I did the Cambridge Diet (Google it) for 3 months this year and lost 3 stone. It's hard work and a bit depressing at times but bloody hell it works. I came off it and put about 3lbs back on but that was to be expected. I've since changed my eating habits completely and feel great for it.
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Any sensible weight loss advice?
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The thing with diets is that once you get to the weight that you are happy with you stop dieting and go back to your old ways and put most of it back on.
If you want to be a healthy weight, look and feel good then you need to eat right and excercise. It's as simple as that. You can still have your chippy tea's, curry's, chinese, kebabs, night on the lash ect as long as you don't have it every other day.
I did my knee in playing football 3 years ago and was out for a year, i put 3 stone on because i did nothing but eat shit and drink. When i was better and i needed to lose the weight i tried allsorts of diets but they were all shit, they make you unhappy. So i decided from Sunday to Friday evening i would eat right, not have any fatty foods ect and excercise and on Friday night to Saturday night i could eat and drink what i wanted. I lost the 3 stone in a couple of months and now don't put any weight on because what i eat and drink for 2 days (i.e takeaways and beer) is balanced out by eating right for 5 days and excercising, and when i say eat right i don't mean salads ect just potato and chicken, spag bol ect
It really is simple, eat right and excericise allthough it is hard!
If you want to be a healthy weight, look and feel good then you need to eat right and excercise. It's as simple as that. You can still have your chippy tea's, curry's, chinese, kebabs, night on the lash ect as long as you don't have it every other day.
I did my knee in playing football 3 years ago and was out for a year, i put 3 stone on because i did nothing but eat shit and drink. When i was better and i needed to lose the weight i tried allsorts of diets but they were all shit, they make you unhappy. So i decided from Sunday to Friday evening i would eat right, not have any fatty foods ect and excercise and on Friday night to Saturday night i could eat and drink what i wanted. I lost the 3 stone in a couple of months and now don't put any weight on because what i eat and drink for 2 days (i.e takeaways and beer) is balanced out by eating right for 5 days and excercising, and when i say eat right i don't mean salads ect just potato and chicken, spag bol ect
It really is simple, eat right and excericise allthough it is hard!
Cut down on high carb and especially on fatty foods. Increase protein intake, but not too much as this can be damaging to your health. But foods high in protein are high on the satiety index, meaning they make you feel fuller for longer, so prevents snacking. Eat smaller meals more often, 5 or 6 small meals a day, to fire up your metabolism more often.
Exercise will be vital to shift the remaining weight. Do the exercise before your evening meal, Your glycogen stores will be low, but not as low as 1st thing in the morning. Muscles perform better at 6pmish according to some research so around this time you'll be strongest. Do cardio at about 50% of your max heart rate for atleast 20minutes. Weight bearing activies such as weight lifting and rowing cause your body to continue to burn calories for many hours afterwards. Do activities you enjoy...football?
Basically you need to get into a fairly large negative energy balance.
<a class="postlink" href="http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/activity/activity.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://health.discovery.com/tools/calcu ... ivity.html</a>
This website is pretty good for counting how much energy your burning during the day this number needs to be more than the food calorie count ur taking in.
Energy Expenditure > Energy Intake = Weight Loss
Be strict with yourself but dont be unhappy as this may cause you to lose motivation.
Good luck
Avoid bread its the devil
Exercise will be vital to shift the remaining weight. Do the exercise before your evening meal, Your glycogen stores will be low, but not as low as 1st thing in the morning. Muscles perform better at 6pmish according to some research so around this time you'll be strongest. Do cardio at about 50% of your max heart rate for atleast 20minutes. Weight bearing activies such as weight lifting and rowing cause your body to continue to burn calories for many hours afterwards. Do activities you enjoy...football?
Basically you need to get into a fairly large negative energy balance.
<a class="postlink" href="http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/activity/activity.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://health.discovery.com/tools/calcu ... ivity.html</a>
This website is pretty good for counting how much energy your burning during the day this number needs to be more than the food calorie count ur taking in.
