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Always stuns me how much the"diet" industry is worth.
EAT LESS WALK MORE . |
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In the Words of Billy Connolly...
"Eat less, Move more". |
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Wasn't looking....
you beat me to it :) |
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Q I rarely get home from work before 8.30pm and so dont normally eat my dinner until gone 9pm. After Ive eaten I dont do much, except watch TV or read and then go to bed. Will eating so late at night stop me from losing weight?
A Many people believe that eating their main meal late at night will be their dieting downfall. But take it from me eating in the evening wont stop you from losing weight, but consuming too many calories throughout the day, will! Providing you stick to your daily calorie allowance youll lose weight, regardless of the time when you consume those calories. Q Ive read you shouldnt eat after 6pm if you want to lose weight. Is this true? A This is a popular idea that continues to pop up from time to time. It doesnt matter what time of day you consume these calories, although Id recommend spreading them evenly throughout the day to prevent hunger from kicking in. |
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So there :)
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Whenever I've dieted it has worked a bit.
-Simple diet, just count calories and eat less then you will probably use. BUT. After a while my weight just goes to more than it was before the diet. Trouble is, dieting makes you hungry. Like Capt F I'm 15st, I'd love to be less than 13st within 2 months, but that might be a little ambitious. Good luck! |
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JOMO, cycling as and when you can is a good idea. Think about where you currently drive to and ask yourself if you could cycle instead (obviously not great to cycle the supermarket for a week's shopping). Unless you live in London, in which case getting on the bike is a convenient way of committing suicide. It's also quite easy on the knees, unlike running.
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So I'm okay with my 500,000 calories in the morning as long as I starve for the rest of the day.
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STUDYFORM 02 Jan 11:27
Whenever I've dieted it has worked a bit. -Simple diet, just count calories and eat less then you will probably use. BUT. After a while my weight just goes to more than it was before the diet. Trouble is, dieting makes you hungry. Like Capt F I'm 15st, I'd love to be less than 13st within 2 months, but that might be a little ambitious. Good luck! You're supposed to inlcude your head Mike :D |
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Hello chitty chatterers. :)
I've become a little soft around the edges - six foot, and about 14 stone. So I'm buying a rowing machine this afternoon. I estimate this £200 investment will cause two weeks of severe aching, two weeks of sloth and "just waiting for the pain to subside before I start again", two months of guilt because I haven't started again, then happiness when I finally forget all about it. |
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orioles 02 Jan 11:24
So there :) ah yes, a thoroughly scientific document there. Taken off the internet with no sources. How can I argue with that. |
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Justin Whittle's Elbow 02 Jan 11:36
Hello chitty chatterers. :) I've become a little soft around the edges - six foot, and about 14 stone. So I'm buying a rowing machine this afternoon. Lightweight :D |
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rowing machines are rubbish imo. Get a bike for £200.
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HOLD THE 'PHONE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7807848.stm Pass the doughnuts! |
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Infamous - I got a bike eighteen months ago, I was lucky enough to have £400 from the Man C manager market to invest, so I was able to get a really good model that's fast, light, durable, easy to cover 15 miles in an hour, etc. Great purchase, I'd recommend it to anyone. Easy on the joints too for all you super-chubbies... ;)
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My apologies Infamous, I should have looked for something specifically tested on your species.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3263249.stm |
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why the rowing machine then? it's much easier to spend an hour out on the bike than sit on a rowing machine in your garage for an hour of boredom.
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There was an item on BBC news only this month about medical myths - including eating at night somehow makes you fatter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7789302.stm EATING LATE AND GAINING WEIGHT "Putting on pounds in the festive period almost seems inevitable but to avoid unwanted weight gain it has been suggested that people avoid eating late at night. The idea is that you cannot burn off the calories if you are asleep. But this is not supported by the evidence. A Swedish study found that obese women were more likely to eat at night, but they also ate more in general. In another study of more than 2,500 patients, eating at night was not associated with weight gain but eating more than three meals a day was. Ultimately, taking in more calories makes you gain weight whenever you eat them, the researchers said." |
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oh aureoles, it's CARBS not food i'm talking about.
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Who the feck would eat a Stromberg?
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lol Infamous :)
I accept your surrender - don't worry, much better men than you have fallen before the MIGHTY Orioles' intellectual threshing machine. Now remember, when the son of the deposed king of Nigeria contacts you ... |
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Infamous , you should know that the 2nd word in the world famous phrase 'The Mighty Orioles' is in fact, his waist size.
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I've been battered more than clockwork. :(
Although in this case, you are actually wrong, and have no scientific proof. I've given up because of the poor grasp you have on the subject. Maybe you should stick to pottering around your East wing library reading about phrenology, eating fruit at 10 pm. Ask any pro bodybuilder about carbs at bedtime. |
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"why the rowing machine?"
Just a bit of variety, really. Cycling is great as a general rule, but the weather can spoil it and I reckon with two bits of equipment I'll increase the chances of doing something 3-4 times a week. |
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I have the same waist measurement now, as I did when I was 18 ... it's just the units have changed.
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Hello fellow Fat Fighters
At the weigh in this morning "Biscar Two" weighed in at a "ready" 15st 10lb. Ran 3.5 miles to get rid of the cobwebs. |
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fair enough JWE ! I got myself a turbo trainer for that very reason.
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I have gone down from 234 lbs to 198 lbs since 16th August 08
No diet just sensible eating and drinking and 30 mins excercise each day. GL |
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If you live in a town with a university, take up swimming.
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I have gone down from 234 lbs to 198 lbs since 16th August 08
No diet just sensible eating and drinking and 30 mins excercise each day. And giving birth to triplets helped a bit as well. |
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:-)
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Last year I started at 14st 10lbs, knocked 2 stone off, that and that's what I'm at just now: 12st 10lbs. I'm hoping to take another stone or so off and then I'll be about where I want to be.
As has already been stated on this thread, the best way to do it is to treat each day as a seperate diet day. Before you know it, it just becomes habit. My technique was to do this and weight myself every day as soon as I got up. Obviously some may think weighing in every day is a bit excessive but it worked for me and helped me to understand where I was eating too much/not exercising enough, and instilled a bit of discipline in me. Anyway, this is a good thread and we should keep it updated regularly so it doesn't fall to the bottom of the page and out of sight, like the diets of many of the people who have good intentions at the start of the year. Hopefully, if the thread continues, people will be incentivised to lose weight rather than coming on here to tell us you've gained or lie about losing. You'd only be lying to yourself. Good luck, fellas. |
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I'm gonna do a diet from Monday myself, will weigh myself on monday morning, think am about 13s 4lbs
but hoping to be 11stone by summer |
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off 4 a run at 7
looking foreward to it no booze tonight I hope |
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started mine today too ...21 st 9ibs ...bit life threatning possibly ...wi ll lose 4st easy i expect by summer
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krist thats some timber charlie
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i would say 21s 9lbs is life threatening right now
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ran 1 1/2 miles
no stopping had 4 pints of cider tho as backed an 8/1 winner at Wolver feeling full of energy tho |
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When I was living in London my grandad took up this keep fit malarkey.
He was told by the doctor to jog 5 miles a day. I phoned him after two weeks and asked him how he was doing. He said ' I'm okay, but I don't like think much of Dover' :D |
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walked to work this morning,, 1 hour walk all up hill,, eating a fking carrott now, bought two boxes of porridge on way to work . really enjoting it so far :|
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