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gone on a strict controlled diet and lost no weight, or do you have a diet that works for you.

A couple of years ago i asked my doctor for help so i could lose weight i felt i had done my best but lost nothing,
after the birth of my second child i weighed 17stone losing around a stone at the birth big baby lol, i dieted by eating cereal for breakfast salad sandwich for dinner and sald and meet for tea, i had one day of the week where i could eat what i wanted and go out for a drinkipoos i went town to 9 and half stone i exercised by playing my favorite records.

Recently ive been advised to lose weight as after the birth of my 3rd child i really struggled to lose weight ive been ea bran flakes shreddies and meat the first week i lost 7 pounds today i had put it all back on, i walk my dogs and do bits in the garden and try to keep active but no doctor is going to believe i haven't cheated lol but i do feel slimmer specky had a good cuddle and agreed, hows yours gone xx

I did it, 3 years ago.

Because No.1 was newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and was in a bit of a crisis, he got put on a diet that allowed for only 45 grams of carbohydrates per meal. I'm the cook, he's the dishwasher. I became incredibly inventive. We ate a lot of green beans. (They're free food -- but we ate every other veg under the sun, still do.)

That amount of carb is barely more than 2 slices of bread per meal (and no other carbohydrates), or one cup of rice, or one large potato, or a reeealy small serving of pasta.

I ate the same diet as him -- doing otherwise would have felt a bit like drinking around an alcoholic. Ah, but the trick is: I eat only once a day.

I lost about 30 pounds in 3 months. It absolutely does work when you absoutely stick to it.

These days, the focus is on feeding him up. Ask me how much of the 30 pounds stayed off. (Actually, most of it! but I think I'm starting to lose that battle ...)

Well done janey, have you any idea why by eating the same food for 2 weeks would make me lose 7 pounds to put it back the 2nd, i desperately wanted to try the diet even tho oh wouldn't do it with me ? x

What about this

A slimming pill available on NHS sells out in 3 days.
The pill is called Capsiplex and is an anti-obesity
drug. I hadn't heard of this before have you?

they gave me a pill once but all it does is remove the fat from your body without warning as i wasnt eating fat as far as i was aware it did nothing , although im not diabetic i do take metformen which i origionaly lost a few stone onxx

You know, it's true what "they" say. There's no such thing as a diet.

The only way to do it is to eat less and/or exercise more.

I exercise nil. I have to eat less.

Less of the carbohydrates essentially, keeping the fat down too of course.

Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables, and protein, and a reasonable amount of carbohydrates (because your body *does* need them, you can't just cut them out for any length of time).

There's no magic fix. Just absolute determination and ... yes ... willpower.

Now for that drug (Capsiplex ) -- I dunno about that one, but I've heard rumbling about some new thing to do with those of us for whom it all really and truly is genetic. Maybe before I die ... of the genetic complex of problems that go with the belly fat ...

Metformin but not diabetic? That's odd. Hyperglycaemic bordering on type 2?

Goldengirl slimming pills are addictive so not a good way to go for most.
I would love an anti fat pill as long as it didn't detrimant (sp) my health, but there isn't so I have health or I have vanity ...

And yes Puss I went on a strict controlled diet at boarding school, they made me, imagine my shame in school dinners picking a salad up or even worse the dinner ladies saying 'oh we have something special for you. Did I lose weight ..NOoooo but I did lose loads when I thought I may have to stay for 6th form ..( so much my parents let me leave, or was that I was leaving anyway)

never been on a diet and never want to be ..i like my food and dont like rabbit food and food with no taste , so i refuse to pay double money for (so called healthy food) when i dont even like it ... good luck and well done to all that do xxx

These pills make me wonder also, my daughter was
put on one by her GP but she didn't feel in control
of bodily functions if you know what I mean. Used
to be a great hill and forest walker about 6years ago
till I got RA now can't walk any distance for pain and
spent holiday last week in wheelchair. Makes me so
frustrated coming from fit to fat.

janey they gave it me for polycystic ovary disease ooh bout ten yeats bago it has stopped me having a belly lol, rosie believe me if it wernt for imediate health thingies i wouldnt but luckily i was bore of chips he he xx

hi golden girl sorry you have RA what a painfull condition , how is that what diagnosed / xx

I have tried loads of diets, but I can't walk as much as I used to when I had the dogs. Also something that has been noted is that last year, I lost a stone in a few weeks, when I had the C Diff etc etc... but I was also being intravenously hydrated and tube fed for a good couple of weeks. I should have lost more than that. I did lose three stone throughout the treatment as a whole.

Strange though, that I didn't start putting it back on until about 6 months later, in fact even continuing to lose at a much gentler rate when I went back to normal eating, but I was moving around more and didn't have much bone or muscle pain for quite a while. And then I was put back on my blood pressure tablets. And the weight has all gone back on in about 8 months.

Janey, Metformin is also sometimes used for polycystic ovary syndrome over here.

Love

Daff xxxxx

Oh snap.... sorry Puss, I am typing slowly today, on the big gun happy pills, lolol. I had a member of staff taking it in 2003 so knew about it as a result of that.

Love

Daff xxxxx

LPC did you have a thread to-day about feeling
a lot happier or am I on the wrong road again.
sorry don't understand last part of your question
must be effect of pain killers or else senior moment.

yes its me golden girl lol yes my eyes are tired ready for bed ish i meant how is RA ermm diagnosed lol got there xx

BEWARE OF SLIMMING PILLS
some of them can leave a white powdery residue
in the heart and can be very dangerous

also thank you puss i never knew
metaformin of which i take 8 a day was used for other things apart from diabetes
well you learn

something new everyday

daff the doc said today lots of tabs have side affects of making you hungry but he said what they fail to put is that they actually make you gain weight if you have tried your best not to eat more.
Ive just looked up capsiplex it sounds good its the chilli peppers in it that spped your metabolism up instead of caffiene etc, i do eat chillie pickled chillie lol.

I began to feel tired for no reason and had aches and
pains, stiffness in joints and hot spots (flare ups)
Gradually got worse where at times could not weight
bare. Thought Limes disease but diagnosed RA.
Hope I've explained it OK.

your welcome joy xx

DAFF di you have RA in the end xx