Energy Expenditure > Energy Intake = Weight Loss
Be strict with yourself but dont be unhappy as this may cause you to lose motivation.
Good luck
Avoid bread its the devil
scowy68
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Think it's spot on what some have said in this post.My wife was talking about all these diets people go on,weight watchers,cambridge diet,Atkins diet.All a load of bollocks,ok they may enable you to lose the weight,but nearly every person that loses the weight will go on to put it back on again.
It's all about burning off more calories than you take in.
It's all about burning off more calories than you take in.
Patientman63
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Im on the Billy Connelly diet.
Eat less. Move more.
Oddly enough it works
Eat less. Move more.
Oddly enough it works
Joycee Banercheck
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Like IP, I did my knee in and put on a fair few pounds. Regular games of footy; training, 5-a-side, matches on Sundays and some Saturdays if I can be arsed, maintain the weight I'm at now. But in order to get the weight off after a long lay off I used 'sprint training' at the gym once I was able to put my full weight back on my knee and run.
If you haven't done sprint training I'd advise it. It's great for burning off calories/fat and also for recovery times. Example I did on a treadmill:
1) 5 min jog at about 6.5mph
2) 1 min run at 9mph
3) 1.5 mins walk at 4mph
4) 1 min run at 11mph
5) 1.5mins walk at 4mph
Then repeat steps 2-5 another three times. In essence you're getting a full cardio workout in 20-25 minutes. This also breaks up the monotony of continuous jogging and because your heart rate is increased with the fast runs and then the walking time used to get your breath back, your heart is subjected to different levels of work-rate, which improves the speed you recover from being out of breath and ready to sprint again.
I gradually built up the amount of times I'd repeat steps 2-5 so that I was doing the walk/run cylcle 8 times in total. Then eventually, rather than add more walk/run cycles I increased the walking speed from 4mph to 4.5mph, then 5mph until I was eventually able to eliminate walking from the sprint training completely and jog at 6mph for my 'recovery minute and a half'.
If you don't have access to a gym or a tredmill you can use a stopwatch for timing the fast and slow parts of the exercise. Or if you have a running track or football field nearby, then you can use the running track to sprint 100m, walk 200m, sprint 100m, walk 200m, etc.
Or if you use the footy field, sprint the byline, walk the touchline, sprint the byline, walk the touchline. When you feel fitter, sprint the byline, walk to the halfway line, sprint across the half way line, walk the touchline to the byline, sprint the byline.
Its great for weight loss, stamina and recovery time
If you haven't done sprint training I'd advise it. It's great for burning off calories/fat and also for recovery times. Example I did on a treadmill:
1) 5 min jog at about 6.5mph
2) 1 min run at 9mph
3) 1.5 mins walk at 4mph
4) 1 min run at 11mph
5) 1.5mins walk at 4mph
Then repeat steps 2-5 another three times. In essence you're getting a full cardio workout in 20-25 minutes. This also breaks up the monotony of continuous jogging and because your heart rate is increased with the fast runs and then the walking time used to get your breath back, your heart is subjected to different levels of work-rate, which improves the speed you recover from being out of breath and ready to sprint again.
I gradually built up the amount of times I'd repeat steps 2-5 so that I was doing the walk/run cylcle 8 times in total. Then eventually, rather than add more walk/run cycles I increased the walking speed from 4mph to 4.5mph, then 5mph until I was eventually able to eliminate walking from the sprint training completely and jog at 6mph for my 'recovery minute and a half'.
If you don't have access to a gym or a tredmill you can use a stopwatch for timing the fast and slow parts of the exercise. Or if you have a running track or football field nearby, then you can use the running track to sprint 100m, walk 200m, sprint 100m, walk 200m, etc.
Or if you use the footy field, sprint the byline, walk the touchline, sprint the byline, walk the touchline. When you feel fitter, sprint the byline, walk to the halfway line, sprint across the half way line, walk the touchline to the byline, sprint the byline.
Its great for weight loss, stamina and recovery time
The Fat el Hombre
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RobinJo said:I'm nice and thin personally.
Skinny twat