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« Reply #30 on: July 23, 2012, 05:51 PM » |
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When you have a meal make sure you eat till your full try eating foods with plenty of fibre, protein beans,eggs etc which will keep you feeling fuller for longer! Which will help to prevent you from snacking which is a easy way to GAIN weight and so snacking should be avoided!
Always try to keep moving even just bouncing or shaking your legs while your eating or watching tv etc will burn of some energy alot more than you think!
Things like soup take longer for your stomach to process so will keep you feeling fuller for longer!
If you want to gain muscle THE ONLY best thing to have is MILK straight after sport to repair muscle I have used milk since I was 12 to gain muscle when playing rugby I wouldnt drink anything else just had about 10 glasses of milk!
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Unfortunately I know how to put muscle on - I actually need to lean up. A foot injury from last October has stuffed me for many types of exercise, but, I'd become lazy well before that ... my free dive fins are effective torture devices and cycling shoes are agony (plus walking further than a couple of km promotes a limp that introduces other problems). This was all because of a bad initial diagnosis and to fix it could now involve an op and a lot of time completely off my foot. More good reasons to drop kilos. Rowing and weights have been my go to exercises over the sat two days, but you've got me thinking ... there's always the punching bag and my gloves should be somewhere ! |
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« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2012, 06:39 PM » |
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I stopped eating bread with my butter,
Tim, you are a man after my own heart. Tinker Being half Irish I have always heard the saying that Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat, but I am pretty sure butter should be on that list... |
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« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2012, 07:22 PM » |
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What are you doing to keep active Don?
I walk two miles every night the do 3 sets of 20 pushups and situs. That will take about an hour. |
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« Reply #33 on: July 24, 2012, 03:34 AM » |
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Oh oh, handbags  Didn't realise you played rugby. Don't you play at all now ? |
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« Reply #34 on: July 24, 2012, 03:55 AM » |
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During college, I was a waiter so I walked a lot. Ate a lot, too, but never gained. Then I stopped and became a code monkey but didn't change how I ate so got big. When I decided to lose it, it became this singular focus. I had a simple pneumatic stair climber in my room and would pop on a metal CD and go until it finished. I swear, my heart rate still goes up when I hear 'Eyes of a Stranger' or 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'! (Queensrÿche and Iron Maiden if y'all can't remember). Lost 60lbs in 6 months. I also cut meals in half... ate all the same stuff, but literally halved it before starting. If I started feeling hungry later after dinner, that's when I'd do the stairclimbing cuz it would completely kill the hunger.
As a weird tangent, at one time I considered myself on a 'donut' diet. On my way to work, I'd hit the Dunkin Donuts for a Dunkin Donut (that was the name; no longer available out here hmm) and coffee to go. That was breakfast at the office. Tasted great! Interesting thing, though, hour later my stomach felt like I swallowed a whale. Completely killed my appetite until dinner and I wasn't starving for it either.
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« Reply #35 on: July 24, 2012, 06:14 AM » |
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I stopped eating bread with my butter,
Tim, you are a man after my own heart. Tinker Being half Irish I have always heard the saying that Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat, but I am pretty sure butter should be on that list... Tim, being Irish, i am sure you not only appreciate good butter, but lots of butter must be accompanied by goodly portions of potatoes. My very closest cuz married a nurse. For years she has told me about the evils of eating butter, eggs, bacon and so on and on. I have told her i could not live without bacon, eggs potatoes and butter on anything it could stay on or be fried in. A couple of years ago, it came out that those items really are much better for good health than their replacements. I just read no further and gloat every time we get together.  When i was working and heavy lifting, i weighed 150 with absolutely NO FAT any where. now that i am slowing down and because of severe back problems can no longer do heavy work, I have lost a lot of muscle, weigh about 135 and have gained a spare tire around the middle. I am managing the tire by eating sensible portions and doing lots of walking (until recent hernia and surgery for). I still manage to eat all of the good things, including butter, eggs and spuds, but i am careful about the portions.  Hey, if you and i get much further into this potatoe, butter, eggs, bacon, etc, we will be in big trouble here.  Tinker |
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« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2012, 08:09 AM » |
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You might want to check out the Epic Mealtime videos on youtube A mate of mine has a running carpet machine in his workroom and has a height adjustable table over it with his laptop and he walks while doing his emails every day for 4-5h He's lost a lot of weight over the last 6 months doing only this. |
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« Reply #37 on: July 24, 2012, 01:58 PM » |
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Getting a bit obsessed I think ...
