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5/8 tall....12 and a half stone... i'm sure this is too much weight for my height. what does everyone on here who's overweight do to lose a few pounds. just carry on/dont give a shit. diet or more exercise.. probably my age, i'm not a big eater, and if a big occasion, like qpr or concert, i binge drink...
the old gut is hard to shift....
would be nice to get down to 11 and a half before the new season.
Buy smaller plates and do not overfill them. Reduce carbohydrate (potato, rice and pasta) intake. Eat grilled meats or fish and salad regularly. Have a small portion of various fruits for dessert. Drink spirits not beer / lager. Walk don't drive short / medium distances. Enjoy lots of sex. Easy peasy.
"Enjoy lots of sex" you say.
Ok
Have a partner but menopause has meant thats the last thing she wants to do.
So I am needing advice on this one, can you therefore help me with this. I am wishing to achieve this, so anyone with any suggestions, many thanks !!!!!
Gets more difficult as we get older, definitely. My weight's up at the moment for the first time in years and it's a struggle to find time to get it down.
What works for me:
Sleep - 7-8 hours Water - 3l / day Gym - 3 times a week minimum, 30-40 minutes of fast, light-medium weights or machines Walking 10-15,000 steps per day Booze and takeaways - once or twice a week most (currently not sticking to this) Weekly shop - this reduces the booze and takeaways. Buy protein, veg and not much carbos (we don't need half the carbos we eat), bulk cook a few meals at a time.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Have a partner but menopause has meant thats the last thing she wants to do.
So I am needing advice on this one, can you therefore help me with this. I am wishing to achieve this, so anyone with any suggestions, many thanks !!!!!
would suggest sex 3 times a day with 4 different women for 6 months and if at the end of that time you still haven't hit your ideal weight, carry on until you do. Don't forget to eat lots of carbs during that time.
Firstly ignore anything to do with BMI. It is utter rubbish and not a good guide. I had a personal trainer once who was 3 weeks out from doing a bodybuilding show and purely just because of his height and weight it said he was overweight. He was about 7% bodyfat, so the total opposite.
If you want to lose a few lbs, remember that the number on the scales is just a guide and not gospel. Many factors affect weight, such as water retention and weight of food. It doesn't mean you have put fat on. The main goal of a diet should be to lose fat and a byproduct of that will be weight loss. However, pay more attention to how you look and how clothes feel on you. Even body measurements will help. Scale weight is just a guide. You can have an empty bottle of water. You then fill it up. The shape hasn't changed but the weight is now ever, due to water etc
When going on a diet, I tell people to keep a food diary for a week or maybe two. Be honest with it. Eat normally but log it. Seeing it in black and white can help with you spotting little things that you can change. A lot of the time people don't realise what they are eating. Someone might have 3 lattes a day. Just cutting down to one or even substituting them for black coffee will get your calories down, for example. You want to make your approach as sustainable as possible. Don't do anything drastic. Still eat foods that you enjoy but be mindful how much you have and, in some cases, make sensible changes. It is all about moderation.
If you don't already, start walking. It doesn't have to be life changing. A walk in the morning, one in the afternoon and then evening. Maybe 15-20 minutes each time. Gradually it will become a routine, and you will find yourself going for longer walks.
If you are quite tech savvy, you can actually use AI (ChatGPT for example) to create you a meal plan or give you advice on a sustainable approach. It's a bit like having a coach without paying for one
Pubs closed, cars off the road which was glorious so we walked and walked. It taught me that I don’t need to drive to the shops or even our next walk, just start walking from your front door wherever that’s possible.
Lost nearly two stone in 2020 and never put more than a few pounds back on since. Still 15 stone but at 6’4 it feels thereabouts.
Not a believer in diets. Walking, small plates, less booze and the old school ‘don’t eat between meals’ helps a lot. Don’t set unachievable goals, just find a weight you feel comfortable with.
would suggest sex 3 times a day with 4 different women for 6 months and if at the end of that time you still haven't hit your ideal weight, carry on until you do. Don't forget to eat lots of carbs during that time.
A wife asked her husband if he wanted her to cook him breakfast.”No thanks as the viagara that my doctor has put me on has ruined my appetite.” A few hours later she asks him if she wants her to make him some lunch.”No thanks,I’m not hungry because of the viagara.” Another couple of hours go by and she again asks whether she can make him some dinner.Once again he says “No thanks as I still don’t need any food because of the viagara.” She then says to her husband “Do you mind getting off of me then because I’m fecking starving.”
Pubs closed, cars off the road which was glorious so we walked and walked. It taught me that I don’t need to drive to the shops or even our next walk, just start walking from your front door wherever that’s possible.
