Help with weight loss bet

Jaythelad

Back story. 4 months ago I weighed 94kg. I now weigh 107 as I have been travelling around various countries and been lazy, eating junk food and boozing a lot.

So the other day me and my friend made a weight loss bet. I have to drop 3.3kg. Anything between 2.5 and 3.2 is a tie. Anything lower, he wins. The weigh in is on the morning of the 9th of January.

So what would be the best way for me to go about this? Also when we weighed myself at the start. It was night time. So I figure I will be slightly lighter in a morning weigh in anyway. Plus on the 6th, 7th and 8th I will be doing lots of intense skiing. All help/tips is much appreciated as the winner of this bet gets €500!

Im also 6ft if that helpd.

davesheahan

Jay
that should be easy as you have been living a bad lifestyle as outlined above and also I would assume you have overindulged at xmas as is normal for everyone. So you need to lose about half a stone in 9 days.

here is what you do :

for the next 9 days drink minimum 4 litres water a day
cut out all processed foods
exercise first thing in the morning
consume mainly fruit, veg, salad and berries as they are water based food and will help detox
limit carb intake to before 4pm each day

that should do it no probs

let me know how you get on

To Your Success

Dave

repsol

davesheahan wrote: »

Jay
that should be easy as you have been living a bad lifestyle as outlined above and also I would assume you have overindulged at xmas as is normal for everyone. So you need to lose about half a stone in 9 days.

here is what you do :

for the next 9 days drink minimum 4 litres water a day
cut out all processed foods
exercise first thing in the morning
consume mainly fruit, veg, salad and berries as they are water based food and will help detox
limit carb intake to before 4pm each day

that should do it no probs

let me know how you get on

To Your Success

Dave

I agree with the above post.If you lose too much weight you can "water load" on the day of the weigh in to reach the target.

Jaythelad

davesheahan wrote: »

Jay
that should be easy as you have been living a bad lifestyle as outlined above and also I would assume you have overindulged at xmas as is normal for everyone. So you need to lose about half a stone in 9 days.

here is what you do :

for the next 9 days drink minimum 4 litres water a day
cut out all processed foods
exercise first thing in the morning
consume mainly fruit, veg, salad and berries as they are water based food and will help detox
limit carb intake to before 4pm each day

that should do it no probs

let me know how you get on

To Your Success

Dave

Cheers dave! But when you say cut out all processed food. That takes away a lot of options haha. If I was at home it would be easy. Id just stick to chicken and vegetables. But im travelling at the moment so that makes it a bit harder.

Any particular gym exercises that would be good in particular for this?

Jaythelad

repsol wrote: »

I agree with the above post.If you lose too much weight you can "water load" on the day of the weigh in to reach the target.

Im not looking to gain weight?

I have to lose 3.3kg

repsol

Jaythelad wrote: »

Im not looking to gain weight?

I have to lose 3.3kg

Sorry, I thought you meant EXACTLY 3.3kg to win the bet not over

Jaythelad

Decent enough start. Have been drinking plenty of water and earing right. One thing I wanted to know though. January 10th is the end of my travels. If I go out for a big nights boozing twice more. Say, thursday night and monday night. Will that ruin any chances I have of succeeding in the weigh in next wednesday?

Doug Cartel

Cut the sodium from your diet, and from the fifth to the third day before your weigh in, drink 8 litres of water a day, 24 hours before the weigh in no food or water, and make sure your bowls are empty before you get on the scales - 3.3 kg should be easy.

If you haven't done this before, you're going to feel fairly wrecked from it, so the question is whether the bet is more important than enjoying your holiday.

Jaythelad

Doug Cartel wrote: »

Cut the sodium from your diet, and from the fifth to the third day before your weigh in, drink 8 litres of water a day, 24 hours before the weigh in no food or water, and make sure your bowls are empty before you get on the scales - 3.3 kg should be easy.

If you haven't done this before, you're going to feel fairly wrecked from it, so the question is whether the bet is more important than enjoying your holiday.

Is 8 litres a day even possible!!? Ive already had a blast and im determined to beat my mate so it def wont make me not enjoy the rest of my time. Are the 2 nights boozing I mentioned above, do able or would that wreck my chances?

Caliden

I think you know the answer to that if you have to ask being honest.

You're not going to lose weight if you go 'boozing' (also implies more than a few drinks) that's for sure.
You could limit the damage if you eat fruit/salad only on the 2 days of boozing.

You could always not drink and be in with a better chance of winning 500 quid

Doug Cartel

Jaythelad wrote: »

Is 8 litres a day even possible!!?

Actually, scratch what I said, I was mainly having a laugh. But in the unlikely event that you were going to do that and continue boozing it would be a ridiculous amount of water to drink, and it's not something you want to do without a bit of caution.

Jaythelad

Haha alright. Ill just stick to what the first reply said. 4 litres per day, good food and on the 2 days I drink alcohol ill do extra exercise. For what its worth ive decided instead of beer/cider. On the nights I drink, ill have vodka, diet softdrink. Hopefully that will help?

Stench Blossoms

Jaythelad wrote: »

Haha alright. Ill just stick to what the first reply said. 4 litres per day, good food and on the 2 days I drink alcohol ill do extra exercise. For what its worth ive decided instead of beer/cider. On the nights I drink, ill have vodka, diet softdrink. Hopefully that will help?

Can you seriously not go a few days without drinking?

