Posts by closetdieter

For Christmas I will ask everyone to donate what they'd spend on me to a charity.

In the UK the daily guideline amount is 90g for a woman to maintain their healthy weight.  I usually aim for less than 50g.

I drink coffee straight up, black no sugar, so I don't worry about calories from coffee.  I tried giving it up a couple of times, but just couldn't.  My mornings aren't the same without a cup of coffee, I even tried decaff, but it just wasn't the same.  I got headaches when giving it up, which should tell me

"I shouldn't be drinking something that gives me a headache when I give it up"

But I didn't listen.  I only drink 1-2 cups a day and the rest of my day I drink herbal tea.

The daily guideline amount of sugar for women is 90g (in the UK) to maintain a healthy weight.  So 50g is fine and as vron082 says this includes sugar in everything you eat.

Sorry I should've mentioned I'm vegetarian.  Thanks for the link to the list.

Down Town - Pertula Clark

I became a vegetarian about 3 months ago and like you loved meat.  I thought I couldn't live without meat.  I was wrong.  I have a much healther, varied diet now than I ever did before and have never looked back.  I couldn't be Vegan either (although I don't drink milk, I read up about milking cows and couldn't touch a drop after that) but I do get organic, free range eggs.

I just say "Have I?" I don't feel the need to annonce I'm on a diet because then it'll be "how much have you lost, how are you doing it?" and if you haven't lost anything there'll be comments, or if you're seen eating something (non diet food) there'll be comments.  People always feel the need to say "you look like you've lost weight" when they know you're on a diet, but if they don't know and say it I think they mean it.

jaefuma,

The first time I lost weight I went from 189lbs to 129lbs.  All the way through my diet I hated my body, got mad at myself everytime I binged, wouldn't even eat a little peice of chocolate or packet of crisps.  Yeh I lost the weight, but I still wasn't happy.  I thought once I'd lost the weight, that's it I don't have to think about it anymore, I can do what I want. No worries.

And then I put all the weight back on and then some.  I'm now 212lbs, have lost 17lbs in 3 months, but I'm doing it right this time.  I don't hate my body, I don't care what other people think of my because I'm over weight and if I slip up, yeh I get upset, but I don't let it destroy my good work and get right back on that diet.

What I'm trying to say is you can think that losing weight will solve all your problems, will make you happy and that's it, everything's gonna be great and yeh you may be happier and healthy in body, but it doesn't always turn out that way.  Don't hate yourself, don't hate food and you'll get there in the end.  Enjoy the journey.

I burn 2050 without exercise, with exercise usually about 2400 and eat 1400-1500  so I usually have a deficit of 900-1000, if I don't exercise my deficit is usually 700-800

I don't like water, so most of the water I get is through drinking herbal tea or diluted fruit juice. 

I'm more concerned about the calories burnt.  When I log walking on C-C for the same time it said around 400 cals burnt.  At the moment I have 1000 cal deficit, but if I only burnt 400 I'll have less of a deficit.  If I'm going to be doing this most days I don't want to be out by that much.

Thanks.  I'm really enjoying cooking for myself.

I don't want to look like anyone but me.  You need to love yourself and your body. 

No I put one serving.