Losing weight and eating yogurt

I’ve taken to eating full-fat Greek style yogurt. The flavor is much more interesting. I treat it as a dessert with a bit of honey or preserves. Sometimes I top it off with granola when I have it for breakfast.

It is so thick that I find that I eat a *much* smaller portion and feel quite full, so I don’t think that I’m ingesting that many more calories. The package says that it has 200 calories per serving and that there are only 2.5 servings per container, but I get 4 to 5 servings out of it. There is more saturated fat in the stuff.

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I have been eating yogurt 3 times a day for 2 months. I lost 8 lbs in the first 3 weeks and I have lost a total of 15 lbs. I eat Weight Watchers yogurt because it has the highest percent calcium. I eat it with each meal or as a snack. I barely taste it anymore, but am not tired of it. The results speak for themsleves. I’m maintaining my weight now and the yogurt truely helps.

Ok…I’m doing Discovery Channel’s National Body Challenge for the past 3 weeks and haven’t lost a pound. My problem is quantity, and the yogurt sounds like a great option. Problem is, I’ve already included Dannon’s new lite n fit in my special k/total/slim fast plan. I’m also on V8 and have opted to go with all my favorite foods REDUCED FAT/CALORIE. I’m interested in controlling my hunger, because it’s a beast. I’ll let you guys know when I start to lose the weight. I’ve got a container of plain yogurt, and I’ll revamp my diet tonight (two plates of spaghetti later).

I’ve been eating the store brand NON-FAT yogurt that is fat free and sweetened with Aspartame. At only 120 calories in a 8 ounce container you can’t beat the fullness after one of those for a snack or with whole wheat toast and fruit for breakfast. For me, it’s portion size control. It’s too easy for me to eat jsut to eat. So far, so good. 9 pounds in 3 weeks.

Fat free yogurt is the best way to go — try Dannon’s Light Thick n Creamy. Its fat free, and only 100 calories per serving. So try eating that yogurt (and only that) for an entire day, every 2 hours. Even if you are awake for 16 hours in a day, thats still just 800 calories consumed. I tried this for just two days and lost 3 lbs. No joke. The trouble is seeing how long you can stick to it before getting sick of eating just yogurt.

Hehe yeah Brooke. But if you stick to all different flavours it couldnt be too bad.

Hi everybody! I am from Moldova, but have been living and studying in Germany during the 2004 – 2006. I came to Germany with an Aupair programm and have gained a lot of weight living in a German family, eating lots of German cheese and chocolate. I am 1,75 cm tall and became 75 kg. After a month I changed the family, which had other eating habits, I would say healthy habits. With plain yogurt to breakfast, small food portions to lunch and grated apple + plane yogurt for dinner, without though thinking of making a diet, I lost 10 kg in 4 months. After I went out of the family I started eating my favorite food, plenty of plane 0,1 % or 1,5% fat plain yogurt with grated apples or mango or banana and I reached 52 kg, but also with jogging each 3rd day and walking a lot every day. Unfortunately I fell ill of a phsychic desease after a failed love story and I had to turn back to my country and leave university and my lifestyle in Germany. Because of the medicines that I have taken, because of no sports and reach in carbs food, I gained a lot of weight in the last half of a year and have 90 kg now. But fortunately I got to know a guy from Portugal per internet. We are going to marry at the beginning of the next month and I will move to Portugal, where I will restart my diet with plain non low fat yougurt and fruits and vegetables, such as brokolli. I will also go to the gym and I am sure that I will lose 5 kg per month, wishing to lose 35 kg in 7 months. I will restart jogging when I will lose my first 10 kg. Wish good luck to anybody! BELIEVE IN THE MAGIC OF PLAIN LOW FAT YOGURT.

You guys that are eating yogurt with aspartame are really doing yourself a disservice because you should read about the number of people who say they are hungrier and have gained weight from using it. The artificial sweetners need to be left alone.

With a brand like Dannon or Yoplait, read the label. I was really shocked a few months ago when I saw that the Yoplait has high fructose corn syrup in it. I hadn’t eat any in several years and it tasted extremely sweet to me. That’s something else to add to the list of potential weight gainers.

My preference is the strained Greek yogurt Fage, the 0% fat kind. The others are too rich for me because even the no-fat yogurt is extremely rich. To me, it’s like eating cream. For a little sweetner, I just add some honey which is delicious together.

I started with the Fage after I’d had the flu for about 3 days. I rested and felt very weak. After about a week later of eating the yogurt nightly, I felt utterly rejuvenated.

As far as weight loss, I was really surprised after about 1 month how small my waistline was and that my pants/jeans had gotten baggy. I was not trying to lose weight and the yogurt w/honey was the only change. Generally, I eat very nutritiously and I get a moderate amount of exercise, nothing excessive.

There is definitely something to the yogurt increasing your internal fat-burning mechanism. Frankly, I don’t think it’s just the calcium either.

