weight loss cardiff answers:

I saw a diet doctor we have here named Dr.Chow and he gives you a pill to take called Phentermine HCl and a B12 shot once a week and with in just 6 months I lost about 40lbs and ended up getting pregnant. You could check and see if you have any of these clinics near you or ask your doctor about pill they can give it to you also. Good luck

weight loss cardiff answers:

First of all, you need to BUY better food. It really isn’t a question of time and energy when it comes to preparing healthy meals–you can do all the cooking one or two days each week, and package it into single-serving portions for use all week. That’s your first step–reform your grocery list. Absolutely refuse to give in to requests for snack food and junk food. Instead, load up on high-fiber, high-density foods that fill you up and pack a nutritional punch at the same time–this means buying more fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s never too late to make healthy food–and it doens’t matter at all what time you cook it or prepare it. But you have to do this–otherwise no attempt at dieting or losing weight is going to ever work. Your family needs to get on board too–that means discipline. When the kids want a high-carb, high-sugar snack, tell them to eat an apple, a peach or a plum instead. A handful of dry-roasted unsalted peanuts is better for them than a Pop Tart. Chips and snacks are just temptations none of you need.

Second, practice PORTION control. Learn what a portion actually IS—before you eat anything. When it says a “half cup” of cereal, MEASURE OUT a half cup–it’s way less than you’re probably used to. And learn that most foods you buy in the store are far larger than the portions you actually need or can metabolically deal with—they pack on the pounds when you finish them because you’ve eaten far more calories, fat and sugar than you need. Look at a bag of chips sometime–it will tell you how many calories are in a “portion” and it’s usually something like 7 chips!! No one EVER stops at 7. Be aware that foods are processed using far more sugar, salt and fat than you need to be healthy–and they just make you want them more. So while you’re looking at portions, ALSO look at the marketing it’s using to make you buy the food–food companies manipulate you unmercifully. Refuse to let this happen if you can.

Third: the lack of control. If you aren’t hungry, DON’T EAT. Ask yourself before you put anything at all in your mouth–am I HUNGRY? Or do I want something ELSE? Satisfaction does not have to be tied to food–there are plenty of ways to distract yourself from wanting to eat in order to be happier. This requires some deep soul-searching and self-awareness–and it doesn’t come instantly. You might find that you can only work on one thing at a time. That’s fine. Just don’t stop trying to find out WHY you are eating when you’re not hungry. Play little games with yourself–you can have that (one) donut or Jaffa cake if you take a 30-minute walk FIRST–you can do an hour of housework, THEN have your treat. Make these little exchanges part of your routine instead of simply ignoring everything except the desire for the food. You’ll find that eventually, you’ll snack less and less if you do.

Fourth–CUT OUT THE DIET SODA. Cut out ANY soda. Do not drink it. Period. There are plenty of studies out now that show that drinking soda makes you hungrier for sugary snacks and sweets–EVEN diet soda. Drink water when you’re thirsty. Add flavorings that add no calories if you want but drink WATER. One regular 16 ounce soda has 16 teaspoons of SUGAR in it–which can seriously screw up your sugar metabolism and diet plan. Diet sodas contain no sugar, but the sweeteners they are inundated with can cause you to CRAVE sugars and make you hungrier. And the carbonation and sodium these contain also cause you to retain water and prevent good kidney function. Not to mention leaching good nutrients out of your system, such a calcium and magnesium–which are essential for weight maintenance and loss of fat.

Fifth: take a multivitamin daily. Get the nutrition you’re missing from your food.

Sixth: get a couple of good cookbooks and learn to make easily fixed, family friendly dinners that don’t take forever. There is a very valuable resource you can tap on line for exactly this purpose: Woman’s Day magazine has a monthly feature called “MONTH OF MENUS” which allows you to print out shopping lists, prepare a healthy dinner for 4 every night in less than 1/2 an hour and is well-balanced eating–and utilizes leftovers, as well as allowing for “fun” things such as eating out or Kid’s cooking–the recipes are SUPER EASY, very tasty and you can see exactly what you’re eating every day. I highly recommend this for anyone who’s having trouble cooking healthy dinners and meals. Here’s a link for you: www.womansday.com
Good luck to you! I wish you well!

weight loss cardiff answers:

Not really.
Sugar = energy
You could easily argue that the missing 192 calories of sugar will NOT provide you with the energy you would need to exercise easily and efficiently for an extra 20 minutes (depending on your weight and which activity you’re doing) and allow you to improve your cardiovascular health even more to make aerobics easier.
You could also argue that 192 extra calories of carbs would enable you to do 15 sets of different weight training exercises (or like one set of about 12 reps of 15 exercises), allowing you to build up muscle mass (if you eat extra protein too), which would rev up your metabolism and THAT is what would help you lose weight.

