weight issues, diet pills and a general get-it-off-your-chest-moment

To be honest, making big changes into your daily routine and heavily reducing portions isn't the answer. Trust me as i have been through similar processes myself. I would recommend that you add small tasks into your routine like i have done. For example, every morning i get up and do a ten min run on the treadmil before breakfast. Through this i have noticed a positive change in physique over the last two months and generally feel a lot more enthusiastic throughout the day!
creating big goals, makes it really hard to see progress and you eventually give up on what you are trying to acheive! So, in my opinion, GRADUALLY introduce small intense tasks/workouts throughout your day/week and focus on sticking to them. Over time, you would have accomplished your goal. (weight loss)

What i am saying has worked for me but, as many of the guys on here have pointed out to me in the past, what works for one might not have the same effects on others. The only catch of what i said is, that you need strong motivation in order to drag yourself out of bed in the mornings and do it! Hope this helps.
 
Prop01 said:
For example, every morning i get up and do a ten min run on the treadmil before breakfast.
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I'm guessing you have your own treadmill, it wouldn't really be worth while for the OP to nip down the gym for 10 mins before breakfast and I personally wouldn't advise exercising on an empty stomach.

Also, the OP is pretty heavy, I think running at this stage would not be the best of ideas as it could result in joint problems, personally I'd stick to low impact exercise, eg. walking, cycling, x-trainer.

Anyway, Swampyseifer, I'm glad you're getting positive results so far and wish you all the best. :)
 
Badgi said:
I'm guessing you have your own treadmill, it wouldn't really be worth while for the OP to nip down the gym for 10 mins before breakfast and I personally wouldn't advise exercising on an empty stomach.

Also, the OP is pretty heavy, I think running at this stage would not be the best of ideas as it could result in joint problems, personally I'd stick to low impact exercise, eg. walking, cycling, x-trainer.

Anyway, Swampyseifer, I'm glad you're getting positive results so far and wish you all the best. :)
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I personally would disagree with the comment regarding not training on an empty stomach. I come rowing background and you'll find that a lot of rowers will train on an empty or near empty stomach. Obviously I'm no pro but I have a friend that used to train at Leander and they used to do about 10k (4 warm-up and a 6k Sprint) before breakfast. I personally have tried it in my rowing career and never found any disadvantage.

As for the other part about not doing impact training I do think it would be unwise for OP to jump straight in and infact I believe what prop01 was trying to say was that to get up not eat and do some light exercise and have breakfast after would be worth trying as he has found it beneficial. Light exercise is relative, for someone that may be a few sprint intervals for another it may be having a short walk. It was infact me who suggested doing this to prop01 and I have noticed a.big difference. Just as a point prop used to be 16stone and overweight, since starting new training (gym work and running primarily) and cleaning up his diet he has lost considerable amounts of body fat while gaining some muscle mass. He started around the summer (sorry if my accuracy is off) and he is now around 15stone and still going.

OP: If you have found something that works then good, keep it up :). I would personally try to keep an eye and an ear out for other methods because as I'm sure you know its different for everyone so you might end up finding something that works even better :)
 
Djdom56 said:
'cleaning up his diet he has lost considerable amounts of body fat'

On the note of what DjDom56 was saying about diet, something which you might want to think about doing OP, is to focus on what you're drinking in the day and of what amount. As Djdom56 pointed out to me, i was drinking a lot of drinks which were unhealthy and also slowing my progress towards my goal/s. For example, during the day i would pretty much drink anything e.g. coke, strong squash, shakes etc, but not getting the water intake that i should intake on a daily basis day (3 litres standard, aprox). I, personally, found that by taking all 'bad' drinks out of the equation and just drinking water with meals, throughout the day and between supplements that i was taking, i lost quite a considerable amount of weight.

Looking back on it now, and also doing daily food diaries of everything that i ate and drank (which you have already shown), i saw a shocking build up of 'drink' calories per day which showed to be more than the food i was eating. Now i have cut that out, i have again seen positive results with a positive correlation with my gym work. Now, i am human lol! And i do have a few 'sins' (drinks that i like - starbucks) which i find hard to cut straight out of my diet. Therefore i allow one sin day, as it helps take the edge of my temptation. Now, i don't completely 'go off the rails' it's a small 'sin' something in which i can enjoy but doest ruin the hard work that i have done in the week. This day fo me is on a saturday (just through preference) as it is towards the end of the week and something for me to look forward to.

