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Yup. Girlfriend swore by slimming world, I assumed it was faddy but actually it just encourages bulking on vegetables, controlling fat and carb intake and common sense eating.
I'd love to get down to 17st (15 would be fab but a distant dream )
I intend to swim nearly every day (apart from when I am away from home), and maybe progress to some gym work (might even get back on my bike if PC Plod would stop drivers texting and driving)
Diet wise I thinkI will try the Slow carb diet again that I read about in Tim Ferris' 4 hour body book.
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Target: 13stone, ideally a bit less and a 34 inch waist. Only negative is I splashed out on a very expensive suit just before Christmas when I was at my heaviest! I used to be obscenely healthy in my late teens and weighed about 12 stone with virtually no body fat, be nice to get back to that but I'm going to predominantly diet rather than hit the gym. Having said that I'm pretty lucky genetically in that I put muscle on pretty easily and don't seem to lose it for a long time even without exercise.
Method: A lot of you won't approve but it's going to be largely due to a drastic calorie deficit. After Christmas I was eating a sandwich/one small meal a day and dropped two stone in two months. Had a 'normal' diet since then and not put any weight back on due to my body going into so called starvation mode so it works for me. I'm pretty bloody minded if I have a goal so willpower isn't going to be an issue; this thread is enough to keep me dedicated out of fear of losing face if I don't lose the weight. I doubled the dog walk time today so I'll maintain that too, he's meant to lose a couple of kgs so double benefit there. No more 3am snacks and drinking 2 pints of milk a day either.
The selfie phenomenon is narcissistic and winds me up but I'll take a photo of myself tonight and another in a couple of months. Don't panic, I won't be posting it tonight but be nice for me to be able to objectively see any gains (or rather losses!) I make. I'd recommend it to others for the same reason. If the first one distresses you it should provide more motivation and will make any improvement more satisfying.
Use more calories than you consume = weight loss. Surely that's pretty much the crux of it?
my starting weight was similar to yours, but I had no target weight.. just a target of not being a fat boy any more..
starting weight. 17 stone 10 lbs / starting waist. 46"
lowest weight. 12 stone 8 lbs / waist. 31.5" <-- didn't like this cos I ended up looking a bit gaunt
settled at. 12 stone 13 lbs to 13 stone 3 lbs range / waist 33" <-- works for me and is an easy target to hit
currently. 13 stone 1 lbs / waist 33" <-- happy here
Post your planned diet. high protein, low carb
once a week. average loss of about 2 lbs per week until I hit about 14 stone, then it starts to reduce
Post tips. weight training 2 to 3 times per week,
Saturday is fat boy day from about 15:00 until bed time
enjoy your Saturday but go careful with the beer cos it's hard to shift [just one beer for me and not every week either]..
Start weight - 15st 1lb (honestly thought it would be more)
Target weight - 12st 7lb
Plan - calories tracked through Myfittnesspal with the aim of losing 2lb/week initially and then slowing to 1lb then 1/2lb as i get closer to my goal. I won't be cutting anything out as - as long as the calories are below target then I'm fine with it. Also aiming to do 30 minutes of exercise 6 times a week. Probably going with couch to 5k and some body weight training and some yoga.
Tips - none really, i know what works for me and it's outlined above. The only thing i will say is that you need to be able to have bad days occasionally and still stick to the plan afterwards. All to often I've started a diet only to have a party or similar put me completely off track.
Target: 90kg
Planned diet: cut out milk, more water (get it closer to 2.5 liters a day), less Pizza and Crisps. Eat less meat, more veg and fruit.
Exercise: Extend my cycle commute by 10-15km...and get back into 100km+ rides once a month.
Tip: I dont believe in strict diets, for me they're not sustainable, and the shock to the system from going into it and those times when you give yourself a cheeky day off i believe does more harm then good in the long term. Its more about moderation for me...as long the exercise is there.
Yeah works for me I've just run 7k on no breakfast and i don't feel hungry or weak at all.
If you go to work on a daily basis, especially to an office job where you're brain is being heavily used, the majority of energy that your body uses is for the brain, and although you wouldn't think it, your brain actually consumes a lot of energy. If it doesn't have the energy it needs under stress it will fire off triggers for quick fixes, eg sweets, and you'll have very hard time trying to keep yourself away from that stuff.
It's really old wisdom, my grandmother use to say..."for breakfast eat by yourself, eat your lunch with friends and dinner with enemies"
basically eat eat a lot for breakfast, and reduce the amount in subsequent meals. I usually eat 2 scrabbled eggs for breakfast and a slice of Vegemite toast.
Within all of that, my biggest issue is that I have a good breakfast, usually a salad/veg lunch...but where I screw up is dinner.
edit: btw, I'm not an expert and this is my opinion and what works and makes sense to me...so YMMV
The lard would contribute to poor health - 2000 cals of spinach at least gets you some nutritional value.
Also, that much spinach would keep you full. In fact, it'd be damn hard to eat that much. Try eating a massive bar of chocolate and it's much easier, yet far more energy dense.
Substituting fatty, energy dense (including white bread, for example) foods that don't keep you full for vegetables and healthier alternatives (eg quality wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta) means you'll be fuller, and thus eat fewer calories.
If you take a plate of food and make two thirds vegetables and one third lean meat, fish then it'll fill you up for a good while and be fewer than 500 cals, while also providing you with tons of quality nutrients.
Slimming world force a portion of dairy (or alternative) and fibrous carb (wholemeal bread, pasta, olive oil can be substituted occasionally) to ensure you get enough of necessary food groups but restricting them to amounts you need. I've seen people eat two entire sandwiches in one go, each being 500 calories. Try eating 1000 calories of fish and salad.
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If that's all you're living on (other health issues aside) then your energy intake is the same regardless and I'm yet to see anything the truly convinces me that weight loss is any more complicated than calories in versus calories out regardless of the source.
If you are more hungry on the lard diet and end up eating more because of it then you've exceeded the 2,000 calories and you'll fail to lose weight due to the extra intake. That doesn't mean lard calories are worth more than spinach calories, it just mean the lard diet is harder to stick to (though I'm not sure the spinach diet would be a lot of fun either).
You'd die from a deficency of something no matter how many calories you ate of either.
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Tinned tomatoes on toast for breakfast
And a surprisingly good weight watchers meal of Spaghetti bolognaise, with a bit of salad for lunch.
My wife is tucking into massive fresh;y baked bread sarnies loaded with cheese and branston. I am jealous.
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