Club Diet Plate

Hello everyone. Just had my diet plate and bowl delivered, so here goes I hope this works because I have tried every diet going and been big all my life, and recently had a health scare so I have got to do something now as 52 is too young to die! clubdietplate.com/components/com_fireboa...sh/emoticons/sad.png

Hello there!! Also had my plate and bowl delivered today!! Recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and having read lots about it know I have to watch my diet. Portion control is going to be so easy with the diet plate, I have already lost half a stone (4wks) but counting everything has been so boring. Have had lung cancer and been totally cured, have rheumatoid arthritis (recent shoulder replacement) and now diabetes...... have beaten one, controlling the next and determined to conquor the high sugar levels (never eat anything sweet no not very fair is it?), am totally convinced the diet plate will make life easier!! What is your story? And good luck with the plate!!

Hello

Having just read yours I feell a bit of a moaner ! I have recently been in hospital with severe chest pains and they thought I had a blood clot in my lungs, but thank god it wasn't and they have diagnosed it as a viral Infection which has attacked my chest muscles. I had the usual lecture about my weight which is currently 17st 5 lbs the heaviest I have been for years. I have struggled with my weight all my life and the last 6 months have been a bad time for me suffering with a lot of stress and i ended up with depression and my doctor has put me on medication for that. I am now getting better and feel that I need to get my myself back to the old me and the first thing I have to do is lose some weight. well quite a bit really!! The thought of going back to Weight Watchers, slimming World or Rosemary Connelly fills me with horror, so a friend of mine who has diabeties saw this plate on the Internet and uses it to control her portions, so I thought I would give it a go as I think I can fit this in with the family meals? You have done really well, keep going.clubdietplate.com/components/com_fireboa.../emoticons/smile.png

Hello both and welcome to the board. xx Ginny, my mum has just had an op to remove half a lung due to cancer, she has just been told that she she should have chemo as a preventative. I know its personal question, but did you have Chemo? xxx sorry to ask xxx

Hi, yes I had chemo but think I had a different form of the big C. Mine was small cell, the aggressive one that they don't operate on, I had 6mths of chemo and then 30 treatments of radiotherapy. Chemo is nasty, can make you feel very ill but it saved my life. I was very very ill, was told mine was terminal and that I only had 18mths to live, maximum!! That was in 2001 and today it is 2010 and I am totally clear, cured, no tablets, no check ups, my advice is to have the chemo, if it prevents any further disease then it has to be worth it.
Back to the diet plate, how has it worked for you? Do you use it for every meal or are you selective?

Hi, those chest pains must have been frightening, glad all is ok now. Weight loss is hard to achieve and even more difficult to keep off!! I am hoping this diet plate will really work, I have lost half a stone in 4 weeks but have 3 stone to lose (to bring me back to 10st) and if I lose at the rate of 2lb per week (they say slowly is the best way) it's going to take me almost a year to do it. I think "the forum" will help us all, gives one a chance to talk to like minded people. Good Luck, am sure you will do well.

Hi Mugsie and Ginny,

Welcome to the forum, good luck with your weight loss, its great to have some new people and nice if we can all support each other on this weght loss journery, we know the weight went on over the years and for me I have to accept it will tiake a long time to get to my desired weight.

I also am not in the best of health I have arthritis, hypertension and now my gp thinks I may be bordeline type 2 diabetes so ( having some mor fasting blood test next week to confirm) I know I must change my eating habits for life and the diet plate is the way forward for adopting a new healthy life style.

Good luck to you both,

Debbie

Hello, my plate has not arrived yet so I'm agog to see it. I have an underactive thyroid and have not managed to lose the 3-4 stone I put on while I was undiagnosed for a few years and it was gradually deteriorating. I am about a stone and quarter below my top weight but still need to lose 3 stone to become 'normal' and probably about 4 stone to get back to the weight I think of as my normal weight. I think I need small aims as 3 stone seems such a lot so my first aim is to become overweight instead of obese - that's about 10 lb or so. I think that would be do-able before Christmas, and then I shall see what to aim for next.

Rosebery

The diet plate is easy, I am very new to it but need to control my sugar intake because of diabetes. If we all "stick together" and "talk" we can encourage one another can't we? I also need to lose quite a bit of weight but it will happen slowly anyway with the foods, or should I say carbs, I am allowed.
There is a book that comes with the plate and it has a weight loss graph to fill in, I am determined my levels will decline, will be devastated if they climb!!
I love vegetables and they are free!! On my diabetic site they do say eat eat a plate of salad before a meal, as a starter, or drink a glass of water, then eat your food slowly. Good advice, it works, you feel fuller for longer. I also have an apple between meals, I eat that slowly too, seldom feel really hungry. If I want to nibble in the evenings, we all do don't we!!, I have some pumpkin seeds I can dip into, 1 heaped tablespoonful lasts for ages - if you just nibble!!
I also am trying not to keep hopping on the scales, in fact I have tucked ours away into a cupboard, it's better to only weigh in once a week and I have decided Friday is my day for this.
Will be interested to hear how you are progressing and what foods suit you, Good Luck.

Hi Ginny, Mugsy and everyone on this thread, it never ceases to touch me when i realise there are so many people out there with awful health problems - and the more Iread about food and nutrtion the moe i become convinced that a health balanced diet and being the right weight for your height can make a massive difference to your well being.

This morning I have been with a bunch of farmers and landsmen, we were talking about the milk industry of all things, and pesticides used on land in the 60's and 70's like DDT. How it was so widely used to kill off insects that we now recognise as necessary to maintain the equilibrium in the land. The farmer was saying how the company which use to spray his land were dressed toe to tail in white suits, gas masks and hardly left the tractor. Whilst they sprayed the hedgerows the fine mist settled nicely on the private homes on the other side of the hedges!

One said how his mother kept a spray bottle in the pantry to spray the mesh window, and often there would be the baking on the shelves uncovered!

The milk converstaion was about how we are bringing milk in from Argentina etc, and where hormones in cattle and pig feed is now illegal in this country - it is NOT illegal in those countries!

My point is - although we all try to eat healthily now, unless we can buy home grown and from farm shops then we are still at the mercy of the big supermarkets and what they deem to be "cheap and palatable food!"

My best advice is to buy local, know where you food comes from, cook from scratch and follow diet plate portions to get to a desireable weight.

If it takes you 2 years like James to lose 16 stones - it doesn't matter as long as the scales keep going down and your own knowledge of nutrition keeps going up.

Best wishes all
K