to ask who has lost massive amount of weight for the nth time and how did you do it?

[AteRiri]

Actually I have done it before (50 pounds in 6 months ) but for some reason I can't do it again.

And the weight is piling up. I'm not even cheating!

Inspire me?

AteRiri I did try again and stuck for a month with no movement. It stopped the gain, and that was about it.

I'm thinking of trying a meal delivery thing for a while. Expensive, but it might show me if I am being real about what I'm eating. If I follow a precise diet, and still no budging them maybe I'll chat to a dietician to see if there are other ideas.

I am experimenting with the timing of my eating. I had hoped that small changes to my diet together with hardcore exercise twice a week might result in gradual weight loss of a couple of kilos over a few months. But no, nothing. In fact despite making my lifestyle healthier I have put on a kilo over 6 months.

I had noticed that I am always hungry. I would eat breakfast (porridge), fruit for a morning snack, then tuna on crispbread for lunch, low calorie dinner, then snack before bed. Maybe the snacks are where I piled on the calories, while they were invisible in my head.

So, I have decided to try the 16:8 thing. Basically, eating breakfast at 11, lunch at 3, dinner at 7. 20 years ago when I was student for a couple of months, I made sure that I ate only at mealtimes and ate as much as possible to ensure that I was full, but no snacking. I lost a fair bit of weight. I remember that once I got used to eating only at set intervals my appetite and the amount I needed to feel full went down. Now the whole fasting thing has come in, it makes sense regarding insulin resistance.

I could have written your post. I was in ok shape before 3 kids and got back to reasonable weight after the first 2 arrived. 3rd one? Forget it. I really thought something had changed with my body and I would never lose another lb. This spring DH was sent overseas for 12 weeks. Something in my head just clicked. Stopped snacking in the evening, stopped drinking (maybe a glass on the weekend), kept up with the gym (had been doing pretty well there anyway). I've dropped about 20 lb and have about 10lb left to go. It was all in my head - when your head is in the right place, you CAN do it. DH is back home this week (from the pics it looks like he's found my 20lb, so hope I can keep losing and him too).

youdialwetile

I hope I will lose the 20 lbs too like you did - even that, I'll be happy with that for now. Then 30-40 pounds after that, even slower.

kmmr

Goodluck on the food delivery! I hope it works. Its too expensive for me though. :(

Postagestamppat

I've tried that for a few days but I couldn't do it past a few days. Maybe I should try it again.

Vlcd can lead to metabolic damage, sounds counter productive but you might be better gradually increasing your calories with nutritionally rich food.

As for dairy products if you can digest them no problem, they are calorie dense foods that can form part of your diet. No one food group is responsible for your weight it's overall intake/output genes ect

I had done it before, 63lbs and kept it off for years, then I had kids, pregnancy complications, slow recovery and injury after injury, not to mention desperately craving sugar to overcome tiredness and the weight piled on. I tried losing again a couple of years ago and despite following basically the same plan (WW for me) I lost about 5 lbs and then plateaued.

I just started again 9 weeks ago and have lost 20 lbs so far. The key for me this time seems to have been upping my exercise significantly. I'm 20 years older than I was the first time and I think my metabolism is just more sluggish and needs that kick. I've a ways to go yet though, so I may be wrong that this is what it will take. It is really nice to see the fitness improvement too though.

Do you exercise? It doesn't help you lose a lot of weight directly, but it can make you less tempted to snack or eat sweet things and it makes you feel better about your body generally.

For me it reduces the psychological significance of food—I don't know if it's endorphins but exercise improves my mood so I don't crave comfort food generally.

Very good tips on here, thanks!

I would recommend this to everyone..it enables you to see how much you would have to eat (or not) to lose a certain amount in a certain time, and it takes into account the adaptive nature of the metabolism. it has worked for me in the past .

www.precisionnutrition.com/weight-loss-calculator

If you look at the fat on your body, it mostly came from another animal that you have eaten.

Absolute rubbish. It's excess sugar that gets laid down as fat in the body. Otherwise every vegan would be skinny (and they aren't).

breakfast: 2 tbsp flaxmeal, bit of milk, hot water
lunch: around 150g chicken breast
dinner: around 150g chicken breast or fish

Mental.

That VCLD sounds crazy, I would faint if I ate that little food. Slimming world is working for me, I've lost 2.5 stone since January.

