Lose Weight 31

Eric_Pisch

victory wrote: »

Eric don't you agree that if a person is eating high carbs day in and day out they have to exercise to burn it off?

I am more of a walker as exercise that is about my lot not enough hard exercise to burn off carbs....

you body stores carbs as glycogen in the muscles and liver, it acts like a carb battery, once the battery is full the body will turn any excess carbs into fat, and it does this very very easily

if you drain the battery or keep it low the body is forced to go into ketosis which is fat burning mode, which is fantastic for cardio workout, not perfect with body building thou

neilersmc

Victory

No more than 5 syns on an average day, 10 on a Saturday if i really want them.

Today I had Breakfast - Porridge (1 sachet Quakers Simple) and some currants and a sprinkle of cinnamon
Lunch - Bowl of Carrot and Butter bean soup and 1 slice nimble ( told by doc have to have some carbs at lunch for the diabetes)
Dinner - Baked potato and SW Chilli
Snacks - portion of melon, 1 muller light (starting to feel sick just smelling them) pineapple
As for favourite meals, i like to vary it, recipes from the magazine or the extra easy cookbook (£5)

I live on my own, so no one else to worry about. Sunday was at parents for lunch and had a roast with loads of veg, knowing would be able to burn a good bit going for a walk with my dad in the afternoon.

No never really feel hungry, its more the days when i cant be bothered having breakfast when that would happen. Porridge is great fills you up, literally have to force myself to have some speed fruit at teabreak. The weather really suits me at the moment as im more inclined to have soup for lunch. Havent had an ommalette in ages so thats on the cards tomorrow.

Frogletina

Reading the accounts of slimming world meetings tonight remind me why I don't miss it. I really enjoyed one of the consultants I had, we had fun in the group - he would split us into teams with quizzes for points and we had challenges most weeks from a list he would give us.

We nearly all refused to continue when he left as we were told it would be a new consultant, new venue and new time. So all we had at first was a temporary consultant

Then we had several in quick succession who all went round the group in turn so we knew what each had eaten, their losses the past week, any problems they had and that was all that they did. One consultant said she needed people to set up the room, put away at the end of the evening and wanted everyone to do it and commit as she didn't have the time to do it all. (I mean, it was not as if she was getting paid was it!)

I didn't mind helping with weighing etc and talking to newbies, but to be put on a rota!!!!

When the date and time changed I decided enough was enough

puddings_2

The series shown tonight was the BL that I applied to go on when they told me no because it was "pairs only"
therefore was just a touch miffed when they introduced the final pair as "strangers" cos obvioulsy they didnt know each other :-(

:T:T Wow! Neilers - that is an amazing result, well done :T:T

It must be tough running a slimming class in January... loads of people all wanting to sign up and you know that half of them will never come back. Why do greeting/weighing/chair stacking yourself when you can just call on volunteers to do it all for ya?! I still stand by my comment that some of the consultants are only doing it for the money, they dont *really* give a hoot wether you lose or gain, so long as you keep paying your weekly fees. Like all jobs, the less work they can get away with, the better!
At least we all know that the support shared on this thread is genuine and sincere and I'm very very grateful to you all for that :-)

puddings_2

BL: I was also a little surprised when one of them mentioned that they're doing between 4 and 6 hours exercise a day. I'd have thought to lose over a stone in a week, that they'd need to do quite a few more hours of exercise than that! Anyway I'd better go to bed now before Victory tells me off for being up too late

Frogletina

puddings wrote: »

BL: I was also a little surprised when one of them mentioned that they're doing between 4 and 6 hours exercise a day. I'd have thought to lose over a stone in a week, that they'd need to do quite a few more hours of exercise than that! Anyway I'd better go to bed now before Victory tells me off for being up too late

No one has told me off yet for being up late every night. I suppose my time will come

puddings_2

The thing is that i need (and quietly appreciate) somebody telling me off from time to time, luckily tomorrow morning I can get a lie in so im not too bothered tonight.

fredsnail

puddings wrote: »

BL: I was also a little surprised when one of them mentioned that they're doing between 4 and 6 hours exercise a day. I'd have thought to lose over a stone in a week, that they'd need to do quite a few more hours of exercise than that! Anyway I'd better go to bed now before Victory tells me off for being up too late

Should that be 4 - 6 hours of exercise a week?

Some of us are night owls Puddings - but sadly no lie in for me so I'm off now too.

Eric_Pisch

puddings wrote: »

BL: I was also a little surprised when one of them mentioned that they're doing between 4 and 6 hours exercise a day. I'd have thought to lose over a stone in a week, that they'd need to do quite a few more hours of exercise than that! Anyway I'd better go to bed now before Victory tells me off for being up too late

2/3rds of the weight loss in the first week is retained water and pooh (MRI scanning has shown that morbidly obese people can carry 40lbs+ of it ...)

they aim for a cal deficit of 6-8k a day, but this does vary depending on there sex and size, so at the start with there massive BMRs the guys can drop 20lbs+ for a couple of weeks, or in the case of moses last week 41lbs, which is quite amazing, or he spent half the week on the bog

mazza111

Had a good start to the week, but honestly the latter half of the week have been totally abysmal! Spose the scales will tell tomorrow. TOTM looming and I'm like a bear with a sore head. Heaven help my poor kids!