Weight loss.

[phoenix]

I was 10.5 stone when I came back from my gap year. At 6'2", that was quite skinnny, considering I am broad shouldered. I'm now 16.5 stone, granted I have a lot more muscle than I did, but I do need to lose weight.

I am planning to cut down on bread (with bread comes butter/spread), drinking during the week, exercise regularly and cut down on fatty foods such as cheese, crisps and so on. If you are hungry, then drink some water or eat some seeds.

6" 2" and 20st tend to find beer is my worst enemy.

 

[Stoo82]

Eat real food - Meat, Fish, Dairy, Vegetables and exercise. Everything in moderation and watch your beer intake.

 

[NMH]

Oh!! Missed something important;

Hunger isn't always hunger. Sometimes it's thirst. Drink water, even if you know you are hungry.

It doesn't mean avoid eating, but realise you might just be needing water or can satisfy a lot of the hunger pangs with liquids (other than beer or alcohol or sugary sodas etc)

 

[Billy the Fish]

Just cut out the crap - snack on fruit (which is what I've been doing) and keep up with an exercise routine. I've always being doing the exercise but since 1st jan I have cut out all the sweets, crisps, bread, and reduced my beer intake and I've lost 7lbs in two weeks. I was 14st so had it lose, but as long as you keep active that's they key.

I'm doing something similar at the moment. My diet consists of banana for breakfast and then a rice cake or piece of fruit roughly every 1.5 hours throughout the day, then chicken or fish and veg for dinner. close to 0 fat intake and roughly 1500 calories. You need to eat when you're hungry to keep your metabolism going otherwise your body starts storing any spare calories as fat. I'm also running every night, it's hard work having not eaten much.

I've lost half a stone and 3% bodyfat in just over a week. I'm not really concerned about the weight, just want to get to 10% bodyfat.

 

[Giraffe]

I had that vomiting virus earlier in the week, have lost half a stone. I will send you some spit

 

[Uwinsc]

My boyfriend was massively overweight but he has now lost 5 1/2 stone, he went to a slimming world group and it works really well for him because he can still eat alot of the things he likes. He has cut out all alcohol though.

 

[Giraffe]

My boyfriend was massively overweight but he has now lost 5 1/2 stone, he went to a slimming world group and it works really well for him because he can still eat alot of the things he likes. He has cut out all alcohol though.

Curious question. Does it feel weird having a different person?

 

[Husty]

Stop eating so much, do more exercise. If you don't have the willpower to do the above then that is where the problems start, but there isn't some sort of secret to it, it's very obvious, all you have to do is be able to do those 2 things. Oh, and drink a lot less beer.

Problem solved.

 

[Marc1901]

Stop eating so much, do more exercise.

Problem solved.

Easier said then done. When I exercise I get hungry afterwards and then I tend to eat more so the exercise becomes pretty pointless.

 

[Husty]

Easier said then done. When I exercise I get hungry afterwards and then I tend to eat more so the exercise becomes pretty pointless.

Yeh I added a bit more, are you eating the right things? I lost about a stone and a half by quite literally just cutting the bad things out my diet i.e. fast food, beer, sweets + chocolate as I get a lot of exercise anyway, (football + basketball training several times a week, plus matches and I cycle a lot), start snacking on fruit rather than a chocolate bar after sport?

Don't try going on a diet, just cut the bad stuff out of your current diet.

 

[Gerbil]

Drink f*** loads of water.

 

[Jonno]

go low-carb. I've lost 3kg since Xmas doing it . You find after a while your appetite really declines and you don't need to stuff yourself with rubbish. Avoid white bread, white rice and anything processed with sugar in it.

 

[Marc1901]

Yeh I added a bit more, are you eating the right things? I lost about a stone and a half by quite literally just cutting the bad things out my diet i.e. fast food, beer, sweets + chocolate as I get a lot of exercise anyway, start snacking on fruit rather than a chocolate bar after sport?

