LSMike wrote:
> Helen C Simmons wrote:
>
>>"LSMike" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
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>>>Respect to you!
>>>
>>
>>Thanks - appreciated. Still a very long way to go though! And then
>
> there's
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>>the really difficult bit - keeping it off!
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>>Cheers, helen s
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>
> So how are you managing to slough it off like that, it's amazing! I'm
> struggling with the winter excesses at the moment, I just can't seem to
> satisfy my hunger except by eating loads of fatty fried foods. Or
> chocolate.
It is in the mind. You have to accept hunger as a way of life and learn
to embrace it as a friend.
If you are consuming less than you are burning then you will feel
hungry. You will also lose weight. When I was seriously losing weight
this was about a kilo a week and I felt hungry.
Your hunger is trainable. It takes me about two weeks to get used to a
new eating pattern. The first week gets hard, the second is harder as
you fight the hunger pangs (ie returning to eating a sensible amount,
not grabbing that extra bite between meals etc.) The third week is then
surprisngly easy.
A pair of scales is very useful as it reinforces the discipline. It also
shows you just how much you lose when out on the bike. A three hour ride
at a moderate pace during which I would drink a litre and a half and eat
various bits would still see me 1-2 kilos lighter, most of which would
be back on by the evening.
I'm just waiting for some new scales (on order) and tryng to behave.
Hard without the incentive of a fixed scale against which to measure
oneself.
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