Rebecca Oatley, 40, lives in London with her husband and two children and runs her own PR agency.
I look good and I feel good – and I’ve found a tool that has helped me to achieve that. When I was bigger I felt that people noticed my weight first, not who I was. I run four times a week and I’ve gone from feeling like my heart would stop to training for a half marathon. You key in the amount of activity you do, which either lets you increase your calorie total or speeds up your weight loss. Now, instead of having fried chicken and chips for dinner, I might have steamed fish and vegetables, and I weigh my food so that I eat proper portions rather than filling my plate. Some people find calorie counting restrictive, but it works for me as nothing is a sin as long as I don’t exceed my daily total. What’s brilliant is that at the end of each day I type in what I’ve eaten and it works out the total calories. It then works out how many calories a day you need to achieve your goal – for me, that’s 1,381 until I reach ten and a half stone. You also put in your goal weight and how many pounds a week you want to lose (from just half a pound to two pounds). Their diet is based on calorie counting – you key in your age, height (me: 5ft 7in), weight (by then 17 stone nine pounds) and activity level (‘moderately sedentary’, as I have a desk job). While surfing the internet I found Weight Loss Resources. I was big even as a girl – I think it comes from growing up eating high-calorie Afro-Caribbean food – and over the years I’ve tried so many ways to lose weight. She is PA to a business consultant and lives in Birmingham with her husband and three children. Lisa Elliott, 39, has lost more than six stone in three years with Weight Loss Resources – the online calorie counter and food diary. Kate Harrison’s latest novel, The Secret Shopper’s Revenge, is published by Orion, price £9.99 Now my reward for finishing a chapter might be a natural yoghurt and a few raspberries from the garden. I’ve learnt to have a square of chocolate instead of the whole bar, and I’ll ask myself how much I really want that slice of bread with my soup. I stick to the diet 90 per cent of the time and don’t worry about the odd treat. I began doing yoga, balance exercises and Hula Hoop on Wii Fit and now also go to the gym five mornings out of seven and swim for 30 minutes or do a class.
My blood pressure has also dropped by 20 points, which I put down to exercise. Now, two and a half months later, I’m back to a size 12 and weigh nine stone four pounds.Ī friend did get me worried about all the high-fat dairy products in the diet, so I bought a kit and checked my cholesterol, which was a healthy 3.8. There was also a psychological lift from knowing I was doing something good for my body, and it helped that I loved the food – I’d have mushrooms in a creamy sauce for dinner or veggie sausages with a huge salad.Īfter two weeks I could begin reintroducing some carbs and the odd glass of wine. The Rose Elliot diet appealed because it was targeted specifically at vegetarians and focused on protein and full-fat dairy, which I love the taste of.įor the first two weeks I had to cut out carbs, caffeine and alcohol (hellish, but I soon began to feel more energetic).
I’d motivate myself to finish a chapter with the promise of a slice of toast and honey or some chocolate. I knew I had to do something when my weight reached almost 11 stone and I was on the verge of buying a size 16 for the first time.Ĭarbs were my downfall. I’m 5ft 4in and, when you can see my waist, have an hourglass figure. I went from walking a mile to work and back and being five floors away from a snack machine to sitting at my desk all day, moments from the biscuits in the kitchen. When I became a full-time novelist two years ago, I developed a terrible case of ‘writer’s bum’.
She lost nearly two stone and dropped two dress sizes in ten weeks on Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Low-Carb Diet. Novelist and long-time vegetarian Kate Harrison, 40, lives in London with her partner.
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