Im not like overweight or anything but just a few extra pounds put on after Christmas. When I go to football I tend to have chips because there is nothing else there too eat that is good. I probably need to cut down on beer consumption because not only is it making me fat it is making me ill lately. This morning's breakfast will be a bowl of cheerios ( semi-skimmed milk ) and a banana but then when I go to football I will start eating shit again.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Easier said then done. When I exercise I get hungry afterwards and then I tend to eat more so the exercise becomes pretty pointless.

Haha, that's ridiculous. Of course you get hungry afterwards, you're allowed to eat but it's about eating the right things at the right time in the right amount. After you excercise eat some chicken breasts (not KFC) and as much vegetables as you can stuff into your face. That will stop you being hungry but without many calories. When you're hungry in the day don't fight it, just eat a piece of friut.

At the end of the day losing weight isn't rocket science. Burn more calories than you eat = lose weight. Eat more calories than youburn = gain weight.

 

[Marc1901]

Drink f*** loads of water.

I'll listen to you because you have lost LOADS of weight

 

[Halcyon]

When doing exercise do interval training, do something like:

2 mins warm up (brisk walk)
3 mins light jog

Then repeat following 6 - 8 times:
1 min fast run (not sprinting but as fast you can comfortably go)
1 min light jog

On the final fast run, replace 1 min light jog for 3 mins and then another 2 min cool down.

Works based on doing lots of cardio so gets the heart rate up and burns fat. Worked well for me after Xmas

 

[Husty]

Haha, that's ridiculous. Of course you get hungry afterwards, you're allowed to eat but it's about eating the right things at the right time in the right amount. After you excercise eat some chicken breasts (not KFC) and as much vegetables as you can stuff into your face. That will stop you being hungry but without many calories. When you're hungry in the day don't fight it, just eat a piece of friut.

At the end of the day losing weight isn't rocket science. Burn more calories than you eat = lose weight. Eat more calories than youburn = gain weight.

Basically this, get your mum to buy you some fruit, take the fruit, eat the fruit, but for f*** sake don't buy some chips... when you go to the match today, eat before hand, someone thing pasta that will keep you filled up, and then don't eat at the match.

I don't know how much exercise you do, but it's very easy to build more exercise into your life without joining a gym, e.g. at football training, push yourself harder in the drills, try a bit harder in the match, run a couple of a laps of the pitch after training or before, it's the simple little things that help. Oh and if you do go to the gym for fucks sake do some cardiovascular, and hour doing weights isn't going to lose you an once of weight.

 

[Uncle C]

Easier said then done. When I exercise I get hungry afterwards and then I tend to eat more so the exercise becomes pretty pointless.

I think you need to start considering the problem in two parts 'shape' and 'weight'.
Stand in front of a mirror, do you like what you see? If not then its time to start changing your shape, but take a picture first to remind yourself of before and after.

Now start excercising, by whatever means you enjoy. Always remember that muscle burns many times more calories than fat, so as you get more 'shapely' even without changing eating habits you will start to loose fat.

As your shape improves so will your self esteeme and will power and you will find more desire to cut out the crap food you eat before.

I have a set of 18KG dumbells and a punch bag in the garage. It works for me.

 

[Foolg]

Anybody got any good advice?

If you've got the motivation, join a gym, and try and get there 3/4 times a week after college or whatever your doing (I believe your 16/17?).
I've joined corals since Christmas and have been going 4 times a week and i've lost weight, and filled out a little bit. Works out at £5 a week for a student membership and if you go at he right times its usually empty.

Also note, there was a little piece on the one show last week, that stated that by doing 30 seconds intense running followed by a 30 second rest, then the same again 4 times is better than going on a 20 minute run for weight loss AND fitness.

 

[Husty]

Also note, there was a little piece on the one show last week, that stated that by doing 30 seconds intense running followed by a 30 second rest, then the same again 4 times is better than going on a 20 minute run for weight loss AND fitness.

I find that very hard to believe, I'd like to see the scientific research done there.