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Im Going On A Diet And Need Help And Advice Please.
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Im 55 years old
im 5'11
im I currently weigh 14.8 stone = 93.8 Kg
I have never been big built but since I gave up smoking (50 a day) 8 years ago I have put on weight, I now have a good size "beer belly" I dont drink alcohol in any quantity of concern, literally a few pints a year.
Nearly all the males on my Fathers side and including my Father died in their 50s from heart attacks.
I admit to having a "very" large appetite that was never an issue until more recent years, I think my age combined with giving up smoking has now decided to pile on the pounds.
My problem is, realistically for me to reduce my weight I still need to eat reasonable portion sizes, I cant live on salad although I do like a bit of salad preferably with a lb of cheese with it or plenty of meat. I like Mexican type foods and Indian Curries along with most English foods.
Gym and routine exercising is never going to happen as I generally dont have the time or the inclination. I do however work a lot and fairly active. I would like to try interesting beans and pulses, I love all meats but not into strange concoctions made from fungus etc!
My good lady Carakeel is doing the diet with me, she is a great cook and I know will come up with great ideas but I need all the help I can get.
We very rarely eat processed convenience foods and I do love all meats.
what are your views on chicken, sweet potato, ordinary potato, pasta, beans and pulses, butters and spreads, types of bread?
all ideas welcomed!
Im 55 years old
im 5'11
im I currently weigh 14.8 stone = 93.8 Kg
I have never been big built but since I gave up smoking (50 a day) 8 years ago I have put on weight, I now have a good size "beer belly" I dont drink alcohol in any quantity of concern, literally a few pints a year.
Nearly all the males on my Fathers side and including my Father died in their 50s from heart attacks.
I admit to having a "very" large appetite that was never an issue until more recent years, I think my age combined with giving up smoking has now decided to pile on the pounds.
My problem is, realistically for me to reduce my weight I still need to eat reasonable portion sizes, I cant live on salad although I do like a bit of salad preferably with a lb of cheese with it or plenty of meat. I like Mexican type foods and Indian Curries along with most English foods.
Gym and routine exercising is never going to happen as I generally dont have the time or the inclination. I do however work a lot and fairly active. I would like to try interesting beans and pulses, I love all meats but not into strange concoctions made from fungus etc!
My good lady Carakeel is doing the diet with me, she is a great cook and I know will come up with great ideas but I need all the help I can get.
We very rarely eat processed convenience foods and I do love all meats.
what are your views on chicken, sweet potato, ordinary potato, pasta, beans and pulses, butters and spreads, types of bread?
all ideas welcomed!
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Our dive doctor recommends the best eating regime I’ve found. Only fruit before 12 noon, proper lunch and proper dinner, don’t mix carbs with protein in the same meal (better still not on the same day), eat little bread, and restrict cheese and butter to very rare occasions. That way you can, for example, have a whole chicken if you like, or a huge steak, or a...
11:38 Mon 14th Jan 2013
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I would definitely reccomend a low carb diet. Recearch over the past ten years has proved that low calorie /'healthy grains diets do not work,as it goes against your bodies needs. Simply put-carbs encourage your body to produce insulin-also called the fat hormone-which in turn causes the body to hold on to fat.
Eat more of the foods you love-the meat-all kinds-,eggs,cheese and other dairy,lots of veggies...but limit pasta,bread,grains,processed foods.
I did The Harcombe Diet-lost 22lbs 2 years ago,and have kept it off. Never hungry.
Eat more of the foods you love-the meat-all kinds-,eggs,cheese and other dairy,lots of veggies...but limit pasta,bread,grains,processed foods.
I did The Harcombe Diet-lost 22lbs 2 years ago,and have kept it off. Never hungry.
As someone who has had weightloss surgery, I shouldn't really comment but I was given a pre-op diet before it. It consisted of high protein, low fat and low(er) carb. I lost 10lbs in 8 days. I did a lot of stir-fries, stews with no oil, soups etc. The meat I used a lot was turkey (I know you might be sick of the sight of it by now!) but it is low in fat and high in protein but you could also use chicken. I would always choose a sweet potato over a normal one, but that's just me! I don't agree with low-fat spreads as I think they are full of rubbish. A little bit of regular butter shouldn't be a problem. That's where Weight Watchers is good. You can have ANYTHING o long as you count it into your daily points allowance. You can do it online too.
reading this with interest as I seem to be proportionately a similar shape to you, and can't exercise. 'Diets' as such aren't much use, I've found, but in theory if you aren't getting much exercise then you need less food than someone who is. And yet of course we eat the same size portions as anyone else. So I've found reducing portions and eating only when properly hungry rather than 'peckish' is of some help, if only I could keep it up; and trying reducing carbs/calories etc may do too (try experimenting with reducing different elements and see if it works for you).
