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I find the only way I can lose weight is to commit myself totally to it and obsess. I'm not technically obese by some measures - 5 foot 4 and start weight 133 pounds - but I have a slight frame and all my weight is around my middle, so I'm fat. My goal weight is 105 lb.
To lose weight, I have to keep myself honest by diarising all day and into the evening, recording every skerrick (because I fool myself very readily). I weigh myself four or five times a day and record my weight each time.
My regime is pretty strict - between 1000 and 1200 calories. The trick is to eat often, and eat small amounts. It's amazing how soon your eye adjusts and you see a tiny helping as quite normal. I eat from small plates and bowls always.
I alternate concentrating on measurement and weighing - I don't measure unless I've hit a weight plateau, when there's generally a measurement loss that makes me feel better.
I have a very slow, efficient metabolism, and simply have to deal with the fact that my body goes into semi-starvation mode. I get around this by eating six times a day, and "dosing" on protein - in my case 50g tofu with some soy and ginger - if I feel too hungry between meals.
I don't drink much more water than usual, but be aware that cutting down your food intake drastically is effectively cutting your liquid intake.
Here's my typical day's diet:
8 am - 40g home-made unsweetened muesli, half an apple diced, and a dash of soymilk: 200 calories
10 am - small soy latte - 160 calories
midday - half a hollowed out sourdough roll with a scrape of pesto, slivers of jarlsberg cheese and lettuce; tea 200 calories
3 pm - slice of sourdough raisin bread, toasted, with a scrape of butter
125 calories
5 pm - dinner - I prefer a small helping that's starchy, to a large protein helping - perhaps 200g of low-fat risotto with feta. 160 calories
coleslaw with buttermilk as dressing 40 calories
Large bowl of strawberries with 30g fullfat yoghurt, tsp maple syrup 80 calories
8 pm - what I eat depends on my end-of-day weight. If I weigh much more than at the beginning of the day, I have something tiny.
I don't touch chocolate, biscuits etc - even in tiny quantities, they trip me up. My equivalent to a sweet treat would be a tablespoon of fullfat yoghurt, five chopped hazelnuts and some fresh cherries.
I don't drink fruit juice or of course lolly water. I only drink water, tea, or coffee.
I measure quite rigorously:
upper arms
bust
under bust
narrowest pulled in and fully let out
at navel, pulled in and fully let out (that's confronting!)
hip
bum
thighs
Following this regime I am losing about a pound a week, am expecting to hit several plateaus, and aim to have reached my goal weight in March next year.
I find it's not realistic to expect to be exercising hard on a very low-calorie diet. I actually do very mild exercise - some walking, some hula hooping, because my past experience tells me I will get voraciously hungry if I exercise, and break the diet.
To keep to it though, as I said, I have to obsess, and I would hate friends and family to come across my food diary!
Cheers
Lucy
To lose weight, I have to keep myself honest by diarising all day and into the evening, recording every skerrick (because I fool myself very readily). I weigh myself four or five times a day and record my weight each time.
My regime is pretty strict - between 1000 and 1200 calories. The trick is to eat often, and eat small amounts. It's amazing how soon your eye adjusts and you see a tiny helping as quite normal. I eat from small plates and bowls always.
I alternate concentrating on measurement and weighing - I don't measure unless I've hit a weight plateau, when there's generally a measurement loss that makes me feel better.
I have a very slow, efficient metabolism, and simply have to deal with the fact that my body goes into semi-starvation mode. I get around this by eating six times a day, and "dosing" on protein - in my case 50g tofu with some soy and ginger - if I feel too hungry between meals.
I don't drink much more water than usual, but be aware that cutting down your food intake drastically is effectively cutting your liquid intake.
Here's my typical day's diet:
8 am - 40g home-made unsweetened muesli, half an apple diced, and a dash of soymilk: 200 calories
10 am - small soy latte - 160 calories
midday - half a hollowed out sourdough roll with a scrape of pesto, slivers of jarlsberg cheese and lettuce; tea 200 calories
3 pm - slice of sourdough raisin bread, toasted, with a scrape of butter
125 calories
5 pm - dinner - I prefer a small helping that's starchy, to a large protein helping - perhaps 200g of low-fat risotto with feta. 160 calories
coleslaw with buttermilk as dressing 40 calories
Large bowl of strawberries with 30g fullfat yoghurt, tsp maple syrup 80 calories
8 pm - what I eat depends on my end-of-day weight. If I weigh much more than at the beginning of the day, I have something tiny.
I don't touch chocolate, biscuits etc - even in tiny quantities, they trip me up. My equivalent to a sweet treat would be a tablespoon of fullfat yoghurt, five chopped hazelnuts and some fresh cherries.
I don't drink fruit juice or of course lolly water. I only drink water, tea, or coffee.
I measure quite rigorously:
upper arms
bust
under bust
narrowest pulled in and fully let out
at navel, pulled in and fully let out (that's confronting!)
hip
bum
thighs
Following this regime I am losing about a pound a week, am expecting to hit several plateaus, and aim to have reached my goal weight in March next year.
I find it's not realistic to expect to be exercising hard on a very low-calorie diet. I actually do very mild exercise - some walking, some hula hooping, because my past experience tells me I will get voraciously hungry if I exercise, and break the diet.
To keep to it though, as I said, I have to obsess, and I would hate friends and family to come across my food diary!
Cheers
Lucy
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