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Help a 42 y/o TBer lose 38lbs.
- Thread starter Johnny Fila
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Cut back on the beer and start running. It's worked for me so far.
If not running, at least go for a walk every night.
If not running, at least go for a walk every night.
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So yeah, workout more and eat less.
As flippant as that sounds, and ridiculous in the face of the billion dollar weight loss industry that has cropped up in this country, the bottom line is that your body is a simple machine in this regard. Take in more energy than you use and the excess is stored as fat. Burn more than you take in and your body burns its reserves.
Eat a balanced diet that's lower in calories and find any ways you can to exercise more. Take stairs, park further away and walk, ride your bike to work. And if you have the time to actually go into a gym, do some weight training.
Good luck.
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So yeah, workout more and eat less.
As flippant as that sounds, and ridiculous in the face of the billion dollar weight loss industry that has cropped up in this country, the bottom line is that your body is a simple machine in this regard. Take in more energy than you use and the excess is stored as fat. Burn more than you take in and your body burns its reserves.
Eat a balanced diet that's lower in calories and find any ways you can to exercise more. Take stairs, park further away and walk, ride your bike to work. And if you have the time to actually go into a gym, do some weight training.
Good luck.
Eat soup. The extra fluid can help you drop 10 pounds or more in a month. There's really no downside to this, because you can put anything is soup, it won't get old. Not from a can though, make it yourself. For best results, lunch and dinner should be soup.
It isn't quite as simple as that, you're body doesnt want to loose the fat stores. It'll try and get rid of that pesky inefficient muscle first, you're metabolism will slow down to try and stop the loss of energy etc.
Tho granted, if you keep active and eat properly, it won't be an issue!
- Mar 25, 2005
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The trick to losing weight and keeping it off is to learn to eat properly and go at least 3 x 20 minutes cardio per week for the rest of your life. That's it. Very often the problem when trying to lose weight is it either doesn't happen fast enough or you end up cheating once in a while, gain back a pound or two then get depressed and stop doing this. Often you need an extra push from someone to help you out.
I wanted to lose 55 pounds (25kg) 2 years ago so I joined Jenny Craig. I ended up losing it within 6 months. They're a bit expensive but its worth it if you really want to get rid of it.
I wanted to lose 55 pounds (25kg) 2 years ago so I joined Jenny Craig. I ended up losing it within 6 months. They're a bit expensive but its worth it if you really want to get rid of it.
The body needs to be shocked to loose weight, let's say you take a gym or sport schedule of 4 half hours a week, eventually your body will get use to it and there wont be anymore progress, you need to make it more often and raise the intensity has it goes, otherwise it'll work at first then wont change anything.
I didn't want to go all biology nerd, but obviously the key is to increase your activity while decreasing caloric intake by a reasonable amount so that your body does not feel it is being starved.
There's a reason crash diets don't yield lasting results. The key, and where most people fail, is that losing weight can't be the result of a short term goal you're trying to meet, but the result of a permanent change in your lifestyle.
I use a package called "FitDay" - it's like Quicken for calories. You type in what you eat and what you do and it tells you what your net calorie balance is. It's useful to help plan, but the most important part is the discipline of 'fessing up to yourself every day and seeing the consequences of your choices. Works for me...
(Alternatively, just cut out beer, sugar, white flour and sodas and walk for an hour a day. Also, do crunches. 2 mon/wed/fri this week, 4 mon/wed/fri next week, 6 the week after and keep adding 2 a week until you're doing 100. They suck, but there's nothing as good at getting the job done).
(Alternatively, just cut out beer, sugar, white flour and sodas and walk for an hour a day. Also, do crunches. 2 mon/wed/fri this week, 4 mon/wed/fri next week, 6 the week after and keep adding 2 a week until you're doing 100. They suck, but there's nothing as good at getting the job done).
Exercise, and eat nutrient dense foods. You need nutrient dense foods so your body can deal with stress, which will assist in lowering your beer cravings, otherwise you'll just go back to it.
Eat fresh, and if possible, organic produce, and fresh meat, fish, and cheese, and snack on nuts and/or a couple pieces of fruit in between.
I'm also 42. I lost 40 lbs the first 3 months of this year by following this regimen. I have a bike trainer, and ride it 30 minutes every other day, and have 2lb weights that I exercise my arms with as I'm riding.
