Small things to change to help lose weight

[FabFiona]

For me it's portion sizes. You'd be amazed at how much more you eat than your body actually needs. We started Lite N Easy recently and was blown away at how much smaller everything was. For example a bowl of pasta was literally 50% than if I had made it myself. I used to eat reasonably well but just far too much of it.

So if I were you I'd think about the quantities of what you are eating. Try and reduce your portion sizes to what your body actually needs and see if that gets you anywhere.

Good luck!

[Babyluv]

Yea I heard somewhere that it takes your body 15 monutes to register that it is full, so by the time you feel full you've most likely eaten more than what your body wants or needs.

[MrsFabuloso]

Babyluv, pregnancy has been an excuse for me too. But it shouldn't be. While I was breastfeeding that was another excues too. But I am so terribly overweight now, I just can't ignore it any more. DH is getting really tubby too and though he's a big man anyway it's just not good. My kids aren't eating well because we aren't eating well. When they see us eating crappy foods, we can't say no to them eating it too ,it's not fair, so they eat crap too. I try to make sure they have healthy beofre crappy stuff, but they're having more junk than they should and more than I want to be giving them.

So if I were you I'd think about the quantities of what you are eating. Try and reduce your portion sizes to what your body actually needs and see if that gets you anywhere.

Good luck!

Ohh, yes, portion sizes!! I have done L&E too, really amkes you realise how much more youeat than you should and teaches you how much less you can suvive with!

[Kazbah]

I've been using a bread plate for all my main meals, and looking at the portion sizes. Following the recommended 90g for meat and 1/4 plate for carbs and the rest fresh veg has really made a difference to our diets and our wallets!

I know this also sounds weird - but just don't buy junk. If you're wanting snacks, broccoli / carrot / celery with hommus is good, yummy and cheap!

And menu plan, menu plan, menu plan. I'll see if I can find you one of my old menu plans and send it through, it really makes a difference. For me, just knowing that today's snacks were going to be x, y & z made a difference. If you're getting nuts for snacks (or anything else) that you're buying in large quantities, then decant into smaller servings when you get home. So if you're hungry, or DH is hungry, there's just one packet / container to grab as opposed to weighing out a "small handful" cause that never works when you're hungry

Good luck!

[ss_storm]

if you feel hungry, have a drink of water, and then see in 10 mins or so if you are still feeling hungry..I've read/heard that a lot of the time when we think we are hungry, your body is actually trying to tell you it's thirsty. Of course since you're pg you'd still need to make sure you were eating enough for the two of you
I'm trying to lose all my post-baby weight and have been walking every day since she was born but hadn't lost anything. I've now cut out soft drink/juice and only have water, plus a cup of tea at breakfast. Trying to not eat horrible snacky junk food (gets hard with chocolate cravings though!), and to not buy it in the first place! DF is terrible though, he just doesn't care and will bring home whatever. Going to buy some nice fruit today so I can eat that instead of a biscuit or something else.

[MummaSue]

There is a really good book called "I can make you thin" by Paul McKenna. He looks at only eating when you're hungry, eating slowly and enjoying your food and stopping when you feel full. So simple but it works so well. I lost heaps of weight that way years ago and have stayed much slimmer than I ever have been. It's not about changing your diet as such (although, he does say that eating healthy is important - which is a given) but it's more about the cognitive and emotional side of eating. It's excellent and I still refer to it even now. It's so easy to get into the habit of snacking when bored, upset etc.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

1. No softdrink, juice etc
2. Eat smaller meals more often - always have breakfast lunch and tea but make sure your having good healthy snacks in b/w - fruit, carrot sticks etc etc
3. Go for walks if you can

I'm not PG but for me right now i found i was not eating enough or regularly enough to get my metabolism working so i was storing anything i took on.
For anyone who wants to check out the Summer health challenge thread, it's not all about loosing weight, it's about maintaining goals and feeling good about ourselves.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ge-146633.html