To think I shouldn't be THIS heavy??

[Lotsofsausage]

So to start, I know I am no supermodel. Fairly tall at 5'8, size 14, smaller waist, medium bust. Fairly curvy arse/ thighs but toned. I am fit and strong and exercise 4-5x per week, including strength training.

Now I know measurements and photos are a better gauge than the scales, and muscle is meant to weigh more than fat (but I thought that was bullshit).....I am 14.5 stone! I have a friend with the same body measurements as me and same height and she is TWO STONE lighter.
Can some people just be 'heavy'???

There is no irony. I eat as much as I want. Three years ago I wanted 6 buttered toasts for breakfast, then mid-morning ‘snack’, I.e a sandwich or two, then lunch - hot meal, then mid-afternoon snack, say tea and doughnuts, then big dinner. Then dessert later in the evening, say a couple of cheesecake slices, ice cream or cookies. I felt permanently hungry, tired, sluggish and very unfit. And ate loads!

Since low carbing, my appetite shrunk to unrecognisable levels. I am not hungry any more! I don’t deprive myself, deny myself or torture myself. It is easy, doesn’t require any effort on my part. I don’t count calories or control portions. I just naturally want to eat less.

I'm the same height and I weigh 10.2 stone and I am a size 10/12. I'm also trying to lose weight. I want to weigh 9 stone, which would make me a comfortable 10. I suppose size is relative to our personal preferences.

Yes. I feel the same when I up my intake of fruit and veg. I eat toast for breakfast every day. I basically eat 3 meals a day with no snacks except fruit and I've lost 10lb in 2 months.

Paradise

But what you're saying is a load of shite though. Previously in this thread you have encouraged posters to do what you do, and you really made this big deal about how they can have a diet where they can eat as much as they want.. yet now you're talking about your diet it reflects nothing of what you've said. You have a very restricted diet that is very low in calories. You may have such a low appetite that you feel you're eating as much as you want but the vast majority of people will absolutely feel limited in eating what you are eating.

In fact if that's what you've been eating long term I wonder why you haven't lost more weight. That coupled with the fact you have a low appetite leads me to think something else is going on

Diesel I think that's been disproved now, as we burn calories continually, even when we're asleep. It's really the intake vs output over the 24 hours that count (or even longer, hence why it's fine to overeat one day and to cutback the next).

Please.. I don’t restrict the amount of food. I absolutely eat as much as I want. The thing is I don’t want too much food any more. I made a choice not to eat huge cinnamon buns my kids were having in the afternoon because I know they will make me ravenous, set off cravings and spike my insulin. Why do I want to consume something that will affect me badly and push me to square one? I happily went another 2h till dinner.

@ParadiseInDisguise yes when we ear loads of sugar we keep craving and never feel full. But now you've been restricting your stomach, fasting for many hours. I used to do that when I was a size 8 and I'm 5f10 so not healthy. I used to feel full with very little because my stomach was in starving mode. So don't say you can eat as much as you want. You're just trainjng yourself to starve and that's not healthy.

So you basically eat fuck all. 1200 cals max.

My impression of that list is that she eats quite a lot.

I do not have a restricted diet unless you mean junk. I don’t touch pop, chocolate, white bread, processed food. That is not restrictive. It is called eating well.

YOU may not feel restricted but a lot of people would struggle to eat what you do and feel as happy as you do. You've banged on about how 1200 calorie diets and the like don't work, when your own wouldn't either if it the dieters adopted it.

Breakfast at 11am and dinner at 6pm. How is is this healthy?

But at no point have I starved. No starving involved!! I know the feeling well. I had big appetite as long as I remember myself - insulin resistance in the family. Loved bread, pastry, cakes. Ate absolutely loads, always hungry, no, ravenous. Did calorie counting more times that I care to mention, dieting, restricting,denying myself. Did it work? No. I eventually nearly went to size 20 after my third child.

This has worked. It’s easy. I have got massively improved quality of life. I am not on a diet, I squewed my food intake towards low carb high fat. That is all.

Lol at the fatlogic comment from @Prequelle. I'm a long term poster there.

I'm glad it's worked for you, but I think it's a pisstake that you've basically thrown essays up in this thread about your intuitive eating and how you eat all this and don't restrict yourself, actually going as far to advise people, when in actual fact your diet is no different from those controlled diets you claim to hate.

Yeah, you aren't feeling hunger. That's because you've been fasting a lot and yourv trained yourself to eat very little. That's fine, that's your thing, but it wouldn't work for everyone.

Your diet sounds like an eating disorder to me.

My impression of that list is she eats quite a lot
I don't think people are going on 'impressions' though, more an analysis. Of course it's hard to be able to calculate precisely without knowing portion sizes but there's nothing particularly high calorie on there.

@ParadiseInDisguise If you say so.

yourv trained yourself to eat very little

This is bananas.

That poster is eating a completely normal amount of food.

It explains why 57% of women are overweight or obese in this country - if they interpret a perfectly reasonable day’s food intake as ‘fasting’!

She said she fasts?

ParadiseInDisguise speaks a lot of sense.

Her diet is fine but if you work out he calories it's about 1200. Which means she'll lose weight.

I don't think people are going on 'impressions' though, more an analysis.

My analysis of that list then.

It’s perfectly normal amount of food. Granted none of us know the precise portion size - but we know the size of a one or two egg omelette and a tin of sardines.

Don’t think I ever eat protein for all three meals.

Tatiana you're bordering on underweight though (as per your stats), so it would seem normal to you.

You can fast by eating in an 8 hr window (ie 16:8).

The Blood Sugar Diet is a low carb, full (good) fat and moderate protein diet that restricts you to 800 calories a day. Primarily designed to reduce insulin resistance and reverse Type 2 diabetes but the side effect of the restrictive calories is that you lose weight fast.