How many guinea pigs can we lose in 2014?

[Sirzy]

New thread for those of us with lots of weight to lose, following on from the previous 3 threads. For those who weren't aware a guinea pig weighs 1lb

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Those noodles sound interesting. I might give them a whirl. I dealt fine with being hungry yesterday. However, I woke up very early this morning (about 4am) absolutely ravenous. I didn't want to eat too early because I'd be hungry again by 'proper' breakfast time, so I managed to stay in bed until 6 o'clock, when I got up and made a mushroom omelette. Hopefully that will see me through till mid-morning so that I don't go over TDEE by having a second breakfast!

Did the omelette work for you?

I find rice cakes (salt and vinegar, or the caramel ones for sweet cravings) useful for keeping hunger at bay. Boring as that is! Haha.

I need to drink more water. I'm really rubbish at water. Sigh.

Yes, the omlette saw me safely through! I'd not thought about rice cakes. They always seem so polystyrene-like that I can't quite think of them as food. But, hey, anything's worth a go. My 1800 calories today contains quite a lot of bread (Vogel's sunflower and barley) as a reward to myself for managing yesterday's fast day. I had a yummy sandwich for lunch and I'm feeling very satisfied.

I've got much better at water, especially when I'm at work as I keep a bottle on my desk and am constantly taking sips from it. Little and often, but it builds up over the day.

I am making a real effort with water again at the moment, if nothing else it stops my skin being so dry.

Ok day foodwise today - porridge for breakfast, hot dogs for dinner (not so good but tasty!) and beef borginion for tea with lots of veg. Managed to get loads of exercise in though!

Clarinet, they do seem polystyrene like, but I do love the salt and vinegar ones. I find them a good filler!

Yes I get dry skin too so I need to work on the water thing, just chugged some!

First FD has gone ok for me I think

managed ok with hot drinks and had 450 cals for dinner at 7ish, so 23 hours fast. I'm quite impressed with myself and looking forward to a 'normal' day tomorrow then will be fasting again Thurs ahead of a definitely non fasting weekend. My TDEE is 2,242 so won't be worrying about it too much but will keep a rough count just in case.

Well done, lubey, 450 cals is great, I'm impressed with you too! Hope you sleep well. I had a rubbish night's sleep after yesterday's fast, so I'm about to get an early night. I'll be fasting with you on Thursday - another day off for me tomorrow.

I forgot to take my snack - sugar snap peas - to work today, and I haven't actually wanted to eat them this evening, so I'm under TDEE and not bothered about it, hooray.

Another human brain lost here! 6lbs lost in total so far

Aloha all. Weigh in day!

I'm 5lb down this week! Ooo!

So that's a total of 4 and a half stone lost so far. Chuffed, but still so far to go... same again to lose, halfway therrrrre!

Mary that's fantastic news! Please accept this calorie-free virtual in celebration of this week's result, and your halfway point.

I've lost 3lb this week, thanks mostly to the two fast days I think, so a lot of it will be water loss, but it's still a result. Congratulations, Helenagrace on your loss of a human brain...hmmm, maybe that didn't sound the way it was meant.

Why thank you Clarinet!

What's the water loss thing you mention? I know weight fluctuates during the week etc but can you explain the science to me please?

Wow Mary - for once I think an old gimmer like me can use the word awesome!

1lb off for me (by the skin of my teeth!). That at least gets me below 16stone - now I just have to make sure I don't go above it again.

STS this week after an emotional week with DD1 and I think I should of had AF (on the coil so don't actually bleed just get grumpy and chocoholic)

I have eaten loads of pastry today despite been good yesterday and Monday. Hoping my purely veg tea and some veggie meals the rest of the week will counteract it

Managed to walk 5.7 miles today!!

I've lost 1.6kg in the last week, which is 3.5lbs. I'm rather pleased with that.

Hi all - I'm new to this thread and was wondering if you mind if I join? I'm a bit low at the minute - I've got a lot to lose (and have lost a fair bit) but am quite low at the minute as not losing at the minute - contraceptive implant and suddenly started bleeding / bloating / water retention which is so frustrating... Might give me the motivation to steer clear of the foods I avoid!

Last year I lost an Average Human Leg (not mine ) & I found a Human Brain or two & then Santa brought me a Human Head cunningly disguised as 'any carb I could get my hands on'... so I ended up being An Average Hoover down over the whole year

This year I'd like to lose a 2 month old horse That's depressing. Just trying to see what might be less depressing... not succeeding 4, yes FOUR, two year olds. Jesus wept, I know I'm fat but where the fuck are they hiding? Even I don't look like I could conceal 4 two year olds???

