serious help needed

tinney

Ok so im 6ft, 16.5 st and literally have no idea where or how to start getting fit.Im trying to watch my diet and go running but the most i can run is 2mins its actually embarassing. I need help as i dont have money for gym and have no idea about carbs or anything else so i need it in plain english and even probably in BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER menu format.
I really am desperate to lose the weight as everytime i go home from dublin people comment on how fat ive gotten.

Thanking all of ye

corkcomp

tinney wrote: »

Ok so im 6ft, 16.5 st and literally have no idea where or how to start getting fit.Im trying to watch my diet and go running but the most i can run is 2mins its actually embarassing. I need help as i dont have money for gym and have no idea about carbs or anything else so i need it in plain english and even probably in BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER menu format.
I really am desperate to lose the weight as everytime i go home from dublin people comment on how fat ive gotten.

Thanking all of ye

Hi, I will let others comment on diet but there is a LOAD of good advice in the stickies ..

My advice is to forget about running for the moment, you need to find some exercise that raises your heart rate and that you can keep up for around an hour if possible .. If you try a brisk walk for an hour and build on that you could start mixing in some running after a cuople of months.

celestial

tinney wrote: »

Ok so im 6ft, 16.5 st and literally have no idea where or how to start getting fit.Im trying to watch my diet and go running but the most i can run is 2mins its actually embarassing. I need help as i dont have money for gym and have no idea about carbs or anything else so i need it in plain english and even probably in BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER menu format.
I really am desperate to lose the weight as everytime i go home from dublin people comment on how fat ive gotten.

Thanking all of ye

The more you have to lose, the quicker you will lose it.

It is as simple as this. Do two things for two weeks and I guarantee you will see a difference.

1. Cut out 95% of junk food (you know what junk food is)
2. Get out and do ANY form of exercise. This means anything that gets you sweating. Go walk round the block 5 or 6 times 5 times a week. Cycle. These two exercises will work for you best starting off.

Sound straightforward?

the lady

I'd recommend hillwalking for a start. If you have a car, hop in and drive to somewhere pretty, give yourself a good hour and a half to walk around. Try including some inclines to increase the heart rate.
I'm making my way though wicklow at the weekends, if you're based somewhere near wicklow then pick up a map of the wicklow way and pick a place to start. The fresh air will make you feel fantastic!
Regarding food, porridge and bananas are fantastic for energy and filling you up, fruit and honey will make the porridge more tasty. Eating wholemeal pasta, rice and bread instead of white will help also.
Spend a bit of time in your local bookshop checking out nutrition books, avoid anything with a celebrity on the front and detox or diet in the title.
You don't have to change everything all at once, if you tend to eat a lot of ready meals then try and cut this down to maybe once a week and spend a bit of time preparing healthy food for yourself.
Check out www.bbc.co.uk/food and www.cullyandsully.com for some delicious and healthy recipes.
Good luck!

Khannie

Welcome to boards.ie. Very nice first post.

greenplain

Hey,

First off I am a runner and don't like going to gyms. I was like yourself a few years ago. I started putting on the pounds and every time I went home everyone commented on how "big" I was getting i.e " your growing like a baby elephant"...nice!!!

I took up running and at the start could barely run a mile, but stuck with it and shed three stone so I stand by running.

Look up the couch potato to 5k training schedule it will do you wonders. It's a five week schedule. Pick a 5k race near you and enter it so you will have a goal to attain too.

Also get some free weights and do some swimming.

If you are like me and like beer and food. cut it back and you will notce the weight come off.

Thats my 2 cents best of luck.

BossArky

tinney wrote: »

i need it in plain english and even probably in BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER menu format

First of all loose the BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER menu format. Try to have 5 or 6 small meals per day. Your total food intake with these 6 meals combined should be less than the combined original 3 meal format.

• Breakfast (7:30am)
• Mid morning snack (10:15am)
• Lunch (1pm)
• Mid afternoon snack (3:15pm)
• Dinner (6pm)
• Pre bed snack (8:45pm)

Why 6 meals and not 3? Well, 6 smaller meals will keep your metabolism ticking along nicely. Your body will be lulled into a false sense of security. It will stop storing food as fat (as it thinks you are now going to feed it regularly ever 3 hours), and just burn it off instead.

*Note*: Snack means healthy snack, not a Mars bar or coke and biscuits. Healthy snacks would include:

Nuts - watch out you don't take in too many as they are high in calories. The good fats in them do actually help you loose fat though. Almonds are my favourite.

Chopped veg - cut up loads of carrotts, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, cauliflower, brocoli, lettuce, etc once or twice a week. Bring it to work in a container. Have half as the mid morning snack, and half as the mid afternoon one.

Fruit - don't go overboard on fruit but an orange and an apple a day won't kill you calorie wise. Oranges also have a high sateity value i.e. they make you feel full. These can be handy for walking to work, waiting at a bus stop .....:eek: watching tv :eek:

....plus tuna, chicken, boiled eggs which are all high in protein meaning you will maintain muscle mass whilst loosing bodyfat.

For your main meals try the following:

• Breakfast - Porridge with milk. Add fruit if still hungry.
• Lunch - chicken / lean meat / veg / water. You don't have to have spuds / pasta / rice / bread with every meal. That is where the excess calories normally come from.
• Dinner - a variation on lunch i.e. lean meat / tuna / chicken / veg

Sorry out the diet first, then worry about the exercise.

smashey

tinney wrote: »

I need help as i dont have money for gym

I'm just curious about the having no money part.

Maybe you should leave the €200 euro scope for your gun for a while.

Khannie

ROFL. Brilliant.

BossArky

tinney, give me the gun.... now dance!

I promise you'll burn calories.

Zamboni

smashey wrote: »

I'm just curious about the having no money part.

Maybe you should leave the €200 euro scope for your gun for a while.

In fairness, that is very funny

Tinney dude, 200 yo-yo's would be the best part of a year membership for one of Ben Dunnes places, one of the Uni gyms or long term pass from one of the Dublin City Council gyms. Smashey is spot on, get the priorities right. I'm guessing here but you probably need to be fit more than you need to be a crack shot...
Good luck mate