So after recently reading a post on FB where someone referred to me as "whale", I've decided to try and lose my extra weight.
I am currently 88kgs and would like to get down to my BMI ideal weight which is between 63kgs and 73kgs.
I just don't know where to start. I have cut down my meal portions and have been doing a bit of exercise each day but not the 30mins thats reccomended.
How did you all start?
Should I start Jenny Craig's or Weight Watchers???
I know I need to exercise a bit more its just hard to find the motivation.
Good on you for doing this for you. Pretty rude comment - I am sorry someone treated you so disrespectfully.
I put on some weight during my pregnancy with Immy - I was on steroids and itpacked on the weight. I have found it really hard to budge. Partly I think as I've got a little mor years on me - they (whoever "they" are!) say it's harder to budge. Certainly for me thats been true.
I used Atkins with a lot of success after my other babies - & tried it again after Immy... I was eating their bars twice a day. I didn't lose anything...
Anyway I bought Body Trim - as they were advertising lose 4 kgs in 6 weeks or you don't pay a cent...
I figured I couldn't really lose out.
The first week I put 3kgs on on the scales... (can you feel my devastation???)
They have a forum and people were telling me not to give up so I decided I would do the 6 weeks.
I have since that first week lost the 3kgs again. So I am back to where I started but I am continuing to lose.
It is low carb high protein - eating 6 times a day - which I found really tough. On Atkins I basically never felt hungry & now I realise that my metabolisim just shut down. Everything I ate got preserved by my body as my body thought it might not eat again too soon!
anyway its easy to do - there is a lot of protein - meat which I do find a bit tough... I stick to chicken and fish most times. One day a week you have free day - that's somthing very different to Atkins & really that's what saves me on this - one day a week I can have a couple of "treat meals"...
If you are interested they advertise it on "The Morning Show' - that's where I got my pack from...
Take the step to do something - whatever eating plan you choose.
Just think if you lose a kilo a week that is only 4-5 months & you are back to a healthy range. That's what I am focusing on.
I am now a size 14 & I don't like being this big for me - I don't feel healthy, I won't even think about bathers right now... I want to feel good again!
If exercise is the difficult bit start going for walks, thats a good place to start. You can walk fast, turn it into a jog, then back to walking fast - and so on....thats interval training and the proven best way with exercise to lose weight. It keeps you in a 'fat burning range' where your heart rate is working between 60% - 70%.
You can do it with a pusher, by yourself or with a friend!
To work out what your heart rate should be a simple calculation :
220 minus your age = _____ (that figure is your maximum heart rate). Using a calculator you then work out what 60% of that maximum HR figure is and that'll be where you should be to burn fat. Anything higher than that heart rate (say 75% and above) is fitness training, which certainly won't hurt - but start light, then build up to this.
During exercise you find your pulse (best spots are on your neck or wrist - but make sure you don't find the pulse with your thumb or you may get a false reading). Look at a clock and for 15 seconds count your pulse (first count is zero, 1, 2, 3 etc etc...). Most ppl don't know to count zero first .
I stay away from the low carb / high protein type meals / diets as they absolutely deplete me of any energy and there goes my 'want' to do exercise...
I signed up for free on the Calorie King website - which asks for your basic stats and then will give you a goal of how many calories you should be eating - plus it has loads of information and recipes etc. There are also lots of motivation stories on there too, plus check in and health diaries. Its a great site (recommended to me from another BB member actually!).
Not sure if $$$ is an issue, otherwise I'd recommend to go to a gym and maybe do some fitness classes like spinning (or RPM), just for some variety. But not all ppl like gyms as they can be daunting - each to their own.
Last bit of advice is to stick too it and join us in the diet / weight loss thread!
P.S - sooooo rude of that person to speak about you so rudely!
Oh Sara, not a nice comment at all.
Weight watchers always worked well for me because you can still eat most of the usually every day foods in moderation, which is in theory easier to carry on long term rather than doing shakes and the like.
Interesting you say that Inanna about carbs - they usually recommend to have about 50% of your daily food intake being carbs, and I agree it is too much.
And you've jogged my memory re smart eating...
Paleo diet.
Now I usually hate any word that has the word diet in it as it conjures up thoughts of missing out on yummy foods....and um, you make the choice on this one.
Paleo diet is about 'clean eating' - like cave men / women No processed foods.
Eating only fruit, vegetables, meat and legumes (nuts etc). No dairy, no pasta etc.
Most ppl claim to lose about 1kg a week eating this way.
I eat that way normally... My diet has very little processed foods... Unfortunately it didn't help much for my weight loss...
I agree though it's far healthier to eat without all of the adjustments to food.
We rarely eat gluten in our house - if I do I use spelt flour, I use rapadura which is the dried juice of sugar cane - instead of processed sugar. etc I have to say though it didn't help me lose weight - but I didn't put on either.
I really had no issue with my weight until I used the steroids with Immy's pregnancy & it seems to have really stuffed things up.
I don't agree with the Paleo diet being authentically "cavemanish" as some authors suggest. It was known that they milked cows, ground grains etc.
What I think is that a large percentage of our population eat a high level of processed foods in their every day diet. From the first thing in their bellies in the morning to the last thing at nigt. I don't think that's healthy.
However, I would also have to agree that obesity is the scurge of our modern day - it is the biggest indicator of morbidity... So, in order to be more healthy we sometimes need to use tactics that may not be the best choices for every day health - but if they bring our weight down into a healthy range we can then slowly regain our diets for a healthier life. KWIM?
If I have 10kgs to lose and it means eating more meat than I feel good about - so be it... Once my weight is reached and new dietary lessons learned it is easier to keep on that healthy road...
I know once in my 20's I put on about 10kgs on an extended holiday. I lost it on shakes and ridiculous eating - however, I got my weight off & kept it off - until recently.
Sometimes we need to take drastic measures to get it off and get healthy.
However, I also think we have a dietary preoccupation with rice & pasta - and our portion sizes of these foods are way out of whack. I had a curry the other night with rice & felt like a balloon afterwards... I just don't eat much of it anymore and when I do - I feel it!
Geez people can be rude!
I would say that before you go completely changing your diet see if there are a few little things you can change. You said you have changed portion size already... do you eat too much full fat dairy? butter? chocolate? white bread? Sometimes just little changes can really reduce your kilojoule intake and it is easier to stick to it is it is fairly similar to what you eat already. That is what I think anyway.
Diet will make the biggest difference to fast weight loss, but do as much exercise as you can manage as the more muscle you build up the faster you burn energy, so it gets easier to keep weight off. I have always thought that fit looked better than just skinny too.
Good luck with it. Try to do it for yourself though... not for ignorant people who make rude comments.
Hey hun, i just read your post and whoever called you a Whale can go and ....... (Fill in the gap with very rude insult) When we are back to uni you can be my swimming buddy and we should get the girls back together for another season of netball!! Interested?
Where to go from here?
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