To get to 11 stone or no Australia trip

dawyldthing

Been on the scales at work and I. Weigh 14 stone 13lbs. So lost a pound, but I'm happy with that as I had a bad day Monday where I had a bar of the Thorntons chocolate and 2 creame eggs. Plus i haven't been eating as well as I should do when cutting down. I think my off day will be sleep in days as it will give me something to look forwards to on shift. But at least it's a start.

I'm hoping to go to Zumba tomorrow and the gym Friday and Sunday as I'm on shorter shifts so should be easy to fit it around. I'm going to struggle early next week as I'm taking my service user out, but going to try and stick with healthy options as I feel a lot better with it too.

dawyldthing

I've also realised my signature was wrong with how much weight to lose, saying too little so I've got 41lb to lose, hopefully before new year 2015 as I am hoping to go to Oz early January. If I get to 13 stone I might book it and organise it as because I want 5 week off it has to go to the area manager and nothing goes quick in this job so it will probably take 2 weeks for them to reply

Southernman

I've been reading your thread with interest. I used to run quite regularly but last summer I almost fainted and 2 miles from home, I had to ring a friend to pick me up and it put me off running for a long while. I've just in the last 3 weeks realised that I need to do something about my weight as it was creeping up after zero exercise for almost a year.

I've been running about 15-20miles a week and managed a 10km on Sunday. I also find exercise curbs my appetite so I end up eating less. I even ran 5km x2 yesterday and today in gale force winds and rain but in the last week I've only managed to lose 1lb.

My friend who is of a similar height and weight lost 2.5lb through weight watchers this last week with no exercise- I just wonder how people stay motivated?

I currently weigh 11st 11lb and would like to be 10st 7lb. I'm just finding it hard at the moment as I assumed I'd lose it quicker

haras_nosirrah

According to my gym you can't exercise out a bad diet. Weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise supposedly

purpleshoes_2

You can't out train a bad diet, but lots of people think they are eating healthily when their diets are full of processed rubbish.

Slinky

The only thing that's ever worked for me and my husband in successfully losing weight is low carb/higher fat and that's without masses of exercise.

fairy_lights

haras_nosirrah wrote: »

Weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise supposedly

I'm always a bit sceptical about claims like that because it oversimplifies things.
I agree that you can't out-exercise a bad diet - I did the insanity workout and didn't lose a pound because I didn't change my diet alongside it and kept eating complete crap.
But I have terrible willpower and find just trying to change my diet isn't enough either because I always fail.
As for the 80/20 thing - surely it all depends on exactly what your diet is, or how much exercise you do, and different things work for different people.

dawyldthing

Southernman wrote: »

I've been reading your thread with interest. I used to run quite regularly but last summer I almost fainted and 2 miles from home, I had to ring a friend to pick me up and it put me off running for a long while. I've just in the last 3 weeks realised that I need to do something about my weight as it was creeping up after zero exercise for almost a year.

I've been running about 15-20miles a week and managed a 10km on Sunday. I also find exercise curbs my appetite so I end up eating less. I even ran 5km x2 yesterday and today in gale force winds and rain but in the last week I've only managed to lose 1lb.

My friend who is of a similar height and weight lost 2.5lb through weight watchers this last week with no exercise- I just wonder how people stay motivated?

I currently weigh 11st 11lb and would like to be 10st 7lb. I'm just finding it hard at the moment as I assumed I'd lose it quicker

My boss the other day said she had started weight watchers (I think it was this one) and had lost 7lb in 2 weeks. I'm sure many do keep it off, but I've got several people on my facebook that seem to do it and they seem to endlessly yo yo on it. There was another lass I worked with at Kwik save years ago that did it but she's put it all back on too. I'm sure it helps for some, but it's got to be for life and I think it's difficult.

At the gym I use (council run) when you start you have 5 like motivational sessions. I had one with one bloke (I asked if I could have my fifth as I didn't have it first time round) and he said to eat little and often. Plus he said to do resistant training as well as cardio as then you'll lose weight and build muscle at the same time.

Plus he said to do it in bursts (I can't remember the specific name) as then it helps burn fat. So like on the rowing machine he suggested doing 40 seconds full pelt then 20 seconds just going slow and do 10 sessions of it. I generally do about 1700m on it during the 10 minutes, but my heart speeds up and slows down. Same on the bike as I generally do a general incline, but when putting my hand on the heart monitor reading thing I can be cycling for England but it's only when doing the incline that my heart rate rises. Same on the treadmill. I think it's called interval training, it's just come to me, but might be worth a try. But I think he is a personal trainer so if I start and not seem to be noticing much I might pay for a personal training session with him as I saw on facebook randomly as he liked wedding photos of someone I used to go to school with and his main photo is his before and after photos.

dawyldthing

purpleshoes wrote: »

You can't out train a bad diet, but lots of people think they are eating healthily when their diets are full of processed rubbish.

There's soo much advertising on 'fat free', 'low calories' etc. I saw something on Facebook the other day (I think it was in the paper too) where someone had lost something like 10 stone by putting photos of there dinners on Instagram and then towards the end going to the gym and showing what she was doing. But it literally was just eating normal food just putting salad with it. But they didn't look the same person. I'm going to try and find it in a minute

dawyldthing

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/31/jessica-semmens-instagram-food-share-diet_n_6975356.html

This is the one. It came up on Facebook, but it's amazing what she did though.