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take stairs instead of lift, park your car not that close to the shopping center entrance, can you walk instead of taking the car to go to your regular places? Everything like that can help you burning some fat. Today everything is designed to make people fat.
Andy
Blow the dust off your road bike! 🙂
Tim
P.S and the other thing that worked a treat for me was to give up dairy. Nought wrong with it, it just has masses of fat, and you can cope quite easily without butter, cheese, cream, eventually they just make you feel a bit ill, as will anything fried if you keep away from it for long enough.
I have blown the dust away, and fitted a smooth blue hoop to aid turbo...
I have to say the words of encouragement are really great, Thanks!
I have just started counting calories, wonders of an iphone, and scared myself with calorie intake on a 'I've been watching what I eat day!
I am thinking positively now, and will include calorie counting in my daily routine.
No more diet coke in the office, just water...
Fancy a slog around Farley in the mud Tim, some time this week?
Andy what calorie counter for iPhone are you using?
start seeing food as a means of getting carbs/proteins and fats into yer body and nothing else
Now that does sound dull!
It's called MyNetDiary, and its free. Based on american, which has to be a good thing, as the calorie count should be up on European foods. Works well I think.
Icon looks like a Granny Smith with a tape measure round the middle.
ChrisS, it is, but function over lusting for a luscious curry will keep my mind on the prize.
Also, hoping hunger pangs will only last so long as my intake slows down, and my body adjusts to the lower shovelling quotient (Think Garfield vs Lasagne).
If you can make this re-adjustment a fun thing, you may well have the recipe for a fortune!
I use [url= http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calorie-counter-diet-tracker-by/id341232718?mt=8 ]MFP on my iphone.[/url] It is also linked to a [url= http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/home ]website[/url] and has alot of UK foods on.
[i]45 minutes for a 10k is a bit disingenuous as there are quite fit people out there that just happen to be slow runners[/i]
I've read this a couple of times, and it still makes no sense to me. 45mins for a 10k isn't that fast, really. I'd expect an average club runner to be going for high 30's, I'm 42 and even I can do a sub 40.
I didn't mean that 45 mins should be a time for some-one who's never run anywhere to be getting straight away but it's not an unreasonable target by any means either, and even a biffer should be aiming for a sub hour to begin with, the point I was trying to make is that running is a very efficient way of losing weight reasonably quickly if you've only limited time, but you'll only reap the rewards through hard work, and if you're starting out on the road to loosing weight, getting fit, then you may as well get into the habit of working hard.
Agreed, but not scared if doing hard stuff, did SDW in one day(just) I just suffer from boredom and I like tasting food. If it tasted great and had no calories I would be a happy chap!
If it tasted great and had no calories I would be a happy chap!
but then we would have died out in the Jurassic 🙁
build some muscle mass to up your metabolic rate.
this works, but not for the stated reason - your body will only maintain excess muscle as long as the demand (extra exercise) is maintained, and that exercise uses up calories - as soon as you stop it is gradually catabolised
try drinking lots of water, especially before eating, this will hopefully fill you up a bit and stop you eating too much.
use smaller bowls and plates so you eat smaller portions.
move more, walk everywhere and when you are at home not doing much and its pissing down with rain get out the skipping rope and do some skipping to burn up those excess calories. 3 times a day for 15 mins should do something..
home made soups are easy to cook and lowish on calories and fairly filling.
my wife is a dietician and the first thing they do is get people to do a diet diary - being completely honest. Its then that the little snacks creep in and people realise (you'd be amazed at the number of people who are 20st and are on 3 meals of veg and tofu every day, until they actually write it all down). Next steps are very small ones - cut down things in moderation and increase exercise in moderation. Its amazing how many calories are in a slice of bread. Calorie count and then calorie count again. My weakness though is going for a run past the the curry house and going there on the way home from running club!
i'll start by saying that i am no dietary expert but i do know what is good and bad
i.e. lard, cream, processed sugar = bad
fruit, fresh veg, lean meat = good.
knowing this and watching how much of the bad you eat is the best you can do and tip the balance towards good away from bad. but generally follow the advice given above by ppl wiser than me.
what i can tell you which has worked for me is cycling first thing in the morning before you do anything else. try and eat as little as possible before going out - a banana and black coffee works wonders. following this i lost three stone at the end of last summer going from just under 18 st to appx 14.5 st. i, like you love my food esp. curry on a friday night with a few beers but i didn't need to stop these luxuries as the weight was coming off. i went out at least three mornings before work with a 3-4 trip on the weekend and it worked wonders. as soon as my clothes started to feel looser that was all the motivation i needed especially in the warm weather when i couldn't hide under baggy jackets and jumpers.