Members Advice on Weight Loss

Let me begin by saying I can't afford the price of a counselling session, so in this review I will dish out everything I have on this topic, including why it means so much to me in the first place. It is a worrying sign of the way the human mind can be manipulated for me to tell you I have never been thin. I was born big, and ever since I can remember I've had a tummy. My family used to cheer at my party trick of rolling the folds of fat on my stomach ...
...then it didn't worry me at all. I am now 27, and I think about my weight pretty much every day. The reason I say it is a worrying sign, is because I found a photo the other day. The photo is of me on my 18th birthday, and I AM thin. I'm all dressed up in a suit (we went out for the night) and my outdated looking family and I are smiling at the camera, but my slightly gaunt face (dare I say it) is almost unrecognisable. In my head, I think it's just ...

bruffyboy 20.12.2008 · Read full review
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So recently I have put on weight. I am currently 10 stone and 5’5, so all though I am not over weight, this certainly isn’t my comfort weight. I am at my most comfortable when I am weighing between 8 stone 12 – 9 stone 2 so fed up with my muffin top and not being able to get into my size ten’s anymore, I decided it was time for a diet. Right now I am going to be honest, I am 19 years old, and I love my food. Anything sweet or spicy or fizzy, I love. ...
...up a few of my favourite things. I am not a believer of any faddy diets like the Special K one or the 3 day diets; I just reduce my portions, because I can’t give up what I love! I also try “swaps” with certain foods that are no no’s on diets. (I.e. chicken chow mien!) I think that if you’re on a diet and you’re eating less, you need to be eating fruit and veg and drinking water otherwise, from personal experience, you just end up feeling weak, tired ...

grapesoda 09.06.2007 · Read full review
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As we begin another New Year, If anyone like me is planning on losing weight they gained over the Christmas period then hopefully this can help. I follow the weight watchers points programme but have learnt a few pointers a long the way that not many people are aware of so as I get geared up for 2006 and a big holiday to Orlando where I want to look my best for my man, I decided to write down what has helped me in the past and share that information ...
...diet plan, sit down and write down the reasons why YOU want to lose weight, as to be successful you have to be sure that you are doing it for the right reason….YOU, if this is the case then read on. ~~*Get Organised*~~  Clear out your cupboards. After special occasions tempting food will still be around either give it away or dump it in the bin, if you have weak self control the best thing is to get it out of the house or you may be tempted ...

KELLYLOUJ 01.01.2006 · Read full review
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This is my personal experience for a successful diet that has changed my life and wardrobe. For years I have been indulging myself without concern for my health and well being. Looking in the mirror, watching the miles and miles of fat around my .... well everywhere, was depressing. Seeing myself in recent holiday photos made me commit myself to change. Subconciuosly I had been preparing myself for a number of months. I wanted to be prepared for ...
...had no diet plan, but I kept saying to myself that soon I will commit. And there would be nothing to take me back from my commitment. I prepared myself to be patient, as I knew that a proper and healthy diet does not make miracles overnight. I thought myself patience. At 50kg overweight, I knew that this is going to take time, a very long time. My calculations at first were one year, now I now that it might take as much as 18 months. But patience ...

kurun 02.04.2005 · Read full review
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Same as everyone else I indulged a little too much over the festive period. After losing 8lbs last year and putting it all back on over the festivities I decided enough was enough. My 30th birthday is on the 21st of january so drastic action is called for as I have an outfit I'd like to look my best in. Now why have I decided to write about my diet here? I'm hoping for support and maybe a little motivation. I've tried the diet classes etc and with ...
...the last priority on my spending list at the moment. This probably won't be like any other review you've read as this one will be written over two weeks and updated at least every week day. The Diet:- The diet I'm going to follow is the Kellogs Drop a jeans size in two weeks program. How does it work:- For 2 weeks, you eat a bowl of Kellog's Special K (they suggest a portion of 45g) with semi-skimmed milk for breakfast and another for lunch then ...

