the spare tyre must go!! Advice please :-)

legsXI

I see lots of you giving great advice so hope someone can offer me some wisdom!! I really want to lose 8 to 10 pounds. Although my weight is in the normal range all my excess fat falls on my hips and stomach, serious love handle situation :-) Is it possible to lose this amount through exercise alone?

Diets don't really work for me and in the past I've had issues with food so don't want to fall into a pattern of restrictive eating, I feel exercise is the way to go. I'm female, 20, 5"9', 143 lbs, light smoker and I have access to a swimming pool and gym. Any advice would be hugely appreciated even if you think weight loss isn't possible, I'm trying to get my fitness back after my 2-and-a-half year break from competitive sport that has been replaced with trips to the pub!! Thanks

dubois90

you have to get your diet in check if you want to see results. although you can eat healthy and enjoy your food

well maby if you have a long way to go to lose fat then maby not but at the moment im trying to get big so my diet rules

squod

legsXI wrote: »

I see lots of you giving great advice so hope someone can offer me some wisdom!! I really want to lose 8 to 10 pounds. Although my weight is in the normal range all my excess fat falls on my hips and stomach, serious love handle situation :-) Is it possible to lose this amount through exercise alone?

Diets don't really work for me and in the past I've had issues with food so don't want to fall into a pattern of restrictive eating, I feel exercise is the way to go. I'm female, 20, 5"9', 143 lbs, light smoker and I have access to a swimming pool and gym. Any advice would be hugely appreciated even if you think weight loss isn't possible, I'm trying to get my fitness back after my 2-and-a-half year break from competitive sport that has been replaced with trips to the pub!! Thanks

Have you thought about taking up a sport again? Squash, tennis or golf maybe? You may have more of an interest in the gym if you can reflect your progress directly by playing a sport again, even if it's not as regular as your previous sports activity.

discombobulate

squod wrote: »

Have you thought about taking up a sport again? Squash, tennis or golf maybe? You may have more of an interest in the gym if you can reflect your progress directly by playing a sport again, even if it's not as regular as your previous sports activity.

When I started with everything a few months ago the last thing on my mind was diet. I just thought its all good go to the gym and eat what I want and it'd all fall off but then realised diet is the MAIN part of it. I'm far from being on a diet but by cutting out the **** it works.

I find i'm actually eating more but better now and it works. Dieting doesn't have to involve starving yourself but just cutting out the ****. You can eat as much if not more when its "good" food