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

81 replies

charliecat · 24/09/2006 11:36

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

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Gobbledigook · 24/09/2006 23:55

I've never dieted either.

jasper · 25/09/2006 00:15

Me neither.

I weigh 18 stones.

jasper · 25/09/2006 00:16

just kidding

jasper · 25/09/2006 00:16

I presume none of you are fat or have been fat?

harrisey · 25/09/2006 00:54

I have never been to ww, count claories in a sort of perfunctory way but yes, I am fat. I kow I need to do something about it, but the motivation has never been there!!

jasper · 25/09/2006 00:57

Actually I am considered naturally slim.
I was a size 6 till I had my eleven children. My weight then crept up to a curvy size 8. I breastfed solidly for about twenty years which obviously helped.

Of course it is only "natural" because I eat only when huungry, cook everything from scratch (usually organic). It helps that I expend a lot of energy tending my home grown veg on the allotment.We had a particularly bumper harvest of courgettes this year.My children have enjoyed grating them and combining them with egg whites (from our free range hens) and frying them in olive oil(from our grove)to make delicious courgette fritters.

I do eat chocolate (Green and Blacks) if I feel like it. I savour every mouthful and don't just scoff it like those salad dodgers who have to count calories or go to Weight Watchers.

I also eat cakes and biscuits, home made of course. They don't seem to make you as fat as if you had bought them ready made from ASDA , do they? Must be all those nasty trans fats. We are lucky in that we have our own milk cow so can produce our own home churned butter.

Silly fatties! Don't they realise it is dieting that MAKES them fat? I read it in "Closer" so it must be true.

It must be hard being so weak willed that you end up fat and having to follow a structured plan like Weight Watchers or calorie counting to try to pass yourself off as "normal" and not deeply flawed as you obviously are if you have been so stupid as to let yourself get fat.

Albert · 25/09/2006 01:01

Me too, other than the 'eat as much chocolate as you possibly can' diet. I'm on that one constantly I do own some scales and jumped on them this week for the first time in about 6 months and discovered I weigh even less now than I did 10 years ago, not that it really matters (but I still felt smug).

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NotQuiteCockney · 25/09/2006 08:42

Jasper, I have always been "big", I've never ever been slim. My old pre-babies normal weight was just over 13 stone. Now I'm down to just under 12, thanks to lifestyle change, not dieting.

I think I'm a size 16 now, maybe?

So no, not all of us in the "never dieted" camp are skinny.

saggarmakersbottomknocker · 25/09/2006 08:46

I'm not overweight (was after ds2, having put on 4 stone), could very easily be though. It's bloody hard work staying at what is a reasonable weight for me. But I don't count calories.

NotQuiteCockney · 25/09/2006 08:52

Ah, I don't really work on my weight, but I do exercise a lot, largely because I like to. I eat what I want to, generally.

alligator · 25/09/2006 08:54

I've never been on a diet either and never calorie counted. I am about the right weight atm thankfully tho up till recently I'd def have been up for the 'how to gain healthily' club. I gained weight by taking up cycling to work and eating breakfast when I got in. Sounds crazy doing exercise when underweight but it really boosted my appetite.

marthamoo · 25/09/2006 08:55

Great post, Jasper

saggarmakersbottomknocker · 25/09/2006 08:58

Yes NQC the hard work for me involves exercise too. Means I can eat what I like, and luckily for me what I like is pretty healthy. With exception of the chocolate and wine .

What do you generally do exercise wise?

Gingerbear · 25/09/2006 09:07

hehehehe Jasper.
I was in that camp too up until the age of 30. Some of my longest held friendships were formed at Weightwatchers.
I now know the points value of most foodstuffs off by heart.

snowleopard · 25/09/2006 10:27

Ha ha Jasper. I realise I was one of the ones who soundced smug; I didn't mean to. But it does make me angry that we are over and over again encouraged to think things like if we eat some "bad" food, we have to starve ourselves as punishment, and vive versa if we starve ourselves, we can pig out as a reward (I have friends who definitely think like this) - it's unhealthy and not doing women's bodied any good. Nor is going on endless diets that deprive you of important trace elements and minerals and leave people so starving they can end up bingeing.

So yes, eating healthily and in a balanced, consistent way, yes organically if you can afford it (it's getting cheaper you know), even breastfeeding, can all contribute to you being healthier. Sorry but that's how it is. And that healthy body and mind can be of various sizes. I'm sorry I said I was of normal build as I see that's not really relevant - I just wanted to point out that you can eat food that are universally hailed as "naughty" and "banned" and be healthy and not overweight - as much of our media, and other women, would have us believe.

I hope if I was overweight I'd still be able to make the same observations.

Bucketsofdinosaurs · 25/09/2006 10:52

Oh it's one of the things that makes glad I don't work in an office full of women! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn! If someone was obsessing irritatingly about eating something I'd probably tell them to go for a walk in their lunchbreak and eat it on the way, get some fresh air and sunshine to help the metabolism or something.

Bucketsofdinosaurs · 25/09/2006 11:02

BTW I was 2stone overweight when I last worked in an office but because I didn't go on about it all the time people used to assume I was slimmer/lighter than I was.
Have got down from size 16-18 to a 12-14 by having babies, becoming a housewife and not having a car. I realise those are all privileges but it has helped me take control of my life and daily routine, get off my computer chair a little more and get more fresh air and sunshine.

NotQuiteCockney · 25/09/2006 11:16

saggarmakersbottomknocker, I bicycle (atm 2x20 minutes/day, 5 days/week, with kids on the bike), run (30 minutes/day, 2-3 days/week), and walk (pretty much everywhere, if I'm not biking or running).

I don't see exercise as "work", I see it as a treat, these days. Sad, eh?

maycontainstress · 25/09/2006 11:52

My weight has gone up and down over the years, I've noticed a clear and present danger in my metabolism slowing down, ever since I turned 30. I put 5 stones on with the twins which I lost in 3 weeks due to zooming around constantly.

I get a bit of chub, which I don't mind but I know when my jeans are like a second skin and have to be rolled off my thighs, its time to cut back on the choc.

I found that if I ate healthily all week and exercised at least 3 times, I could eat and drink whatever the hell I liked at weekends. Not a diet but a lifestyle.

I'm still sporting my 'mummy tummy' but without a surgeons knife, I think I've got it for life, like a bum bag turned around the wrong way

desperateSCOUSEwife · 25/09/2006 11:56

I am a very lucky person in the fact that I could scoff all day and night and not put on an ounce
I burn off all my weight by running around after my lot

Mercy · 25/09/2006 12:00

St. George, I think that's a good idea. I'm not particuarly into listing BMI, height, weight etc as I don't think that's necessarily useful for people in our situation. Have been looking at a couple of sites which might be helpful

But a discussion and support thread would be good.

joelallie · 25/09/2006 12:26

Neither did I until I hit my mid 30's and had DD. Started to spread. So lost some weight by cutting back on crap and taking loads of exercise. Had DS#2 and got humungous. So now I am quite careful all the time. Mind you I have my mother in mind - she was a size 10 all her life ( I remember her looking so skinny when I was little) until she hit the menopause and she put on about 4 stone. I'm heading for the menopase and I really really don't want to do that !

foxtrot · 25/09/2006 12:52

what is a calorie?
Seriously, my answer to the OP is no, but...my trick is to stop eating the children's leftovers, chuck em straight in the bin.

Mercy · 25/09/2006 15:59

bump for SaintGeorge