I use Food Focus, Poppycock, it seems much the same. These sites really are a great help for keeping track, much better than having to write everything down…
Have a ‘good’ weekend all… 
Cookiecate, Your comments on the other thread are so true.
Geordiegirl, Type 2 Diabetes - bummer! A DiL has just been diagnosed too. She is also in bits today because she’s had to have her beloved old dog Jess, PTS.
Rocky, take care & rest hun’.
Do you know I think all the diets in the world boil down to how much you put into your mouth. I refuse to waste money with slimming world, and various fat clubs around the country. I have really severe asthma and my doctor gave me a prescription for the gym its called something like new start. You get exercises to suit your health and diet advice and its all free. I check my calorie intake online as I said earlier. I am about 4 stone overweight due to lack of exercise. I started last week and have lost 4lbs. Onwards and upwards ladies and gents we can do it:-D
Yes, I think it’s the quantity & quality of our food, I’m trying very hard to ignore rubbish ‘foods’.
You’ve made a great start Poppycock. 
Thank you nuttygran its so nice to find a forum thats not full of text speak and people arguing. Im going to like it here.
Following my second (left) hip replacement I determined that I needed to strengthen my thigh muscles again and so signed on at a local gym. Went every week and spent 1 hour giving my thighs a real work out. After four months and while having a real good go on the step machine, had a sudden and excruciating pain in my chest. Came off the machine and sat on the ground, staff came to find out what had happened. I told them I had chest pains, they panicked and whistled up an ambulance. I spent the next four days in hospital, having been diagnosed with yet another (third) pulmonary emboli. Have subsequently had two more since then. As a consequence, I’m not too enamored of gyms and exercise and I definitely don’t do diets !!!
If you want to strengthen up those Quads, forget the gym.
Get an all-in-one oven glove (the ones which are one strip of material and a ‘pocket’ at each end).
Put a weight in each pocket (tin of beans, half a brick, bag of sugar) which you are comfortable with.
Sit on the edge of the dinning table with your legs dangling and your knees against the table edge (put a towel underneath your leg for more comfort)
Put a leg out straight and place the oven glove over your ankle (make sure it’s balanced).
Then slowly and smoothly lower the leg and lift it.
Do say 20 reps on each leg, and gradually (when it starts to become easy) increase the weight and the number of reps.
I was taught this years ago following a cartilage removal. My right thigh was 2" circumference less than my left, but this soon put that right.
Best of luck…
Uncle Joe, did the people running the gym not inquire into your medical history? A gym I joined years ago, refused a woman who was epileptic, membership, until she had written permission from her GP.
Skip the dieting & exercise pet, just keep the rest of us entertained with your “advice.” 
dieting too, got down to 11 stone and was ill last month and slept almost nonstop for 3 days, and my stupid body went into starvation and put 2 stone on… off to docs tomorrow to see if she can help
Could it be fluid Seaspirit? I hope you’re soon feeling better & your doc’ is able to help.
Absolutely NG darlin’, absolutely. am currently awaiting a reply from the Dept Work & Pension’s Chief Executive to a complaint I have made to her. As and when I receive such reply I will tell you all the story that goes with it. Watch this space!!!
I have just got a prescription to the gym from my doctor, they tailor it to your needs and its free its called fresh start excercise referral form. Im quite scared but will give it a go.
You’ll be fine I’m sure Poppycock - enjoy!
Bless you Poppycock you will end up loving it.
I felt just the same as you Poppycock when I first joined the local yoga club last year, scared stiff. With encouragement from here I took the plunge and never looked back, best thing I did and have signed up for another year. You will wonder why you didn’t do it years ago
Good luck
Read an article yesterday—The standard recommendation of protein–fats–carbohydrates–are not the same for everyone.
Even if you calorie count the percentages of carbs are important. People with little exercise and a slower metabolism should only include very small amounts of carbohydrate rich food regardless of calorie counting.
Moderately active people can have a little more but still keep it low.
Highly energetic people can eat more but should eat it after energetic activity not when in low energy phase.
Reason is to encourage fat burning as carbs and fats metabolize differently.
A bit like Atkins but what it is saying is how much carbs percentage in food depending on intensity of activity and when you should eat carbs for best fat loss.
Rueben, Gary Taubes book “Why do we get fat” puts it another way.
This is one persons review of it.
[I]A very easy read - clear, concise, you’ll get the point first time every time.
I’m rereading it, from cover to cover as it’s so good, and I want to make certain I’ve not missed anything.
In a nutshell, if you eat sugar, flour and other hi carb foods, you generate a lot of insulin.
Insulin is a very powerful hormone, that has the following effect…
- Its stops you burning fat instantly, so if you eat carbs, you literally cannot lose weight.
- Insulin is known as the hunger hormone, so you’re starving and overeating.
Current Dieting advice is to eat 5 portions of fruit and veg. If you eat 4 meals plus 5 fruit, you’ll be realising Insulin 9 times a day… so you’ll be permanently starving and worse, unable to burn any fat… so won’t lose weight at all.
Insulin triggers our overeating.
It’s a constant cycle.
This advice breaks that cycle and gives you masses of research to back up it’s arguments. It’s a stunning piece of work, that blasts government advice for the folly that it is.
All current diets miss the key factor - the influence of hormones.
This book introduces the concept that Obesity is “malnutrition”, it’s caused by poor quality foods in sugar and flour not by overeating or lack of exercise.[/I]
Hi Nuttygran–I would say you have a very sensible approach book there. It is for the very same reason that I like the GI diet. It is similar to a book I read years ago called the Metabolic Diet.This was also a no fad no miracle cure book. It is very similar to a diabetic diet.The idea is to keep an even level of insulin in the blood system as spikes in insulin through eating to much carbohydrate causes rebound hunger. Another way to combat hunger pangs is not to eat carbs. on there own but add other food groups then it slows down the digestion of the carbs in the meal.An example would be =toast with jam=heavy carbs=rush of insulin=insulin spike= rebound hunger. Better to have toast or bread with protein or salad instead.= slower release of insulin=even insulin = no rebound hunger. Unless one has a fast metabolism or uses a lot of energy best to watch those refined carbs and consider them as an occasional treat only. I do think to eat salads and veg as main part of the so called 5 a day is a better idea. Fruit is good in moderation especially summer berries but careful with the sweet fruit. Keep reading the good advice and ignore the gimmicks. ( but best of all put it into practice 
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Well said Rueben…
Even though I suggested careful with sweet fruit the fructose sugar in fresh fruit is lower than refined sugars on the GI list and digests quite slowly. It’s the dried and processed fruit you need to avoid. So if you feel like something sweet it is much better to have some fresh fruit and not have an insulin spike than eat anything with processed sugar in and risk rebound hunger pangs. Artificial sweeteners are not good either as they effect metabolism. What more can I say Nuttygran than keep clear of those baddies dressed up as yummy goodies just waiting to climb aboard and hitch a ride at your expense.