Weight Watchers

[valda]

My sister called last night and want to lose wieght together in May, calling up if you feel tempted So I'm going to give it a proper go, and weigh myself every week

[anakin]

Best of luck Valda! You'll do great!

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

This thread is flying! i-i- i cant keep up, lol. Beate is in here too...everyone. Preston, where did you get this magnetic powers from, are you one of the Avengers!?! Magnetic Man! You know what, you'll make ten times a better fitness trainer than I have become. I am going to so enjoy your journey.

Keep it all up everyone.

Preston, I need to come back to you again with some thoughts. Well done on your weight loss but forgive me I am concerned you are losing too too much too quickly (having read of your 10lb week loss). Be patient. Danger of losing weight too quickly is that you lose from your muscles....and that is the LAST thing you want..in fact you NEVER want that. the other drawback is if u lose too quickly you will end up with loose skin. you really dont want that. I was losing about 2lbs a week and that is considered the maximum healthiest rate but I actually still ended up with some loose skin, thankfully not too much and it was able to contract around my muscles over a year afterwards. But if too much loose skin than it may be beyond the elastic limit and have no choice but to go for surgery to get rid of it. That 10lb loss would not be all body fat. Body Fat cannot burn off that quickly. Much of it would be water content, and worse, muscle. 2lbs a week is a maximum. Though from experience, for me, that was too much, 1.5lbs per week is probably the safer maximum but still very progressive rate. Another thing about losing the weight too quickly is that no doubt you will reach your ideal weight, congratulations are due but the method used in reaching that weight means you have to maintain that method to STAY there and more than likely it would be a method that is impossible to keep up with for life. That means the weight will come back on with a vengeance...seriously it will. What you want to achieve is a gradual adoption to a lifestyle that you can maintain and enjoy for the rest of your life.

But you said want to be very fit too, not just lose weight so I hope you are doing regular cardio and resistance exercise to strengthen your muscles. Its important in a fat loss journey to do muscle training because the muscles give you the power to do cardio with more efficiency and thus more efficient cardio means means more fat is burned. Everything connects with each other.

Obviously we all know that losing the body fat means, eating less calories than what we normally consume, and doing more exercises to burn more fat.

One more thing everyone. watching your calorie intake is brilliant. But please understand, its not just about the calories. Its about the QUALITY of calories you take. Diane, are you really thinking Maltesers are fine to have because its within your carolie budget? You know the answer to that Of course it isnt. Though dark chocolate have some merits (in very very small portions). You know what maltesers will do to you, dont you? It will increase you cravings and the calories in the chocolate are negative impact calories. Exchange it for non sweetened popcorn. You'll earn your chocolates on your comfort day But great stuff Diane, you know I like to mal-tease you sometimes I want to see everyone eating plenty of variety of vegetables. Remember you need all the variety of vitamins and minerals these food have to maintain a healthy body.

Talking of which. Here is a formula that works a treat. Remember its important to never starve yourself or eat too little otherwise the brain will think there is a shortage of food and so instead of using fat fuel, it will turn to to muscle fuel as you go about your daily physical routine. You dont want that obviously because it makes your fatloss journey harder.

However, there is a great fat burning trick you can adopt and its a lovely one because you can reward yourself every week. You can fool the brain by eating considerably less (though to a limit) for 6 days and before the brain registers a shortage of food, you take the 7th day to consume more calories to tell your body, hey everything is cool dude, dont panic :)

Loving all these meals suggestions by the way, I'll try them myself

Still cant believe how this thread has blossomed again. Preston, I come back to you yet again, this time to say thanks for you kind words in an earlier post. I cant believe you remember the time I tried on a new jacket, it seemed like an eon ago...huh, something in my eye. Damn it. Must be a leak in the roof.

And and Planing your week ahead for both diet and exercises and TELLING others is the most asurring way of making sure you stay on track. Appling a bit of pressure on yourself. A few weeks ago I was with Valda at one of the screeings in Shepherds Bush and I said I told her I am going to run home and started off on my run, 2 mins later a hundred buckets of water was poured on me from the sky and to be honest, I would have said to myself, sod this, and jump on a bus. But Valda knew I was running home and she looked impressed at that time, so I thought I cant look like a chicken because of some h2o falling on me, so I continued on. Arrived home and felt so great and proudly came on here to confirm "hey, course I ran home, I said I will, that's what I always do..what rain? oh yeah, pff, its just water." Telling others of your plans is a powerful motivational factor. And this thread, I swear, helped me stay motivated, by declaring my plans every week and not to mention the tremendous encouragment everyone gives each other. This thread is magic, if you use it well. Do what Preston is doing. Make you plan for the week and tell us and I promise we'll make you stay on track.

