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It's all down to metabolism. My BF is super skinny- actually far TOO thin. She eats like a horse! When we were much younger (20s) she was quite plump & after a long bout of bronchitus she lost masses of weight & has never been able to gain weight again. She really does look skeletal & would love to put on a few pound but just cannot.
Am I envious? Well yes & no. I'd like to be a bit slimmer but not so all the bones show.

It's the luck of the draw I think.

You can keep your weight within bounds without having long lists of things you do not eat and making your life a misery. The number of things on my avoid for weight reasons is 0. I have food likes and dislikes, but so do we all. I do not snack because that is the way I was brought up. Three meals a day and no eating between meals.

I also do not have a sweet tooth. I have a box of biscuits in the kitchen for when visitors come. They have been there months and I have dipped into it once and eaten two biscuits, after a long very busy day. Most of the time I forget they are there.

It is the same with exercise. I do agree that keeping active helps to keep your weight steady, but you do not have to drive your self to relentless daily activity. I am a walker, I have walked by choice almost every day since my early 20s. I have walked to work, to the station, got off buses and tubes one stop early so that I could walk. When I drove to work I would go out for a walk at lunch time. I enjoy it and miss it if I do not do it. I have always been a fidgetty person. I rarely sit down for more than 10 or 20 minutes without needing to get up and walk round the house and my family tell me that when I do sit down I tend to jiggle my legs and keep moving around on my chair. All this uses up energy.

I think the answer is getting yourself into the right frame of mind, check what makes a healthy diet, keep portion sizes under control and keep active.

The most important of those is in the mind and I suspect more people would lose weight if they could see a counsellor. I suspect the reason Slimming World works so well is not the recipes but that the Counsellor, and that is what SW calls them, keeps up a constant dialogue with Slimmers to help change their mental attitudes to eating, as much as the nutritional help they get.

Hi Jalima, it's similar to Paleo but on Stone Age you can eat beans and lentils and on Paleo you can't.

I cant say I am slim . I am a size 14 and 5ft 7ins. I am not "fat" either but I have found I am getting flabby and my weight is settling round my middle and is impossible to shift. I dont eat that much I dont thin. I dont have breakfast at all. I have salad for lunch with a baked potato. My firm supplies lunch for free but if I had the main meal I would be 20 stones now. When I get home I usually have a light meal, something like a piece of toast.

My downfall I think is chocolate. I dont do much exercise. About 20 mins walking a day (to and from car)

However, I post because I was tryin g to diet a little ( with friends) and we all asked a colleague who is slim how she does it.

First she said "You have to want to". She comes from a family of biggies and has seen the problems.

She had a list of thin gs she wont eat - anything with sugar, no cakes, no biscuits, no chocolate. She didnt eat bread or potatoes or rice. Then ( you need to grab this) she walks for over four hours a day. Much of it deliberately. She walks her dog for 20 mins in a morning, half an hour at lunch, she walks the dog two hours before work and two hours after on an evening. She also plays golf weekly.

Her main meal is lunchtime. She has the works set meal( the meat or curry or whatever, never a large portion though) with a salad usually and some soup (ours is homemade). She only drinks water. As far as I gather breakfast is a small piece of toast ( she has that at work too) and she does the same on an evening, having a very light tea of fruit and custard. No snacks between meals. She sticks to it.

My friends and I heard this and decided that we were too miserable already to feel able to be even more miserable to want to try this.... but at least she gave an honest answer there.

I'm 8st 7 and on a typical week day. I eat toast or weetabix for breakie, a sandwich or nothing for lunch. Do. We is homecooked casserole/ ham egg chips, chilli, chicken and a jacket with salad. I do like my choccie but not every day and i only have a dessert on a Saturday ( unless tempted) Sometimes my diet is very good and sometimes not so. I never eat ready meals alway home cooked

There was an article I read recently that studies show we eat on average fewer calories these days than in the seventies. There were lots of theories as to why, that despite that, we are getting fatter. I will try and find it and post link if I can. Theories included increased stress, sedentary lifestyles, pollution, all sorts!

Some days I eat a larger variety and include carbs, it depends on my activity levels.

I'm 5'8" about 9 stone. I eat a hard egg, half toast, and coffee for breakfast. Coffee and fruit mid morning. Salad or yoghurt, fresh veg, coffee, for lunch. Tea and nuts in the afternoon. A small piece of meat, large quantity and variety of veg, salad, and red wine for dinner. Cheese, fruit, or a pud later.

Is this the Paleo diet Skyandblossom?

I'm a size 8/10. Was an 18 after my second baby and couldn't shift the weight till my doctor put me on what she calls the Stone Age Diet, not to lose weight but to sort out a problem with poor blood sugar control. (I would get low blood sugar a lot and was hungry every 2 hours.)

Stone Age (SA) is no gluten, dairy or sugar, and eating fresh unprocessed foods. It's also low-carb.

Yesterday:

- Redbush tea with soya milk

- 2 fried eggs with mushrooms

- Coffee (splash of soya milk). Cashew nuts.

