Looking on the ‘What are you having for lunch/dinner’ and noticed that many of us seem to be on diets.
I was on a low fat diet using Xenical tablets from the doctor but after a month had only lost 4lbs. My husband was on the Atkins diet (low carb) for the same time and has lost 19lbs so on Monday I started the low carb myself.
The Atkins diet has got some bad press from people who don’t know how it works.
For breakfast My husband has a large hamburger, lettuce,tomato, gherkin and cheese with an egg on top finishing of with some strawberries.
That keeps him ok until he has a bowl of chicken and vegetable soup (home made low carb). Then his evening meal is maybe low carb German sausage and eggs, celery and cream cheese or an omlette.
Because he never feels hungry it is perfect for him although at the beginning he felt unwell from having no caffiene and very few carbs, no bread, pasta or rice.
Not only has he lost 19lbs but his blood sugar (he is a diabetic) has gone to a very normal 4.9
So how is everyone else losing weight and are your ways working? Whatever you are doing good luck
Since I stopped working with horses, I have piled on the beef - there is no other way to describe it! Stood on the scales nearly a month ago and almost burst into tears … all my own fault of course so I decided to do something about it!
I have managed to lose 8lbs. over the past 3/4 weeks by cutting out some carbohydrates … bread/potatoes etc. I also cook most of my own food and try to be fairly fat free although I do not go over the score.
I make sure I eat 3 meals a day and do not snack … I have a couple of tea biscuits am and pm with my cuppie!
To make sure I eat enough veg - I am also becoming a dab hand at creative soup making! I avoid ‘diet’ foods like the plague - to my mind they have been mucked about with far too much. Instead I have a small amount of the real thing.
I also have an added incentive, for the next 6 weeks I am going to our local college to be a ‘guinea pig’ for a final year beautician course. I will get a back massage and body buffing sort of thing followed by a proper facial … now that along with the exercise and the diet will make me just totally gorgeous don’t you think:cool:
I had a friend who gave herself a ‘treat’ every time she lost half a stone. She would go and have a pedicure to celebrate after 6 months she had the most beautiful feet and was a shadow of her former self:-D
What a lovely idea, I have decided to dye my hair when I have lost a stone
Looking after horses is a work out on its own I have friends who do it and they have to get up at silly o clock and work really hard before going to work, I have great respect for them but they seem to thrive.
I do envy you your guinea pic course and know that you will be totally gorgeous and the envy of us all. You will probably end up looking like those absolutely gorgeous women who haven’t aged one bit since the 60s.
I agree diet foods are so full of sugar and preservatives they really are a con. Even low fat yogurt is full of sugar.
With the ~Atkins your appetite just goes and therefore there is no picking or snacking in fact I have to be strict with myself to drink all of the water you are supposed to drink and eat enough to keep the furnace burning.
Best of luck with your body buffing and mud packs and please let us know how you are doing each week will look forward to it.
My daughter and youngest son are like you they have never had a weight problem, however, my eldest son who lives in America has gained a lot of weight mostly through beer and pizza and has recently become gorgeous again by doing Atkins.
It happened to me when I was last in Florida. Free eating meant I hated to leave anything and piled on a few pounds in the process and have been trying to shed them eversince. Arthritis doesn’t help with exercise.
When hubs and I visit America we both lob on the weight so much food is put in front of you that even we who are big eaters go pale but can leave nothing.
Graham I know what you mean. I am trying to lose enough so that I can go swimming. I am told that cyling can be good.
Trouble is we have worn ourselves out with hard work now I need replacement knees.
I’d like to wish everybody good luck with their diets. I, like Kitty, have maintained pretty much the same weight from my teens (between 7 and 7½ stones), but I only have a sandwich at lunch-time, a reasonable evening meal, and occasionally a snack at around 9 p.m. I don’t have anything else in between.
Hope Pixie joins in with this thread because she’s lost around 70 lbs over the last two years or less, so I’m sure she’ll have some tips.
Thanks for the encouragement Cookie! I suppose I do a version of the Atkins diet because I have to strictly limit the amount of carbohydrates I eat or on the weight goes!
I had a small stables until last April, I had retired from my ‘real’ job but took a couple of livery horses along with my own. Up at 6am mucking out, turning out. Did a bit of schooling and breaking, I was really busy all day long. However, it was playing havoc with my body so I was glad when a young friend and her partner bought the whole shooting match and have undertaken to look after my horses until they need the ‘deep six’:shock:
Mark you, I miss it!
