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Congratulations to your son on his achievement, ratcatcher - he must have been very pleased to be able to do that, and felt much healthier for it afterwards. I admire his willpower!

What one person may regard as tosh might be another's lifeline, though. We are all different, and need different things to motivate us. Knowing the right thing to do is easy. All the information is out there. Actually being able to stick to doing it without any support from anyone else is, for some, including me, not so easy. People make a lot of money out of the whole dieting phenomenon, true enough - but it does help some people.

Quote: Originally posted by ratcatcher on 04/6/2013

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What a load of tosh!

As fin says "eat less move more"
you are what you eat and that includes the amount as well.
when did we become a society that has to pay people to tell us what not to eat?

And before you all go off on one, my 22 year old son lost 6 stone in 8 months just by eating less, cycling and rowing. All his incentive was not to be called a fatty when he was best man at his brother's wedding. That was 6 years ago and he hasn,t put an ounce back on

sorry if this is a bit off post but these "dieticians" wind me up

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I don't really see myself as a "group"kind of person but I needed to lose a lot of weight (and still have a way to go) before I can have knee replacement surgery, so I joined the local SW class.   I have to say it has helped me a lot, I have found the diet itself to be easy to follow if you like to cook and is basically a healthy eating programme.   I have lost almost 4 stone (a stone to go now) and honestly don't think I would have had the willpower to do this alone.

Some people can be disciplined enough to count calories and limit their intake alone - others, like me, need a little help and £5 a week for attending my SW class is well worth it.

Wow! thanks for all the advice

to put things into perspective i am not over weight i am 6 foot 5 and weigh 14 stone bmi is 24 and blood pressure is on the low side of normal but most of the weight is around my waist and i have back problems so shedding a bit will help with that.

When i posted this i was a bit low thinking about whay i "couldn't" eat but heres the thing since Christmas i knew my 50th birthday was looming and i decided to make some major lifestyle changes and my diet was one of the things i wanted to change. So in a way it's not a problem going low fat/no fat i love to cook and am pursuing my new found love of meditrainan (sp) food. All i need to do now is get the exercise bit sorted out.

Sure i missed my bacon sandwich on Sunday but there you go and i have discovered i can cook fish - well my wife can and i can do without my collegues hiding my lunch time salad under 6 pork pies but i feel better already probably because i am eating 3 times a day not once or sometimes twice which is what i had been doing for years.

Again thanks for the messages i knew posting on here was a good idea!

John

now off to make fresh pasta! 

jjb

my motto is at the end of my life i want to have put a bit more in than i took out.