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Garyj881

Garyj881

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I am 28 and weigh about 12.5 stone.

When i was 20 i weighed about 10 stone, i guess i use to eat and drink what i wanted and now its caught upto me...

Ok so in that time i also passed my test so i guess i drivere everywhere now.

I would love to lose at least a stone, i am comitted but not sure what foods to eat and not to eat.

I use to drink often then i settled down so stopped going ot as much but drank in doors :rolleyes:

After my fiancee pointing that iu drank a lot (2-4 cans a night) i stopped, i havent drank a drop of lager since New Years Eve!

So with that out of the way i just need to exercise more (currently run twice a week, varying between 5 and 8 miles each run) and eat a lot better.

I am going to cut out chocolate, crisps, takeaways.

All i need now is the right diet this is where you guys come in. I fancy something like the atkins diet as ii love meat like bacon sausage etc..

What do you think?
 
I wouldnt go for a particular diet, just keep doing what youre doing; generally eat healthily and exercise, which is the important bit. If you can use more calories than youre putting in you will lose weight.

Its about a lifestyle change not hopping onto a 'diet' which is where most people go wrong in my opinion. The 'diet' won't do it for you, you have to have the will, determination and commitment to make a positive change.

Don't cut out treats entirely as you will crave them more. Use them as a reward, if you will, but keep them small. Give yourself a chance and dont set too many difficult goals.
 
Ready? Here we go. up to 1400 calories a day and you will lose about 2 pounds a week.

Breakfast ~200 cal [cereal with skimmed milk]
Snack ~ 100 cal [cereal bar]
Lunch ~ 200 cal [soup + rice cakes/Corn Thins]
Snack ~ 100 cal [cereal bar, Walkers baked crisps, Walkers French Fries, Snack a Jacks]
Dinner ~600-700 cal [various stuff will do here - do some research. Avoid bread and cheese!]

No alcohol apart from on Fri and Sat. Drink only diet soft drinks, carbonated water or black coffee. No fruit juice.

Also, it helps to have a date. Think of a date or an event that you want to be a certain weight by and stick to it. With summer coming up there should be a lot of opportunities for that time you want to look good in the weather.

I lost four stone under this plan in six months.

EDIT - also it helps to go to the gym 3-4 times a week and burn off 1000 calories a time.
 
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I find it fascinating that people can't get their head around healthy eating. There really isn't a secret, it has to be obvious to anyone that a clean diet of fruit, vegetables, lean meat and fish is what you need.

Don't eat anything high in fats and sugar, i.e. greasy, buttery or artificially sweet. then move around a bit more than you do now......Sorted.
 
Try this:

MIRACLE CAT DIET

Most diets fail because we are still thinking and eating like people. For those us who have never had any success dieting. Well now there is the new Miracle Cat Diet! Except for cats that eat like people, such as getting lots of table scraps, most cats are long and lean (or tiny and petite). the Cat Miracle Diet will help you achieve the same lean, svelte figure. Just follow this diet for one week and you'll find that you not only look and feel better, but you will have a whole new outlook on what constitutes food. Good Luck!

DAY ONE

Breakfast: Open can of expensive gourmet cat food. Any flavor as long as it cost more the .75 per can -- and place 1/4 cup on your plate. Eat 1 bite of food; look around room disdainfully. Knock the rest on the floor. Stare at the wall for awhile before stalking off into the other room. Lunch: Four blades of grass and one lizard tail. Throw it back up on the cleanest carpet in your house. Dinner: Catch a moth and play with it until it is almost dead. Eat one wing. Leave the rest to die. Bedtime snack: Steal one green bean from your spouse's or partner's plate. Bat it around the floor until it goes under the refrigerator. Steal one small piece of chicken and eat half of it. Leave the other half on the sofa. Throw out the remaining gourmet cat food from the can you opened this morning.

DAY TWO

Breakfast: Picking up the remaining chicken bite from the sofa. Knock it onto the carpet and bat it under the television set. Chew on the corner of the newspaper as your spouse/partner tries to read it. Lunch: Break into the fresh French bread that you bought as your part of the dinner party on Saturday. Lick the top of it all over. Take one bite out of the middle of the loaf. Afternoon snack: Catch a large beetle and bring it into the house. Play toss and catch with it until it is mushy and half dead. Allow it to escape under the bed. Dinner: Open a fresh can of dark-colored gourmet cat food -- tuna or beef works well. Eat it voraciously. Walk from your kitchen to the edge of the living room rug. Promptly throw up on the rug. Step into it as you leave. Track footprints across the entire room.

DAY THREE

Breakfast: Drink part of the milk from your spouse's or partner's cereal bowl when no one is looking. Splatter part of it on the closest polished aluminum appliance you can find. Lunch: Catch a small bird and bring it into the house. Play with on top of your down filled comforter. Make sure the bird is seriously injured but not dead before you abandon it for someone else to have to deal with. Dinner: Beg and cry until you are given some ice cream or milk in a bowl of your own. Take three licks/laps and then turn the bowl over on the floor.

FINAL DAY

Breakfast: Eat 6 bugs, any type, being sure to leave a collection of legs, wings, antennae on the bathroom floor. Drink lots of water. Throw the bugs and all of the water up on your spouse's or partner's pillow. Lunch: Remove the chicken skin from last night's chicken-to-go leftovers your spouse or partner placed in the trash can. Drag the skin across the floor several times. Chew it in a corner and then abandon. Dinner: Open another can of expensive gourmet cat food. Select a flavor that is especially runny, like Chicken and Giblets in Gravy. Lick off all the gravy and leave the actual meat to dry and get hard.

;)
 
uvmain said:
How tall are you?

I'd have to shed buckets to get down to 12.5, but I'm no tubby..

You must be rather short to be overweight at 12.5..
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Im about 5.10" and dont like the feeling of my man boobs doing a bit of a jig while i run, no im not that bad but i use to be skinny when i was younger and toned but now im not.

Its kinda like you see a picture of your self in a pair of shorts then look at a pic of your self 5 years earlier anb think what happened.

I agree its common sense about what foods to keep away from and i will from now on stop eating crap.

Today for instance a girl from work asked me to call at the shop for her a bar of chocolate and some crisps, in that situation i would normally grab something for my self but i resisted...go me. Not that hard to do really.

I think its because im sat at a computer at work then get home and sit at my computer for the rest of the night.

I signed up at a local gym a few months ago and started to do quite well, i went 4 times a week and put a lot of effort in until CSA payments started and took a quarter of my wage so i had to stop, so now i just go running and rely on it not raining.
 
Down a litre of sambuca, I was ill for about 3-4 days and didn't eat a thing. Ever since i've felt sick every day and havn't been able to eat an awful lot and i've lost 2 stone and it's not stopping. I call it 'The Sambuca Diet'.
 
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