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[Food] Lose 7lbs in November
- Thread starter Couldn't Be Hyypia
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hampshirebrightonboy
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- Sep 3, 2011
- 1,018
oh go on then
I'm in.
(It will come as no surprise to some that I have been weighing myself regularly (daily this year) and have a spreadsheet with graphs for the last several years. For no reason other than because I can.)
(It will come as no surprise to some that I have been weighing myself regularly (daily this year) and have a spreadsheet with graphs for the last several years. For no reason other than because I can.)
Swimboy64
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- Oct 19, 2022
- 471
Thanks for sorting this NSC Slimming world type of thing.Defo will help a lot me as it’s in the spotlight in effect now and accountable not only to oneself but also the NSC masses
If you've stopped smoking and stopped vaping, I think you're winning at life already.
Although I'm not overweight, crisps in general are the food I struggle to stop eating. I can open a 150g bag thinking I'll just have a few, and suddenly the bag has gone. I've tried to stop doing it, but it still happens sometimes. Unfortunately my family always has goodies on hand.
Either that, or he's 107 stone!
Yeah bread is an unhelpful little bugger, so I've cut down.
It helps if you can spare time to make healthy food. I like a nice omelette with a mushroom, slice of ham and small amount of cheddar. Pretty low on calories and some protein in it.
- May 8, 2018
- 10,503
Smoke free 26 months and vape free a year now but I’ve filled the void by eating rubbish.
Pretty much stopped drinking as well but shudder to think how big I’d be if I didn’t go to the gym as well.
I’ll be looking to lose 4 stone in total (not all in November!)
Indeed. There'll public whippings and beatings for people who don't make the grade
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
- 15,894
Yeah, my problem is that I simply cannot be arsed to make food. A tuna pasta is probably as far as it goes. Yesterday I literally just ate toast and bread because everyone else had eaten different stuff and I couldn't be arsed to even put something in the oven
Oh, I did have some jaffa cakes too, actually!
Christ, I wish bread was my weakness.
Try fry ups, parmos and beer. The main motivation for me to lose weight is that the alternative is getting a firm of structural engineers in to strengthen my bedroom floor.
Seriously though, I cut alcohol out over October and depending on how reliable my scales are (the reading varies by about 5lbs depending on mood and how exactly I stand on them) I've either lost 4lbs or 9lbs without really doing anything else. Maybe slightly more exercise but not sure about that.
Yeah I'm guessing that's the main problem for most people. If we could all have a resident chef making delicious, nutritious and low calorie food for us, it would be a breeze, because the food does exist.
A tuna pasta is probably as far as it goes. Yesterday I literally just ate toast and bread because everyone else had eaten different stuff and I couldn't be arsed to even put something in the oven
Oh, I did have some jaffa cakes too, actually!
I'm sure a lot of people can identify with that. Instead of having toast and bread I keep cooked chicken and scotch eggs in the fridge for when I can't be bothered to do anything. The processed nature of scotch eggs is not ideal for health, but it's got protein without many calories.
Weststander
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I’ve never really been into crisps. Perhaps Bones bought from the corner shop by our secondary school at lunchtimes the only phase, or Kettle crisps at Xmas. Everyone else I know loves them. But we have them in the house for our ‘kids’, I started snacking on crisps in the evenings.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Can I interest anyone ina bulk order of these? 
Yeah stop that
So for breakfast every day I have porridge, with half milk half water, a dollop of FAGE zero fat yoghurt (very healthy), raspberries, and a small amount of honey. Except this morning Mrs T decides to make bacon and eggs on toast - I mean WTF am I supposed to do? Yummy. At least the bacon had the fat cut off (I don't like fat).
Don't do it people (unless your doctor tells you to). Too early to know about side effects.
That’s exactly what you need though.Yeah stop that
So for breakfast every day I have porridge, with half milk half water, a dollop of FAGE zero fat yoghurt (very healthy), raspberries, and a small amount of honey. Except this morning Mrs T decides to make bacon and eggs on toast - I mean WTF am I supposed to do? Yummy. At least the bacon had the fat cut off (I don't like fat).
My pre-November bulking strategy this morning was this, which was amazing, which I supplemented with some (veggie) sausages and fried mushrooms.
Weststander
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Yeah stop that
So for breakfast every day I have porridge, with half milk half water, a dollop of FAGE zero fat yoghurt (very healthy), raspberries, and a small amount of honey. Except this morning Mrs T decides to make bacon and eggs on toast - I mean WTF am I supposed to do? Yummy. At least the bacon had the fat cut off (I don't like fat).
I do all the 'right' things, seven days a week, have done for years including the authentic Greek yogurt (but have you read the theory on why the full fat version is preferable?). It comes easily.
Then evenings ... the demons arrive
.I think we're coming at this from different angles: you're thinking you want to win a '7lbs in November' competition, whereas I'm thinking I just want to lose a bit of fat.
If you want to win, on the 31st eat a load of carbs and salty food and drink a lot of water. You'll be enormous in the morning, but you'll be able to lose it again in a couple of days.
PS - your breakfast looks lovely. I bloody love cheese.
Doonhamer7
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- Jun 17, 2016
- 1,447
I’m in, quick tip for everyone glass of water with spoonful of apple cider vinegar before main meal (it tastes horrible but just down it in one)supposedly stops carbs being digested fully. Want to lose 10kg more then im going up in a Spitfire (my treat for losing 20kg)