have a look at intermittent fasting. google it if you like. i wanted to lose my beer tum and love handles, but cant follow a regular diet as such, because basically i dont like healthy food 🙂 so i cant stick to it.
intermittent fasting may sound severe (and it did to me at first) but it suits me. theres different protocols to it, but the one that suited me was to have 1 or 2 X 24hr periods a week with no calories. then eat normal the rest of the week, beer, takeaways etc if thats what you usually have, altho you find that when you start seeing results, you tend to not want as much of those anyway.
24 hours???? no way i thought, but it was explained to me that once youve had your tea and gone to bed, when you wake in the morning youre halfway there. go without brekkie, few tummy rumbles, pretty hungry by dinner, but see it through til tea. then eat again. i was surprised at how easy it was for me. just plenty of water and a few black coffees to see me through. and it worked! lost about a stone and started seeing my abs again 🙂
i was a bit worried about ‘body going into starvation mode, breakfast most important meal of the day/ its unhealthy’ etc etc. but i looked into it and theres a lot of info out there which explains it can actually be healthier. starvation mode kicks in around 36hrs i think i read, so thats not a problem, and this way of eating can actually be healthier from an insulin point of view too.
anyways, like i said theres different protocols to it. some people do every other day but that was too much for me. once or twice a week suited me.
once i lost the weight, i decided i was prob a bit too skinny now, so im at the stage where i want to put some weight on again, but lean weight. so im following the leangains method of 16hr fast, 8 hr ‘feeding window’ every day, ‘plus cals’ when i lift weights, ‘minus cals’ when i do nowt.
might not be for everyone, but its working for me. dont think id want to eat any other way now really, so its obviously a sustainable way of eating.
cheers