To these simple measures are enough to slim?

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

new year new jeans (or better, old jeans) and all that.

The last few months have seen me eating and drinking too much and not exercising.
So now, whilst not technically overweight (goodness, that BmI thing is a generous system) Im pissed off that my clothes are too tight and I want to be slimmer.
Not nothering with formal diets. I wonder if simply stopping alcohol in the week, stopping snacking (including allowing kids' food to disappear into my gob before it hits their plates) and doing c25k is enough.

Say "yes"

Just to add, a few years ago my sister started to get a bit porky () (when I say 'porky' I mean she was a 12, pushing a 14! So not massive) she decided to cut out fizzy drinks and crisps. Everything else remained the same, so the occasional chocolate bar and some alcohol was the norm. It was amazing! she went down a dress size and looked so much healthier.

I'm hoping something similar will work for me (I'm a 14 pushing a 16 )

My sister is a doctor and has said we as a society simply eat too much in general. Simply eat a bit less and trying to move a bit will really help.

And cut out the booze!!!!!! Anyone who is serious about losing weight needs to cut out or cut down on the booze. It's just sugar!

If you can't bear not drinking then try gin and slimline tonic or vodka and diet coke

DH gave up sugar in coffee without making any other real change to food intake, and dropped a stone and a half in six months. Drinking your calories makes/keeps you fat very easily.

I broke all my rules over Christmas and put on 8lb, but within three days of "don't drink calories" I've shifted most of that again.

Obvious but bears repeating: no diet/exercise regime actually makes you lose weight. What it really does is move you towards the weight at which that calorie input equals that activity output. If your diet "stops working" you've reached the equilibrium point.

So maybe 1750 kcal per day equals ten school runs and two swims per week at 9st (numbers made up). Start that regime at 10st and you'll lose, start it at 8st and you'll gain. Either way, at 9st you'll stop.

I've started tracking on MFP. I find I need to write down my calorie input or it's too easy to pretend that I haven't eaten something. However I'm not going very low - 1700 kcal + exercise cals, and so far it's pretty easy.