Re: I just can't do it without counting calories
Originally Posted by
Granny J
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have been a member of weight watchers for years.
Doesn't that kind of tell you that WW is useless?!
Shouldn't it be the case that you go to a slimming club/organisation and get taught how foods work, how the body works and what foods to eat and what foods to avoid?
If that were the case then you'd only need to visit the club for one set of sessions to learn that stuff and then you'd never need them again.
Of course that's not actually how they work. The business model of these places relies on repeat customers and one should conclude from that fact that they are not preparing people for proper healthy living imho.
Originally Posted by
Granny J
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I have found that cutting out things like bread, and eating a lot of veg and fruit, and a small amount of protein every day, and in small portions I can lose weight quite quickly
There is nothing remotely wrong with real proper bread. You can (and should) eat it and not find that it makes you fat. But to do so you have to understand what bread is, what the core ingredients are and what all the unnecessary ingredients are. I read the label on a supermarket loaf last year and was staggered to see 20 ingredients !!!
Bread only requires 4 ingredients. Flour, salt, water and yeast (or other leavening).
All the rest where awful chemicals, flour "improvers", preservatives and the like. Stuff that will make you unhealthy. Buy good bread from a proper artisan bakery or make your own.
Originally Posted by
Granny J
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I weigh myself each morning when i get up. and write my weight down.
Stop doing that imho
It's silly.
Weight is a SYMPTOM not a root cause
Weighing yourself just makes you focus on that symptom instead of sealing with the real thing, the real issue, which is your health.
If you are healthy, you will not be over-weight. It's that simple.
Focussing on weight is completely the wrong thing to do for all manner of reasons. One of those reasons is that when people see that they have lost a few lbs or stones they think all is ok. The reality is that they are still unhealthy and haven't made the life changes they should to become healthy and stay that way. All they've done is temporarily changed eating habits following some fad diet or set of eating rules. They will invariably put the weight back on again and usually more besides. Hence then repeated visits to WW and SW.
Diets simply do not work in terms of permanent weight loss and achieving a healthy body.
You can only achieve those things by fundamentally educating oneself as to what is, and what is not good/bad, healthy/unhealthy. Also by educating oneself as to how foods are labelled, what the real contents of food products are vs what the manufacturers try and trick you to believe.
The primary task is to learn to eat and drink healthily. When that is achieved, the weight disappears of it's own accord as a BY-PRODUCT of being healthy, NOT as a by-product of what you are eating.
Most weight is actually lost whilst you are sleeping at night through perspiration and transpiration.
Health come first,
Weight happens as a result
Throw the weighing scales in the bin and resolve to eat healthily.