Muscle mass is THE weight loss miracle. You look better, thinner, toner but also you are stronger so your aerobics get easier and more efficient and you burn more calories while exercising.
Once you get more muscle mass, your metabolism goes up on a 24/7 basis. Each pound of added muscle mass needs 35/50 calories a day to maintain (not even counting the calories for the exercise). It’s 12 to 18 thousand calories a year…it’s 3 to 5 pounds of body fat a year that you would either lose or at least not gain (if you eat too much). And that is just for one pound of extra added muscle mass.

Sugars will only end up being stored as fat reserves (your body storage system for unused carbs/protein/dietary fats calories) if you don’t exercise so you don’t burn it out.
A 16 calories tsp of sugar (5g of sugar) is like 2 minutes of aerobics while a 200 calories coca-cola bottle has 55g of sugar (and it’s crappy HFCS too) and nothing else except caffeine…now you need to exercise for 22 minutes to use the energy of that bottle.

NOW, that said, independently from your weight loss issues and carbs intake issues, you still have a sweet tooth and you need to take care of it. You have messed up taste buds which is why you need a lot of sugar to taste enough sweetness. Your sweet tooth is probably messing up the rest of your diet too, like a sweet delicious ripe fruit might taste bland to you.
Just like people using too much salt and having to use too much salt or the food is bland.

If you would put 3 tsp of sugar in my coffee, I’d be like eeww! I don’t drink coffee anymore as I switched to chocolate milk because I need milk more than I need coffee but when I used to drink coffee, I would use one tsp of sugar.

Fortunately, you’re not using fake sugars, those are even worse, as they’re often sweeter (some are 300 times sweeter than real sugar, which is why manufacturers love them as they only need to use so little so it’s cheaper). Fake sugar mess up your taste buds to no end, do not give you any energy (so you don’t exercise that much), make you hungry (since you still have low blood sugar level) and lead to sweet cravings, binging, obesity…
Do not make the mistake of replacing your real sugar with fake sugar to lower the calorie content of your drinks. After all just two x 16 calories tsp of sugar (32 calories) x 365 days = 11,680 calories/year divided by 3,500 = 3.33lbs of body fat that you would not gain and then have to lose.

Do not reduce your real sugar by 2/3 suddenly (3 tsp to 1 tsp).
You need 3 weeks to readjust your taste buds…gradually.

Like if you switch from whole milk to 1% (if you’re done growing and are +21yo), you first progressively add a percentage of 2% to your whole milk, like ¼ the first week, then ½ the second week, then ¾ the third week, then 3 weeks later, you’re drinking 2% milk. You do the same thing to go from 2% to 1%. So it takes about 6 weeks to go from whole milk to 1%, being aware that for all those 6 weeks, your milk is going to taste weird. Once you’re at 1% for a couple of weeks, you realize it now tastes the same as the whole milk you used to drink 2 months ago.

Growing kids and teens need whole milk but I limit my animal fat from milk so I can get it from meat and poultry.

For your 3 to 1 tsp of sugar…use kitchen measuring spoons (they have 1/8-tsp, ¼-tsp, ½-tsp, 1tsp…) and be precise. You could do the first week with 2-3/4tsp, the second week with 2-1/2tsp, the third week with 2tsp…and so on until you get to 1tsp. Or you could go slower and use 1/8 measuring spoon. Again, being aware that your drink will taste sour (not sweet enough) during the whole transition, until you spend a couple of weeks using only 1tsp of sugar and it will taste as sweet as then you used to need 3tsp of sugar 2 months before.
And again, do not use fake sugar or even re-add real sugar when you really miss the sweetness, as it would compromise the whole process of readjusting your taste buds.
You’ll also have to reduce sugar everywhere else in your diet (like using a hint of orange marmalade on your toasts instead of 3 tons of strawberry jam).