I dip below my wait in may but eating the right thing and doing exercise keep me fit i know its not always easy but you will.feel better for it

same

Yeah,I tend to try and bulk up through the winter and cut fat down just after for the summer.
I found calorie counting was the key but just eating less didn’t cut it after you’ve lost a certain amount.You have to start watching what you eat too.
My new diet is trying to stay off processed foods and i only drink on occasions now.
I found you can actually eat alot more if you stick to fresh food rather than frozen stuff from packets so you don’t feel too hungry.
Still have splurges from time to time and go out for meals though.
Just have to go without the next day.

What happen if you go out 7 days a week :laugh:

That interesting about the winter you could just wear more cloths and eat healthy

:laugh::laugh:

:laugh: I notice that you did not claim; 'Extra large dick'. :hee:

:nono: Sugar and other excess refined carbohydrates LT. "Fat" is not the problem (unless it's hydrogenated fat). Obviously you'll exceed your calorie limit if you go around eating cakes of butter, but no one actually realistically does that, whereas people DO much their way through a 200g bag of Doritos no problem.

The RDA for carbohydrates is something like 220g. A more realistic healthy target is 100 - 150g, and that should be from "good" sources like fruit and vegetables. Most people are consuming 400+g, and most of it empty / nutritionally void. Too much sugar, too much pasta, too much bread, too many potatoes. That is why people are fat.

Main culprit is fizzy drinks. That's why people cut out a load of food and end up confused when they still don't lose weight... when they're drinking 50g of sugar or more a day.

BMI is inaccurate if you have higher than average muscle mass tho.

I prefer fresh food over processed ****e anyway tbh. I joined Sliming World which is kind of calorie counting without calorie counting. Like they have foods grouped in a different way but it's basically the same principle of what you just said most "free" foods are just non processed

well, whatever you're doing Niamh, it is working if that wedding photo is anything to go by.. tantalizing curves :blush:

ha thanks :love:

Is Slimming World free to join? or do have to pay money to join?

i have no penis

It's €9 a week

I think that's around £8

I have a drink each of the 7 days :laugh: that only happens on holiday

I’m just a BIT overweight...

I personally don't rate slimming world Alfie, especially not for males. It lists pasta, rice and potato as "free foods" :umm2:... if you exceed your calories on that sort of bulk you'll end up with A) a belly and B) vitamin and mineral deficiencies. It also tends to be a bit low on protein if you're also exercising.

Eat fresh (ONLY fresh), cut out sugar, cut out bulk wheat totally (this means primarily wheat-based products, you don't have to fret over a bit of flour in a sauce etc.), heavily reduce other grains / rice / potatoes, increase veg (especially green veg), fruit, and nuts. Plenty of lean meat protein / fish + moderate other meats (basically don't worry about meat, it's hard to overeat unprocessed meat, you'll get full and stop).

Cut your portion sizes. Most people have twice as much on their plate as they should. Half an hour of cardio / HIIT every day, lift heavy stuff for a bit 3 times a week.

You'll be hollywood buff in no time :thumbs:

These people are con artists.

I don't know how people drink fizzy drinks, they are so sweet :yuk:

No, I'm a skinny legend

Maybe so but it worked for me so I don't give a **** :p I stopped going when i reached my target about 5 weeks ago anyway

I suppose for me, it was a bit of structure and having to go get weighed kept me focused, also for the first 4 weeks writing down everything you ate helped alot

No worries, I understand what you're saying but for me I felt I needed a bit of structure and someone to answer to every week to keep me focused but I didn't have loads to lose either.

Well that's the thing, it's a placebo really... if it works I suppose it doesn't matter, but people think it works miracles when, if you actually take a look at what has happened... it's as simple as that people are eating less overall, have cut out processed food, and are exercising more. Groups do help with focus though. It's just the "rules" that are daft... and I do take major issue with the things that they consider "free foods" as it heavily encourages people with previously unhealthy eating habits to still bulk out on empty carbs, and if you do that for more than a few months, you'll end up with vitamin A&C, iron, magnesium and potassium deficiencies. Too many people will skip green veg if they're being offered potatoes etc. as a "sin free" alternative.

Yeah but tbf to them they do tell people all this during the meetings (not that I really went to many of them) They do stress that while foods like potatoes, pasta etc are "free" replacing part of a portion you'd normally have with "speed foods" which are proper veg will make you lose weight faster.