Getting back into fitness

Attol

About a year ago I was eating a healthy balanced diet and exercising on a regular basis which left me with a body that I rather liked. After moving away and a lot of other changes that is now completely gone after I just ended up living off junk food and stopped exercising. Today for the first time in ages I'm going back to the gym because I want to be proud in a bikini. I was just wondering if you have any tips for me? I'm having a proper vegetable soup for brunch and will be drinking water before I go to prevent dehydration. I'll be walking there (10 mins walk) to warm up and will probably only really be going for cardio. I'm 19 years old, weigh 71kgs and am 160 cms tall. According to one calculation I have a BMI of 27.7 which terrifies me as that's almost obese! Any tips or help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

JayRoc

First of all, don't get hung up about the BMI.
I think it's a woefully inadequate method of measurement.
By it's standards, I'd say a huge number of people here would be considered overweight, if not obese (when there's really only one or two of us ).
In my opinion, bodyfat percentage is a much better indicator of where a person stands.


If you were able to bang up a typical day's eating and training, it'd probably help a lot.

Attol

Well I walk a lot since I don't drive but I don't do ANY proper exercise. Today is really the first time in a very long time.

My breakfast tends to be a smoothie or bag of popcorn with chocolate milk sometimes or else a toasted bagel with cream cheese.

Lunch would be a wrap, panini, or else McDs or something else horribly unhealthy and cheese on everything. Sometimes soup with a tuna sandwich.

Dinner would be rice with Quorn pieces, pizza if we're ordering in (about once every 2 weeks), grilled marinaded chicken or battered fish with potatoes or wedges. That sort of thing and I love mayo, but I only use the ultra light Hellman's one.

I know that is absolutely horrific in how unhealthy it is. There's very little healthy stuff there. Last time I went to the supermarket I stocked up on Quorn, rice, smoothies(all fruit, nothing else), tuna, Avonmore soups and that kinda thing as I realise my eating was woeful so I'm trying to change that at the moment.

CerebralCortex

Check the stickie with regards the diet. Stay away from McDonalds they don't sell food they just cast magic fairy food spells on you. There evil I tells ya.

JayRoc

Pretty much all the information you'll need is there in the stickies.
Have a look and start from there, it'll most likely answer the majority of questions you've got.

(The main thing I'd say for you to look out for, is to avoid the trap of eating too little)

Attol

Thanks!

Kingp35

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread but I only have a simple question which doesnt warrant its own thread.

What are pizzas like as part of a diet? I consider myself very fit as I play soccer and GAA at a high level, have very little body fat and have ran the Dublin marathon before but I have a terrible diet, lots of junk food, chippers, frys etc. This doesnt have an affect on my fitness at the moment because I have been eating like this all my life, mainly because I have very strange taste buds and dont like a very large amount of foods.

So anyway what are pizza's like, mainly simple Cheese and tomato pizza's? Thanks

I have no idea about nutrition and diets.

tribulus

Processed, white bases are poor carb sources so probably not too good.

The stickies at the top have some very good info in them about what type of foods you should be eating and some suggestions about meals, worth a read.

Dragan

I know people will always say things like "i am fit and healthy and i eat poorly" but the simple fact is that a bad diet will eventually catch up with you!

Also, i would point out that if you can do all you say you can do with a poor diet then imagine what you could acheive with a solid one?

Don't waste your potential.

Kingp35

Dragan wrote:

I know people will always say things like "i am fit and healthy and i eat poorly" but the simple fact is that a bad diet will eventually catch up with you!

Yeah thats why I want to change. Im only 22 but im sure as I get older it will catch up on me.

I have been playing sports my whole life thats why I have a high level of fitness, training for both soccer and Gaa twice a week and games at weekends. My Manager has told me my diet is awful though so time to change. Anyway cheers lads. Ill have a read of the stickies.

daveirl

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