A couple of simple rules that worked for me to lose weight
1) Veg from above ground, not below ground, and green not white
2) Bread etc - avoid white, and have 1 less slice.
3) Snacks - just stop
4) No puddings, stop having sugar in your tea/coffee (taste the drink instead!) and of course your cereal
4) Eat nowt after 7pm
5) If you go to a tea shop - have cake by all means, but request 1 slice of cake and 2 plates and share with your partner!
Addendum - just seen "Govners" large portions post ... and
6) No more than 3 or 4 pieces of potato with your dinner, and small one at that!
Brompton, Condor Heritage, creaky joints and thinning white (formerly grey) hair ""You know you're getting old when it's easier to ride a bike than to get on and off it" - quote from observant jogger !
I have a motto that I like to repeat, which is "Just a moment on the lips - then it's gone forever...!" Still pretty much the same size & weight I was aged 25. Funny stuff, the old metabolics.
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
Grumpy-Grandad wrote: ↑7 Jun 2021, 12:09pm
I have a couple of friends who are fitness trainers and after years of doing that job and seeing many fat people their conclusion is simple:
1. Eat less.
2. Exercise more.
.
3. Diets do not work in the long term.
Absolutely spot on.
Anyone listen to The Life Scientific on R4 a few weeks ago?
Very enlightening to some folks, but only told me what I already knew.
proper food I eat as much as I want and don't count
For all the bad stuff - Beer, Biscuits, Puddings, Chocolate.- I purchase these out of my cycling calories, I estimate what I burn whilst cycling and try and balance this with the stuff I shouldn't be eating and drinking.
For Instance last week cycling accounted for 5,950 kCals
Beer added up to 2221 and Puddings & Biscuits 3820
which left me 91kCals in debt that is transferred over to this week.
Grumpy-Grandad wrote: ↑7 Jun 2021, 12:09pm
1. Eat less.
2. Exercise more.
.
True, but it'll take another 2-3 months of heavy gym workouts to overcome HM Gvt's lockdowns. I'm no heavier, but the loss of 10-12 hours intense exercise a week for much of the past 15 months has resulted in my being much fatter. It'll take months of heavy work to overcome
And Covid? Only met one person who knew he'd had it, though he only found out by chance (Nb. He wasn't aware of it, though the closure of the gym will take months to overcome)
Blondie wrote: ↑7 Jun 2021, 6:48pm
Even in the most restrictive first lockdown exercise was always allowed and encouraged
Perhaps. But it's hard to replicate a heavy workout without a gym, pool, or as my 79 year old mother found, unable to access the munros she normally walks/runs (Nb. Highest local hill is only 2000' and it's a bit flat)
Govnor wrote: ↑8 Jun 2021, 7:45pm
The biggest problems we have is most of the suggestions we have tried are like eating straw.
Now we are unlikely to ever stop eating meat, that doesn't mean we are not willing to try them as a side dish.
Had some curried chickpea's wasn't bad, wouldn't want a meal of it-but a spoon on one jacket was passable.
Doris came back with slimming world recipes & let's be honest- they are like prison food.
We will probably all need to cut down on meat even if you don't stop, Good Vegan/vegetarian food shouldn't be a side dish to a lump of dead flesh. we try and eat meat and dairy free a couple of days a week , and now as a family have a few main meals where there is no meat or dairy and we tend to get clean plates from the family, on these days.
The latest Hairy Bikers vegetarian cook book has some great recipes if you are looking for inspiration.
Blondie wrote: ↑7 Jun 2021, 6:48pm
Even in the most restrictive first lockdown exercise was always allowed and encouraged
Perhaps. But it's hard to replicate a heavy workout without a gym, pool, or as my 79 year old mother found, unable to access the munros she normally walks/runs (Nb. Highest local hill is only 2000' and it's a bit flat)
Heavy aerobic workouts can be replicated anywhere. Not so much strength workouts.