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worried about my diet and suffering from cellulite

  • 25-10-2013 10:26pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    I need advice on my diet please people..

    I live on fast food! I'd have probably 3 subways a week, mcdonalds atleast 3 times a week and chicken fillet rolls a few times a week a plus crisps, coca cola and usually sweets whilst in college That's my main diet. I don't play any sport and only excersize would be an hours walk with the dog everyday.

    The reason I live on those foods is simply because it's handy and I really love fast food but I'm really suffering from severe cellulite around my stomach and it upsets me.

    Man boobs are a family trait and couple that with my cellulite and it's not pretty :(



    I'm not particularly fat i'm about 12 stone and 6'1 so i'v the height atleast:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    I'd be more worried about my cholesterol levels and the sugar rotting my teeth than the cellulite!

    Are you living away from home? If you are, then you should know living on fast food is not only unhealthy, but seriously expensive. And I thought students were supposed to be poor! :P

    Can you at least try to cut down the fast food to once a week, and eat healthily for the remainder? Can you cook? I'd grab a recipe book, ask your Mum or some mates for tips on making healthier food to eat. Have a few mates round for a bit of a cook-out - it'll be fun and you can swap recipes.

    HTH! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    How old are you and what's your living arrangements - do you have a kitchen?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    How old are you and what's your living arrangements - do you have a kitchen?

    I'm 21 and still living at home. It's more of a life style to be honest. I'v been living on this type of food most of my life and rarely would have a home cooked meal.


    Given that i'm not very active How i'm not obese i'll never know :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    I suggest you look at Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food recipes. Great and simple and easy to follow recipes for good wholesome food.

    Learn how to make proper food - you'll save money and stop the path that you're headed on.

    The cellulite is only an indicator of the effects of the bad stuff you're ingesting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Water is also good for flushing out the toxins that cause cellulite (if you believe cellulite exists). Do you drink water, and if so, how much?

    I have to say I've never heard of cellulite on the stomach. It's more on the lower half of the body (thighs/bottom).

    Knock the booze on the head too. Cut the drinking down if you can.

    BTW - Are you sure it's real chicken in them there rolls? According to recent reports, there's all kinds of rubbish in the burgers and nuggets...:eek:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    Water is also good for flushing out the toxins that cause cellulite (if you believe cellulite exists). Do you drink water, and if so, how much?

    I have to say I've never heard of cellulite on the stomach. It's more on the lower half of the body (thighs/bottom).

    Knock the booze on the head too. Cut the drinking down if you can.

    BTW - Are you sure it's real chicken in them there rolls? According to recent reports, there's all kinds of rubbish in the burgers and nuggets...:eek:

    I don't drink booze. I'd drink a good bit strawberry water but not much tap water. i defo have blotchy, lumpy type skin around my stomach. i googled it and it looks like cellulite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    I'd advise starting with changing one habit at a time. It can seem totally overwhelming to have a sudden lifestyle change overnight and the danger is you'll fall back on bad habits and give up altogether.

    You could start a list of week-by-week changes you want to make:

    - This week I'll only have one Subway
    - This week I'll only have one small 'sweet' thing per day (E.G mini chocolate bar instead of full one - shops full of Halloween bumper packs of treat-size things at the moment)
    - This week I'll start the day with a healthy breakfast every day - porridge or eggs or fruit and yogurt etc
    - This week I'll eat vegetables with my dinner every day

    ..and so on and so forth. On top of that, get yourself a decent recipe book like that Jamie Oliver one and get cracking in the kitchen. You'll save yourself a pretty penny too, instead of buying crap all the time you'll start packing lunches and making your own dinners.

    I'd be a fairly healthy eater - have a wicked sweet tooth but find if I'm eating enough of the right stuff and my body isn't nutrient/vitamin-deprived, I crave the crap stuff less.

    A good rule of thumb is to eat protein with every meal - eggs in the morning, chicken at lunch, beef/fish/any other meat or poultry in the evening. Once you've mastered that, add vegetables and fruit to each meal and you're sailing.

