I want to lose about a stone, gradually, so it stays off. I need to have some kind of a plan (can't do weight watchers etc as am about to move abroad). Don't want to do anything wacky or expensive!...any ideas? personal experiences?

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Eat nourishing food with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables being part of it. Chew each morsel at least 32 times. This will activate signal to the brain as soon as u have had enough. Besides this change in eating style, take regular light exercises and brisk walks every day. U will be able to gain/shed all extra weight gracefully and in a reasonable time span.

drink plenty of water before meal. break 3 meals into 6.

I dont know if you'll have interenet access wherever you are going, but weight watchers has an online program. For me I need the accountability of going to the meetings every week, but my sister in law loves the online program. She's lost 25 lbs, and kept it off this past year. If you dont like WW, I know there are similar online programs - I like WW because it's just common sense backed up by group support. Good luck. (btw, 5 weeks, down 14 lbs - and that's with all the holiday festivities!)

i have been trying to keep my calories down and have also started taking ADOIS dieting pills and they have started working really well, they are all natural ingredients and there is nothing funny in them, also i have been to the doctors and found out what i am lacking in and am now taking daily vitamins and iron tablets hopefully i will loose lots of weight and be forever thin!! lol

Let's start by clarifying a couple of things:
1. weight is not the best indicator of your health (because muscle weighs more than fat, two people of the same height can weigh the same and be drastically different in terms of health).
2. Body fat percentage is a true indicator.
3. Fat is burned by reducing overall caloric value.
4. If you burn more than you consume, you will lose fat (lower body fat percentage)
5. If you exercise and strength train, you can burn more calories and replace fat with muscle which will allow you to burn calories even when you rest.
If you are trying to lower your body fat percentage there are literally hundreds of ideas out there. In my opinion, the best way, which has been proven time and time again, is a two part method: Eat right and exercise. First, exercise is a no-brainer. You have to burn more calories than you take in for exercise to be considered exercise. How you do it is worth another answer all to itself. So, that brings us to the Eating Right part. If you understand how your body works, you've got a head start on the world. Food is fuel for the body. Once you've accepted that concept as more important than the idea that food is entertainment, then the rest will be relatively easy. I assume you are not American (based on the metric values given). However, if I can direct you to the US FDA Nutrition Facts label that you find on all foods bought in the U.S., you can learn a lot of information. This info is the next thing you need to understand. Do a search for "FDA Nutrition Facts Label" and refer to the information as I discuss further.
OK, yeah you need vitamins and minerals and all that. But focus on these three items: FAT, PROTEIN, and CARBOHYDRATES.
Let's take these one at a time:
FAT is basically divided into good fats and bad fats. The body needs good fats (mono- and poly-unsaturateds). You'll find these in stuff like olives and avocados where the bad fat is minimal if not nonexistent. The bad fats are your saturated and trans fats that you'll find in meats and oils. If you are trying to lose weight, keep these to an absolute minimum. My suggestion (based on a 1500-2000 calorie diet) is to limit yourself to no more than 15g of saturated fat per day. This is hard to do if you're used to eating fast food. It's also hard to do if you drink whole milk, eat cheese (even the 2% variety), and eat fried foods. All of these are high in bad fats. The good news is that you can substitute your diet to eat the very things you like to eat but with better ingredients. If you eat cheese, buy fat free. If you drink milk, buy skim. Slowly take yourself down from whole milk or 2% to 1% before going skim/fat free if the transition is too radical to do all at once. If you eat a lot of ground beef, use the extra lean variety (96% fat free/4% fat), or substitute lean ground turkey instead. Do whatever you have to do to get the bad fat grams down to less than 15 per day.
PROTEIN: The building block of nutrition (aside from your vitamins and minerals) is protein. You need it strengthen your muscles and it will be essential with your exercise routine. Without protein, you can't build muscle tone or lean body mass. And guess what? Just having lean body mass (muscles) allows your body to burn more calories even when you are sleeping. Therefore, you are able to lose weight (bad weight, that is) just by sleeping. But, you have to exercise!! Don't forget that. You can find foods that are high in protein but also high in saturated fat, so be careful. Stick to poultry (chicken, turkey), fish (tuna is a great source), and beans. Don't fry your meats because if you do, you just added a bunch of bad fat to your otherwise healthy protein filled meal. Instead, grill, broil, or bake. You can do this! Don't forget to exercise to exponentially reap the rewards of consuming protein.
CARBS. In my opinion, the no-carb diet is crap, because you need carbs for energy, especially because you are exercising! That's right, you can't forget you are supposed to be exercising. The trick is choosing the good carbs. You'll see on your nutrition label Total Carbohydrates and Sugars. Sugars should be kept to a minimum and should be avoided within hours of going to sleep. The calories associated with them get stored (for energy) but are not easily burned when it comes time to burn them. Therefore, it's harder to lose the weight associated with them. That's why it's not good to eat lots of candy, cookies, and ice cream that have a lot of sugar. The other kinds of carbs (complex carbohydrates) are essential. You can get these from grains and potatoes. Good stuff!!
Now that you have a brief understanding of these three nutrition components, time to get to it. Not as easy as it sounds? That's because, you're human. If you treat your body right (and I mean very right, by limiting your saturated and trans fats, limiting your sugar carbs, and eating plenty of protein), then you deserve a day when you can eat whatever you want. The body has cravings and you should be able to fulfill these cravings IF you can stand to wait until the end of the week. I call this one day of decadence your cheat day. After 12 weeks of exercising and eating right in this manner, you'll get to the point where you don't even crave the bad stuff anymore.
For more on this method, I encourage you to check out www.bodyforlife.com. The principals I wrote about are spelled out in greater detail there. Consult your doctor before drastically changing any diet or exercise routine. Good luck!

I follow a yeast free diet for a month at a time.
It may sound a little extreme when the things that you have to cut out are listed but the food that you can have is natural and tasty and it makes sense in the long run.
This is not a fad diet by the way, I follow it to ease the symptoms of a medical condition.
OK the bad bit:
no wheat
no sugar (inc honey)
no alcohol
no caffeine
no soy
no fried
no dairy
These are yeast producing ingredients.
BUT you can have as many fresh fruit and vegetables etc as you want.
There are wheat free pastas that are easy to come by.
You can have rice and pulses.
potatoes in many forms.
I have started to put together some recipes so if you like a copy just email and i will send them to you.
The upside of this is the weight loss - I lost a stone in twenty days the first time that I tried this. It is not a miracle cure and if you go back to old eating habits then you will put on weight.
I now do the eating plan for a month at a time. After that I eat fairly sensibly with the odd slip into junk now and then.
I am just about to 'go strict' again after enjoying Christmas a little too much.
Good Luck.

1. Reduce your calorie intake
2. Drink plenty of water
3. Take regular exercise
These are the main factors in loosing weight. I did however do a simple diet before Christmas for just a month, normal daily exercise, drank plenty of water etc, but didnt mix my carbs. If you eat say a sandwich for lunch, have cheese on toast of something similar for tea. Dont have either: Pasta, Potatoes or Bread in the same day. So a bowl of spag bol say with a bit of crusty bread is out the of question for tea, however perhaps have a tuna pasta salad for lunch and spag bol for tea. Dont mix them, they love being together these carbs, and end up sticking to our hips. I lost 8lbs in about 3 weeks, and I have kept it off. Good luck

yes get what is happening to me. I lost 3 stone in a few months and I worried about it.

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