Weight loss tips for fat cunts
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I probably shouldn't be posting in this thread, considering I may well be the heaviest Ferner and, let's face it, just a coronary away from a triple bypass... but that's never stopped me before.<br />
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What you need is a balance diet yet, i.e. big breakie, good lunch and very little for dinner, no snacks in between of course. If you eat too much after 3pm you're farked.<br />
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I have different take on diets that require 5 or 6 luittle meals a day. I tried 'em and they never work for me, it makes me feel like a cow, half-full, half-empty, continually grazing, never satisfied, and the meal frequency means i'm always thinking of food. <br />
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I like gorging myself but i also don't mind hunger, and being free of food thoughts for periods. So I work around this. <br />
My big meal is dinner where I eat as much meat, fish, eggs, veg, fruit as i wont but i have no or very little starches or refined sugar. For breakfast and lunch I have smaller meals, avoid filling myself up, and have a normal mix of protein, carbs, fats. <br />
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ie. Breakfast: peanut butter and honey sanwich, glass 2% milk; or porridge w/ honey and glass milk; or ommelette. (8-9am)<br />
  Lunch: order in at work usually, so sandwich or one of those rice/meat/veg meal combo things that 50kg women think are filling meals. bit of fruit (1pm)<br />
  Might have small snack at 6pm if going for heavy gym session in evening. Other than this I dont snack at all.<br />
 Dinner: Bunch (4-8) sole filets, asparagus, 1 piece fruit; or, 3/4 - 1 whole roast chicken, spinach etc. I eat until I dont want or cant eat any more. Usually have this meal btw 8-9 pm. <br />
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Other things:<br />
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Drink loads of water<br />
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lift heavy weights in multijoint lifts, i find this as effective and more pleasant than doing loads of cardio: squats, dls, cleans, snatch, jerk. <br />
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sleep loads. very important, dont know why but 9 hrs or more works a treat for weight loss for me. <br />
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get laid. not joking. not coz of the enrgy expended in the act. but fustration when going without can (for me anyway) be taken out on food. -
[quote name='baboon']<br />
sleep loads. very important, dont know why but 9 hrs or more works a treat for weight loss for me. <br />
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get laid. not joking. not coz of the enrgy expended in the act. but fustration when going without can (for me anyway) be taken out on food. [/quote]<br />
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Point 1 - recovery basically. A lot of weight trainers recommend an afternoon nap. Freshens the mind and the body.<br />
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Point 2 - agreed <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> -
[quote name='Dodge']<br />
she is rough.<br />
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Coastie, main reason you lose weight quickly on that diet is because you lose water, which isn't fat. Its not a long term solution.<br />
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Barn, best advice is to vary the type of exercise, its also better to work for 20 - 30 minutes at a higher intensity than it is to work for an hour at a low intensity, cut down on fat intake and eat smaller meals more often, its advice I should follow myself but don't. <br />
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Dodge,<br />
Take your point but you still need to drink loads of water and can burn up fat with the exercise on South Beach. The first 2 weeks is basically trying to get your body flushed of toxins brought on from lots of everyday foods you eat. As Bart points out your body also needs conditioning not to crave the foods that give you the sugar hits and stores the fat. Once you stop eating them you'll find you don't really want to eat them. This is not even that tough to stick to if you have a small amount of self discipline. Avoiding carbo loaded food in the evenings means that the unused carbos the body doesn't burn will not turn to fat. There are various stages of the diet you can revert back to if you find yourself slipping. Pretty easy overall. Went from 90kgs down to 83 in the first 2 weeks and have managed to stay around that mark for the past 6 months. -
[quote name='Coastie']<br />
Dodge,<br />
Take your point but you still need to drink loads of water and can burn up fat with the exercise on South Beach. The first 2 weeks is basically trying to get your body flushed of toxins brought on from lots of everyday foods you eat. As Bart points out your body also needs conditioning not to crave the foods that give you the sugar hits and stores the fat. Once you stop eating them you'll find you don't really want to eat them. This is not even that tough to stick to if you have a small amount of self discipline. Avoiding carbo loaded food in the evenings means that the unused carbos the body doesn't burn will not turn to fat. There are various stages of the diet you can revert back to if you find yourself slipping. Pretty easy overall. Went from 90kgs down to 83 in the first 2 weeks and have managed to stay around that mark for the past 6 months. <br />
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sorry, wasn't implying that you dehydrate, just that you lose water you normally retain in muscles etc. That always builds up again which is the main reason that weight lost on things like Atkins is so fast at first before slowing down. -
True Dodge and I'd never use the low-carb thing for long periods (mostly because it shits me). But you could also say that an exercise routine of any kind will start to slow down its effects after a quick start - there is a point at about 6 weeks where your progress starts to taper off because your body wakes up to the exercises you're doing and you have to change to see more progress.<br />
