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[Rebecca4567]

Please help. What's the best way I can lose a bit of weight in 3 weeks?

I have no will power so I was hoping to find a diet I know I will stick too.

Cutting out carbs?

Counting calories?

Just eating healthy won't work as I'm in the house a lot so whatever I do I need to have it written down so I'm able to follow it due to Asperger / Autism x

Thanks

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What's the best way I can lose a bit of weight in 3 weeks?

Calorie Fucking Deficit #cfd

Your calories in need to be less than your calories out. It is that simple.

Approximately 3500 calories is equal to 1lb of fat. So 500cal deficit per day is1lb loss over the week. 100cal deficit per day is 2lb loss over the week. And so on.

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That's the only way to do it OP, calories in must be less than calories out! I've walked 8 miles today and according to my fitbit I've burned 2100cals today in total. To say that women should be eating 2000 calories a day to maintain weight is grossly over estimated in my opinion, as most people walk nowhere near 8 miles in a day.

So you will probably want to aim for between 1200-1400. If you need something strict and written down I'd spend an evening on the Tesco Groceries app with an app like My Fitness Pal, and I'd plan and calculate exactly what I'm going to eat for the week ahead so I stay well within those cals. If you know you have plans on a certain day (say dinner out) cut them for a couple of days before.

I fast til lunchtime as I generally find it supresses the appetite anyway. If I'm planning something carby I'd always have it in the evening, not early as I find carbs make you really hungry all day. Do not snack! And if you must, don't be fooled into thinking fruit is a good thing for a snack because again I find carbs and sugar just lead to hunger pangs. Have a boiled egg if you must snack. The easiest way I've found if i need to cut is by having strictly green tea/ black coffee / water, and two meals a day. I eat protein, fat, and carbs at various levels throughout the week.. so a few days low carb high fat, and then a couple of days higher carb lower fat. Not pizza but say pasta, jacket potato, some fruit etc would be for higher carb days.

Hi thank you for the replies.

What would you eat for breakfast?

With having kids I've always got chocolate or crisps in the house 🙈

Black coffee for breakfast.

Breakfast is a meal I can do without, so I do. If I'm really hungry I have a latte, I don't like milk as I find it heavy in my stomach so it puts me off eating till about 2pm.

You have to try to stop seeing chocolate, crisps & other crap as viable options. They aren't - you always want more, they're nutritionally void, & they never taste as good as you imagine - and certainly not after the first bite.

If I absolutely couldn't do without breakfast I'd have some scrambled eggs, or boiled eggs with maybe some cucumber and a bit of feta cheese?

Avoid cereals they're usually full of sugar. Try a full day without eating any sort of carbohydrate or sugar (so stick to meat, chicken, fish, and veg) and you'll probably find you are much less hungry than you would normally be. I do this sometimes and have to remind myself to have dinner! I don't do this long term though, as in the words of the PT linked above "a life without carbohydrates is just shit" I also think a balanced diet is healthiest way.

On the crisps and chocolate, if you stick to one rule only which is "no snacking", then you can have crisps and chocolate after meals. If you make sure you have 2 filling healthy meals each day then you shouldn't want to reach for crisps and chocolate afterwards. The temptation is only really when you're a bit peckish and bored. If you feel that peckish agaitated bored way get up and walk around. The obsession with breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack is wholly down to large companies marketing power, both for unhealthy snacks, so called "healthy" snacks and even bloody diet snacks! I've seen Weight Watchers cake snack bars!!... What is the purpose of them other than to provide empty calories and a trigger for your appetite, its just a way to keep people fat therefor in a constant cycle of giving yet more money to weight watchers.

Skip breakfast, it's a waste of calories.

My Fitness Pal - log everything you eat, and stick to it.

It works. I am back on it myself, after a massively indulgent July.

Just eating healthy won't work as I'm in the house a lot so whatever I do I need to have it written down so I'm able to follow it due to Asperger / Autism

You have the perfect lifestyle for calorie logging then. And that really is the best way, so all good.

Weight loss is simply about taking responsibility for the stuff you consume.

By calorie logging, even in the short term, you have to face up to the fact that you wasted 240 calories on a two-finger kit kat when you could have had a whole meal for fewer calories than that:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/200-calorie-meal

Calorie logging makes forces you to understand the relative calorie content, not just the absolute calorie content. Without realising you start to make trade-off in your mind and work out if calories are "worth it".

For example I could have this for 200 calories, or I could have that, which will fill me up more? I could have this 500 calorie meal or this 250 cal meal and a glass of wine - which do I want more?

I log calories in my fitbit app. You can also use an app called My Fitness Pal or many of the generic health apps on smartphones have this facicility too (I know the Samsung health app that comes with the phone does).