unixgirl 05.01.2006 (18.01.2006) · Read full review
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Before I start let me say I have been a huge fattie in my time, I am not one of these size 10, never been on a diet, exercise junkie types. The most I ever weighed is 17st. 10lbs. The least I have ever weighed is 7lb 4oz! The first thing you need to do is throw away the pills, books, slendertones and all those things that are 'Guaranteed' to work. They don't. All diets will work for a while but as soon as you stop the weight goes back on, have you ...
...went on was when I was 17, I have been on them all, Cambridge, F-plan, Weightwatchers etc., and they all worked, until I got bored, then back come those pounds. After I split up with my first hubby I weighed the most I've ever weighed, despite being on a diet for almost 10 years. I decided to change my eating habits, so many times I had embarked on some new diet with food I abhorred, so I created my own 'eating plan'. I wrote down everything I liked ...

Cheekychicken 02.10.2001 (22.01.2003) · Read full review
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Member’s advice on weight loss: (Update: Week Two: 16th June 2009): This week was harder than my first week, I get terrible PMS which leads to cravings and also affects my mood a lot. I have had several bouts of tearfulness and some terrible mood swings. Normally a couple of bars of chocolate would help, (I am sure it does something to calm my moods), but obviously that is out of the question. Money has been a bit short this week too which has added ...
...my diet! I actually lost more this week, 7.5lbs! Woohoo! That means I have nearly lost a stone in two weeks! I don’t expect the weight loss to keep up this speed but I am really happy about it! The main thing I did better this week is drinking water, I am sure that I have been drinking my 2 litres a day and I really do feel so much better for it. A strange thing that is happening is that I am craving vegetables and fruits instead of chocolate, cakes ...

donnabroom 24.05.2009 (16.06.2009) · Read full review
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I was a skinny child, a real bag of bones. I never ate, I had more important things to do rather than eating, I had dens to build, things to break and games to play. My mum was quite worried for a while. Then I hit puberty, ever since I have battled with the extra stone. I bought a car at it was a extra two stone, I moved in with my boyfriend and now its an extra (ahem!) stone. Today is the end of the first day of my new healthy lifestyle, I’m ...
...the fridge that I don’t wanna think about Anyway, I have sought a lot of advice from books, professionals and friends and have learned an awful lot about healthy eating and losing weight. I’m a sensible gal, I've never tried a faddy diet, I don’t want to be skinny but I do want to be healthy. In my many attempts to achieve this I have found that following a few rules help. Everyone’s rules are different and these are the ...

michaird 26.08.2002 (27.08.2002) · Read full review
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Okay, I’ll ‘fess up. I have tried (in my 23 years) some tens upon tens of diet and weight loss attempts. They have ranged from the ridiculous in my teens (e.g. making myself cold so I’d burn more fat keeping warm – well done!) to the complicated (combination diets… blood type diets… calorie counting…) to the sensible (Slimming World, which did work but takes a little planning and me and planning go together like, well, me and dieting…) but now I ...
...diet. I don’t go to the gym (no time or money!). But I am losing weight and I am getting healthier and fitter… how? Little Steps! I don’t have the energy, time or inclination to worry, fuss and think too hard about eating certain things and scheduling keeping fit. But I do want to lose the excess flab left over from my pregnancies, I do want to look at my peak in December rather than wobble down the aisle trussed up like one of those Hippos from ...

gobbygirl 01.08.2003 · Read full review
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Remember all those women, years ago who used to whinge about their metabolism??????? Well, there is some scant preliminary evidence to suggest that some of them might just have been telling the truth - let me explain.... NB: BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER, REMEMBER - I AM NOT A DOCTOR - I AM A CONSUMER RELAYING MY EXPERIENCE - IF YOU SUSPECT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THIS - SEE YOUR DOCTOR I have a weight problem, for as long as I can remember I have had a ...
...my body-weight through diet and exercise, and ever since have been one of these 'yo-yo' dieters, losing a few stone either alone, or through organisations such as weight-watchers until about 2 years ago, when no matter what I did, or what exercise I took, I continued to put on weight. I hate being overweight, I know how to diet, I know how to exercise, I know what I should and shouldn't eat and yet........... I never ever finish a meal as I am usually ...