Whats that Val, Diane? Sponsorship? Ah...yikes...

[aruif]

all i've done is put weight on. i'm not exercising enough. i know this. i hardly sleep i don't eat properly and i'm constantly exhausted.

oh and to top it all off when i did try to go and be active i ended up with tendinitis in my knees and am now in agony!

nothing seems to happen when i try to be good. i'm so unmotivated! being told what to do demotivates me and makes me less likely to do things....

[Diane65]

all i've done is put weight on. i'm not exercising enough. i know this. i hardly sleep i don't eat properly and i'm constantly exhausted.

oh and to top it all off when i did try to go and be active i ended up with tendinitis in my knees and am now in agony!

nothing seems to happen when i try to be good. i'm so unmotivated! being told what to do demotivates me and makes me less likely to do things....

Try reading Heart Matters its by the British Heart Foundation and it does inspire you not only about health but this month has an article on sleep deprivation and general happiness which in turn will help you to have positive thoughts and in the right place to help you.

Mr Glass (Oh wise one) I think that you will find that I'm only eating the Maltesers due to the vitamin B content of the malt which I'm sure you know is essential for the immune and nervous system, muscle tone, metabolism etc do I need to go on? As you've just said we shouldn't miss out on the essential vitamins and minerals so I am only heeding your advice
I've just been for an hours brisk walk so feeling very warm now obviously not as energetic as your run but it still counts.

Well done everyone this thread is rocking

[Beate]

My stomach muscles are aching like crazy today! Stupid exercise.

[Diane65]

My stomach muscles are aching like crazy today! Stupid exercise.

Poor you but you will have a lovely toned stomach.

[Preston1990]

Managed to squeeze an hours walk in this morning at our local English Heritage property with my OH. Great walking in blazing sunshine (for once) amongst the fantastic gardens. Climbed up the spiral staircase (good cardio stuff) to stand on top of the Castle and look out over the magnificent NE countryside. Lovely having some time for once to catch up properly with my wife too whilst exercising. Life is good!

Back home for lunch - Tuna and salad! ......... along with some originally unplanned green beans and low calorie french dressing - in view of Mr Glass's recent dire and alarming warning about that desperately unattractive sounding "loose skin" that he has forecast is heading my way.

Eek! Maybe I should eat 4 or 5 of my hidden Creme Eggs now to minimise the chance of that happening!

Mr Glass I'm really pleased that you've pointed this out to me now at this early stage. OK - I'm now going to weigh myself every day for a bit, just to make sure I'm more closely tuned in to how my weightloss is progressing.

I'll definately aim for 2lb weight loss per week from now on, but I suspect I've lost more than that much already this week, with another 4 days to go. From now on, if I'm losing too fast I'll make sure I adjust my food intake to compensate. I've also heeded the warning about the importance to do the cardio exercises.

Thank you Mr Glass - you are an invaluable resource! We are so lucky to have your expertise available to us!!

Edited to add: - Completely concur with Diane about the excellent publication produced by British Heart Foundation called "Heart Matters". I get it posted to me free every 2 months. It not only contains heart related articles - but covers general health, fitness and dietry topics as well.

BHF Membership is absolutely free and comes with an interesting and useful welcome pack as well as issues of bimonthly magazine posted to you also absolutely free. Members can access the magazine on-line too.

Join up now by ringing 0300 330 3300 or go online top sign up via

http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/how- ... tters.aspx

It seems that this link above allows direct access to the current edition, member or not. So the perfect oportunity to have a look!

[Preston1990]

Several years ago I had a heart attack. As part of my rehabilitation I was given a "Heart Manual" which contained a section with exercises to increase general fitness etc. I thought they were brill!

For various reasons I can't post the extract directly to the FMUK site, but I could email a copy to anyone who is interested in seeing them.

If you want a copy pm me your email address.

I found the exercises to be fine, but people are all individuals, and as always before undertaking anything like this you should check with your doctor that you are OK to do them, especially if you have a medical condition.

Please no law suits in cases of accidents or injury - you make the final decision whether to use them or not.

[anakin]

Ew. Is that avatar to help you do this right? A warning of what could happen if you don't? Yuk!