Yes, this is what my sister-in-law used recently when she lost a lot of weight last year (she always looked good, she's just narrower now and I think, though I never asked, she's gone from a possibly not healthy weight to a healthy one).
For the record I used Slimming World to help (and I apologize in advance for this phrase... here it comes...) "achieve my slimming targets". Which were 1) reach a BMI under 25 2) stay there! and then, later on, 3) lose a few extra chunks at 7lb a go. Sadly you do have to stay and attend The Group for the first four weeks, which I did under sufferance. I called it the Seventh Circle Of Hell. God the human misery there (I suppose it did make me feel relatively fortunate! :D ). But thereafter I just turned up to queue, to pay, and to weigh. This worked for me as an added discipline - basically if you commit to something in front of strangers you are less likely to cop out... er or summat. The filling in food diary & points also helped remind me what a healthy diet should be (which, obviously, wasn't what I was eating, duh). Lastly, and the most valuable thing, was once you have reached the target weight you set, you can be weighed and monitored at any SW group for free. This helped me with the hardest part, which is of course keeping the weight off. Also, it means that you can set a pretty achievable target (I think there's a minimum of 7lb or something), get there, and then once (after a few months) you have managed to stay there, you can set a new target (maybe another 7lb) and aim for that. This means you don't have to be forever trying to lose weight, and you get practice at the vital, oh so vital, keeping-weight-stable thing.
I actually haven't been back in a year, but that's because my weight fell below the last target more than the allowed 3lb, because of my running. (It always stayed at a healthy BMI though, I made sure of that).
For me what it took really was a lot of changes in perspective, a lot of learning about all sorts of things to do with nutrition and appetite and psychology and lifestyle, and the bottom line is? I am not the same person I was, and I suspect you'll find that's true of anyone who's lost a reasonable amount of weight and kept it off. It can be done, it bloody well is worth it, by by Gum it does not come free! This woman (2 blogs one woman) says it better than I ever can: http://ypweightloss.blogspot.com/ http://www.berlinmarathon2006.blogspot.com/ (and there are a whole load of good links from her blogroll too! :D )
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Date: July 5th, 2007 06:40 pm (UTC)From:For the record I used Slimming World to help (and I apologize in advance for this phrase... here it comes...) "achieve my slimming targets". Which were
1) reach a BMI under 25
2) stay there!
and then, later on,
3) lose a few extra chunks at 7lb a go.
Sadly you do have to stay and attend The Group for the first four weeks, which I did under sufferance. I called it the Seventh Circle Of Hell. God the human misery there (I suppose it did make me feel relatively fortunate! :D ). But thereafter I just turned up to queue, to pay, and to weigh.
This worked for me as an added discipline - basically if you commit to something in front of strangers you are less likely to cop out... er or summat.
The filling in food diary & points also helped remind me what a healthy diet should be (which, obviously, wasn't what I was eating, duh).
Lastly, and the most valuable thing, was once you have reached the target weight you set, you can be weighed and monitored at any SW group for free. This helped me with the hardest part, which is of course keeping the weight off. Also, it means that you can set a pretty achievable target (I think there's a minimum of 7lb or something), get there, and then once (after a few months) you have managed to stay there, you can set a new target (maybe another 7lb) and aim for that. This means you don't have to be forever trying to lose weight, and you get practice at the vital, oh so vital, keeping-weight-stable thing.
I actually haven't been back in a year, but that's because my weight fell below the last target more than the allowed 3lb, because of my running. (It always stayed at a healthy BMI though, I made sure of that).
For me what it took really was a lot of changes in perspective, a lot of learning about all sorts of things to do with nutrition and appetite and psychology and lifestyle, and the bottom line is? I am not the same person I was, and I suspect you'll find that's true of anyone who's lost a reasonable amount of weight and kept it off. It can be done, it bloody well is worth it, by by Gum it does not come free!
This woman (2 blogs one woman) says it better than I ever can:
http://ypweightloss.blogspot.com/
http://www.berlinmarathon2006.blogspot.com/
(and there are a whole load of good links from her blogroll too! :D )