You do realise that can eat awesome food and not be a fatty? I've had a bacon sandwich for breakfast, cheese and stuff for lunch and some really nice beef sausages, veg and mash for dinner. I'm going to be eating cakes and drinking beer tonight, that's pretty typical eating for me (probably less for lunch and no beer in the week days). The reason I'm not fat is because I've always done some form of moderate exercise (more recently as I'm training for a tri) and I don't eat **** all the time, I just eat lovely, awesome, beautiful food that has actual food value and isn't just fully of crap that leaves you hungry about 20 minutes later.
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You do realise that can eat awesome food and not be a fatty? I've had a bacon sandwich for breakfast, cheese and stuff for lunch and some really nice beef sausages, veg and mash for dinner. I'm going to be eating cakes and drinking beer tonight, that's pretty typical eating for me (probably less for lunch and no beer in the week days). The reason I'm not fat is because I've always done some form of moderate exercise (more recently as I'm training for a tri) and I don't eat **** all the time, I just eat lovely, awesome, beautiful food that has actual food value and isn't just fully of crap that leaves you hungry about 20 minutes later.
If you were responding to him, you missed a bit.
Personally I see no reason or excuse for being fat beyond the incredibly small % of people who have actual "real" medical conditions which mean it is either harder for them to lose weight or harder to avoid putting it on.
As someone said on the first page, you do not go to bed one day and wake up obese the next.
It takes so little to avoid becoming over weight, the gym is not the be all and end all of exercise after all, I rarely go to the gym because I go Rock Climbing a couple of times a week, has the same effect and I actually enjoy it. I eat whatever I like mostly but try to balance everything out over about a week at a time, eating healthily is not the opposite of eating nice food, hell fish and chips isn't catastrophically unhealthy and neither is a bacon sandwich. The problem arises when that is ALL you eat and don't do anything to deal with it.
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You probably won't be with this outlook on life.
The tri was in brackets. The Fry up and moderate exercise wasn't.
When you're young and active. Breathing is enough exercise
Friend of mine is in better shape at 40 than he was at 20. Then again hes single, no legacy injuries, hes in the gym 5 times a week and does a martial art class twice a week.
But he never had a sweet tooth, or any interest in food though. He never even drank that much. Hes still basically living as he did when he was 20. Just more exercise.
Its mainly bad habits and bad lifestyle that cause people to put on weight. They are not always easy to change. But it can be done.
What's interesting is what a previous poster wrote, along the lines of not caring what he looks like and is happier eating whatever he wants to eat, while getting fat (as opposed to depriving himself of unhealthy food, but being in great shape).
Is this the "right" way forward?
Why are we so obsessed in trying to look good, when he can let ourselves go, while enjoying eating whatever we want?
Why spend time in the gym, when we could sit back, relax and eat a cream cake, while watching your favourite movie? Surely, the latter would make us more happier....right?
Is this the "right" way forward?
Why are we so obsessed in trying to look good, when he can let ourselves go, while enjoying eating whatever we want?
Why spend time in the gym, when we could sit back, relax and eat a cream cake, while watching your favourite movie? Surely, the latter would make us more happier....right?
What of it? I realise I *may* make 70 years old. But I will have lived very happy years.
I don't want to be a decrepit old man reliant on others to change my nappy... but don't worry I hit the gym 5 times a week!
Don't misunderstand, I am not a huge fat obese person, I just have a bit of a tum. Around 13 stone and 6ft tall.
I rarely drink and I have never smoked.
Well for one I don't want to be on 3 types of blood pressure meds when I'm 40 and unable to enjoy the open country by the time I'm 50.
But also I don't see why exercise and good food is not to be enjoyed. I'll go out tonight and drink some lovely ales with good friends then tomorrow watch a film with popcorn and pizza, maybe monday I'll go for a run and eat a mango salad - I'll enjoy all of them though. I think if I just did one thing all the time I'd enjoy it less.
You realise you don't have to "hit the gym 5 times a week" to not be fat right? You don't even have to go to the gym. You just have to not be a lazy and adverse to any form of physical activity.
In the same manner eating healthily does not = not eating nice food. Last night I ate a beef stir-fry in black bean sauce with rice noodles, I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy that as much as anything "unhealthy".
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The flaw in your thinking is that everyone finds happiness the same way.
I know a good many people who would have no real interest in Movies or sweet things at all. So they are not going to understand someone who does.
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Guess its lifestyle choice.
If you are required to stay fit then I guess you have no choice.
I'd love to sit and eat pies and cakes all day but I probably can't.
You can't beat the post "physical" buzz though
If you are required to stay fit then I guess you have no choice.
I'd love to sit and eat pies and cakes all day but I probably can't.
You can't beat the post "physical" buzz though
Since when is 2000 calories less than your required intake a 'small calorie deficit'?
That calculator I posted puts you at 3000 calories a day to maintain a weight of 18st, to lose it it suggests dropping 400 calories. Then once you're 10lbs less re-evaluate and go from there.
To suggest you eat less than 1700 calories a day is farcical, it's a physical impossibility, your body doesn't take energy needed to run it from thin air. You got fat by consuming excess calories, to lose it consume less.
See this is whats missing from my life, the buzz...
If I had the buzz after excersise it would make it so much more enjoyable and easy to do, but its just never happened. Other people keep mentioning but I simply end up feeling knackered and sweaty.
Has this thread turned into people defending there reasons for keeping fit
Look at you gym nuts, get out and have a burger
I eat plenty of burger, and cakes while spending plenty of time in the gym thanks
See this is whats missing from my life, the buzz...
If I had the buzz after excersise it would make it so much more enjoyable and easy to do, but its just never happened. Other people keep mentioning but I simply end up feeling knackered and sweaty.
You are doing it wrong then, quit doing cardio and silly machines and hit the real weights
I eat plenty of burger, and cakes while spending plenty of time in the gym thanks
You go to the gym morba...you! nah would never of guessed it