to want to at cheese and cake and drink a teensy bit of wine occasionally?

[EccentricaGallumbats]

I am fat.

I am trying to lose weight.

How come this means not having my favourite things when normal size people seem to be able to have a sandwich for lunch or a biscuit with coffee or a glass of red in the evening?

I am on day 3 and am in need of cheese. and wine.

Brokkenharted
it is al matter of perception. I watched a show once with two best mates who believed they ate the same, but one was skinny and one curvy. They logged everything and had them on heart rate monitors and pedmeters - of course the bigger girl ate Slightly more and moved slightly less than her friend, just enough that her friend was maintaining a lower weight than she was. There wasn't anything huge in it, not like skinny was on a diet and plump ate daily macdonalds, but it doesn't have to be that way.
In your situation though - have you been to the doctor? If you are genuiely eating more than your maintenance allowance and still losing weight you may have a health issue.

Sorry BrokkenHarted, a lot of slim people think they eat 'tons of crap' as you say, but I guarantee if you wrote down everything you eat and I did the same, your list would be shorter than mine.

There was actually a really interesting documentary on this years ago, where they got a slim woman who claimed to eat whatever she wanted and never put on weight, and all her friends agreed this was the case. She swapped diets with a woman who said she watched her food intake really carefully but was still fat.

You guessed it - the fat lady lost weight eating what the slim lady normally ate, and the slim lady gained weight. A lot of it was portions. What YOU as a slim person perceive to be a 'portion' is probably very different from what a greedy person like me would think of as a portion. There's no magic to it.

Put it in perspective - eating 250 calories over your maintenance every day (that's less than a chocolate bar, or less than 2 slices of toast) will cause weight gain of 27lbs (2 stone) a year.

Sorry 26lbs (maths not my strong point)

I have lost 23lbs since I joined WW but have had a bit of a lull and will get back onto it next week when half term is over.

It is all in the mind tho ime.

If I want a bit of cheese and wine then I have it but count the points and cut back the next day.

Some weeks I eat as a normal person would and then Mon-Wed eat as a WW person would and just have low cal soup. I always lose weight.

Try it.

You cannot eat a pound of cheese though!