Wanting to lose a beer gut 4 May 2016 at 4:23PM in Sports & fitness MoneySaving 60 replies 15.2K views

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mj132 wrote: »

Does 5:2 actually work? You're surely never going to do it forever? When you stop the diet it'll all just pile back on.

Eat right, exercise, try HIIT workouts on YouTube.

Don't cut everything out otherwise you're setting yourself up for failure, you need compromise!

I don't really understand your logic. 5:2 at a very basic level is a method of creating a calorie deficit and that deficit then fuels weight loss.

If a person stops and then puts the weight back on that means they are consuming excess calories. That weight would go back on regardless of whatever method used to create the calorie deficit during the weight loss period. There is unlikely to be any method of weight loss that is sustainable on a permanent basis.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation around 5:2. It has now become an industry in itself. It really is a very very basic method of calorie deficits over a small period of time, i.e. two days out of seven. If people do it forever then fine but there is nothing complicated about it and it is just a very simple weight loss tool. If a person can conquer his/her hunger they won't find an easier way to lose weight.

Gloomendoom

mj132 wrote: »

Does 5:2 actually work? You're surely never going to do it forever? When you stop the diet it'll all just pile back on.

Yes, it does work, but as you say, if you just go back to your old eating habits 7:7, the weight will just pile back on.

I have used 5:2 or 4:3 to lose weight after a holiday, for example, but then reduced ratio to 6:1 or 7:0 to maintain weight long term.

It's so easy to do that I can quite easily see me doing it forever.

Daz2009

Spirit wrote: »

For me, the slimming world diet has been the best education i have ever had on eating. I have lost weight, drastically improved my blood glucose levels( type 2 diabetic) reduced cholesterol. We always ate well but had quite a lot of hidden calories in sauces, dressings wine. White wine is now always a spritzer so halved the alcohol and made up the quantity with sodawater. I can even fool myself that lime and soda is a glass of wine if I have it in a wine glass. Eating a lot more fruit, less bread, less cheese. Nothing banned, just a good understanding of what my food choices and portion sizes mean for weight gain/loss.

I am recovering from a major stroke so exercise is walking, physio and modified pilates. The pilates is helping my posture and flattening my tummy alongside strengthening and stretching overall.




As a side effect, my husband has lost some weight through my changing ingredients for healthier alternatives and is going to enrol in pilates to help his posture, bad back and emerging middle aged spread.

Are Slimming World ( and Weight Watchers ) still pushing the low fat myth ?
You know the thing,low fat yoghurt which is high in sugar.

Credit-Crunched

Daz2009 wrote: »

Are Slimming World ( and Weight Watchers ) still pushing the low fat myth ?
You know the thing,low fat yoghurt which is high in sugar.

Any eating regime that allows people to eat potentially unlimited potato should be ignored.

It seems to be stuck in 1976, fats are bad mentality.

They seem to ignore sugar and salts.

Fare better eating plans out there.

mickeymouse303

I found that HIIT exercises helped me burn fat quite quickly. I've been doing 30 mins of exercise 4-5 days a week and it's made a huge difference. I've not been a huge drinker but I've always had a bad diet. I'd recommend HIIT to anyone who wants to work out at home.

parking_question_chap

Walcott wrote: »

I don't really understand your logic. 5:2 at a very basic level is a method of creating a calorie deficit and that deficit then fuels weight loss.

If a person stops and then puts the weight back on that means they are consuming excess calories. That weight would go back on regardless of whatever method used to create the calorie deficit during the weight loss period. There is unlikely to be any method of weight loss that is sustainable on a permanent basis.

The point is 5:2 isnt nearly as easily sutainable as a basic nutrition plan where each day your Kcals consumed are a little lower than Kcals burned. So whilst you might lose weight doing 5:2 in the short term, you havent learned how to keep it off long term. Whereas a good nutrition plan each day will work in the short, medium and long term.

People will always try and overcomplicate something that is very simple, by following whatever the latest gimmick is.

parking_question_chap

mickeymouse303 wrote: »

I found that HIIT exercises helped me burn fat quite quickly. I've been doing 30 mins of exercise 4-5 days a week and it's made a huge difference. I've not been a huge drinker but I've always had a bad diet. I'd recommend HIIT to anyone who wants to work out at home.

Agreed. HIIT is awesome for fat loss.

gt568

What HIIT are you dudes doing?

amandapsr

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MattGb

Once you've got your diet sorted, you really need to up your exercise. I hated running, cycling and gyms when I was trying to lose weight, but found that classes were a lot of fun. Yes, me a 27 year old man got into doing Zumba, PIlates, Yoga and Dance/fit programmes. I used to watch hours and hours of youtube videos and work out at home.

They are tougher to stick to as it's all prerecorded, but more recently got into sites like joinflex.tv which do it live so you have to commit, and you are doing it with others all from your own home.