Weight loss ideas kthx

[Nickzilla]

I've lost roughly a stone in the last year or so. May as well share my "diet" with you. It's not rocket science.

You eat 3 or 4 meals a day. Breakfast (You eat this whenever you get up), lunch (1pm, or whenever you're allowed lunch at work), dinner (6-8pm) and a snack. (after dinner for me but any time.)

You spend at least 45 minutes a day exercising, but preferably an hour and a half. I did cycling for most of it, but extended this to badminton, swimming and using the gym. If you do something more intensive than cycling like running, you can cut the time in half. I used to exercise after lunch and after dinner, but it really doesn't matter when, as long as you get the time in.

For breakfast you eat cereal with semi-skimmed or skimmed milk. No sugar. You can also eat a low-fat yoghurt if you like.

Lunch is a sandwich with one filling. You don't put things like ketchup, salad cream or mayo on it. Use spread instead of fatty butter.

You can eat what you like for dinner, but obviously things like salad, skinless chicken and fish are best. (no doritoes, surprisingly)

Your snack is either a low fat yoghurt or a piece of fruit.

You can drink fruit juice, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, tea/coffee (no sugar) and water.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONSUME chocolate, crisps, sugar, fizzy pop (or flat pop if you like looking for loopholes), cake, ice cream or cream!

Using this reasonably relaxed scheme you can lose a pound a week. I've heard of people losing more weight than that on different schemes, but this scheme is more sustainable, IMO.

The problem with me is that I like lazing around the house playing games and eating takeaways. Thankfully I enjoy being active too. If I didn't, I'd be an absolute blob.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Anyways have any of you got any ideas on how to lose about 2 stone to get down to my 9 stone frame again before university? I'm open to anything at the moment apart from the gym cos I'm skint.

Fastest/cheapest/best options:

Get a bike, start riding.
Go swimming a lot.
Star running.

Motivations the hardest part, at college I would swim 5000m, run a couple of miles and ride my bike off road for several (never kept track) miles a week. The alternative was getting boozed or drugged or doing nothing, none of which appealed. It only cost me around £10 a week and made me super fit (I miss being super fit). By way of reference when doing that I weighed around 65KG and stood 6feet 4, I ate like a pig and ate all the things I shouldn't have, long duration cardio keeps weight away like nothing else.

I'd recomend cycling or swimming, they aren't painful in the same way running can be and neither will knacker your knees and feet. Abusing your student card will make things cheaper and you can always join a Uni club when you get there to keep yourself going long term. It's way easier to keep motivated with like minded cohorts.

Doing one or both for a couple of hours two or three times a week will drop weight very quickly.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

All I'll say is all the pills, plans, diets, gadgets etc...

IF any of them actually worked, consistently... for a reasonable number of people, I sense it would have been bought up by a big company, proven scientifically and then forced on us thru multimillion dollar advertising.

Also remember that a huge number of people who start a gym membership don't go back after the first month or so, so if you're going to try that option, find one that's not going to lock you in to a long contract or a huge start up fee. If they're confident in their service, they'll be happy to take a monthly fee.

For most people a good start is either just walking to work/school instead of taking the bus or train, or just getting off a stop or two earlier. The cardio advice is good, gentle exercise makes everything else easier.

20-30 minutes walking is a great way to start out without killing yourself with over exertion early on.

Also, you'll get cravings for the bad stuff, don't deny yourself everything, just limit yourself to occasional treats in small doses, blocking out everything just ends in 3am ice cream binges.

Note all this advice is from a big fat guy, but I know exactly what I'm doing wrong

 

[Da Joz]

It helps if you dont eat anything after a certain time. I never eat anything after 9 pm and combining it with regular excercise iy works quite well.

 

[Player 2]

Laxatives. Lots of laxatives.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Take up a religion that demands fasting.

 

[El Poncho]

Run forest run! buy a punch bag? or a running machine something along those lines better than wii fit tbh.

