ILE Weight Watchaz

stopped eating crisps, mayonnaise & cheese. less beer. borrowed mrsofthenest's lolDavina exercise DVD. cycling everywhere. 1 week so far, lost almost half a stone. feels good :-)))

come join the nutrition nazis!

nah get on the ILX running thread it's where it's at

tried running a few weeks ago, inspired partly by the tales on the running thread. Ran 3 miles and it really hurt my already-fucked-up knee. I'm also way too self-conscious to be sweaty and out-of-breath lurching around the streets of Hull. Really enjoying cycling though, achieves pretty much the same effect without hurting where it shouldn't.

going to my first weight watchers meeting on thursday. i feel like betty draper!

i don't really care about "points" but the group i was attending through my health plan ended today and i'm looking for more structure/motivation.

This helped me, but I'm the sort to go on & off it over time

-lost 3 1/2 pounds since my last weigh-in
-apparently 1 1/2 oz. of scotch is four points! i just found that out. low-fat string cheese is one point but a harmless finger of blended scotch will get me in trouble. hrmph.
-i cut down my "official" daily number of points since i'm trying to lose 10 percent of my body weight*. the amount i'm doing still allows me to have 100-calorie yogurt cups, hard boiled eggs, laughing cow light cheese wedges, sandwich thins, fruit cups sweetened with splenda. seems like you have to be really careful with carbs. carbs are my downfall.

• the 10 percent is because i'm having surgery and the doctor wants to shrink my liver so the procedure will be safer. i got a call today saying my chart looks good and i've been cleared to meet with the surgeon and schedule the date; i just have to work on losing the weight, which is what weight watchers is for.

The structure of weight watchers has helped me and I've lost a lot of weight.
I don't think it's for everyone. I think it suits some personality types more than others.
I think the best thing I did was to make an explicit decision to never buy a single branded weight watchers product.

that's probably wise, although i did buy one of the ww smart ones breakfast sandwiches at the supermarket tonight.

why oh why must weight first come off everywhere except where it last went on

i've gone down seven pounds in the past four weeks! i know it's not a lot but i'm still really happy about it.

So I'm 17.5 stone now? When did that happen? What do I do? ;_;

Like, I can still play football and cricket to an OK standard and I retain some of my agility, and have a heavy frame regardless...but this is, like, a health risk by now, right?

Return of the London Walks?

Yeah I miss that a bit. Did a great one this year from Edenbridge to Tonbridge, just need to do it more often really

I do at least 50 mins on the exercise bike every day, usually while watching some doc or tv series junk to alleviate how boring it is. I can't get into running because of metal in my ankle so this works for me. Mind you the regime has gone to hell today with cooking and early drinking leading me astray.

yeah shit it's xmas

I stopped eating between meals and cut out any and all sweet stuff three weeks ago and even tho ive got the worst sweet tooth of anyone i know its actually been alright bar the odd pang.

delighted but embarrassed to note a 10lb loss in that time which drives home just how much shite ive been shovelling into myself.

ive a figure in mind but no fuckin chance itll be voiced because the jinx is strong.

i'm trying to lose weight so i joined this uh pre-diabetic group, it's terrible and i hate it but i'm sort of eating better. "sort of" because i kind of went to an argentinian steakhouse yesterday. but other than that i'm theoretically doing better.

I thought semi-quitting drinking would help shed the kilos but its done nowt, and I am slowly turning into a white whale. I hate myself pretty massively rn tbh.

Well done deems. it is surprising how addictive sugar can be, but also how quickly cravings can subside if you avoid it.
rushomancy, there's nothing wrong with the odd nice big meal.
trayce, sometimes it takes longer than expected. cutting down drinking is something I really could do with doing myself, so your body is likely thanking you in other ways.
i do that myfitnesspal app, or at least I try to. it's not perfect for tracking calories etc but it is useful in monitoring how often you eat and what sort of stuff you're eating, even if you just do it for a week or two. it's surprising how, without even thinking about it, one can need up eating all sorts of extra things throughout the day.
one of the few advantages of having been made single again for a few weeks now, is that I've pretty much lost around 10lbs. the disadvantage is that I found I was having to pull up my jeans all day today

Boo to breakup diets tho :(

17lbs down

be skinny by christmas if this keeps up ffs

Well done!

I've just finished my third week of doing the 5:2 - 600Kcals on a fast day, your calculated (not unreasonable) allowance on a NFD, managed to squeeze in a third fast day this week so I'm going to try to do that as often as I can stand.

Fast days are not as bad as I thought other than that continuous internal buzzer of denial that sounds when you go to reach for the fridge door for the twelfth time.

Not weighing myself yet, I've got a lot to shake off so I'm holding off for a bit.

My exercise routine has gone to hell. I was doing a 100 mins a day on the bike previously and must have put about 30 lbs on since I stopped. It just feels so easy to drink too much and eat good food some days and getting back into a healthier routine feels impossible, without some trainer pointing a gun at me or something.

it's so effing hot and sunny outside that exercise and no booze are almost impossible

looked into fasting, decided if i really needed it, it would still be there...good luck tho

DL i always find that ive a summer weight well below my winter excess, more exercise and eat less

I find that gym sessions tend to help the best for me, since I've always eaten healthily. But the last place I want to be on a hot day is sweating out in a gym. But yeah, tend to find I migrate about 8-10 pounds between winter and summer

I'm far from healthy, but I've been doing the low carb thing for a little over a year now. I've resigned myself to this lifestyle for the rest of my years because: it's insanely easy for a lazy person such as myself to maintain; I'm never hungry; I can booze it up once a week without issue; and finally, I've lost and kept off 60 lbs of weight since a year ago. I'm back to my college weight again (I'm 39) but I rarely exercise though, so again, I'm not "healthy."

