Need help dieting!!!

Can anyone usggest the best way to lose weight fast because anything i do at the moment etc. different diets does not work

[innerslim]

I read in a newspaper last week that there is no easy route, just hard work, grit and dogged determination. Something along those lines anyway.

With that in mind I would suggest calories counting and be prepared for a long journey. Doesn't sound very exciting or the quick fix that you are looking. However, it's will worth it and you are more likely to stick to it meaning that you won't have reached that size 8, 10, 12 only to be a couple of sizes larger than your current size in a year or so.

Hope this helps.

Happy healthy eating!

[Hidden in reply to innerslim]

Thanks! Im a size 12 atm i just want to be at least a size 8-10, with the cold weather atm I can't start running again unless i wanna freeze to death lol

[innerslim in reply to Hidden]

Sounds like you're in a similar boat to myself. Probably only straying off the "straight and narrow" and wanting to head in the right direction before a few lbs creep on?! I know a lot of outdoor runners don't like treadmills but you could try varying speed and incline. I have three workouts- long run increasing speed by 0.1kph, sprint intervals and do steady inclines. It keeps the boredom at bay and I've noticed a difference in my fitness.

Also, will winter ever end?!

[nutritioncoach]

Hi Miri Piri

I know the frustration you must be feeling, but losing one or two pounds a weeks is much more sustainable than crash dieting. To lose one pound a week you need to reduce your calorie deficit by 3500 a week, which works out at 500 calories a day. You can do this by reducing your calorie consumption (i.e. eating less) or doing more exercise or a mixture of the two. I recently wrote a blog called 'portion distortion',nutrition-coach.co.uk/blog/... ,which shows how the portion sizes we eat have increased over the last 20 years. So without knowing it we are eating more calories

Good luck

[Hidden in reply to nutritioncoach]

Thanks im lowering my calorie intake everyday and trying to exercise more its just hard atm cos of the cold weather, meh

[nutritioncoach]

Hi Miri Piri

I know the frustration you must be feeling, but losing one or two pounds a weeks is much more sustainable than crash dieting. To lose one pound a week you need to reduce your calorie deficit by 3500 a week, which works out at 500 calories a day. You can do this by reducing your calorie consumption (i.e. eating less) or doing more exercise or a mixture of the two. I recently wrote a blog called 'portion distortion',nutrition-coach.co.uk/blog/... ,which shows how the portion sizes we eat have increased over the last 20 years. So without knowing it we are eating more calories

Good luck

[bunblebeaz]

hi miripiri,

Welcome to the forum.

First, losing weight fast does not usually mean permanent weight loss. This is because you do something drastic and unsustainable to get rid of the weight (obvious exception of surgery).. If you want to lose weight for an occasion soon then a crash diet would do it, problem is you would put all that weight back on afterwards.

You don't say how much you have to lose or your BMI etc. I recommend you have a look around here:

nhs.uk/Livewell/weight-loss...

and download the 12 week plan. The basics of the plan are a daily calorie limit, 150 mins aerobic activity a week, 5 a day and strength/core exercise at least twice a week.

No banned foods, the only restriction is the calorie limit so everything in moderation.

The vast majority on this site are following this plan and at various stages. You should expect a weight loss of 1-2lbs each week, a bit more in the first 1/2 weeks as your body adapts. Though again as you don't give any indication of your starting weight you may start off with a higher rate of loss.

I'm starting week 8 today. My weigh in is Monday evening but as of last week I had lost a total of 11lbs, bringing me down from ~12st9lbs to ~11st12lbs.

Good luck

[suzybenj]

All brillant advice and commentary. Hard slog and disipline it is. I am a serial dieter - but having topped out at an all time high and literally my health deteriating.(high blood pressure and breathless all the time) I decided something must be done. So 1 march was my official diet day - and in that time despite some pretty hefty exercise sessions and drastically cutting my calories - I have lost the sum total of 4 pounds - which whilst small I feel is sustainable and is in the right direction. I am currently visulising 4 pounds equals 2 bags of sugur - am looking fwd to thinking about having lost a 5 pound bag of potato's.

So no quick fix - but the sooner you start the sooner the weight will start to shift (albeit slowly)

Good luck

[Aussieblues]

Congrats on weight loss, welcome to the losers club lol doesn't matter how long journey takes as long as we get to weight loss destination.

[Hidden]

Hi MiriPiri,

If you want to understand the weight loss thing as it really is - as opposed to those stupid, non-sensical, sensationalistic "lose 10 stone in four and a half seconds" adverts you see - then go to NHSChoices live well lose weight pages and have a good read up there.

Just about everything is there somewhere. Nutrition, eatwell place, exercise, rate of weight loss, fad diets, etc., etc.

Lots of good free advice, a BMI calculator (a good place to start - but you might have already done that) and a free 12 week plan.

And lots of good and free advice and tips on these blogs from people actually doing it. These are worth a good read around too.

Don't see it as a 'diet'. If you're overweight, which I'm kind of presuming you could be, then various bad eating and activity/exercise habits got you to that state. And if you don't change them around, they will very probably cause you to get weightier.

This is really more about changing your lifestyle and changing your unhelpful and sometimes even harmful habits for better ones so that you lose weight and keep your weight down within a healthy range.

For sure, old habits can die hard (as the saying goes), but you only have one body and one lifetime, so make a commitment to your body, your health and wellbeing and get on the weight-loss bus.

You'll get plenty of support from your fellow passengers, here.

Good luck with your journey.

[rapolyte]

Have you tried the 2 day diet and 5 days off dieting. I am going to have a go but I only need to lose about 1/2 a stone.

[Hidden in reply to rapolyte]

Nah i havent is it good? I want to lose like a stone or two

[nutritioncoach in reply to rapolyte]

Hi

The 5:2 eating plan or Intermittent fasting is proving very popular for some people. It really only works long term if you follow a healthy eating lifestyle on the normal eating days. I know some advocates say you can eat whatever you like and in whatever quantities on the 5 days, But this doesn't teach you how to eat healthily therefore in my opinion it is not sustainable.

I have written a blog about it if you would like more information. Ignore the bit about a course starting - it only applies to the Nottingham area

[nutritioncoach in reply to nutritioncoach]

Sorry forgot to put the link - Doh!

nutrition-coach.co.uk/blog/...