Artichoke And Other Foods Said To Aid Weight Loss

Don't buy or eat biscuits, crisps or snacks any more.

Cutting back on UPFs.
Put simply, a UPF is a food that contains ingredients you wouldn't use in home cooking. Like hydrogenated fats, preservatives like nitrates or nitrites (watch your bacon and ham), high-fructose corn syrup.

I have cut back on cheese.
I'm eating more beans, lentils, salads, home made soups and stews, home baked bread, but not too much.
Eating oats to keep cholesterol down.

I don't drink alcohol, tea or coffee anyway. I drink mostly water, 2 litres a day. Sometimes as a treat I have an occasional hot chocolate.
I like peppermint tea, green tea.
If I eat chocolate it's the 100% Montezuma stuff.
 
securespark said:
Don't buy or eat biscuits, crisps or snacks any more.

Cutting back on UPFs.
Put simply, a UPF is a food that contains ingredients you wouldn't use in home cooking. Like hydrogenated fats, preservatives like nitrates or nitrites (watch your bacon and ham), high-fructose corn syrup.

I have cut back on cheese.
I'm eating more beans, lentils, salads, home made soups and stews, home baked bread, but not too much.
Eating oats to keep cholesterol down.

I don't drink alcohol, tea or coffee anyway. I drink mostly water, 2 litres a day. Sometimes as a treat I have an occasional hot chocolate.
I like peppermint tea, green tea.
If I eat chocolate it's the 100% Montezuma stuff.
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So you must have a healthy BMI or is this a strategy to get there?
 
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securespark said:
Don't buy or eat biscuits, crisps or snacks any more.

Cutting back on UPFs.
Put simply, a UPF is a food that contains ingredients you wouldn't use in home cooking. Like hydrogenated fats, preservatives like nitrates or nitrites (watch your bacon and ham), high-fructose corn syrup.

I have cut back on cheese.
I'm eating more beans, lentils, salads, home made soups and stews, home baked bread, but not too much.
Eating oats to keep cholesterol down.

I don't drink alcohol, tea or coffee anyway. I drink mostly water, 2 litres a day. Sometimes as a treat I have an occasional hot chocolate.
I like peppermint tea, green tea.
If I eat chocolate it's the 100% Montezuma stuff.
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Even if you don't live longer, it will feel like it :giggle:
 
motorbiking said:
So you must have a healthy BMI or is this a strategy to get there?
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BMI is getting better...

from an initial 51.5 to 42.3. I know I'm still well overweight, but...

fixitflav said:
Even if you don't live longer, it will feel like it :giggle:
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I know I've got a long way to go, but having lost just under 5 stone, I'm feeling fantastic.
 
Going to be very brave now.

Below is a picture of me in NZ in April/ May 2024.

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And here's one of me in the same clothes (minus hat) now.

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When I see the difference now, it's quite incredible, especially looking at the face.
I've lost at least 6 chins...

But as I said earlier, losing the weight around the middle is much harder.
 
I have found that artichokes do help me loose weight - because every time I am offered them I refuse. They have to be the most inedible tasteless vegetable on the planet.
 
securespark said:
You've not had globe artichoke on a pizza then!

Very tasty.
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Pizza is another joke of a food - the biggest culinary con on earth £25 for some bread with tomato on it -- another 2 food stuffs I try to avoid.
 
securespark said:
26 April 162.3Kg
3 May 163
10 May 158.9
17 May 157.7
24 May 157.3
31 May 156.5
7 June 156.1
14 June 156
21 June 156
28 June 155.7
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From 4 years ago, looks like a great result from latest pictures.
And good news is that you haven't given up!
Well done!
What's your weight now?
You look about 6 foot tall if that bridge fence is 4 foot, so at a guess, 115/120kg?Getting under 100kg would be an enormous achievement, so carry on.
 
Yeah, I used to be 6' 1", but I think I've shrunk a tiny bit.

My weight did go up again, but my weight last Friday (my weigh day) was 142.0 kg.

Today, a day ahead of my usual weigh day, it is 141.1 kg.

My biggest loss in a week is 1.8 kg. But, when you're hugely overweight, it's easy to lose large chunks.

So I'm nowhere near 120 kg, but my eldest lad has set me a target of 127 for the end of the year, which I'm currently ahead of.

I'm having more and more 900 calorie days. Not quite the fabled 800, but I'm not feeling short changed and starving at the end of the day.
But, I still have a few blubber reserves!

The more "900" days I have, I try to have one day in the week where I have my full allowance, but the more "900" days I have, the more difficult it gets to scoff anywhere near 2.5K.
 
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