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Diet/healthy lifestyle plan, Help!!!
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GoneWithTheWindows
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As are all of the USN products except Monohydrate Creatine.
great thank you , so basically heading towards banting again.
To be on a honest level I'm currently using Beesting (not sure if you are familiar with it) . Will up my game when it comes to training but This too is also very intimidating when you do home training, not at a gym AND lets not forget training when you are FAT isn't the easiest thing LOL...
konfab
Honorary Master
I have tried most diets , they more like quick fixes and I end up picking up the weight again (with some extra)
I am completely motivated and if I have my head fixed on it , I know I can achieve my goal!! I just need some guidance and a little help with which foods I should be eating to achieve my goal!
Firstly, welcome
Secondly go to this thread and start posting every weigh in. It is very good motivation
MyBB weight loss thread
Thirdly:
I have lost about 40kg from simple portion control plus a slight change in diet dictated by kilojoules. The way to turn a diet into something more permanent and make it routine is to condition your mind and body on the right amount of food you should be eating. The way I reached this stage was by sticking to a kilojoule controlled diet for about 2 years. To help me, I used an app called MyFitnesspal. You enter in your weight, height and age, and the amount you want to lose per week. It will calculate you a daily amount of kilojoules you can eat every day.
You then need to log all your meals, as accurately as possible. The best way I found was to get a digital scale and do everything by weight. The app has a massive database of food and you can use the barcodes of most stuff to pull their dietary info.
If you diet like this, you will gradually adapt to more healthier food, but there is literally nothing stopping you from budgeting for a small treat. This is why this way of dieting worked well for me as I could treat myself to two blocks of chocolate every day when I started.
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Kosmik
Honorary Master
How do you mean not eating enough calories? If you aren't eating enough you should be losing weight?
To lose about 1kg a week, you need to eat a KJ deficit of around 35 000kJ (8400cal) a week, which is quite a lot.
Also, I've read a study found that it takes your body a year to "accept" your new, lower weight as normal. So if you think you can lose the weight, and then just eat what you feel like eating again in a couple of months, you're going to gain the weight again.
Also, NEVER eat back what you burn through exercise. For example if you have a target of 8000KJ, now you spend an hour on a treadmill and burn 500KJ. Do NOT think you can have that 500KJ smoothie that will put you on 8500KJ for the day, because you can't.
Everyone is different. Banting works for some, but as with anything, only if you strictly follow the rules. I personally like the whole MFP counting calories thing. You quickly learn where you get lots of calories for minimal fullness/enjoyment. For example, for me burgers are fine and chips are the devil. I'd also rather skip that slice of white bread and have some ice cream.
On a typical day :
Breakfast : 2 Eggs ( either boiled or scrambled) OR 1 weetbix OR I have a shake (which I buy from curves gym)
Lunch: ( I really struggle with lunch as I just never know what to eat and then eat whatever) Cup of soup, brown bread sandwich or just go to having a shake again.
Dinner: Chicken , fish and veg OR stirfry , salads and then some nights I will eat with my husband but have much smaller portions than I use to ..
konfab
Honorary Master
Seems to be a deleted post.
The trick is to find food that you like and work for you. Everyone has different tastes, budgets, time requirements and so on. So what may work for me might not work for you.
Myself who is stingy when it comes to money, hates washing up and doesn't have the time to cook gourmet meals every evening, these are the types of meals that worked:
Key:
B-> breakfast
L- > lunch
S -> supper
Scrambled eggs on brown bread (no butter)--B,L,S
Baked beans on brown bread-- B,L,S
Soya mince and wholewheat pasta --L,S
Steamed Chicken and gem squash -- S
Low fat chicken schnitzels and brown rice --S
Bean and Lentil Curry -- S
Ham, Cheese and Mayo Brown bread Sandwich -- L
Peanut Butter Brown bread Sandwich --L
Egg mayo sandwich --L
Pronutro and skim milk --B,L,S
Instant Oats -- B
Fish Fingers and chips -- S
McDonalds --L,S
As you can see, I don't really have a fixed recommendation, what matters is that you budget your kilojoules so you can reward yourself. Either with a bigger meal, or with a treat.
The other thing that also helps is to divide each meal into two portions. You have your first portion as per usual when you are hungry. Then you have your second portion 10-20 minutes later to counter the after meal hungriness that usually occurs when starting to downsize your portions.
Mon93, wanting to be healthy and losing weight go hand in hand, but to keep the weight off, you will need to keep the healthy diet/lifestyle. It's a complete mindset change. You also won't get that mindset overnight. You will have to do it in stages.
Some tips:
I dropped 20kgs in 5 months but I was starving myself (around 1000 calories a day) and pushing myself through swimming and running sessions. The weight came back in 18 months. I believe that type of weight loss is dangerous and not healthy. I also started to develop a very bad relationship with food. I felt guilt wracked when I would go crazy on a pizza or chocolate. I was eating so little that I could only eat half a burger at a time. My stomach must have shrank to a massive degree. Also, after losing all the weight, I didn't feel any happier. Weight loss does not make you happier about yourself. If you improve your health and fitness, your body image will steadily improve as well, and you should be more happy as a result.
