Some help please? - Diet & Nutrition Message Board

gripchimp · 07-20-2002, 05:34 PM

I have read a lot of messages here before I have decided to post myself, I hope you are all not going to be bored by another question of this type.

My problem is I need to lose weight and kind of quickly due to a foot complaint that requires I alleviate some pressure on my feet on a daily basis. I am 3 stone overweight due to medication which I cannot stop taking.

I walk about 2 miles a day, do 5 minutes on a stationary bike and do a few pectoral exercises a day for a few minutes. Food wise: I eat one bowl of cereal with semi skimmed milk, 2 slices of bread, salami and margarine for dinner and a sensible meal at night, no pudding, usually veggies and a pie or something similar in calories, very very few snacks and dilute squash for drink which is low calorie anyway.

As I hope you can see, I barely must be eating enough as it is, let alone I am overeating, I don't eat chocolate or crisps and only 6 teas a month include fries the rest is either veggies or pasta or rice, all my food apart from fries is oven baked not fried.

I have tried the cabbage soup diet and stuck to it!! I lost quite a lot of weight but put it all back on very quickly, I've heard that is the case for a lot of people. Because of my size and the season here in UK it is very hard to exercise for too long as the heat becomes unbearable and I cannot go to a pool or gym as I am agoraphobic, gosh would I love to swim in this weather

So, there in lies my problem, I need to lose the weight rather quickly for health reasons but as you can see I am not exaclty a cake and chocolate eater or a binger or a snacker, my meals are actually healthy as it is

I read somewhere that a lady went on the cabbage soup diet minus the soup, just basically eating fruit and vegetables and drinking water, would this maybe be an idea for me? I can live with dropping the cereal and sandwich for fruit and veggies and I could probably stick to it for a good couple of weeks, it also wouldn't cost too much which is also a factor??? Ideas anyone on this plan?

I have eaten roughly the same for the last year and have stuck to the same weight of 11 stone 3 lbs for all that time give or take a pound or two, the tablets really don't like me losing weight

So, any ideas would be very graciously recieved with my problem.

Many many thanks.

gripchimp · 07-21-2002, 05:38 AM

Hi there.
After much searching of the internet all last night, reading these boards and old messages and writing to 'experts' for advice I have finally come up with a diet plan that I think will work for me and shift some weight a little speedier than usual.

I am having 3 fruit and vegetable only days out of 7, the other 4 days I will eat cereal for breakfast, one sandwich for dinner and veggies and something about 400 calories for tea (my old usual days meals).

I weighed myself this morning and I am 11 stone 5 lbs
I will weight myself in exactly one week and see how the diet is going. So far today is day one and I have had a plum and a banana for breakfast, I am having a salad for dinner and veggies for tea, it doesn't sound too bad or too hard to do and I have read on a board that someone did this diet and lost 4lbs in one week!!
The good thing about this is, if I lose loads of weight but when I change back to normal foods I put weight back on then the good thing is I CAN live like this permanently if I need to, one day on, one day off sort of thing.

Another good thing, it's not pills, it's not potions, it's not fad-dy, I believe it is simply eating as mother nature intended with no processed rubbish, nice and natural and healthy.

So, many thanks for the support and I hope to become a regular contributer to this great board, hopefully with a lot of stories of success about this new diet I have just begun.

Wish me luck......