How can i loose the last stone!!!

pw01

Breakie is poridge made with water (large bowl!)
Low fat yogurt at 11
Beans and 1 slice of wholemeal toast for lunch and apple
orange and 3 cracker bread slices at 4
portion of mushrooms and butternut sqush soup for dinner

Of a sunday i treat myself to pizza & chips &wine!

Go for a half hour fast walk every day

How can i improve, have already lost 2 stone, cant shift the last one

corkcomp

pw01 wrote: »

Breakie is poridge made with water (large bowl!)
Low fat yogurt at 11
Beans and 1 slice of wholemeal toast for lunch and apple
orange and 3 cracker bread slices at 4
portion of mushrooms and butternut sqush soup for dinner

Of a sunday i treat myself to pizza & chips &wine!

Go for a half hour fast walk every day

How can i improve, have already lost 2 stone, cant shift the last one

swap beans on toast for large mixed salad and some lean meat or fish - swap crackers at 4 for apple and / or few nuts - include more veg with dinner and some protein

Frogdog

Maybe the pizza, chips and wine is undoing all the hard work you put in during the week?

pw01

think i nneed beans at lunch - they fill me - otherwise id be tempted to eat junk!

yeah think i'm guna have to cut out the pizza & chips till xmas at least - duno bout the wine though - need a social life as well:)!!!!!!!!

Frogdog

Fair enough - you're allowed the wine!

But you seem to get very little protein in your diet. Protein is needed for the repair/growth and recovery of your muscles. Muscles are the only thing in your body that burns fat. The more muscle you have, the more fat you burn. Include some form of protein in each meal/snack. Are you lifting weights? Weights are way better for burning bodyfat than cardio in my opinion.

timefortea

you need way more protein and cut out a lot of the carbs. A mate of mine is a personal trainer and he would advise adding a source of protein like flax seed or protein supplement to breakfast etc and eating very few carbs if any at all.

I don't see any mention of meat - are you a vegetarian?
If not as someone said lean meat or fish are essential.
If so you would need the beans and the protein powder or flax seed.

gavkm27

Sounds like you are doing pretty good so far,maybe you need to change things up a bit,it's hard to say exactly how to do this,would need to know your age,height,weight and body % of fat to figure out where you are at.

But from what you have said it sounds like you need to burn more cals,upping the walk to a jog,hitting the gym a few days a week,something to that effect

Greyham

Frogdog wrote: »

Maybe the pizza, chips and wine is undoing all the hard work you put in during the week?

ah a certain amount of deviation is essential to keep the discipline the rest of the time surely?

pw01

i do try and eat red meet once a week - not a big fan though!!

i think i mite try tuna salads instead of the beans on toast for a while b4 it gets too cold:mad:

im 5ft 7 and 10 stone

Tea_Bag

pw01 wrote: »

im 5ft 7 and 10 stone

for the record 10 stone isnt a whole lot.

IPushButtons

Your diet is fine you just need to hit the gym and do a light weight session along with your walking

chachabinx

I do poll dancing once a week & really toned up.. it gets every muscle in your body... anybody can do it & its brilliant & great fun... they do it in Tallaght & on the Long Mile Road in Spin Dance & Fitness!
Walking isn't really exercise....

lala stone

chachabinx wrote: »

Walking isn't really exercise....

lol!! of course it is

timefortea

pw01 wrote: »

i do try and eat red meet once a week - not a big fan though!!

i think i mite try tuna salads instead of the beans on toast for a while b4 it gets too cold:mad:

im 5ft 7 and 10 stone

your weight is normal - I'm 5 - 4 and 10 stone and wouldn't be anywhere near overweight.

Could you be struggling becuase you are at your optimal weight?

justsomebloke

I have to say I would be a bit worried about the lack of protein and fats in your diet

Frogdog

IPushButtons wrote: »

Your diet is fine you just need to hit the gym and do a light weight session along with your walking

A light weight session??? What will that do? I'll answer for you - it'll do nothing!

Heavy weights (whether you're male or female) are the only way to lose bodyfat. Men build muscle from lifting heavy weights, women don't (to the same extent) - so don't be afraid of the myth that you'll turn into a female bodybuilder if you lift heavy.

Feelight

I know i get stuck when I am eating the same thing day in day out so maybe you need to take on a new menu. Im doing soups one week full of everything good and then next week it will be salads. No bread rice pasta on week days then i eat normally on saturdays and sundays, leaving out all the rubbish was eating before and Ive lost about 17 Ib,s in about 6 weeks
Good luck let us know how you are getting on
Feelight

Xinkai

DROP THE ****ING FORK FATARSE!

