Am I the only female in the planet that has never counted calories or been to weightwatchers?

[charliecat]

I have reduced drink/crisp intakes occasionally but thats as far as ive got. Anyone else?

I have never dieted either or been to ww. Have noticed that getting older has an effect with slowing down metabolism. So if i feel a bit bloated I stop eating chocolate etc for a few days.

I say nothing and quietly scoff my slice of cake

Nah never been to weight watchers but am lucky in being fairly slim naturally. Having had 5 kids though means I have wobbly bits, well belly in particular.

I swim twice a week, play netball once a week and do 2 fitness classes too so I am hoping to tone the jelly belly. I don't watch calories but have to be careful my sweet tooth doesn't get the better of me too often.

I reduce what I eat, but never count calories or actually follow a diet.
I also never weigh myself, when I was preg and getting weighed I asked the midwife not to tell me as it would give me ideas.

I think I know one person irl who's done ww. Hmm, I do know women who talk about being "naughty" when they eat a piece of cake, but I just think "fgs, eat it or don't" I don't say it.

I do have a friend who's doing a big diet change/detox type thing, but she's being sensible about it, not calorie-counting, and just eating better. I am sympathetic and supportive.

My eyes do tend to glaze over when people talk about diets, so people know not to talk to me about it. I think?

Me too

I once cut out a lot of carbs, but that was for medical reasons, not vanity.

No never been to WW or counted calories of dieted. If my clothes feel tight I cut out the choccies and eat smaller portions. As for scales they make you obsess. People say I'm slim but accordingly scales I'd be half stone overweight so I don't use them

never been on a diet never watched what i eat, dont particularly healthy but then sometimes i do. dont own scales think im about 9 stone size 8 / 10.

ate for england when pregnant and piled on nearly 4 stone!! wasnt eating for just 2 more like a rugby team! but weight just fell off when breast feeding and i was back in size 10 skinny jeans within 2 weeks. just went on lots of really long walks with the baby

and im not a young mum i was 33 when i had dd

lifes far too short to worry about what you are eating! sil is the type who lives on 1 lettuce leaf a day - think she wants to send me to overeaters anon! i just feel sorry for her as i tuck into a huge cream cake!1

me too - it didn't seem relevant but now am feeling lardy

no, I never have. My weight varies by about 4 lb and has been about the same since I was 18 (though it's not, I stress, all in the same place as it was when I was 18). It stays roughly the same if I have about one "treat" (croissant, crisps, bar of chocolate) a day, so if it creeps up and I reach my upper norm I just limit the treats, maybe cut the cheese and eat a few veggie meals and it all levels out again. Other than my treats I eat reasonably well - cook from fresh every night. I appreciate that being like this is purely down to luck.

I have never counted calories or been to ww; I love my food and don't eat processed junk very often. Since having my kids, I am now a size 12 after having been a size 10 for most of my life but it doesn't really bother me and the effort involved in getting back down to a 10 is just way too much like hard work!!

TBH I don't have any friends who are particularly neurotic about food - or perhaps they are good at hiding it .

I never have, either.

I have also NEVER been on a 'diet'.

I have never owned a scale.

I have never been overweight.

I have always eaten moderately and, although I walked very late - nearly 2 years old - I have been involved in sport since I was 3.

poppies, you are not the only woman trying to put weight on - me too, and it's really hard.

Fio, what do you mean??

You lot are the sane ones

I am actually quite normal shaped but get horribly obsessed by my weight/shape from time to time - far far far less than I used to, but it still can happen.

I went through a stage where I was craving crisps and chocolate sweets.

So I binned them.

Cold turkey.

It was hard for the first few days, but now I don't miss them.

I bake at home a lot.

In fact, tonight, after chilling w/a glass on wine on here for a bit, I'm going to make lemon madiera cake and a parkin for my breakfast. I quite fancy a bit of parkin for brekkie when the mornings go chilly.

keep thinking of diets but then dh buys a chinese or kentucky and i think maybe tomorrow
used to b a size 8 now a 14 but am i bothered

poppies & Mercy - maybe we should start our own support group, 'how to gain healthily'.

No, I haven't counted calories or been to Weight Watchers. We do own a set of scales, but it's only ever used to weigh luggage.

ooo parkin for breakfast. what a great idea.

I haven't.

I do have scales but I am suspicious of them as having my mobile phone in my pocket apparently made me a stone heavier & when I weighed my suitcase it was much heavier than the scales at the airport said it was :S

I went to a slimmers class in my teens with my mum. Woman was an absolute b!tch. One poor soul had said she had put on weight after her baby. Teacher asked 'what did you do, eat it?' Little Britain had nothing on her. I was 19, 5ft 5 and weighed 10 stone. Not brilliant, but not obese. One of her little 'helpers' recognised me, and said that I didn't need to be there. She said, casting a blue mascara'd eye over me, 'Yes she does, sign her up!'Said that to get past a job interview that was linked to how I looked, I'd need to cut off an arm to get to my ideal weight. How encouraging was that? Still step on scales, but more out of habit, and never, NEVER, in front of dd.

I've never either , am surrounded at work by women who talk about nothing else and analyse every lunch meal, I'll join the other club 'how to gain weight' I've been the same since about 17 years old and only put on 12 pounds when pregnant. never met anyone in real life either who was'nt on some type of diet

I'm the same, have never dieted or had scales; I eat what I like (though what I like is fairly healthy as I love veg and fruit, but I also eat cakes and crisps etc) and am of totally normal, medium, slim-ish build. Of my friends, the most overweight are always those who are always dieting - mysteriously, as their ongoing calorie intake should be less than mine.

People are waking up to the fact that dieting doesn't work - there was a feature on it in grazia recently, saying the only way to be healthy is to learn to eat when hungry, stop seeing food as a punishment and reward system, eat a variety of foods, and exercise. Brave of them to do that I thought.