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Hey guys! I'm new to this forum, although not particularly new to dieting, and I was hoping that some of you lovely people might be able to help me out! 
I made the decision to start a new diet about a week ago. I've dieted in the past - no major weight loss, the most I've had to lose was 24lbs after letting my weight creep up to 11 stone a couple of years ago. This time around, I weighed myself this time last week and found that I was just over 10 and a half stone (148lbs).
So last Thursday, I began my new weight loss regime. I've found from past experience that for the first 2 weeks of my diet, when weight comes off very quickly, it's most effective for me to cut my calories by about 25%, and exercise for around an hour every day (mostly cardio to begin with). This is what I've been trying to do for the last 4 - 5 days, and it's worked really well! I've managed to fit the exercise in, and I thought my eating habits had been really healthy. I first stepped on the scales after 2 days and found my weight had dropped to 142lbs, which seemed a lot! However, since then, I have only lost 1lbs in 3 days - this isn't exactly the speedy, start-of-diet weight loss I had hoped for!
Obviously, looking at the averages, losing 6lbs in 4 - 5 days is a really great achievement! But what worries me is the last few days, and the virtual standstill. I've considered the fact that I might be doing too much too soon, and that I might actually be overdoing it. The exercise is fine - my body is used to exercising an hour every day during dieting, and usually this works really well - so I'm thinking maybe I'm cutting too many calories. A typical day of food for me at the moment looks like this:
Breakfast - an average sized bowl of Special K with semi-skimmed milk
Lunch - a bowl of tomato soup with one slice of wholemeal bread, lightly buttered using low-fat spread, and a banana
Dinner - 2 wholemeal wraps with sandwich filler (e.g. chicken and sweetcorn), a low-fat yoghurt, a piece of fruit and a snack bar.
(no snacks, and usually 1 - 2 bottles of water throughout the day)
Does this diet sound healthy to you, or should I maybe up the calories a bit if I'm doing such vigorous exercise? Or maybe I should even lower the calories?!
I should just point out that I know it's early on in my diet, and I know my weight loss in total so far is impressive. I'm even seeing pleasing results in the mirror already! It's just having dieted before, I am used to consistently losing weight during the first 1 - 2 weeks, usually at a rate of around a pound a day for the first week. I don't want to finish these 2 weeks, where rapid weight loss is most likely, having not lost a lot of weight at all!
Any advice or help would be much appreciated, thanks guys!! I've been looking over this site since I started, and it's been such an encouragement and an inspiration, so thank you.
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I made the decision to start a new diet about a week ago. I've dieted in the past - no major weight loss, the most I've had to lose was 24lbs after letting my weight creep up to 11 stone a couple of years ago. This time around, I weighed myself this time last week and found that I was just over 10 and a half stone (148lbs).
So last Thursday, I began my new weight loss regime. I've found from past experience that for the first 2 weeks of my diet, when weight comes off very quickly, it's most effective for me to cut my calories by about 25%, and exercise for around an hour every day (mostly cardio to begin with). This is what I've been trying to do for the last 4 - 5 days, and it's worked really well! I've managed to fit the exercise in, and I thought my eating habits had been really healthy. I first stepped on the scales after 2 days and found my weight had dropped to 142lbs, which seemed a lot! However, since then, I have only lost 1lbs in 3 days - this isn't exactly the speedy, start-of-diet weight loss I had hoped for!
Obviously, looking at the averages, losing 6lbs in 4 - 5 days is a really great achievement! But what worries me is the last few days, and the virtual standstill. I've considered the fact that I might be doing too much too soon, and that I might actually be overdoing it. The exercise is fine - my body is used to exercising an hour every day during dieting, and usually this works really well - so I'm thinking maybe I'm cutting too many calories. A typical day of food for me at the moment looks like this:
Breakfast - an average sized bowl of Special K with semi-skimmed milk
Lunch - a bowl of tomato soup with one slice of wholemeal bread, lightly buttered using low-fat spread, and a banana
Dinner - 2 wholemeal wraps with sandwich filler (e.g. chicken and sweetcorn), a low-fat yoghurt, a piece of fruit and a snack bar.
(no snacks, and usually 1 - 2 bottles of water throughout the day)
Does this diet sound healthy to you, or should I maybe up the calories a bit if I'm doing such vigorous exercise? Or maybe I should even lower the calories?!
I should just point out that I know it's early on in my diet, and I know my weight loss in total so far is impressive. I'm even seeing pleasing results in the mirror already! It's just having dieted before, I am used to consistently losing weight during the first 1 - 2 weeks, usually at a rate of around a pound a day for the first week. I don't want to finish these 2 weeks, where rapid weight loss is most likely, having not lost a lot of weight at all!
Any advice or help would be much appreciated, thanks guys!! I've been looking over this site since I started, and it's been such an encouragement and an inspiration, so thank you.
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