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The main thing about getting the weight off quickly through carb-cutting means you can actually do more exercise for longer periods which is the key thing. -
[quote name='baboon']<br />
I have different take on diets that require 5 or 6 luittle meals a day. I tried 'em and they never work for me, it makes me feel like a cow, half-full, half-empty, continually grazing, never satisfied, and the meal frequency means i'm always thinking of food. [/quote]<br />
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Yup. The 5-6 meal thing a day is more trouble than it's worth as far as I'm concerned. I just am not going to prepared 6 meals a day; Christ, three has me stretched. Sod mapping out 6 for a joke <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /> -
A good, layman-friendly, article on general nutrition can be found here:<br />
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[url="http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html"]http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html[/url]<br />
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In my weight loss phases I have concentrated on reducing sugar and refined carb intake. Lowering GI of foods has been a goal. <br />
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It is worth checking out the "zone diet" book too. Written by a prof of biochemistry. -
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starting by knocking off bread is a good one - I a typical Kiwi, and bread n butter goes with ANY meal. Soon as I reduced intake to nothing but perhaps sandwich for lunch, weight started flowing off, and started feeling so clogged too.<br />
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Yep, cutting back the bread can be good, especially if you eat refined grain (white) bread. Can be difficult to be sure your is wholegrain too. -
Have dropped 5kgs in 8 weeks.<br />
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Main tips:<br />
<br />- Exercise (cardio) first thing in the morning for at least 30 mins<br />
- Before you do any cardio exercise in the evenings begin by lifting weights for 20-30 mins <br />
- Drop all carbs after 5pm<br />
- Do no more than 1 hour cardio at a time - or you will lose muscle<br />
- Stay off the drink<br />
- Rest when your body feels tired
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Not recommended by many doctors, but I lost a lot of weight on the ecstasy/speed diet while in London. For 2 years, I was very trim, and probably the most fun diet out there. Of course, my brain was mush by the end of it, but you can#t have everything... :idiot2:
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yes IR - if you just lose cardio, you will lose fat, and muscle, more muscle than fat in fact!<br />
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so combine resistance training with the weights, and you will lose more fat, and gain muscle.<br />
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There is a study thing on the wall at the gym, I will try and find the figures tomorrow, interesting reading in thi study! -
Supplements like protein shakes are a great way to lose weight and take the hunger cravings away. Just have one when you might normally have a snack and it works wonders.<br />
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A few months back I was a few kilos overweight. I've lifted weights for a number of years but farking hate cardio and wanted to avoid the treadmill as much as possible. Basically what I did was completely alter my diet. I still eat heaps but I don't eat or drink crap (e.g. potato chips, softdrink, cake, icecream etc). I have 5 protein shakes a day plus a big lunch and dinner. The results have been pretty amazing. I also do the little things which help like taking stairs instead of lifts or escalator and walking to the shops instead of driving.<br />
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That may sound boring but believe me it works. Supplements can be pricey though. -
good call - the junk / snack food kills you. Cut out fizyy drinks (sugar in a bottle!), and the chips n dips etc, and you are halfway there. <br />
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And you don't REALLY miss them when they aren't there.<br />
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Like the Body for Life thing though, have 1 day off a week when you can give into your cravings, and have the shit food - you'll soon lose the taste for it! -
For me it's only been a week and I'm noticing huge changes. Cutting the crap out does wonders, not to mention transferring to low-fat bread/milk etc. I'm quite shocked to see this kind of progress so early on. Defintely encouraging. Cheers, fellas.
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[quote name='Rancid Schnitzel']<br />
Supplements like protein shakes are a great way to lose weight and take the hunger cravings away. Just have one when you might normally have a snack and it works wonders.[/quote]<br />
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Good idea, just make sure to keep a regular water intake when on protein shakes, they tend to dry you out a little... mine do anyway<br />
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[quote name='Rancid Schnitzel']<br />
A few months back I was a few kilos overweight. I've lifted weights for a number of years but farking hate cardio and wanted to avoid the treadmill as much as possible. Basically what I did was completely alter my diet. I still eat heaps but I don't eat or drink crap (e.g. potato chips, softdrink, cake, icecream etc). I have 5 protein shakes a day plus a big lunch and dinner. The results have been pretty amazing. I also do the little things which help like taking stairs instead of lifts or escalator and walking to the shops instead of driving.[/quote]<br />
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I do pretty much the same. Cutting out crap and doing the little things are a good motivational change also, you feel miles better in very little time. An idea I've found works is replacing regular tea/coffee with green tea. Once you get over the hippy taste it's really not that bad, plus it's proven to be fat-burning antioxidant... though it's also proven you need to consume atleast 6 cups a day in order to achieve any kind of results. Eating a bunch of dry almond nuts as a meal replacement is another - high in protein and vitamin E, low in saturated fat.