Achievable weight loss

[IDB1]

as for swimming if you go to the pool there is all shapes and sizes. Look for an adults only night if it helps.

Makes no odds what other people look like tbh... it's just me that won't get this frame out in public.. not now, not never, no way

For me, I find eating once a day works.. if I eat breakfast, regardless of what it is, I am feeling very hungry by 11 and snacking all day..
If I skip brekkie, hardly feel hungry until sorting out evening meal for the masses.
Always been the same for as long as I can remember (so at least 24hours

)..

Weather looks like it's on the up (slightly) so we're going to do our best to get out twice a day with the dogs.. just a couple of miles each time for starters.. it works well (for the dogs), we have the 2 long dogs and 2 old grappers so we alternate the golden oldies and walk the tits off the long dogs..

 

[letmetalktomark]

Registering interest.

Need to drop some weight too.

Currently about 217lbs (according to the scales in the vets )

Could do with being more like 190lbs.

Less weights more cardio :x :x

Hate cardio :twisted: :twisted:

 

[IDB1]

You're in just about the same boat as me Mark . . beer gut comparison on the morrow

 

[kaiser]

The problem with skipping breakfast is your not breaking your fast after sleeping. Your metabolism will be as slow as a snail. Introducing a complex carb brekkie will kick start your metabolism and provide a sustained energy release through the day which should inhibit snacking. Its not an easy thing to do for non breakfasters, trying to eat a bowl of porridge or 3 weetabix but it does get easier. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen and dinner like a pauper!

 

[letmetalktomark]

You're in just about the same boat as me Mark . . beer gut comparison on the morrow

I wish I could blame the beer

 

[David B]

The problem with skipping breakfast is your not breaking your fast after sleeping. Your metabolism will be as slow as a snail. Introducing a complex carb brekkie will kick start your metabolism and provide a sustained energy release through the day which should inhibit snacking. Its not an easy thing to do for non breakfasters, trying to eat a bowl of porridge or 3 weetabix but it does get easier. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen and dinner like a pauper!

Good posting. Breakfast is a great "alarm clock" for your metabolism, would seriously recommend porridge in particular - an integral part of race day breakfasts for me.

David

 

[Neil]

I try to lurk around the 200lb mark but, recently, have chunked up to 215lb..

My diet's ok-ish.. the meals are reasonably healthy but I snack quite a lot and my sugar intake is high..
I rarely drink alcohol and never drink a glass of water (tea or coffee only, 2-3 sugars)

Currently walking about 10 miles per week (increasing week by week) at a fairly steady 4mph.. weather needs to be a little better before we get out on 2 wheels..

The immediate dietary plan is to cut right back on the snacks, reduce the sugars down to 1 per cup, replace a few of the cups of tea/coffee with water..

The first goal is back to the 200.. just wondering, without resorting to extremes (starvation, tapeworm ingestion, laxative abuse - that kinda thing), what would be a realistic time frame to lose 20lb??

2lb a week is always given as a sustainable, reasonable level of weight loss.

In general, there's normally challenges to that - firstly, your metabolism will fight you, the longer you try and lose weight for - so maybe factor in a week of maintenance calories maybe every 4-6 weeks. And secondly, for people who start diets, typically, initial weight loss can often be misleading and merely water loss.

 

[Emoco]

If you read more into the slowed down metabolism myth you'd find that skipping breakfast barely does anything to your metabolism. The whole idea of eating 6 small meals a day is unrealistic. I've experimented with it myself and found I lost more weight skipping breakfast even when I was at a stable weight with low-ish body fat. It's good for your body to fast (as it does through the night) and adding a few hours onto the fast is good for you and gives your digestive system a chance to rest.

You can go a very long time without eating before it slows down your metabolism and even then it won't change much.

To be honest, you could probably lose a lot of weight quickly just adjusting your calories in and leaving your calories out the same.

You're having carbs every night it seems, including lots of high GI food (that is if you're eating white rice and pasta) swap the spuds for sweet potatoes, and try skipping on white rice and pasta for a bit and replace it with green veg. Eat as much as you want within reason. Hi GI foods raise your blood sugar levels and when this happens your body stops burning fat.

Stop putting sugar in coffee/tea. They're just empty calories.

A lot of your hunger feelings probably aren't hunger, just your body used to your eating habits and also maybe because the food you are eating takes so long to digest that your body still thinks it's hungry.

If you do have breakfast, have eggs, omelette or scrambled etc. Maybe have them for other meals too.

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[Neil]

unsure on a time frame
but i think you should try lots of smaller meals rather than a couple larger ones, speed up your metabolism

Don't mean to burst your bubble - but that's not sustained by science - and it has been subject to study.

Studies have shown there's no metabolic advantage to more smaller meals, compared with larger, fewer meals.

There may be other advantages for some - in terms of satiety, but nothing notable, metabolically.

And some people would struggle with it on satiety grounds - as many seemingly preferring smaller, more frequent meals, there are just as many who find they never feel fulfilled.

 

[IDB1]

I know the theories behind eating regimes and the like but I also know that nutrition and conditioning varies from person to person.. and, subsequently, what works for me..

It's been a long time (3months+) since I skipped breakfast, all over winter I had porridge for brekkie.. still felt famished by mid-morning..
Skipping the most important meal of the day has never left me short of energy throughout the day..

As an example.. year before last I was eating once a day (evening meal) with the very occasional daytime sandwich, cereal bar or slice of toast..
At that time I was also walking 50+ miles a week, not ambling.. brisk, average 4mph, 8-12miles at a time, 5-6 days a week...

Now I'm not daft enough to believe that having just 1 meal a day with virtually zero snacking and increasing exercise is ideal but, from experience, I know that having a hearty breakfast makes things harder (for me)..