Changed Diet + Work out..... (May help some people)

trying_to_fly

Is this enough to make a difference in body shape and drop weight (more so than scales i care about dress size... hoping for 3 size drop expecting 2).
Any tips tweaks?
Also mayeb some people will be able to benefit too from this
Thanks


Breakfast - Green tea with oats and skimmed milk with some sugar free peanut butter. OR egg omlette
Snack carrots and cucumber
Lunch - Quorn ball (high protein) chickpea spaghetti (made of chick peas and eggs no wheat) and some green leave like spinach, lettuce etc
OR chickpea moroccon sainsburys burger and cottage cheese or fresh home made sweet potato mash with greens

1 hour later GYM (weights and 45 mins cardio on 2 different cardio machines)
Home, protein shake (do i need this? im a vegi) then shower
And snack of maybe some carrots (Love them) or cucumber

Dinner never past 7.30pm - Salad with cottage cheese and 5 or 6 walnuts

Will be starting every tuesday and thursday 'British military fitness' work out at 6pm to 7pm in local park And one on saturday morning at 8am
So how should I work my dinner in on the evening classes?
(Will not be going gym on the days i have this class. Unless I feel like going for a mild walk with the neighbours dog some mornings)

Just wondering if this is good enough to make a significant difference in 10 weeks.

Thank you everyone.

glowgirl_2

Gosh I'm exhausted reading that:eek: my super weightloss suggestion is keep your carbs to less than 20g a day, I'm sorry I cant comment on everything else as I dont excercise myself but I do know that very low carb works really well - good luck:)

beanrua

I dropped 2 dress sizes in under 4 weeks on low carb -( less than 20g) without exercise.

nzmegs

I am a vegetarian too and all too often we tend to eat way too many carbs. Your menu looks pretty good, but have a little look at the added sugars in the processed foods - even quorn is considered a processed food. Oats are good - but try soya milk as it is higher in protein and lower in carbs. try to avoid white carbs.

I would say your diet looks pretty good and the exercise is awesome.

I have been sticking to a low carb vegetarian diet recently and I found that I needed to supplement with a multi vitamin plus iron. I also take a Berrocca an hour before I hit the gym. it really helps me to get that last little bit of energy out.

I would eat after your workout and not before. Bear in mind that the aim is to work off your body fat - not whatever you have eaten. Your body will use the food you have eaten that day as energy for your workout, so try not to eat too much before you exercise to give your body a chance to eat up your body fat.

I exercise in the morning before breakfast - mostly and I found that my weight has remained stable, but my body fat has dropped by 4%! this is in just two weeks.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Lyger

That's looks quite the hectic routine! I'm guessing that you want to see a fast change - do you have an event to go to? I'd say if not (and if you're jumping from being quite sedentiary to working out) - you may want to try something a bit lighter paced. Losing weight too quickly can be unhealthy, and if you set yourself a super harsh routine without any build up to it, you'll be setting yourself up to fail somewhere down the line.

In my own routine (well, lifestyle change, really), I went for a balanced diet, which is easy enough with cooking stuff from scratch, as I know *exactly* what I'm eating. Also, it meant I didn't have to give up the odd naughty thing. In addition to that, I started working out with a couple of exercise DVD's (I'm far too cheap to join a gym) - I started off with Jillian Micheal's 30 day shred, and then I moved onto doing 20 minutes of her Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism DVD. Sorry for the mini plug there - I went for Jillian Micheals initially because I don't find her quite so irritating as some of the people on other exercise videos! She may not be everyones cup to tea - so should anyone go for the DVD exercise route, try checking out clips on youtube or something to decide if you can deal with the presenter.

It was slow going - took a long time for me to notice any difference at all, which is not surprising given that I was only working out 20 minutes most days. However, 20 minutes a day is an easy habit to maintain. I can't say clearly how long it took for me to notice a difference appearance-wise and weight-wise. I'd say somewhere about 4 months. However, I have lost quite a bit of weight doing it - and it's also stayed off, even though I've slipped from my good habits due to moving house and getting a new job. I'll be taking it up again as soon as I'm all settled again. Just a little something that worked for me, for those who aren't as hardcore as the OP!

devotee

I have some tweaks for you, hope they help!

Do gym before breakfast, especially cardio. The reason behind this is that otherwise you'd have to spend more time burning off the breakfast.
It's very hard but it brings faster results.

To start burning fat, your body has to do continuous aerobic exercise for half an hour (you have to jog for example for half an hour at least to see results), so instead of that do interval training. Warm up first and then (treadmill is the best for this as well as the spinning bike) run very fast for 2 mins, then walk for 2 mins. Do that for half an hour.

Do free weights and skip the machines. Do not be tempted to start competing with yourself and use heavier and heavier weights!
Use swiss ball, wobble board, hula hoop (great for waist).

Stay away from protein shakes - depending on your body type you may find you'll bulk up. Eat eggs instead.

Another thing, for weight loss, you have to do cardio at least five times a week, weights 3-4 times a week.

Good luck!

SandC

It's rubbish that if you've eaten you'll be burning that off and not fat. C'mon guys! You'll be doing precisely nothing to food still sitting in your belly, but it's not a good idea to exercise on a full stomach because it will feel uncomfortable!