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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭jane82


    Hunger is your body saying "hey dude Im losing weight".
    Cherish it. When you get to the perfect size you wont be hungry eating the maintenance for that size.
    Im not saying completely starve yourself.
    Go a stone at a time. Find the maintenance for a man your height but a stone lighter. Eat that amount. When you are nearly there drop another stone amount of calories.

    You can do this easier if you eat good foods that dont have as many calories. For example it may take 500 calories of spuds to fill you or 1000 calories of chips.
    You can eat the chips and go hungry or eat the potatoes and still have 500 calories for more potatoes later keeping you comfortable for the day.
    The media say that its terrible to starve yourself etc but once you are aiming to be a healthy size and not a matchstick I dont see the problem once you take your time.
    If you start any exercise you will enjoy it once you get better at it.
    Running is a very underrated thing once you get decent at it its so enjoyable to be doing it.
    Ever see how happy labradour puppys are just running about the place.


    My advice: be a labradour puppy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭ben101


    If you find some pastime you love doing the weight will fall off,if you don't like gyms(agree 100%)find a new past time ,kick boxing ,hill climbing ,five a side football,martial arts and boxing are generally good as the fitness side of it will come naturally as you learn something useful at the same time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    Greenduck wrote: »
    Basically you need to move more and eat less. There's loads of different diets and ways of eating but at the end of the day if you have a decent calorie deficit every day, the lbs are likely to drop.

    Firstly there is no quick fix and nothing is certain. Different diets work for different people. Some people eat no carbs, some do weight watchers, paleo, 5:2....theres tons! Its finding out what works for you. Try and cut out the bad stuff first. Refined sugar, greasy fastfood, convenience foods and try cook from scratch. If you google 'healthy dinners/lunches etc' a rake of recipes and ideas will come up.

    Have your porridge but check the portion size. Also maybe cook with low fat millk or water. Leave out sugar and add some fruit/honey. Eggs on wholemeal are another good brekkie. Watch the portions though.

    For lunch the sambo is grand (depending on the filling) but you might be better with a salad or meat/veg combo Make extra of your healthy dinner and bring in for lunch. Lean meats are great with veg and salad or maybe make some soup. Try eat good carbs such as wholemal (in moderation) sweet potato/quinoa/oats.

    For dinner I would personally avoid starchy carbs and eating too late if at all possible. Lean meat again with vegetables (chicken/prawn stirfry,turkey bolognese etc)are good options.

    Snack with small amounts of fats such as almonds/almond butter on apples and fruit. Just be careful to watch the amount. Too much of anything will up your calories even if it is healthy.

    No one can tell you what exercise to do..only you know what you like. You definitely don't have to run but a mix of cardio and strength is ideal. Walking is good but probably wont shed the lbs like you want.You would really want to be walking a good 5km-10km 5 times a week to drop real weight.
    Try a local class (TRX etc) or join a gym and get a programme made up. If you cant afford this then try cycle to work and/or get a good workout DVD (insanity/Jillian Michales).

    Obviously these are the things that work for me and everyone is different. You will have to eat and do things that are not what you want but it will be worth it in the end. Its about changing your views on exercise and diet. Be positive about your change and open to suggestions and advice.

    Thank you Green duck for taking the time write this, and for carefully reading what I wrote. You've covered all the questions I had, and took into account my preferences.
    Just what I was looking for.

    Also thanks to everyone else who left positive advice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭colman1212


    Greenduck wrote: »
    For dinner I would personally avoid starchy carbs and eating too late if at all possible.

    Good post but I can never understand why people recommend this. If you train in the evening/night, then carbs post training in the evening/night is the best time to get them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭Greenduck


    Everyones different but I find it leaves me bloated and feeling heavy if I eat them too late and always stalls my weight loss. Also fair enough if you're training but not everyone does in the evening. It's trial and error I suppose!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    To echo a few previous points, appetite suppression seems to be the main issue here.

    First thing is to make sure you are not going overboard with calorie reduction. Find your maintenance calories using an online calculator and eat no more than 10% to 15% less per day. E.g. if your maintenance is 3000, shoot for consuming between 2650 and 2700 per day. There's no need to kill yourself.

    Second, find the foods that fill you up the most. There's no golden rule, some people are more satiated with carbs, some protein, some fat. Some people find grains very filling, root veggies or just mountains of chicken breast. Experiment for a few meals, where you keep the calories steady, but change the ratio of protein:carb:fat around. Find a balance that keeps you fuller for longer.

    Consider cardio, but it's not essential. I will say that it will add to the amount of calories you can eat per day so if appetite is an issue, it may help. Count your cardio in calories and add it to your daily target. So taking the above example again, if you do 200 calories of cardio, you can now eat between 2850 and 2900 calories. And 200 calories may not sound like much but that's a small bowl of porridge or 3 boiled eggs.


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