Weight loss help

[PhilDawson8270]

Huh? You do not have to eat less to lose weight. A couch potato who is gaining a couple lb a month like the average couch potato simply has to exercise more, and could easily lose weight without making a single change to their diet.

This applies to anybody. Unless you have absolutely ridiculous eating habits where you're eating 5000 daily calories above your needs.

There are plenty of overweight people with a healthy nutritious diet, they simply don't exercise enough.

Wrong, it is quite simply calories in vs calories out. Cycling 1 hour per day won't even burn off a breakfast.

There are many benefits to regular exercise, but for weight loss, the diet is key.

 

[blazed]

Wrong, it is quite simply calories in vs calories out. Cycling 1 hour per day won't even burn off a breakfast.

There are many benefits to regular exercise, but for weight loss, the diet is key.

No not wrong. Calories are a measurement of energy, yes it is what you intake vs what you expend. Do you know how many overweight people there are who barely eat more than 1500 cals a day, what you you advise them eat less? There are also plenty of extremely active people who can eat 5 figure daily calories and stay trim.

There are 3 ways to lose weight.
1) eat less calories
2) exercise more
3) do both of the above

I am not wrong for saying option 2 is valid, the guy who I originally quoted is wrong for saying it is invalid.

 

[vickster]

My fitness pal to record what you are eating, links to strava to record calorie estimates

Eat less, move more

Unless you have a metabolism where you can eat anything and everything and weight will fall off of you eat the same but exercise more, group 2 above. Blatantly that isn't the case or you wouldn't have gained so much weight

 

[DRHysted]

You would have to cycle many, many miles to burn off a pizza.

It works out at approximately(ish) 1.5 hours of running (about 10 miles), or 3 hours of cycling (about 50 miles).

 

[TheDoctor]

My two pennorth...
Exercise more, and cook stuff that's really nice, but low in calories.
If your meals are dull, you'll end up leaving them and snacking on stuff that's nice and full of fat and / or sugar.
I've had a small pork loin with sweet and sour peppers this evening. Not much food value (red pepper, onion, garlic, ginger, soy, vinegar and a teaspoon of honey, a 100g piece of pork loin) but it was fjoerken delicious. Search for pork chop with peppers on YouTube and Gordon Ramsay will walk you through it.
Trying to lose 30-odd kilos this year. It's an uphill struggle, but I'm trying.
One day at a time.

 

[Ihatehills]

I lost over a stone and a half just cycling since June, my ideal weight id say is around 12 stone and I was up to 14.5 after many years of zero exercise, cycling eighty to 100 miles a week had the weight falling off according to Garmin connect (which I know is ridiculously inaccurate ) I would struggle to eat the calories I was burning, now the weather Is shite and I'm not out as much, I'm not losing weight but forty miles a week seems to be enough to stabilise and bar a couple of pounds over Christmas I havent put it back on.

 

[fatjel]

I cycled just short of 9000 miles last year and weigh 13.5 stone ..
The previous year I gave up smoking and stared cycling like a lunatic , after christmas I weighed 12 stone
The year before that I smoked 20 ciggies a day and weighed 11 stone.
Smoke more would be the obvious conclusion if weight is important

 

[ozboz]

Hiya , back in 1980 I was around 18 stone, not quite 30 yo, tying my bootlaces was a problem along with a lot of other things, at that time I had gained a place with on an Arts Foundation Course as a mature student . So economics determined there was no way I could afford the van or my lifestyle . So unless the weather was gross to save money I would walk to and from college around 9 miles a day and everywhere else I may have needed to go. So that was my exercise . Eating, At the time I used to listen to Radio 2, there was an American health sort being interviewed one afternoon , she talked about several dietary plans one of which was munching as much fresh fruit and veg as you could , so I did , it was incredibly cheap and to be honest I began to really enjoy it , especially the fruit , you name , I ate it , by the sackful ! By the end of the academic year I was back in 32 waist Levis , feeling ten times better,8 stone lighter and was getting a lot more attention from the fair maidens ! Result ! . I have never been back up to that weight on the scales. Up and down but never beyond 13 stone ,
So in my experience it was what I ate , not the volume ,
Hope you find a way that suits you as I did ,

 

[screenman]

I have cycled all my life but I have to watch what I eat to stop weight going on.

Take a minute to eat a doughnut and an hour cycling to get rid of it, not quite right but those thoughts are useful for me.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

No not wrong. Calories are a measurement of energy, yes it is what you intake vs what you expend. Do you know how many overweight people there are who barely eat more than 1500 cals a day, what you you advise them eat less? There are also plenty of extremely active people who can eat 5 figure daily calories and stay trim.

There are 3 ways to lose weight.
1) eat less calories
2) exercise more
3) do both of the above

I am not wrong for saying option 2 is valid, the guy who I originally quoted is wrong for saying it is invalid.

This is probably the first and last sensible post blazed will make.

 

[Jody]

My fitness pal to record what you are eating, links to strava to record calorie estimates

This ^ My fitness pal will ask your weight and how much you would like to loose. It gave 1lb a week for me based on 1500 calories a day. You can scan a bar code and it will have all nutritional information so you know where you are with the days totals. Once linked to Strava it will add the approximate calories burned to your daily total. I go out and do a couple of hours on the hills and it says I have burned roughly 800-1000 calories. So I'm up to 2300 calories for the day. Simplistic way of looking but it works.

The best thing you could do is knock takeaways on the head. It will save you money and your waste line.

 

[midlife]

No not wrong. Calories are a measurement of energy, yes it is what you intake vs what you expend. Do you know how many overweight people there are who barely eat more than 1500 cals a day, what you you advise them eat less? There are also plenty of extremely active people who can eat 5 figure daily calories and stay trim.

There are 3 ways to lose weight.
1) eat less calories
2) exercise more
3) do both of the above

I am not wrong for saying option 2 is valid, the guy who I originally quoted is wrong for saying it is invalid.

As BMR pans out at 1100-1200 then eating 1900 is still too much for a couch potato

Shaun

 

[Arrowfoot]

The first 2 to 3 days are crucial. Drink tea, not water if you crave for food besides the diet you have decided on. If you make the 3rd day, then aim for end of the week or the 8th day. Do not bother to exercise or weigh yourself until the 8th day. If you have lost 3 pounds or more you would not have problems following thru.

Exercise creates false hope in the initial days of a diet as reduced food intake is the key. If you can successfully reduce food intake, the exercise becomes the accelerator from week 2 onwards.

Too many people start with exercise, eat more thinking they have achieved something and put on weight or remain the same.

The 1st week is all about willpower and discipline. Get over 1st week and you then have your motivation to carry on.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Below I've reprinted the full text from "The Smokin Joe Guide To Weight Loss".

























Eat Less.

 

[Mrs M]

Below I've reprinted the full text from "The Smokin Joe Guide To Weight Loss".

It really is that simple























Eat Less.