I have a very stressful job, and feel that I wouldn't have been as successful with my diet objective if I was not eating highly nutritious foods every day. This also lowers your cravings for junk food, because your body feels nourished.
I was never an excessive drinker, but I couldn't go a night without a beer or two to take the edge off, and more on the weekends. I never quit beer completely, but have consistently been drinking 1 or 2 beers a week since I changed my lifestyle.
I used to depend on coffee for getting me through the day also...that was the first thing I quit, back in December, and I'm glad I did, because coffee withdrawal is pretty tough, and getting that out of the way helped a great deal.
There's some great advice on this thread. Pick out some of the better points that you feel comfortable with, and devise a plan for yourself, and research, research, research. Good luck!
Eat fresh, and if possible, organic produce, and fresh meat, fish, and cheese, and snack on nuts and/or a couple pieces of fruit in between.
I'm also 42. I lost 40 lbs the first 3 months of this year by following this regimen. I have a bike trainer, and ride it 30 minutes every other day, and have 2lb weights that I exercise my arms with as I'm riding.
I have a very stressful job, and feel that I wouldn't have been as successful with my diet objective if I was not eating highly nutritious foods every day. This also lowers your cravings for junk food, because your body feels nourished.
I was never an excessive drinker, but I couldn't go a night without a beer or two to take the edge off, and more on the weekends. I never quit beer completely, but have consistently been drinking 1 or 2 beers a week since I changed my lifestyle.
I used to depend on coffee for getting me through the day also...that was the first thing I quit, back in December, and I'm glad I did, because coffee withdrawal is pretty tough, and getting that out of the way helped a great deal.
There's some great advice on this thread. Pick out some of the better points that you feel comfortable with, and devise a plan for yourself, and research, research, research. Good luck!
I'd make this fun. Exercise etc.
Biking, road biking particularly, is excellent. Toss some Mt Biking in as well on off days.
If you lack time, try running. Start with 1 mile. Pace yourself.
Then after a week, try 2 miles. Then after a week or two, try 4.
Stick with 4 for 2-4 weeks, then try 6. Get up to about 6-8 miles 3x a week or so.
Weights + running/biking will get you there faster.
You can also do lots of old school stuff, like sit ups, crunchies, push ups, dips etc. Try to do 4-5 sets of 10-12. Rest, drink water in between each set. Do that on the off days you do the biking/running.
Food is the biggy though.
Less food = less fat.
Calories are calories.........
Most eat more when they increase exercise.
So the exercise really does not help them too much as far as weight. Gotta get a handle on the food/calorie intake.
If you are into camping, try a gnarly back pack trip, bring only certain foods. Do a 5-7 day death march. You will lose weight.
Mix running, biking, weights, rollerblading, normal push ups etc,
Do one on 1 day, the 2nd day do the other.
You'll have less injuries by doing multiple things.
Another really good off day thing to do: yoga.
Also, NEVER eat after 8pm at night, drink all the water you want, but do not eat anything with calories after 8pm.
This one rule will make a huge difference.
It takes time an d effort to change habits. Little by little you can chip away at it. That's how it got added on you!
The Backpacking trip is the best quick method, it combines no choice in the food dept, and no choice with the hiking.
You have to keep after it when you get back however.
Beer...well........I still eat chocolate here and there, but no cheesecake and other really high calorie items.
Never did like to drink. Smoked, when I quit that, food was all that was left and everything started tasting a lot better. MET rate slowed way down too.
Damn Nicotine. Haha
Tom
Biking, road biking particularly, is excellent. Toss some Mt Biking in as well on off days.
If you lack time, try running. Start with 1 mile. Pace yourself.
Then after a week, try 2 miles. Then after a week or two, try 4.
Stick with 4 for 2-4 weeks, then try 6. Get up to about 6-8 miles 3x a week or so.
Weights + running/biking will get you there faster.
You can also do lots of old school stuff, like sit ups, crunchies, push ups, dips etc. Try to do 4-5 sets of 10-12. Rest, drink water in between each set. Do that on the off days you do the biking/running.
Food is the biggy though.
Less food = less fat.
Calories are calories.........
Most eat more when they increase exercise.
So the exercise really does not help them too much as far as weight. Gotta get a handle on the food/calorie intake.