Dudess

lala stone wrote: »

lol!! of course it is

Walking may be exercise but not always particularly effective - e.g. on the flat, for a short distance.
OP, if you're not walking uphill, would that be an option? And also could you increase the amount you walk? E.g. from half an hour to an hour a day?

I'd agree with timefortea that because you don't have much weight to lose (and really, your height and weight seem healthy, but maybe you still have some firming up to do?), it's slow to come off. You may still be burning inches though - have you checked the measuring tape? Are your clothes continuing to loosen? I'd pay more attention to those than the scales.

Well done on what you've achieved so far by the way!

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Xinkai wrote: »

DROP THE ****ING FORK FATARSE!

Banned permanently from this forum.

Monkey61

timefortea wrote: »

your weight is normal - I'm 5 - 4 and 10 stone and wouldn't be anywhere near overweight.

Could you be struggling becuase you are at your optimal weight?

I know you are meaning to help, but I don't think that is particularly helpful. Just because a weight is within a "normal" BMI does not mean that it is a weight the OP should be happy with.

At 5'7 and 10 stone, unless the OP has a particularly broad build, or is carrying loads of muscle, then 10 stone could well be overweight. The same goes for 5'4, if you have a larger build and are carrying a lot of muscle then that is fine. But for most women I know (including myself), being 10 stone at 5'4 would actually be quite on the hefty side.

Op, I would up the vegetables and protein and lower the carbs except after exercise. As for the pizza and chips...well that is a minefield because i don't know how big it is and it could be anything up to almost 2000 calories in one meal. For me when I was losing weight, I found that once I got my diet and lifestyle to a suitable level of healthiness, I just didn't want to eat rubbish anymore because it just felt so horrible and I completely lost my taste for it. Instead I found new foodstuffs that I loved more and would look forward to eating. For instance, on a taste and enjoyment basis, I would actually get more excited about a bowl of cottage cheese with herbs, tomatoes and a poached egg then I would about a pizza, which now just tastes of grease to me.

If the pizza and chips is helping you stick to the straight and narrow the rest of the time then fair enough, but watch your portion size and make sure the rest of the day is exceptionally good to make up for it. Also, a big gym session beforehand would go a long way towards undoing the damage.

I found hitting the weights was brilliant for fat loss as well.

metamorphosis

Frogdog wrote: »

A light weight session??? What will that do? I'll answer for you - it'll do nothing!

Heavy weights (whether you're male or female) are the only way to lose bodyfat. Men build muscle from lifting heavy weights, women don't (to the same extent) - so don't be afraid of the myth that you'll turn into a female bodybuilder if you lift heavy.

+1

If i had a nickle for everytime a girl said 'i don't do heavy weights cos i don't want to get bulky' id be as rich as Rupert Murdouch!

Women do not have the testosterone to build muscle. Need proof. Go over to the ladies lounge forum and on the Know your loungers thread where you have to post pictures of yourself look at the pictures of g'em. She lifts and look at her physique. Does she look like helga the hungarian bodybuilder? NO!

Dudess

Monkey61 wrote: »

I know you are meaning to help, but I don't think that is particularly helpful. Just because a weight is within a "normal" BMI does not mean that it is a weight the OP should be happy with.

No, but it could explain why the weight is going off so slowly.

At 5'7 and 10 stone, unless the OP has a particularly broad build, or is carrying loads of muscle, then 10 stone could well be overweight.

Barely though.

timefortea

Monkey61 wrote: »

I know you are meaning to help, but I don't think that is particularly helpful. Just because a weight is within a "normal" BMI does not mean that it is a weight the OP should be happy with.

At 5'7 and 10 stone, unless the OP has a particularly broad build, or is carrying loads of muscle, then 10 stone could well be overweight. The same goes for 5'4, if you have a larger build and are carrying a lot of muscle then that is fine. But for most women I know (including myself), being 10 stone at 5'4 would actually be quite on the hefty side.

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I take the point above and the one about BMI and assuming the OP is female (has this been confirmed?) then 10 stone could be an issue at 5 4 but not at 5 7.
I have found that some women I know focus on losing weight rather than excercising to be healthy.
If you are excercising regularly and eating right - plently of protein, vegetables etc you should feel good about yourself and you shouldn't worry so much about the exact weight.
I feel it really should be a lifestyle choice at the end of the day.
ie. I'm choosing to excercise to feel healthy rather than i'm excercising to lose x amount of stone. If you are doing the latter the chances are you'll jack it all in when you reach your magic weight.
Just my 2 cents but I think it's a healthier outlook than obsessing about the scales.