Hows everyone's Jan diet going? :p

FoxEye

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Couple weeks back I decided I was going to lose at least 2 stone. Was then 14st, and virtually pregnant ;) I'm 5'9.

After a week I was down to 13.5st, which I understand from research to be mostly my body using stored water, rather than losing fat.

Currently down to two meals a day (skipping breakfast), and absolutely no snacks at all between or after meals. It's been surprisingly easy, requiring very little of my scarce willpower to stick to ;)

Now I'm reading that eating too little is the worst way to diet. That I should be eating nuts and yoghurt, piling on the protein, in order to burn more fat...

It's a complicated game, this dieting lark.

How's your New Year's diet progressing?
 
Mine's doing ok, I'm down half a stone, want to get down to about 12 -12.5 stone over the next few months. The trick (IMO) is to take it steady, 1-2 lbs a week.
I still have 3 meals a day, and admit to still snacking, but portion control is the biggest help to me.
 
Doing 5:2 (actually started before Christmas). Going quite well but forgot to bring in my lunch of a carrot and two sticks of celery today so feeling even more grumpy than usual on fast day.

BTW FoxEye, conventional dieting wisdom is that skipping breakfast is a really bad idea, you'd be better off skipping lunch or tea. Supposedly it puts your body in "starvation mode" which stops it burning fat or some such nonsense.
 
For 5 days in the week, you eat reasonably well, then for 2 days you fast, eating 500 calories or less.

Cut out some of the crap, and just upped the exercise a bit, which seems to be paying off. Not weighed myself, but I'm feeling it in my clothes that I've lost weight.
 
I rather eat a big breakfast and less later in the evening myself. According tho the fangly dangly scales I stand on I lost 1kg of muscle and put on about 1.5% body fat. I didn't exercise for three weeks though and stopped using the one sup I do use which contains creatine so the 1kg is probably just water in reality. Going on holiday to Geneva over Christmas helped my waistline. I didn't realise quite how expensive it would be there so my g/f and I didn't exactly gorge ourselves at all.

Weight is mostly lost through what you eat anyway. Toning up and getting yourself a basic level of fitness is done through exercise. That said exercise will always complement a diet and aid weight loss. Just remember if you do stop exercising then you need to stop eating as much as you were when exercising. Portion size / calorie intake is what you need to watch. Also eat as clean as you can, avoid as much processed food as possible. Keep an eye out on anything that says low fat on the label as it is probably stacked with sugar instead. I think sugar is one of the hardest ones to avoid, seems to be put in so many processed things. Use a site like myfitnesspal and enter what you eat and quantities and that'll show you the levels you intake of sugar, sodium, protein etc. Bet you struggle with the sugar one to start with!

There's tons of advice online though and I'm sure there are threads on here somewhere with masses of information in them. Maybe in the sports section?
 
Feek, think it was, on the forum kept eating the same crap but walked miles every day and lost loads!

How do these fancy scales work then, that can tell the difference between muscle and fat?
 
Uther said:
How do these fancy scales work then, that can tell the difference between muscle and fat?
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Impedance, sends a small current in one end and measure what comes out. Electricity flows better through fat and water than muscle and bone. Then once it's got its figures it out it through a complex formula and then through a random number generator and shows you that :D.

They're alright to use as an indication you lost fat but they're far from accurate apparantly
 
I'm 6' and 93kg as of last Monday. My goal is to get to 83kg, at which I think I'll be roughly 12% body fat (based on past measurements). Not sure on current %.

Going for all out calorie control rather than anything fancy. TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is 2870 calories based on my age, weight, height and exercising 1-3 days per week. According to an online calculator if I maintain an average daily intake of 1950 calories (deficit of over 900 mind), I'll hit my goal in 12 weeks. Obviously I'll be eating slightly more on gym days and slightly less on non-gym days to compensate, all calculated properly of course.

Gym will be almost exclusively compound lifts (squats, pullups, rows, bench press etc.), 2 or 3 times a week.

To be honest at this point I'm more interested to see if the calculation will be accurate. I know it's probably not the most efficient method and I'm not overly fussed about shifting the weight anyway, it just would be nice. Counting calories is a pain in the glutes.

If it doesn't work I'll fall back on trusty 5:2, has worked really well for me in the past.
 
Just ate a pizza meant for 2 (ha) and about to open a second beer. Diet is going well, and it's only Monday. 6ft and 12st of pure nerd muscle btw
 
d_brennen said:
Just ate a pizza meant for 2 (ha) and about to open a second beer. Diet is going well, and it's only Monday. 6ft and 12st of pure nerd muscle btw
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Nothing wrong with a pizza. I have a 12" to myself once a week but I do make the whole thing myself. I get far more topping on my pizza if I make it over buying one, usually 240g of sliced chicken breast, loads of spinach, my own tomato base and a sprinkling of davidstow cheese.
 
The Funktopus said:
For 5 days in the week, you eat reasonably well, then for 2 days you fast, eating 500 calories or less.

Cut out some of the crap, and just upped the exercise a bit, which seems to be paying off. Not weighed myself, but I'm feeling it in my clothes that I've lost weight.
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600 calories for men :cool:
 
I'm on a different type of diet - since starting Uni I've lost about 15kg and am now underweight, so I'm on a program to add 1kg every two weeks to get back to my normal weight (75kg) but trying to ensure that any weight gain is muscle and not water or fat is tricky.

Going ok so far, but it's suprisingly challenging.

Maintaining your "ideal" weight is challenging, whether you're trying to lose weight or gain it.
 
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I switched to Paleo a week or so ago, not to lose weight but to try and sort some skin problems out.

A week on, and it's worse ... got a bit of redness going on possibly from detoxing, which is fairly common by all accounts :p
 
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