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Sick of being fat

Deise boii

Hello

I'm nearly 36 just under 6ft and in and around 15st 8lbs. I am fed up of being on the big side.

I used to play gaa and would go for a run once a week. I know I need to increase that. I can go for 10k in under an hour which I know would be quite slow but suppose it's a start.

Basically I'm here looking for advice about ways to get down to under 15st maybe closer to 14. I want to change my diet as sometimes it can be good but when work is busy and working long hours I notice it goes to pot

I had ideas that other people would join in here and we support eachother to try and loose a bit or just for encouragement.

Any takers?

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MilfordBud

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Lots of daily fluctuations the last two weeks but stalled at this weight for the moment. I've been consistent in gymming Mon,Wed,Fri plus one hike in there too. Cycling/walking everywhere, haven't used my car since Sunday. Getting good noob gains in the gym on lifts so maybe the weight is muscle because my stomach/waist is definitely coming in a bit. On the other side I've had a few nights out but no more than 4 pints with food any time. I'm definitely not getting enough water though since working from home. When I was in the office I used to drink 3 litres give or take in an 8.5 hour shift, mainly to take a break and go to the water cooler. Don't have that same drive now at home and I'd say some days I drink under a litre of water. My goal for the next bit of time is to up that.

Heading away up around the north coast in a few weeks and would like to be under the 200lbs by then as my short term goal.

Padraig Mor

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Up a little from my last weigh in before holidays but very happy with that TBH. Despite attempting to keep somewhat on track with fasting and exercising, in truth I put down two pretty heavy weeks of eating and drinking. Did a couple of weigh ins during holidays which probably aren't directly comparable due to water retention etc but suffice to say I did jump up substantially - at least 10 pounds anyway. Have hit the fasting and exercise hard since Sunday evening (9th) and delighted that I knocked most of that off very quickly - hoping the last pound or so drops off over the next week and I'm back to where I was. It was something I was worried about as I know from previous experience just how easy it is to drag the 'holiday lapse' out another week.....and another.....and next thing it's Christmas!

whatawaster

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My scales shows one decimal place after the pound. Am I rounding down to the nearest pound? You bet I am.

Padraig Mor

whatawaster

Start - 17st 1lb
Week 1 - 16st 13lb (-2) (-2)
Week 2 - 16st 11lb (-2) (-4)
Week 3 - 16st 9lb (-2) (-6)
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Delighted to be down at all, as it was my wedding anniversary this week and there was 2 days of over-indulgence

lapua20grain

Week 1 133kg
week 13 110kg
23kg lost feeling a lot better averaging 1500cal a day intake

radiotrickster

Week 1: 16 stone 8
Week 2: 16 stone 9.7 // 16 stone 3 (tried two different scales that week as my own had died)
Week 3: 16 stone 0.9
Week 4: 16 stone 3.1
Week 5: 16 stone 1.5
Week 6: 15 stone 12

I’ve been a bit all over the place fluctuating but my period definitely caused that in week 4!

I’m down ten pounds and delighted, but I can already see I’m regaining a bit of it on my waist. I took this week off from exercising as I’m on my holidays and may have eaten more chocolate than I should... We’ll see what happens next week!

rofno1

Lads & lasses,

Can I just say you are all brilliant! Its a great inspiration to read these posts.

Just fantastic work!

Genghis

Not been able to post recently due to being busy at work. While I had a week of minimal loss last week, I was still quite happy as I had achieved my desired range (78-83kg) after 5 or so weeks. Yesterday I was delighted to see some further loss, including passing the all important (psychologically speaking) 2 stone loss milestone - yay! From where I was: headed for 15 stone in early July, I am pleased to say I am 12 stone something (12 11) going into September.

I am staying in the 'fast' phase of the fast800 plan, e.g. net 800 (or probably 800-1000) cals a day. My plan is to enter maintenance on a 5:2 basis around the end of this month, which would be near enough the full 12 weeks recommended. Bearing in mind I wanted to see if I could stick to 3 weeks to begin with, I have found it easy enough to keep going.

