Exercise. Fitness and a bit less of the fatness

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@Weathercam, i like a man who sacrifices good nutrition for some extra booze
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@Hells Bells, my 2 cents - Do stuff you like. You like dog walking and you yave to dog walk, so gradually pick up the intensity, speed and difficulty. Add 100m a day to the walk and after 10 days try and wak it quicker and quicker. Then introduce some hillier terrain. MAKE A PLAN.

Diets in most cases do not work - again have a plan. 2 small, healthy meals a day, times to suit you and a healthy but smaller dinner. Make sure each meal is balanced. Make sure it is delicious. NO desserts and bin the booze.

Ecercise will gett you fitter, eating healthy will lose the weight. Try not to confuse the 2. Unless you are a pro standard athlete then you have to watch what you eat to lose weight. Maintaining weight is a bit different.

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Also generally worth bearing in mind you (I assume) mean fat loss not weight loss, and the two aren't entirely interchangeable

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I'm sure your body gets used to what you eat & adapts itself somehow. I've found that occasionally shaking it up & changing what you eat for breakfast makes a difference - so instead of having egg on toast, try some cereal or grapefruit and toast & marmite. For me, breakfast is very much a meal of habit/convenience & has to be quick & easy. Currently it's fresh fruit & natural (full fat) yogurt. It doesn't sound as if you eat too much anyway, so just changing breakfast & tricking your body might help.

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@Nadenoodlee, I can also promise you that I will NEVER like running in the end. Really.

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@clarky999, my weight to height ratio would suggest that I need both fat loss and weight loss.

A couple of things. I will eat anything but breakfast cereal, with the exception of porridge (and genepi grapefruit would be my Room 101 choice) I really don't see the point of either.

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As has been said, Diet is best for losing weight....but your metabolism can be kick started with HIIT (High Intensity Interval training).

You can choose a 4 minute Tabata workout, which requires no "gear". It's not a gimmick, but it is a tough 4 minutes....2 x 4 min sessions a week will give good results. There are easier versions for beginners, if this is too daunting.

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2016/02/05/tabata-training.aspx

A bit of googling will come up with ideas for the 4 minutes.

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Don't have toast or cereal. They're both simple carbs, ie sugar. Eggs and fruit and natural yogurt are better and will fill you up for longer. I know everyone swears by porridge but I hate it. I'd rather go hungry!

I don't run anymore but love to dance. Hells Bells, have you tried zumba? Good fun and calorie burner. I also do ballet twice a week which is hardcore, although it looks easy! I love swimming but like you, it is a faff, but I make sure that if I take a holiday, a hotel with a pool is a must. And I use it everyday. Tennis? I'm rubbish but I take lessons at the local club. It not expensive as it's group lessons and you don't even have to be a member. Get in touch with your local club as they might do something similar. I only found out about them from a friend so you may be missing out unless you ask.

Most of my clothes are tight. If I put on weight I am uncomfortable which makes me want to lose it. Never have "fat clothes" hanging around as if you have nothing to wear it focuses the mind! This is particularly difficult on holiday, when, by the end of the week, I have put on several pounds as usual rules don't apply Laughing

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Lastly, prepare to be hungry. I am, a lot of the time Sad

. But then I'm a Kate Moss fan. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. (Disclaimer, this is probably not a healthy way of looking at things but it works for me.)

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How about keeping a daily diary here of every single thing you eat or drink. Be really honest with yourself (and us.........) if you never eat sugar and rarely eat carbs, what's doing the damage?

Personally I can't lose weight without exercise. It does burn calories, it does raise your metabolic rate and resting muscle burns more calories than resting fat. But perhaps more important, it makes me like myself more, feel better and more motivated. But I should do more! (Shouldn't we all, except weathercam?)

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@maggi, I really really can't do hungry. I would probably have been divorced by now if I followed that principal. Believe me, none of you would really want to know me when I'm hungry. TBH I'd rather be fat than hungry. Being thin is not really my aim, being more healthy is.
@davidof, I eat food cooked from scratch, no fast food or ready meals, and only an occasional takeaway. No corn syrup definitely, and I check for palm oil for environmental concerns.

