Looking for advise

[Crookymonstar]

Hey all hope your doing well looking for advice on losing weight my target is to lose 4 stone in 14 months gym is only an option 1 day a week due to my work look forward to hear from you.

[Glenda]

                                    Crookymonster,  14 stone is 56 pounds so that would only be a pound a week for 56 weeks.  If you are overweight 56 pounds you can probably do that.   What you eat is far more important than exercise.  Exercise is very important for health, longevity and muscle maintanence.  But to lose weight eat nutritious food which will fill you up and be more satisfying.  Don't waste calories on sugar, or alcohol,  try to hold it down on grain products.    Google the 5 - 2 diet.  You might like to almost skip eating 2 non consecutive days a week.  It is easier for me than dieting all the time at a seriously reduced calorie level.  Your metabolism doesn't slow down when you diet only 2 days a week.   But you need to find a way you can tolerate forever  so that you will not "fall off the wagon" and gain back lost weight ever.   Are you a crook?

[Crookymonstar]

My second name is Crook I am overweight I am 21stone

[Dominique]

Good advice you got from @Glenda. I agree with her nutrition is key. Note there is nothing miraculous about the 5:2 diet: like any other diet, it will only work for weight loss if 1) it manages to put you in a reasonable caloric deficit and 2) you can adhere to it long enough. It’s one approach, but there are many other ways to do it. As long as the two abovementioned conditions are met, weight loss will happen. With that diet, a weekly deficit is created with two (very) low-calorie days. I’m currently doing something similar with four low-calorie days per week (but I eat almost twice as much during these days as in the 5:2 diet), but I’m only going to do it for 8 weeks.

I would suggest you use an online calculator such as this one in order to figure out your BMR and how much (or rather little) you need to eat to go from 133 to 108 kg (sorry, had to convert to metric to make any sense of stones) in 14 months. You can determine your activity level by looking at the calories burned according to your Fitbit and comparing them to the TDEE obtained with each of the five activity levels in the calculator. If you’re not familiar with BMR and TDEE, they’re defined at the bottom of the page.

[Glenda]

Crookymonster, I am happy you are not a crook. Since you use stones maybe you are from England. I read some where that the Royal family doesn't let the media film them when they are eating. That is an excellent idea because chewing, let alone eating, is unattractive. I have watched people on TV who weigh 800 pounds eating something and it isn't pleasant to see. They open wide and cram in huge bites. I think that if we all pretended we are being filmed we would automatically slow down, take smaller bites, keep our mouths shut and take long enough to eat that the food registers on our brains before we overeat. The other suggestions I've heard that might help us remember that we already ate something and couldn't be hungry, is to always eat at a table and don't do anything else at the same time. So after you remember that you already ate, get busy doing something else? This year my resolution is to do a better job of dieting while in the grocery store for 30 minutes (avoiding buying junk food) which is easier than trying to avoid it all week at home. You have to figure out the things that work for you to make it all easier. Best wishes. Glenda

[Glenda]

                                    Crookymonstar.  I was doing that before without a pencil.  When Dominique mentioned killograms I started refiguring.  I really messed up before I know.  21 stones being 14 # each is about 300 pounds.  since you want to lose 14 stone, that is about 200 pounds.  That seems too much for you to need to lose since then you would only be about 100 pounds  which is about 45 kg!    Anyway losing 200 pounds in 14 months figuring 4 weeks per month would be 3  1/2 pounds a week.    A 300 pound person can lose that much a week but as you get smaller it will become more difficult.  It is just a math thing.  But by that time maybe you will have learned some better eating habits.  Killograms, stones and pounds are confusing. 🙂

[Crookymonstar]

Thankyou all I do appreciate your advice I have cut sugar and nearly carbs out my diet and feel better already 

[Glenda]

Crookymonstar, I'm so glad you posted so I could write a reply. It is hard to find you again. It might make you happy to know that regardless of earlier guidelines, a study of 63,000 adults, by the University of Sydney, showed that one or two exercise sessions a week may be enough o reduce the risk of death from cancer or heart disease. For optimal benefits more is better but 150 minutes a week of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity on just one day a week is OK

[Crookymonstar]

That's great because I am on my feet all day fast pace 8am till 6pm 

[Glenda]

                                    Crookymonstar,  Maybe you would enjoy looking into some of the other forums or threads, whatever you call these things.  But they talk about diet and exercise all the time.  The Christmas to Valentines Challenge isn't really a competition, just support  & conversation about it and you can ask questions there and have a large audience that can answer.  There are other challenges but I haven't looked in on them.  

[Glenda]

                                     Crookymonstar.  I noticed a thread in the inspiration topic group  just for chefs!!  I didn't look into it.  I wonder if tasting things is a problem for chefs.  Wine judges don't swallow the wine to avoid intoxication.    Maybe chefs have to taste like wine judges or use 1/4 of a teaspoon?  I think it would be hard to control your weight and be a chef unless you never eat any of the food  except when sitting down and it is food for yourself?  Glenda