Holidays

[skylight]

As usual panic sets in before holiday - clothes too tight - 2 weeks to loose at least 7 llbs. Any tips apart from eat less?!!!

[lynbrown]

Just count calories - you can still eat a lot, just make sure it is fruit and veg. It can be done - if you really really want to.

[kittenlittle]

Break up with a loved one, eat tomato & red pepper soup and pitta bread, walk for 15mins a day, if you have to have crisps and choc, have Skips and Milky Way.

[Timote]

I heard about this diet that someone came up with back in the 80's, known as the brown rice diet. http://www.homeopathicdoctor.ca/reference/Brow n_Rice_Diet.doc
So I tried it, and although I didnt lose much weight I did feel alot of alot more healthy after just a week.

I've always thought though that it doesnt matter if you starve yourself, you still wont lose weight if you dont exercise.

Or you could always take up smoking...nothing like a cigarette to curb your appetite! ; )

[jno]

bigger clothes (or naturist resort)

[skylight]

Thanks all - will definitely try the soup - sounds quite good - and Timote have just given up the weed ( 8 weeks now) maybe I'll take up the pipe!!!!! Cheers PS have always fancied a naturist resort!!

[cheffron]

drink lots of water and cut out caffeine...eat lots of vegetables and fruit. Have a good breakfast it will curb cravings...and walk as much as you can

[jiggy-gb]

If it's just for 2 weeks try cutting out anything with flour in it (bread, pasta, ready made sauces etc) and drop rice and spuds. Eat loads of greens, salads, fruit as your first meal only, and fill up on proteins, eat extra meat, fish and eggs. You'll not go hungry and if you do a little exercise you'll easily drop 7lb in 14 days. It'll be a lot of excess fluid, but then all diets do that!
Just a word of warning, cutting out flour (gluten to be precise) can make you feel like you have flu for a couple of days, it's the toxins leaving your body, so make sure you drink atleast 2lts of water a day to flush them out.
Good luck :o)

[cheffron]

jiggy - so does rice make you put on weight?

[jiggy-gb]

It doesn't make you gain weight, but it certainly doesn't help you lose it cheffron. If you eat it once or twice a week it's not so bad, but like most things, moderation is the best policy. Veggies as your accompanyment to your meat or fish is far preferrable if you're wanting to lose substantial weight.