Losing weight for girls holiday

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Hi people,
I'm really unhappy at the weight I am. I wouldn't say I'm fat but I do need to lose a bit and tone up. Seeing as i'm going on a girls holiday i'm starting to feel very self-conscious. I'm not a silly girl who is going to starve herself (i love my food too much) i just want to know if anybody has any diets worth checking out?

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Xxx Mini xxX

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cheeky0011

Hi people,
I'm really unhappy at the weight I am. I wouldn't say I'm fat but I do need to lose a bit and tone up. Seeing as i'm going on a girls holiday i'm starting to feel very self-conscious. I'm not a silly girl who is going to starve herself (i love my food too much) i just want to know if anybody has any diets worth checking out?

i dont know any diets in particular you could try the crunchy nut challenge......seen the add on tv, am gonna do that juts for fun and see if it works, or i belive the best way is eating balanced diet and not too much of junk food, cutting down a bit is good for health and stuff, and also trying hitting the gym a few times, exercise is always the best way to go, as it doesnt create any problems for your body except lose weight and it also tones you up!! try it let me know how it goes yeh!!

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Jenna999

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CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet is meant to be good. Google it.

Info courtesy of dani_bella83 btw!

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beach surf babe

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Eat 3 balanced meals a day and do some exercise (walking will do). No special tricks or books required. Just common sense! :smile:

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Bis

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eat small frequent meals (like 5 a day, spaced out every few hours) with all moderately healthy low fat/low GI stuff, and exercising at least 3 times a week will get it down quite quickly.

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lovelee-jublee

12

Eat sensibly and exercise regularly, that's all there is to it.

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beach surf babe

14

Can you believe people buy books on this kinda stuff? :biggrin:

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white_haired_wizard

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beach_surf_babe

Can you believe people buy books on this kinda stuff? :biggrin:

err well maybe yes perhaps? :biggrin:

They're very stupid people aren't they.

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Apricot Fairy

16

Eat less, run around more.

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Lady_Muck

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Get the Paul McKenna Book.

Honestly - it makes so, so much sense. I'm by no means fat, but I just feel as if I eat soo much and it works on the theory of your body telling you when it's hungry.

1. Eat When You Are Hungry
2. Eat What You Want
3. Enjoy CONCIOUSLY every mouthful
4. Stop When You Are Full.

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white_haired_wizard

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Just don't do these fad diet things - its ridiculous it really is. Just my advice would be don't go overboard with it all, like, appreciate that taking small steps throughout as wholescale change immediately isn't that wise...perhaps make a chart on a wall, i.e. have i eaten a particular number of fruit and/or vegetables each day - tick one box or so, a wallchart so you can actually see, statistically that things are improving. If you lack discipline perhaps a wallchart is best, and of course if you are a student when the next round of shopping comes round, buy good, healthy food and avoid processed/frozen/microwave foodstuffs. Trying to accustomize to a new regime can be very tricky particularly if you are currently in a strongly unhealthy regime - jumping from one extreme to the very start of the opposite.

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Bis

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Lady_Muck

Get the Paul McKenna Book.

Honestly - it makes so, so much sense. I'm by no means fat, but I just feel as if I eat soo much and it works on the theory of your body telling you when it's hungry.

1. Eat When You Are Hungry
2. Eat What You Want
3. Enjoy CONCIOUSLY every mouthful
4. Stop When You Are Full.

what does paul mckenna actually know? he's not exactly in a good shape himself. he makes ridiculous claims on his diet that its "7x more effective than any diet". where did he pull that load of crap from?

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white_haired_wizard

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bis432

what does paul mckenna actually know? he's not exactly in a good shape himself. he makes ridiculous claims on his diet that its "7x more effective than any diet". where did he pull that load of crap from?

from the rubbish bin

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beach surf babe

14

Besides what he's saying is plain common sense. You don't need a book to tell you that!

Reply 14

Inphinite

Buy yourself that bikini you've always wanted and use it as a motivator...

Reply 15

Bis

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paul mckenna, gillian mckeith, and those sorts of people should be shot. they have no idea what they are talking about.

Reply 16

GR29KHS

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Paul McKenna's onto something. I'm very slim and my eating pattern is very similar to the one he's outlined in his book/tv show.

Sorry but most diets will probably make you lose weight, then it will creep back on after a while. Exercise can work wonders in a very short space of time. Intense cardio (like intervals on level 10 or about on a cross trainer - or running if you can't get to a gym) and light weights at high reps. Do that 5 times a day until your holiday.

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FireDeuce

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If you like eating..maybe weight watchers or slimming world?
Slimming world is healthier, weight watchers focuses a lot of frozen ready meals.

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Sophdoph

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I think the McKenna principles are very sensible, regardless of whether he "knows anything" it is common sense but it's common sense most of us forget and it's very clearly explained.

Weight watchers in my view doesn't focus on frozen meals, it's just they have a range of them with Heinz as an option. If you do the points diet you stick within a certain amount of points a day depending on your weight and you can earn bonus points by doing exercise. It's reasonably easy but you need to be careful with weighing your food which is what I got fed up with doing. The principles are good, you can eat loads of healthy stuff and have treats, but less of them. It also encourages exercise and drinking lots of water.

I'm trying to tone up and lose some weight currently and exercising is making all the difference, and eating smaller portions but drinking enough so I don't feel so hungry (hunger and thirst feelings are similar, I find when I think I'm hungry I'm usually just thirsty).

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Jenna999

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how easy to people reckon is to lose 3/4 lbs if you're already on the lower end of the BMI scale? (20). It's just all my weight goes to the same place (stomach) so I want to lose some, but I have a feeling it will be hard as I'm already slim..

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