But I'm hardly the right person to advise you, I guess.
But I'm hardly the right person to advise you, I guess.
Get a bike and cycle along the Tarka trail twice a week to the Pannier Market in Barnstaple. You can stock up on all the lovely local veg and go to the fishmongers in Butchers row while you`re there. You`ll be eating healthy food and getting exercise at the same time. Do they still have a swimming pool in Northam? The good thing about shift working is that you can go to the pool when it`s quieter.
Do not deny yourself anything or you will crave for it. Change your dinner plate to a smaller size side plate and half your portions. If you feel hungry in between meals substitute high fat snacks such as crisps and cheese for raw cut up veg you can dip in home made hummus or peanut butter. Homemade soups are filling and can be very low fat if you boil all the veg in stock instead of softening them in butter first. Avoid obviously high fat things such as bought pizza, although pizza homemade can be healthy just leave off any fatty pepperoni. Puy lentils cooked in veg. broth, cooled and then mixed with a lemon dressing,chopped cucumbers,spring onions,tomatoes,peppers is a nice salad that is substantial enough to keep you going and you feel like you've eaten something.
ummmm, I agree, the change in lifestyle is a part of my diet, I like the idea of reducing the carbs. I think we all see "diets" as fads, I accept that this diet will be apart of all my future eating habits not a flash in the pan. I have been totally against diets all my life but if its a part of a change in lifestyle it will surly work as long as I am realistic with my expectations and goals.
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I can only tell you what worked for me. I had promised and promised myself that I would get rid of the weight I had put on eating irregular meals in hotels and at business lunches. This didn't happen, so I decided to join a slimming club along with a friend.
My objective was to compete with myself, not with others. I do not subscribe to dramatic and sudden weight loss.
I did not follow their diets, but devised my own, based on the foods I like. The first things to go were chocolate and cheese, but there was no way I would give up bread and potatoes.
The only fruit I like is bananas and clementines, and hate lettuce with a vengeance. I love butter, but swapped to the easy spread type, low fat yogurts and bran instead of cereal.
I also was strict about mealtimes, and did not graze, except for an occasional biscuit.
I continued to fry food, as I always set the grill on fire when I used it, but used olive oil mixed with some low cal spray.
It took me a while to get used to being strict with myself, but I ate what I wanted but in smaller portions.
I did not obsess about what I was eating - the weekly meetings were a stimulus, and became a kind of an internal competition. They were quite funny, because when everyone else was relating how 'good' or 'bad' they had been, I was able to say truthfully that I had had roast beef, apple pie, ice cream, etc. I was quite unpopular with the group leader.
The weight simply dropped off, and one day, after I had lost 15 kilos in 4 months, I filled a suitcase with books weighing the same and carried it up the stairs. That was what I had been carrying with me before I started.
I did not do any extra exercise.
One other thing I did and that I found very helpful was to follow my own '20 minute' rule. I remember reading somewhere that it takes 20 minutes for the brain to recognise that the stomach is full. So I waited 20 minutes and mostly found that I didn't want anything more.
Is any of this helpful? Sorry if it's a bit disjointed.
Good luck.
I can only tell you what worked for me. I had promised and promised myself that I would get rid of the weight I had put on eating irregular meals in hotels and at business lunches. This didn't happen, so I decided to join a slimming club along with a friend.
My objective was to compete with myself, not with others. I do not subscribe to dramatic and sudden weight loss.
I did not follow their diets, but devised my own, based on the foods I like. The first things to go were chocolate and cheese, but there was no way I would give up bread and potatoes.
The only fruit I like is bananas and clementines, and hate lettuce with a vengeance. I love butter, but swapped to the easy spread type, low fat yogurts and bran instead of cereal.
I also was strict about mealtimes, and did not graze, except for an occasional biscuit.
I continued to fry food, as I always set the grill on fire when I used it, but used olive oil mixed with some low cal spray.