    There's room for the takeouts / chocolate / sweets too, but you'll find as you switch up your diet and start feeding yourself 'real' food - you'll want it less and less.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    jamesr123 wrote: »
    I don't drink booze. I'd drink a good bit strawberry water but not much tap water. i defo have blotchy, lumpy type skin around my stomach. i googled it and it looks like cellulite.

    I'd switch to plain spring water. Strawberry water is full of additives, artificial sweeteners and assorted rubbish!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    A great alternative for the mind is to learn how to make the equivalent of that fast food meal at home!

    Chicken burger with mayo and fries in McDonalds?
    Roasted chicken breast in wholemeal baps with low fat mayo and a slice or two of lettuce.

    As for Subway, that's easy - they've taken one of the most straightforward meals with the potential for getting fibre, vegetables and protein into you, and ruined it :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Would your parents cook at all?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    ShaShaBear wrote: »
    A great alternative for the mind is to learn how to make the equivalent of that fast food meal at home!

    Chicken burger with mayo and fries in McDonalds?
    Roasted chicken breast in wholemeal baps with low fat mayo and a slice or two of lettuce.

    As for Subway, that's easy - they've taken one of the most straightforward meals with the potential for getting fibre, vegetables and protein into you, and ruined it :p

    Subway is fine as long as you eat something like a 6 inch club minus the bacon and cheese. Use the wheat bread, pack on the veg and maybe a drizzle of honey mustard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    OP you are 21 now and you have come to a y junction in your life. You can either start making your own food and watch out for high fat and sugar, or you can eat your way into diabetes and be overweight your whole life. You are 12 stone now, if you keep this up when you hit 25 and your metabolism starts to slow down you will probably be pushing 18 stone and from there is a slow road down to grossly obese.

    Man boobs do not run in any family, you have been gorging on junk food and that's why you have them.

    Your OP was littered with euphemisms, you don't have a problem with cellulite, you are overweight. You can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to us.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Kody Stocky Vent


    kjl wrote: »
    Subway is fine as long as you eat something like a 6 inch club minus the bacon and cheese. Use the wheat bread, pack on the veg and maybe a drizzle of honey mustard.

    I'd go the opposite myself, no bread but eat the bacon and cheese and loads of veg :)

    OP you could read the info in the health and fitness forum stickies, they would give a good starting point


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    kjl wrote: »

    Man boobs do not run in any family, you have been gorging on junk food and that's why you have them.

    Your OP was littered with euphemisms, you don't have a problem with cellulite, you are overweight. You can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to us.

    12 stone is just about right for my age.. I don't understand how I could be considered fat if that's the weight i'm supposed to be and if I was any skinnier I'd be a skeleton lol..

    And man boobs do run in the family.. My brother is fanatic about his diet and works in the gym 5 days a week for the past 3 years. He has a pair of man boobs. He went to the doctor and was told it's probably somthing that runs in the family and nothing can really be done about them.

    I don't have a healthy diet but i'm certaintly not in denial.. If I thought I was fat i'd admit it but I'm just not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    There was a documentary on that a couple of years ago on Ch 4 and it is actually a medical thing. There's a name for it... According to Google, this is it!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia

    Anyway, we can't give medical advice, so moving on.

    OP you might be a healthy weight for your size at the min, but you are not healthy. As another poster said, try and change one thing every week, do it gradually.

    Cooking from scratch sounds impossible, but it's not, really really it isn't. The food industry has the Western world brainwashed that bunging something with additives into a microwave is easier than spending half an hour cooking something. It might be instantly easier, but by god, you'll pay in the long run.

    Do you know how to cook at all, OP? Can you fry up sausages for example? Once you get that basic principle, it all follows the same rule. I hate to sound smug but it puzzles me how people say they find cooking hard. Sure you might try something new and find out it tastes like a dog's dinner, but applying heat in a certain timeframe is not too hard!

    Buy a bag of onions, a couple of different spices and herbs (Tesco own brand are very cheap) chicken breasts, stock, veg (even frozen peas) and you basically have curry for like a week. How much easier, and you know exactly what went into it.

