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[Valkyrie]

Keep up the good work though. Hop one two hop one two.

[Cooks]

well I haven't cheated ...

 

Wholemeal ham sandwich as the shopping comes tomorrow and cupboards are pretty bare

Banana so far

no brekkie as I had a lay in today.... hurrrah for school professional days. I caugtht up on a bit of sleep I ahven't been getting through the night.

[ClaireG]

Well done Cooks

[Cooks]

thanks but it really is early days, however its so easy when your cooped up here to just pick at food, hence my large behind. *mumbles something about always used to be able to eat what she likes when she was younger and not put on a pound*

[chickencam]

It's not fair is it, I could also eat what I liked back then I was a skinny kid until I left home, although I do think that my mum under fed me.

 

Good luck with the weight loss.

[Cooks]

I am doing ok but tonight is take away night.... errrm wonder what I will eat.

[Plum]

Well Cookie I have been sent by GP for 12 weeks of diet and exercise. However, I am going against all the rules on monday, tuesday, wednesday 22, 23rd, 24th Feb and doing a 3 day rapid weight loss diet. Guaranteed to lose 10lb in 3 days , want to join me?

[Cooks]

what does it entail???? I;ve already lost 2 pound not that I am looking

[Plum]

Ready for this

 

Day 1

Breakfast - black tea or coffee, 1/2 grapefruit, 1 slice toast, 2sp peanut butter

Lunch - 4oz tuna, 1slice toast, black tea or coffee

dinner - 2 slices of meat, 1 cup green beans, 4 oz beetroot, 1 small apple, 4oz vanilla ice cream.

 

Day 2

Breakfast - black tea or coffee, 1 egg, 1/2 banana, 1 slice toast

Lunch - 4oz cottage cheese, 5 tuc crackers, black tea or coffee,

Dinner - 2 slices meat, 4oz broccoli, 2oz carrots 1/2banana 4oz ice cream

 

Day 3

Breakfast - black tea or coffee, 5 tuc crackers, 1 slice chedder, 1 small apple

Lunch - 1 hard boiled egg, 1 slice toast, black tea or coffee

Dinner - 4 oz of tuna, 4oz beetroot, 4oz cauliflower, 1/2 honeydew melon, 4 oz ice cream

 

Toast to be dry no butter or marg

Drink sensible amounts of water

No sugar

 

Sheet says it works on a chemical breakdown and is proven. Do not vary or substitute any of the above food. Salt and pepper to be used and no other seasoning. Where no quantity is given there are no restrictions other than common sense. The diet is used for 3 days at a time. In the 3 days you will lose 10lb. After 3 days of dieting you can eat normally, but remember not to overdo it. You can repeat it only after a week.

 

Some folks I work with have done it and swear they have lost the 10lb. I think I could do it just to get the ice cream each day

[Space Chick]

 

I hate cottage cheese!!

[docsquid]

Sheet says it works on a chemical breakdown and is proven. Do not vary or substitute any of the above food. Salt and pepper to be used and no other seasoning. Where no quantity is given there are no restrictions other than common sense. The diet is used for 3 days at a time. In the 3 days you will lose 10lb. After 3 days of dieting you can eat normally, but remember not to overdo it. You can repeat it only after a week.:

 

Sorry guys, this is guaranteed to fail. It is absolute and complete nonsense and has basis only in pseudoscience, not in real science. It is not a balanced diet in any shape or form. There is a huge amount of evidence showing that this type of diet will lead to you gaining weight. Why?

 

Well, you may lose 10lb but almost all of this will be muscle, and you will lose virtually no fat. The moment you start to eat normally, you will put weight on, and you will put it on quicker, because your metabolic rate will be lower due to the muscle loss.

 

You have to make a decision - do you lose weight by adopting a healthy lifestyle and normal healthy diet that you will follow for the rest of your life, or do you want to lose a lot of weight for a short period of time at the expense of ultimately putting more on? So, do you want to be heavier in a year's time? Then follow this diet!

 

The only way to keep weight off is to adopt healthy eating patterns for life, together with appropriate levels of activity, and the only way to do this is by making gradual, stepwise changes to your diet. You put weight on over a period of years, why do you think it is natural to lose it over a period of weeks? It isn't, so don't try to!

 

Any diet promising more than 2lb a week weight loss will do more harm than good, as will any diet that advocates leaving out some types of food from your diet, over-reliance on one or more food types, or that doesn't provide a plan that will allow you to have a pleasant mixed diet for life.

