pay attention to your stomach while you're eating. As soon as you perceive that you're not hungry anymore, stop. Don't be afraid to leave food on your plate. Okay, so you may be hungry again 2 or 3 hours later, just have another small healthy meal or snack.

Another key - lots and lots of water. Like 8-10, 8-oz. glasses a day. You may run to the loo more often, but there's your exercise!

Any exercise is better than no exercise at all. Water exercise, a short walk, lifting a one-pound weight, even light housework counts.

margareth64 wrote:

I know that im over weight and that will not help my arth, im 4 stone overweight what docs call obese [ why do i think of americans wth hotdogs when i hear tht??] My problem is how do i loose weight without exercise? i lost weight nearly 3st about 6 yrs ago through exer and diet , what can i do now?? Cant walk far only a few steps and it hurts , when i stand to long it hurts , when i lie down it hurts when i sit it hurts add this to the tummy bug i have and i dont have alot going for me!! If i was an animal my vet would put me down.

sharmaine

Hi Margaret

You could try eating a low fat diet. My son and his wife (they like to be fashionably slim and fit) haven't had carbs for about 3 months. They only eat fish, eggs, meat accompanied by lots of vegetables and of course lots of fresh fruit. Mind you they came over on Monday for lunch and I piled their plates with roast spuds, parsnips, lamb, yorkshire puddings and gravy - they ate everything and asked for seconds! I'll have to get them over more often to fatten them up. They then polished off a huge slice of coconut tart and cream as well as a slice of apple pie!

Personally, eating that much meat would make me gag. I enjoy lots of veggie meals, a bit of fish and chicken.

I'm thinking of joining Weight Watchers as I put on a bit of weight these past couple of years when I couldn't walk or do any physical exercise.

Take care.

Sharmaine


quote="margareth64"]I know that im over weight and that will not help my arth, im 4 stone overweight what docs call obese [ why do i think of americans wth hotdogs when i hear tht??] My problem is how do i loose weight without exercise? i lost weight nearly 3st about 6 yrs ago through exer and diet , what can i do now?? Cant walk far only a few steps and it hurts , when i stand to long it hurts , when i lie down it hurts when i sit it hurts add this to the tummy bug i have and i dont have alot going for me!! If i was an animal my vet would put me down. [/quote]

dopeykit

Thanks Bailey - Speedalong is right it's good to have clear opinions, I better practice having them!

Think a weight loss thread is a really really good idea if people are keen. No better way than to have friends chivvy you a long. I could do with an exercise thread though to remind me to do my physio exercises.... :oops:

xkit

livinglegend

As regards BMI, it was a simple mathematical theory designed to easily measure starving Belgian peasants during the early 1800s. It was certainly not designed to be used for the present day.

They even fiddled the figures to fit, as during 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold for BMI from 27.8 to 25 to match international guidelines. The move added 30 million Americans who were previously in the "healthy weight" category to the "overweight" category. One stroke of the pen and 30million are no longer healthy.

Burying your head in the sand also works for jobsworths.
"We are aware of criticism and that there has been talk of the hip-to-waist ratio, but this is the agreed system and we will continue to use it," says a Department of Health spokeswoman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6040156.stm

Joseph 8)

speedalong

mummyb wrote:

Hi Margaret I have a similar problem and started Slimming World two weeks ago. I've lost 7lbs in two weeks and can recommend the programme. Good luck with whatyever you decide to do. Best wishes, Brenda

Congratulations Brenda - stick with it!!

Speedalong

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I find it difficult to exercise but have joined a slimming organisation. Initiially it was to lose sufficient weight to have THR and now I am continuing so that my new hips will last for some time. Also it is nice to get new clothes

frogmorton

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Did you see you had a birthday thread on chit chat last week??

Love

Toni xx

dreamdaisy

Well, it's Sunday and I've had my last cheese on toast with Branston pickle for the next few weeks. I love cheese - I often find I need that salty, tangy taste kick at about 5pm, but from here-on-in I shall remind myself that I am eating SOLID FAT, which has CHEESE MITES running around inside it, and that this SOLID FAT will make me FATTER, whilst jigggling my jiggly bits to remind me just how FAT I AM. I shall stand, sobbing, in front of the fridge, bemoaning the unfairness of it all, then swig water, telling myself that it is just as good. Yeah, right. Will report back on the psychological effects of further deprivation in due course. DD

annie_mial

DD, I will be joining you in front of the fridge in about a month. We will be able to cry on each others' shoulders.........

