Rewards for weight loss

[TheGayTent]

I'm trying to lose weight as well. Though not with a specific diet. I'm just eating less food, and making use of my heavily discounted membership of my uni gym. Lost 5 pounds since the start of the year, trying to get off another stone and a half hopefully before my holiday in April.

My main motivation for losing weight is to make myself look better - easier to get women that way. I'm not sure I really understand the prizes for weight loss thing, but massages or beauty products sounds like a winner to me.

[Katster]

Gym membership

[TheGayTent]

The cheapest gym membership around here is public sector and costs £22.50 a month. I charged people £5 to join my fit/fat club. 13 people have joined my group. I don't want to be massively out of pocket. You do the math...

[Katster]

I'm trying to lose weight as well. Though not with a specific diet. I'm just eating less food, and making use of my heavily discounted membership of my uni gym. Lost 5 pounds since the start of the year, trying to get off another stone and a half hopefully before my holiday in April.

My main motivation for losing weight is to make myself look better - easier to get women that way. I'm not sure I really understand the prizes for weight loss thing, but massages or beauty products sounds like a winner to me.

[feral chile]

I'm doing a low fat diet with lots of exercise. It seems to be working so far

[omskus]

I'm doing a low fat diet with lots of exercise. It seems to be working so far

[Katster]

Charge them a grand - fat bastards won't be able to afford food then

[Katster]

exercise is great. the release of endorphins is a natural reinforcer. Do you like rope skipping? I lost loads of weight doing that to music, and it got quite addictive. I used one of those ropes that add up the number of skips and worked out how many calories you used - winner all round, loads of positive reinforcement going on there.

[Katster]

How about an efests diet/keeping healthy group - 1st rule though - no one mocks fit group

[Snufflebutt]

I walked around loads when I was travelling in the summer - I wasnt even trying to eat healthily, I had pizza for 10 days straight - and lost half a stone in a month. I obviously won't have the time to replicate that amount of walking, but I'm thinking if I eat less and do some walking and a couple of days a week in the gym, I could get off a stone and a half...

[Katster]

I walked around loads when I was travelling in the summer - I wasnt even trying to eat healthily, I had pizza for 10 days straight - and lost half a stone in a month. I obviously won't have the time to replicate that amount of walking, but I'm thinking if I eat less and do some walking and a couple of days a week in the gym, I could get off a stone and a half...

[harderfaster]

One lady was upset that she had to pay £5 to join...."what's in it for me?" she asked....how tempted I was to reply, "erm, you won't be a fat bitch at the end of it?"

Which also answers rachelbon's question, not totally paying for it out of my own pocket, everyone paid a fiver to join and anyone who puts weight on will have to pay a £1 penalty, but as I'm hoping most people will lose weight the £5 per person won't go far unless I'm careful.

I thought of something really small for all the losers and then something a bit bigger (to the value of around £5) for the biggest loser. I don't mind it costing me a bit but I don't want to be massively out of pocket!

[ampersand]

well I would have thought most of us underestimate how many calories we eat. Epecially if we're eating naughty stuff like cake and chocolate. It's not always the amounts eaten, but the type of food.

[feral chile]

i know. but to conciously be counting and saying you're sticking to your 2000 when in actual fact you've had around 3000 is just stupid. and il-informed. she was having a huge fruit salad at breakfast. clearly thinking that fruit counts for nothing or very little. when in fact pineapple has quite a bit. despite them all being good calories obviously.

and i'm still struggling for ideas for rewards. good luck though, the reward should be a slim belly! that's my hope!

[Purple Monkey]

1st prize: A lifetime supply of cake, a brand new plasma TV and several DVD box-sets.

[saratink]

Though the Slimming World one lets you eat unlimited amounts of either carbs or protein. I don't know how that works.

[feral chile]

Don't know how it works either, but it does work.

Extra easy plan encourages you to eat a rounded diet.

plus, its so easy that you kinda forget you're on a diet.

[saratink]

I'm thinking of joining the online one, just to get the full theory behind it and the free food list and some recipes. The whole family could do with eating more healthily, and as far as I can see that's what they're really promoting.

Edited January 14, 2011 by saratink

[Snufflebutt]

This sounds weird but I like the feeling of being hungry when dieting- i think it kinda makes me think I'm losing weight. Don't really miss chocolate/ fatty stuff at the moment - am making fruit salad as a replacement and its working well so far. I couldnt be bothered with these diets - too much work counting points and suchlike. Eat less food, and you'll lose weight, simples.

[bunique]

I hate hate hate that Slimming World refer to some foods as "syns" - its f**king food - it's neither good nor bad.

I'm counting on the weightloss properties of breastfeeding to get me into me weddind dress by July! That and carrying my little heffalump around.

[saratink]

too much work counting points and suchlike. Eat less food, and you'll lose weight, simples.

[rachbon]

i used to do slimming world but i always get really bored being on diets. it's annoying having to check syns all the time.

i prefer calorie counting.

[LusciousLucy]

I hate hate hate that Slimming World refer to some foods as "syns" - its f**king food - it's neither good nor bad.

[feral chile]

thing is, once you've done it for a while, you kinda stop counting. And basically its just a healthy varied diet, with keeping an eye on the stuff you should limit.

Of course you gotta keep an eye on food you're eating that isn't free, but it doesn't take alot of work figuring you've had a tablespoon of ketchup and 3 sugars as extras, and you get to know the syn values for your favorite foods quickly.

For me, it isn't just eating less food. I LOVE FOOD. and would be a cranky bitch if i was hungry all the time. and i don't want sudden results either, like alot of people crave to loose half a stone in a week etc. Basically because i'd need time to realise my body is a smaller size, and to feel comfortable being that size.

Also, when done quickly, once the weight is off, you start to crave the food you missed out on during the diet - which can result in binge eating. When changing eating habbits to incorporate foods you love in it, stops you feeling like your on a diet, and just becomes a way of eating.

Don't know if that makes sense, but thats my views on it.

[omskus]

yeah as diets go, I like the Slimming World one. The problem I have is that I can be quite obsessive, and if I start controlling my calorie intake I reduce my healthy intake as well. So calorie counting isn't necessarily healthy,

Slimming World isn't a faddy diet - it's quite responsible in that it promotes healthy options. The Free Foods are good for you, they're not just focusing on depriving the body of calories at whatever cost.