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Flockin diets.

  • 14-10-2010 01:45AM
    #1
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Dieting is bloody difficult.:mad:

    Sitting here with stomach roaring away at me. Settle down you bottomless mutherfocker!!!

    Ive gotten to a silly weight...AGAIN. Im an all or nothing type person. Im either eating properly & exercising or im a human waste disposal unit consuming anything thats fried & salty. This time last year i was a normalish 103kg(thats normal for me. Im 6ft2 & fairly wide). Now im 126kg. Im a part-time fat man.
    Everything is more difficult when your a chunker. Women? they're not mad on the flab. Clothes? just get xxl for everything, cover the blubber. Pubs/ nightclubs? you just sweat & sweat & sweat & leave.
    Of course as soon as ive lost the weight i'l instantly start speaking in a condescending manner about overweight people. Bloody hippos.....we are.

    Just started back eating weight watchers synthogunk meals & fizzy water. Supper was a slice of toast & a feckin apple.:(


    Stomach---> /grrrraaaarrrr.....settle you cnut, not a scrap of food till breakfast. Don't you talk back to me....


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Comments

  • #2
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Melon, pineapple, grapes. Eat as much as you like. Just exercise more and eat smaller portions of what you eat. Don't change your food, change your daily intake.


  • #3
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I know the feeling, and I've have heartburn for the past 5 days :(


  • #4
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Confab wrote: »
    I know the feeling, and I've have heartburn for the past 5 days :(
    I'd see a doctor about that....


  • #5
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    You should go low carb and toss Whalewatchers out the window.


  • #6
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    FunkZ wrote: »
    You should go low carb and toss Whalewatchers out the window.

    I know their grub is tasteless slop but the ww points system its very handy if your trying to keep an eye on exactly what your eating.

    Thats the only reason im eating the stuff.


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  • #7
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Become a vegetarian for a while.


  • #8
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Exercise is the key tbh

    You can eat what you like if you are prepared to do the excercise to burn it off. I wouldnt recommend starving yourself to loose weight for a host of good reasons.

    If you do excercise + reasonably balanced diet then you shed weight quickly enough and you wont be counting calories either. Just have to get a routine going and try to stick to it as much as possible.


  • #9
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Confab wrote: »
    I know the feeling, and I've have heartburn for the past 5 days :(

    You're hungry and the body is expecting food to digest. When you are hungry, the body releases more stomach acid in anticipation and if you dont eat then you things like heartburn and other digestive discomforts.


  • #10
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Dempsey wrote: »
    Exercise is the key tbh

    You can eat what you like if you are prepared to do the excercise to burn it off. I wouldnt recommend starving yourself to loose weight for a host of good reasons.

    If you do excercise + reasonably balanced diet then you shed weight quickly enough and you wont be counting calories either. Just have to get a routine going and try to stick to it as much as possible.

    Sorry i should have mentioned im back on the daily exercise as well. At least an hour every day.
    I wouldn't have bothered with the drastic decrease in food intake if i wasn't going to take care of the exercise side of things.

    A lot of people don't seem to understand that these low fat meals mean nothing if your not prepared to exercise also.


  • #11
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    the trick to dieting is never let yourself go hungry

    lost 115lbs since august 2009 that way


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  • #12
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    I know their grub is tasteless slop but the ww points system its very handy if your trying to keep an eye on exactly what your eating.

    So is low carb tbh...


  • #13
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I'm on a bit of diet too.

    I wouldn't bother eating an apple, as a means of a filling your gut. Have a bowl of cheerios or something with low-fat milk.

    That should do the business.


  • #14
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Sorry i should have mentioned im back on the daily exercise as well. At least an hour every day.
    I wouldn't have bothered with the drastic decrease in food intake if i wasn't going to take care of the exercise side of things.

    A lot of people don't seem to understand that these low fat meals mean nothing if your not prepared to exercise also.

    I play football, train twice a week.

    I eat a big breakfast (7-8am) and a big lunch (1-2pm), then water for the rest of the day on training days because I dont want to lethargic or get a stitch. I'm not hungry at 7 (start of training) but my stomach is just about empty. Fruit or small bit of cereal when I get back to stop my gorging something really bad before bed.