18 weeks in, 21lbs down, target weight for brother's wedding next week achieved

apparently it was mainly about not eating crap all day watch out for my book in stores this christmas

that's great deems, well done!

sugar - you must give up the sugar - its not mommy's littel helper - its the key to teh door of disease!

also good owrk!

otm

also otm B-)

I've lost a little over 30 lbs in the past year or so by quitting booze and most added sugar, as well as increasing my exercise.

My biggest milestone so far was just a couple weeks ago when I realized I could fit into a 38 waist (down from a 42 - for a year or so I was buying clothes from Casual Male XL). There are so many brands of trousers that top out at 38. It feels amazing to fit into a slimmer cut that's not swooshing around my ankles.

Also, at the same time my BMI (flawed system, I know) dropped from obese to overweight. I still have more work to do, but at least I'm heading in the right direction for the first time in years.

hi 5 lighter ilxors imo

starting to look old af is the only thing

So, I lost 8 lbs between last September and December of last year by cutting sugar and replacing w/ healthier nuts 'n seeds options. Cool, right? Except I ended up with major stomach cramps, yarfing frequently, and experiencing chronic, intense heartburn. I began an elimination diet and ... basically ended up eating only yogurt and nutrition bars and a few frozen Trader Joe's meals, then adding back 12 lbs, and more as I tried not to feel sick all the time.

By April I existed on bland crackers 'n stuff. Carbs, steamed veggies, and bland meat also didn't seem to affect me, but cooking stuff in a wok did. As did ordering food at every restaurant. Doctors baffled, skeptical, etc.

Around May, as a last gasp, I switched to a pseudo-paleo thing (– yes, I know paleo is bunk –) and instantly got better. After another month of analyzing food logs, I figured out that I have a semi-severe barfing/heartburn/cramping/etc. reaction to SUNFLOWER and SESAME oil. Which, as it turns out, is in (*many*) Trader Joe's products, the majority of nutrition bars, lots of fry oils, all of the salad dressings and stir-fry sauces I make, ingrained in my wok, etc.

Since late May, I've shed the twelve pounds I gained. I'm motivating myself using DietBet (app/website) and so far I've made $13. I plan to go for another two months, so my total lost from June 2017 (189) to October 2018 (160) will be a hair under 30 lbs. Deems OTM about looking older, though. But I think I look older in a good way?

did you find a new stir-frying oil that doesn't bother you?

Nothing brilliant –– any suggestions? I had to scrape out and sand-down and re-season my wok. I've been using canola for everything. Safflower and peanut oils are often cross-contaminated w/ sunflower, and my wife's got an anaphylactic reaction to avocado, so those are out. Otherwise open to suggestions.

i've seen that rice bran oil has a high smoke point but can't say i've ever knowingly seen a bottle of it.

i might consider rolling the dice with cheap light-grade olive oil.

Ugh remy that's brutal. I've been there. The butter flavor at movie theaters will have me in fetal position on the floor, feeling like I'm being stabbed in the abdomen. An ex-bf's family took me to their favorite family restaurant for special occasions and both times I thought I might have to go to the hospital. (I was fine. But it's awful.)

In my case it's probably soybean oil since that's what popcorn butter flavoring is made with. For cooking, I think I just use corn oil? Or whatever is in the cupboard. Is that bad? I used to have a huge jar of coconut oil but the flavor is so strong it ruins everything that isn't a curry.

I'm motivating myself using DietBet (app/website) and so far I've made $13.

best thing I've found is to find another fat friend and do a weight loss bet, then tell everyone you know. people get real interested in that sort of thing. plus if you tell everybody and you're still fat after the bet's over then everyone knows you're a weak failure. idk it worked for me, though the first time I did it I wound up going down like 23 lbs in a month and rebounding real hard

", I figured out that I have a semi-severe barfing/heartburn/cramping/etc. reaction to SUNFLOWER and SESAME oil."

sounds like food allergy to me

remy - grapeseed oil?

my wife has corn allergy, of all things. She gets similar results.

and sesame is like the 9th top most common allergen

I had a roommate in college who was allergic to sesame seeds and puked all over the table once at the Yaffa because the hummus she ordered had tahini in it even though they said it didn't. TBH I kind of thought she was making it up at the time.

Making up the allergy, not the puking.

Anyway - Remy that's all very interesting. I've been having issues forever and I also did an elimination diet recently but I didn't follow it quite as strictly as I could have and didn't really get any conclusive results except for that I think I might have an issue with dairy and that I def feel a million times better when I cut out all the major allergins but I need to repeat it. I just hope that some day soon I can eat without being worried I'm going to feel sick afterwards.

23lbs but not bad considering the aul fella was home and we ate out most nights the last fortnight.

look old now. ill take it.