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Would You Treat Yourself to a Takeaway to celbrate a Weight Loss??
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There is a program on Channel 5 at the moment showing overweight people trying to lose weight.
The couple they just showed who are attending a weightloss class lost weight this week - but when they got home they ordered a kebab delivery to reward themselves!
I can understand the feeling of wanting to celebrate their achievements but surely this is completely counterproductive?
The couple they just showed who are attending a weightloss class lost weight this week - but when they got home they ordered a kebab delivery to reward themselves!
I can understand the feeling of wanting to celebrate their achievements but surely this is completely counterproductive?
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At the weekend all bets are off. Out drinking, McD, takeaways etc.
I guess you have to find your own balance.
No one is putting the grub down their throats !>:(
I've been diabetic since the end of July, completely changed my eating habits and lost 2.5 stone. I refused, however, to give up my once-a-week pizza and have managed to lose all that weight including the weekly pizza in my diet (and a sweet treat once a week, which is quite often a McFlurry).
Calm Down Dear!!
(just joking with you)
Well I suppose with a program titled Too Fat To Work or whatever it was it's obvious they would choose only the most extreme (and very obese) people to be shown.
I did notice her mum saying she had to choose 'low sugar' butter, or whatever it was, for her daughters sarnies (for health reasons)
I'm sure what butter/spread to use is the least of their worries.
Regarding the drinking several litres of full fat cola daily though, I think that really is an addiction as I had a friend who had the same problem, she drank it constantly throughout the day and couldn't stop. She was very tiny though and her main problem was the effect it had on her teeth - but she still couldn't stop!!!
If I were very overweight though I would see that as a very unhelpful relationship with food. Once fatty, salty and sugary foods are seen as a reward for living for a week on healthy food drudgery then I'd imagine the diet would be doomed.
A little bit of what you fancy and no binges is probably the best way forward.
They all pay lip service to wanting to work, where is their insentive, when they are paid to sit on their backsides getting everything paid for.
I can't feel sympathy for any of them, except the teenager whose mother did her such harm.
Fair enough. Well done to you.
The man on the show though only lost one pound that week and went straight home to order a kebab (with the obligatory bit of salad on the side of course)
With regard to that guy you mention though, seems to me he's rewarding his bad eating with a bit of good eating, as opposed to what I'm doing, rewarding the mostly good with a bit of bad He's got it arse about face, so to speak
It's all about moderation, self-discipline and common sense, really.
Yes but perfect idiots for a dog end Ch 5 weight loss, pile of shite reality programme.
As long as you know exactly what is going into your body and you account for it then you can pretty much eat anything you want and lose weight. As long as you know the difference between eating anything you want and eating everything you want.
that bit did make me laugh
When the salad is the treat rather than the calorie/fat-laden food, that is the problem
ETA: I'm waiting for the one with politicians claiming a benefit who are overweight and not on a diet
I agree. One of the problems with the people on this show though was not just eating the wrong foods but mahoosive portions of food, whether good or bad.
They can't really be serious about losing weight.
It's all too common I'm afraid. We have many obese kids in school with rolls of fat, and they get tired and breathless.
The packed lunches they bring are a sight to behold. One brings pie, a pastie, a whole packet of dairylea (the regular sized round pack with six triangles), two cans of coke, sweets and crisps.
I've raised a concern several times, and head of year has phoned the parents, but what can you do?
I directly but politely pointed out to the mum (also enormous) on parent's evening that the sheer carb load and consequent sugar slump were making her son sleepy and inattentive in afternoon, but I got told in no uncertain terms that it was up to me to prepare lessons that engaged him so he didn't doze off.
The lad is ill.
Terrible tactic for being healthy
I'm a full on masochist.
That's awful.
My daughter's school are quite rigorous about what they give the kids for school lunches, which is what my daughter has, and I give them permission for her to have one sweet pudding a week, the rest of the week she can have fruit. I found out they were letting her skip the water drinks at school (obviously they can't force her) and didn't let me know, so she was dehydrated and constipated, I now send in some sugar-free squash in a flask which has to be finished each day.
I ask them to write in her home-school book whenever she has some birthday cake or a sweet reward (which they hand out once a week) so that I'm not unaware and let her have a treat too. We have no biscuits, no sweets, nothing at home except for once a week she gets £1 to spend on herself (you can't really get much with £1, which is the general idea ) but no soft drinks. Basically I want to know what's going into her mouth before she becomes overweight and ill, rather than allowing that to happen.
I do all of this a) because I love her dearly and b) because she's less mobile due to her disability and therefore more prone to putting on weight. I am aware that she's 14 and so her appetite is increased, I account for that, but she also (thankfully) loves carrots and, if she's peckish or bored and wants a snack, she munches on a few of those in-between meals
ETA: If she had her own way, she'd go without a drink for a week... I can't even get my head around that at all!
I love salads. My only real indulgence - a massive bowl of shredded lettuce, rocket or other leaves, chopped grapes (black and green), peppers (green, yellow, red & orange), chopped tomatoes, chopped celery sticks, diced cheddar cheese, and diced (steamed or fried) potatoes. Occasionally bacon pieces/lardons.
With and without buttered baguette slices. Occasionally have it with a baked potato. It's 100% mine.
No one is allowed to touch it while I have portions from that bowl throughout one day. I once almost had a meltdown when I caught my daughter sneaking some from The Bowl.
Doesn't sound like an incredibly healthy mindset, but I don't believe you should cut out everything you enjoy when trying to lose weight. I'm on a diet right now to lose a couple of stone(which I lost before but then life got in the way and things like bereavements and exams happened and I put it all back on >:( )
When I was most successful at losing weight, it was when I didn't cut out things completely. I still had alcohol and I still had takeaways. I just had them in moderation and balanced them with exercise and good healthy food the rest of the time.
The reason I've put it all back on is that I have not balanced out these things at all .
BLOODY CHEEK! >:(
I think the amount of obese kids is rising rapidly isn't it?
& these poor sods often have mahoosive parents too, so unfortunately it seems a vicious circle.
I can't see how this situation can be reversed.
Everyone automatically going down the gastric band route though IMO is totally wrong.
I have doubts about them keeping the weight off if that's how desperate they were to have some fast food.