If i tell you what i'm doing in order to try and lose a stone - can you please advise me as to whether it will work!

[huffpuff]

Ok my plan is this:

Cut down on bread and pasta

cut out wine during the week (only a couple of glasses over the weekend)

only the very occasional bar of chocolate

Cut out processed foods

loasda fruit/veg/fish etc

Half hour on x trainer most days

Drink loads of water

Just basically watching the calories and generally trying to eat my 5 portions of fruit and veg a day

Will this work?

Today i had

Bekkie - banana and bagel

snack - healthy fruit bar

lunch - baked pot/cheese and salad & apple

snack - banana and ww yogurt

Dinner - baked chicken with savoury rice and salad follwoed by bowl of grapes

Is this going to be ok or am i on the wrong track?

DOn't forget to watch your portion size, and if you can replace cheese with something else; i.e with your baked potato have tuna and salad. I've lost nearly 2 stone by doing something simialr to you, but really cut down on bread, cheese, chocolate and cake. What a difference it has made, so keep up the good work!

sounds good - I'd just watch out for the healthy snack bars - sometimes altho sparse in fat - are laden with sugar.

otherwise, I'd bet me salary on you!

thanks - only had a sprinkling of cheese but i figure that a little bit wont be too bad?

Yeah - forgot to mention portion size - am also doing that!

So - sounds ok?

How long it take you to lose 2 stone? Well done BTW!!!

Good point Huw - also forgot to mention that I don't eat a lot of fruit because of the natural sugars, limit myself to a couple of pieces a day - but pile on the green veg and salad!

any suggestions for "ok" healthy bars?

Whoops the threads catching up with me..... has taken me 11 weeks to lose 24lb. I had piled on loads while BF DS, but it feels great to see it disappearing. You will look and feel fab too.

ooh very exciting

dh and I need to lose some weight and are starting when all the current chocolate and crisp stash has been demolished.

I reckon you should cut out chocolate altogether. Think it's easier not to have it at all than just have a bit (it's not my thing, chocolate - crisps are my thing).

flapjack maybe - and v. filling. However on the face of it, the rest is so good, maybe the odd snackbar is ok.

Fox - try the Walkers baked crisps, taste isn't great but really low in fat compared to normal crisps and crunch sufficiently to make you fell like a pack of crisps.

Oh and Huff, sorry to go on, but have cut down on my nightly glasses of wine too. I am not the saint that this thread is now portraying me to be!!!!! It is bloody hard at times!

i want to lose a stone by the end of the summer and then maybe concentrate on losing another half a stone.

What did you guys have for tea tonight? Need some ideas?!!

11 weeks and 24 lbs is bloody impressive Lostmykeys

I tried those baked crisps - they aren't bad are they. When I cut out crisps, I normally end up scoffing lots of those Ryvita things instead (I like the ones with lots of seeds on).

I HAVE to have the odd glass of wine at the weekend or i will go mad!

you sound like you have a similar appetite to me huffpuff

If I cut down carbs, I need a HUGE salad to compensate and a big bowl of fruit.

I made fish pie tonight - salmon and mackerel in a white wine and half fat creme fraiche sauce, topped with mash - had it with a green salad.

Then had ice cream for pudding . Think dh should finish his chocoalte tonight and we'll start tomorrow .

so eating too much fruit isnt good for you?

Huff - said cut down, not cut out! Still need an alcoholic fix every so often. Have mdoerated my drinking when I go out to just two glasses of wine , rather than the 2 bottles I could happily down pre children

fruit is fine - better than lots of chocolate, ice cream etc.

Fruit is good for you of course!!!! I am also not a diet guru, just saying what has worked for me. But, there are natural sugars which would be calorific in fruit, hence my moderation of it - plus prefer veg.

yes, everything has calories but at least fruit has lots of health benefits too.

You'd probably find a bowl of cherries/berries would fill you up more than a snack bar and not be that different in calories.

I've found myself really getting back into eating raw carrots and celery. And they are good for not making your blood sugar zoom up and down.

did you have a thread going like this about a month ago?

or am I going mad?

My way of losing a stone:

Breakfast - orange, kiwi, banana, grapes
Lunch - same as breakfast
5pm - small handful of raisins and sunflower seeds
evening meal - something normal but healthy iyswim (eg salmon, potato, veg, etc) with a yoghurt for pud
Drinks - water only, nothing else, and lots of it.

Do this for 2 weeks

Works for me, anyway, but I am not the type that will stick to a long term diet, I have to do drastic because I get bored too easily.

Colander - not even herbal tea to drink?

do you lose a stone in two weeks???

I do, and yes, no herbal tea (but then I think it tastes disgusting anyway). I don't do this very often, just when I have had enough of being lardy and want to feel better about myself! I have to be completely strict tho - really only eat what I said, and only for 2 weeks. Not sure if there is enough calcium in the diet - hence the yoghurt for pud - which is why I will only do it occasionally. HTH!

I can lose a stone in a month, am currently on week 3 and have lost 10lbs.
No bread products at all, including bagels and pitta. No dairy except cottage cheese & 1pt skimmed milk per day. No alcohol. No chocolate/crips or other rubbish.

Breakfast is honey nut bran flakes (from Sainsbury's) with strawberries and blueberries.
Lunch - baked potato with cottage cheese and baked beans
Evening - big salad with smoked mackerel, prawns, avocado & low calorie dressing.
Fruit whenever you want. Drink loads of water. I have done very little/no exercise this time.
If you exercise each day, I would imagine that you could have a few glasses of wine at the weekend and stay on track.

If I cut out bread, the effect is pretty instant - I can see my tummy flattening day by day. I love bread though...