Weight Watchers

[yogi]

Congratulations Diane you are doing really well.

It's even more impressive considering the Town Hall afternoon tea you attended earlier in the year.... I finally got to go on Saturday and it was lovely, big slabs of cake, cream, scones, jam, but I could barely breathe afterwards!!

I may be quizzing you for diet tips in the near future.

[r33ceh]

If i have just eaten two packet of crisps, and a sandwich......am i still allowed to eat chocolates at the cinema tonight? or is that just being greedy??

[jojojoanne]

going by your photo, you don't look like you need to lose weight ... unless you're the handsome one standing behind that funny looking character ....

[Diane65]

Congratulations Diane you are doing really well.

It's even more impressive considering the Town Hall afternoon tea you attended earlier in the year.... I finally got to go on Saturday and it was lovely, big slabs of cake, cream, scones, jam, but I could barely breathe afterwards!!

I may be quizzing you for diet tips in the near future.

Thank you so much and it was after that enormous afternoon tea and the picture that you had taken showing me with my big fat face that started me on this journey So pleased that you enjoyed your afternoon tea - its delicious

If i have just eaten two packet of crisps, and a sandwich......am i still allowed to eat chocolates at the cinema tonight? or is that just being greedy??

You are allowed as long as you share - I like minstrels and/or maltesers but I hope that you won't be as noisy as you were last weekend (obviously if you are sharing its fine)

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Tremendously well done, Diane65, and despite your busy life and multiple temptations. True dedication indeed!

Thank you so much for always being so lovely

Its maintenance day as from today plus my new goal is body fat - I have just measured myself and I have 26.6% body fat which is in the acceptable range but MrG's suggestion of 14-17% in the athletes band maybe pushing it a bit so I have messed around with the figures and if I lose 2 inches from both my waist and hips it will put me in the fitness bracket with a 21.3% body fat so that can be my next goal. MrG and anyone else any suggestions of how to achieve this (obviously I will keep up the exercise)?

I am going to try with 1500 calories a day and see if that works for maintenance and then adjust accordingly - I will continue posting my meals for another 4 weeks to see if I maintain my weight and get into the swing of it.
Menu of the day:
Larger bowl of all bran and a banana (400 calories - now feel overfull )
Cambridge diet vegetable chilli (285 calories) raspberries and a weight watchers chocolate mousse (80 calories)
Ham salad sandwich (quick dinner as going straight to the cinema from work) (300 calories) 2 plums and a mandarin (60 calories)
I will have peanut butter on toast when I return (200 calories)
I need to incorporate about another 150 calories of healthy snacks. I will still have a treat day once a week but don't want to have treats to fill up my daily calorie quota.

It will be a rest day today as I want to do a bit of sanding my paintwork after the cinema.

Have a fun day everyone and anyone not on holidays I look forward to hearing of your healthy day

26.6%, wow that's a great achievement. Ooops I meant to say 21-24%, that is the fitness range for women, 14-17% was for men's fitness range, sorry! So your target of 21-22% is perfect. That will be more ideal and something you can maintain with a comfortable healthy lifestyle. To be honest getting your body fat% to athlete level (below 18%) is actually not recommended at all for women especially. So 22% just right.

But that would mean, you will still need to maintain a calorific deficit. You're wouldnt be maintaining just yet if you want to drop 3-4% more body fat. You need to decrease these sweet treats you are having just to fill up your allotment, think of more healthier snacks such as oatcakes, unsalted ricecakes with low fat cottage cheese, home made fruit smoothie (have you got a blender? make use of it!), plain raisin bread, nuts and seeds etc. Also, there are hardly much protein in your menu. Get some fish and white meat in your diet, and dont forget those veggies :). And of course keep those exercises going and...hey did you b*y the resistance bands?

Again well done DIane, I am so impressed with how you are sweeping and gliding into your next phase already!

[Rainey]

This is where my problem lies, the healthy snacks are just so grim!

But that means, you will still need to maintain a calorific deficit. You're not maintaining just yet. You need to decrease these sweet treats you are having just to fill up your allotment, think of more healthier snacks such as oatcakes, unsalted ricecakes with low fat cottage cheese, home made fruit smoothie (have you got a blender? make use of it!), plain raisin bread, nuts and seeds etc. Also, there are hardly much protein in your menu. Get some fish and white meat in your diet, and dont forget those veggies :)

Again well done DIane, I am so impressed with how you are sweeping and gliding (because you are so light now ) into your next phase already!

Congratulations Diane! Wish I had some of your determination and will power at the moment instead of letting things just slide.

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

This is where my problem lies, the healthy snacks are just so grim!