I am trying to keep up the exercise , you mentioned swimming, think I might just give that a go, will make enquiries about that during the week. Lets keep in touch and encourage each other, it really does help!
This sounds like me Stablelady…I stepped on the scales yesterday and had a heck of a shock as I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been which probably explains why my clothes are getting tight!!
My problem is how to “get in the right frame of mind” I know what I need to do to lose weight as I tend to snack a lot so just need to stop eating in between meals, but that’s easier said than done. So hopefully I might get some incentive from this thread, pretty please :-D:-D
I can’t get my head around the Atkins Diet.My husband tried it a few years ago and the weight dropped off him.He was eating the full fat version of everything and the tiniest ammount of fruit and veggies.It seemed to go against all we’d ever learned about healthy eating.
The biggest shock for me though was that not only did he lose weight relatively quickly but his cholesterol levels plummeted from 9.2 to 5.4…How does that work when you’re eating so much full fat food…
Yes Mags, that is I have 1 rasher of bacon and two fried eggs my husband has a hamburger, (no bread) slice of cheese, 1/2 tomato, gerkin and Romaine lettuce topped with a fried egg
Lunch is a small bowl of soup (home made chicken)
Dinner 2 small bratwurst and two fried eggs.
for something sweet we have sugar free jelly and maybe a little cream
We drink two litres of water flavoured with sugar free squash (just a hint) caffiene free coffee in the morning with cream.
On this husband has lost 20lbs sins January 1st and I have lost 5lbs since January 30th.
It’s something to do with good and bad cholesterol.l Also the body starved of carbs begins to use your own fat for energy. As the body is used to using thecarbohydrates we for energy turning what we don’t use into fat.
The American Indians and the Eskimos show this way of eating best. They had very little carbohydrates and sugars in their diet and lived a very feast and famine sort of way so that now they don’t have to use so much energy many of them are obese when living on a modern Western Diet.
They are also suffering from what was unknown to them previously diabetes. My husband is a diabetic and his blood sugars have now after one month on Atkins gone down to normal meaning he can cut out much of his medication.
On this husband has lost 20lbs sins January 1st and I have lost 5lbs since January 30th.
That’s an amazing weight loss…:shock:
For your hubby to come off his medication is fantastic.When my hubby tried it I must admit I didn’t really look into the science of it that much ,just followed menu plans, but I think we’ll both have another go.I’ve tried low fat,the F-Plan,food combining etc…none of which work for me.Thanks again.
MarpaulYes back to old Atkins I fall of the wagon but always go back because for us it really is the best way. For us that is, I was on a low fat diet for a month and only lost 4lbs since Monday another 5lbs has gone and I feel full of energy.
LADY ANGLER If I can be any help when you start low carbing please give me a shout. I have all the books and recipes and me and hubs have done Atkins several times and lost a lot of weight which we have foolishly put back on.
Funnily enough, I had a company medical a few days ago.Whilst blood pressure, pulse, pee and cholesterol were well within tolerance, my BMI is only just on the acceptable side and one choccy bar away from the wrong side.
So today it’s cut-out time and have sacrificed my usual weekend coffee and muffins, biscuits and any sweets I tend to suck whilst driving.
Your muffin and biccys and sweets are your down fall if you had a full English Breakfast minus the fried bread or toast you would be looking in the right direction. I did try low fat eating bran flakes in the morning or porridge, a cup of soup at lunch with a pitta bread and maybe pasta with a light tomato sauce at niight. I lost 4lbs but eating Atkins it has been nearly a week and five pounds is gorn.
Mind you if you drive then boredom raises his ugly head what I used to give hubs when he drove a van was a large container of apples, grapes plums or cherries. He wouldn’t go for the carrot sticks but he did begin to lose his belly fat
As it turned out that was wrong for him as he was a diabetic but didn’t know it then so hey ho best of luck Graham it is bloomin hard.
I am starting Atkins on monday I have a couple of stone to lose, my friend lost over 4 st last year and has not regained it back she ate mostly strawberries and steak. Good luck everyone including myself I will report back. maybe we could have a weigh loss bit on here as I would definately use it. Mollie 7stone doesnt sound a lot for a grown woman are you very tiny all over height, feet etc? its extremely petite
