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How quickly can you loose weight?
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My God you've last far too much weight
No i was a fat ******* 3 years ago and over 18 months i lost 6 stone, about 3 pounds a week for the first year and then i stopped drinking and conincidentally lost about 4 pounds a week and then i looked in the mirror one day and was happy, weighed myself and was ten and a half stone and maintained it over the last 18 months or so.
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Is vodka better than beer?
For weight loss, probably, but it's worse for your health in general, I'd say.
25ml of vodka = 50 calories = 1 units
WKD blue = 250 calories = 1.5 units
pint of lager = 200 calories = 3 units
Bottle of red = 700 calories = 9 - 11 units
pint of guinness = 180 calories = 2.5 units
can of coke = 150 calories
apple = 70 calories
BK Bacon XL double cheese = 900 calories
tin of beans = 250-400 calories
slice of bread = 100 calories.
Bag of sweets = 600-800 calories
Yorkie bar = 400 calories
Ham sandwich = 300ish calories.
no ed was speaking as if he was me, as he strikes me as a tool.
WKD blue = 250 calories = 1.5 units
pint of lager = 200 calories = 3 units
Bottle of red = 700 calories = 9 - 11 units
pint of guinness = 180 calories = 2.5 units
can of coke = 150 calories
apple = 70 calories
BK Bacon XL double cheese = 900 calories
tin of beans = 250-400 calories
slice of bread = 100 calories.
Bag of sweets = 600-800 calories
Yorkie bar = 400 calories
Ham sandwich = 300ish calories.
no ed was speaking as if he was me, as he strikes me as a tool.
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You cant be that overweight surely. Sounds like you just have a bit of a beer gut. Im about the same height and weight and there is no way I could be called fat. (used to be about 15stone)
2stones is drastic weight loss! A bit of exercise and less beer will get rid of the gut
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my girlfriend does nutrition.. no expert but she makes me walk all the time with her.. it appears that walking = weight loss
a homemade curry can have almost no fat in it beyond the meat. Curries can be very healthy, if you make something with a lot of veg and some meat (fried in the slightest touch of oil in a non-stick pan) with a tasty sauce (this doesn't have to contain gee/butter/cream/fat - tomatoes and spices goes a long way) and whole grain/brown rice then you have a delicious healthy meal.
My diet tip. A glass of wine has a lot less calories than beer since it has less carbs, just the alcohol. And numerous studies have shown that a glass of red-wine a day is beneficial to your health and hence is a welcome part of your diet - it lowers the risk of heart-disease, stroke, cancer, and other serious diseases. About 100 calories a small glass. IF you drink mixers, almost all calories come from the alcohol- using diet coke will make little difference. Orange juice when consumed with vodka has no nutritional value.
IF you plan to drink beer, then simply lower your carb intake from elsewhere. Beer is more or less liquid bread so you can healthily combat the additional carbs form beer - to a certain exten. And in the end, alcohol is a 4th basic nutritional substance along with carbs, protein and fat - your body will process it successfully into energy. It,in itself, wont make you fat.
There is a way to loose large majorities of wieght via diet. I can't for the life of me remember what it is but my mum, my sister and my sister's boyfriend all went on it and in their first week lost 10-16pounds.
Edit: The Cambridge Diet.
It works by releasing a lot of the water your body has stored. It's a lot of soups and smoothies I believe and is full of all the things your body needs so it replaces the excess water with these.
Edit: The Cambridge Diet.
It works by releasing a lot of the water your body has stored. It's a lot of soups and smoothies I believe and is full of all the things your body needs so it replaces the excess water with these.
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I've had to knock weight off in the past for pre season, 2lb a week is pretty easy to achieve (though for me it did involve exercise as well).
I basically cut out all of the crap I was eating, gym 3 times a week and the weight comes off quite easily. First week loss was about 4-5lb (mostly water afaik) then levelled off to average 2lb a week (with the odd 3lb week). I did take it a touch far at times which I would not recommend doing, quite frequently had dizzy spells if I wasn't eating enough.
I could probably do with getting into it again at the moment.
I basically cut out all of the crap I was eating, gym 3 times a week and the weight comes off quite easily. First week loss was about 4-5lb (mostly water afaik) then levelled off to average 2lb a week (with the odd 3lb week). I did take it a touch far at times which I would not recommend doing, quite frequently had dizzy spells if I wasn't eating enough.
I could probably do with getting into it again at the moment.
What's the point of losing all that water though? Surely that will dehydrate you? It's fat you want to lose and you won't do that any quicker than around 2lbs per week.
Firstly it's a very bad idea to cut out meals, especially breakfast. Eating breakfast actually jump starts your metabolism so you'll actually burn calories more efficiently by having it.
It's more about eating sensibly - diet drinks instead of full sugar, low fat alternatives, more fruit n' veg etc and cutting down on the amount you eat also; cut out the snacks.
You should also get some exercise because unless you have particularly fast metabolism, you won't burn the calories off just by not eating. Go to the gym, do some sport or just going for a walk are all good - as long as you are burning calories that's what counts
I'd also recommend doing some weight training as well because muscle needs more calories to sustain itself. I've read a few guides that said that doing some weights is important to slimming down and staying thin.
* Should also note that muscle weighs more than fat so you might actually put weight on while building muscle, so don't pay too much attention to the scales.
It's also going to be a slow process - you need to burn off roughly 3500 calories to lose 1lb of fat. I started going to the gym at the beginning of March and it took me 4.5 months to lose a stone (do quite a bit of weight training though) and I've been doing 2 hours a night 6 days a week - the body will cling on to its spare tyres for dear life
It's more about eating sensibly - diet drinks instead of full sugar, low fat alternatives, more fruit n' veg etc and cutting down on the amount you eat also; cut out the snacks.
You should also get some exercise because unless you have particularly fast metabolism, you won't burn the calories off just by not eating. Go to the gym, do some sport or just going for a walk are all good - as long as you are burning calories that's what counts
I'd also recommend doing some weight training as well because muscle needs more calories to sustain itself. I've read a few guides that said that doing some weights is important to slimming down and staying thin.
* Should also note that muscle weighs more than fat so you might actually put weight on while building muscle, so don't pay too much attention to the scales.
It's also going to be a slow process - you need to burn off roughly 3500 calories to lose 1lb of fat. I started going to the gym at the beginning of March and it took me 4.5 months to lose a stone (do quite a bit of weight training though) and I've been doing 2 hours a night 6 days a week - the body will cling on to its spare tyres for dear life
Not true, they dont eat anything at all, not just skipping a meal. But i take your point of saying if you eat less than your body burns you will of course loose [might be lose, but im really bad at spelling/grammer] weight. But skipping a meal really doesnt help. If you really want to skip a meal, skip supper.
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No it doesn't.
If you want to skip a meal, you suggest eating something? Thats hardly skipping a meal is it.
Had a look and seems probably isn't true, or at least a moot point.
The guy who runs the gym I go tells everybody that it does though and since we don't know any better...
I'd argue the point with him but he'd pick me up and throw me out the window