Need to loose it!

[Charleymarie]

I know I am overweight and just did my bmi which showed that I was 30 and obese! I'm only 20 and at 5ft 3 this has scared me! Really need to loose the weight (about 3 stone) but am so fussy. It's hard to eat healthy. I go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week. If anyone has any healthy eating suggestions I would really appreciate it!

[Hidden]

Best advice is to check out dietdoctor.com and look into a low carb high fat diet (LCHF). Carbs in the form of sugar and flour trigger insulin, and insulin is what moves fat into fat cells. Cut the sugar and flour products, and you'll drop insulin production and thus lose weight. (I realize this is oversimplified, but that's the bottom line.) Lots of info at that site that will help you and you will find out you don't have to go hungry to lose weight. One trap- you have to cut most fruits out as well because of the fructose content. Fruit is natural, but it will add to your sugar load. Hope you find some success!

[deejames in reply to Hidden]

I'm not a fan of this high fat low carbs business. Balance is the businesss

[Charleymarie in reply to Hidden]

Thank you! I will have a look on there

[deejames]

What do and don't you eat ?

Exercise is only a small part of losing weight. I live with a good example of it.

As far as I'm concerned as well its how much food not just what food.

[Charleymarie in reply to deejames]

I don't eat hardly any salad, lettuce is pretty much what a salad would consist of for me. Usually end up with ceaser salad which isn't the best! I eat most fruits and veg though

[Hidden]

If you like to read, you can check out Fat Chance by Lustig, and Why We Get Fat by Taubes; both may be available at your library, or get cheap used copies at amazon. That's where I got most of my information. They explain all the body processes that work to create fat when you eat carbs, and have loads of statistics, studies, etc that prove the theory. Really, all you have to do is try it to see that it does work. Any diet that recommends more vegetables can't be all bad!!

[Kerridonnally]

Try whole 30. My husband got cancer and I started reading about how food can feed cancer and it scared me to death. Do some research about food and what it does to your body. Then Google whole 30 and try that for 30 days. I lost 30 lbs. in a month and a half.

[Hidden in reply to Kerridonnally]

Just looked at Whole 30. I'd never heard of it before; this sounds very good and is completely in line with all the newer diet recommendations. I hope it has helped your husband. Have you read Wheat Belly or Grain Brain? I was amazed at what grain will do to you.

[Kerridonnally]

Thx it has helped a lot. I will tell u it's rough the first week but after that not bad. Not too bad a diet to do because it isn't forever you just do it for 30 days and then you can eat the stuff you miss again. You can do anything for just a month. Also, learning that cancer feeds on sugar enlightened me a lot. my husband told me that when they did the pet scan for tumors on him they made him drink a sugary substance and then they measure the heat in your body from where the cancer feeds on the sugar. That scared the crap out of me! Watch "Fed Up" it's on Netflix and it is also amazing motivation to change the way you eat before it leads to horrible illnesses. Anyway I weighed 232 before I started whole 30, which was in March this year when my husband was diagnosed with leukemia. Now I'm down to 196, still doing a modified whole 30, I still eat fun stuff but just only 1x a month. Hope it helps! Keep us posted!

[Charleymarie in reply to Kerridonnally]

I have had a quick look at this and it sounded great! I will have a proper look at this when I have a chance, thanks for the suggestion

Hope your husband is ok!

[Hidden]

Accepting in the first instance that you are a fussy eater I would be inclined to investigate a little more closely your actual food intake and portion size. Log all you eat on My Fitness Pal app and get the low down on how much you are actually consuming both in terms of calories and nutritional content. Armed with this information it should be a bit easier to make better informed choices about what and how much to eat in your existing, and I assume, restricted diet.

I can only recommend that you really do try try try to introduce new (healthy) foods and begin to move away from being fussy. Not all at once - one new thing a week perhaps. Take pleasure in experimenting and just because you do not like something the first time, that is not an excuse not to try again. I appreciate that it can be difficult to move away from this mindset but I urge you to try as to me this seems a potential stumbling block to future success. As a child my mum forced me to eat beetroot which I hated. I had to wait till I way nearly 60 before I discovered it for myself and got rid of my prejudice towards it. She had forced me to eat the pickled stuff - horrible astringent stuff. There is more than one way to prepare beetroot I have discovered. She also forced me to eat nasty boil in the bag kippers. I have since realised the addition of the butter pat (fat overload) and the sheer quantity was enough to make me baulk. Later in life I discovered Manx kippers. I can now eat the bagged ones if I grill around 100g-120g and do not have the butter pat. Similarly, the food you think you do not like may more palatable than you believe by trying alternatives. I like nuts but can't bring myself to eat nut butter. I could go on and on!

As for the gym visits. Do you have a designated instructor, what do they say? Is it time to review your workout regime perhaps? I am not advocating that you pay extra for a coach - just see what your gym offers as part of your membership. When I first took myself in hand years ago after two children and a letting myself go I recall that my regime was changed around every 4-6 weeks. The point came where I began to see a change, understood my body a bit better and I could begin to take more responsibility for my own exercise. I really did need the help that was on offer to get started though.

You have reached out and asked for eating suggestions and I am not sure this is quite the right question. I have tried to show you possible ways to help yourself. I believe that if you can take responsibility as early on as possible in your journey to a healthier, leaner and fitter person, you will be more likely to win the fight!

[Charleymarie in reply to Hidden]

Wow, thank you very much for this! I really appreciate you taking the time to write all of that... I have been using my fitness pal and have been paying a lot of attention to the nutritional section.

I will try starting to try a new food - maybe mixing it with something I like to start with.

Thanks!