Shedding some weight

30kg's to be precise from the weight of the car, well at least when I'm sitting in it. I've had a few health scares this week, chest pains and potentially fatally high blood pressure being some of them. So on doctors advice I'm now on a diet, hopefully over the course of the summer you'll start to see a lot less of me at meets and runs.

Wish me luck folks.

I'm tempted to say 'stuff it and leave me your car in your will ... :dry: :lol: ' ...


... however, age and testosterone are the bane of male longevity; lifestyle aside.

Andy, we can do nothing about the the first two risk factors to health but certainly losing weight, eating less saturated fat and getting regular exercise will go a long way to improving your quantity AND your quality of life.

Good luck in your endeavours :broon: ... and remember, making small changes gradually and sticking to them is usually easier and more effective than trying to overhaul every aspect of your life at once.

My mate has lost 5 stone..

He's bought a treadmill and walks 5 miles a night in his lounge watching films and TV

He can't run for medical reasons..

Good luck andy...
Ive lost 15lb in 5 weeks on that low carb diet and no additional exercise.
The intro pack i bought is currently back on Groupon for £99 instead of £300 and would recommend. Its not as hard as i thought it might be

Diesel Destroyer wrote: My mate has lost 5 stone..

He's bought a treadmill and walks 5 miles a night in his lounge watching films and TV

He can't run for medical reasons..

I've bought a gravity strider, better start using it.

Whiz wrote: Good luck andy...
Ive lost 15lb in 5 weeks on that low carb diet and no additional exercise.
The intro pack i bought is currently back on Groupon for £99 instead of £300 and would recommend. Its not as hard as i thought it might be

Thanks Adam, I think i'm going to try diet chef, it's normal meals delivered to your door, just need to heat it up.

Sorry to hear of your recent health scare.

Only diet that has ever worked for the wife and I, is the Atkins diet.

Bit like Adams one, as it is all about cutting down on the carbohydrates. Not so bad as it sounds, just no bread, potatoes.

But like everything else all in moderation, cut the portions down and a bit of exercise.

Best of luck with it all.

:beer: :beer: :beer:

Ooh Dr Watson, doesn't sound so good, mate. Take it easy with that exercise. :yesnod:
And cut out the Big Macs! :coat:

You can do it Andy..... Good luck with it....keep us all informed on how you are doing.... Weekly update on the forum perhaps? Loads of us on here that will egg you on and give you encouragement :hugs:

mogatrons wrote:
Andy, we can do nothing about the the first two risk factors to health but certainly losing weight, eating less saturated fat and getting regular exercise will go a long way to improving your quantity AND your quality of life.

Contentious..... Slowly people are coming round to the idea that this hypothesis might be entirely wrong.

Either way I wish you the best of luck Andy.

Regards,
Andy

andywatson wrote:

Diesel Destroyer wrote: My mate has lost 5 stone..

He's bought a treadmill and walks 5 miles a night in his lounge watching films and TV

He can't run for medical reasons..

I've bought a gravity strider, better start using it.

We've had a gravity strider for about 6 years now & its regularly been used as a coat hanger, clothes drier etc Best of luck to you, I know I would really struggle with the willpower so just try to start small and not sicken yourself of it :broon:

I'm a bit of a health, fitness and nutrition freak and have spent a lot of my time learning about it.

Firstly, get the idea of going on a diet out of your head, that insinuates you'll go back to your old way of eating at some point and that means you're going to get big again; this will result in you joining the large population of yo-yo dieters. Crash diets are not the way, they are not sustainable for most of us... Imagine doing the Atkins diet for years on end??!

The safe and sustainable weight loss is in the region of 1-2lb a week, more in the first few weeks due to the shock change.

The way to achieve that is to first understand carbs are good, you need them for energy and hormone balance, carbless nutrition results in bad moods and that's bad for everyone. You also need fats, but as a rule not fat you can see. Bacon rind is out, nuts are in.

The simple facts are its about calories, eat less than you need over a day, you'll loose weight, eat more and you'll gain.

First you need to workout your calorific requirement to maintain you're current weight, that's roughly 14 calories per lb of body weight. Next get yourself down to boots as they have body fat % measuring machines for about 70p a time.

To drop weight you want to have a 3500 calorie deficit over 7 days, that's 500 under your maintainence per day.

So how to get your calories? Aim for about 1.5g of protein per pound of lean weight (that's your weight minus all fat on you - hence why we went to boots to get the %). Each g of protein is 4 calories so workout how many calories that is. I aim for a 40:40:20 % split of protein, carb and fat and the next thing is fats, 1g fat is 9 calories so take half your protein calorie number and divide by 9, that's your grams of fat per day.
Lastly, there are 4 calories per 1g carb so divide your left over calorie requirement by 4 and see how close to the ideal ratio you are!

/end of waffle

All the best Matey!

My eldest bro recently moved to a new area and had a check up at the new Docs.
Extremely high BP and immediate weight loss.
Result: he gave up his beer, they joined a weight group: he wins slimmer of the month most times: lost 4 stone sensibly. Regular exercise and healthy diet. BP now normal.

So good luck, it can be done.