It took me a while to get used to being strict with myself, but I ate what I wanted but in smaller portions.
I did not obsess about what I was eating - the weekly meetings were a stimulus, and became a kind of an internal competition. They were quite funny, because when everyone else was relating how 'good' or 'bad' they had been, I was able to say truthfully that I had had roast beef, apple pie, ice cream, etc. I was quite unpopular with the group leader.
The weight simply dropped off, and one day, after I had lost 15 kilos in 4 months, I filled a suitcase with books weighing the same and carried it up the stairs. That was what I had been carrying with me before I started.
I did not do any extra exercise.
One other thing I did and that I found very helpful was to follow my own '20 minute' rule. I remember reading somewhere that it takes 20 minutes for the brain to recognise that the stomach is full. So I waited 20 minutes and mostly found that I didn't want anything more.
Is any of this helpful? Sorry if it's a bit disjointed.
Good luck.
One possibility is for you to join a club. The knowledge that you are turning up each week tor weighing and suchlike is a grand incentive to stick with it. And you do get decent advice in among the product pushing.
You need not eat salad to lose weight. I don't touch such pet food with a 20 foot bargepole. But it does make it more difficult. But ultimately it is good to raise the low calorie portions of your meals (which usually means vegetables) and reduce the calorie/fat high items.
Most success is down to trimming off small calorie amounts that don't seem too effective looked at in isolation but which add up when you apply this over the whole diet. If there was one single thing that worked miracles then someone would already be making a fortune out of it.
I'd advise not to drastically cut things out of the diet, try to find an eating pattern you could live with for life, but monitor what you take in at least until you know and it is second nature to not go overboard with portion size, or have the high energy stuff too often.
Remember you can eat more and lose weight at the start so can work you way down to accepting smaller portions as the norm. It takes a while to adjust but eventually the larger portions simply look too much, rather than you craving more.
You can contribute here too if you think it will help. http://
You need not eat salad to lose weight. I don't touch such pet food with a 20 foot bargepole. But it does make it more difficult. But ultimately it is good to raise the low calorie portions of your meals (which usually means vegetables) and reduce the calorie/fat high items.
Most success is down to trimming off small calorie amounts that don't seem too effective looked at in isolation but which add up when you apply this over the whole diet. If there was one single thing that worked miracles then someone would already be making a fortune out of it.
I'd advise not to drastically cut things out of the diet, try to find an eating pattern you could live with for life, but monitor what you take in at least until you know and it is second nature to not go overboard with portion size, or have the high energy stuff too often.
Remember you can eat more and lose weight at the start so can work you way down to accepting smaller portions as the norm. It takes a while to adjust but eventually the larger portions simply look too much, rather than you craving more.
You can contribute here too if you think it will help. http://
Our dive doctor recommends the best eating regime I’ve found. Only fruit before 12 noon, proper lunch and proper dinner, don’t mix carbs with protein in the same meal (better still not on the same day), eat little bread, and restrict cheese and butter to very rare occasions.
That way you can, for example, have a whole chicken if you like, or a huge steak, or a big beef casserole every day - or twice a day if you like - with whatever vegetables take your fancy – no potatoes with those of course. If you like your eggs & bacon breakfast that can be eaten at lunchtime – or you can fulfil your need for potatoes with a jacket for lunch – or for bread, with a salad sandwich. If you want curry with rice, make it vegetable curry – with pasta, vegetable sauce. You don’t need to starve yourself and you don’t have to live on salad. The main thing is don’t mix carbs with protein - and ditch the real fat like cheese and butter. You’ll find you’ll be eating most of the things you like - and the weight will drop off.
Good luck. x
That way you can, for example, have a whole chicken if you like, or a huge steak, or a big beef casserole every day - or twice a day if you like - with whatever vegetables take your fancy – no potatoes with those of course. If you like your eggs & bacon breakfast that can be eaten at lunchtime – or you can fulfil your need for potatoes with a jacket for lunch – or for bread, with a salad sandwich. If you want curry with rice, make it vegetable curry – with pasta, vegetable sauce. You don’t need to starve yourself and you don’t have to live on salad. The main thing is don’t mix carbs with protein - and ditch the real fat like cheese and butter. You’ll find you’ll be eating most of the things you like - and the weight will drop off.
Good luck. x
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