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Irish Richard

If I work out at night, then eat no carbs (going to bed hungry), even if I have my usual breakfast - when I try to work out again in the morning I am farked. 
 
So what works for you. 
 
But carbs are just fuel. No point filling the tank and parking the motor in the garage.

schmoo

From what I've heard/been told - carbs don't kick in straight away anyhow.Â They take time to be absorbed then transformed into potential energy.Â As opposed to sucrose/dextrose/maltrose/glucose (all of those me thinks) which are instant return energy - this being the dangerous sort of energy to store if not exercising. 
 
I'm with you IR - I need my carbs (at least some) at night to absorb so the next day I can charge thru my exercise the next day.

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Don't weigh yourself. 
 
Measure yourself. With a tape measure. The one your wife uses for knitting. 
 
If you're exercising, you should be gaining muscle. It weighs more than fat. 3 times more I think.

dogmeat

[quote]Don't weigh yourself. 
 
Measure yourself. With a tape measure. The one your wife uses for knitting. 
[/quote] 
 
Great. Now I'm suicidal. Also a confirmed blob.Â Chest, gut and arse all exactly the same circumference.Â Think I'd have been better off claiming air miles than using a tape measure. Jeezuz I'm a fat fuck.

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[quote name='dogmeat'] 
[quote]Don't weigh yourself. 
 
Measure yourself. With a tape measure. The one your wife uses for knitting. 
[/quote] 
 
Great. Now I'm suicidal. Also a confirmed blob.Â Chest, gut and arse all exactly the same circumference.Â Think I'd have been better off claiming air miles than using a tape measure. Jeezuz I'm a fat fuck. 
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If it took a tape measure to show you that, you have serious eyesight problems or a dicky mirror. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Coastie

[quote name='Ruddy Funkster'] 
[quote name='dogmeat'] 
[quote]Don't weigh yourself. 
 
Measure yourself. With a tape measure. The one your wife uses for knitting. 
[/quote] 
 
Great. Now I'm suicidal. Also a confirmed blob.Â Chest, gut and arse all exactly the same circumference.Â Think I'd have been better off claiming air miles than using a tape measure. Jeezuz I'm a fat fuck. 
[/quote] 
 
If it took a tape measure to show you that, you have serious eyesight problems or a dicky mirror. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> 
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Yeah but the camera always adds 10lbs doesn't it, so looking at yourself on video (Pornstar) or in photos just makes you look fat and depresses you. The mirror is an optical illusion - the camera never liesÂ :coolsmiley:

mark_s

I have been focusing on my eating and my strategy has been:

only eat when hungry (sounds dumb but I previously used to eat by habit a lot of the time)
only eat until I donâ€™t feel hungry anymore.Â (i.e. donâ€™t just eat a shite load of food without thinking about it)
eat slowly so my body can tell me when its not hungry any more. 
 
Seems to have been working for me

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good points mark and also - if you're going to e.g. buy lunch or something, then get the small version of whatever you're eating. A lot of people were brought up to habitually eat everything on the plate because its a waste of money otherwise <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

mark_s

[quote name='Nick the Aussie'] 
good points mark and also - if you're going to e.g. buy lunch or something, then get the small version of whatever you're eating. A lot of people were brought up to habitually eat everything on the plate because its a waste of money otherwise <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> 
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That was definitely me - wasn't allowed to leave the table until the plate was empty

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Which was OK if your grew up on a farm and worked after school till your fucking hands bled <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

dogmeat

Very good tips Mark. I found that I was bolting my food.Â Barely chewing it and demolishing the plate inside 5 mins.Â Then naturally still feel hungry.Â An hour later - bloated. When I remember I'm chewing slowly.Â Also gets stomach ready to receive incoming.

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And have 2 glasses of water with your meal. That fills you up no end.

Miller V Jackson

I agree with all of that, and most of it is in my Great Australian Diet book for chubby little AussiesÂ <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Chowie

Keep a food diary. You'll always think twice about that pie if you have to write it down and see it later. 
Forget about weights until you've lost the weight, the ONLY thing that loses fat is AEROBIC training. 
Finally, if you know you can't make it on your own, bite the bulletÂ and join weight watchers, or jenny craig or what ever organisation suits you. 
The money you spend on the weekly meetings (about $15) will be saved at the cafeteria, believe me. 
There's nothing like getting weighed in every week with a queue of people behind you to motivate you to NOT eat that mars bar. 
It's not just for chicks either, so don't think you'll be treated as an oddity when you turn up there, there's heaps of guys at my WW centre in Welly (on Lambton Quay). 
I've lost 11.5kg now, so it actually works, and I feel great for it.

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Get into a methodical pattern of when and what you eat.Â I eat 6 smaller meals during the day every 2-3 hours. 3 of the meals or protein bars or shakes.Â I also drink about 3L of water per day.Â I used to confuse hunger with thirst, but now if I feel hungry between meals, a large glass of water does the trick.Â Also drink water at night to avoid eating junky snacks or if you must eat have fruit on hand.Â Being organised is the key to losing weight, make sure the right types of food are in the fridge and in your bag at work.Â I have lost 12 kilos in the last 12 weeks.

Chowie

Thought of another tip. 
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already, but [b]Metamucil [/b]is great for cleaning out your insides, especially if you aren't the most regular of toilet-goers. 
If you've led one of those carnivorous, 'skip-the-salad-just-give-me-the-kilo-of-redmeat' lifestyles up til now (as I have), then you might want to try a [b]hycolonic irrigation[/b]. 
Yes, I know there's a certain amount of embarrassment at shoving a tube up your bum, but I'd rather have what came out afterwards NOT inside me. 
Plus, I lost about a kilo in the process.

Bones

[quote name='Chowie'] 
Forget about weights until you've lost the weight, the ONLY thing that loses fat is AEROBIC training.[/quote]That's not really too true Chowie. Thoroughly depends on what kind of weight training you're doing. Weights can still help lose fat if done correctly.

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Resistance training is the vital ingredient if reducing bodyfat is your goal.Â It goes something like this:Â The more lean mass you gain, your metabolic rate increases and as a result you will burn fat more efficiently than ever before.Â Not only will you burn more fat while doing cardio, but your body will also become more efficient at burning bodyfat 24/7. 
 
The quickest and best way to gain lean mass while burning fat in my experience is the 12 week Body For Life challenge. 
 
[url="http://www.bodyforlife.com"]www.bodyforlife.com[/url]

BartMan

yeah, on notice board at gym a study about one group just aerobic, the second group aerobic and weights.Â First group lost fat and lean body mass (muscle).Â Second group lost fat and gained muscle mass, but lost more overall weight too. 
 
So gotta do both, unless you are just trying to lose weight - muscle or fat, not caring which.

Chowie

I'm gonna have to agree to disagree with you here lads, the quickest way to drop body fat is aerobic exercise. 
You don't have to make things more complicated than they are, this is how gyms make their money! 
Just good old fashioned running is the best thing that we can do.Â 
(PS I have a Dip. in Ex Sci, so I'm not talking completely out of my arse.) 
The hardest thing is simply sticking to it, and that's why Weight Watchers has worked for me so far. 
I had all the knowledge but couldn't be arsed to apply it to myself.

The Silver Fern

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