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[taimatsu]

Typed some of this up previously and lost it, so here is short version.

Work yesterday mainly good.

Japanese very good, teacher thinks I should carry on next year despite all the classes I have missed.

Am considering diet, mother has sent me frightening sub-Atkins weirdness, friends please advise. Need to lose a good stone and a half.

Just spilt apple juice all down desk and leg, but it seems to be drying up. Still totally forgetting to take medication, blast blast hell.

Am also considering membership of sports centre at University, but looks as though I have to buy unlimited access to facilities in order to use them in very limited manner, and no useful price list for memberships. Have sent email.

Need to begin sewing. Have big box of fabric for Shards costumes, must get them sorted out. Have yummy chamois suedette for lots of things, and gorgeous taupe jersey for a cloak :)

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Am considering diet, mother has sent me frightening sub-Atkins weirdness

If it's frightening, don't do it! If you really want to go on a diet, try to find one that you think you can stick to -- which will almost certainly be one where you're allowed to eat real food.

[emperor]

Hm. diets. I remain generally unconvinced by diets.

Still, if you feel you want to diet, then find one that isn't frightening! lnr and other 'tabs seem to have found WW works for them.

[lnr]

*ahem* Slimming World actually in my case. Dawn and Jac are both making a good start with WeightWatchers though. Different things work for different people.

[emperor]

Argh. ESTUPID. Sorry :(

taimatsu: Er, on second thoughts, you might just want to ignore my ill-informed wibblings.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

From my limited experience with diets is that the important thing is to find a diet you can stick to so.
If you like meat and can cope with eating lots of protein go for an atkins diet
If you are good at not snacking then try something like slim fast.
and so on and so forth

I know Esther did the cabbage soup diet a couple of times where you basically for a week just eat this vegetable soup of some description and then I think work things back in.

Basically find a diet which fits with your life style and hence find it easier to do.

The only real diet I have ever done wasn't to lose wait but was a detox diet as I was under the weather alot and so I had to cut loads of things out. I am azed myself that I basically stuck to it for 4/5 months and even so now there are things I tend to avoid or if I start feeling run down cut out again.

I hope that helps

Diets are bad, m'kay?

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Having been taken on and off diets since nigh on the age of 6, and still being clinically obese, I am very suspicious of their effectiveness.

Exercise is the way to go, without a shadow of a doubt for me - makes you feel good, healthy, ups stamina, tones the body instead of just making it thinner - all good stuff. Plus depending on how much you exercise, you can eat what you want" And if you combine exercise with a diet, then the results come at least double-quick.

Of course if you're strapped for time normally then this may be a mooot argument...

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

I don't have references to hand, but I would steer well clear of Atkins. I've heard all sorts of nasty long-term health effects it can have.

[tiassa]

Atkins can potentially cause kidney and heart damage. I really wouldn't recommend it.

Just watch what you're eating, don't eat junk food or drink soda, make sure you get a balanced diet (do you have a dietician that you could consult?), and exercise. In my experience, losing weight isn't so much a result of depriving yourself of certain foods as making changes in your lifestyle so that you're no longer putting on extra weight.