Why can't I lose any weight? :-(
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I'm 5ft 10 and a year ago I weighed 10stone.
I was happy with this.
Then I moved in with my partner, he's a keen cook and always made big portions. Plus we got into the habit of drinking and take-aways 3/4 times a week and before I knew it, I'd put on over a stone.
I currently weigh 11st 4lbs.
I'm really not happy with this but nothing I do seems to work. I've cut out the drink and take aways, I switched to brown bread, I drink lots of water, cut out sweets ... my weight just will not budge.
I'm exercising 4 times a week too.
When I was 10 stone I was eating smaller meals but lots of junk. For instance, a packet of crisps for my breakfast etc and I lost more weight like that than I am now eating healthy.
It's really starting to get me down
Has anyone else experienced this? what can I do?
Porridege made with water and a banana ontop or mashed in - long time fill up or one poached egg on on one slice of wholemeal bread
Fish cooked in the oven and flaked up and served with couscous and vegtables
Grilled chicken with vegtables and a couple of new potato
snack : carrot and celery with a chopped apple
It took a year, 365 days , 52 weeks to put this weight on, you were not able to eat enough to put the weight on any quicker and it will take time to make it dissapear
Panscrub
My comments on your sample day would be that your breakfast is full of sugar (shreddies and orange juice) you would probably feel better with porridge and semi skimmed milk.
The salmon wrap and salad at lunchtime is only a good option if you made it, otherwise again it can hide a lot of fat and sugar
And I would get rid of the nightime snack altogether, you don't need it, but if you really need something then I would have some oatcakes with houmou.
Good luck
Panscrub - weigh yourslef every morning - if you want to, but make sure two things
you must weigh before anything is eaten and naked, after your first wee of the morning
Then if you are doing it every morning make sure you dont miss a morning and keep a note of every weight. You will then realise that your weight alters through the month.
How your clothes feel is not a good indication if they have just been washed - as they naturally expand as you wear the same clothes.
Don't avoid food that is natural, byt that I mean not made up into something else - whole fruit whole vegtables
avoid processed foods, cakes sugary foods
Yes go on how your clothes feel. It's a better gauge.
I know, it's ridiculous. I'm on there every morning and I get depressed if it goes up a few pound from the day before.
Will put the scales in the cupboard out of sight I think.
Once a week. And if you can't stop yourself weighing every day, bear in mind that it is not necessarily a true picture of the general trend.
Ok, I'll try it.
How often should you weight yourself?
What foods should I avoid? potatoes/bread etc?
You don't lose and gain weight as the reseult of whatever you ate yesterday. The body has huge weight fluctuations every days - can be several pounds and it's to do with water retention and other issues as well.
Also if you are doing that much exercising don't forget that muscle weighs more than fat.
If I were you I would go for healthy eating and portion control. Plus upping water intake, which ironically, helps stop water retention. (Don't overdo it though)
And ditch the low-fat products - in order to make them low-fat they are filled with crap sugars. Just eat normal real food.
Of course you can do both! Regardless of weightloss, do you really want to be filling your body with that kind of crap every day? If I were you I'd try cutting out some of the low fat stuff to be honest- I know that my skin glows when I eat plenty of good fats. Also be aware that fruit and juice have lots of sugar in them. And don't expect results overnight. Stop weighing every day for a start.
Actually, on the subject of nutrition ...
I went to my grandads last week. He's very blunt and if he thinks you have put on weight, he will just come out and say "why, you're getting fat!" etc!!
So I was expecting some comments about my weight.
Anyway, he sat looking at me for a few seconds and then said "you look different ..." (I thought 'here it comes, I'm fat ...')
He then said "have you had your face done?"
I said "what do you mean??"
and he said "you look so healthy! your skin is pefect, you look younger or something ... I thought maybe you'd been to one of these spa things?"
my grandad never compliments unless he REALLY means it!
So I suppose dispite the weight, the food must be doing me some good.
I'm kind of torn between going for weight loss or looking healthy as it seems I can't do both
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