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Will I lose weight if I do this or is it silly?

53 replies

Coldtits · 15/02/2009 16:16

I have decided to have one or two bowls of soup at lunch, whatever I fancy for dinner, bits of fruit (no bananas) and NOTHING ELSE.

I don't eat breakfast anyway, I don't like it.

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cheekysealion · 15/02/2009 17:47

think it is if you dont like breakfast cereal

mileniwmffalcon · 15/02/2009 18:03

oh i see thanks

FairLadyRantALot · 15/02/2009 18:22

lol

Ivykaty44 · 15/02/2009 21:05

I just split my breakast in two - eat half at home and take half to work to eat at morning break. I eat half my lunch at lunch time and keep half for afternoon break, then I eat tea.

This way it stops me from snacking! and I eat all day long never fasting, but eating the same amount of calories.

If I eat all my breakfast - I will then snack at break, if I eat all my lunch at once I will snack at break - therefore eating more calories and putting on weight

So this is what I do and most of the time it works - its when some bright spark brings chocolate cake to work to celebrate the snow melting - I kid you not, that it all goes wrong!!

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Coldtits · 16/02/2009 11:36

forced an apple down at 10.30 - that's breakfast, right? Does fruit count.

Still no appetite though. I wonder if naturally skinny people feel like this ALL THE TIME? Because I am RAVENOUS after 2 pm until bedtime, regardless of how much or how little I have eaten before then - and that keeps my weight up - but if I didn't have an appetite I probably wouldn't eat.

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Ivykaty44 · 16/02/2009 18:11

Perhaps you need to think about eating comples carbs and eating them really slowly, one so that your body takes time to release the energy and you stay full for longer and two because if you eat slowly (20mins for a single course) your body becomes full - well your brain is tricked into thinking you are stuffed and thats what counts.

themildmanneredjanitor · 16/02/2009 18:16

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CuriousSquid · 16/02/2009 18:20

better to have breakfast than to skip it. There are 9cal soups but prob not all that good for you long term. Then have what you want for tea but a slightly (or a lot) smaller portion.

and fruit if you want it too

also excercise before you eat breakfast so you are burning off fat not breakfast

CuriousSquid · 16/02/2009 18:21

or eat a late breakfast/early lunch of soup and bread and then tea at 5/6 ish?

Ivykaty44 · 16/02/2009 18:29

Whats the difference between burning off breakfast or burning off fat?

I have tryed excercise on an empty stomach and got no where fast - bit like driving a car on empty. Whereas if I eat breakfast and then go and do an hour of excercise I can use oddles and oddles of calories.

I know at the begining of the month three people fainted in classes at the gym as they hadn't had anything to eat before going to class and just dropped - it was amazing how quick they keeled over. After the third one went one morning the instructors gave a talk before each class to say about eating before excercise?

So would this be why they were doing it, not eating breakast as they want to get ride of fat and not there breakfast?

CuriousSquid · 16/02/2009 18:31

what is the point of eating say a 120 cal breakfast to burn off 120 cals when you can get up do a few mins and burn off fat or cals that you haven't yet consumed? then eat a small breakfast (which is the equivelent to LESS cals than you would have just burned)

Sawyer64 · 16/02/2009 18:38

If you want to be that restrictive,why not do it a healthier and more guaranteed way....?

If you went on the Cambridge diet,you would have a Milkshake for Breakfast,Soup for Lunch,and a choice of either or a choc bar for tea.

You would lose up to 10lbs the first week and then roughly a stone every 3 weeks.

The hunger stops by the 3rd-5th day.

It has all the nutrients you need too,so much healthier than skipping nutritionally balanced meals.

Ivykaty44 · 16/02/2009 18:54

But what is the difference? I am sorry I must be really missing the point. If you get up and eat a breakfast that is 300 calories and then do an hour in the gym and burn off 500 calories what is the difference in doing that and say getting up going to the gym and burning off 500 calories and then eating 300 calories for breakfast?

What advantage is it to work out on an empty stomach?

CuriousSquid · 16/02/2009 19:20

well you could i suppose - not sure i would eat a 300 cal breakfast though

anyway - sorry Coldtits, hijacking your thread now

Ivykaty44 · 16/02/2009 19:32

so I could? Come on tell me why is it better to have breakfast after excersise? Curious - I am let me in on the secret preety please....

CuriousSquid · 16/02/2009 22:13

from an article ....

"
If weight loss is a goal, it is most advantageous to eat after exercising. The reason is that if you have not eaten recently, you are most likely to utilize stored energy during the exercise session rather than the food you just consumed. "

FairLadyRantALot · 16/02/2009 23:12

curious...well, that is Jason Vales theory, too...i.e. do exercise before breakfast and you burn off fat...however, there are many theories and evidence that supports the fact that if you don't have breakfast before exercise you are going for the easiest energy target, which is muscle...
exercise doesn't just work whilest you do it, and indeed it is the muscle that you build doing weight exercises that will help you burn fat longterm...

oh, and mildmannered is right SW is great...it's what I am normally following...but taking time off ...still concentrating on achieving at least the 10 of f&v of the 10/10 thread...

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Coldtits · 16/02/2009 23:21

Well then. That was interesting.

I lost 2 stone with weight watchers last year, and I've kept it off. So I know calorie restriction works for me - but I noticed that I was mainly jigging bthe TIMES I ate so I could still have a big satisfying dinner.

I cannot entertain the cambridge diet. No way, no how. I LIKE food, that's why I'm doing this - I'd rather have 1 plateful of food I really like than 3 meals I don't fancy much, plus snacks that aren't worth the effort of chewing

I munch apples and tangerines all day anyway.

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unknownrebelbang · 16/02/2009 23:22

Coldits - I'm like you, don't particularly want to eat breakfast, it is is important though, so now I eat fruit for breakfast, once I get to work (I work in an office though, so easy to do).

Exercise is the other big thing that has made a difference.

unknownrebelbang · 16/02/2009 23:24

I also still have the usual family tea, smaller portions than I used to have, but the same nonetheless, with a plate full of salad (something I never used to eat).

techpep · 16/02/2009 23:37

I'm sure i heard (somewhere) that it doesn't matter whether you eat breakfast or not or what time you eat your meals, as long as they are roughly at the same time each day.

FairLadyRantALot · 16/02/2009 23:59

hm..actually other theories are to vary the times of eating and to eat different size of meals...i.e. some days more some days less...apparently that can keep your metabolism going...
anyway there are as many theories as there are individual...so maybe it's all just crap, lol

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Coldtits · 17/02/2009 00:01

I've just had a bowl of cereal, was peckish.

I will let you know tomorrow if I have lost any weight since last week - if not, I'll keep going for another week then if no loss, I'll haull my carcass back to weight watchers (which works, at least!)

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mileniwmffalcon · 17/02/2009 09:27

what is it you didn't like about ww coldtits? why not just go straight back if you know it works? i didn't hesitate to join up with wlr again, it's £9/mo but that guarantees weight loss/improved diet foe me so for me it's better than fannying about with other things that are free but less likely to actually work!

btw i think it's so easy to get tied up in knots listening to this and that theory on weightloss. most people don't fail to lose weight because they eat at the wrong time, they fail to lose weight because they don't stick to their diet/plan, which is down to a whole host of psychological factors that are different for each individual. whatever suits you i say.

cheekysealion · 17/02/2009 11:54

food focus website is good for keeping track of your weight and food intake....

I hate half term for healthy eating

i hit the 3 stone loss and have put 2 pounds back on since last thursday

be glad to be back at work tomorrow