David Gillespie - How long before the weight starts to shift?

24 Sep 2010 4:26 AM

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Hi David

This is my first post to the forum. I have now been sugar free for one week. I decided to go cold turkey as I felt that this was best for me.

I had been managing really well. The first few days I was incredibly hungry but then my hunger seemed to even out. However, today I feel like I am back to day one. As with so many past diet experiences in my life I thought that I would see my weight shift, however, I have only managed to budge 500gms. I was feeling very deflated this morning (unfortunatley a very familiar feeling from a life of yoyo dieting).

I have been EXTREMELY vigilant with sugar. My diet over the last 7 days has consisted of Rye (low wheat <1gm sugar per 100gms) bread, salad, meat, fish, eggs, water, green tea with lemon, gluten free pasta, vegetables, Arnotts shapes (1 box over a week), 1 packet of chips, a little cheese, olive oil (cooking), butter, vegemite, gluten free ham and 1 pear skin on.

I am really wanting to stick to the plan and will push through this but is there anything that you can suggest that I should or should not be doing. I do take a number of vitimans (all of which are sugar free).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Karen

25 Sep 2010 2:37 AM

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Hi Karen
As you can see from my question earlier in this topic stream I have asked the same question from our great leader!! hope he comes back soon :)
As to your progress, I think you are doing fine. 500gm @ week equals 2kg @ month which is great. Are you measuring yourself at the same time as weighing - you may be surprised how many cm you have lost in certain areas and yet the weight does not drop off in heaps. (keep a weekly chart)
I believe that on this program we do build muscle too which weighs heavier than fat! so if we lose cm as well as grams then we are doing well. (You will see this in trying on old clothing that was too tight previously!!)
This is just my personal observation as I have been fairly slow in the weight loss but have lost quite a few cm - and in different areas on different weeks, & I have stuck to this new lifestyle process.
The other great advantage of a steady but not dramatic weight loss is that our skin accommodates our new shape as it happens as well as our brain has to get its act together too.
Be encouraged that you have made a great start and that you will be able to achieve your goals.
We CAN do it.
All the best
Bev

25 Sep 2010 3:11 AM

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Karen Hall wrote:
Hi David

This is my first post to the forum. I have now been sugar free for one week. I decided to go cold turkey as I felt that this was best for me.

I had been managing really well. The first few days I was incredibly hungry but then my hunger seemed to even out. However, today I feel like I am back to day one. As with so many past diet experiences in my life I thought that I would see my weight shift, however, I have only managed to budge 500gms. I was feeling very deflated this morning (unfortunatley a very familiar feeling from a life of yoyo dieting).

I have been EXTREMELY vigilant with sugar. My diet over the last 7 days has consisted of Rye (low wheat <1gm sugar per 100gms) bread, salad, meat, fish, eggs, water, green tea with lemon, gluten free pasta, vegetables, Arnotts shapes (1 box over a week), 1 packet of chips, a little cheese, olive oil (cooking), butter, vegemite, gluten free ham and 1 pear skin on.

I am really wanting to stick to the plan and will push through this but is there anything that you can suggest that I should or should not be doing. I do take a number of vitimans (all of which are sugar free).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Karen

Hi Karen, I'm at week 6 and have been eating freely, trying to learn to hear my hunger and when eating , eating just enough or rather heartily and everything in between. Some weeks there was no weight loss, sometimes it dropped suddenly and dramatically . But I'm almost at 6kgs off so the average is good! I need to lose approx 20kgs though, if you only need to lose a little it may be slower?

Be patient with this, it's a long term fix for a messed up food world, I just keep reading both David's books and reading people's experiences on here, and the biggest thing that amazes me is how good I mostly feel, and that will-power is not an issue, and I'm not always looking out for the next sweet fix.

ALSO remember that scales can only tell you so much. And home scales are usually terrors for showing small changes accurately, mine are at least. My clothes showed the changes before the scales did.

25 Sep 2010 7:39 AM

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Thank you both for your words of encouragement. I am determined to stay focused but learning to understand the difference between eating because its there or its a certain time to eating when my body is actually hungry required 40+ years of relearning!

Unfortunately there has not yet been the shrinkage in clothing either but will keep at it. I will be keen to hear from David thought.

Cheers

Karen

26 Sep 2010 8:43 AM

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Hi I have been sugar free for 4 weeks now. It hasn't seemed that difficult except some days around 3pm. At this time I have had to change my routine and be on the road rather than in the office. this change has helped me with the mid afternoon munchies. I don't weigh myself but I have noticed that pants that I couldn't fit into a month ago are now fitting me so I guess I have lost weight, however I am not very overweight, so I imagine that my weight loss will be slower. Over all it just feels better not to be eating so much sugar.

28 Sep 2010 4:04 AM

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Your're getting good advice here Karen ... it can be a slow process especially at the beginning ... when we start out our appetite control is still being driven by sugar cravings and all we are doing is substituting other foods for sugar hits - this means we generally eat more than is good for us (and some people even put on weight in this phase).

Eventually appetite control kicks in and we start feeling full on much less food than we used to (and that's when the weight starts coming off). The good news is that once you are through the craving phase (what I call withdrawal in the books) no will power is required as long as you stay off the sugar. Your body will stop you eating too much and you will slowly (but continuously) lose weight. Stick with it ... it gets very easy after withdrawal!

Cheers

David.

15 Oct 2010 2:27 AM

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Hi karen i was getting frustrated like you but because i havent lost any weight but when i measured myself i have lost cm's so it is working after all

16 Oct 2010 8:39 PM

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Hi Karen,

David's comments are me to a T. I have been sugar free since the end of July and lost a bit initially then to my horror gained a few kilos. I believe I have been overeating as David suggested some people do so will have to address that, he also told me it may take up to six months and to hang in there. I am finding being sugar free quite easy and even made the pancakes from the book for brekkie this morning, something I would never have done in the past and they were GREAT!!

Best of luck

Margaret

28 Oct 2010 1:55 AM

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I have been sugar free since the beginning of July and hoped this would help me lose weight, but no such luck. I am 62 and after reading many of the comments I tend to agree that women of a 'certain age' don't seem to respond as easily or as quickly (generally) to sugar free weight loss as younger women and men.

However, for me there is now some light at the end of the tunnel. I have been following a calorie controlled diet (with the help of Calorie King) and I am now finding it really easy. I have tried many times before without success but now I am breezing through. I have lost 2 kgs in the 3 weeks (with no exercise yet, I might add) and feeling really good. I think it will be a long slow process but I am sure that if I can stick to my 1200 cals a day and no sugar I will win ultimately. The good news is that I am never hungry and have no cravings which for me is a miracle. I think being sugar free has made the difference. Going off sugar was relatively painless for me (surprise, surprise) and I haven't really missed it although I was seriously addicted. Unfortunately I have had to revert to low fat options in my food choices where possible but I always check the sugar content. I don't make sweets with glucose because I couldn't stop eating them - if i don't have them in the house I don't look for them. I wonder now if I will eventually be able to control this once I have lost the weight. Full cream milk, butter etc are also on the back burner for the time. I will try them again when I get the weight off and see what happens.

I hope my experience will help others who are struggling to keep going. I guess we all have to adapt to an eating plan that suits our own body's needs and this seems to be mine - for now at least.

PS I also have lupus, which is my main reason for trying to get the weight off but I can't say that being sugar free has helped that as yet.

Jan