Im on a crash diet ... again!!

[suzi-q]

Im on a crash diet because we are off on holiday in 2 weeks.

I can never seem to get motivated till the last minute then I go for it.

Im eating 1 piece of toast with peanut butter for brekky, fruit for lunch and salmon or chicken with salad for dinner.

Im blinkin' starvin'. I cant be the only fool doing this?

But seeing all those beautiful beach bodies in the magazines and papers is tooo depressing...

[dot.hawkes]

don't suddenly eat too little as your body will think u are starving and start to store fat for survival, u will gain weight, cut out bread and potatoes and stodgey stuff and drink loads of waer and 5 portions of fruit a day. Oh and go swimming every day.

[suzi-q]

Yea well guess Im not that desperate :-)

[Lore]

lol wardy!

Dot's right suzi, I tried for years to lose weight, crash diets only cause you to gain weight in the long run.

I managed to lose around 3 stone just by not eating everything on my plate, cooking everything from scratch so I can see what's going into the meal.
no weighing foods, no buying special diet bars or milkshakes... just real food and plenty of walking.

[Champagne]

Realistically you'll only lose about 4lb in 2 weeks, Suz. If you lose any more in weight then it's likely to be just water anyway! Plus with crash-dieting you tend to put the weight on a lot quicker afterwards which is not healthy.

[Champagne]

Certainly skip the peanut butter as that's fattening. And stop buying magazines with beautiful bodies in!! Invest in 2 well fitting bikinis and a pretty chiffon sarong. Even curvy women can look stunning. x

[suzi-q]

Im realistic enough to know that at 45 Im not going to change that much. Im a size 12 and need to lose perhaps 10 lbs tops. I'll never be skinny but still we can all dream. I think Im eating sensibly and will stick to it for a couple of weeks. I've lost 8 Lbs since Christmas so thats steady enough! Just the last push for which I needed that two week incentive.

Was there a discussion on here about mens figure preferences the other night then?

[suzi-q]

Oh - I'll not get too depressed then :-)

[supermodel]

do wat i did just pretend every food is disgusting and it will kill you if you eat it except for 2 things.......i went about four months eating only burger king and pasta i lost about 3stone lol

and im still skinny now yay!

wait maybe thats cos i physically cannot eat now :-s

[scruffscat]

45 years old and a size 12 you say ? why do you want lose weight you sound ok to me.

[kangaroolock]

crash diets usually work for me, but i'm young and really thin.
Just go out all the time i always eat when i'm bored, just keep on the move and try and do as much exercise as possible.
get rid of all the junk food in your house!