    Lost a nice bit of weight sticking to that and I wasnt counting calories or starving myself on the days I wasnt training either.


  • #15
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Helix wrote: »
    the trick to dieting is never let yourself go hungry

    lost 115lbs since august 2009 that way

    Back up the truck here a sec Maurice!

    You lost over 8 stone by 'never letting yourself go hungry'? I'm going to assume that there is a little more to this.


  • #16
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    KungPao wrote: »
    I'm on a bit of diet too.

    I wouldn't bother eating an apple, as a means of a filling your gut. Have a bowl of cheerios or something with low-fat milk.

    That should do the business.

    Oh dear. Off to the nutrition forum with you mister!


  • #17
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Dempsey wrote: »
    I play football, train twice a week.

    I eat a big breakfast (7-8am) and a big lunch (1-2pm), then water for the rest of the day on training days because I dont want to lethargic or get a stitch. I'm not hungry at 7 (start of training) but my stomach is just about empty. Fruit or small bit of cereal when I get back to stop my gorging something really bad before bed.

    Lost a nice bit of weight sticking to that and I wasnt counting calories or starving myself on the days I wasnt training either.

    2 years ago I lost 3 & half stone in 4 months on the plan im using now. It does work, its just keeping the weight off is the problem.

    But i do take your point, there are alternative methods for losing the flab. Im not great at cooking you see so the whale watchers meals are very convenient.


  • #18
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    2 years ago I lost 3 & half stone in 4 months on the plan im using now. It does work, its just keeping the weight off is the problem.

    But i do take your point, there are alternative methods for losing the flab. Im not great at cooking you see so the whale watchers meals are very convenient.

    Aye, its very easy to knock me out of my routine, havent been to training in over 3 weeks now. Had a holiday and I'm very slow to get back in the stride of things. Any excuse will do but I remember before I went, staying away from training (didnt want to get some stupid injury) was hard as I do enjoy training.

    Keep it simple with the cooking, get those jarred sauces, some meat, rice/chips/pasta and you have a dinner in less than 30 minutes. Not a great cook or anything myself but I can follow the back of the packets! :o


  • #19
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Fizman wrote: »
    Oh dear. Off to the nutrition forum with you mister!

    :)

    My idea of being on a diet is eating oven chips instead of the chipper!


  • #20
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    2 years ago I lost 3 & half stone in 4 months on the plan im using now. It does work, its just keeping the weight off is the problem.

    But if you're not keeping the weight off then it's not working. you need to get into a routine of regular exercise, loss weight that way. what's gonna happen when you've lost the weight this time, and you go back to your regular diet? you just pile it on again.


  • #21
    Rockery Woman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Rockery Woman


    ok I know people who are constantly "on a diet" .... "oh I cant eat bread/pasta/deep fried mars bars etc .... Im on a diet"

    But they are still quite ....dare I say the f word FAT!!!

    Why not eat some food you actually like, eat a good mix of different foods, treat yourself to the occasional chipper feed (say on Friday nights) and walk 30 mins every day, or cycle a bit or something.

    You will feel better for exercising - endorphins etc

    Stop denying yourself - move a bit - live your life.

    The weight will fall off you but not 6 Lbs in a week, maybe 2 lbs a week - sustainable weight loss, more energy and none of the depressing on a diet negativity.

    A family member is on a diet at the moment - not eating this, not eating that, thinks he is clever by denying himself a chipper feed at the weekend - eating pre-prepared salad. This particular salad has coleslaw and potato salad, egg mayonaisse and a good dollop of oily dressing.

    He hates the feckin salad - hasn't lost any weight in 2 months!!! Low fat foods are full of sugar and other ****e! Surely it would be better to eat one slice of toast with real butter that 3 with low fat spread and hanker for the butter????

    Sorry for going on - but diets Do Not Work - they are bull****. Eat less ****e move more and you will see results

    As for the diet pills - dont go there - I know one girl in work who is taking a supplement that supposedly absorbs fat and increases metabolism... she was size 22 last year and still is!!!