I hope to be sub 79kg come end of September, goal of maintenance will then be to stay sub 80kg. I am also going to revisit my old TRX regime this month to see what results a little bit of strength training can get me.

I feel absolutely great, its not just the weight loss, have been eating really healthily and with absolutely no desire for 'junk'. A man transformed

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leovaradkar

Hello all, Im new to this. I always thought I was relatively fit from working and the odd hike, after a recent illness I have been told to lose 10 to 20kgs, my current weight is approx 100kgs and the doctor told me I was obese. Im just 5ft 10 and fairly active working as a foreman on a building site Im never off my feet getting in 10k steps or more each day.
My diet consists of porridge with two added fresh strawberries and a coffee for breakfast, with bread on a sunday, the occasional fry up maybe every second week.
Lunch I tend to have a homemade sandwich of ham and cheese and a bought latte.
Dinner would be I suppose a traditional meat and veg with no more than two scoops of potatoes.
I was having tea and a few biscuits in the evening 9pm ish and I was eating two packets of crisps per week the share bags.
What can I do to help me lose the 10kgs anyway?

[Deleted User]

If your weight has been 100kg over the last few years then you are likely eating maintenance calories.

I'm 5 10 also and weighed 105kgs a couple of years ago, realistically you are carrying some bodyfat that should be easy to lose over a few months.

I'd aim to lose the 10kg first as 80kg is quite light, I got to 79kg myself and was still quite strong (125kg benchpress) but bodyfat was very low, I was quite cold most of the time so yeah....... I'd aim to drop 10kg first.

Easy things to from what you've said.......

"My diet consists of porridge with two added fresh strawberries and a coffee for breakfast, with bread on a sunday, the occasional fry up maybe every second week"................ Perhaps have a low calorie, high protein greek yoghurt instead of the porridge twice or three times a week. 250g of it is about 125kcals and 15g of protein. Have the coffee with sweetener instead of sugar, if it's a latte go for a less milky coffee.

"Lunch I tend to have a homemade sandwich of ham and cheese and a bought latte" ........ Replace latte with a black coffee with a drop of milk, again sweetener instead of sugar. Could you try a tuna salad twice a week instead of the sandwich..... loads of tomatoe, spinnach, some onion and a can of tuna...... about 250kcals and 30g of protein. The leafy veg and tomatoe will fill you if there's enough of it

Cheese is high in calories ......... replace that with a salad type thing some of the days you are sandwiching.

"Dinner would be I suppose a traditional meat and veg with no more than two scoops of potatoes" ......... load up dinner with more veg.

"I was having tea and a few biscuits in the evening 9pm ish"
Could you replace biscuits with cream crackers or similar. A biscuit is 60 to 100 kcals, a cream cracker is 35kcals.

" and I was eating two packets of crisps per week the share bags" .......... two packets of crisps or two share bags of crisps? Cut them out if the latter. Two actual packets of crisps a week shouldn't be much of a problem.

Diet is the main thing, you aren't too bad. If you cut 500kcals/day from your diet you lose a pound a week, that's a kg a fortnight.......... 10kg in 20 weeks.

I know you are active at work but would you chance a brisk stroll every second night, and / or some weight training.

leovaradkar

Thanks Augeo,

Im kinda this weight since 2015 was ddoing a lotof exercise before this and got ill I need an op and the Surgeon wont do it until I lose at least 10kgs.
I have started walking yesterday doing a hilly 5klm, was up this morning at 6.30am but the rain was unreal so got it in this evening hoping to do a 10klm walk one day of the week end, as for weights Im not a gym goer would rather be outside, so hoping to get going at body weight exercises after a fortnight or so when i get a little bit of stamina and confidence back.
Food intake today was as follows; 8am Breakfast two slices of Gluten free toast with home made marmalade a mug of black tea.
2pm I had a Latte with one sugar.
2.30 two slices of gluten free bread.
6pm a large bowl of home made irish stew two pints of water with orange barley water for taste and thats me done for the night.