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hey! great article. i’m actually doing this right now sticking to a 200 calorie a day diet. so far i’ve lost 40 pounds just by eating two servings of yogurt a day with the twice weekly oatmeal breakfasts. that’s with barely any exercise due to my work schedule. i’m always out the door heading to work or running errands in between which leads to a lot of food stops to break the monotony. i decided to suffer through a regimen like this but i’m sort of liking it! i’m not craving food as bad because my carb intake is almost zero (which is what makes you hungry all the time apparently). when i find time to exercise, i’ll eat a serving of oatmeal to keep my mind and body going. when i’m unable to regularly exercise, the two servings of yogurt a day works wonders. i’ve got about 60 pounds to go before i’m at my target. i’m not that huge of a whale if you’re wondering lol. hopefully i’ll get there safely and soon!

I used to live off of Fage yogurt-it kept me going when I worked long days in a restaurant. Now I work in an office and have gained about 15 pounds in a year! I know it’s partially due to less movement throughout the day, but I am also wondering how my eating got so off tract. I bought a week’s supply of Fage last night and I am going to eat it for breakfast and lunch. Is it ok to buy the kind that comes with fruit you mix in?

Usha is so right. Make your own yogurt. It is easy to make and sooooo delicious. I use UHT organic skim milk (it is pre-sterilised, otherwise heat milk to almost boiling then cool for half an hour). I use the oven barely on to keep it warm overnight, and in the morning you will have thick, creamy yogurt to use in your cooking, breakfast cereal, as cream or icecream, or as Usha says, to make a delicious, tasty low fat cheese.

One of the very best ways to have yogurt is to blend it in your blender with frozen fruit (berries or mango etc) and a banana – it turns into the most wonderful icecream ever. Try it and be amazed.

Someone mentioned yogurt “with the fruit that you add”. I suspect that means the Dannon cup with the fruit at the bottom, which you can stir up to mix. Really, this is just sugar! I’d stay away from it.

My invariable lunch is non-fat, sugar-free yogurt with oatmeal (dry) and cut-up fruit. I’m not on a diet. I just like the stuff.

Isnt all the bacteria thats added to yogurt really bad for you if you eat just yogurt??

I am a 42 yr old male, 6’1″, with average/medium build. For the past 12 years, I have worked in IT (computers) and enjoyed a fairly sedentary lifestyle. My primary exercise was (and still is) “fair-weather” golf!

From mid-late teens up to about 30, I weighed around 170-175. But from around 30 to my current age, I have crept to 200-205 pounds. I finally decided I need to lose weight, so I begin eating low-fat 80 calorie yogurt for breakfast, lunch and (very occasionally) as an evening snack. I would eat a “normal supper”.

I also converted to all diet sodas…I know the sodas were a HUGE source of empty calories.

I also begin walking on a treadmill…nothing strenuous, but I would walk at a 4-5 mph pace for 30-45 minutes 2-4 times a week.

I knew I was eating less calories and the treadmill was providing more exercise than I had been used to. I weighed myself everyday – even though it was against everyone’s advice, but for me, it was a motivator to see my progress or regression.

I didn’t really follow any prescribed diet, fad, or trend. It was just something I “come up with”.

In a little less than 5 months, here are the results >>>>
Aug 18, 2008 – I weighed 204 and wore size 36 (tight) pants
Jan 6, 2009 – I weigh 175 and wear size 33 (loose) pants
I have lost 29 pounds and 3-4 inches in my waist!!!!!

The best part (so far), is that it has been easy enough to stay with my plan. My goal is to keep my weight between 170 and 175.

I have never had a weight problem, so this was my “first diet”. I can’t say whether yogurt really contributed or not – but I don’t really care because my diet plan has worked for me. But I will say this…I always have a stock pile of yogurt in the refrigerator!

This is a very late reply but I just stumbled upon this site. Could you please tell me what you did exactly to lose 5 pounds the first week? Just yogurt? I mean, 5 pounds — that’s a lot in one week and not too dangerous a rate! I’d really appreciate any info you can give me. Thanks a lot!

The often neglected part for a balanced diet is the fibre intake. We see the hype about importance of vitamins, proteins and other nutrients but fibre is often less talked about. The truth is that our body needs a good proportion of fibre in our diets for optimum functioning and leading a healthy life.

hello. i just started to eat yogurt today. On my desk is mixed fruit yogurt. Do you think it would fit a lunch meal. just that…

I don’t want to gain weight, but I want to know if a flavored yogurt would be healthy.

Thanks

Hi,
I have been eating yogurt twice a day for the last 4 weeks and have lost 8 lbs. I usually eat a salad for lunch and a normal dinner (but lately I cannot eat as much as I feel full). I started with the quart size Vanilla flavored yogurt, then went to organic Vanilla and now am on Greek style plain. To all of these kinds I have been adding my own fruit (mostly blueberries, but also rasberries and strawberries) and sometimes granola. I do add a packet of splenda and some honey to the plain to sweeten it up. I have been telling everyone I know, eat about 2 cups of yogurt a day and the weight really does come off. BUT……do not eat the presweetened stuff like yoplait or dannon, it has too much added sugar. Buy the Plain and add your own sweetener.