    How are you for fruit and veg?

    We are more than 'brains in a jar' as Caitlin Moran puts it. You only get one body, and if you look after it, it'll look after you :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    I went to the doctor years ago as a child to get my man boobs checks and that's exactly what he said 'breast tissue'.. My father, brothers and I have it..


    I do like to cook and can make most things from scratch. To be honest it's more lazyness than anything else.. I have college during the week and then volunteer on thursdays. Subway and mcdonalds are on my way home.. It's just so handy for me.

    Since this post i'v kinda improved my diet a small bit. I had a salad for dinner on saturday, Pork with peas, potatoes and carrots on sunday and tuna sandwhich with sweetcorn today.

    I will eat all the 'good' foods but I just prefer to eat fast-food. Particularly subway :(

    I don't drink or smoke and because of that I have a good bit of money to myself everyweek which is why I binge on the crap...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Why not have your Macky D's/Subway/KFC on a Thursday night then? Continue to eat well during the week. Sorted!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    Well, why don't you limit Subway to one a week? I know I probably came off like a big hippy in my first post, but I do love a big dirty McDonalds every now and then :)

    The thing about it, why I personally have got way more into cooking from scratch, is that financially it makes way more sense. I get veg from Lidl and meat kind of in bulk from Tesco or Dunnes. Money is really tight so I'd rather spend a tenner on something like nail varnishes or a couple of magazines than something that won't fill me and will be gone in a couple of minutes.

    It sounds to me that you are kind of using food as a reward, can you replace it with something else?

    Subway isn't the worst in the world, but they're a lot higher in calories than they let on. Having one more than once a week isn't really ideal. Maybe pick a day and make that Subway day?

    The flavoured water as well, I think there's something you can buy that lets you put actual fruit in a filter and make flavoured water that way- cheaper and healthier.

    You're not actually that bad really, we all have our weaknesses. Mine is chocolate, and by gum I can put it away. But I try and eat well apart from that so I can allow myself choc, you can do the same.

    Perhaps the cellulite is due to lack of exercise rather than poor diet? 12 stone is actually pretty thin for 6'1, maybe you might want to think of doing more muscle building exercise?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    ivytwine wrote: »
    Well, why don't you limit Subway to one a week? I know I probably came off like a big hippy in my first post, but I do love a big dirty McDonalds every now and then :)

    The thing about it, why I personally have got way more into cooking from scratch, is that financially it makes way more sense. I get veg from Lidl and meat kind of in bulk from Tesco or Dunnes. Money is really tight so I'd rather spend a tenner on something like nail varnishes or a couple of magazines than something that won't fill me and will be gone in a couple of minutes.

    It sounds to me that you are kind of using food as a reward, can you replace it with something else?

    Subway isn't the worst in the world, but they're a lot higher in calories than they let on. Having one more than once a week isn't really ideal. Maybe pick a day and make that Subway day?

    The flavoured water as well, I think there's something you can buy that lets you put actual fruit in a filter and make flavoured water that way- cheaper and healthier.

    You're not actually that bad really, we all have our weaknesses. Mine is chocolate, and by gum I can put it away. But I try and eat well apart from that so I can allow myself choc, you can do the same.

    Perhaps the cellulite is due to lack of exercise rather than poor diet? 12 stone is actually pretty thin for 6'1, maybe you might want to think of doing more muscle building exercise?

    Truth be told I just weighed myself with the digital scales. It reads 11 and a half stone. It amazes me, I'm unfit but never really seem to put on much weight..


    I'v always had people tell me i'm like a stick.. Which is why I was so suprised when I started seeing the cellulite on my stomach.. I'm doing a college course atm and a couple of the 17 year olds have more muscle than me :o I have my height which everyone comments on :pac:

    I think you hit the nail on the head there actually. I'v never played any type of sport and since I got the car 2-3 years ago the only excersize I get is walking the dog an hour a night.. I started working with the civil defence last week so i'm hoping that'll get me more active than I am..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    You can be thin and have cellulite. I did.