[Deleted User]

Press ups in the yard are perfect

Best of luck with it.

MuffinTop86

I was at the doctor today and she got me to stand on the scales and it was 100kg. She was horrified but then so was I.
I’m a girl of 5ft7. My weight tends to fluctuate from short term diets. It went up avout 20lbs in lockdown.
I started IF 16:8 about two weeks ago and am annoyed I didn’t weigh myself before starting as I feel it in my clothes that it seens to be working.
I got rid of home booze as it always means crisps and chocolate.
So my diet know is two slices of brown bread with butter,mayo, ham, cheese, chicken and tomato.
Then dinner might be spag bol, chicken curry, donegal catch with potatoes and veg. Tonight was a stir fry with an Amoy sauce which I’ve since seen might be laden with salt sugar etc.
I’m not sure if IF is ok on its own or if I have to be more strict with food also.

scilover

i also face the same problem. right now, I start small.
i know that in working days, I tend to eat lots cause of work stress and everything but I just have a very small portion for dinner. MAYBE AN APPLE OR A BREAD. THATS ALL. then I do some light workout . then I wanna go with no sugar for week.

lapua20grain

I have found what helped my weight loss was using the MyFitnessPal app and tracking everything I eat, it gives you a running total of calories throughout the day. I started using it 14 weeks ago and found I was eating approx 4k calories a day which frightened the ****e out of me I put in the weight I wanted to lose what my activity level was and how much I wanted to lose a week, it gave me 1895 calories a day to live on which would put me in a calorific deficit. I eat as before but smaller portions I don't pick during meals and have upped my protein levels which keep me fuller for longer and have lost 23.5 kg in 14 weeks (51.7lbs). I found the app great at keeping me on the straight and narrow and was still able to have the occasional beer or dessert but not to the same extent as before but it has been worth it. If you are starting your weight loss journey I would recommend an app like MyFitnessPal or any other ones out there they keep you honest.

lapua20grain

scilover wrote: »

i also face the same problem. right now, I start small.
i know that in working days, I tend to eat lots cause of work stress and everything but I just have a very small portion for dinner. MAYBE AN APPLE OR A BREAD. THATS ALL. then I do some light workout . then I wanna go with no sugar for week.

You do realise that this type of diet is not sustainable and will work in the short term but ultimately not in the long term, you need to have sugars, fats and proteins in your diet for it to be balanced, track what you eat and adjust intake to put yourself in to a calorific deficit then the weight will start to come off. Change how you think of food and it will help, best of luck in your journey.

Mellor

lapua20grain wrote: »

You do realise that this type of diet is not sustainable and will work in the short term but ultimately not in the long term, you need to have sugars, fats and proteins in your diet for it to be balanced, track what you eat and adjust intake to put yourself in to a calorific deficit then the weight will start to come off. Change how you think of food and it will help, best of luck in your journey.

I agree that fat and protein are required. But nothing they said suggested that they were not eating fats or protein.
You don't actually need sugar.

lapua20grain

Mellor wrote: »

I agree that fat and protein are required. But nothing they said suggested that they were not eating fats or protein.
You don't actually need sugar.

You need carbohydrates which are sugars

lapua20grain

Mellor wrote: »

I agree that fat and protein are required. But nothing they said suggested that they were not eating fats or protein.
You don't actually need sugar.

At no stage in my post did I imply that they weren't I did point out that they were needed for a balanced diet no more, don't put words in my mouth.

Mellor

lapua20grain wrote: »

You need carbohydrates which are sugars

Carbohydrates are more than just sugars. You can eat plenty of carbs without eating any sugar
You don't actually need any carbohydates. Unlike fat or protein both of which are not replaceable.

lapua20grain wrote: »

At no stage in my post did I imply that they weren't I did point out that they were needed for a balanced diet no more, don't put words in my mouth.

