I feel sorry for her.I'd hate to be under that pressure.
Well that's the gamble I guess when you agree to be the 'face' of a diet... Keeping the weight off takes a lot more work than accepting what they pay you for it....
Well nobody FORCED Pauline to front the advertising campaign for LiterLife. She took the money and now cannot start to complain that the media are watching her to see if she puts the weight back on. If she really wanted to shift the weight she could have done it privately.
Actually if she has lost weight "privately", she would have been subjected to speculation about whether she has had a gastric band and be expected to talk about her weight loss. This way she had some control over what was said about her.
This thread started in Jan , yet she does still to be out of the womens mags etc .You'd think they'd want to follow her success story as she's done great.
Saw a very brief glimpse of her on the One Show on Wednesday night and she looks to have put some of the weight back on, and as nutritionists say you do after these LL diets, I'm not surprised. She looks better for it I think, as she looked dreadfully haggard.
Saw a very brief glimpse of her on the One Show on Wednesday night and she looks to have put some of the weight back on, and as nutritionists say you do after these LL diets, I'm not surprised. She looks better for it I think, as she looked dreadfully haggard.
I think Linda looks absolutely lovely now. She looks to be the perfect weight for her frame and her face is definitely more beautiful for having gained a few pounds.
I know someone who went on the Lighter Life diet and she lost seven stone in as many months. We saw her at a reception and she looked slim but sad because she could only sip water.
Eight months later I saw her at Christmas and every bit of that weight she had lost was back on her body. But at least she was happilly enjoying herself.
The really sad thing is that to gain all that weight back she'll have been eatinmg way more healthily than she was before doing LL, but when you go from taking in 500 calories a day to a 1000 you'll end up gaining
I think Linda looks absolutely lovely now. She looks to be the perfect weight for her frame and her face is definitely more beautiful for having gained a few pounds.
I meant to say Pauline. Although Linda is lovely too! :cool:
why would anyone wish to discuss this banal subject?
Indeed. As the DS Chawner family flag waver, I'm sure your opinion on what is and isn't worthy of discussion will be held up as the bar we need to reach
Indeed. As the DS Chawner family flag waver, I'm sure your opinion on what is and isn't worthy of discussion will be held up as the bar we need to reach
I have just noticed a new campaign for Lighterlite and they have changed it from Pauline Quirke to someone else, I just wanted to know if PQ has kept the weight off or if she had put it back on, I supposed that if she had kept the weight off they would be only too happy to re-employ her for at least another year, as Lighterlite was always seen as a temporary weight loss programme and PQ could have proved otherwise,so any news of Miss Quirke?
Have read that she has put some weight back on, but what does anyone expect with a diet like this. It is obvious that if you restrict your body to a silly amount of calories a day, you will lose weight, once you start eating what they call 'sensible', you will, of course put weight back on purely because you are eating extra calories. The only proven way of losing weight is eating sensibly and doing some exercise, it's not rocket science.
I said ages that when you stop a strict diet regime that includes a milkshake for a meal every day and replace it with a meal - however healthy - you're always going to put something back on, even if it's not a lot.
And she was always going to relax when the novelty of what she'd done had passed for the medi, and she wasn't doing photo shoots every month!
I know someone who lost 5.5 stones on LL. She was told to lose weight to have an op and that's how she chose to do it.
After the op she put back all the weight PLUS an extra 2 stones in a very short period of time.
This has inspired me to do some diet maths.
To gain one pound you have to eat 3500 calories more than your body needs.
So, to gain 7 stone 5lbs ( which is 103lbs), she would have had to consume 306,500 calories more than her body needed.
That is a hell of a lot of food to eat on top of a basic 2000 calories a day. Particulalry when you think that 306,500 calories is almost half a years worth of food to someone eating 2000 cals a day.
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Well that's the gamble I guess when you agree to be the 'face' of a diet... Keeping the weight off takes a lot more work than accepting what they pay you for it....
Actually if she has lost weight "privately", she would have been subjected to speculation about whether she has had a gastric band and be expected to talk about her weight loss. This way she had some control over what was said about her.
She is appearing in the stage version of Birds of a Feather with Linda and Leslie Joseph.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qwhn2/The_One_Show_20_02_2013/
Thanks for that clip.
I think Linda looks absolutely lovely now. She looks to be the perfect weight for her frame and her face is definitely more beautiful for having gained a few pounds.
The really sad thing is that to gain all that weight back she'll have been eatinmg way more healthily than she was before doing LL, but when you go from taking in 500 calories a day to a 1000 you'll end up gaining
I meant to say Pauline. Although Linda is lovely too! :cool:
Completely true. Very low cal diets which are monitored like LL and Cambridge do work, but the test is maintenance which can take a while.
After the op she put back all the weight PLUS an extra 2 stones in a very short period of time.
Indeed. As the DS Chawner family flag waver, I'm sure your opinion on what is and isn't worthy of discussion will be held up as the bar we need to reach
Nice one.:D:D
Have read that she has put some weight back on, but what does anyone expect with a diet like this. It is obvious that if you restrict your body to a silly amount of calories a day, you will lose weight, once you start eating what they call 'sensible', you will, of course put weight back on purely because you are eating extra calories. The only proven way of losing weight is eating sensibly and doing some exercise, it's not rocket science.
And she was always going to relax when the novelty of what she'd done had passed for the medi, and she wasn't doing photo shoots every month!
This has inspired me to do some diet maths.
To gain one pound you have to eat 3500 calories more than your body needs.
So, to gain 7 stone 5lbs ( which is 103lbs), she would have had to consume 306,500 calories more than her body needed.
That is a hell of a lot of food to eat on top of a basic 2000 calories a day. Particulalry when you think that 306,500 calories is almost half a years worth of food to someone eating 2000 cals a day.
Did she have time to do anything other than eat?