HELP! Need to loose 15-20Kg in 4 months.

[Rimxx]

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all well and healthy! I really really need some help. All my life I had indian food diet. It wasn't until yesterday when I pulled out my Size 14 UK Skinny Jeans, which i could get through my thighs, I realized how much weight I have put on. I currently weight 73 Kg, 5ft 5 tall and now a UK size 14/16.

I have cried a bucket but I know that isnt gona shed any pounds, so I have decided to start my journey of changing my lifestyle. I do not believe in crash diets as I have seen my friends put all the weight back after their special ocassion is over.

I have started incorporating more protein in my diet and veggies(which i would previously never ever touch unless it was a veggie curry...the struggle is real here but I am trying). However, my main weakness is bread! Bread oh bread, all my life i have had 2 slices of bread in breakfast with omelette, 2 in lunch as sandwiches and a homemade chapatti (flatbread) for dinner with curry. I do not know what to do, i do not feel full nor I enjoy my meal if I don't have my bread. P.s I do eat brown bread only. Oh and like average briton, I have a sweet tooth as well but I am REALLY trying to cut down on cakes, chocolates and crisps. I have made it a reward so if i have eaten healthy all day I will treat my self to a sweetie or a chunk of chocolate.

Exercise wise, I have downloaded full body home workout videos. I did one yesterday and today i cannot lift my arm, nor can I go down the stairs. But that makes me happy atleast I worked out.

Today is only day two of this long journey. I would appreciate any help you guys have to offer. Has anyone lost 15kg in 4 months? IF so how? Please help.

Love Rimsha xx

[IndigoBlue61]

Hello Rimxx and welcome to the Weight Loss Forum

Please don't cry. Your BMI is 26.7 which is only just in the overweight category somalthohg your are unhappy about your size, it is not going to be mega deal to rectify. However, to try to lose 4-5 kg per month is a little ambitious! If you could lose 500g per week, you would be at a healthy weight very quickly.

From what you are saying, you know where you are going wrong, and the biggest issue is sweet things. Bread isn't especially bad but you are perhaps having a little too much.

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Best wishes

Anna

[victoria-anne]

Hello Rimxx - Good luck and welcome to the forum

In my opinion, loosing 15-20kg seems really ambitious in that amount of time, (also, 20kg is quite allot if you're only 73kg now? )and I think it may be detrimental in the long run, if you find you're not going down as quickly as you'd like too. At least, that's how I found it, and when I wasn't dropping kg's each week I struggled to see the 'point'.

Until, I decided a weight/goal I wanted to be, and stopped focusing on how much I wanted to loose by when. Now I feel much happier that regardless of how slowly I might be getting there, I am getting there, and will more likely stay there than if I shed it all. As you mentioned, crash dieting only means you go back to 'normal' again.

You are pretty much the same weight as I was when I started, and I've lost about 7kg, with another 7 or so to go. Maybe 8-9. It HAS been slow, but, it's a huge learning curve listening to you body and making so many lifestyle changes. It's more about the why, than the when

Good luck, and hope to see you around the forum, I couldn't of lost any weight without it!