 

[Danpascooch]

Figuring out how to lose weight is unbelievably easy, but actually DOING it, can be next to impossible, good luck

BTW, eat three meals, skipping a meal doesn't do you any favors, because your body goes into a conservative mode and your metabolism slows, and then you eat more at the next meal

also, try to build a little muscle mass, as this will raise your resting metabolic rate and help you lose weight with no additional effort

and for the people who say its easy, let me say:
1.) Maybe for you, but different people have different metabolisms, what is easy for you might be very very hard for others
2.) Stop being assholes

 

[quiet_samurai]

Read the bible and follow the Jesus diet.

It worked for him.

LOL!!

Run.... seriously, nothing burn calories like totally exhausting yourself with a good run. You feel good afterwards too.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

Take a word of advice from me
You better stay away from those shops at dinner time
Cause all you're gonna find down there
Are school kids eating their chicken and their chips!

Are you stupid?
Look at you, you're fat already
You should drop all the lard crap
And get yourself some tasty SALAD!!!

Caesar preferably.

Yes I know I've made this exact same post on another thread.

 

[Aur0ra145]

I used to wrestle Freestyle and Grecco-Roman (The Olympic Styles.) There were times when I had to loose upwards of 10 pounds in less than 24 hours. Here's how I did it.

Cut your calorie intake.
Eat better complex carbohydrates.
Don't drink beer or sodas.
Do Cardio workouts (20 minutes hard cardio, break for 5; repeat 3 times.)
Run for longer endurance (distances of 3+ miles daily.)
Dry sauna.
Wear 2 layers of sweats with a PVC jacket and pants on top and jump rope till you can't stand.
HARDCORE MODE: Wear sweats in the dry sauna and jump rope till you can't stand. Repeat hourly.

Also something to think about, muscle can burn calories more quickly, so by having more muscle mass you can eat more and maintain the same weight.

 

[Noamuth]

Lots of walking/running for starters. Lots of sex can work too (to an extent o.o).

Go for a high-fiber diet, drink plenty of water and eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. Don't stop eating meat, just go for leaner cuts and cook in less oil/fat. I wouldn't dare force anyone to stop eating red meat.

*shudder*

And most importantly.. Everything in moderation. That includes healthy stuff. You can still have chocolate and icecream and all that good stuff even so often, still can go out for dinner. Things don't have to be bland and boring!

 

[USSR]

Slightly off topic, but whats up with people adding "kthx" to their post, I mean, what does it even mean?

Ok, Thanks

..I hope you weren't serious =p

 

[Syntax Error]

Eat less or exercise more, combine for best results. Weight loss is quite simply the balancing of making your calorie use to be greater then your calorie intake, which in turn causes your body to use up its fat stores.

Well, basically this in a nutshell.

If you really want to lose weight, lessen your food intake but you could eat more frequently (remember, small portions only). Skip on the midnight snacks, as much as possible, your dinner would be the last thing that enters your digestive system at night. As for the exercise, just walking around can do wonders for you. If you don't have the time, do jumping jacks or jump ropes.

 

[Sinator23]

Straight up, it's boils down to more output than input but i guess it's more complex than that. The single best exercise is Jogging, done at a medium pace no need for sprints. You want to do this around 5 times a week for no less than 20 mins and getting up to 40 mins is prefferable.If you aren't quite up to jogging do a walk at a fast pace, casual walking will only get you so far as you need to push your body's boundaries for it to postively adapt. People have mentioned here about weights but from my experience it's not really a girl thing but thats ok because running increases lean muscle mass anyway.


Food should include a lot of fruits and/or vegetables, you can still eat other foods you like, you just want to have a large percentage of your diet contain fruits/vege, between 50 and 80%. Cut out grains such as bread.Cut sugar completely ( this is the most important step of any diet),not only does it cause weight gain it just completely saps the body of minerals as the body attempts to break the sugar down.(side note-white flour is as crap as sugar, processed and refined as hell).
Just a heads up if you have been eating poorly, changing to a diet of mostly fruit and vege WILL cause you to feel bad for a bit anywhere from 1 or 2 days to a week or so. This is just your body trying to cleanse itself. You may not even experience this it varys from person to person.

