*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

[tom_nieto]

I let myself relax a bit at the weekends, but need to be on it during the week otherwise things soon head the wrong direction. As @AndyCr15 says >3000 calories a day is easily achieved! Have offset things a bit this weekend with a couple of bike sessions in the gym.

@Raymond Lin - my compliments on the chocolate stash. I am a hopeless chocolate addict and have to really restrain myself!

 

[Raymond Lin]

I let myself relax a bit at the weekends, but need to be on it during the week otherwise things soon head the wrong direction. As @AndyCr15 says >3000 calories a day is easily achieved! Have offset things a bit this weekend with a couple of bike sessions in the gym.

@Raymond Lin - my compliments on the chocolate stash. I am a hopeless chocolate addict and have to really restrain myself!

I should add the caveat that I have given, and giving some of those chocolates away. It's not all for me, but about 60% of it are! I am 1 box down (above pic on, took me a week), just opened the little white box today. Had 1 piece with a cup of tea earlier, will eat 1 more after dinner.

 

[tom_e]

My problem is I'd dispose of most of that chocolate in one sitting, which is why I try and avoid having stuff like that in the house

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

My problem is I'd dispose of most of that chocolate in one sitting, which is why I try and avoid having stuff like that in the house

Me too! So I can't have anything like that in my flat or I will just eat it.

 

[tom_nieto]

Neuhaus are just the business. I really enjoyed walking around Brussels and wandering into various chocolate shops. They know what they’re doing!

 

[MUFC]

I am currently going through £200 worth of Belgian chocolate... lol

I still eat everything, but everything in moderation. I eat perhaps 2 pieces max per day. But I have been going to the gym everyday. I aim to burn at minimum 500 calories through cardio alone. Not including the 5km I walk to and from work, rain permitting. Last night I burn 1000+ (probably like 1100, hard to tell because I tripped the emergency stop part way through and lost all the data). I want to say that I am not a drinker, I have may be 5 drinks in an entire year.

I am doing it this way partly through trying to prove I can do it and I think also when I stop dieting, I wouldn't put the weight back on because I go back to eat more. I eat exactly the same as I did before.

First of all, the chocolates look nice lol. Personally the diet side is my strength. In a calendar year I have about 2 takeaways per year, maybe 5 at the max. Am 47 and it has taken me a lifetime to build this discipline. I make my own workout hybrid programmes, some are 2 months, 3 or 4 months etc. The way I work is I have 4 weeks segments, I'll diet for a whole moth during the programme, the last weekend of the 4 week segment, I eat what I want on that Saturday and Sunday, which is around 26 days. On Monday I will start the cycle again.

In that 4 week diet segment, I won't touch even one single sweet or crisp, not one piece of junk goes into my mouth. My family hate it because on birthdays etc I won't be eating with them, they accuse me of being extreme etc.

Am 10 stone, when I start a new programme my maintenance calorie intake is around 2200 calories a day. I always start at around 1400 and increase it by a hundred each week. 1400 a day for a whole programme will be counter productive and I'd hit a plateau really quickly. I just keep my body guessing via changes in diet and workouts.

 

[Felon]

I’ve re-framed my brain, so when I see fast food symbols like the McDonald’s logo - I get the same feeling I would looking at the Embassy tobacco logo - danger and harm.

Sounds intense - but it’s just from a long period of cessation of that sort of food, in frightened of it.

I’ve done 6x gym sessions this week, and mostly content eating chicken / steak and rice, I had Nando’s for lunch once (chicken) and a mars bar yesterday.

Courting a girl I met at the gym who likes me (and I have a schoolboy crush on her) so far so good, old me would have wanted to stress binge eat, new me is “more Russian twists!l

 

[Raymond Lin]

First of all, the chocolates look nice lol. Personally the diet side is my strength. In a calendar year I have about 2 takeaways per year, maybe 5 at the max. Am 47 and it has taken me a lifetime to build this discipline. I make my own workout hybrid programmes, some are 2 months, 3 or 4 months etc. The way I work is I have 4 weeks segments, I'll diet for a whole moth during the programme, the last weekend of the 4 week segment, I eat what I want on that Saturday and Sunday, which is around 26 days. On Monday I will start the cycle again.

In that 4 week diet segment, I won't touch even one single sweet or crisp, not one piece of junk goes into my mouth. My family hate it because on birthdays etc I won't be eating with them, they accuse me of being extreme etc.

Am 10 stone, when I start a new programme my maintenance calorie intake is around 2200 calories a day. I always start at around 1400 and increase it by a hundred each week. 1400 a day for a whole programme will be counter productive and I'd hit a plateau really quickly. I just keep my body guessing via changes in diet and workouts.

I don't buy takeaways full stop. I think I only have fast food is when I am away, or on a long drive (3hr+) journeys. I don't remember the last time I had an Indian or Chinese takeaway. I last got a shawarma was may be 6 months ago and it was just the shawarma and no chips.

I am fat because I used to just over eat little by little. Like 2 servings of rice at dinner, crisps between meals. Extra 300 to 500 cal daily adds up fast. But even then, I was never a person who gets takeaways anyway because I find them too expensive, especially when you are talking about delivery.

 

[MUFC]

I don't buy takeaways full stop. I think I only have fast food is when I am away, or on a long drive (3hr+) journeys. I don't remember the last time I had an Indian or Chinese takeaway. I last got a shawarma was may be 6 months ago and it was just the shawarma and no chips.

I am fat because I used to just over eat little by little. Like 2 servings of rice at dinner, crisps between meals. Extra 300 to 500 cal daily adds up fast. But even then, I was never a person who gets takeaways anyway because I find them too expensive, especially when you are talking about delivery.

The days of ringing up and getting free delivery or when we used to walk to the takeaway. Usually on them days off I'll snack on crisps and chocolates but not heavily. I'll have chips but I always get oven chips to avoid deep frying. Sometimes I'll get a pizza from Morrisons or frozen chicken tenders from a local meat shop.