I just thought that it might help and that i would post this as for the majority of the time i didn't think about what i was drinking and now understand that it played a huge part in the reasons why i was keeping on the weight despite the visits to the gym.
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Thanks for your comments, indeed, back through the post you can see that it was highly likely that my liquid intake was one of my biggest problems (~7 litres of full-fat coke a week!)

I have cut out all sugar-heavy drinks and although I havent made the move to pure water (yes, we've been through the "man up" comments :P) I am drinking flavoured water (around 0.4g of sugar per 250ml) or very watered down fruit cordial.

As for excersise, as Badgi pointed out, I am a REALLY big guy (at the time I started the diet I was 25st) so I have avoided running as I fear for my knees and ankles! The excersise is still the one thing that I havent got fully implimented...tho considering my weightloss so far (gone from 155kg down to 140.9) I think that its not a problem yet. I'm sure once I start plateu-ing then I will really need to knuckledown.
 
Again, keep up the good work, Xmas will be the biggest test of your will. ;)

As for exercise, a gentle stroll will be as good an exercise as any, mile for mile, the calorie burn difference between walking and jogging/running is not a huge one.
 
You are averaging about 6lbs weight loss a week. Great achievement!

Keep the momentum going and you should hit your target weight in no time.

Don't worry if you have a bad week, you have already proved you can do it, so just learn from it and get back on track.:)
 
Mr.Pink said:
Keep the momentum going and you should hit your target weight in no time.
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I'm trying! I'm trying!

It is kinda a horrible thought to think that assuming I stay at the same level of weightloss that I'm achieving (which I almost certainly wont) it would still take till next August to get my weight down to where it should be. :eek:
 
Swampyseifer said:
I'm trying! I'm trying!

It is kinda a horrible thought to think that assuming I stay at the same level of weightloss that I'm achieving (which I almost certainly wont) it would still take till next August to get my weight down to where it should be. :eek:
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No, Its a fantastic thought to think that by this August you will be a healthy weight, you will have a much better social life, you will have better self esteem, you will have reduced your risks of contrating Type 2 diabetes, you will be able to wear clothes that you like good in. The list goes on,,;)
 
hey all

Just thought I'd ressurect this thread for a bit of an update. Things havent gone as great as hoped, although there is still some positivity.

I think its been about 9 months since I started this whole weightloss thing and at the moment I am down to around 136kgs (thats 21st8 for the older ones :P). Thats a total change of 23kgs, from my original of around 159. So whats that 12% or so...

its not amazing, when you think it works out to less than a pound a week!

Still, the most annoying thing for me was that I lost like 2 stone in the first few months and then have been yoyoing like mad with the last stone.

Home life has been a problem and I've survived two redudancy cuts at work...and I guess its stopped me from keeping the weightloss "on the boil" in the cooker of my life!

Oh and to answer the question about Xmas, I put on 2lbs Xmas week, and then pushed hard and lost 5lbs the week after! So Xmas was easypeasy!!

I deffo think its getting the effort together to exercise thats holding me back. I manage to get in a session of Zumba on the Xbox (its suprisingly tiring!) and a 30min jog on the Wii each nearly every week, sometimes its one or the other and some weeks its been neither. I've also starting going on long (6+mile) walks with a friend once a month as an extra.

Evidently I need more tho...
 
A progressive loss of 4lb a month is good, don't think otherwise.

Yes, you will need to start doing more. It is now easier for your body to do what you were doing before so you need to either drop the kcals a bit more or do more exercise :)

Good work :)
 
Thanks all...

I know I should be happy that I'm getting there (however slow it seems) but I guess I'm just wavering a bit. I know I could do more and try harder but I'm not and its making me question whether I'd just *like* to lose the weight and that I dont *want* to lose the weight. A momentary loss of self-belief I guess...
 
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