Weight loss help required

[Saluki]

If it helps, I follow the Joe Wicks app. Great recipes that are tailored to my weight, height, gender, life stage etc. I work out once (sometimes twice) have 2 snacks and 3 meals.
I am not necessarily much lighter but my body shape has changed, I am smaller and I am happy with that

 

[Gwylan]

Went through this a year ago. Lost 15 kg, but it took time. Seems to be staying off.
Has an unexpected spin off on the wardrobe - clothes are suddenly too big.

Smaller plates, smaller portions. Less carbs - potatoes, rice, pasta.
Hence more protein.

Curbed the more than occasional chocolate biscuit.
Reduced, gradually my sugar intake. Achieving about 30 gm.
Watch out for the hidden sugar in things. That's about 5 moderate teaspoons.

Really pushed, for me, the cycling. Try for 100 km a week. With the odd longer adventure.

Probably if I cut down the G&T and the wine the 5 kg left to get to my goal would happen sooner.

Persevere & good luck

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I use the NHS Weight Loss app. I used it a couple of years ago and it worked well for me but I’ve slowly put it all back on, and more, because I stopped keeping an eye on calorie intake and portion control.

I have resumed the diet because I had a fancy dinner event to attend last month and could barely get into my kilt. I only just managed to button the waistcoat and couldn’t see how I’d manage to eat even the first course without firing buttons at the other guests.

I set a maximum intake target of 1900 per day (the app won’t go below that) and record everything I eat or drink. I’ve found that my average intake is around 1200-1300, including a beer or two and a few biscuits etc. This level leaves me felling full and satisfied. I still eat the things I like, just not as much of it.

In the past three weeks I’ve lost 4.2kg and plan to lose another 4 or 5.

Do you have someone to do it with? My wife does it with me and that helps a lot.

 

[presta]

I originally started monitoring my calorie intake to make sure I was eating enough, not for weight loss, but I now have a daily record of weight, calorie intake and exercise going back 22 years, and my experience is that reducing calories alone doesn't work.

The effect of eating less just seems to be that your body tries to adapt to the lower calorie intake and you feel cold and fatigued, whereas exercise teaches your body that it needs to maintain your metabolic rate and burn fat to make up the deficit. It seems entirely reasonable to me that evolution would produce a system that prioritises conserving fat over muscle in a famine victim who does no exercise. After I quit cycle touring I cut my calorie intake accordingly, and a year later my weight was still the same as it had been when I quit, but my chest had gone from looking like a xylophone to my ribs being covered by a thick layer of fat. On an occasion when I did need to lose weight, reducing calories alone repeatedly failed, I lost the weight by first increasing my exercise without increasing calories, then reducing calories as I returned my exercise back to where it had been.

 

[Legs]

Do you have someone to do it with? My wife does it with me and that helps a lot.

I don't have trouble maintaining a healthy weight, but I've certainly found that my wife's health kick over the past year has encouraged me to eat more healthily and exercise more regularly. Since we bought a treadmill last December, we've both been getting up half an hour before the kids (05:30) and working out, three times a week. Because she doesn't want to see me eating biscuits in front of her, I don't (and I try not to eat them when she's not about either!) She's dropped from 62kg to 53kg (5'3") and is feeling really healthy and invigorated. At 43, she's running 5ks in 23 minutes, 2 minutes faster than a decade ago, before children!

I do all the cooking in the household and I consider it a big responsibility to invest in our health, and that of our two boys, by feeding us well.

 

[teeonethousand]

The biggest difference for me was deciding that I would buy basic components only and make a meal up. No pre prepared anything...that's where a lot of the crap is.

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

Hello there!

I am struggling as well after the holidays and let me tell you that there is no secrets.

Go hungry and exercise more.

Basically what everyone else told you.

Also there is a weight watchers post somewhere.

Best of luck!