But that means, you will still need to maintain a calorific deficit. You're not maintaining just yet. You need to decrease these sweet treats you are having just to fill up your allotment, think of more healthier snacks such as oatcakes, unsalted ricecakes with low fat cottage cheese, home made fruit smoothie (have you got a blender? make use of it!), plain raisin bread, nuts and seeds etc. Also, there are hardly much protein in your menu. Get some fish and white meat in your diet, and dont forget those veggies :)

Again well done DIane, I am so impressed with how you are sweeping and gliding (because you are so light now ) into your next phase already!

Congratulations Diane! Wish I had some of your determination and will power at the moment instead of letting things just slide.

lol, ok, it doesnt have to be that grim to start with, its just a next phase, I was suggesting for her. Its about adjusting gradually. Not jumping straight into military feasting. I would never be able to adjust to what I am eating now, when I started my journey, I'm sure I would have gone mental if I did. It had to be gradual adjustsments :) SO say if you have 2 sugars in your coffee, then just have 1 sugar or no sugar. Instead of a latte, have a peppermint tea...that sort of thing, and you see results straight away.

[Rainey]

I understand what you are saying, but I am blaming my weight gain on my age and work (Doesn't everyone have an excuse!!) Few years ago, OH was made redundant, so whilst he was looking for work to keep us a float I worked Mon-Fri 9am-3pm, overnight Fri & Sat 11pm-8am & Tues,Thurs & Sun evening 6pm-11pm I did this for 9 months, the weight fell off, I was not trying to lose weight at the time, but I was overdoing it & it played havoc with me, but had a mortgage to p*y. However, once I stopped all the weight crept back on and more and no matter what I do I just can't seem to shift it and just get back to pre working day/night weight.

I don't even really snack, I don't eat crisps, don't b*y chocolate/cakes/biscuits etc to have at home, only have them rarely if out, don't have fizzy drinks, don't have sugar in/on anything not really sure what else to cut back on! But I would rather have nothing than oatcake, ryvita etc!

[Diane65]

This is where my problem lies, the healthy snacks are just so grim!

But that means, you will still need to maintain a calorific deficit. You're not maintaining just yet. You need to decrease these sweet treats you are having just to fill up your allotment, think of more healthier snacks such as oatcakes, unsalted ricecakes with low fat cottage cheese, home made fruit smoothie (have you got a blender? make use of it!), plain raisin bread, nuts and seeds etc. Also, there are hardly much protein in your menu. Get some fish and white meat in your diet, and dont forget those veggies :)

Again well done DIane, I am so impressed with how you are sweeping and gliding (because you are so light now ) into your next phase already!

Congratulations Diane! Wish I had some of your determination and will power at the moment instead of letting things just slide.

Thank you so much and you will be able to do it Rainey - I along with everyone else on this thread will support you along the way. MrG will be here with his expert advice and we are here with the moral support. There are loads of healthy recipes that we have all tried and lots of different exercise regimes that I'm sure you will find one you like - So get a ticker and you will soon be on your way. My best b*y was a set of scales to weigh out my portions as my portions were way too large.

Bring it on MrG - I am ready for the next challenge and you are so right I have been letting the protein levels slip a bit and I will include some healthy snacks, I do love nuts and seeds so I will b*y some. I have my old faithful Kenwood Chefette which is going strong after 25 years so can blend away. I eat any vegetable and fruit going so I should be easily able to incorporate them into my diet. I have been reading up a bit and I need 1850 calories to maintain my weight providing I keep up with 6 hours of exercise a week so I'm thinking that if I up my calories to 1500 a day I should still lose weight but at a slower rate. My concern is that if I don't slow it down a bit due to my age (I still class myself as being young) it can get to the stage where you stop looking healthy and start looking older than your years.

[Diane65]

Good morning everyone and welcome to Rainey. Hope that Biggins and Preston1990 are having a fabulous holiday Hope that ClareBarr, MsThrifty, anakin, jojojoanne and Valda are keeping well. Where are you havingascreen? Hows are guiding light MrG this morning?

Day 2 of 1500 calories - MrG if you think that I should lower this please just say and if anyone else has tips for me I would love to hear it. I'm not sensitive (I am towards other people) so you can say it as it is.

Menu of the day:
Porridge (large bowl) and a black coffee (400 calories) - I will go back to 300 calories tomorrow as I feel uncomfortably full and have healthy snacks instead
Large ham salad sandwich and 2 plums (450 calories- I am working a very long afternoon)
2 egg omelette with salad and balsamic vinegar and 2 mandarins (350 calories)
A cereal bar and I must try and get some nuts/seeds for healthier snacks (basically I need to do a shop ASAP)

Exercise of the day:
A brisk 4 mile walk and a coat of gloss and a bit of sanding this evening - I need the gloss work finished by Friday evening (doing it after work in the evenings) so that I can do the emulsioning over the weekend (its a large kitchen and its the drying time for the gloss which will hold me back). Daughter goes back to college in 2 weeks so won't have the time to do all the housework then with studying etc - so it will be my job once again plus I go to Berlin next Friday so I'm on a mission (I actually love doing it )

Have a fun day everyone