Annie

speedalong

Why is it the minute anyone decides to lose weight - they feel hungrier than ever?!!

Speedalong

Good luck all. S has been doing yummy cooking this weekend ... so have prob piled on a few pounds myself ... shall have to watch out for the puddings in hospital epecially after Elizabeth's warning that she put on around 5 lbs having her hip done!! Tho' just a thought Elizabeth ... maybe the replacement weighed more than the bone they removed?!

margareth64

Hi everyone im off to bed soon before i start eating my puppys food ive been munching on fruit&veggies since since 6pm and im sick of them!!!! This has been the worst day of my healthy eating plan so far!!! And if i drink anymore water im goning to wear a groove in the stairs where i keep goin to loo!!! beter just poring it down loo!!!

speedalong

Well done Margaret with sticking with it.

Maybe they say drink lots of water because the exercise going to and from the loo is what actually helps shift the pounds!!!

Speedalong

annie_mial

speedalong wrote:

Why is it the minute anyone decides to lose weight - they feel hungrier than ever?!!

Speedalong

Good luck all. S has been doing yummy cooking this weekend ... so have prob piled on a few pounds myself ... shall have to watch out for the puddings in hospital epecially after Elizabeth's warning that she put on around 5 lbs having her hip done!! Tho' just a thought Elizabeth ... maybe the replacement weighed more than the bone they removed?!

Not if you go to the hospital I was in, Speedy! Their idea of dessert was a quarter of a tinned pear and a small puddle of juice!

Annie

speedalong

Annie - will let you know when I get out!!!

You'd think the meals would be healthy, well balanced and nutritious wouldn't you??!!! :roll:

Or perhaps they make the food awful to free up beds and keep the waiting lists down!!! :?:

Speedalong

dreamdaisy

Feelings of hunger because you are 'depriving' yourself are purely psychosomatic. It's what an old flatmate used to call 'bored teeth syndrome' or BTS. As soon as anyone is told they can't do something, that's the thing they want to do! My description of me sobbing in front of the fridge was purely for comic effect. If the pangs descend then I divert myself, either by coming on here, or painting my nails, or reading a book, or watching telly or something. I don't dwell on the fact that, due to my self-imposed ban, I can't eat something. DD

frogmorton

dreamdaisy wrote:

Feelings of hunger because you are 'depriving' yourself are purely psychosomatic. It's what an old flatmate used to call 'bored teeth syndrome' or BTS. As soon as anyone is told they can't do something, that's the thing they want to do! My description of me sobbing in front of the fridge was purely for comic effect. If the pangs descend then I divert myself, either by coming on here, or painting my nails, or reading a book, or watching telly or something. I don't dwell on the fact that, due to my self-imposed ban, I can't eat something. DD

I thought it was funny Daisy

Love

Toni xx

margareth64

I weighed myself this morning not one ounce did i lose!!!! A hole week without bread, low fat foods sticking to slimming world diet i could have cried!!!! So i consoled myself by having cheese on toast with real butter too :P :P LIFES TO SHORT :P :P :P :P :P :P

carolanivey

margareth64 wrote:

I weighed myself this morning not one ounce did i lose!!!! A hole week without bread, low fat foods sticking to slimming world diet i could have cried!!!! So i consoled myself by having cheese on toast with real butter too :P :P LIFES TO SHORT :P :P :P :P :P :P

I hate it when that happens. It's frustrating. Put a woman and a man on the same diet, and a week later the guy will lose 5 pounds and the woman will lose 1. Or maybe none! Or gain!

Our hormone fluctuations mean our weight can yo yo up and down on any given day! Often, we women have to go more by the tape measure and how our clothes are fitting, rather than by what the scale says.

Women generally tend to have a lower percentage of natural muscle mass, so we don't burn fat as efficiently as men. (Darn them! lol) So, as in the workplace where a woman has to work twice as hard to be considered half as qualified as a man, the woman has to work twice as hard to lose half the weight.