Oh well - the only way to do it is one guinea pig at a time

In the last three months, I lose an Average Human Leg (which sounds loads!!). I still think I have a Ricky Hatton to lose... which will mean, if I do lose that much, I'll have lost a Vespa Moped. That's scary!

Well done reluctant!

Chipping, haha hilarious! Those two year olds will bugger off don't worry!

Welcome wyld. Well done on your losses so far. Join us!

If only it was as easy as bunging them in a cot

Hello and welcome, Wyldchyld.

Congratulations on the loss, Reluctant, and on your walking, Sleepingbunnies. moonshine, fantastic that you've hit a milestone, and welcome to the 15s!

Mary, I'm afraid I have no idea of the science about water loss. I just know it happens. Well, it happens to me. The more I eat (especially carbs), the more water I seem to retain. If I eat less than usual, I lose water. I know this because of what the scales say, and the amount of times I have to go to the loo, especially during the night!

To give an example, I've just started 5:2 and I'm weighing daily so that I know how my body is responding. (I don't usually weigh daily, just when I'm changing to a new pattern.) Saturday was a fast day. On Sunday morning the scales showed that I'd lost 2 lb since Saturday morning. On Monday morning (having eaten about TDEE on Sunday, so you would expect no gains or losses) I was a pound heavier. But the 2lb loss on Saturday wasn't all 'real' loss - a pound is about 3500 calories so it couldn't be. Most of it was water. And the pound gained on Sunday was some of the water being retained to deal with the food I'd eaten, or however it works. And so on.

I'm afraid I've no idea why this happens, or the science behind it. I just know that if I start eating less than usual I have a sudden spike in weight loss which tails off, and I have to go to the loo two or three times in the night.

Ah I getcha. Well I'm not weeing any more than usual.. I'll take that as a good sign! Ha.

But I'd like to get smaller quicker please!! I see the weight on the scales coming off but no actual changes in myself.. I'm sure they're there but still, I can't see them. So if someone could make that happen that would be fab. Thanks please. :)

Mary I know it's something to do with the fact that on a low-carb diet you use up your glycogen store quite quickly (ie your carb reserves), each gram of which binds 4 grams of water so each gram of glycogen converted into energy takes 4 grams of water with it.

For example, if you convert 300 grams of stored carbs into energy, you will lose an additional 1200 grams of water, too therefore most of your early eight loss on a low-carb diet is water weight.

After it's used up I think you then burn your fat reserves if you continue to not eat carbs.

From experience, if you do fall off the low-carb wagon, you can put on weight more quickly than normal, because you start stocking up your glycogen store and all the extra water it attracts.

And now I must try and motivate myself to go do some interval training!

That's very interesting, thanks moonshine. I knew it happened, but I didn't know why.

Bit of a bad day today. I woke up ravenous again after yesterday's fast day. Had boiled eggs for breakfast then was still hungry so had an entire packet of ham. Then succumbed and bought bagels on the way to work - which I ate on the bus, couldn't even wait till I was in the office! Stopped again on the way to work and bought hot cross buns. Lunch was chicken and salad but I bought a huge flapjack from the canteen to go with it. And then went to Tesco's mid-afternoon and bought some nuts and raisins. I reckon my calorie count is about 2500-ish with that lot. My next intended fast day is Sunday, but I'm thinking about doing it tomorrow instead - I might need more regular fast days if I can't keep within TDEE on non-fast days.

Wow Clarinet that was a lot of bakery items. Did you eat the full packs of bagels, buns? I am dreadful for that. If I can buy just 1 I will eat just 1. If I buy a pack of 4 then I am always thinking of the others waiting for me.

I did manage a little no scale victory today. Went shopping with DD1 (who is my diet wrecker) and I managed not to buy and sweet treats or savoury treats. I ate about 1/3 of a Tesco cheese straw and that was it.

I'm not expecting a weight loss tomorrow as have had a very busy stressful week. I am aiming to sts for the foreseeable future. As long as I don't put on I don't care if I don't lose. I know it sounds defeatist but I get quite agitiated worrying about losing weight and I would much rather eat sensibly and be happy then restrict like mad and then have a sob when I only lose 1/2 a pound