Woke up at 2:00am, rowed for 70 minutes, showered. Now back in bed and on the FOG. From Sunday afternoon I was 99.9kg, now 60 hours later I'm 96.4kg. That's down 3.5kg (7.7lb).
(I woke up hungry and acted on some advice further back in this thread and exercised the hunger away)
There's initial fluid retention and bloating to smash in the first week, so week one will typically be the biggest drop. Still, Sunday weigh in is going to be interesting.
I'm eating similar volumes, but only fresh food and coffee is black.
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« Reply #38 on: July 24, 2012, 09:04 PM » |
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Hey, if you and i get much further into this potatoe, butter, eggs, bacon, etc, we will be in big trouble here. Mmm, bacon and pork...here's some roast pork for pulled pork with a side of hot sauce I cooked recently ...   |
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« Reply #39 on: July 25, 2012, 06:45 AM » |
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Tim, You are baaad  If you are ever around Connecticut, give a call and my wife will whip up the best Sauer Bratten and potatoe dumplins you ever could want. In hot weather, her German potatoe salad (with vinegar and chopped onions) is superb. Very cooling and i have read a spoonful of vinegar will take away a whole lot of fat Tinker |
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« Reply #40 on: July 26, 2012, 12:11 AM » |
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Tim, You are baaad If you are ever around Connecticut, give a call and my wife will whip up the best Sauer Bratten and potatoe dumplins you ever could want. In hot weather, her German potatoe salad (with vinegar and chopped onions) is superb. Very cooling and i have read a spoonful of vinegar will take away a whole lot of fat Tinker Thanks, you may regret that invitation... |
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« Reply #41 on: July 26, 2012, 06:55 AM » |
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Tim, You are baaad If you are ever around Connecticut, give a call and my wife will whip up the best Sauer Bratten and potatoe dumplins you ever could want. In hot weather, her German potatoe salad (with vinegar and chopped onions) is superb. Very cooling and i have read a spoonful of vinegar will take away a whole lot of fat Tinker Thanks, you may regret that invitation... Not me. She fixes it and i take care of the rest. When we first married, she wanted to learn to be a good chef. Every Sunday, she would fix this fabulous meal and ask how i liked it. I. of course, told her how great it was as i would load up with seconds and even thirds. she was very happy to see her efforts were not in vane. after several weeks of this, she began to realize i not only liked eating, but i liked to eat anything. Then, she started to worry.  Tinker |
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« Reply #42 on: July 28, 2012, 01:58 AM » |
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Good thread...with anything it is a lifestyle change -- have to change everything permanently. I have had the problem of doing something, losing weight and then put it back on. I have been active more most of my adult life, run marathons, bike, completed P90X...but, I love to eat and portion control is my weakness. I am physically in pretty good shape, but need to lose about 20-30 pounds. This thread has got me thinking...maybe by the end of the year I can drop the weight.
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« Reply #43 on: July 28, 2012, 02:51 AM » |
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You have good thinking, Scot... I never liked the 'resolution' thing people do at the beginning of the year. In particular because it used to overload my boxing class (hey, it helps my hockey  ) I've always had far far more success with goals with a deadline like "by November I will have done XXX" (<-- Ken bait) If anything losing 20-30 like you suggest will greatly help your marathon times! |
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« Reply #44 on: July 28, 2012, 06:02 AM » |
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I was helping out all week with the junior rugby club summer camp. I had to take part in one of the training exercises for about 20 mins,,,,, jeezus, thought my heart was gona burst through my chest. I need to start some cardio vascular workouts  |
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« Reply #45 on: July 28, 2012, 07:35 AM » |
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Well I'm 6 days in and I'm down exactly four kilos (8.8lb). I've been obsessive on diet control and I've averaged over 90 minutes of cardio per day ... with the addition of light weight sets and stretching. Further I've focused on the incidental exercise ... walk to the post box, take the stairs, etc. I've figured out carrots two and three now - they'll be a stand up paddle board and a nice carbon SUP paddle If I manage to maintain the momentum, I'll reach carrot one a week from this coming Monday (the LS130) ... that'll be two weeks ahead of my original thinking. Although not a carrot, I grabbed my OF1010 the other day - I think it motivated me further. What other motivational "not carrots" should I think about? Hmmm? |
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« Reply #46 on: July 28, 2012, 07:48 AM » |