Soooo unfair!

carolanivey

Oh, and I ALWAYS have real butter on my toast. Life IS too short to eat icky food. LOL

One thing WW taught me is to not make a ton of diet changes all at once. That's a recipe for frustration.

Pick one small change and do that consistently before adding the next small change. Such as, commit to drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day, and do that for a week or two. Then add some kind of small activity to burn a few extra calories. Once you're in that groove, cut out one can of soda a day. Or add one extra veg to a meal.

Small steps add up over time, and before you know it the scale will start to reflect that!

dreamdaisy

Very practical advice, and very achievable. Sound common sense, carolanivey. DD

wendgro

I too struggle with my weight due to arthur and lack of movement I found if I cut out Carbs (bread potatoes etc) also I love chocolate well sweet things if I cut out foods that contain sugar as well I can usually loose weight. Fill up on veg, fruit ,salads, In fact all the things that you don't particularly like. Use a smaller plate and only buy the best of things thats the compensation eat small but eat well

carolanivey

wendgro wrote:

eat small but eat well

That's a perfect quote - I think I'll put it on my fridge door.

If I put something in my mouth and don't absolutely love it, it's not worth spending calories on.

Cutting sugar is a biggie for me. I've found I can easily cut fat and calories, but where I fall down every time is in processed/white sugar. I can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. Blech. I can handle Diet Coke, but that's about it.

I don't drink regular soda, it actually tastes too sweet to me, but it takes an incredibly small amount of sugar to go over the recommended daily limit!

luckybug

Sometimes weight gain with arthritis is something you cannot conquer, I joined allaboutW8 a diet food provider, I stuck to it rigorously for 2 months and lost 4lb, I was sick as a pig, they guarantee 4 stone , £50 a week it was costing me, I went to see my rheumy and he realised I was swollen, I had water on my lungs and ankles, I had to have heart tests, luckily everything was ok, but the Anti TNF sabotaged any chance I had of losing weight, we all work differently, so I'm not saying you wont lose weight, but just bear in mind sometimes we have no choice, I was put on water tablets and told I would see a huge difference with fluid loss, nothing happened? Still overweight and fluid logged lol :roll:

dreamdaisy

You poor thing, what an expensive mistake. I regard all these food-substitute diets with caution, simply because of our health problems. We're on poisonous meds and we have to give ourselves the greatest chance of health we can, and that has to mean good food. The key is not to over-indulge (so easily done when tired, in pain, fed up, caught in that vicious Catch 22 of I'm fat, I'm miserable, I'll eat a choccy biccie to feel better, I'm fat, I'm miserable etc etc etc).

It's the lack of mobility that is my main problem. I am going to get a pedometer, see what a ridiculously low score I have on a usual day, then try to increase it fifty steps a day. I can't walk without my stabilisers (as I call them, crutches to everyone else) and I can't walk fast. I love the advice to do vigorous exercise for 30mins 3 times a week to raise the heart rate, I CAN'T DO VIGOROUS ANYMORE! Mind you, I wasn't that much of a fan of vigorous even when I could. Ho-hum.

I am really missing my cheese, to the extent that lunch today was chunk of cheddar (little crawling things and all), 3 seeded Ryvitas (lovely) and two pickled onions (fatal, vinegar has a v bad affect but I love them). I wobbled the flobby bits before opening the fridge (see earlier post) but to no avail. Never mind. I'll try again tomorrow. Life has to have some fun in it, somewhere. Chin up girls, we can do it! DD (Which is what my cup size used to be, many moons ago! Tee-hee!)

carolanivey

dreamdaisy wrote:

my cup size used to be, many moons ago! Tee-hee!)

After baby no. 2, my bigger cup size stayed, much to my husband's delight. I, for one, wish I had my 34B's back. Crumbs and spills used to fall to my lap - now my chest catches EVERYTHING!


Sorry to hear about your struggle, luckybug. I know they say that one doesn't gain the weight overnight, but in some cases that's what happens!!

Last December I was within 5 pounds of my goal weight when menopause hit. Within a week I'd put back on 10 and there it sits right around my middle, no matter what I do. *sigh*