Help!

[hannah4365]

So I'm looking to lose weight, around 3 stone! I've tried various diets, most recently slimming world but didn't find that it helped. I feel totally lost and don't know how to go about losing weight. Can anyone help??

[mandi1970]

Try the NHS Loosing weight, counting calories and use my fitness pal. I started last week and I have lost 5 pounds

[hannah4365 in reply to mandi1970]

Thanks, on a day to day basis what do you eat though?

[mandi1970 in reply to hannah4365]

I have homemade soup, beans on toast, chicken breast with salad or veg, light sandwiches, fruit, jacket potatoes, rice, pasta everything has a calorific value. What sort of things do you like ?

[munstermaid]

Good start to have found this forum and asking for help. The main thing is to reduce portion sizes and keep a food diary to see what and when you eat. Just seen this quote I thought apt.

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."

— Anthony Robbins

Good luck.

[gingernut49]

You need to lose the same amount as I lost in six months! Best of all I've kept it off since April 2013. I've tried Diet clubs before, such as Weightwatchers, Rosemary Conley etc, and always piled the weight back on again as soon as I stopped 'dieting'.

In August 2012 I watched Michael Mosley's excellent Horizon programme in 2012, "Eat, Fast and Live Longer" tinyurl.com/qzgo7tq or tinyurl.com/a8ppjl7 and went from a size 16 to a size 10 by eating 500 calories two non-consecutive days a week. I'd very much recommend you read Kate Harrison's book, "The 5:2 Diet" (tinyurl.com/qe6mz4u) - it really does work and it will save you a fortune (towards your smaller clothes!). IT'S TOTALLY FREE TO DO!

I'd recommend a free app for your phone called MyFitnessPal. Counting calories is very important so you can see how much you're eating and therefore eat mindfully rather than mindlessly. There are excellent videos in the Help section on the app that show you how it works - there's even a barcode reader to scan in branded foods.

It's important you don't eat more than your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) on non-fasting days. You can work that out here thefastdiet.co.uk/how-many-.... If yours works out at more than 2000 then aim at 2000 on non-fasting days.

Here I am in the Daily Mail on 7th January tinyurl.com/m7rqecq. The other two ladies’ stories are inspiring!

Here Michael Mosley answers many questions on it dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

This little video explains more youtu.be/W9Aj6hRYg4A(Not working as expected?)