Is dieting necessary

Ninety minutes running at your age Gabriella is quite something - have you always been a runner?

I do a lot of brisk walking - running does my lungs in, plus I'm concerned about knackering my knees.

Apologies
humptydumpty...no capitals.

HumptyDumpty

Body fat.
On my digital scales it shows
1) weight in kg.
2) BF (body fat)
3) BMI (body mass index) in that order.

BF is usually between the 20-30 mark for women between ages.17- 50. More than 34 is extreme BF usually in obese range.

I thought it was Best Friend

On the radio a while ago I heard someone talking about running backwards -

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_running

I thought that’s what you meant, Gabriella, but then I realised you meant “gone back to” running! You gave it up for a while?

humptydumpty
I think that is Body Fat.

GG my only issue re. your comments is: what is BF??

...and typical echoes from certain people needing to show their colours.

Sour grapes. Have I given someone the pip?
This thread is about weight...gains losses, diets, body image, how others manage their weight etc...
My post fits neatly into that category.

Totally agree about how much harder it is to lose weight during and after the menopause. Having been a fan of cooked breakfasts all my life I am trying 16:8 and just cutting out most alcohol and eating less carbs but not cutting them completely. So I have lunch about 1pm, usually a salad and a cooked me around 8pm. Swimming 3x a week. Slowly, very slowly the weight is going down at an average of 1lb a week. I will have to be very patient to get to my target so am setting intermediate targets which make me feel better! but it is hard work!

After years of my constant concern about DH's weight only a health scare prompted him to lose weight when he was diagnosed with Type 2 last July. At 19 stone and in his early 60s I was worried. However, he refused to take the drugs prescribed by the GP, and insisted he would do it by changing his eating habits - he loved potatoes and white bread. The GP was reluctant but agreed to respect my husband's wishes on the proviso he checked in every 3 months.

Well 15 months later, my husband is now down to 15 stone, and now in the pre-diabetic range and is still reducing. Changing what we eat has been really good actually for both us. I bought the 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book and never looked back. We love the recipes in there and although I didn't need to lose weight - being 9 st - I've notice d how much better I feel too.

In fact my husband now says how much he regrets not listening to me all those years ago and how much fitter he would've been.
I'v

grapefruitpip??? very droll

I don't think the intention of this thread was for bragging about weight loss and running around with a hula hoop.

daisyboots ?

I have full fat everything, pasta, bread (usually rye, soda or mixed seeded wholemeal, croissants) in fact the whole range of foods except red meat, game fowl and shellfish (which I dislike)
I have two consecutive fasting days when I have clear liquids only: oxo, tap water and flavoured bottled water.
I feel lighter and cleaner after doing 2 days on the trot.
On eating days, I have breakfast at 10ish and dinner at 6pm. No lunch. Possibly a handful of almonds or walnut halves and limit my drinks to 2 cappuccinos but unlimited water.
I'm now 10st 12 and don't plan to lose any more weight.
I started back running last week and do 90mins plus I plan to do some weights in a weeks time then back to using my 1.5kg weighted hula-hoop.
IMO, it's no good losing weight without working the muscles to tighten things up, otherwise (unless you're really young) you're left with flab. Not a good idea. ??

Ahh...but what is your BF?

Thank you Whitewave2.
It's a horrible time but determined to live a lot longer yet.

If anyone wants to do the low carb diet I would suggest that they visit the Diabetes UK website. The key is not just to do low carb but also have extra fat in the diet . I know it seems odd but it is essential to have more good fats, i.e butter , olive oil, full fat milk and cream to stop the hunger pangs. My OH was told that he had type 2 diabetes . He has been on this for some time now, has lost a huge amount of weight. He no longer has diabetes, he can walk for miles and takes no meds.The important thing is to cut out sugar and carbs but keep up the dairy produce and olive oil.

The body doesn't use muscle up when on this diet but actually burns off fat in the body. please don't think that, when done properly, you will lose muscle. .

He still does the diet because he genuinely feels better when on it.

daisyboots best wishes for your treatment.

bluesky

Dr. Mosely, his 8 week diet I think it was called but google no carb diet and it will come up and you can get everything from there.

You can do it on line, but have to pay.

But DH followed it strictly for a period and was clear in a very short time. Even certain fruits were banned

It’s a pain to follow at the time but diabetes isn’t good news.

We eat carbs now. But still no sugar, cake, biscuits, puddings except special occasions

Don’t worry about weight unless it is life threatening. Be happy in your own skin. Yes I’d like to be slightly slimmer but if I fancy chocolate or biscuit or cake I have it. Life’s too short to worry, could die tomorrow from an idiot driver running me down!

When you diet you tend to gain twice as much as you took off. Diets don’t work, only a change of eating habits for the rest of your life.

I would hate my obituary to say “she died on a diet” ?

I am tall and until I had breast cancer at the age of 52 I was never overweight. On Tamoxifen and I put on 6st in 6 months so had to live on a diet so as not to put on any more. Since then it has been one diet after another but still very overweight. This year as a result of the Tamoxifen not doing it's job I have bone matastases on my spine which is not not curable but treatable. They said I would lose weight with the chemo but I have only lost 1st. I hardly eat anything now yet I am not losing weight. But I am hoping having the extra weight will help when having more chemo. Just wish I could be more active

I struggle to keep my weight in check. Just watch what I eat and try to exercise by walking/cycling and not using the car unless I have to. It seems to work keeping BMI just under 25 and annual full blood test to spot anything early enough to take action. BP normal taken using own machine every month or so.
Minimum sugar and fat.

Alima, thanks for the Smart BMI thing. It appears I'm only overweight and not obese. Yay!

Whitewave I'm interested in your advice as a pre-diabetic. I cut out all sugar, no effort really as I don't really like cakes etc but I find it difficult to cut out carbs as I am a vegetarian and my diet is mainly potatoes, bread and pasta!

gonegirl ? honestly!!!