*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

AndyCr15 said:
Well, I'm a lazy single male who loves routine, so porridge for breakfast, Huel for one meal and a relatively healthy ready meal for the other. Yogurts and protein bars for desserts and gaps.
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Breakfasts are ok for me, it's lunches and dinners where I struggle most.
Wish I could do Huel but tried it multiple times for long periods but it just doesn't agree with me unfortunately.
Like you I would go for some kind of ready meal as they're really convenient but they're nearly always too small, have questionable ingredients or just too expensive.

I don't mind a bit of cooking but I admit I find it exhausting to prepare every meal while also calculating calories, etc. Some days I just cba and would like something really simple I can throw together.

My go-to is usually a chicken wrap. I cook up a load of mini chicken fillets in the oven and keep in the fridge all week. Re-heat them when required and have in a wrap with some salad. Does get pretty boring after a while though.
 
spengos said:
they're nearly always too small
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Hmm, that's not a good sign. I'm not saying that's ALL you need, but that a yogurt and a bar should be plenty. This is my lunch or dinner every day and if I'm actively trying to lose weight, often the yogurt or the bar are skipped.

Is it possible you might need to work more on portion control than what you're actually eating?
 
AndyCr15 said:
Hmm, that's not a good sign. I'm not saying that's ALL you need, but that a yogurt and a bar should be plenty. This is my lunch or dinner every day and if I'm actively trying to lose weight, often the yogurt or the bar are skipped.
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When you said ready meal I assumed you meant a meal from the supermarket that you heat up? In my experience they normally contain too much sauce and not much else. Which is why I said most of them are too small.
 
Surely almost all ready meals are between 350g and 400g? I've found quite a few I like. eg a nice Tune Pasta one, around 440cals. Thrive do an amazing Thai Chicken thing at around 340-370cals. Both are around the £3 to £4 mark.
 
spengos said:
Yeah I bet. What are some of the good ones? I may just try and loosely copy them. I see Lion's Prep from above, any others?
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Well if I could afford it I'd ideally get a lot of the marks and spencer meals.

There is a site called COOK and they do ready meals which are much more homemade looking.

Perhaps try them but agree with the idea of cooking a load of extra veg or salad to help bulk up your portion size.
 
Alice In Wonderland said:
Yikes! That is a hell of a lot! :(
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I know, I'm likening it to having a gastric band op. The meals are quite filling, nutricious and are keeping my calorie intake on trac - but at a price. My mother is mildly interested in it now so I'll get a bit of credit if she orders.
 
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Last year i had a HBA1c test with a result of 76
I refused to have any treatment and told my Dr i would be fix it and i do not want a type 2 diagnoses on my medical records.
4 months later 105kg down to 85kg and a HBa1c of 46.

Dr was shocked... I've not reversed it as i still get spikes but i'm controlling it with diet. I wont be happy until its reversed.

My diet is mostly a fasting diet. I'll have a Latte at home in the morning then wont eat until 9pm'ish which would be chicken with a dry rub or similar. I'd guess around 800 calories a day. But with some Carb cycling. The first few weeks my energy levels were all over the place but now I'm fine. Suppose my body is still getting the calories it needs. Just from the fat stores not the Pizza's
I do notice if i've not taken my supplements though. So i need to add in some more healthy options rather than just proteins.

Its a bit extreme but its working for me and to be honest not much different from my normal routine for the last 25 years. I've never been a breakfast eater... Very rarely ate lunch. Being my own boss and working from home I was just too busy to notice.
I'd put on weight by being ravenous come 7-8pm and only a 12inch deep pan pizza would fill the hole...
 
Down to 11st 11lb now, and another good shift at work.

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Well colour me surprised. Got back from Spain yesterday and weighed myself first thing this morning at 96.05kg. When i weighed myself just before we went away i was 98.55kg, so did actually lose a bit whilst away (although that 98.5kg was an anomaly looking and 96-97 seems to have been the standard)

Given i'm coming off a 4 day road trip which has consisted of pastries for breakfast/lunch and then something unhealthy usually for tea. I'm hoping it might even be a fairly quick drop in the next few weeks as i don't drink anywhere near as much. The main factor will be snacking again. I didn't do much in Spain, but here there's a local shop open till 9pm only a 2 minute walk away that always gets tempting!
 
Few days away in Germany with work proved that being at home is whats making me fat.
Weighed before I went away 98.6, got back and was 93.6....
Weight yesterday 96.3 lol...
 
Good weight spike for me after holiday! I'm at 90.3 this morning which isn't as disastrous as it could have been! Back to being sensible and not having a mini dessert platter with every meal!
 
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