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Trying to lose a stone in a month

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  • 29-05-2014 10:32pm
    #1
    goose1
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭


    Hi

    Ever since Christmas I have eaten an absolutely awful diet and I've finally accepted I need to do something about this as I can feel my clothes getting tighter and it's an awful feeling! I'm 12 stone, 5'8 and want to get to 11 stone by the end of June.

    The diet I've currently moved to is this:

    Breakfast
    2x boiled eggs or a chunk of avocado (don't really do breakfast)

    Lunch
    Big salad of lettuce, grated carrot, red onion, tomato and either chicken with Caesar dressing or egg/tuna with mayo
    Either alone or in a wrap

    Dinner
    Chicken/pork etc with spices and salad
    or
    2xbacon, 2xfried egg, mushrooms
    or
    Chilli without rice

    Drinks: LOTS of black tea, water

    Trying to avoid carbs as much as poss, walking as much as poss and trying to up my exercise.

    Does losing a stone in a month seem viable?


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    yoppo
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭yoppo


    goose1 wrote: »
    Hi

    Ever since Christmas I have eaten an absolutely awful diet and I've finally accepted I need to do something about this as I can feel my clothes getting tighter and it's an awful feeling! I'm 12 stone, 5'8 and want to get to 11 stone by the end of June.

    The diet I've currently moved to is this:

    Breakfast
    2x boiled eggs or a chunk of avocado (don't really do breakfast)

    Lunch
    Big salad of lettuce, grated carrot, red onion, tomato and either chicken with Caesar dressing or egg/tuna with mayo
    Either alone or in a wrap

    Dinner
    Chicken/pork etc with spices and salad
    or
    2xbacon, 2xfried egg, mushrooms
    or
    Chilli without rice

    Drinks: LOTS of black tea, water

    Trying to avoid carbs as much as poss, walking as much as poss and trying to up my exercise.

    Does losing a stone in a month seem viable?

    To get that in a month would be almost impossible. The average is usually 1-2 pounds a week with a super strict diet and some decent cardio thrown in. I would say it would be closer to 10-12 weeks.

    Try cut out the carbs as much as you can, also dressings can significantly increase the calorific content of your food.


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    Rsaeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    If you're cutting carbs considerably from your diet then you need to choose good fat sources for energy as you have to get your energy somewhere and protein is a bad choice. You already have eggs, bacon, avocado etc in your list so try using coconut oil when cooking to increase the amount of fat intake and try find other good sources too, e.g. grass fed beef, salmon etc. Also, ensure your meals contain adequate amounts of fibre otherwise you might have issues with digestion since you're cutting carbs.

    Also, I'd recommend understanding how much energy you expend daily; do you sit in an office for your job or are you walking/running around all day? Realising this will then help you figure out how many calories your body requires to carry out your daily activities. You can then work out how to adjust your food intake to reach your goals while also factoring in the exercise you do too. You can Google "calorie calculator" and find loads of links that will help you reach your goals, like this one here.


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    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Loads and loads of water


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    BelleOfTheBall
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭BelleOfTheBall


    Fitness pal app brilliant


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    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Took you 6 months too put it on why you expect to drop it in a month is beyond me


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    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    You won't lose it on diet alone .

    Exercise also in moderation


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    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    It's not completely unusual to lose a stone in a month or so, particularly when undergo quite a large change in lifestyle.


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    TimeToShine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    Diego Simeone wrote: »
    It's not completely unusual to lose a stone in a month or so, particularly when undergo quite a large change in lifestyle.

    It's probably possible. Drinking tonnes of water to drop any excess water weight might swing it a few pounds in their favour.


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    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,615 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    I've lost a stone in a month, it was my first stone lost so easier than subsequent ones. The main thing was I ran a calorie deficit of 700 calories a day and exercised (usually a 15km/45 minute cycle) four times a week. I think exercising four times a week for weight loss is essential because you are a lot less likely to be tempted by chocolate, cakes, etc after you've busted your ass exercising for an hour. By doing it 4 days out of 7 rather than 3 days out of 7 you give yourself a much better chance IMHO.


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    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,502 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Diego Simeone wrote: »
    It's not completely unusual to lose a stone in a month or so, particularly when undergo quite a large change in lifestyle.

    Its possible but its also likely it'll go back on again because the lifestyle change wasn't sustainable.


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    generic2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭generic2012


    If you "don't really do breakfast", don't include it, it's non-sense that there is any benefit unique to eating in the morning. if you don't eat it it's less calories or you can spread the calories over your other meals. Also if anyone tells you to ADD something to your diet to LOSE weight, you can be quite confident they don't know what they're talking about.


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    fat to ripped
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭fat to ripped


    Yeah you could lose it. Don't know why you're in such a rush, but if you must, just cut your food intake dramatically. After you lose a stone go back to your previous diet and gain it all back, and then some!


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