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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Well I do and I look great AND I'm healthy.

    (Someone back me up here)
    I think this is what you are looking for http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/d5/c2/b3d5c2194d9006449ea8f431b7bbd3ac.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,394 ✭✭✭Transform


    Focusing on calories burned (more like calories earned for most as that's how they see it) or calorie counting is an ass backward approach.

    The food industry WANTS you to think there are no 'bad' foods just keep focusing on calories.

    Focus on better food quality first (no wheat, no sugar), do that for about a year and go walking, foam roll, stretch and throw in some body weight movements when you can, do that for at least a year. Simples


  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Allen Lively Wagon


    Well I do and I look great AND I'm healthy.

    (Someone back me up here)

    I also like rashers and see nothing wrong with them!

    You look alright. I spose...


    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    There was a post on this site before about someone who became really good at doing certain things because, at the very beginning, they took it really slowly.

    If they were learning to run, for example, they would start by running for 30 seconds. The next day they would increase that to 60 seconds. This would continue until they were able to run for 45 minutes.

    I've made that example up but the point is still valid. Take things really slowly at the start. If you try to change too many things, you'll give up and go back to your previous lifestyle.

    Try cutting out the coke and taytos for a week. After that, incorporate something healthy, such as veg, into your diet. Take it really slowly.

    You won't see the benefits for a while.

    I moved to England in September and started looking at my diet in October. When I got home for Christmas, my parents couldn't believe how much slimmer I was. Take a photo and keep it somewhere only you can see it. My parents reaction was the photo that I should have taken.

    When you've sorted out your diet, then start to look at exercising regularly. For that, Couch to 5k is perfect. That's not to say that you should sit on the couch all day up until that point. Get out and start walking, especially as it's kind of decent outside at the moment.

    Good luck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭drumswan


    Transform wrote: »
    Focus on better food quality first (no wheat, no sugar), do that for about a year and go walking, foam roll, stretch and throw in some body weight movements when you can, do that for at least a year. Simples
    No wheat and no sugar for a year? Id rather be fat tbh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭ClareP1983


    Thanks for the comments everyone ~ I have made an appointment with my nutritionist and am making a weekly planner for diet and exercise. I am by no means feeling sorry for myself and I know I am the one to blame so I just have to correct it now.

    I downloaded coach to 5K and myfitnesspal.

    Is there any other app you would recommend?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭cc87


    ClareP1983 wrote: »
    Thanks for the comments everyone ~ I have made an appointment with my nutritionist and am making a weekly planner for diet and exercise. I am by no means feeling sorry for myself and I know I am the one to blame so I just have to correct it now.

    I downloaded coach to 5K and myfitnesspal.

    Is there any other app you would recommend?
    Not an app but its worth finding a few podcasts you enjoy so if you do some walking/jogging you have something to listen to other than music


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    loyatemu wrote: »
    It may not make you fat but processed meat, in particular bacon & ham are unhealthy in other ways due to salt and nitrate content (unless this advice has been debunked, but I haven't heard that) - I wouldn't eat it every day.

    solved :)

    http://www.jackmccarthy.ie/shop/products-page-2/bacon/nitrate-free-bacon-rashers

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,394 ✭✭✭Transform


    drumswan wrote: »
    No wheat and no sugar for a year? Id rather be fat tbh.
    And I'm out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    ClareP1983 wrote: »
    Thanks for the comments everyone ~ I have made an appointment with my nutritionist and am making a weekly planner for diet and exercise. I am by no means feeling sorry for myself and I know I am the one to blame so I just have to correct it now.

    I downloaded coach to 5K and myfitnesspal.

    Is there any other app you would recommend?
    myFitnessPal is all you need really, just don't pay much attention to its "calories burnt from <x> exercise" bit, they are estimates at the best of times and they seem to have some of the worst ive ever seen.

    You just need to ensure you track every single thing you eat and it won't be long before you can develop a good picture of what can be improved to get some good results. A digital scales would be a good investment too as portion size is something a lot of people would have trouble with and most likely underestimate. When you see how "big" recommend portion size of foods like cornflakes are you could be shocked...

    How long this takes and how far you want to go with it all depends on how seriously you take it but the most important thing to remember is it needs to be a lifestyle change and not a "quick fix", so small changes over time would be a lot easier to try and keep.

    You also don't need to go as extreme as "never touching wheat/sugar" again or any junk food, infact I would highly recommend having the cheat meal once a week [within reason] as it won't have much of an affect on your overall diet and less likely to go off the rails later and just completely binge.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Redser87


    I completely agree with the idea of having one cheat meal a week. Following injuries and various things I realised at the start of the year that I had about a stone to lose. I've lost it now and at this stage it's just about maintaining healthy habits and exercising for muscle tone. One of the things I would absolutely swear by is my Friday treat. It can be a take-away, a chocolate bar, whatever, and while it does not necessarily have to be Fridays it usually is. It means though that if I go to the cinema on a Wednesday and have sugary stuff then, nothing on Friday. It means you can control your cravings in a positive way, rather than thinking 'this is too much' and giving up entirely. Fair play to you for starting healthy habits, good luck :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Redser87 wrote: »
    I completely agree with the idea of having one cheat meal a day.

    I presume you mean 'week' and not 'day'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Redser87


    Wishful thinking!!


  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Allen Lively Wagon


    I'm totally behind the once a day idea :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭cynicalcough


    GarIT wrote: »
    MyFitnessPal is wrong for the amount of calories burned in exercise. Whatever you see on MFP you need to divide by 5.

    On the couch to 5k program you are burning about 120 calories for the first 3-4 weeks.

    I agree that MFP estimates are inaccurate but so is your guess of 120 for couch to 5k. The amount of calories burned is going to be very different for a 17 stone woman than a ten stone woman for example.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    OP, I know a girl who weighed the same as you and in space of a year or maybe 18 months lost it - she is now a size 8 and has run a few marathons. Just thought Id post that to show you it can be done.


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