I just tried it again for a week. No result. When I did that before I lost 7 pounds in a week and 22 in a month. Admittedly, I did have an egg for breakfast instead of flax, then lunch and dinner I also had some veg back then. (120g/meal)

Ateriri, have you tried intermittent fasting? I've found it really works well.

I'm using speech to text so please excuse weird punctuation and spelling. I lost 12.5 stone by eating this: breakfast smoothie but not the kind that includes lots of yoghurt and fruit but the kind that is kale, apple, etc. Then each subsequent meal was a combination of a protein in a moderate measure a e-cigarette box size with one cup of a brown carb eg brown rice or quinoa and one serving of moderate sized green vegetable or salad. No puddings no extra servings no dressings on the salad and veg other than a tablespoon of a good oil. I also included a snack mid morning of a handful of mixed seeds and a snack mid-afternoon of a handful of nuts. Very low-calorie diets really are not kind to your body. The meal routine I have listed above is realistic and a very good training for your body to recognise what average and moderate eating is. This was what I found helped sustain a huge weight loss rather than yo yo dieting. I found that it was very easy to kid myself about how much I was actually eating. The weight loss group here sounds like a very good idea to have somewhere to be accountable 2. I used a food sponsor to text in my planned food each day full stop this can be just texting your food to a trusted friend or to an online group. A bit of moderate exercise and drinking plenty of water also helps. And do remember that large weight loss happens in quite a strange way. I would eat as described above and lose nothing for a couple of weeks and then suddenly drop 1/2 stone in a week or sometimes I would plateau for a month and then start losing quickly again full stop it was easiest for me only to weigh myself once a week or even once a montj. good luck you can do it!! By the way in order to sustain this weight loss I have had to continue with monitoring and recording and thinking about food since then full stop for me it has never become easy to stay at a sensible weight without some kind of diligence full stop I did hope one day it will all just settle and I would be able to eat normally but having spent my previous 43 years very overweight that has not proved to be the case.

5st since September (with month long breaks in December and April)
Blood sugar diet - changed my life.

5st since September is AMAZING.

Good job.

Very low calorie diets are a disaster for your metabolism. It puts your body into starvation mode so it thinks 'oh my god, we have to conserve eery calorie'. Metabolism slows down. 'Low sugar' also a big no no. This means aspartame or saccharine which are heavily linked to a number of cancers. Sugar, especially refined sugar is incredibly bad for your body but chemical replacements are no better, and probably worse. Sugar is one of the prime reasons for ageing. Directly affects the cells and changes their function and make up . It's also addictive. Our modern diet is chock full of shit that shouldn't naturally be there - sugar, fillers, chemical additives. As far as possible it is best to eat food as close to its natural form as possible, eat smaller portions, cook from scratch and ditch the microwave. Not easy with our busy lives.

Eating protein with every meal, cutting out sugar and supposedly 'low sugar/low fat' etc and eating small amounts regularly works much better than starvation tactics. This keeps the metabolism ticking over and the body feeling satisfied. It also regulates blood sugar which is a chief cause of cravings. Also the body often confuses hunger with thirst, so drinking lots of water is very helpful as well as flushing out toxins.

You need to count calories in and count calories out and maintain a deficit of 1,000 cals a day.

As you are significantly overweight you probably won't even need to cut a lot of calories. Most people with 50-100 pounds to lose can lose weight by eating 2,000 cals a day with exercise until they get to a normal bmi at which point they have to readjust. Use mfp.

Thanks Seoul I just have to work at keeping it off now!

But I have hear maintainance is 80% exercise 20 diet where as losing weight is the other way round?

Oh really? That's interesting. I'd heard that 80% diet 20% exercise thing, but not the other way round too.

I'm sure you'll manage to keep it off, you're obviously strong-willed enough if you've got that much off.

Not sure how true it is, still trying to work it all out!

I lost 3 stone with weight watchers. Literally just worked out the points, ate exactly the points (other than a few slip ups here and there). It took a year though, but I finally got to my goal weight.

Groupie if you read the whole thread you'll see OP is struggling to lose on a lot less than that and would probably massively gain on 2000 calories.
Unfortunately after yoyo dieting and several cycles of large loss and gain, the metabolic response is no longer normal.

OP have a look on FB for the group Rebelfit, the guy talks at length about diets and the metabolic issue.

No pasta, bread or potatoes in the evening in particular (sometimes a sandwich at lunch) unless going out for dinner (which is only every 2 weeks max) and no snacking...

I also walk a lot. This made me lose a lot of weight and keep it off...