You said that "this type of diet" will not work, and then said you need X,Y and Z. That implies that "this type of diet" was lacking in X,Y or Z.

If that is not what you meant, then please clarify what "this type of diet" is and why it won't work.
As I can't see where they have said anything about there diet other than start small, and trying to cut sugar.

[Deleted User]

MuffinTop86 wrote: »

.................
I got rid of home booze as it always means crisps and chocolate.
.......................
I’m not sure if IF is ok on its own or if I have to be more strict with food also.

IF on it's own without a calorie deficit will result in close to no fat loss.
Subjective enough a point in here but it's fact.

lapua20grain

Mellor wrote: »

Carbohydrates are more than just sugars. You can eat plenty of carbs without eating any sugar

You don't actually need any carbohydrates. Unlike fat or protein both of which are not replaceable (your brain burns glucose to operate or is that not a sugar?)

You said that "this type of diet" will not work, and then said you need X,Y and Z. That implies that "this type of diet" was lacking in X,Y or Z.

If that is not what you meant, then please clarify what "this type of diet" is and why it won't work.
As I can't see where they have said anything about there diet other than start small, and trying to cut sugar.

"but I just have a very small portion for dinner. MAYBE AN APPLE OR A BREAD." is not sustainable now stop putting words in my mouth you seem to want to pick an argument for no apparent reason. Now I will no longer engage with you.

Mellor

lapua20grain wrote: »

"but I just have a very small portion for dinner. MAYBE AN APPLE OR A BREAD." is not sustainable now stop putting words in my mouth you seem to want to pick an argument for no apparent reason. Now I will no longer engage with you.

I haven’t put words in your mouth. I quoted you directly. You said you need sugar in your diet. I’m not picking an argument but that is simply incorrect.
Criticising the poster for cutting out sugar is not helping them.

As for the just an Apple comment. It was quite obvious that wasn’t their entire intake for the day. It was a snack in the evening as they had a large lunch. That’s perfectly fine and can be sustainable.

Padraig Mor

whatawaster

Start - 17st 1lb
Week 1 - 16st 13lb (-2) (-2)
Week 2 - 16st 11lb (-2) (-4)
Week 3 - 16st 9lb (-2) (-6)
Week 4 - 16st 7lb (-2) (-8)
Week 5 - 16st 6lb (-1) (-9)
Week 6 - 16st 4lb (-2) (-11)
Week 7 - 16st 1lb (-3) (-14)
Week 8 - 16st 0lb (-1) (-15)
Week 9 - 15st 13lb (-1) (-16)
Week 10 - 15st 11lb (-2) (-18)
Week 11 - 15st 9lb (-2) (-20)
Week 12 - 15st 8lb (-1) (-21)
Week 13 - 15st 7lb (-1) (-22)

I am proof that weight loss is all about diet and not exercise. Barely moved this week (my knee has been at me) but staying pretty disciplined with my calories.

Bunny Colvin

lapua20grain wrote: »

At no stage in my post did I imply that they weren't I did point out that they were needed for a balanced diet no more, don't put words in my mouth.

He was right though, you really don't need carbohydrates. Whether that is sustainable or not for some people is another matter.

MuffinTop86

OmegaGene wrote: »

getting rid of drink and junk is a great start but what will really shed the weight is educating yourself about what you are actually eating, some foods are labelled very poorly like low fat but the sugar is ramped up for example.
myfitnesspal really works, enter your details and desired weight and it will give you a daily calorie allowance and a rough timeframe as to how long it will take.

Thank you, that’s exactly what I did!
I have a quick question if you know. So I enter all my food for the day and that’s great.
Yesterday was the only day I went over the allotted calories. So i was wondering if at the end of the week it gives you like a balance or if you can only look at the daily intake (I haven’t opted for the in app purchases).

Or am I wrong to be balancing out a bad day with a good snd it doesn’t really work that way!?