Lost nearly two stone in 2020 and never put more than a few pounds back on since. Still 15 stone but at 6’4 it feels thereabouts.
Not a believer in diets. Walking, small plates, less booze and the old school ‘don’t eat between meals’ helps a lot. Don’t set unachievable goals, just find a weight you feel comfortable with.
'I don't believe in diets. Small plates, less booze and the old school ‘don’t eat between meals’ helps a lot'
Is this not a contradiction? I'm a fat fck so not in a position to lecture mind.
@ the OP you can go into most Boots the chemist and check your BMI, where we live we have a BMI machine in the surgery. Don't know If It's still the case but overweight people were clogging up NHS waiting lists last I heard.
I broke the one in Boots. Never let me back in since.
I used to be able to eat and drink whatever i liked and not put weight on, but when i gave up smoking put on 10 pounds within a year.Lost some of that now but cant get back to my normal weight.
Download MyFitnessPal, log your food and drinks for a bit and get an understanding of calories needed to lose/maintain your weight. Then it'll all start making sense...
Cut out carbs and your weight will drop off super quick. Takes about 2 weeks before your body adjusts to burning fat and then away you go. Lost nearly 2 stone in 8 weeks when I did this a few years back. But it has to be all carbs (apart from v. small amount in morning, like a slice of toast), and that includes beer and wine. You're ok with vodka, gin, tequila in moderation. You can eat as much protein as you like.
As someone who's recently lost a big chunk, my advice is
- diet is for how much you weigh - exercise is for strength and the construction of your body
Your body is constantly burning calories, trying to do exercise to do it is fool hardy. You need to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight.
So you need to think about what you eat, and reshape your mentality around exercise to being an investment in your future, rather than for losing weight.
I've found cutting back on carbs really helpful. I try to keep under 100g of carbs a day, and replace it with protein which doesn't turn into sugar when it's broken down and keeps you fuller longer. Replace crisps with pepperami and egg pots at lunch has been my big win. And within your carbs, I'll give myself a bit of leeway for fibrous carbs, as fibre turns to water when broken down rather than sugar.
And of course it doesn't have to be every day - Arnie has a great daily health and fitness newsletter where he talks about the reason he does everything he does is so he can eat these giant cream cakes and not give a fcuk.
Then find some exercise that works for you. I've always found running deathly boring but have found I love strength and resistance work, and that has changed the shape of my body and given it some defintion. I feel great.
Don't even need a gym membership. Get a kettble bell or a resistance band and do some circuits at home. I love these guys for that:
If you want to do more weight stuff, recommended Jeff Nippard who's recommended are all scientific based. But for saving time, you can't beat rotating push/pull/legs
5ft 11 tall and 15 and half stone after Xmas. I am 64. I was embarrassed and shocked. Upset as well as I had major surgery and treatment for stage 3 bowel cancer in September 22.
I took the plunge and started a course of Monjouro in February. Today I am 13st - 2lb. You have to exercise as well but the difference in my well-being is transformational. I have not had any side effects.
I am aiming to get to 12st - 6 and then I will stop and try to maintain that weight. Generally it is accepted that once you stop the medication you will put on some minimal weight but I will cross that bridge once I am there.
Always consider myself fit and healthy at 177cm and 79kg mostly... then in 2021 after 1st covid lockdown was at the gym ... and had what felt like a lump in my throat... thought nothing of it...
Then happened to mention this getting old is not cracked up to what it is meant to be... and a lad said check that out at you GP... just to be sure.
18 months later triple heart bypass.... luckily no affect on my heart. Never been a smoker or heavy drinker, but did love my chocolate and the occasional fry up. .. but mainly down the genetics
Great advice on here, agree with the carbs totally cut down and you can get really good keto stuff now at Hylo and the Keto chef
Eat a load of vegetables and salads, and yoghurt with fruit and seeds...
I still exercise daily, not so much the gym now, as at over 70 I just find it too much... run 5 miles a day, but will have to stop that as my knees have finally gone. So will walk and use wrist weights to bring my cardio up...
As we said at the pit, old age don't come on it's own.... it brings all it's friends with it
I've lost a far bit if weight these past twelve months, about two stone I think.
I gave up booze which obviously has a big effect, not just directly on the calories you drink, but the indirect effect on motivation and hangover diet etc.
I've been getting to the gym about five times a week, look and feel miles better. I've not really changed my diet other than the aforementioned post drinking takeaways etc.
I've got a Whoop, which for me has been amazing. I love some nerdy data and have found a good way to leverage that obsessive tendency into keeping fit.
Cut out alcohol if you drink during the week as it piles the fat on due to the sugar content. Treat yourself to pint or 2 on a Friday/Saturday. It'll fall off quick if you couple it with moderate exercise.
