Running thread

Man_City_Loyal said:
Could be what your eating rather than how much.
Are you tracking your food intake?
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It's odd.
I really don't eat a great deal.
Breakfast: porridge oats/bran and banana and an apple (every day....sucker for routine).

Lunch (generally) homemade soup and bread (actually, I think I'm actually doing 'porridge') - or a small sandwich and another apple.

Evening meal: usually pasta/sometimes oven chips with breaded chicken/fish or similar.
I get the feeling I'm maybe dropping my healthy standards in the evening - I used to cook 'proper food' most nights but since the separation I no longer do that (I enjoyed cooking for other people, not hugely 'assed' about cooking for myself.

Littered with teas and coffees throughout the day and a hot choc and small dessert last thing at night.

No drinks until the weekend when I'll have a bottle of wine over Saturday/Sunday with maybe one beer...

That's it.

It's slow dropping off but I still have excess flab and that's with going to the gym a few times a week.

Perhaps a full return to running with shift it....
 
somapop said:
It's odd.
I really don't eat a great deal.
Breakfast: porridge oats/bran and banana and an apple (every day....sucker for routine).

Lunch (generally) homemade soup and bread (actually, I think I'm actually doing 'porridge') - or a small sandwich and another apple.

Evening meal: usually pasta/sometimes oven chips with breaded chicken/fish or similar.
I get the feeling I'm maybe dropping my healthy standards in the evening - I used to cook 'proper food' most nights but since the separation I no longer do that (I enjoyed cooking for other people, not hugely 'assed' about cooking for myself.

Littered with teas and coffees throughout the day and a hot choc and small dessert last thing at night.

No drinks until the weekend when I'll have a bottle of wine over Saturday/Sunday with maybe one beer...

That's it.

It's slow dropping off but I still have excess flab and that's with going to the gym a few times a week.

Perhaps a full return to running with shift it....
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i try to stick to a 1600 calorie intake. Since i did that ive gone from near 21 stone to a few weeks ago i weighed 16 stone 3.

Other than the odd soup i have every now and then I've completely removed bread from my food intake.

I've been separated 4 years now, I'm still the same would rather have a smaller meal that easy than cook (other than when the kids are around me)

Strangely enough I can be full of food from a couple of ham wraps with salad etc. But then a proper meal like spag bol I never do.

At times I feel have i lost too much too fast, but then still see my flab around the stomach area. I cancelled the gym as I wasn't going and preferred street running.

Might be worth using something like my fitness pal to track your food?
 
I used my fitness pal and dropped stone and half during lockdown. Luckily was quite easy as less beer due to not going to football. I used it for just over year found where my calories were coming from then stopped. My aim was to get to 11 stone from 12.6. Down a jean size and hovering round 11 now (never got below it). One of my downfalls I found using my fitness pal was snacking watching TV in evening which I almost completely cut out. Also have fruit rather than chocolate, crisps etc with my coffee breaks (around 10 and half 2) when working. I don't deny myself as think I crave it more then
 
5-2 diet worked well for me to shift it but took quite a while and probably no quicker than calorie restriction - I just preferred only having to focus too much on what I ate for 2 days. other downside was it made it harder to run the days after, but as I was unfit it fitted with a lower running volume. I have had problems with injuries before when trying to do too much of both exercising and dieting.


I often find healthy lifestyles reinforce each other. If I exercise, I want to eat well, if I do nothing then I just want to eat chips.
 
Yeah, just picked up a cold (second cold in about as month). Grim.

Thinking of joining a local running group - good time to resume in the winter (without the heat adding to the stress on a body that had forgotten how to run).

I think I hit a good groove of running, gym and eating well....when the running dropped the eating well continued.

Had it down to a fine balance, but it's slowly coming off again now (and it's just on the chest/belly).

With all that and yoga/pilates, I was in the best shape of my life (having that strong core gives that youthful vitally back to really take on gravity).
 
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