If you are into camping, try a gnarly back pack trip, bring only certain foods. Do a 5-7 day death march. You will lose weight.
Mix running, biking, weights, rollerblading, normal push ups etc,
Do one on 1 day, the 2nd day do the other.
You'll have less injuries by doing multiple things.
Another really good off day thing to do: yoga.
Also, NEVER eat after 8pm at night, drink all the water you want, but do not eat anything with calories after 8pm.
This one rule will make a huge difference.
It takes time an d effort to change habits. Little by little you can chip away at it. That's how it got added on you!
The Backpacking trip is the best quick method, it combines no choice in the food dept, and no choice with the hiking.
You have to keep after it when you get back however.
Beer...well........I still eat chocolate here and there, but no cheesecake and other really high calorie items.
Never did like to drink. Smoked, when I quit that, food was all that was left and everything started tasting a lot better. MET rate slowed way down too.
Damn Nicotine. Haha
Tom
^^^ this here is great advice. Remember that a faster metabolism burns more fat, but is made of more muscle, which is heavy. The first few weeks can have your weight remain the same while your figure changes. Don't starve yourself during this time, because you'll end up playing yo-yo. Keep exercising and your body will keep burning fat while your muscle mass stabilizes.
I also need to lose some weight, maybe 5-8 kg. A few weeks ago when the weather started to get nicer, I started to bike to work a few days every week (15-20 minutes each way). It feels like I'm in a better shape now and I'm not as sweaty when arriving to work as I was a couple of weeks back, but the weight is still the same. I think it's because I've perhaps started to eat a bit more as well. You get hungry when you're exercising. 
I also drink perhaps a beer or two a day on average, which doesn't really help me lose weight either...
There's no other way than limiting the intake of calories, I think. It's all about how much you energy you take in and how much of it you consume.
I've also heard from the nurse at work that it takes about 20 minutes of exercising before you start burning the fat that's on your body. That means the max 20 minutes it takes for me to bike to work don't help me much, especially when I've eaten breakfast at home just before stepping onto the bike. In the long run I will of course get in a better shape and get up the metabolism, which I think is a key factor in the long run to start losing weight.
I avoid eating a lot of carbohydrates. I haven't stopped, because I like it too much, but I've only cut back on them a little. I consider especially the fast carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, potatoes...) as "rocket fuel" that you need to consume quickly to avoid turning it into fat under your skin. In other words, to eat a big portion of pasta or potatoes and then go sitting behind the computer for a few hours is a bad idea for the one that wants to lose weight.
Edit: In the end I think also small activating things can have a big impact. Don't use the elevator in buildings with less than 10 floors, but take the stairs instead. Park your car far away from the entrance of the supermarket, or walk/bike there. In general, try minimizing the use of your car if you have the time to walk or bike instead. It will pay off sooner or later, and saves you money as well. I save approx. two euros a day by not using my car to go to work. It's not that much, but anyway.
I also drink perhaps a beer or two a day on average, which doesn't really help me lose weight either...There's no other way than limiting the intake of calories, I think. It's all about how much you energy you take in and how much of it you consume.
I've also heard from the nurse at work that it takes about 20 minutes of exercising before you start burning the fat that's on your body. That means the max 20 minutes it takes for me to bike to work don't help me much, especially when I've eaten breakfast at home just before stepping onto the bike. In the long run I will of course get in a better shape and get up the metabolism, which I think is a key factor in the long run to start losing weight.
I avoid eating a lot of carbohydrates. I haven't stopped, because I like it too much, but I've only cut back on them a little. I consider especially the fast carbohydrates (sugar, white flour, potatoes...) as "rocket fuel" that you need to consume quickly to avoid turning it into fat under your skin. In other words, to eat a big portion of pasta or potatoes and then go sitting behind the computer for a few hours is a bad idea for the one that wants to lose weight.
Edit: In the end I think also small activating things can have a big impact. Don't use the elevator in buildings with less than 10 floors, but take the stairs instead. Park your car far away from the entrance of the supermarket, or walk/bike there. In general, try minimizing the use of your car if you have the time to walk or bike instead. It will pay off sooner or later, and saves you money as well. I save approx. two euros a day by not using my car to go to work. It's not that much, but anyway.
