To want to lose five stone?

[calmday]

Hi. I'm currently 14 stone 6. I put over five stone on during my treatment with antipsychotics. I have now come off all antipsychotics and I'm off mirtazapine too (which is well known for weight gain).

So I have five stone to lose. I'm not having breakfast or lunch today. I'll have a small tea.

I drink three cans of diet soda a day, does anyone know if that's bad for weight loss?

Thanks

Youve posted again?

Well I'll still say the same. No. You won't sustain this. Read up on proper weight loss

Don't skip meals, your body will go into survival mode. Eat 3 small meals a day rather than 1 large one. Currently I've lost just over 4&1/2 stone of my 6 stone target. Diet soda is ok in small quantities. Water is better in helping weight loss.

Skipping meals and relying on diet soda does not a healthy diet make.

If you're going to lose the 5 stone and maintain what you need to do is shift your attitude about food; starving yourself can lead to binging, you also can't live for the rest of your life on diet soda and a small tea.

Consider reasonable portions, choose better foods e.g. high fat low carb is often praised, don't fall for the low fat schtick that companies would have you believe is healthier. It isn't - it's packed with a lot more sugar and additives to compensate for the lack of fat.

Up your veg intake, and eat mindfully.

For a start exercise is proven to be good for mental health and weightloss. Start walking more if you can't afford a gym membership - there are also work outs you can do in your living room if you check out the NHS website or Youtube.

I lost five stone a few years back. I didn't ever skip a single meal, ever. I exercised five times a week with exercise DVDs (which was incredibly tough at first; it took a while to build up to doing the whole DVD) and I monitored calories with MyFitnessPal. I also started walking to work and back every day (30mins each way). I was probably having about 1700 cals a day on exercise days and 1400 on non-exercise days.

What you're doing is unhealthy and unsustainable - but you already know that. You're not stupid. You're hoping we'll validate what you're doing by telling you it's fine, but it isn't.

Some people believe diet sodas make you crave sugar and/or encourage your body to retain weight, but there's conflicting evidence. I drank Diet Coke and No Added Sugar Vimto when I was losing weight and it was fine for me. Water would have been healthier but equally losing weight is hard enough without sacrificing your only calorie-free pleasure.

I'm going to go against the grain and say meal replacements (not skipping) can have a place in the first stages of weight loss where you want results to keep you engaged.
Follow Dr Spencer Nadolsky on fb for more on that.

The key is adherence - you need, longer term, to find an approach you can stick to. There's no magic formula, any old calorie deficit will do. Taking up exercise will help in lots of ways, too.
I lost over 4 stone this year, you can do it, OP! But please read around and do it sensibly.

I was 15 1/2 stone 5 years ago and I'm a fit 11 stone today and I have never skipped a single meal! Portion control and dropping processed foods worked for me and as much as it is a faff to weigh everything out but it worked for me.
What you are doing is setting yourself up for failure, give that "diet" a month and if you are anything like me you will end up ill and reaching for as much crap as you can stuff in your face and you will be back to square one.
Weight loss is a total change of living not something you do just to lose weight and having the energy to sustain exercise is important as it is fantastic for your mental health.

Oh, calmday - tell me about it - I have gained 5 stone on antipsychotics. Was it olanazpine?

You can't sustain the skipping meals, your body will hold into those calories and you could actually put on weight doing this, you need to eat regularly

OP, do you know how many calories you need just to survive?

What is your height and age?

Skipping meals does work and starvation mode is an myth. Op read up on the 5:2 diet.

Diet drinks and skipping multiple meals is really silly.

By all means look at the 5:2 if you want sustainable weight loss. But could you try to knock the diet drinks on the head? They aren't good for you.

Skipping meals does work and starvation mode is an myth. Op read up on the 5:2 diet.

I agree with this. 'Starvation mode' is myth but what people are talking about is sustainability. No-one can live on diet soda for the rest of their lives.

Aridane it was olanzapine and zuclopenthixol. In the end the zuclopenthixol also stopped my periods as well due to high prolactin levels. I'm menstruating again though thankfully.

I'm 29 years old, 5ft7 and 14 stone 6. Size 18.