Overweight Kev

I have never really had a weight problem but I can sympathise with your all as I have a problem with my Katys diet! The only thing I can see as a problem with all diets is this constant thinking about FOOD! It is a life style change you need. All this weighing and counting would do my head in. I do remember when I was about 30 and decided to become vegetarian I lost quite a few lb without even thinking about it so maybe the meat and animal fat content in stuff really does make a big difference.
However anyone does it - good luck you really will be healthier etc.
Debby - I heard the Atkins diet makes you - well how can I put this delicately - smell from both ends! is this true. I could never do it anyway as it contains too much meat but a lot of people do and get good results but is this a drawback if you like to be sociable.

Day 1 - had a slice of toast for brekkie - then at mid morning - ate some tuna and pasta. Then at Lunch I walked solid for a good 35 mins in Leeds city centre and was surprised at how far I had gone. Returned back knackered - had a slim fast shake and am gonna have some rice and veg a little later.
Dont feel that hungry - Carol is having a pizza with Christopher- that will be murder - however, I will be strong and will get the target I want. arghhhhhhhhhhhh its murder - the pepperami smells sooooo good......
Booked a week away in Wales in May as well - thats my target date - will be walking again tomorrow and swimming saturday I think. Want to have something of a body before then and I take Christopher swimming.
The shake was nice though - have a vanilla one for tomorrow.
K
looking with envy at that pizza!

Kev

I have to join everyone recommending Weight Watchers. With WW, you can have some of that pizza!! I've tried Slim fast and went off it just as fast. With Weight Watchers, I lost 50 lbs in 6 months. Thats actually faster than they wanted me to loose, but it worked! I kept it off for several years. (Since my car accident, I'm more sedantary than I used to be so its creeping back up.)

Sandy

I don't believe in cutting out food to lose weight, there is nothing wrong with eating things in moderation, as long as its carefully planned and taken out, you will be fine. WW is an example of that - the points help you to moderate your diet.

OA is definitely about moderation and you can follow any food plan you feel you can work with. I'm developing a new food plan for myself right now and hope to have it finished in a couple of weeks.

Oh, and OA is free (although people usually contribute $1-5 per meeting--don't know what they do in the UK, Kev).

I agree with the others. The second you have a diet and forbidden foods is the moment you start craving them. You have to find a program like WW that allows you to eat what you want, but in moderation.

Originally posted by tulip2454

Debby - I heard the Atkins diet makes you - well how can I put this delicately - smell from both ends! is this true. I could never do it anyway as it contains too much meat but a lot of people do and get good results but is this a drawback if you like to be sociable.

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Well nobody has SAID anything yet...and I think my hubby would tell me if I was stinking from both ends!!!

Seriously though...I don't think so.

Forgive me, but what the heck does 15 stone 8 mean? LOL!

Ya got me... I have no idea either.

Originally posted by Debby
Ya got me... I have no idea either.

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ah ha - I see you lot in the US have not caught up with us lot in the UK yet. We used to measure weights in stones. I weight 15 stone 7 - 1 stone = 14lbs - therefore - 219 lbs - target is to lose about 30lbs!

That help at all?

Kev
keeping the British flag flying wanting to stay in lbs and ounzes - not these damned kilo things

Ah Kilos are the way we live, step above pounds and stones( .. )

Ok now I am really confused What are you British and Australians talking about? LOL?

ok - before I goto bed in a minute - we Brits still weigh ourselves in stones ( a stone being a unit of weight equivalent to 14 lbs). So, in my case I weight 15 stone 7lbs.
The UK has now gone metric and we are supposed to be in kilos - however, the day we went metric- I did not get that memo so am staying stones, pounds and ounzes.
Kev
now going to bed!

So you have to do math to figure out how much you weigh! Too much thinking involved for me

Bed? Its only 5:00 pm Just kidding, have a good night.

So if you weighed yourself in stones, how did you know how much the stones weighed??? (we in the U.S. think of a stone as a big rock) I would like to think my stones weighed very little...ha ha ha!

lol debby, i would like to think that my stones are more like pebbles

Sand even!

Sand - even better!

LOL!! you guys have the same prob I had when Kev told me about stone!!I had to grab a calculator and start my conversion from stone to lbs and then to Kgs!