Been dieting about four weeks. Since the weekend, (when I ate roasted lamb and veg, but no potatoes), I've eaten only salads with chicken, prawns etc, fruit for lunch and breakfast and coffee, one sugar. And in five days, lost not one ounce.

Went to the pub to look at a new quiz last night. Before going I cooked my lad's tea, pork chop, sausages, mash, sprouts and gravy. I thought, "To hell with it," and had the same myself.

At the pub I drank three pints of rough cider and when food came out I had a chip butty.

This morning I stepped on the scales with trepidation..........and my weight is DOWN by half a pound

So how can that be?

 

broken scales?

 

Maybe you used more calories than you took in, maybe you were dehydrated, had different clothes on, maybe you had recently had a poo.

Maybe, you are taking it all a bit seriously ?

 

As a side note.... fruit is full of sugars so unless you're burning that off it will end up stored as fat.

 

In the short term, alcohol dehydrates you. In the long term, the extra calories put weight on you.

Simples.

And most domestic scales are a bit hit and miss with accuracy.

 

Cut out the fruit, it full of sugar, swap it for a protein meal of some type. I lost 3.5 stone in 4 months on a protein only diet (with a bit of help from ECA30+)

Half a pound could be down to the scales not being 100% each time you use them.

 

My tip is to only weigh yourself once a week, that way it's easier to avoid being down-hearted if you don't notice a change over night.

The only way I can get results over night is if I switch to a no food and Protikee replacement shakes only diet, however it's a bit extreme.

 

Shouldn't weigh yourself everyday as weight can fluctuate quite a bit during the day.

1/2 a pound isn't a lot, when I've bothered to check in the past my weight has changed up / down 3/4 pounds in a day.

Better to do it once a week, at the same time, wearing the same things and ideally having eaten at similar times to give you a better indication of weight loss/gain.

 

Weigh yourself whilst naked to avoid discrepancies in clothing weight

 

As a rough guide, 1kg of body fat equals 7500 calories, so if you wanted to lose that in a week and you currently eat 2000 calories a day, which you body is stable on (no gain of weight, no loss) then you would need to reduce your calorie intake per day to under half that.

In running terms, that would be about 10 or so miles every day over 7 days (if you kept eating 2000 calories)

 

I'm leaning towards the dehydration idea.
I always weigh myself without clothes, and the scales are digital, so fairly accurate. If you leave it an hour and get back on, for instance, you get the same weight to within a couple of ounces.

 

Also weigh yourself after taking a dump

The body does funny things when dieting, somtimes it decides to store, sometimes it doesn't. What you may find is with a low intake diet is the body is storing it, then when you have a big meal it doesn't bother. Thats why diets can be problamatic; the body fights back by storing more energy to counteract the lower intake just incase.

One "trick" (or theory/fad or whatever you want to call it) I've been advised to do is to eat very small portions (not too much sugary stuff, like fruit, bread or snacks) at very regular intevals, like 6 times a day. Obviously drinks (barring water) factor into this. The theory is the body eventually will become more accustomed and realise it doesn't need to store energy between meals. Also I've been told to stay off anything with sweetners ( basically any drink/snack labelled diet or low calorie). The problem with this is managing that routine around a typical lifestyle.

 

Why stay off stuff with sweeteners?

 

Because they make your body crave food.

 

Really? I didn't know that. And I've been drinking lowcal lemonade.

 

That more or less sums up what I've been told.

The explainations I was given of each sweetner type with causes and effects would have run on to several pages

 

The theory is, when you taste a certain flavour, your body prepares itself to process a paticular subset of nutrients, which they do not contain, but provide taste but not nourishment, so the body goes into craving mode.

 

What about people who go to weight watchers...

 

LOL, they are supposed to wear the same clothes to every meeting to allow for it.

 

Oh and sweeteners are worse for your teeth than pure sugar.

 

Men don't weigh themselves unless it is for medical record purposes FFS!!

Constant weighing is for jessies!! If you feel overweight just eat or drink alcohol less, cut out the obvious cráp, if you eat that to begin with and your own eyes will tell you it is working. Exercise isn't even necessary if you do the above though always beneficial.

Next you'll be telling us your thong doesn't sit right!

Now man up!

 

Bulemic people make me sick.....

 

Whaaaaaatttt? I 'save' about 200Kcal a day with sacharin. It feeds plaque?

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Jeff don't get drawn in to the weightloss syndrome....

My sister is currently on a protein diet, Parp ! BUT I make her cycle, the exercise burns calories and starts to convert fat to muscle.... but as muscle is more dense than fat you weigh the same, but the inches change.

IMHO

dunx

 

It's acidic, so it erodes enamel. I read this in Mens Health or similar where they tested Diet Coke Vs normal, the Diet Coke was worse for teeth.

 

On the plus side: Sorbitol (as found in sugar free gum) can cause large weight loss (albeit via diarrhoea ).

 

You can't convert fat to muscle, it is impossible. Likewise, muscle doesn't turn to fat. It's a misconception from seeing body builders who have massive muscles, suddenly stop, then after a few months just look fat. The reason for this is simply because they haven't reduced there calorie intake as there muscles have started to waste away and so a high calorie intake isn't required to support that mass.

 

That'll be the phosphoric acid mate - you a chemist perchance

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Personally I would just go to KFC on the off chance of getting salmonella I had that for two weeks once and I turned into a skeleton!