Update after 8 weeks diet

Hello again......

43 years old male at 6ft weighing 16st 10lbs at the start. Eating around
4000 calories a day before my diet. Sedentary lifestyle not helped by having
numerous back operations.

So my diet started and.......

After first 4 weeks I then went from
16st 10lbs to
15st 4lbs

Second 4 weeks....

Week 5 15st 2lbs
Week 6 15st
Week 7 14st 10lbs
Week 8 14st 9lbs

My average daily diet is now....

Breakfast...
50g of All Bran cereal and Skimmed milk.
Small glass of fresh orange

Lunch
150g of Tuna fish, drained from brine.
Salad.
Fresh juice

Main Meal
Salmon OR
Chicken, boiled OR
Quorn - vegetarian meat substitute.
2 Potions of fresh veg.
Low Fat cottage cheese.

Late night meal
Tofu - high protein meat substitute OR
Quork - dairy low fat type soft cheese, low carbs high protein.
Low fat crackers

3 Potions of different fruit eaten during the day.

Vit A+D in halibut liver oil taken when eating Salmon (fat
soluble)
Selenium + Vit E
Zinc
Vitamin C
Yakult (Lactobacillus casei Shirota) drink

Limited cycling, weights and walks are done every day.
Caution applied during exercise due to back issues.

So I now weigh 14st 9lbs after 8 weeks dieting and have lost 2st 1lb and
look forward to reaching 13st 10/12 lbs and then increasing my calorie
intake to maintain that weight.
I am enjoying the experience and not found any difficulty with either the
diet or the potions or type of food that I am eating, I suppose it does help
being summer and my appetite would not be as big anyway. But I do get used
to eating less and the desire to binge is no longer with me.

One of my biggest successes with this diet has to be my wife. She too is
dieting with me and to have a partner working along side of you makes the
journey more pleasurable.


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Best wishes



Bob

Congratulations Bob. 29 lbs in 8 weeks is excellent progress.
janice

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:02:29 GMT, "Bob" wrote:

Hello again......

43 years old male at 6ft weighing 16st 10lbs at the start. Eating around
4000 calories a day before my diet. Sedentary lifestyle not helped by having
numerous back operations.

So my diet started and.......

After first 4 weeks I then went from
16st 10lbs to
15st 4lbs

Second 4 weeks....

Week 5 15st 2lbs
Week 6 15st
Week 7 14st 10lbs
Week 8 14st 9lbs

My average daily diet is now....

Breakfast...
50g of All Bran cereal and Skimmed milk.
Small glass of fresh orange

Lunch
150g of Tuna fish, drained from brine.
Salad.
Fresh juice

Main Meal
Salmon OR
Chicken, boiled OR
Quorn - vegetarian meat substitute.
2 Potions of fresh veg.
Low Fat cottage cheese.

Late night meal
Tofu - high protein meat substitute OR
Quork - dairy low fat type soft cheese, low carbs high protein.
Low fat crackers

3 Potions of different fruit eaten during the day.

Vit A+D in halibut liver oil taken when eating Salmon (fat
soluble)
Selenium + Vit E
Zinc
Vitamin C
Yakult (Lactobacillus casei Shirota) drink

Limited cycling, weights and walks are done every day.
Caution applied during exercise due to back issues.

So I now weigh 14st 9lbs after 8 weeks dieting and have lost 2st 1lb and
look forward to reaching 13st 10/12 lbs and then increasing my calorie
intake to maintain that weight.
I am enjoying the experience and not found any difficulty with either the
diet or the potions or type of food that I am eating, I suppose it does help
being summer and my appetite would not be as big anyway. But I do get used
to eating less and the desire to binge is no longer with me.

One of my biggest successes with this diet has to be my wife. She too is
dieting with me and to have a partner working along side of you makes the
journey more pleasurable.

Congratulations Bob. 29 lbs in 8 weeks is excellent progress.
janice

Thank you for your kind support

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Best wishes


Bob

Sounds like a pretty sane diet to me, although I would consider adding
maybe 500 calories per day. one stone per month weight loss is not
necessarily deadly, I lost at about same rate, but weight loss
"authorities" advise going a little slower. (as I found out after I
lost weight). Apparently, if you lose weight slower, it is easier to
maintain weight loss.



I know that it averages out at a stone per month (4 week month) but in fact
the second month I lost 9lbs. I expect to lose around that, or a little
less, until my taget is met.
To me that gives assurance that my weight loss isn't too great, to cause
concerns that my health or muscle loss could be compromised, and yet is
continuing at a rate that equates to the correct calorie intake for me to
continue losing weight at a rate of 1 to 2 lbs per week.
If I do feel fatigued or find that my weight loss is too great then I will
adjust my intake accordingly but as yet I am quite happy to continue in the
method that I'm using.

Do you feel much better now, physically?

Overall yes I do. It it nice to walk without sweating as much and be able to
do things without being as out of breath as I was - although this is more to
do with my general fitness level as I have been working on that also.

I will continue to monitor and modify my diet as I get feedback from my body
and whilst I continue to learn and read more about nutrition, usually from
some excellent posts from within this group, for example Chris and her daily
posts of her excercise and food

BTW I found your website, and your pictures truely inspirational - I really
mean that. Well done to you, you must be proud of what you achieved....!!!

Best wishes

Bob

By the way, what is your exercise regimen is like? I am sorry if you
mentioned it before. Basically, it is necessary to do some strength
training to preserve muscle... or else the dieter will end up looking
pretty bad. All in all, the point of a diet normally should be
becoming healthier, and good health requires good exercising, pretty
much by definition.

I agree with you.
However I have to be aware that, due to some physical limitations, my
ability to do to much in the way of weight work, and other forms of
exercise, is a little compromised. Not impossible mind you but it does need
consideration and thought otherwise I find myself having to use too many
meds and be almost totally inactive for long periods of time.
By reducing my weight this, hopefully, will have a beneficial effect on my
back problems and cycling, walking and some light weights are, as yet, being
beneficial too.
I just have to remember that as focussed as my mental attitude now is I do
have to apply a common sense approach and do these things slowly.

Again congratulations to you.

Best wishes

Bob

janice wrote:

Congratulations Bob. 29 lbs in 8 weeks is excellent progress.

Thanks for doing the math, janice. G

Bravo Bob!!!

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Walking on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

On 15 Jun 2004 03:01:39 GMT, SnugBear wrote:

janice wrote:

Congratulations Bob. 29 lbs in 8 weeks is excellent progress.

Thanks for doing the math, janice. G

Bravo Bob!!!

Well, I did it to avoid yet another of those "how many pounds in a
stone" posts. I have trouble with kilos, and before I can tell anyone
what my weight is in pounds I have to get out a calculator!

janice