Tipperary animal lover

Jaythelad wrote: »

Haha alright. Ill just stick to what the first reply said. 4 litres per day, good food and on the 2 days I drink alcohol ill do extra exercise. For what its worth ive decided instead of beer/cider. On the nights I drink, ill have vodka, diet softdrink. Hopefully that will help?

Stay away from the diet drinks, if your travelling drink freshly squeezed oj our tonic water with your vodka.

madma

I think your nuts even thinking about goin drinking with that amount of money up for grabs..

if you do go drinking 2 nights you will put a big question mark over whether you can lose the weight.. its not just the booze, even if you did drink spirits which wouldnt effect you that much, its the urge then to eat crap food like a takeaway after it or general eating crap when you get in, also the next day hungover you'll have less energy and probably wont want to excercise and again the urge to eat crap and less energy..

the groutch

can't believe the OP is going through with this.
crash dieting like this is gonna do more harm than good imo.

Jaythelad

Might only go out 1 night then. And only reason im even doing that is because its my last weeks travelling. I dont think a 9 day crash diet with intense exercise will do me any harm. After the 10th ill be back in my normal healthy routine and be back in the shape I was before travelling in no time!

seamus

Intense exercise in the 48 hours before weighing in will increase your weight temporarily rather than reduce it. Light exercise only.

Hopefully you're also aware that this isn't real weight loss, it's just fooling the scales. The actual fat composition of your body is unlikely to have changed much over the 9 days.

ronan45

davesheahan wrote: »

Jay
that should be easy as you have been living a bad lifestyle as outlined above and also I would assume you have overindulged at xmas as is normal for everyone. So you need to lose about half a stone in 9 days.

here is what you do :

for the next 9 days drink minimum 4 litres water a day
cut out all processed foods
exercise first thing in the morning
consume mainly fruit, veg, salad and berries as they are water based food and will help detox
limit carb intake to before 4pm each day

that should do it no probs

let me know how you get on

To Your Success

Dave

Dave just curious what does eating carbs after 4pm do? Im thinking it is assumed the person starts to power down for the evening and wont work off the carbs?

hollypink

seamus wrote: »

Intense exercise in the 48 hours before weighing in will increase your weight temporarily rather than reduce it.

Never knew that; why is that?

seamus

Don't know if it's fact, it's just from my own personal observations.

My pet theory on it is that in the repair/building process, your body retains fluid around the affected muscles, resulting in a temporary increase in weight. It's particularly apparent if you develop DOMS, as the affected muscles are quite taut and inflamed.

Jaythelad

seamus wrote: »

Intense exercise in the 48 hours before weighing in will increase your weight temporarily rather than reduce it. Light exercise only.

Hopefully you're also aware that this isn't real weight loss, it's just fooling the scales. The actual fat composition of your body is unlikely to have changed much over the 9 days.

Yeh I know I wont actually lose that much fat. So what would everyone reccomend for the last 48 hours (all day monday, all day tues up until weigh in on wed morning)? Taking into consideration ill be skiing for them 2days.

rok

Lean forward on the scales, or keep your foot over the edge of the scales, might shave off a few pounds :P

Orla K

rok wrote: »

Lean forward on the scales, or keep your foot over the edge of the scales, might shave off a few pounds :P

Standing with your feet together works too!

davesheahan

When I said cut out the processed foods this refers to all the junk as well as all the packaged foods which are loaded with artificial sweeteners, preservatives, chemicals etc and the food and nutrition content is low. All the sugars etc in these food make it very hard to get in shape and are terrible for your health. Even though you are travelling it is a case of making the right choices.

davesheahan

Ronan you have the gist of it.
By not eating carbs after 4pm and assuming you are up until 11pm you are ensuring all carbs are burned off. And when this is the case the body will only have fat to burn as fuel. In the evening time most are winding down so no need for carbs as any excess will get stored as fat. So this is a strategy to accelerate fat loss

hope that explains it ok

To Your Success

Dave

Mellor

seamus wrote: »

Intense exercise in the 48 hours before weighing in will increase your weight temporarily rather than reduce it. Light exercise only.

It won't, unless you drink a lot of water. You can't create mass from nothing. So you can't retain water unless you over hydrate.

Intense exercise beforehand a pretty standard way to cut weight for a weigh in. It's just water weight, but that's fine for the purposes of a bet. 3.5 Kg in 9 days is easy enough.

Hopefully you're also aware that this isn't real weight loss, it's just fooling the scales. The actual fat composition of your body is unlikely to have changed much over the 9 days.

Exactly

davesheahan wrote: »

Ronan you have the gist of it.
By not eating carbs after 4pm and assuming you are up until 11pm you are ensuring all carbs are burned off. And when this is the case the body will only have fat to burn as fuel. In the evening time most are winding down so no need for carbs as any excess will get stored as fat. So this is a strategy to accelerate fat loss

Sorry Dave, buts both of those points are wrong.
Eating carbs after 4pm is of no real difference compared to spreading them out, assuming the amounts are the same. Total energy in/out. Think of it this way, the person spreading carbs over the day must eat less carbs before 4pm (if quantities are the same), so during the day they are burning up more fat to make ip for that. The whole day averages the same.


And unused carbs n the evening don't get stored as fat. They get stored as glycogen, readily accessible energy for when you need it, ie the next day. Only over-eating causes fat storage, and even then its rarely carbs that are ever stored as fat.

the groutch

wonder how this debacle panned out