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I'm no exercise fan but I go spinning once a week and enjoy that. It's knackering but it's only 40 minutes and you definitely feel as though you've worked out. I used to enjoy boxercise as well. I think classes are a good way to keep fit, and are more motivating.

I'm also trying to be more healthy and lose a bit of weight but I absolutely HATE dieting. I've cut out cheese and chocolate, I'm cooking lower-calorie meals and I've stopped drinking as much wine. I'm now on the afore-mentioned gin diet! I'm not expecting weight to fall off me, but hopefully I'll lose a few pounds over the coming months.

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I'm quite surprised about the (semi-)pros comments here on cycling. About 3 years ago I got the cycling bug and started doing a few circuits in the Surrey Hills here. Typically about 1 hour about 3-5 times a week (before of after work) and then one or two trips a couple of hours each at the weekend. Each route eventually involved about 450m of climbing (ok so nothing compared to the others contributing here Crying or Very sad

), involving several sections of panting and sweating followed by similar periods of recovery on the downhill sections. I've had quite a bit of back trouble lately, but cycling actually improved my back up until about 1hr45 when it started giving me a bit of jip. I lost about 10kg in the first couple of months, then the weight stabilised for another couple, then I lost another 5kg in the next couple - leaving me the lightest I'd been since age 35. The shorter route was up out of town onto a local ridge and back down again - I started off just trying to get up it without having to walk any bits, then upping the number of 6km laps, then working on reducing the lap times. The longer one was a single circuit of about 50km (which I'd do in opposite directions for variety).

The thing that worked for me was doing the same route over and over again, seeing my progress by the reduction in time over given stretches - I reduced the time of the 50km ride by about 30 mins over that period. This may, however, be more of a masculine approach than Hells Bells is comfortable with. The side effect (which may have had as much an effect on the weight-loss as the actual exercise) was that I felt much less inclined to graze than when sitting around as a couch potato - after a ride I'd generally look to fill myself up afterwards with a few sticks of celery, a carrot and a few nuts rather than raid the fridge for another hunk of cheese. I probably also ate more substantial breakfasts (more eggs, less cereal/toast) and so felt less hungry later in the day. So that goes along with the arguments made above about reducing carbs - but it was achieved as a result of the increased exercise rather than as a conscious plan.

Unfortunately I got out of the habit after a bout of tonsillitis (and a lazy holiday) and haven't got back into the habit again since.....and I'm back to being a bit porky again Sad

(I also don't do running - even before my back problems I was awful, but now I can't jog more than about 1-200m before the pains start)

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@Ray Zorro, thanks.

Also my parents started it 6months after I did after seeing the impact it was having with me and they are also still doing it. The regular health checks they were and have since had all showed very positive improvements in lots of ways not just weight.

Another thought - Hells Bells you say you rather read a book (so with you there) I sometimes listen to audio books while doing my work out in the gym, which makes it much more enjoyable.

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If you like reading then why not read book while on a home trainer / cross trainer. Fat burning zone = low intensisty but long duration, after a few sessions it really doesn't feel like much effort at all.

To keep my weight down between the end of the summer biking season and the ski season I have a cross trainer in the cellar and either read my Kindl or listen to music. Am thinking of putting a TV down there too so I can watch TV or use the playstation at the same time.

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Some good ideas here, thanks guys.

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@Hells Bells, should have mentioned check out Felix in Briancon (Ken has been riding with him) friends with many people you know, also has three husky type dogs that have been mistaken for wolves - he's really into his nutrition and fasting for fitness and is always posting loads of links and stuff https://www.facebook.com/felix.f.davis

And re resting HR 74 sounds high to me, compared to a what I've always been lead to believe (60) though a wee bit of googling and 74 is in the accepted levels. Like I say you would see that come down quite quickly I reckon.

And @GrahamN, that was quite a substantial amount of hours in a week that you were putting in cycling compared to what others might be able to achieve and the mere fact that you are now no longer maintaining sort of bears that out.

