Weight loss ups and downs - 800 Calorie - Newcastle

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Only to be expected, well done on the damage control. 🙂
 
Interesting consultation with the dietician.

Basically she said if you’re following the Newcastle diet then follow it. Don’t deviate.
Don’t go into food shops.

Also said that she was a Christian and would pray for me.
 
ColinUK said:
Interesting consultation with the dietician.

Basically she said if you’re following the Newcastle diet then follow it. Don’t deviate.
Don’t go into food shops.

Also said that she was a Christian and would pray for me.
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It's the only one that has been clinically tested, although a lot of money has been made by people inventing their own version off the back of it.
 
ColinUK said:
In my head I'm setting aside the 12 weeks. I expect I'll have quite significant losses in the first 8 so will review as it's a weight target more than a time target.

Weight returned gradually.

And exercise certainly helps!
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Thanks Colin, very helpful
 
ColinUK said:
Also said that she was a Christian and would pray for me.
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It would depend so much on how she said this, whether to take it as kind of nice or kind of creepy ...

As far as the actual advice goes, I think it has to be right. One of the things about the ND strictly applied is that you actually know how many calories you're getting.

Start fiddling with it, and you're moving back towards the normal situation where people are just really bad at estimating calories and generally underestimate by a lot. A bit of that dip, some dressing on that, some of that cheese ...

And if you combine that with eg a belief that carbs somehow cause weight gain independent of calories, which they don't, then there's another trap: Oh I may have eaten some extra calories but it was all low carb so it doesn't matter so much ...

I didn't do the ND as such, instead taking things a bit more gently, but I imagine the big pay off long term from the ND is the same reduction in the Pavlovian response to sights and smells. These days I have only a very mild response to things which before would have been compelling but ultimately both disappointing and unhealthy: eating overpriced crap at poxy cafes, chowing down on a croissant in between meetings, etc etc. (I imagine that semaglutide etc have the same kind of effect in reducing those signals to a level where they are mildly interesting at most, not compelling.)

If you continue to inflict the same stimuli on yourself by eg hanging out at the same food stores and cafes, then maybe it's harder to get to that point ...
 
After last week with wobbles etc I’ve embraced a new determination.
One day at a time etc…

101.2kg
 
You're doing great, I can't even get on it. I will though if only because it's a cheaper way to live. Circumstances are becoming difficult. Son is complaining that his favourite £2.50 burgers are now £4. Thank goodness I never eat burgers. 🙂 I have all my tins of SlimFast in, just have to acquire the motivation from somewhere. How come it was easy when I was 14? Now I'm 68 I don't give a rat's ass about anything. 🙄 CheekyCat went over the Rainbow Bridge today, but I never need an excuse anyways.

Prayers work imho. My daughter prayed to St Jude and put her hands right on her keys in the long grass. Faith is everything. :rofl:
 
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You're doing great, I can't even get on it. I will though if only because it's a cheaper way to live. Circumstances are becoming difficult. Son is complaining that his favourite £2.50 burgers are now £4. Thank goodness I never eat burgers. 🙂 I have all my tins of SlimFast in, just have to acquire the motivation from somewhere. How come it was easy when I was 14? Now I'm 68 I don't give a rat's ass about anything. 🙄 CheekyCat went over the Rainbow Bridge today, but I never need an excuse anyways.

Prayers work imho. My daughter prayed to St Jude and put her hands right on her keys in the long grass. Faith is everything. :rofl:
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Faith is an odd thing. One of my friends has a really strong faith and I like seeing that he does. It’s not a typical Judeo-Christian faith although it’s very much of that ilk.
I can see that it gives him comfort and strength and that is good to see but it’s not something I share.
Yes I’m Jewish and I do observe some of the festivals and follow some of the practices in my own way but I’d never say I had faith.
For me the following of my version of Jewish tradition and practice is less about the faith but more about the family and belonging to a wider social group I guess.
It’s hard to explain but it feels that I’m honouring my ancestors who were murdered because of being Jewish. I’m not even that keen on chicken soup or salt beef!

Sorry to hear about Cheeky Cat. Would you like to tell more about what they were like?
Cats passing can be quite the wrench emotionally and I hope you’re ok.

I’ll post a weight update later when I’m actually up as this is a weight loss thread :rofl:

Oh might be relevant but an email landed in my inbox yesterday about language choices. Mainly concentrating on the whole “I’ve been bad” vs “I was good” narrative we use about food choices as people with diabetes and it struck a chord. I’ll dig it out and post a link here later.
 
Was 100.9kg yesterday. 16,000 steps later and today I’m clocking in at 100.8 :rofl:
 
ColinUK said:
Was 100.9kg yesterday. 16,000 steps later and today I’m clocking in at 100.8 :rofl:
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16k steps = maybe 600 kcals = ~70g of fat ...
 
ColinUK said:
Was 100.9kg yesterday. 16,000 steps later and today I’m clocking in at 100.8 :rofl:
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Bet it felt good those 16,000 steps?

I only managed 14,700 yesterday…(according to my Apple Watch that was 600 Cals) …Using those figures only as a guide tho!
 
100.1 - Slow and steady. But then again roughly 1lb a day isn’t that slow.
 
Good grief, a pound a day is fabulous! Not to mention miraculous. You'd soon cease to exist! :rofl: Like in Stephen King's 'Thinner.'
 
Bouncing around the 100kg mark the last few days so upping the exercise and water intake to force the weight lower.
Oh and I'm out to lunch with some friends from overseas and out of town on Friday and I'm going to make wise choices but I am going to eat!
We're going to a soft opening of a new restaurant which is going to be a treat, hopefully.
 
Excellent, what's a soft opening?

I have my skimmed milk, I start today! No choice, I am skint and feel ill. :D
 
@Ditto a soft opening is when a restaurant is in practice mode really.
Everything is in place, diners are welcomed, food is being cooked etc but they’re expecting things to not quite run smoothly so it’s before Press are invited and the official opening happens. Previews I guess.
This one has limited covers and 50% off everything bar the wine list.
 
HELP!!! I'm at that stage where I'm starving hungry and doubting that this works.... I am fighting the urge to go and buy pitta and hummus. The struggle is real!
 
ColinUK said:
HELP!!! I'm at that stage where I'm starving hungry and doubting that this works.... I am fighting the urge to go and buy pitta and hummus. The struggle is real!
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STEP…AWAY….FROM…..THE HUMMUS! (and the pitta, especially the pitta).
You know it works, except when you don’t stick to it. Go and play some music and wait for half an hour, then review how you feel. Rinse and repeat if necessary, or come back and rant at us on here.
 
I’ve just had a cherry tomato.

This is because I had my breakfast shake really rather early today. Also it’s just that stage of things.

I’ve also changed into clothes I’d never dream of wearing outside and I’ve taken my socks off so if I was to head out I’d basically need to get dressed into outdoor clothes.

Superficial barriers I know but they do help.
 
Water, more water…kills your hunger…

And go for a walk😉
 
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