The New Year weight loss thread

Shaun

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It's that time again when some of us resolve to lose some weight and get a little lighter, healthier and fitter.

If that's you, post your goals here and we can support each other and relay our progress throughout the year.

I resolve to lose 2st [28 lbs] by the end of this year. How about you?
 
I would like to lose a few pounds by the middle of March for our holiday, not going well at the moment because I have laryngitis and feel dreadful so certainly no exercise at the moment, not a good start.
 
It's that time again when some of us resolve to lose some weight and get a little lighter, healthier and fitter.

If that's you, post your goals here and we can support each other and relay our progress throughout the year.

I resolve to lose 2st [28 lbs] by the end of this year. How about you?

Good luck Shaun :thumbsup:
 
Best of luck in that @Shaun and sadly I am joining you in the line up!

@Lullabelle hope you feel better soon.

I find myself needing to lose a bit of weight as well. At the end of October I was down to 63kg but since a disk ruptured in my spine leaving being bedbound and very inactive for 2 months (plus an operation), being subject to my husband's cooking which whilst good is not exactly fantastic or low calorie and me being steroid dependant because of another condition, I have put on a few kg over the last 2 months... :whistling:

I also suspect that Christmas, our wedding anniversary, my birthday and new year have probably not helped matters :D even though we haven't eaten the Christmas cake I made back in October before the back problems started. :(

So I find myself looking at the same weight I was last summer and needing to lose it once again... My long term goal is still to get back down to 60kg, having made it back down to 63kg just before the disk ruptured.

I weighed in at 69kg at the beginning of the week.

So my initial goal is simply to get my weight to hold constant whilst I am still bedbound and then to lose a minimum of 6kg (13lb) to get back to where I was before this all started.

Not being able to walk very far is going to make this one tough! Last night 400 meters took me 38 minutes! :eek: I think that may equate to one rice cracker!
 
The BBC have an article about dieters types which is quite interesting to read, but I have to confess I didn't really manage to classify myself and work out what type of diet would be best for me.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30709297

A quick summary of it

There are three types of overeaters.
  • Feasters who find it hard to stop eating once they start,
  • Constant cravers who feel hungry all of the time
  • Emotional eaters who turn to food when they get stressed or anxious.
Feasters
Research showed hormones play a big part in their eating habits. In particular, they produce low levels of certain gut hormones that are released when food arrives in the intestines. These chemical signals travel through the blood to the brain and tell the body when it has had enough food and should stop eating.
Feasters need a diet that makes them feel full for as long as possible. Scientists suggested a high protein, low glycaemia index (GI) diet. These are foods that boost gut hormone signals and include fish, chicken, basmati rice, lentils, grains and cereals. No potatoes or bread because they don't make people feel full for very long.

Constant Cravers
Always want to eat and their "hungry brains" often want fatty and sugary foods.
Constant cravers have genes that make them feel hungry most of the time. As a result they struggle to diet for seven days a week. Instead they (human testers) were told to drastically reduce their diet to 800 calories on two days of the week. They ate normally, but healthily, for the other five. This is often called intermittent fasting.

Emotional Eaters
Reach for food when they are stressed or anxious. When the brain perceives a person is in difficulty, it triggers changes to the body, like the heart rate increasing. This stressed state makes it even harder for people to overcome what they are facing. This sort of eater has developed habits that are hard to break and in stressful times their brains seek out a reward.
Emotional eaters have established bad habits that are hard to break... By being part of online support groups and attending weight-loss meetings, they were encouraged to stick to their diets.

To find out more, What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special is broadcast on BBC Two on 12, 13 and 14 January at 21.00 GMT (non UK residents will need to use an alternative method of connecting to the BBC iPlayer to watch the program :whistling:) but it is usually only available to watch for 30 days after the first airing.

There are also android, iTunes and a kindle book which non UK people may or may not be able to access.
Amazon.com app link
Android app link
IPad app link

I don't know if these links will work for people outside of the UK because the BBC can be funny over licencing sometimes! (Hence why I have summarised the article...)
 
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