Looking back over the three rides since Fri I was doing about 1,500 calories a ride over 2.5hrs. You really have to be doing a lot of riding to see weight loss and as others have said it's so easy to binge out when you get back in the false belief that you are in calorie deficit.

@Hells Bells, walks the dogs every day, so the best option is how to capitalise on that time outside every day and simply work a sweat up, though I would not recommend Tabata at this stage!!!!!

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Average HR is about 72-25, accepted range of 60-100.

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@Hells Bells, I cannot do hungry either, I am not a nice person when I am hungry, but 5:2 I can just about do. In desperate times diet coke and cooked chicken - the traditional "crash" diet

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HIIT can be started at any fitness level (according to Jillian Michaels - 30 day shred) dont wait until you`re "fit" to do it. I can run 10k no worries, but level 1 of her program still kills me, even though she assures me "she has 400lb people who can do jumping jacks" so I should be able to crack on.

@Nadenoodlee, @Old Fartbag, closed season / when pushed for time I do Tabata intervals on my turbo (bike on standing trainer), I do them so they hurt and come the eighth with two more still to go I'm wondering if I can finish them.

There's no way you should be advocating doing anything like this to people who are not used to going into severe oxygen debt.

For sure six months down the line when @Hells Bells, is ripping it up maybe.

Take it gradually and get used to being out of breath, remember "no pain no gain" Toofy Grin

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@DB,

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I'd like to be able to do HIIT - because you don't have to spend hours doing it - but cardiologist says no. Sad

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A new swimsuit purchased, so that's the next couple of weeks sorted. We'll just about have the pool to ourselves.
@DB, as I do not eat processed foods, eat sweets, chocolate or cakes on a regular basis, and hate 'pop' of any sort I'm unlikely to have a sugar addiction. I make my own salad dressing, and there's definitely no sugar in it. My meals are all cooked from scratch. again, no sugar in them.

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@Nadenoodlee, I have the 30 day shred at home, but doing anything at floor level with 2 dogs around is hilarious, as they think you are ill and in need of a big lick.

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@Hells Bells, ref the food log: I think this a good place to start. I find the app "MyFitnessPal" a real boon for this - it has a bar code reader to make it easy to record all your intake, or if you have standard meals ( e.g. your breakfast of 'not porridge') it's a single button press once set up.

If you put in personal details at the beginning, as well as goals, it will give you a daily calorie intake to achieve those goals, as well as , if linked to a fitbit or other HRM, what you've done exercise wise. Additionally you can share your achievements with a fitness partner, so can keep an eye out for each other. And a daily blog of hints and tips.

Just seeing it on the screen I find incredibly motivational.

BTW, thanks everyone else for the ideas about weight loss. There's a couple of ideas I think I could try. As a type I diabetic I'm finding it difficult to lose weight - more exercise? = more insulin, more carbs. Time to see the nutritionist I think...

PS hate running with a passion - used to do half marathons, then knees started objecting to pavement pounding. Cycling , and hill s in particular are they way I'm going at the moment.

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@Arctic Roll, I agree that the food log is a good place to start. Bit of a PITA when you make everything from scratch but once it's in MyFitnessPal it gets easier to update.

@Hells Bells, Good luck with it. You know the science. More calories in than being expended so a good look, via an honestly kept food (and drink) log, should show where the damage is being done - it might be ingredients, it might be portion size, we all know alcohol has empty calories

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@Hells Bells, I have a toddler who thinks it is hilarious to climb over me, throw a cup at me, drop a dumbell on the cat when I am doing the video - so i sympathise. At least you can shut them outside, people frown on that with the baby....

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Hangry (Angry when hungry)
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@Arctic Roll, a friend who is an insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetic turned vegan in January. He's lost several stones, reduced his HbA1C to an almost impossible level. Vegan diets are of course not for all, and certainly not for me, but you could try a plant based diet with restricted animal products.

@DB, the fat content of my diet could probably do with reducing, and the veg could probably do with increasing. And yes, the alcohol is probably a factor. I have not gained weight for quite a while, it has actually been steady for several years, but should be lower.

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