BTW this is tried and tested by myself after a lot of research. Diet and fitness happen to be a hobby of sorts of mine.

 

[rabidmidget]

decomposition is a great way to quickly lose weight, and you don't even have to move a muscle ever again

 

[bkd69]

What everybody said about burning more calories than you eat? Ayup.

What that boils down to is

a) knowing how many calories you're taking in
and
b) knowing how many calories you're burning

Starting with a, above, you need to start reading your labels, and for things that don't have labels, like fresh produce, there're plenty of websites that offer reasonable guesstimates. It also means measuring your portions. Break out those measuring cups and spoons, and that kitchen scale. Also, use a site like fitday.com to record your daily intake and exercise.

How many calories? 10 cal*1 lb is a good rule of thumb (or, to translate that to English: 140kcal * 1 stone). By contrast, professional athletes are in the 3,000-4,000 calories range, while the extreme calorie restricted dieters are in the 600-800 calorie range.

Now, what to eat? Mostly fruits and vegetables, meat not so much. For simple weight loss, basic calorie counting is sufficient. You won't need to do anything more involved unless you're starting to optimize for something like a marathon or bodybuilding. Oh, and foods labeled as 'low fat'? Bullshit. Because the fat content is reduced, manufacturers compensate for the subsequent loss of flavor by upping the salt and/or sugar content, which means they're often higher in calories than the regular version. Just keep track of the calories counts anfd the portion sizes, and the fats will take care of themselves.

Which leads us to: don't waste your calories. If you want pizza, please, for the love of all that is good and holy, DO NOT GIVE YOUR MONEY TO DOMINO'S! Instead, either make it yourself (and by that I mean start with flour, water, and yeast, and not a premade crust), or go out to a place that has tablecloths. A cupcake, brownie, or other pastry? Go to Le Patisserie Reynard on the high street, and sit down with a nice cup of coffee and enjoy. Sure it will be more expensive than something wrapped in cellophane on the shelf in the corner shop, but it will be infinitely better, the extra expense will keep it self limiting, and the calorie count will be nearly the same, more or less.

The other side of the equation is knowing how many calories you're burning. Again, sites like fitday, and others will give you plenty of estimates of time vs. activity. Pedometers are a dirt cheap way to keep score, and fancier pedometers that keep track of distance and estimate calories for you aren't much more expensive than dirt. Further up the price ladder are heart rate monitors, either strapless, or with an rf driven chest strap that has the added advantage of being able to interface with cardio equipment at the gym, such as treadmills and ellipticals. If you have an iPod, the Nike Sport is a footpod accelerometer that measures and records your footsteps, and there's now a pedometer cart for the DS.

As for the Wii Fit, it's awesome. Not for me, that is, but for my wife. See, I generally can't be arsed to bother with home fitness stuff, for the most part, while my wife has a reasonable selection of home workout videos. I, otoh, really take to the change of context that being at the gym entails, and think nothing of doing a couple hours of jogging on the treadmill, while my wife would rather go there, do her cardio, or cardio+weights, and get home. But I do like it too, I'm just not as devoted to it as it wants me to be.

In short, if you're already inclined to do home workouts, then it's a great addition, and even if you're not, it is a step up from home videos. It's also not the end all of fitness titles. DDR's workout mode is pretty good, though it lacks the variety of Wii Fit, and the other fitness titles, such as EA's Get Active, aren't exclusively reliant on the balance board. You already have Wii Sports, so spend some quality time with the boxing game. And if you have a PS2, try hunting down a a copy of Kinetic. It has some flaws, but if you've got a space for it to work, it does offer some very nice workouts.

 

[razer17]

Do lots of repetitions of a light exercise, or do something like running, even if it's for fifteen minutes. It'll make a lot of difference if you do it every day, even if it's just light. You'd be surprised.

Most women? By which im sure you mean a small minority <.<
Also for getting rid of fat, you need to excercise for 45minus at a time, atleast. The body doesnt start burning fat cells till glucose reserves have been used, and this usually takes around 30 mintues, so to burn fat you need to excercise more than that, at a time.
30 mins excercise is fine for staying in shape, not getting in shape.