I'm new here, but like everyone am trying to lose weight ( two stone to be exact)! I am a young 63, an artist, so a fair amount of standing or sitting involved. I do try and walk every day or cycle , and have discovered I can swim for free at a relatively local pool, so that's definitely a bonus.
I've realised that I don't drink nearly enough water so I am rectifying that , I now drink two litres a day and feel better for it, plus the trips ( upstairs to the loo) are an added bit of exercise! I do feel better for the water and I have noticed that I don't feel so hungry either. My problem is I have no idea how many calories any foods I'm eating are, or how many I should be eating daily, all the apps I've found are American so don't have the same foods. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful !
On a positive note, I started my diet on Monday, cut out sugar, potatoes. Drank my two litres of water per day and had breakfast and one main meal, usually steamed or grilled fish and vegetables. I have lost 4lbs!!
Thank you for your time!
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Hi Jimatom! I started the water thing seriously on Monday and I've actually noticed the difference. My big problem is I have a very sweet tooth, love baking, so I've had cut down on the baking and sugar and that's hard for me, but I've realised that although I don't feel or act 63 ( however 63year olds act)! My metabolism has slowed down, I have always been a steady 9stone and now I'm 11 stone , so two stone has to go!!
As for my art I draw in pastels, mainly portraits!
Thanks for your time and have a great Sunday!
If you are running to the loo a lot you should find that this settles after a couple of weeks. Your body has to adapt to it.
I used to draw and portraits were my thing too. I haven't now for about a year. I am trying to start again.
Well if you're on Facebook I have a page for my drawings if you're interested! Drawing has always been very therapeutic for me at times of stress ( not food)!!
Re american calorie counters - with my fitness pal I've found searching for items with tesco in the search gets me uk results e.g. tesco chickpeas or tesco red pepper even. If you're looking up a certain brand then of course try that brand rather than 'tesco'. Most things are in there - and if they're not you can use 'quick add' and put them in manually. But things like fruit and veg which I get from the local shop have no brand, but if I just look up peppers, tomatoes etc the results are in cups or another American format. So I've found adding tesco to the search really helps! Remember to enter fractions to the serving quantity too. E.g. if you only added 1/4 of that red pepper into your ratatouille etc. Also remember to save regular recipes so you can easily add groups of e.g. onion/tinned tomato/olive oil if these are often the first stages of your cooking Welcome and good luck
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