Mrs Fox does not prescribe medication for weight loss. In the past she has worked with obese clients and typically used hypnosis “virtual gastric band” techniques.
Had good success but does not do it anymore as her client load is already overwhelming.
I meant for treating mental health conditions related to some of the unexpected side effects of these medications
Sorry it was the weight loss thread, so misunderstood.
Mrs Fox says that anyone who has side effects from any medication should immediately go back to the prescribing Doctor. Could be as simple as adjusting dose
Cigarettes increase your heart rate which in turn can increase your metabolism
Hypnosis is such a weird thing but by lord it works I was a very heavy smoker then went to one of those group hypnosis sessions and walked out and haven’t smoked since expect for one night on the sauce
I think the key to weight loss for me is preparation. I will pre cook or at least log what my meals will be (I include everything like oil etc).
It means I don’t unnessecary snack.
One other thing I learned is to not finish the food the kids didn’t eat. I had to break from what I was taught which was you eat everything on your plate.
Im on a prescription from mosh just had an interview with nurse online and sent a few pics of my fat gut.
I meant has she seen wegovy or others as treatments for any conditions.
Ie How Ozempic Could Help Mental Health Patients - Newsweek
It’s also been noted negative effects. Ie the drugs do play with the mind somehow perhaps?
She said no.
I just read about wegovy, sounds farking dangerous.
I have been dealing with a meniscus tear in my right knee for a good part of 9 months so have not been unable to get alot of cardio in lately. I have done some intermittent fasting in the past and thought it was great. Just after new years I got food poisoning from dodgy pork belly at the work canteen. It knocked me around for a couple of days and I said I would never eat food again haha. Anyway I started intermittent fasting again with the 16/8 model. Some days I’m doing it for up to 19 hours. I have been doing this 5-6 days a week since the new year and I’m on a roll now. I don’t really need to lose much weight but trying to cut down a bit the beer gut. I’m not starving myself I have a big meal around 12pm and a big meal at around 7 pm and sometimes some fruit inbetween. I still have a drink on the weekends but try to drink something different than beer if I can. The last couple of days I have been unable to finish my meals because I feel full alot quicker. I’m down 5 kgs since the new year and feel good. My stomach has started shrinking as well. The health benefits from the intermittent fasting are alot better than the weight loss from the investigation I have done recently.
Again, I’m with Dave on this one. I just wouldn’t eat it. Get yourself some metamucil and have a glass of that after a walk to get your dose of fibre rather than breads and cereals too.
Start your day with protein and you should notice changes.
With this thread taking off lately maybe we need some sort of blitz weight loss club
Stick to the laws of physics IMO. Measure your energy consumption and burn in Joules or ‘Calories’ (kilo-calories kCal). Create a defecit.
Far too much BS in the ‘diet industry’.
Calorie count just worked for me. 27.5kg lost in 2024.
1kg of fat is 7716kcals [corrected units, thanks for your diligence @RTBC ]. Period.
You need to have a deficit of 7716kJ [corrected units] to lose 1 kg.
To focus on fat loss (rather than muscle), eat high protein and fat. To estimate your daily burn use the Mifflin St Jeor equation. It’s very accurate on a standard distribution bell curve. Forget trying to calculate exercise burn. Offsetting eating with exercise is tough at best.
A good starting point: Men eat 1500kCal. Women eat 1200kCal. Not a calorie more. When your weight loss asymptotes, drop the calories further until you reach your goal. Then, calorie count to maintain weight.
Agree. Though i think 1200 is too low for women and may lead to menstrual cycle issues etc.
Week 1 down of being back on WW. Doing my weigh in on Saturday mornings like I did there before we have family treat night.
SW: 103.6
CW: 101.3
GW: 70-75kg
Loss of 2.3kg
#gettingfit #fatoldbloke #doingitforthekids
Would you care to share?
Edit: just hit the scales. Noticed I was looking chunkier than usual. Need to drop 3-5kg not sure what the best way to do it is. I usually go ‘all in’ as it feels you have to just so ‘no’ rather than trying to manage it.
At the end of 2023 I started walking a lot more, aiming for six days a week and at least 3.5 hours. Early a.m. walks on weekdays as I found I was too stuffed to go for a walk when I got home from work. Didn’t change my eating habits a lot, although cut back a lot on sugar.
Have dropped about 13kg so far, and would like to lose another 12-13. The weight has plateaued in the past few months, just going up and down over the space of a kilo. Now I’ve done a bit of a number on my achilles trying to tackle a long, constant uphill walk, so need to give it a rest. I don’t swim, but have access to a pool. Any recommendations for other pool exercises?
Suggest you learn, really saves the Achilles which is a horror to fix.
When you say ‘don’t swim’. Do you mean at all, or just don’t enjoy it because it’s a bit difficult.
Because it it’s the latter then I was like that until I realised a couple of things and started to swim 2 km slowly but non-stop. My daughter was competitive swimming at the time so I was picking up/sropping off anyway. I don’t swim these days but could and probably should. All you need is two tips if you can bash out a basic freestyle…
