As I turned 24 my tummy started bulging and I started gaining weight In the beginning it was hidden beneath the shirt but after 10 yrs everybody could see an obese woman walking. I actually didn’t know how to lose weight until I saw a program on CNN “The last heart attack” in which an American cardiologist advised a horrible diet but a sure fire way to lose weight. He advised to cut almost all oil, no meat, no poultry, no fish, no eggs i.e no fats or sparingly. I followed it because I didn’t know any other way. I also couldn’t exercise because of my weight. I don’t know from where I got the patience to bear such restrictions for 3 long years. I lost 44 lbs and my waist reduced to 36 inches. Which later further went down to 34. After that I started eating everything and stayed slim for 7-8 yrs.
3 yrs back I again became overweight. Fortunately, the recommendations had changed and the concept of good/bad fats had come. This time I followed a low calorie balanced diet. I was not very heavy so I could also exercise irregularly though and sometimes I just practiced intermittent fasting. Now my B.M.I is again within range but if I’ll go back to open eating and junk food - I’ll be overweight again very quickly. My waist is also 36 which I hide. I am a figure conscious person. Please, share your opinions and ideas for me.
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Hello LosingGame and welcome to the Weight Loss Support forum, and thanks for sharing your experiences of your own journey(s) with us.
This is a very supportive forum and I'm sure you will enjoy engaging with others on the various groups. They are all available in the pinned posts section of the forum, which I've copied here:
It's worth highlighting a couple that are particularly helpful for many of the members here, and they are the Weekly Weigh in, which I suppose speaks for itself, and the Daily Diary, where members share what their food plans are for the day. This enables people to see what sort of might suit them best if they're not sure.
We also have groups that are focussed on exercise (Fit is Fun), and themed recipe sharing (Springers Specials) amongst others.
Have a look at the different links, join in, and if you get stuck with anything just give us a shout.
When I joined this forum, it was after years of yoyo dieting, always following low fat, low calorie diets and ending up at my heaviest ever weight. I was prepared to do exactly the same again, as I knew no different, but then I read the original of this post healthunlocked.com/weight-l...
Along with similar messages from a couple of other members, I decided it was time to do some research and from that day, have followed a LCHF way of eating.
Now, I'm not saying that my way is the way that everyone should go, but I do believe we should all do research on nutrition and not just follow the 'norm', as there are a lot of very interesting things to learn about how our bodies react to different food groups and how a lot of what we are instructed to eat for health and well-being, is not actually proven to be as good as we're led to believe.
We all need to follow a way of eating that we enjoy and that is sustainable for us as individuals, because we have to be able to stick to it for life.
It certainly has Moreless 🤔I've started watching 1000lbs Best Friends on Quest Red shows where people are going wrong, between larger portions and all you can eat restaurants makes it very hard for these ladies that have so much weight to lose, It shows their ups and downs makes me realise just how lucky I am. 😔xx
I can kind of relate, in a way. Treating my cancer, I've gone from 145lbs. - 196lbs. & I'm stocky/petite (apologies. Trying not to post real specific info). Worn out artificial joint prohibits long walks in the sunshine, but I'm looking into alternative excersing that doesn't involve anymore hip rotation than necessary (i.e. aquatic excercising.) I'm looking at my local YMCA, it has several pools that, with COVID restrictions, are just opening. If this is any help, I hope. Good luck!🥳
We all have food plans that work for us, whether calorie counting, LCHF, 5:2 or a weight loss group such as lighterlife, WW or SW over here in England. Maintaining that weight after you have lost it is where people seem to find issues. You have noted yourself when you go back to what you did before, things kick out again and I guess it is disappointing to you when this happens. The key for me is that I can have the odd junk food day and still maintain, it is when I take my foot off the pedal that the weight starts to appear again. I was a SW member so I have a maintenance plan to follow and sometimes I have to look at how that is working. It isn't an immediate fail if a few pounds go on but, I am guessing that you might have a fear response when that happens and maybe start to eat more? I know that in my SW group people admitted they were emotional eaters and that got them where they were. Do you think that applies to you?
My maintenance does not look like the one that stillconcerned writes about but, I am still maintaining 2 years in so, it really does depend on what works for you. I will say though that I changed my foods to better GI as I was diagnosed as prediabetic and so I cut sugar, changed white potatoes to sweet potatoes, white rice to wholegrain etc I do now have fries sometimes and white rice but, not like I used to. Junk food is easy to get and for me, I am wheat and dairy free so, a lot of the time there's little on the menu so, I would take chips/fries because I couldn't get much. I also drank a lot of alcohol as that was my lifestyle back then. I haven't drank since 2018. I was never a sodas person so didn't need to change that at all.
My maintenance comes from having extra 2/3 times a week and upping my healthy extras which are either cereals or non dairy milk/cheese for me and it works. I do not do HF because my diet isn't as easy to do that as I say I am dairy free as well as vegetarian. Hope that helps somehow.
Sure it would help. I get emotional in a sense that while maintaining I switch from one method to another almost every month. I can take the liberty to that by keeping my BMI at the lower end because if the weight rises it is still within range.
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End of the 12 weeks, BMI down from 29 to 25.7 :)
Confused - count calories or nutrition?
Five year weight loss journey.... but so worth it!
