I Am Going On A Diet - DON'T YOU TRY AND STOP ME!

[CU_AMiGA]

Hello,

Well, with all my drink binging and eating, i think i have put on a tiny bit of weight on. (I think i am being punished for the time when i was taunting Wain and the punkster over me being on the right side of 20! :-() Anyhow, i plan on eating rabbit food (salad) from now on for tea, and i also have a healthy cereal (shreddies). I have totally cut out on McDonalds, BK, kebabs, etc. I will also cut down on drink, although i don't drink much anyway (unlike Sumner7). Any of you people on these boards got any other suggestions?

Best Regards,

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Take it that radical, and you won't be able to keep it up just for one day.
What you need is a steady eating pattern. And you have to eat very versatile.

[PMC]

Oh jeez...  The post holiday training regieme starts in earnest here too.

I must have stacked on at least 10lbs since before xmas and I need to get myself trim again.  I spent most of the past month coughing, sneezing and fighting off a nasty infection that resulted in an enlarged lymph nodes.

I found I was struggling at the gym for fitness and still haven't quite got over it yet.  I went biking several times over the holidays and was left floundering way behind everyone else.

Still, on the bright side I demolished a bottle of scotch, a couple of crates of beer, made a dent in a bottle of 10 year old Polish vodka (it was a choice between drinking it or cleaning my bike with it) and a substantial amount of food.  

So now my mission is to get back to my normal 165lb ideal weight, (75kg) and build up my fitness once again.  The fridge is full of stir fry, rabbit food and low fat yoghurts and alcohol is banished from my cupboard until I get back in shape.

Only problem is, at three different people have phoned to suggest that we "all go out for a few drinks" in the next couple of weeks...

[AccyD]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Any of you people on these boards got any other suggestions?

Best Regards,

Eat what you want - just increase the volume of exercise that you do to more than cover tha calories that you are taking in!!

[PMC]

IIRC it works out that 3,500 calories are stored in a pound of fat.  

3,500 may not sound a lot when the recommended daily intake of an adult male is 2000 calories, but believe me it takes an age to get rid of.  

Ideally you want to burn more calories than you take in.  Say if you set yourself a moderate target of burning 250 - 350 calories a day in addition to your 2000 then in a fortnight you'll have burned off a pound of flab.

Problem is that your body has other ideas.  It likes hanging on to fat.  After all, in the wild fat is used to store energy for when it's needed so your body won't tap into the fat reserves unless it needs them - think about it as like an overdraft account and you get the idea.

To burn 250 - 250 calories a day, you're looking at 25 / 30 minutes running/cycling/swimming.  

[odin]

All in all this dieting thing works only momentarily, what you need to do is change your life habits. Unless you start doing regular excercise and eat less for the rest of your life a weightloss is only going to be temporary.

(Says the guy who gained 5 kg over the last few months.......).

[smithy]

I've not been doing well, fitness-wise, over the past few months.  While I'm not overweight, I've noticed my body is a bit looser and softer than it used to be, so tomorrow I'm going to join the gym again and hopefully go 2 or 3 times a week.  I think it helps to have an aim - and mine is to look good on beach for my next holiday to Australia in 11 months time :-)

[sumner7]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
I will also cut down on drink, although i don't drink much anyway (unlike Sumner7).

Har Har! If only the people on this site could have seen the state you were in on Friday night..... :lol:

[CU_AMiGA]

sumner7 wrote:

CU_AMiGA wrote:
I will also cut down on drink, although i don't drink much anyway (unlike Sumner7).

Har Har! If only the people on this site could have seen the state you were in on Friday night..... :lol:

Yes. You had your moments as well Sumner7 (namely that time when you were singing Eamon and the Streets). Your drinking problem is worse than mine, i can stop, but when Jono done that non drinking bet with you, you barely lasted a week! :-)

[CU_AMiGA]

Oh yeah thanks for the advice as well lads. :-)

[PMC]

Well good luck CU_Amiga.  It takes some willpower but eventually you learn to love exercise and being in shape...

This time eight years ago I quit smoking, doner kebabs and other unhealthy vices in order to get more out of exercise.  If I don't work out for a few days I get really grumpy and I need to do get a fix somehow.  Believe me, I always used to be the person LEAST likely to become a fitness freak, during my student days I was surviving on beer, chilli sauce, chips and cigarettes.

[sumner7]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Yes. You had your moments as well Sumner7 (namely that time when you were singing Eamon and the Streets). Your drinking problem is worse than mine, i can stop, but when Jono done that non drinking bet with you, you barely lasted a week! :-)

Oh CU_AMiGA! That's old news!!!

I had to help you back on friday because you were so wrecked.

[CU_AMiGA]

sumner7 wrote:

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Yes. You had your moments as well Sumner7 (namely that time when you were singing Eamon and the Streets). Your drinking problem is worse than mine, i can stop, but when Jono done that non drinking bet with you, you barely lasted a week! :-)

Oh CU_AMiGA! That's old news!!!

I had to help you back on friday because you were so wrecked.

Sumner7, i wasn't THAT bad. I was staggering, but i didn't need you to hold my hand. lol

@PMC

Well i don't smoke, so that is in my favour.

Regards,

[sumner7]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Sumner7, i wasn't THAT bad.

Yes you were. You were absolutely slaughtered. :lol:

[CU_AMiGA]

sumner7 wrote:

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Sumner7, i wasn't THAT bad.

Yes you were. You were absolutely slaughtered. :lol:

No i wasn't. The "wooo" was an act Sumner7. I knew what i was doing. I admit, i was sick, and was as steady as normal, but i wasn't that BAD. And that avatar, YOU were holding the plate, not me ;-)