Losing Weight.

[grannie39]

I need to lose as much weight as possible for a wedding, any suggestions for meals for one, must be tasty, and nothing fancy, like quails bottoms. The wedding is in August. thanks.

[-SharonA-]

Slim fast. Such substitute a meal with a milk shake.

[Islay]

How much do you want to lose and over what time scale?

[gingejbee]

^^^I think "the wedding is in August" is a bit of a clue!

[Islay]

Ooops sorry totally missed that - I'm bad!

[237SJ]

Five and two diet

[NoMercy]

Intermittent fasting combined with low carbs is your best bet.

[Tilly2]

Five and two works really well.

[Buenchico]

In case Grannie39 needs some explanation about 'five and two':
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-52-diet

[pastafreak]

Cut the carbs...drastically.

[237SJ]

^ As long as you aren't prone to depression

[pastafreak]

Not true...for me at least.
It was carbs and too many that contributed to my anxiety and depression. Since eating low carb, my mood is much better.

[237SJ]

That might be the case for you but not everyone. There is a link between tryptophan, seratonin and depression.

[NoMercy]

Depression can be linked to low iron.

[Prudie]

I must try the 5:2 sometime but personally even if I starved myself I didn't lose weight - only increased exercise did that. Power walking for 40 minutes a day had more effect on me than any diet. Depends on your type I expect.

[maggiebee]

Please do not starve yourself - body just stores fat as it does not know when it will be fed again. Lots of good info given - cutting down on the carbs definitely works for me. I'm going to have a look at the 5:2 as well.

[NoMercy]

Starvation and fasting are two different things.

Starvation does not occur until all fat stores are depleted, which takes on average 40 days of not eating.

I just went from 7pm on Sunday until 3pm today with nothing but water. Intermittent fasting has made a huge difference to my health and outlook.

[puzzled54]

Grannie39, can you up your exercise level?

[Canary42]

5 and 2 didn't work for me, but when I "promoted it" to ADF then it did. Even then, by August is pushing it a bit.

[jennyjoan]

NoM - when I used to take vertigo really bad I could have literally not eat anything for 5-7 days but made sure I took water. I never lost an ounce.

[237SJ]

Everyone is different. Here's an interesting thing. When I was in my early 30s, I climbed up a big mountain in Africa. I became friends with a girl who I had to share a room with one night. She as about 8 stone and I was about 9 1/4 stone. Every day we got up and ate the same amount of food for breakfast. Every day we walked the same distance. Every day I ate less than her because we were given a banana for lunch and I hate bananas so I gave mine away. Every night I was one of the first people to get to our bunks as I walked fast and didn't suffer from altitude sickness. When we got back to London, my weight was the same as when I had left home and my 8 stone friend had lost 1/2 stone. So how does that work? There is a an awful lot that is not known about weight loss and everybody is different