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I don't quite know what to do any more. Every time I look at the scales they've gone up. I'm demotivated and I am sick to the back teeth of worrying about everything that goes into my mouth. I've spent the last 50 years worrying and avoiding food, avoiding any event that might include fattening food or drink, and I am still doing the worrying but don't have the self-control anymore to say "Don't eat that". If I ate cake, biscuits, high sugar food, sweets, chocolate or doughnuts I would understand, but I don't and hardly ever have. All I think I am doing now is eating what normal people eat (in smaller quantities and less often) and yet the weight goes up and up. I'm 68 years old and I'm tired of this constant battle. Maybe I should just throw in the towel and accept that I've always been a slim person with a fat one waiting to come out the minute I give up the fight, and I don't know the magic formula any more. If anyone else tells me to exercise more I will slap them. I'm sixty-effing-eight now, I have arthritic ankles and knees, I walk the dogs every day but they're over 10 now and they're not interested in running about or walking at great speed either. My days of going to the gym three times a week or running or taking any strenuous exercise are long gone.
There! Rant over. I haven't eaten at all today (it's almost 4 pm). Maybe I should go back to my life as a paranoid anorexic when everyone thought I had a serious illness because I was so skeletal and I thought I looked great (but the photos say differently). Perhaps I should start smoking instead of eating again.
Oh well.
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74.5 kg
Lost so far: 0 kg.
Still to go: 14.5 kg.
Diet followed: Poorly.
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303 kcal
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Fat: 10.55g | Prot: 12.44g | Carbs: 37.43g.
Breakfast: Coffee-Mate Original Powder Creamer, Bernard Matthews Turkey Ham, Asda Smart Price Unsweetened Soya, ASDA Light Olive Spread. Lunch: Tesco Flat Peaches, Young Green Onions (Tops Only), White Bread. more...
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Gaining 0.4 kg a Week
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I am 67 and with the same problem regarding exercise. Walking to the garage constitutes the bulk of my steps and even getting in and out of the car is a pain. I count calories and eat what I want as long as it is counted. Some days I run out of calories in the early evening. Sometimes I go to bed early!!!
I have found that eating little and often seems to work best for me. Fasting makes the body think it is not going to get fed, so it turns the wick down and your metabolism slows down.
I was a heavy smoker, but have been stopped for 15 years. I remember when coffee and a cigarette was fine. Now it is coffee and a bun. I wouldn't want to go back to smoking just to lose weight. Having said that, if ever I am told, "you have 3 months to go" then the first thing I will do is start smoking!!!!!!
01 Aug 15 by member: JockoT
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Don't know if I'll be much hope to you as my target weight is so close to your current weight!!!! All I know is that JockoT is saying the same as I was told. I used to be up at the crack of dawn for work and ate nothing all day and then got the munchies in the evening. I was obviously eating 'the wrong food' too or too much of 'the right food' I don't know but I was told to eat little and often throughout the day so I'm giving that a go. Only just started but have been yo yoing all my adult life so I'm going to try this and give it my best shot but slowly this time rather than trying to lose fat so quickly I end up losing muscle as well. I struggle with exercise due to my weight and just getting over a slight heart problem. I've found the only exercise I can do that makes any difference at the moment is either swimming or water aerobics/aquafit - no pressure on the joints and I can keep going for the entire session. I can switch off completely during swimming and Aquafit is a really good laugh. I'm so sorry you feel so down. I hope this has been of some use. By the way - your photo is stunning.
01 Aug 15 by member: kp2605
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Hey Maisie, sorry to hear you are struggling so much. The only advice i can give you is to be realistic with your goal are you setting your target to high? secondly, i think menu planning is key, i have 2 children and a husband, i don't work as i too have arthritis and i'm 44 if you check out my journal for today you will get the full picture,me and my family all eat the same food, i try and do healthy food with lots of vegetables for us and we have oily fish once a week, i calorie count so i can be included in treats on a saturday night or a glass of wine on a friday etc, at the moment i am finding that it is working, for a start i really found it a bind having to count every single thing that went in my mouth, i have a notebook with the food i have regularly with the calories per 100gr i now find it so easy to just get my book and plan, i don't always stick to plan and put on weight but then i'm pretty much straight back on it, also your age will have a lot to do with it, i never had a problem in my teens/early to mid 20's but as i am getting older and i can't exercise, fat just jumps straight on my my waist. I don't believe in quick fixes as these may give instant results but then you gain the weight back and then some. Maybe if you recorded truthfully everything that you eat and just see, it's suprising at how many calories are building up if you just have the odd one of this and that. Hope this helps you xx
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Maisie I'm on the 5:2 diet and you can lose weight on that without leaving the couch! I'm a home carer 24/7 and I've lost over a stone in 9 weeks. I started out at 10st 4Ibs and am now knocking on 9st......I weigh in on Monday. I log on to the fast diet site every day to keep up with how everyone else is doing and I log my foods on here to keep me right.
It's easy you just pick two days of the week (called fast days) to have 500/600 calories and the rest of the week you can eat your normal allowance which they call your TDEE. Mine are Mondays and Thursdays. I have ice cream, cake or whatever on the non fast days as the whole point of it is to be able to eat what you like within reason. Why not give that a wee look over and see if you might fare better on that? What have you got to lose and believe me there's loads of people on there who are or were in the same boat as you :) Once you get to the weight you want to be you can keep on doing 6:1 so that you keep an eye on where you're going with your weight.....that's what I plan to do. x
01 Aug 15 by member: jeannie960
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I too tried the 5:2 diet and found it worked great while I was working. Once I retired I found it difficult to stick to. I have now got back down to the best I had achieved with 5:2 by counting my calories. So many different things work for different people. My wife is slim and stays that way by never eating after 6pm. Whatever suits the individual.
02 Aug 15 by member: JockoT
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Jocko my husband and I are both retired too. Counting calories every day was just too restricting for us. Only having to watch what we eat 2 days a week was a big consideration and was what sold it to my hubby..... he lost a stone inside 4 weeks. He has 2st to go. Initially we were looking for weight loss but we were impressed with the long term health benefits that the 5:2 is purported to have. After watching Mike Mosley on his Horizon program on you tube we were sold on the possibilities and it made us re evaluate our lifestyle. My hubby feels he could stay on some version of this for the rest of his life as he doesn't mind cutting right back for a couple of days. There are so many variations of it and some people can go to extremes but I think we've found the right balance for us as you say different things for different people. I was never fat in my life until I retired as I was always so active. Even then I never got to any great extreme. I picked up a few bad eating habits in the last 5 years or so which needed addressing. I don't eat between 5pm and 10am now as I had to break the cycle of eating at night. I find that works really well for me as it does for your wife as she is in effect fasting which is what 5:2 is really about. It might work for me to actually continue in that fashion myself and it's an option I will explore. What I do know is that how I decide to go forward has to be a rest of life choice.
02 Aug 15 by member: jeannie960
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I have a 5.2 group,5.2 healthy way of life,a small group,maybe we can inspire you x
02 Aug 15 by member: Suzymoffett
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It was the Horizon programme that got me started. My problem is, my wife doesn't need to diet, and I do. A couple, working together, is far more likely to succeed.
I still do a sort of 5:2 even now, with two days a week when I stick to about 25% less calories than the rest of the week.
02 Aug 15 by member: JockoT
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