you lost weight - i'm asking you how.

I am not saying this as a joke.

hey there goldenboy, i know and love the
following bootsshapers items :
tuna + cheese flatbread, strawberry choccy bar, tomato + cheese tomato bread sandwich, cheese + chive crinkly crisps, mexican chicken pittabread, etc etc.

i love boots. i wish they ran the country.

go for the low-calorie content. beware of mayonnaise. the reason why i'm dietting it because for three months i ate tuna and mayonnaise at fed at reds. bad move. put on alot of weight. yeah, i've been drinking alot of coffee, no sugar items, wheetabix in the morning with banana, boots shapers, and a light pasta meal at night. eat alot of fruit. you will lose weight if you combine it with light exercise.

A few years ago, I lost 2 stone, mainly through exercise and lifestyle changes, but now I've started working and don't exercise anymore, I've put the 2 stone right back on. :-(

2 wheetabix in the morning
1 coffee
the meal deal shapers from boots (lowest calories content items)
1 coffee
snack of fruit (you can eat as much fruit as you like ...)
lite pasta meal.

that's about it. and walk as much as possible and climb stairs as much as possible. guarantee that you will lose weight. and don't drink london water - the high estrogen content will guarentee that you will grow man breasts!

it's that and the sheer amount of drug abuse as well I reckon. hahaha...

How the heck does it get in there? Witches on the New River?

i dunno how the estrogen gets in the water. i'm not a scientist but i've read it more than once.

Every morning, work out for a solid half-hour. Then drink a protein shake before you eat anything else.

Thereafter, eat whatever you feel like eating, when and if you are hungry. If you are in the mood for a snack, ask yourself if you're actually thirsty, rather than hungry. If you're not hungry any more, stop. When possible, cook for yourself.

This really works, and it makes you feel very good, too.

Do the meditation and yoga
And she’s thrown away the good food guide
And she’s given up the alcohol and pizzas
And the pies and now she looks as if she’s ready to die,
You can’t see her walk by.

Don’t eat no mashed potatoes,
Don’t eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You’re gonna look like skin and bone.

Living on the edge of starvation
And she says she’s got no appetite
And her father and her mother
And her sisters and her brothers
Couldn’t see her when she walked by
She looked like skin and bone.

Don’t eat no mashed potatoes,
Don’t eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You’re gonna look like skin and bone.

She used to be so cuddly,
She used to be so fat,
But oh what a sin cos she’s oh so thin
That she lost all the friends that she had,
She looks like skin and bone

If you look flabby
And you feel overweight,
And you wanna lose a couple of stone,
Take a crash course diet do your daily exercises
And you’ll look like skin and bone.
Come on rattle them bones,

Put your hands up to the ceiling,
Bend your hips and touch your toes,
Do your daily exercises,
You’re gonna look like skin and bone,

Don’t eat no mashed potatoes, etc.

Whoah dude that's harsh!

My weight stays fairly constant, but keeping on the go is key, like other have said - eat sensibly of course, walk everywhere, etc. Keep the metabolism level high. And yeah, cut out the booze if you can. That's a tough one, though.

Unfortunately, some of the extreme suggestions re: dancing and drugs help. A good friend wanted to lost weight and lost tons by basically going to clubs and taking pill all the time. It worked, but she's a bit, well, 'sketchy' now...

Oestrogen gets into tap water from women who take birth control-pills and then pee out hormones, no?

I have a hilarious ad that I pinched from the subway that says:

"Males behave like females. Females become more male. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE SEA!"

(It's about fish & hormones. Though it's much funnier to see it as a weird anti-queer ad.)

If you're too lazy for that, then try to get vigorously laid on a regular basis and that should do the trick. Think of all the happy endorphines.

Don't you have water filtration and purification systems in the UK?!?!?!

I would think so, amateurist, but I GAINED weight in college instead of losing it and I ate ramen and crackers all the time.

i wouldn't. you know how many poor people in the US are FAT?

If you are in the mood for a snack, ask yourself if you're actually thirsty, rather than hungry.
This really is the key for me.

Does it? Admitedly I am only a veggie, but I don't think this is true at all. I eat dairy but still. So are you saying it's the dairy?

This is the number one reason that I'm not that bothered about my weight gain. If I put on a bit of weight, HSA would still love me. If my boobs diminished, I'd be dumped in a heartbeat. ;-)

Soya Hot Chocolate. Amazing!

However soy milk = ugh ugh. Especially the strawberry soya milk drink which is basically sugar and PRODUCT which is OK for the first TWO SECONDS and then the aftertaste of YUCK stays with you for the rest of the day. ASHFISUFHSD.

Sod this coughing my guts up in the office lark, I am going home in 15 mins! Hurrah - getting into work early = classic. Never mind the fact I think I will vom all over desk if I stay any longer.

Soy contains phytoestrogens that are thought to have estrogen-like effects on one's body. A glass or two of soy milk a day isn't thought to have any serious effects of this nature, but doctors aren't so sure about the effects of diets heavy in soy. (Apart from the usual disclaimer that too much of *anything* is not good for you.)

And Sarah OTM about nonmeat proteins. However, isn't there a B vitamin that can only be found in animal products?

i don't drinks boxes and boxes of the stuff but only with cereal and tea ... tastes so so much better. but excess of anything is really bad for you ain't it?

One decision I made a while back was to eat at Starbucks less. I got in this habbit of having coffeecake items and latte type drinks almost every morning before work. It was expensive too! Now I have a variety of foods at my desk, like slim fast bars, low fat poptarts, and sometimes fruit or yogurt. And I drink the free coffee at work as much as I can stand it.

Constant weight fluctuation is dangerous, it increases chances of heart disease.

Who hear manages 5 small meals a day?

Most of that weight stopped off too. Except in the last six months or so, where I've been getting fatter even though my lifestyle hasn't changed (if anything, I'm a bit more active). Annoying. A symptom of being an old fart, presumably.

I'm only semi-joking btw :/ I lost over 10 kg this way without trying (and I didn't really need to lose weight, I was all skin and bones at my worst).

Heres a tip tho - if you do lose loads, don't go out and buy loads of sexy tight clothes like I did, for you will inevitably put a wee bit back on and then nothing fits and you have to go get new gear, bah.

This is the ILX diet support thread

daily aerobic exercise for 60 minutes
eating balanced, healthy meals

i plan to re-start my long lapsed exercise routine as soon as i ditch this cold/flu

Unfortunately, some of us, when depressed, want to eat more, as a way to self-medicate.
:^{

I am forever amazed by some people not getting the simplest of solutions - eat well, eat less, move more. It really is that simple. Seen people on so-called diets drinking diet coke and weighloss food replacement shakes... and then eating a meat pie for lunch and wondering why they're not losing weight, I mean wtf.

EAT
AND
DRINK
A
TINY
BIT
LESS
THAN
YOU
NORMALLY
DO

AND

WALK
A
LITTLE
BIT
MORE

It really is that simple.

(says the man with the little belly.)

If you want more serious weight loss you need to seriously look at your entire lifestyle, do not go on 'a diet' - but change your diet FOREVER - walk a lot more: sell your car, lose your bus pass more often, do you really need to catch that taxi?

I also make sure I have some kind of vegetable in every meal. This has come to the point where I feel lousy and slobbish if I don't. So - sandwiches/burgers always have lettuce and tomato in them; cooked meals always have a serving of salad or boiled/steamed veg. Vegetables are inexpensive, taste great (yes they do) and are good at clearing out crap from your system. It's all common sense really.

.. I also walk a lot