[Plum]

Yes I knew all that just but thought that for 3 days it would give me a boost. I really am going for the change the way you eat for life approach. I hadn't worked out it was muscle you are losing just thought it would be fluid and fat. Spent the last ten years or so putting on weight going up and up and dieting and going up and up so don't want to lose the chance I've got for changing for good (with the odd lapse).

 

Sorry Cookie for trying to lead you astray. I just got carried away with the idea of losing so much so quickly. Keep going with what you are doing.

 

To make ammends -Tips for healthy snacks when you like to nibble

 

Piece of fruit

small handful of nuts (not salted)

Celery

Carrot sticks

Raw peppers

Figs

Small handful of seeds

Small handful of dried fruit

Weetabix cake

Rice cakes

Mini wholemeal pitta bread

Wholemeal toast

A ryvita with healthy topping

A slice of malt loaf

Low fat yoghurt

 

[docsquid]

I hadn't worked out it was muscle you are losing just thought it would be fluid and fat.

 

You do lose fluid too - that goes straight back on when you resume normal eating. Up to 3kg lost after crash dieting is fluid. However, what happens when you starve the body in this fashion is that you need to make glucose to fuel muscle activity and other metabolic activity. Because glucose cannot be made from fat, you actually have to burn muscle itself and make the glucose from protein. Thus, when you crash diet, you lose a disproportionate amount of muscle. Because muscle is heavy, and the glycogen in it contains a lot of water, you will lose a lot of weight. That is why crash diets "work" in the short term, but cause yo-yo-ing of weight in the longer term.

 

I wish there were quick fixes! Wouldn't that be nice?

 

You are doing very well Cookie. It is really hard to try and make one change, let alone a whole range.

[Cooks]

no need to apologise at all PLum, I am happy to hear your comments :D

 

I like the second lot of food better though.. :lol: and thats basically like I am eating at the moment. I am also trying to drink lots of water but then I have to get up in the night... not easy this lark..

 

I love raw peppers, carrots, seeds, humus, ryvitas ect

 

I have lost 2llb already so as long as I lose a stead slow loss I am happy. plus now my foot is getting better I will be able to walk more, no running for a while though.

[henriette]

Only just picked up on this thread. You seem to be doing really well Cookie I have spent the whole of my life on one diet or another but now have reached a happy medium where I am reasonably content. However, every winter I put on weight as I don't do nearly as much exercise (ie no gardening etc.) I have just managed to lose 4 lbs since Christmas, purely by cutting out anything with fat or sugar (apart from the occasional "meal off") My loved one, however, has lost 1 stone since October. This is because he is taking cortizone for the time being and has to have a salt-free diet. So, no processed foods at all - they all contain salt. This means no ham etc, sausages, bought cakes or biscuits, sauces etc and so it goes on. Nearly all of these contain high fat content too.

From my own point of view, I always have a small amount of bread - never any butter or spread - as it helps to fill you up a bit. Jacket potatoes with a healthy filling are great too. (but only one at a time ) I also try to add herbs to salads and vegetable s just to give a bit more flavour.

Oh yes, and one more thing, being addicted to Farmville stops the desire to eat - there is no time for food!!!

Keep up the good work - you've a load of us encouragaing you

[Plum]

Oh yes, and one more thing, being addicted to Farmville stops the desire to eat - there is no time for food!!!

That's true

 

Because glucose cannot be made from fat, .

 

I always thought fat was broken down when the body was short of glucose for energy. What makes the fat break down?

[Cooks]

I love the way your all so encouraging and telling me I have done so well when I ahve only lsot 2 lb so far more to go yet.

[Cooks]

I am not finding this too hard at the moment but were only a few days in. Today so far

Bran flakes

 

Raw pepper, carrot, humus 3 ryvitas with spread of philly lite with chives... yum..

 

[henriette]

What are you having for dinner?

[Cooks]

not sure yet... I dont tend to plan to early I will not fancy it when its cooked otherwise.

[henriette]

Hope you enjoy it whatever you have

[Cooks]

thanks xx

[chick wiggle]

You are doing well Cookie, and think, 2lbs a week is 1 stone in seven weeks Thats the way to do it

OR..

hatch some chicks because since mine hatched i have been up and down up and down a million times today to go and look at them and check on them

 

Keep up the good work Cooks

[Cooks]

cheers chicky, noooooo hatching and me wouldn't mix, I would keep them all. :lol:

[The Dogmother]

Go for it Cookie

 

Here's supper for you:

 

Grill aflattened free range chicken breast after smearing with a little olive oil, squeeze with lime juice before serving with a salad of watercress, rocket and spinach sprinkled with a wee bit of balsamic vinegar. Add some diced spring onion and sweet peppers for extra flavour.

 

Yumptious!