    Only thing to get rid of it was exercise, body brushing, detoxing in sauna and gallons of water.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    jamesr123 wrote: »
    Truth be told I just weighed myself with the digital scales. It reads 11 and a half stone. It amazes me, I'm unfit but never really seem to put on much weight..


    I'v always had people tell me i'm like a stick.. Which is why I was so suprised when I started seeing the cellulite on my stomach.. I'm doing a college course atm and a couple of the 17 year olds have more muscle than me :o I have my height which everyone comments on :pac:

    I think you hit the nail on the head there actually. I'v never played any type of sport and since I got the car 2-3 years ago the only excersize I get is walking the dog an hour a night.. I started working with the civil defence last week so i'm hoping that'll get me more active than I am..

    You have one of *those* metabolisms, but your diet and lack of exercise are starting to show. The car is deadly temptation, is there ever a case where you can leave it at home or are you too far from college or volunteering? Or is there a way you could park it somewhere further away (and safe) and walk the last leg to college? It's amazing the difference those little things make. My house at home is a bungalow and the difference now I have a stairs again is mad! (Helpful that I'm always forgetting stuff I suppose!)

    Joining Civil Defence should help!

    Do you like swimming or gym? Swimming is fantastic exercise, probably the best there is!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 430 ✭✭jamesr123


    ivytwine wrote: »
    You have one of *those* metabolisms, but your diet and lack of exercise are starting to show. The car is deadly temptation, is there ever a case where you can leave it at home or are you too far from college or volunteering? Or is there a way you could park it somewhere further away (and safe) and walk the last leg to college? It's amazing the difference those little things make. My house at home is a bungalow and the difference now I have a stairs again is mad! (Helpful that I'm always forgetting stuff I suppose!)

    Joining Civil Defence should help!

    Do you like swimming or gym? Swimming is fantastic exercise, probably the best there is!

    I hate any kind of exercise mate. I avoid it whenever I can. The hour walk is enough for me..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    jamesr123 wrote: »
    I hate any kind of exercise mate. I avoid it whenever I can. The hour walk is enough for me..

    Then you really need to make sure your diet is perfect.

    Head over to the health and nutrition forums and check out the stickies there.

    Full of really great information.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    jamesr123 wrote: »
    I hate any kind of exercise mate. I avoid it whenever I can. The hour walk is enough for me..
    What makes you "hate" it? It would be true to say that most forms of exercise are tough to get started initially, but I get the impression from saying "The hour is enough for me" that you just find it boring.

    I would urge you to give some other forms of exercise a try. Are you an extrovert? Group stuff like martial arts will give you intensive exercise in a highly social setting.
    Introvert? Plenty of sports give you the opportunity to stick in some headphones and drift off into your own thoughts.

    As said above, if you don't want to exercise, then your diet needs to be spot on, but there are a few things which can't be managed on diet alone. Exercise is known to improve mood & sex drive. It also causes the release of testosterone and other chemicals which result in improved metabolism and muscle tone - basically earning you more bang for your buck when combined with a decent diet. Regular exercise will also help you sleep better and, improve your concentration when awake.

    Over the long-term, regular moderate exercise will reduce your chances of suffering with just about every ailment known to old age - mental illnesses like alzheimers, heart disease, osteoporosis*, diabetes, and a whole host of other things.

    I understand that right now you're looking at yourself and thinking, "How do I fix me right now?", but if you don't focus on the future you will find yourself in ten years' time no longer worrying about your diet, but worrying about how awfully unfit you seem to be and how you just can't get through hard days like you used to. Ten years after that, it'll be those weird pains you get in your chest every now and again, and ten years after that you'll be worrying about how you'll remember to take all of your pills correctly every day.

    *Light impact exercise like jogging is shown to improve bone density, even in OAPs. So while people usually are told to take it easy and stop stuff like jogging at 50/60, if anything people should be doing more of it in their 40s and 50s and on into their 70s, if they can


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