A new me!

netwhizkid

Never posted in this forum before, I have began a massive life change plan with my fitness and weight. I am 22yrs old, 5'9 and currently 14st 8lbs I am technically obese but not for long hopefully.

I weighed myself last week and tipped the scales at 15st and while I have always been fat since I was about ten this really frightened me and I actually had a dream about my own impending funeral that night if I did not do something. Since about Wednesday I have been cutting back on my food and this was very hard on me up until about Friday and I am now getting used to it.

I suffer from Anosmia (poor smelling) and have been a finicky eater all my life, as a young Child I was a very bad eater and always underweight, my parents took me to specialist paediatricians all over the shop and they really couldn't find anything wrong with me as a young child. One paediatrician told my father, take the child home and feed him as best as ye can and he will eat ye out house & home yet, quite true it was.

I became fat at about 10 and it has differed at different stages of my development but I would say at 10 to 12 I was the fattest ever in terms of body proportion. This effected me as young kid and as a teenager throughout Secondary School with bullying etc however in recent years it hasn't although I still felt empty.

Fast forward to today and I have begun a diet after several false starts in my life and this time I am staying with it come hell or highwater.

My former diet.

Breakfast: Generally a fryup or massive portions of cereal or min 4 slices of white toast. One of either

Lunch Mid day: A roll filled with either cold meat or sausage rolls

Snacks: several biscuits, cakes, two or three bags of crisps and almost always 2 litres of coke a day.

Dinner: Steak, Lamb or Pork Chops, Beef or Lamb burgers, usually served with large portions of Chips or Potato wedges. I truly was a disgrace and now wonder how I did not become even worse.

These were the foods I liked as they appeal to me as I can taste them properly and I took an attitude if I live to be thirty I will be doing good as I didn't really care.

Yesterdays diet:

Breakfast: One slice of brown toast with lowfat butter and honey.

Lunch: one apple

Dinner: Two fish fingers and a potato waffle served with lots of water.

I would guess I am averaging around 800-1000 calories a day. I have stopped eating all my usual snack junk foods and replaced Coke with water and am going to try ballygowan sparkling as a substitute for Fizzy drinks.

I am thinking of joining a gym for the first time in my life and plan to compliment my weight loss with building muscles. I can swim about 70% ok but I am sure once the weight starts coming off I will be much more balanced in the water and allow me to perfect something I have always liked to do.

Since I began my self imposed diet I have found remarkable changes to my body, I feel like I have so much energy now even though I have only lost about 5 to 6 lbs and the biggest change since I began eating more healthily has been in my sleeping pattern, normally before I could stay up until 5 or 6am watching TV and on the net and not awake until maybe midday or after it.

Now once the clock strikes 12 midnight I am gone and cannot stay awake beyond 1.30am and am waking around 9.30 or 10.00 with a sleep cycle of around 8 hours where as before I was nearly always pushing 12 hours sleep. I feel confident all over and have a real can do attitude and now realise this mountain is one I will conquer.

Khannie

Stop starving yourself!!! Yesterdays diet was terrible. Please have a read of the stickes. There's a huge amount of information in them that will be useful to you.

Good luck with the lifestyle change though.

corkcomp

Khannie wrote: »

Stop starving yourself!!! Yesterdays diet was terrible. Please have a read of the stickes. There's a huge amount of information in them that will be useful to you.

Good luck with the lifestyle change though.

+1 an apple for lunch is madness no matter what your goals ... Your former diet is crap but even if you just cut out the following (Snacks: several biscuits, cakes, two or three bags of crisps and almost always 2 litres of coke a day) you would see huge results, thats not to say that the fry up of deli roll are healthy but i guess what im trying to say is dont go from one extreme to another!

try:

breakfast - porridge + fruit or scrambled egg + wholemeal toast
snacks - apples, pears + nuts or cottage cheese or small ammount of wholemeal bread
lunch - as much salad as you want (not talking potato salad or coleslaw here, but you knew that!) and chicken or fish and baked potato / brown rice
snacks - as above
dinner - lots of veg, all types except potato and lean meats ...

neuro-praxis

You are not having a healthy diet; you are, as said above, starving yourself. You are effectively punishing yourself for your previous bad habits. This will not work. Your body is not getting what it needs to function well. Try going to the gym and lifting heavy with that diet and you'll soon find yourself floored. Any weight loss will stall as your body try to hang on for dear life to what fat stores you've got.

Realistically you are not very fat. You have a 2-3 stone to lose, which isn't much and needn't break your heart doing it. Plan to lose 1-2 lb a week. That will take you 21-42 weeks (or 5-10 months). You put the weight on over a long time so don't expect to lose it overnight. 10 months is worth it if you establish good habits for the rest of your life.

Learn to cook foods you like. Make your own home-made wedges with baking potatoes, a little olive oil and lots of garlic and spices. Eat LOADS of vegetables and plenty of fruit. Get some protein with every meal (milk, eggs, cottage cheese, small portions nuts, fish and meat) and switch all carbs to wholegrain (brown pasta, small amounts of brown bread and brown rice).

Make sure your food is tasty.

Get out for a walk every day and get yourself to the gym 3 times a week and get advice on a good workout so that you maximise your time in the gym.

You are going to look and feel better than you ever have before. Good luck.

Transform

man fair play to all the changes and your doing super so now have a look at the stickies and post up your diet later today with the changes you have made.

Also are you exercising?

netwhizkid

I went to the Aura Health and Fitness Centre in Killarney today (The Council owned new pool and Gym) and had a look around and met the instructor there and he was a real nice guy and I will maybe start around the middle of the week and take out membership once the management trouble is sorted out. I am not a fitness type of person yet, but the gear they have in there seems cutting edge so I will get my diet sorted (I am overdoing it I admit) and start pumping iron then.

t00116131

out of interest how much is the aura gym in killarney

netwhizkid

t00116131 wrote: »

out of interest how much is the aura gym in killarney

The costs vary and there appears to be no flat fee, I have attached a scan of some of the stuff I got there today. Membership is limited to one month as it will come under new management come September as it is apparently losing money, which doesn't surprise me since they are heating a 25metre pool using Gas and Killarney isn't even on the Bord Gais grid, hello bottomless moneypit:rolleyes: Local woodchips would have been the right thing as they would cheaper and ecofriendly. Sorry for OT:(