- Cold chicken, lots of salad, salad dressing, blueberries, soya kefir (like yogurt)

- 2 oatcakes with hazelnut butter and rocket. Banana.

- Gluten-free spaghetti (not SA) with lentil and tomato sauce. Chard.

- Hardboiled egg with salt. Cashew nuts. Kefir.

I feel a lot better on this diet, don't get hungry and enjoy food more. In case anyone is interested:

www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Stone_Age_Diet_-_this_is_a_diet_which_we_all_should_follow

My diet is very similar to PamelaJ1. Porridge made with water for breakfast and a little fresh fruit on top eg half a pear or plum and a splash of milk plus a mug of tea. Lunch is two slices of brown bread with ham or cheese and salad filling. I eat butter but spread very thinly. Dinner is meat or fish,three or four smallish new potatoes, broccoli, or any other fresh vegetable, or perhaps pasta or flan and salad. Might have a small slice of cake or yoghurt afterwards, plus mug of tea. I do like homemade cake but DH and I make it last a few days.

I am 5ft 3 and 9 stone. I am considered slim but not thin.

Having an injury or problem feet can make exercising difficult inishowen
People who say they 'do thousands of steps a day' or 'walk miles with the dogs' make me very

I'm fat, 14 stone. Since January I've had a sore foot and can hardly walk. The weight is creeping on. I have an appointment tomorrow to see what's wrong with my foot. I know I eat too much bread. Two slices of toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, then about three biscuits in the afternoon with a cuppa. I used to drink wine every day but now only have about three gin and tonics a week. I am exactly the same shape as my gran was. Maybe it's all down to genetics.

I am 5ft5 and weigh 8st 8lbs. Lost a stone through flu and found it really hard to get the weight back. Have always been skinny (sparrow legs) was my childhood nickname! Don't eat large portions and am always happy to get a child's portion or share with DH. Had gallstones when I was 19 and had to go fat free for a year and think this changed my eating habits. Don't eat fried food at all and am known for eating tiny portions. Dont have a sweet tooth, prefer savoury but can be tempted by cake! Do ten thousand steps a day, so pretty active too.

My problem is that I should be 5' 10"

Wooops! that extra weight has stayed ON!

I am 5ft 10 and always used to weigh about 10st 7lb. I eat smaller proportions now than I did when working full time, but better quality meals and rarely any processed foods. However, when I retired and moved house my new doctor took me off HRT. Since then I have put on 2 stone and gone up 2 dress sizes.

When desk-bound in an office I would nibble all day - biscuits, crisps and sometimes even chocolate. Now I don't eat between meals and, despite doing a lot more walking, that extra weight has stayed off. I am convinced that's just how I am so I don't worry about it.

I lose weight easily when stressed or unhappy, went to size 10 after husband died, not a good look at 5ft 11.now I am happy but a size 16/18 and on slimming world. I can't win. Must be my breed!

Apart from keeping my sugar intake low (although I do sometimes indulge when I make cakes for the family), I find the best method to keep slim is to reduce the size of portions, eat plenty of fruit and salads (I'm not a great fan of vegetables apart from runner beans), keep away from alcohol, and - this I think is the main thing for me: eat your last meal as early as possible (I eat mine between 5.30 - 6.30 p.m.). Then nothing more to eat until breakfast (which for me consists of Greek yoghurt, berries and low-sugar granola).
I can't say that I feel deprived on such a diet, and I do snack on cheese and salt-free crisps too.

Ditto, Christinefrance! Exactly me!

I am now two slim people inhabiting the one body and no idea what happened.......food the great love substitute I think and disability.

Have been slim, fat, and now plump! Do cook from scratch and eat healthily, just too much of it! However, I saw an acquaintance recently who had lost a lot of weight, yes her figure was better but I hardly recognised her face she looked at least a decade older, so not always a good idea after a certain age.

Someone once said you get to an age when you have to choose between your food or your figure.
I am 5ft 9 and 13 st 10Ib,and size 16,have lost a stone since January,as dieting for a wedding,I just eat healthy but have half size meals.Poor husband gets a massive portion sometimes,as I don't always get it Right!But started going to aquarobics in November,it's made such a difference to my shape and I look more toned,am now going twice a week.Porridge or cereal with fruit,soup & roll for lunch chill & rice with 2 Tbl rice for dinner,and low cal yogurt.One glass of wine a week( boring)if we have chips I just hav 4 fat ones.If I have more than one glass of wine I loose control completely finish the bottle and eat anything else chocs etc.You have to have a day off sometimes.hope this helps.

Definitely one of the not slim here.But for me if I keep off carbs (bread, potatoes, rice etc) and eat mostly protein and veg I lose weight.

The problem is as soon as I eat bread again ( and I love bread) it all goes back on.

So it has to be a complete lifestyle change for me, and I'm not committed enough

I am slim and eat a very healthy diet, don't snack and do a lot of exercise!
My guilty pleasure is a small sweet treat after dinner every evening. I think the exercise counters that. I am 5'6" size 8/10.