I need to lose a stone and need recommendations for weightloss program

[Hooveslikejagger]

As above really.
Weight has crept on slowly and clothes are now tight. I need to shift the offending stone or buy bigger clothes, but that’s a slippery slope.

I don’t want meal replacement drinks, I want proper food! I can’t stomach protein powders either.

I’ve tried mfp, but it’s showing very low calories (1200) and I don’t believe the carb/fat/protein values are correct for me as nothing is shifting infact I am nearly 2 lb heavier than when I started it and quite hungry🙁. When I’ve looked at online calculators for my weight-age-height there is a huge variance in what I ‘should’ be using for calories and macros.

I feel I need to sign up to something to:
A) get the right calories
B) get the right macros
C) get some accountability
D) get some help and support if it the calories or macros need tweaking
E) lose the bloody stone!

I exercise well, but my eating isn’t the greatest and I believe that is my issue.

Any recommendations?

I have been doing WW. Lost 3 stone so far. Haven't found it hard work.

Think you get a month free with this link

www.weightwatchers.com/uk/invite-a-friend

I use MFP to track calories and try and stick within the 1200 but I don’t follow the daily recommendations on each nutrient. From what I’ve been reading, and all the great advice on these threads, you need to up your protein (which will make you fuller for longer) and lower the carbs, to get your body to use the fat stores you already have for more energy.

It’s also about calorie deficit, so depending on your height, current weight, age, activity level most of the day, plus any extra exercise, will affect how many cals your body is burning during the day. MFP is working for me and I’m rarely hungry anymore. It took a week of feeling hungry / craving junk food but now I just have 2-3 healthy meals a day, zero snacks. I do intermittent fasting, finishing dinner by around 6/6.30pm and don’t eat again (just plain water) until around 11am, once I’ve been to the gym.

if you want to keep it off rather than losing a stone through an 'accountability diet' then I highly recommend the sort of approach taken by Andrew Jenkinson in 'Why We Eat (Too Much)'.

You can still do all your macro tweaking etc if you want within that but ultimately he makes the point that whilst we continue to eat high amounts of sugar, processed foods, vegetable oils etc then we are tricking our bodies into higher and higher set weight points.

He suggests that unless you change your whole approach to food sustainably and on a long term basis then even if you are successful at losing weight initially your body will just seek to put it back on once you stop counting calories etc or whatever it is you have done to lose weight.

its really worth a read/ listen before you go down the usual WW/ SW/ Noom routes.

I said I'd never do a diet plan. But I'm now doing ww. I've lost over a stone now since January. It's really good