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new years resolution is to lose the gut I've developed. Any suggestions for diets to go on?
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Diet suggestions
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Just cut down on Carbs, eat more lean protein, drink skimmed milk with your meal, exercise more, eat bigger in the morning, plenty of protein for Breakfast, scrambled eggs, baked beans, lean ham and the like. eat smaller for the rest of the day.
There's no need to go on a diet of just eating a select few things, or not eating this, or just easting that.
Get this moved to SA and post up your current diet if you want some suggestions of how to improve it.
It's possible to shed lots of weight without exercise but putting the effort in and doing some is valuable. Not to mention you might even find yourself with a new hobby.
No I missed it, It may be on iPlayer.
My wife mentioned that they talked about my Skimmed Milk thing, that when I started everyone said I was a nutter. Those that know me don't say that now, I lost 7 stone in 7 months.
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For me personally, calorie reduction works best regardless of what i eat.
At my heaviest 14st 5 ft11 i went down to 12.5 stone in 3 months by simply reducing my calorie intake to 1500 a day for 5-6 days a week, and ate whatever i fancied for one or sometimes 2 days (we're talking anything goes, likely 3-4000 calorie days!). The one or two days of eating a lot prevented my body from going into starvation mode and stalling weight loss, thus keeping my metabolism going. My friend who is a personal trainer says this is the lazy mans way but it works.
At my heaviest 14st 5 ft11 i went down to 12.5 stone in 3 months by simply reducing my calorie intake to 1500 a day for 5-6 days a week, and ate whatever i fancied for one or sometimes 2 days (we're talking anything goes, likely 3-4000 calorie days!). The one or two days of eating a lot prevented my body from going into starvation mode and stalling weight loss, thus keeping my metabolism going. My friend who is a personal trainer says this is the lazy mans way but it works.
7 stone in 7 months? wow mate! good going. So drink skimmed milk with meals?
Yeah, it apparently binds fat to it so the fat (not all, but enough) enters your digestive tract and passes through naturally instead of being metabolised into fat cells and stored.
It isn't just down to that however, I do loads of exercise and count calories, I eat 3000kcals a day, but regularly burn off about twice that.
It is all down to portion size and lowing your carb intake. Eat food that take longer to digest (look at the GI rating) and you will feel fuller longer, and your blood sugar will stay stable throughout the day which in turn burns more calories as your metabolism is not peeking after each meal and then slowing down between meals.
This in turn give you more energy, which allows you to do more, which burns more calories and so on.
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Will check out bbc iplayer diet thingy.
It's not like I eat bad at uni, if I eat crisps I tend to have the Walkers Sunbites, tend to eat more veg at uni too. I dont eat much pasta etc cause I dont like it.
Cheese intake will try and cut down (I live off cheese toasties for lunch) it's just I can eat dinner at say 6ish and be hungry again a 9.
It's not like I eat bad at uni, if I eat crisps I tend to have the Walkers Sunbites, tend to eat more veg at uni too. I dont eat much pasta etc cause I dont like it.
Cheese intake will try and cut down (I live off cheese toasties for lunch) it's just I can eat dinner at say 6ish and be hungry again a 9.
What about the paleo caveman diet. Basically don't eat any dairy or grains.
You can eat as much raw fruit, raw berries, raw nuts (except peanuts and cashews), raw veggies, seeds, meat and fish and eggs as you want.
No potatoes and no beans though.
You can eat as much raw fruit, raw berries, raw nuts (except peanuts and cashews), raw veggies, seeds, meat and fish and eggs as you want.
No potatoes and no beans though.
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+1 for not dieting, just change your lifestyle to healthier eating and more exercise, also my plan for 2011 - got a cookbook for xmas with some great recipes and ideas for healthy eating - this could be a help? 
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Can anyone suggest an alternative to the skimmed-milk-with-dinner idea? I can drink milk in tea but I don't like milk by itself.
I think cheese is my big killer too, so any sandwich alternatives? Ham is one but it has already been highlighted here as a killer too, and I don't like tuna so can't have that.
I think cheese is my big killer too, so any sandwich alternatives? Ham is one but it has already been highlighted here as a killer too, and I don't like tuna so can't have that.
lost 3 stone august to december doing weight watchers with the mrs, she hates me cos I lost loads, most men do on WW, its great I love it, not doing it anymore but its really changed my eating habits and I think so much more about what im stuffing down, over xmas I only put on 1.5lbs and lost it again the week after, its a good basis on retraining yourself not to eat **** anymore
Ham is fine, quite high in protein and obviously little in the way of carbs or fat (some downstairs is 24g protein, 1.2g fat and 1g carb per 100g). It's the bread you want to worry about.
The BBC proggie above suggested any dairy may do the same as the milk, so low-fat cheese would work too, though obviously there's some fat in it, but yogurts, milk etc all do it. Maybe a milkshake made from skimmed would be more pallatable?