sue.51 30.09.2001 · Read full review
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If your anything like me and love all the nice things to eat, then read on. I have tried every diet I have ever come across, from the slim fast plan to the cabbage soup diet and have just realised there isn't any get thin quick scheme anywhere that works. So what did I do? I went and joined the gym. I have been thinking of doing this for months and have tried (to no avail) to get my mates to come with me, as the thought of walking into a gym full ...
...was no way I could put on my shorts and work out infront of these madonna's. I gave up smoking three years ago and the weight has really piled on me, so off I went. It took me a few minutes to get up the bottle to walk in the leisure centre, but once through the door there was no turning back. I walked up to the counter and asked to join the gym.(round of applause please). I was taken in the gym to see a fitness instructor (whom I might add was ...

Aquarian 05.11.2002 · Read full review
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It wasn’t that much weight, just the few pounds that creep up on you when you can’t be quite as physically active as you once were plus a few more from the self-indulgent chocolate biscuits that all-too-readily become a way of life. My friend and I walk our dogs together every morning. We stroll round, the dogs race around and it averages out at a walk, but the walk seemed to be getting slower and I was conscious of being a bit breathless on occasions. ...
...carting around with me. “Well” said Dina “you could always come to Fat Club. I’ve been going for years.” That should have started alarm bells ringing, but it didn’t. I mean why would you be going to a slimming club for years? I can assure you that Dina hasn’t faded away to nothing. “Come along” she said “they’re having an open day next week”. At that time the Club met in the church hall at lunchtime. There was even a convenient car park so that ...

SueMagee 08.07.2002 · Read full review
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Basically, before we even start to think about dieting or other weight loss techniques we should keep the following thought in our heads at all times – IT JUST ISN’T EASY TO LOSE WEIGHT (unless you go on holiday to India of course – but that’s a different story all together – lol). Losing weight is simple in theory – consume less calories than you use up as energy in a day and you lose weight right? This is all ...
...plain hard work that you have to put into this ‘simple’ routine can be a killer!!! And let’s all face it guys – not all of us have the time or knowledge to go wading through the oceans of elaborate theories that claim to have found the key to easy and effective long-term weight loss. Okay – being an (almost) typical teenage girl I have had all too many hang-ups about my looks and more than anything – the shape ...

pookypop 03.07.2001 · Read full review
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This opinion carries a non-Governmental Health warning – constant flip-flopping between systems of measurement can confuse the hell out of you. It seems like it’s ‘that’ time of year – the New Year’s resolutions have come, failed and gone, but the one thing that’s still with me is a bit more spare tyre than I remember from before Christmas. JUST HOW FAT AM I? STUFFGUTS COMES CLEAN Being overweight is now of epidemic proportions throughout the ...
...example weigh 14st 7lbs (that’s 203 pounds to US readers or 90 kilos for people who measure properly), which for someone of average build and 6’1” in height (1.87m it says in my passport) is a tad outside and above the acceptable weight range. How did I get like that? Little by little is the answer, but I refuse to accept my mum’s argument that you tend to put on a pound for every year in middle age. That’s defeatist talk. As we get older, it’s ...

BNibbles 17.02.2003 (22.02.2003) · Read full review
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It’s my ‘Ciao birthday’ today. As a member, I am a very scary one whole year old. In that time, I’ve achieved an awful lot on here. I’ve been a CMW (Ciao’s Most Wanted) for a month, I have 113 people who have me on their Circle of Trust, I’ve written some 230 opinions, I’ve met some incredible people, and I’ve had a lot of fun both reading and writing on one of the most truly unique experiences ...
...be celebrating and breaking out the bubbly and bringing in the high fat level crisps and chips, leaving all the troubles and difficulties of my life, and, more specifically, A2 Level German behind for a day, I am always conscious of one thing. It’s something that doesn’t go away no matter how long you leave it, something that you can’t leave behind and something that most people think of ceaselessly throughout their lives. And that’s ...

craigy_baby_2000 19.11.2001 · Read full review
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