Dear Amanda,
Hi there! It's good to hear that Mark has "only" to lose the weight.
I was wondering if his Thyroid might be underactive as I know that
this encourages weight gain.
On his side is the fact that he is a man, because they can eat more than women
and achieve weight loss.
I have a partner who happily munches his way through the biggest piles of junk food
and NEVER gains weight. It makes me furious sometimes, as it seems
to be a genetic lottery as to how much any of us can eat and get away with!
I myself, have lived much of my life, on and off, since having my kids dieting with "Weight Watchers".
Having said that I have not done this for the last 3 or 4 years because I seem to have
reached my easy to stay at weight which is within the B.M.I. (Body mass index, as I am sure you know.)
But the last time I dieted I lost the dreaded 10% of my body weight, so I know that it can be done.
If Mark goes back to walking alongside a strict diet I bet he could achieve the 10% quicker
than he may think.
I found weight watchers worked for me because I had a group of people to be with once a week
who all wanted to achieve a good weight loss. Because lets face it the first couple of weeks on a diet
are pretty tough. (THERE WERE MEN AT THE CLASSS TOO, NOT JUST WOMEN!)
I liked to get weighed in class because it kept me focused on my goal weight.
Also I learned many, many tips on lower calorie cookery from the Weight Watchers classes.
They offer online membership too now with thousands of recipes.
I am a vegetarian, (although I do eat fish now), and even I could find enough recipes and that
was before they went online with thousands of new recipes.
I know I sound like a spokes person for Weight Watchers, which I am not, but it truely helped me
to be a reaonably slim 52 year old.
I wish Mark all the luck in the world with his new regime and feel that he will achieve great things.
Best wishes,
Fiona
