My new weight-loss diary. (Now with pics!)
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Your wife clearly has no self control. My mum did lighter life and lost a lot of weight before she had to come off it due to something unrelated to the diet. She has been off the diet for about 6 months now and at most has put on a stone because she went straight from 4 packs a day to a normal diet.
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Be careful with Lighter Life. I've heard it can work but must be taken very seriously. 
I wish you every luck though
I wish you every luck though
Based on his posts in SA, I'd advise anyone to take drunkenmaster's advice over 90% of the stuff out there on the intertubes.
You're saying that your mother has gained 14lbs in weight and MY wife has no self control ?
Since when is not smoking fattening?You're saying that your mother has gained 14lbs in weight and MY wife has no self control ?
Considering the people at lighter life told her to expect to put on at least half a stone because of the way she quit, and the total amount lost, it's not a huge amount.
What does smoking have to do with anything?
sorry, my bad. should read posts!
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I wouldn't bother if this is something your paying for. If this is a fad diet then, it's like what you get in them magazines. Don't go on a diet either that's bad because it's like getting on a bus, you have to get off at some point, chances are you'll pack pounds on if you 'ditch' it or 'finsh' and eat as normal.
The main areas where I'd be concerned are FAT, ALCOHOL and SUGAR
FAT -- these are things like chippys or fried foods. I'm sure you can see these giving you a bit of a belly. Try cooking your own food and boiling/steaming/grilling it.
ALCOHOL -- okay so every friday or saturday you and your mates drink 10-20 pints and get drunk ... consider the amount of calories (150-200) in each single pint. Try something like a spirit straight, insted.
SUGAR -- drink tea and/or coffee? fill them with sugar? Either don't use suga, switch to a sweetener or reduce the sugar amounts. Avoid sweets and fizzy drinks loaded in sugar.
Check the amount of calories in your food. Split your meals up insted of having big mad meals, try having little ones through out the day (5/6)
Try eating more whole foods like pasta, bread and potatos so they'll suppress hunger for longer.
You wanna be making these changes PERMANTLY insted of 'just for a few months'
Don't starve yourself either ... your metabolism will slow and you'll stop burning fat as quick.
Okay, now is the hard part. Exercise, okay SO on one end you have less food coming in now you wanna push the weight out. Do some cardio for about 45-60 minutes maybe. Bikes are great because you can transport to your city centre or somewhere. Got a park near, try jogging there.
DON'T stop and say, "I aint losing weight my stomach is still flabby, I'll leave it" ... IIRC the body decides where the weight will come from in cardio so you might not notice weight loss in THIS AREA, same goes for eating, if you stuff yourself it might hit a certain area and then work around.
Drink water if you aint doing already.
The main areas where I'd be concerned are FAT, ALCOHOL and SUGAR
FAT -- these are things like chippys or fried foods. I'm sure you can see these giving you a bit of a belly. Try cooking your own food and boiling/steaming/grilling it.
ALCOHOL -- okay so every friday or saturday you and your mates drink 10-20 pints and get drunk ... consider the amount of calories (150-200) in each single pint. Try something like a spirit straight, insted.
SUGAR -- drink tea and/or coffee? fill them with sugar? Either don't use suga, switch to a sweetener or reduce the sugar amounts. Avoid sweets and fizzy drinks loaded in sugar.
Check the amount of calories in your food. Split your meals up insted of having big mad meals, try having little ones through out the day (5/6)
Try eating more whole foods like pasta, bread and potatos so they'll suppress hunger for longer.
You wanna be making these changes PERMANTLY insted of 'just for a few months'
Don't starve yourself either ... your metabolism will slow and you'll stop burning fat as quick.
Okay, now is the hard part. Exercise, okay SO on one end you have less food coming in now you wanna push the weight out. Do some cardio for about 45-60 minutes maybe. Bikes are great because you can transport to your city centre or somewhere. Got a park near, try jogging there.
DON'T stop and say, "I aint losing weight my stomach is still flabby, I'll leave it" ... IIRC the body decides where the weight will come from in cardio so you might not notice weight loss in THIS AREA, same goes for eating, if you stuff yourself it might hit a certain area and then work around.
Drink water if you aint doing already.
Good basic advice. The main point about fad diets or crash diets is that most of them are short term and do not have a statistically valid outcome in true health terms. People who regain their weight often repeat the faddy/crash diet with another one that promises even more.