Instead, I try maintain a healthy diet, remain functionally fit and juts be more active all around (for instance I would do the neon fun run instead of going to a movie, or going to the park instead of going to friends and drinking wine). The weight is slowly falling off. In the longer term, it is probably a better solution. You are younger, so maybe you can achieve that weight loss without putting it back on. Each person is very different.
Some tips:
- Either skip the cardio or supplement it with some kind of resistance / weight training. HIIT is pretty good or something that has functional fitness as a goal. If you want a healthy lifestyle, this type of training is the best imo. Improves strength and fitness. Look at body rock.tv. They have a good beginners 30 day programme that you can follow daily. This will have to become a habit. Try doing it for 3 days, then 3 weeks, then 3 months. After that barrier, your training sessions are habit, and you will become unhappy when missing sessions.
- Carbs are not bad. Dropping refined and processed sugars/foods is a great place to start. But fruit and all the "starchy" veggies still have a place. If you love breads and pasta like I do, I cannot drop them completely. I just eat a lot less of those high calorie foods and let myself have a guilt free meal now and then.
- Follow the 80/20 rule: stop eating when you are 80% full.
- Drop alcohol completely if you can. They are empty calories. Some I notice have a problem with this I have noticed. So hope it's not an issue.
I dropped 20kgs in 5 months but I was starving myself (around 1000 calories a day) and pushing myself through swimming and running sessions. The weight came back in 18 months. I believe that type of weight loss is dangerous and not healthy. I also started to develop a very bad relationship with food. I felt guilt wracked when I would go crazy on a pizza or chocolate. I was eating so little that I could only eat half a burger at a time. My stomach must have shrank to a massive degree. Also, after losing all the weight, I didn't feel any happier. Weight loss does not make you happier about yourself. If you improve your health and fitness, your body image will steadily improve as well, and you should be more happy as a result.
Instead, I try maintain a healthy diet, remain functionally fit and juts be more active all around (for instance I would do the neon fun run instead of going to a movie, or going to the park instead of going to friends and drinking wine). The weight is slowly falling off. In the longer term, it is probably a better solution. You are younger, so maybe you can achieve that weight loss without putting it back on. Each person is very different.
That. I hear so many ladies say "Ooohh, I don't want to do weight training and get all bulky".
I don't think they realize how much you will need to do, lifting heavy stuff aside, to get bulky.
Go on, pick up some weights, your body will thank you.
Neoprod
Honorary Master
Testify, brother...naturally skinny bastards like myself are so screwed when it comes to trying to bulk up. It got to feeling like I'd have to walk around with a small car on my back to get any results.
doing some weight training doesn't bother me at all but it kinda feels like if my diet isn't right , I wont get the results I'm looking for no matter what training I do...
So by getting my diet correct , I definitely am keen to do some weight training..
shadow_man
Executive Member
What liquids are you consuming? I've had colleagues complain that they're dieting but can't lose weight. Turns out they're drinking several soda's a day and making ****ty food choices.
kill those in bold...bread, and wheat stuff. The problem is there are so many avenues, of why you gain weight easy or battle to get it off. You may just be gluten/wheat intolerant and it messes up your digestive system. So your system doesn't get as many nutrients and energy in, just the same as when you don't get enough food in, causing you to gain weight. As for coffee/tea wth sugar? You didn't mention it but milk and sugar can also cause you to gain weight and battle to get it off. As for fats, you may just be getting too little fat in.
Its not so much of how much you eat, its what you eat. Any intolerance , milk/wheat/gluten may cause you to battle to lose weight
gimpex
Senior Member
A lot easier said then done.
The most important as has been mentioned is to know what your eating. Low gi low calorie balanced diet food is what you are after. Saying you eat healthy is fine but if that means you are eating bean, corn and potatoes you are still eating the wrong thing. Replace those with vegetables like pumkin,peppers, cabage and you are getting 4-5 times less calories from your vegetables and still feel full longer.
The easiet way to do this is take note of everything you eat and cut out the high calorie stuff and replace it with a healtier low calorie food.
The easiet way to do this is take note of everything you eat and cut out the high calorie stuff and replace it with a healtier low calorie food.
No really. I (fairly) recently started with intermittent fasting, and it has become a way of life. not only am I sleeping better, I feel better, I appreciate my meals more and tend to put more effort into them, and I am way less stressed.
I tried the "eat seventeen times a day" approach, but that didn't work for me at all. If you plan your meals before and after your allotted fasting period right, and you have your timing down, it really isn't that difficult to do.
This being said, I'm sure that this, like anything else, will work for some and not for others. There is no magic bullet for weight loss. The pursuit should be healthy living, not necessarily a smaller number on the scale. Live right and the other stuff will follow.