Date: December 14th, 2006 02:17 pm (UTC)From:white_hart
Hmmm. 3 stone = 42 pounds, over say 16 weeks, which is two and a half pounds a week. 1lb is roughly 3500 calories. Which would mean you'd been eating 1250 calories more per day than you needed. Given that the average daily calorie requirement for an adult woman living a sedentary lifestyle is about 2000 calories, either you've been eating/drinking almost twice as much as you should do (which I find hard to believe) or something odd is going on. When you had the thyroid test, did you explain all this or just ask for a thyroid test? The other thing that comes to mind is PCOS, which I gather is a bugger to diagnose and probably even more so on your kind of hormonal contraception.
Slimming clubs have never appealled to me, but I did pretty well with online calorie-counting. It appealled to my inner geek, I think. It still required willpower, though. Have you thought of trying a different approach - low-GI, maybe, rather than straightforward counting calories/points etc?
As far as the snacking goes, the best thing is just not to have stuff in the house in the first place! If you have to have something to keep your hands/mouth busy while watching TV (and you actually want to watch it - I have no trouble at all knitting or using the laptop, but I rarely if ever give the TV my full attention), can you substitute a glass of water and some carrot sticks/cherry tomatoes/apple slices for the wine and crackers?
The other thing that strikes me is that you eat out fairly regularly, don't you? I'm always amazed by the portion sizes in pubs and so on (and we don't exactly stint on portions at home, either!) - perhaps have a think about the size of portion you're eating? I'd recommend signing up to a calorie-tracking site and entering a few days' typical food (I used http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk, and thought they were very good, and they offer a free trial too). And if your weight gain seems disproportionate to your intake (being honest about portion sizes), you really should see your GP...
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Date: December 14th, 2006 02:17 pm (UTC)From:Slimming clubs have never appealled to me, but I did pretty well with online calorie-counting. It appealled to my inner geek, I think. It still required willpower, though. Have you thought of trying a different approach - low-GI, maybe, rather than straightforward counting calories/points etc?
As far as the snacking goes, the best thing is just not to have stuff in the house in the first place! If you have to have something to keep your hands/mouth busy while watching TV (and you actually want to watch it - I have no trouble at all knitting or using the laptop, but I rarely if ever give the TV my full attention), can you substitute a glass of water and some carrot sticks/cherry tomatoes/apple slices for the wine and crackers?
The other thing that strikes me is that you eat out fairly regularly, don't you? I'm always amazed by the portion sizes in pubs and so on (and we don't exactly stint on portions at home, either!) - perhaps have a think about the size of portion you're eating? I'd recommend signing up to a calorie-tracking site and entering a few days' typical food (I used http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk, and thought they were very good, and they offer a free trial too). And if your weight gain seems disproportionate to your intake (being honest about portion sizes), you really should see your GP...