I'm 48, 5/10 and 12.5 stone. I was on anxiety tablets for 2 years that gave me cravings for alcohol. A side effect I never knew about until I read about it in the paper. I was never a big drinker, but ended up on 3 or 4 pints every night for a year. Stopped the stupid tablets and the craving for alcohol went, weirdest thing.
Now I swim 3/4 times a week and have a pint on a Friday and Saturday. Fit as a fiddle now, but like to get back to 11.5 or 12 stone.
5ft 11 tall and 15 and half stone after Xmas. I am 64. I was embarrassed and shocked. Upset as well as I had major surgery and treatment for stage 3 bowel cancer in September 22.
I took the plunge and started a course of Monjouro in February. Today I am 13st - 2lb. You have to exercise as well but the difference in my well-being is transformational. I have not had any side effects.
I am aiming to get to 12st - 6 and then I will stop and try to maintain that weight. Generally it is accepted that once you stop the medication you will put on some minimal weight but I will cross that bridge once I am there.
Good luck mate.As I said in my earlier post,I went to slimming world and lost 2 1/2 stone in 6 months,but I stopped going and have put on 2 stone again.
I will not rest until the release of your newly titled baking and pastries recipe book... 'Easier to put weight on than take It off.' :) It'll make millions!
This thread has caused me to break my post-lunch chocolate biscuit in half, and leave the other half in the fridge for later - progress already.
A lot of good advice. I can see that some people are deep into a system that's working for them, which is great. Agree that it has to be something that you can do easily and regularly, rather than killing yourself for 3 months and it all goes back on.
My main issues, while being not too bad fitness-wise, is that series of 'fcuk-it' moments during the week. I mean we're all working our balls off. Can one not avail oneself of 2 simple slices of premium quality bacon and a humble sausage of a Saturday morning?! Are we not MEN?! (and a few women...)
In reality the answer to that is of course 'yes', as long as you didn't make too many unhealthy choices during the week - that's what I need to keep working on.
ok, i've got some skin in this game..... to be fair, quite a bit of skin.
A while back i asked you all about a miniscus tear i had in my left leg, and very helpful you all were (thank you again).
My Doctor , 6 weeks ago, (as i needed to lose weight or the surgery wouldnt take place due to a risk at my weight) prescribed me 'Orlistat', a blue tablet taken either just before or just after meals.
A horrid little pill that divests your food of fats and things (you might be eating so i shall not say more), but believe me, i'm down by almost 2 stone now, with just another stone to get my knee done
I'd kill to be 12 1/2 stone, but thanks to my doctor, i'm getting closer every day. 🤞👍
Such good advice on this thread as usual - and appropriate timing for me (yet AGAIN!)
I go through a cycle every 3-5 years of "doing something about my weight" but I have found it difficult to get down to and maintain a healthy weight since I was in my late 20s.
I am now 57, on blood pressure tablets since my late 30s, and 17.5st (I hope it is not more) - but get away with it just a little bit because I am 6'3. I know I am 2 - 2.5 stone over this image of an ideal weight.
My problem is that I get trapped in this cyclical world of - go to get some new clothes for a wedding/party/holiday - spend half an hour sweating in changing rooms in the shops in Westfields, nothing fits and then I beat myself for the rest of the day/week about what a "fat lazy coount" I am and useless. Decide the next week to do something about it, lose a stone or so, go out buy new clothes, feel a million dollars for 2 weeks, then the feeling wears off, fall back in to bad habits, eat and drink too much, need to buy some bigger clothes again as I had thrown out my "fat clothes for once and for all". Can't fit into anything, feel like a "fat........." and so the cycle goes on.
So my challenge is not food, it is not exercise (I am currently going to the gym 2-3 times a week) it is my mental health.
I really have to challenge my mental health and kick start the motivational genes to not go on these temporary diets, with temporary gains, a month or two of feeling good but to make life style changes that become default behaviours and not something I see as a sacrifice.
As of Monday this week I have started another "attempt" to get rid of some of my belly before the middle of July when I go on holiday so that I won't be beating myself up when I try to pull on my swimming trunks and worry there is a risk of my arse splitting them when I bend over...
Discipline is what i need to find, I watch my youngest who is 22 and is vegan and how she lives her life in terms of diet and eating naturally and slowly I am trying to introduce those small changes - but my killer is the Friday night, "right, I'm getting a Chinese, don't care about the rest of you".
Eat well, drink well, exercise well = sleep well = eat well, drink well, exercise well = sleep well = eat well. It is not rocket science - it's just fighting the lazy s od inside who just wants to eat Chinese, drink Guinness and Jameson and veg in front of the tv instead of going out and getting some fresh air in the evening.
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