On 21/04/15 10:15, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:56:29 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

On 21/04/15 02:16, MM wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:02:06 +1000, "john james"
wrote:

You need to scale them back a lot.

A HECK of a lot! (Sorry, Tim.) Since I dropped 5 kilos my blood figures
have improved enormously, especially the HbA1C.

and watching like
a hawk on MyFatnessPal.

I lost more than 20%, from 70KG down to 55KG just by eating less.

And that is the ONLY way! Within 24 hours of eating less my scales show
a reduction. At the moment I'm trying to stick to 1500 cals a day,
though it's bloody difficult as I really do enjoy food and cooking it.
Hobby of mine. I'm always hungry. But I was always hungry when I
weighed 90 kg at only 168cm and stuffed myself with fast food,
cream cakes, and crisps. Weight down to 76kg now.

What sort of calories per day were you on?

Update, Tim. I have been putting on a bit of weight as I haven't been
sticking to the limits recently (various pains and comfort eating).

For the last week or so I've been on 1600 caloroes and kept to it. Lost
3lb, being careful to weigh under same conditions, same time of day etc.

MyFitnessPal again.

Thanks Bob.


I think MyFatnessPal is the key. With it you can watch what you're doing.

It's also possible that drink is a contributing factor - I like a few of
an evening, which is generally a spirit with a diet mixer or Coke Life.
The mixer's not got much in, but a couple of trebles of 40% probably
adds up. That's high stress, mostly due to external ******y but the
terminally stupid.

It would not take too much of a tweak to pull it down to maybe 1400 -
but if I go much lower, I feel feel hungry and irritable and that won't
last 5 minutes.