The repetitive yo-yoing in weight loss/gain can have a negative long term effect upon general health.
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I was just about to say this, by excercising you are effectively raising your resting metabolic rate, you will lose weight so much faster. I think it's great what you are doing. But why not head to the gym/get on your bicycle or swim instead of starve yourself? You'll lose body fat and increase muscle mass, this will give you more of a toned body. 6 months ago I could only ride my bike 10-15 miles max, now I enjoy riding with a club on sundays (50 miles or so). Swimming is also great as it is a low-impact sport, just like cycling. Set yourself goals, like 1-2 lengths non-stop at reasonable exertion levels, and slowly increase.
Just my opinion, i ain't hatin on yo skeem tho
rofl!
i agree with dm fully, the diet works, the weight dropped off as planned. post diet is all about the individual in this case, not the diet.
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faddy diets, no matter how retardedly they go about things, do tend to work because almost all of them ARE based on the theory of less calories in than burned = weight loss. It will work on almost any diet, some more efficiently some not great.
Look i just started a new fad diet called the DM diet, drink 2 litres of water a day and only eat salmon but make sure you eat 1000 calories below maintainance. I gaurentee it will work, i can't say how it will make you feel or what you'll eat once you're done.
This is life, almost all "diets" will work to some degree. You said yourself the "faddy" diet your wife was on DID WORK, you said it, yourself. But after it all went to crap. If i follow a diet, lose 2 stone, then change that diet and put on 30 stone, the diet worked, the way I ate after didn't.
The best reason to ketogenic over any other diet is this, carbs induce hunger and tiredness, ketones don't, they spare muscle, eating fat and protein massively reduces hunger and if you eat well you should have bags of energy all day long till your body fat gets to low to be easily utilised (which is far far lower than 99% of people want to go). So a low to very low carb diet is really the only diet you can literally feel no hunger on, every other type tends to be much higher in carbs and everyone complains about feeling hungry all the time on most diets.
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Thats good advice for sure, except, what a lot of people find is they start a diet and simply don't get anywhere quick and lose hope, also some people are heavy to the point they are just tired and find simple things hard to do. Losing 1-2 stone quickly on an extreme diet surely can lead you to rebound gaining, but it could also provide the initial boost to lift your mood and get you going onto a better and healthier life. Neither way is right or wrong and there are so many ways you can get healthier. I put on my last stone while very depressed, with chronic pain and feeling incredibly tired, everything was a lot of effort, after losing a stone i just felt, lighter, easier to get to the shops, easier to do everything, I felt happier and felt ridiculously healthy compared to a stone before.
Long term you need a stable plan for eating well and the motivation/will power to stick with it. but short term especially for people on the higher end of the BMI scale a early quick boost can have such a positive effect that it can be well worth it.
Frankly theres nothing to say he doesn't find a fantastically healthy normal diet that he can lose a similar amount of weight on and after a month of that rebound eat.
Generally, if you've found the willpower to lose weight then doing something extreme followed by a longer term plan is fine, if you don't have the willpower you'll fail whatever way you do it.
EDIT: Interestingly, here is a simulation of the weight I knocked up through some shopping website...
Sorry but that is very misleading. There is no way anyone would anyone who had lost so much weight remain looking such naturally thin. Your skin will sag and you will not look like that. Look how much skin there is on the fat man and compare it to the skinny man. It doesn't just 'dissapear'.
I lost conderably less weight and have excess skin which is impossible to shift. Its annoying because I'm actually pretty fit, yet I don't look it. I'm never going to let my children get fat.
Best of luck with your goals.
Y'know I am totally aware of that. I found it amusing which is why I posted it. I suppose sarcasm doesn't come over very well in a picture
I'm already seeing a difference around my face, neck, shoulders and my beer gut is shrinking. I'm happy with the progress so far
My dad lost 6.5 stone from lighter life, he's keeping it off with regular exercise & a balance diet. Like they told him.
No self control ftl.
Y'know I am totally aware of that. I found it amusing which is why I posted it. I suppose sarcasm doesn't come over very well in a picture
I'm already seeing a difference around my face, neck, shoulders and my beer gut is shrinking. I'm happy with the progress so far
Ah I see. What is good is taking a photo of your self every week. Then in 3 months time, take a look back, but don't look at the pictures till then.
You will be amazed.