Can I lose 5 kg, weigh over 70 kilos and only 5'4 height ?? :-0

[Carolhh]

Okay so I am guilty of craving chocolate, so ate a bounty today although I have said to myself I am off sugar. currently I am overweight so any tips on how to get back to healthy weight for my height?

comments appreicated thanks in advance :0)

I wouldn't feel guilty if it was just 1 piece of chocolate sometimes. If you stop everything you will crave more. If you have sugar cravings then add a grapefruit to your diet. 1/2 at breakfast and 1/2 before lunch. It will stop sugar cravings, it helps to reduce weight by making you insulin sensitive and keeping glucose levels normal, it will keep you full, helps with bloating and digestion.
Next don't drink any kind of soft drinks , no juice or dizzy drink. Third if you do want to eat something sweet - a dessert or fruit then don't eat it with a main meal and don't eat it after 5 pm. Switch cooking oil - use oils which have higher omega 3 to omega 6 ratio. And of course exercise.

thank you I have tried grapefruit before it did keep me full

Just wondering about what is the reason to not eat something sweet (dessert/fruit) with a main meal? Because usually desert is eaten after food.....

its okay to stop eating at 5, but that would mean eating at 4:40 ish, wouldn't I get hungry lol If I eat dinner before 6 would that be okay or will this not be good for weight loss?

thanks

Sorry, may be I wasn't clear. You can eat after 5 but avoid anything sweet or a fruit.
Reason to not eat a dessert after a main meal is that your main meal already has sufficient quantities of carbohydrates and protein which spike your sugar levels. Eating dessert would only add more glucose in your system at one time. Excess glucose which can't be stored in your cells is stored as fat in fat cells. Our brains don't use fat cells for energy unless you devoid it of food for a long period of time and since modern diets means consistent food we never use the fat cells and hence the weight issue and struggle to lose weight. So best to avoid sugar spikes post meal.

Thanks so much, you explained it really well, I read your previous post again.

To not eat desert or fruit with a main meal is something new for me, I used to think that its a good idea to eat desert with a meal because in the main meal the protein will help balance out any sugar spikes. But then have also heard about eating smaller portions, so desert does make you too full to be honest. Thanks for the great tips, hopefully I can lose some weight.

I have stopped tea for several months for lots of different reasons. but sometimes thinking to start drinking tea again. When trying to lose weight is tea okay? i would only take one cup a day but with sugar.

thanks

You can drink tea, it is the sugar in tea which is an issue. This is what I did initially because even I couldn't take tea without sugar. I reduced the sugar by quarter for 2 weeks. Then another quarter for 2 weeks. So after a month I was on half the sugar. My taste buds adjusted and if I drank the tea with same amount of sugar as before it tasted too sweet. Try it, it might work for you as well.

thats a good idea! thanks.

will try if I want to go back on tea. currently off the tea and only take it on odd days like about once or twice a week. best wishes

Hi @Carolhh you could also lose weight 'just' by healthy eating without having a cut off time of when you can /can't eat.

One bounty bar hasn't made you overweight, it's a combination of what you eat plus any exercise you do or don't do, though the food plays a, much bigger part than the exercise.

Have you always been overweight or has it crept up? If it has crept up what has changed? If you look at your eating habits some changes could help without being drastic, the key is that they are sustainable and that you can keep it up most of the time, not necessarily all of the time.
I drink a lot of herbal teas by the way, no milk or sugar, but do sometimes have regular tea.

@ASandwichNamedKevin well I was only slightly overweight previosuly but the past year or so its half way overweight when I look on the NHS BMI scale. I think this is the problem, and maybe being at a weight towards the middle of your range is better rather than being at the end or slightly over it.

if I have too much going on or too many things to do, then I eat whatever is available, so even fries if other people are having a take away. so this all add up or sometimes it depends on your mood and you want to eat something sweet. I'm not sure how to expalin but I've alwayswondered why some people turn to food when stressed but others don't have to turn to food. Is there something else a person can do instead of turning to food it might help with the excess wirght?
thanks