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I gave up drinking and lost

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only 2 kg over a year. I use to drink ten pints every day. I gave the booze up and expected to lose more than 2 kgs. I'm not active at all. I thought that I would have lost far more than I have.
 
Funnyday said:
only 2 kg over a year. I use to drink ten pints every day. I gave the booze up and expected to lose more than 2 kgs. I'm not active at all. I thought that I would have lost far more than I have.
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Have you replaced the beer with other things?
Starch and sugar will keep glucose levels high, and that seems to be the ideal way to increase the problems with weightloss simply not happening.
You are probably in a better state without the beer - but maybe the problem is with what you are eating or drinking now.
If you could give an outline of what your daily menu looks like it might be helpful to have some swaps or things to cut back on.
 
I've not substituted anything for the booze. On a typical day. I have granola with Greek yogurt and blueberries for breakfast. A couple of ham rolls for lunch. Two bags of crisps at 3 pm for a snack. Finally an evening meal at 5 pm of chicken with rice or new potatoes. I drink squash throughout the day.
 
Funnyday said:
I've not substituted anything for the booze. On a typical day. I have granola with Greek yogurt and blueberries for breakfast. A couple of ham rolls for lunch. Two bags of crisps at 3 pm for a snack. Finally an evening meal at 5 pm of chicken with rice or new potatoes. I drink squash throughout the day.
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If starting from where you are now, the bread, all forms of potatoes and the rice would be the things to target - and the squash unless it is sugar free. Some types of granola are quite high in carbs, but there are also lower carb versions to be bought or concocted for yourself.
It might just give you a push into losing more weight if you can reduce the carbs.
Do you check your blood glucose or know your Hba1c results?
 
You've told us you aren't at all active but what do you mean really in saying this - cos you seemed to take an interest when someone posted a link to some chair exercises, but haven't mentioned since then whether you'd even tried any. Plus although it certainly helps when anyone needs to lose weight to take exercise, lots of things people do without them considering it as 'exercise', actually are - housework in all it's many and varied forms, gardening, cleaning a car, sweeping a path, taking the rubbish out to the bin, putting the bins out for the dustbin men .......
 
I've not tried the exercises yet. I don't do much activity-wise. Trying to get motivated is difficult.
 
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