Losing around 6kg in 3 weeks, feasible? Tips & tricks invited :-)

Wife is away till the 26th of October, I currently weigh in at 96kg (my ideal weight is around 85kg)… thought I might set myself a challenge and try to drop a few kg’s whilst she’s away, suprise her when she gets back…

Obviously will need to up my exercise considerably, thinking an hour in the gym each morning and evening (so 2hrs a day) plus a long ride or two a week on my days off, should do the trick for boosting calories out… then I just need to be strict on what goes in!

Any tips and advice chaps? What foods will help hold off the hunger pangs etc?

cheers 🙂

Atkins’ll do it.

picolax

Amputate something?

(more seriously – good luck dude)

Psychle are you this forum’s biggest daydreamer?

eat and drink a lot less. It sounds really obviuous.

Mumps? Lost a stone and a half in five days and only gained half a stone since then!!

A friend is going to go to British Military Fitness and that’s meant to be good. Mrs has done something similar with a special diet.

i could tell you but i don’t believe you’d do it

set me the challenge then guv… I shall be your guinea pig if you wish… won’t have much else to do for the next 3 weeks except exercise and waste time on here, so may as well try the exercise bit first! Plus I have total control over my diet as well, so really could structure the next 3 weeks pretty regimentally if I had a plan…

EDIT: of course, if it involves amputation or dysentery, then that might not be a goer… 😆

Wow idave has a magic solution.

It’s like my bank balance, more goes out than goes in.

Furious masturbation. Passes the time when the missus is away, enabled by free access to the web, burns off calories through vigorous exercise, takes your mind off food.

true dat

Its too much to be sensible. 1-2 lb a week is recommended – the faster you lose it the easier it is to regain and crash dieting puts your body into famine mode

The only answer to losing weight is eat less and move more

It’s the new iCharlieMungus exercise regime

I reckon I’ll stay away from the weights entirely (my muscle mass is fine, ’tis the layer of blubber on top that’s the problem!), focus purely on cardio/fat burning zone work on machines (bike mainly) for 2 x 1hr sessions each day and set up a 2000 calorie meal plan (any suggestions? I’m guessing no starches, low fat, high protein, fresh veggies, lots of water), hows this all sounding?

Furious masturbation. Passes the time when the missus is away, enabled by free access to the web, burns off calories through vigorous exercise, takes your mind off food.

I shall incorporate this into my plan…

6kg in 3 weeks

That’s Numberwang

Psychle please tell us you are joking?

not really… 6kg was just a number I plucked, but the general aim would be to lose a noticeable amount of weight in 3 weeks… no real idea what’s feasible/achievable tbh, hence why I’m posting to the good folk of STW 😆

thinking an hour in the gym each morning and evening

Running is the most efficient use of energy, and even then you’re only burning about 100Kcal a mile. (actually for you it’s a bit more, but not much) Going to Gym ain’t gonna do squat. Sorry

Eat less. one meal a day and nothing else and shit loads of water, and get the running miles in.

It was the numbers I was referring to

how many calories would an hour on a stationary bike burn, say at around a 130bpm heart rate?

Running is the most efficient use of energy, and even then you’re only burning about 100Kcal a mile. (actually for you it’s a bit more, but not much) Going to Gym ain’t gonna do squat. Sorry

Will do a bit of running, but a bit too heavy at the moment, it’ll hurt my knees unfortunately…

prob around 500

’bout 550-600 maybe, bit more if your larger…

edit must be faster with the calculator… 😀

OK then… so what sort of basal metabolic rate would I have… stocky, fairly muscular chap, but with a thick coating of blubber… 172cm tall, currently 96kg (so obese according to a BMI chart!)… would probably say I’m no more than 10% fit compared to what I was a few years back, though fitness comes back to me quite quickly when I get back into some sort of training…

How do you work out your minimum required calorie intake?

Just don’t eat and drink loads and ride a bike a lot. lots. Typing stuff on the internet won’t make you less fat you know?

172cm tall ??

never seen those used together before

2000 kcals for you sonny jim

May I suggest a vial of dysentery.

Just don’t eat and drink loads and ride a bike a lot. lots. Typing stuff on the internet won’t make you less fat you know?

indeed it won’t… I should be out walking/jogging right now 😆

anyhoo… off to bed now, feel free to deride me in my absence… nighty night chaps 🙂

It’s not rocket science psychle, don’t over complicate it. Just have, say half of what you eat now, and get out and do as much running and cycling as you can. (although it’s the lack of food that’ll do the most work).

No white carbs, don’t drink calories. no dairy, no sugar. Loads of veg.

There you go

And pies, pies are really good for you. low calorie health food. Fill up on them, they make you feel full without adding any calories

And pies, pies are really good for you. low calorie health food. Fill up on them, they make you feel full without adding any calories

So masturbate furiously and eat lots of pies… check… shall let you know how I do in 3 weeks time 😆

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Hi,
Told this story on the forum before here goes again.

Last October weight 143.5kg- weight on the 25th of June pre my Kilimanjaro trek 100kg dead.

Lost 15lbs in week one , extreme diet and gym/bike five times a week and 550calories per day.No fat and no carbs.

Anything is possible so do not hold back .i lost ten yaers of my life to being hugely overweight. Off to climb Aconcagua in Feb 2011.

Gave myself a new lease of life.

PS took two weeks off at Xmas and a week off in Feb to go to Rome.

Good luck fella.

I did this

http://www.flattyresmtbroutes.com/ABigRideForLittleLives.html

Didn’t loose a single gramme during the ride, but in the two weeks after 5kg dropped off with little only a little exercise didn’t do anything the week after and only a couple of rides in the second week as I was taking it easy and reducing my eating back down to pre Big Ride levels.

Running or swimming here. **** knows it hurts, but it does the trick.

Tip: Run. When it starts to hurt, run some more. Then swim front crawl for a mile at a time.

I’ve lost lbs doing it this way and bizarrely my cycling legs have gotten better.

if your wife’s away, you’ll be reduced to eating pizza in your pants in front of the tv, internet porn and drinking way too much beer. Women keep us alive.

Eat more porridge and do more exercise.

andrew’s liver salts.