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You have good thinking, Scot... I never liked the 'resolution' thing people do at the beginning of the year. In particular because it used to overload my boxing class (hey, it helps my hockey ) I've always had far far more success with goals with a deadline like "by November I will have done XXX" (<-- Ken bait) If anything losing 20-30 like you suggest will greatly help your marathon times! This accounts for 90% of all exercise machine sales occurring the first week of January. It is also why the best time to buy used exercise machines is March-April...  |
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« Reply #47 on: August 06, 2012, 12:13 PM » |
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Well I'm 15 days in and I've just hit 93.3kg - the rate of loss has effectively been one pound a day in old speak. I'll easily reach carrot number one by the end of the week (to be honest to myself I want to be well under 93kg for a couple of days). I'm going to slow things down a bit ... aggressive diet change and exercise was leaving me light headed and a bit vague, so I've had to bump up the calories to over 2000 and that is a lot of lettuce plus I'm running out of time in the day with work, life and the amount of cardio I'm fitting in. Moving forward I'm going to aim for 1.5kg a week drop (3.3lb) for the seven weeks that follow - it'll be interesting to see if it gets easier or harder. I'm going to try to get some muscle tone bag as I go, which could be a negative to weight loss. |
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« Reply #48 on: August 06, 2012, 01:52 PM » |
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I'm going to try to get some muscle tone bag as I go, which could be a negative to weight loss. Once you hit your target weight and start toning, pay less attention to your weight. If you are just toning, you won't be putting on a lot of muscle weight so I doubt you'd notice the weight go up. Toning is usually high-reps at a lower weight and working small muscle groups... not a lot of burned Calories. |
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« Reply #49 on: August 06, 2012, 08:44 PM » |
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I'm going to try to get some muscle tone bag as I go, which could be a negative to weight loss. Once you hit your target weight and start toning, pay less attention to your weight. If you are just toning, you won't be putting on a lot of muscle weight so I doubt you'd notice the weight go up. Toning is usually high-reps at a lower weight and working small muscle groups... not a lot of burned Calories. That's makes sense ... I always tried to grunt it out and consequently not get enough reps in ... bulking up where I didn't want it - good advice. Thanks. |
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« Reply #50 on: August 07, 2012, 06:59 PM » |
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Carrot one DONE ! So the LS130 is ordered - with some bits ...
Carrot two (88kg target) is a set of Ay Up MTB lights - V4 Adventure set, new XTR pedals and some associated nick nacks. I may need to set a carrot 2.1 as I've ordered the bike bits - getting confident!
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« Reply #51 on: August 07, 2012, 07:32 PM » |
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Sweet! I'm sure you'll love the pedals and lights! We are approaching cyclocross season stateside so I'm trying to drop a few pounds as well. Keep up the awesome work! |
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« Reply #52 on: August 08, 2012, 06:03 AM » |
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any pics of the bike Kev ?
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« Reply #53 on: August 08, 2012, 06:36 AM » |
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any pics of the bike Kev ?
Oh dear, which one? There's a ... ROTEC downhill Yeti 575 Norco Torrent Specialized FSR Pro Ciocc (Road) Alchemy (Road) Giant CADEX (MTB gone commuter) I've given away the White Lightening BMX ... yeh, I'm too old by far! I'll take some pics on the weekend and post them  My favs are the Yeti and the Ciocc. Yeti is full house SRAM XO and XTR, Ciocc is Campy Record. My wife and kids have got a few bikes too ... more of the same and the odd Cannondale. |
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« Reply #54 on: August 08, 2012, 08:07 AM » |
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too old for a bmx,,,,, no way. i bought a new Hoffman a couple of years ago  |
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« Reply #55 on: August 08, 2012, 01:33 PM » |
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Nice! You don't happen to frequent mtbr or rbr by any chance? My forum name comes from an older Specialized Mtb I had in the early 2000's. Now have a bunch of Treks. My brother is a dealer and we barter my building and carpentry skills for new toys. |
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« Reply #56 on: August 08, 2012, 02:34 PM » |
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No wonder Kev that you have space problems in your shop. You should empty the garage of a bike shopfull of bikes first |
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« Reply #57 on: August 08, 2012, 03:37 PM » |
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too old for a bmx,,,,, no way. i bought a new Hoffman a couple of years ago Missus keeps trying to get me to sell my bmx, gonna dust it off when the indoor park opens near me |
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« Reply #58 on: August 08, 2012, 06:12 PM » |
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LOL, i bet you used to poke sticks at wasps nests when you were little Dean, i want pics of that indoor park |
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