Diet time

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Topic says it all, I'm currently 10 or so kilos overweight and have decided its time for this excess bagage to go. I've cut out all alchohol, almost all take-away food and a lot of meat from my diet. My breakfast now consists of freshly prepared fruit and vegtable juice and dinner consists primarily of fresh fruit and vegtables. So far so good, I've been going for five days now and I've already shed 2 kilos, plus my overall energy levels have increased, wish me luck. :-) :-) :-)

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@fluffy & iama

:lol: :crazy: :roflmao: :crazy: :lol:

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@whabang & restore2003

Thanks guys :-) :-) :-) , I was trying to figure out how I can incorporate excercise into my daily routine and its a bit tricky, I'd love to walk to and from work, but I work more than 30kms from home. And when I do get home, I'm too tired to even stand up, let alone go for a jog or something.

As for the "Times are changing Wayne" thread, I have no idea wtf is going on there, nor do I want to. Things really did change during my absence.

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KennyR wrote:
Remember that diets aren't just short term plans. You'll have to keep them up for a good while - even after you've reached your ideal weight - otherwise the weight will just pile back on.

Also exercise has to be an integral part of any diet, or you might find yourself putting weight on, rather than losing it. Do sit-ups and press-ups before you go to bed (30 should do, but you won't be able to do that many at first!). A half-hour daily power walk is also a great workout.

Good luck! It sounds so easy, doesn't it? ;-)

Thanks :-) :-) :-)...As for keeping up the diet, thats why I'm back where I am now, so far I've tried this twice, each time I've knocked the kilos off, but then I get lazy and stack them back on, I'm going to keep it up this time.

I tried doing sit-ups...err a sit up just then, wasn't a pretty site, funny though. Push-ups I'm ok with, my upper body still has a fair bit of strength, too bad I can't say the same for my lower body, my six pack has become a keg.

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uncharted wrote:
Good luck adz

I'm itching to start losing some weight, I'm about 2 stone overwieght at the moment.  My diet is great, well balanced, no artifical crap, but I've been unable to excerise for quite some time(and I used to be a very active person)

I'm just waiting for the doctor to give me the all-clear and then I'll be down the pool like a flash, and those 20 mile bike rides will be back on the agenda as will footie and badminton again

*sigh* and to think, some people *Choose* not to exercise.

@Blobrana

Re: you avatar - Did you have a traumatic childhood? ;-)

Thanks...hope all goes well for you too :-) :-) :-) I'd really love to exercise, its just so hard with my work schedule, so I'll probably go with Kenny's theory. I may also take up swimming on a Saturday morning. Although, in the past I've never had to exercise to loose weight, my problem is that I eat a lot of junk and sit on my backside at work all day, so the kilos tend to pile on.

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smithy wrote:

adz, don't take meat and so called 'junk-food' out of your diet! That's what life is all about!

Get rid of the junk food, but not the meat.  Like someone else said, it's reducing calories (those that come from carbs) that's important for losing weight, not reducing fat (but if you have a high-fat diet, you should cut down on that too).

Bread, rice and pasta are absolutely sky-high with carbohydrates, so it's more important to cut down on these than it is on steak.

Fruit and vegtebles are relatively low in carbohydrates (and therefore calories), and because they are high in vitamins and minerals, these are good things to eat.

The diet I am on at the moment has worked in the past without exercise, I just got a tad bit slack and started eating junk again, hence the extra bagage, if I don't do something now, I'll put even more weight on, and I don't want that. Some peoples metabolisms are geared towards a primarily carnivorous diet, some are geared towards a primarily herbivorous diet and others fit somewhere in the middle. Apparently, I'm more herbivorous.

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iamaboringperson wrote:


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........


:-P

Bastard!!! ;-)

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FluffyMcDeath wrote:
@adz

You can always try what Sorious Samura did.

http://www.cbc.ca/national/news/ethiopia/sorious.html

Thats a horrible story, but sadly thats the reality of it. We don't realise how lucky we are.

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One of my favourite no no's :-D :pint:

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@red

Thanks :-) :-) :-) 57 pounds, thats impressive :-o I actually looked at the low carb diet and I know a few people who are on it, but this time round I'm simply going by whats worked for me in the past, the only reason I don't keep the weight off is because I lack the discipline to eat in moderation. At no time do I feel hungry, if anything I feel great (except for the damn cold my kids brought home from school), I have heaps of energy, and the kilos are literally melting off. Plus, with the low carb diet, I have to boot pasta out the door, and coming from an Italian background, that ain't gonna happen. I'm kinda sticking to a vegetarians diet, but with a little meat thrown in.