    Think about it. In the 1970's there was not much obesity problems in this country . Low fat food was unheard of - kids in schools were thin then though, unlike nowadays.

    Low fat food = bull****!!!!


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  • #22
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Dieting is bloody difficult.:mad:

    Sitting here with stomach roaring away at me. Settle down you bottomless mutherfocker!!!

    Ive gotten to a silly weight...AGAIN. Im an all or nothing type person. Im either eating properly & exercising or im a human waste disposal unit consuming anything thats fried & salty. This time last year i was a normalish 103kg(thats normal for me. Im 6ft2 & fairly wide). Now im 126kg. Im a part-time fat man.
    Everything is more difficult when your a chunker. Women? they're not mad on the flab. Clothes? just get xxl for everything, cover the blubber. Pubs/ nightclubs? you just sweat & sweat & sweat & leave.
    Of course as soon as ive lost the weight i'l instantly start speaking in a condescending manner about overweight people. Bloody hippos.....we are.

    Just started back eating weight watchers synthogunk meals & fizzy water. Supper was a slice of toast & a feckin apple.:(


    Stomach---> /grrrraaaarrrr.....settle you cnut, not a scrap of food till breakfast. Don't you talk back to me....

    Diets are bull****. If you're hungry eat. If you dont eat when you're hungry your body will go into starvation mode and your metabolism will slow down.


  • #23
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    As for the diet pills - dont go there - I know one girl in work who is taking a supplement that supposedly absorbs fat and increases metabolism... she was size 22 last year and still is!!!

    Diet pills are very dangerous and getting worse.

    I think Gerry Ryan was on one type, a year or two before he passed away, that was actually pulled off the market because of increased risk of heart attacks, believe it or not.

    The new ones out are shocking.

    What they do is stop your pancreas producing carbohydrate digesting enzymes and leave any starchy carbs you eat, partially undigested and so reduce the amount of calories that would ultimately be consumed.

    Which, would all sounds fine and harmless to someone wanting to lose wait fast but anyone with even the most basic knowledge of nutrition and pathogenic bacteria in the gut knows that undigested carbs will cause a host of problems down the line.

    It always amazes me that these products can be sold so freely,

    Sure, even Chartbusters sell Diet Pills now :rolleyes:


  • #24
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    2 years ago I lost 3 & half stone in 4 months on the plan im using now. It does work, its just keeping the weight off is the problem.
    If you are putting the weight back on, then it obviously isn't working. The whole 'low fat' approach is frankly, wrong.

    Read this sticky, your body will thank you for it.


  • #25
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Just keep below 20g of saturated fat a day and you're in business. Sounds difficult but it's not really. Couple of bits of exercise a week and you're sorted.....worked for me anyway!


  • #26
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Get stressed out and develop Crohn's disease. Had the weight dropping off me!


  • #27
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    kfallon wrote: »
    Just keep below 20g of saturated fat a day and you're in business. Sounds difficult but it's not really. Couple of bits of exercise a week and you're sorted.....worked for me anyway!

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fat and is not what you should be worried about in your diet.


  • #28
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Ciaran500 wrote: »
    There is absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fat and is not what you should be worried about in your diet.

    Well it's worked for me, shed about 2-3 stone in about 7-8 months. So you're telling me I can eat as much saturated fat as I like???


  • #29
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Ciaran500 wrote: »
    There is absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fat and is not what you should be worried about in your diet.
    Saturated fats are preciseldy the fats you should be avoiding. It's mono/poly unsaturated fats that are good for you.


  • #30
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Blowfish wrote: »
    Saturated fats are preciseldy the fats you should be avoiding. It's mono/poly unsaturated fats that are good for you.

    Got to run to work so a wiki link is all I have, but no. Theres nothing wrong with saturated fats.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Cardiovascular_diseases


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  • #31
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Blowfish wrote: »
    Saturated fats are preciseldy the fats you should be avoiding. It's mono/poly unsaturated fats that are good for you.

    *cough* Bull**** *cough*

    Head over to Nutrition and Diet and get yourself an education


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