I have dashed

[gustavski]

over here from the lung site to ask about the diet plan here.

Question: does it work ?

Another question is it hard?

I am not terribly over weight but I could do with losing a few kilos.

gus

[DartmoorDumpling Restart Feb 2024]

It works if you keep track of your calories consumed in both food and drinks. It only becomes hard when you rely on food for a source of comfort or stress relief - other alternatives may have to be found such as a creative hobby, or running, or reading...whatever distracts you from eating.

[gustavski in reply to DartmoorDumpling]

thank you

[albinohedgehog]

Heya. It does seem to be working for me, and no it's not really hard. It does require a bit of discipline and motivation but it's not like a weird strict diet where you're constantly hungry and craving stuff.

If you're only a bit overweight as well you probably only need to drop a few bad lifestyle habits and keep an eye on calories.

🙂

[gustavski in reply to albinohedgehog]

thank you

[roberval]

Like all diets it only works if you really want it to. I've not followed the 12 week plan but will do when the weight becomes static. I've got a lot to loose so cutting down and extra exercise is doing the trick at the moment - 2 stone currently. I feel I get support from the posts as I live on my own and the people I work with couldn't notice if I had a leg chopped off. It took them 6 months to notice that I had had my hair coloured!

[moreless Administrator SS Supercook 7 stone]

Hi and welcome Gus

Take a look at the Pinned Posts section, to the right of your screen (bottom, if you're using a mobile) and have a look at the Welcome Newbies thread, it has a link to the NHS 12 week plan, which is a guide to healthy living, rather that a specific diet plan.

Consider joining any, or all, of our challenges, as they're fun and motivating.

Join us for the monday group weigh-in. If you follow Zest , you'll be notified when she posts the thread. However, the latest thread can always be found in the events section, to the right of the home page.

Wishing you all the very best

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Hi Gus

Do you really need a 'diet plan'? You're a grown adult. Surely you know that eating a cake is worse than eating an apple. Just eat less and move more. Make sensible food swaps so that you don't go hungry and you don't get hungry between meals. Such as ditch white potato for sweet potato. Less calories but higher in fibre and nutrients. Ditch milk with breakfast and swap for almond milk. Still eating your breakfast but you've saved 35 calories. Ditch sugar especially in drinks. If you take coffee, say have two spoons of sugar, 5 cups a day then thats over 45,000 calories a year or, 13lbs in weight. The milk swap is 12,775 calories a year or 3.65lbs you don't have to lose. So those two tips alone are over 16lbs of fat the body doesn't have to lose. There are thousands of better eating choices you can do without actually going on a diet. Its just being sensible. One huge tip, get a smaller plate. That can save you 300 calories A DAY....OR 109,500 CALORIES OR......OVER 31LBS YOU'RE NOT PUTTING INTO YOUR BODY.............Still not on a diet though.........And get your backside outside and own the road as walking is a great way to shift those annoying lbs.....

[gustavski in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for that.

I do tend to eat quite a lot. But on the plus side I don't eat any old crap.

Here is a typical day for me.

Breakfast. 3 tbs of porridge with milk topped with various nuts.

Lunch maybe baked beans on brown bread toast or brown bread and peanut butter with a banana.

Dinner sometimes meat sometimes fish maybe one day vegetarian

I do not use sugar at all either in tea or coffee but I do use honey instead.

I do eat fruit every day.

gus