Before.. and kinda after.

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AndyDEL

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2 years on... Also some general common sense

Hi,

Thought i'd sign upto one of these for added inspiration. nice to read peoples advice / stories even though i think allot of it is rubbish, some damn good tips on here for the more sensible and realistic weight lose excersize plan.

Anyway my journey started in christmas 04. Was long and hard. I was just over 23 stone, height 6f3 and looking slightly donuty because of it. Combination of poor diet, knee injuries keeping me off my feet for a year leading to depression and comfort eating.. However. Allot of hard work just on my diet i'm finally 16-17 stone, it hovers. Don't ask me why.

How? Eating allot of tuna, cutting alchol out of my diet during the week.. Beans on toast, lots of sandwichs with low fat salade cream instead of mao. Nothing to complex, no strict diet plan from a book.. My own thing, i found it much more comfortable and easy to control. Tuna is a god send.

So this is me xmas day 04

Heres me now (Low qual pics, soz)

The top few pics are recent ones from a week ago, don't have a good camera to show it you detailed.. last one is from about 7 months ago, and lost another 1 maybe 1 1/2 since then.

Well i go for the odd run, not a gym person but just bought myself a cross trainer which i've whacked in my spare room. To be honest i don't like gyms, and i'm such a busy person with work and social life i don't have the time to goto the gym. It's not a priority for me. So in house gym equipment is easier, hour after work each day. Keeps the blood flowing.

So advise for anyone wanting to lose weight? Stop reading these stupid atkin diet books and the such. Any diet that involves eating mass ammounts of steak and eggs and not salad doesn't sound right. Don't care what science there is to prove it. Do it at your own pace, if you crash yourself into something you'll quit very quickly.. If you can just pick some 5 foods you enjoy eating which are very low fat, and do that. It does get boring after 2 months but if you can last to 4 months then it settles in as routine.

Don't take it all to seriously, there is allot more to being healthy than just dieting and going to the gym. You'll find just doing more active things with your friends like walking, camping or forcing yourself out of bed on a sunday with a hangover to go for a dip at the swimming pool.
 
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Right well diet plan wise i kept it less strict, i don't feel strict diets work in a realistic enviroment. Food is an enjoyable thing and you shouldn't completely eliminate any pleasurable stuff because then your life becomes, well.. dull..

There are a few simple rules you must stick to...
- No takeaways, ever.
- Don't over eat, eat your food slowly. Eat what you can see as a ample portion. Don't eat more even if you still feel hungry. Your body will adjust to this and your stomach will eventually account for the volume of food you eat.
- No alchol on any day except a saturday, it's hard but means you can have a corker of a saturday night out.
- Chocolate, sweets.. Etc... Just don't buy them or eat them. Trust me after 2 months u really don't care anymore.
- If you have something fattening at lunch or you know you're gonna have something fattening in the evening. Just have that, nothing else for the day. Not a great way to diet, but removes the guilt factor.

In general i just eat allot of beans on toast, pasta, tuna.. variations in sandwichs, on jacket potateos etc.

lol that is my sister not my girlfriend. Although my partner now is phorrr.. Was one of my main motiviations to lose weight. Women. I know shallow "They should like u for whats inside blah blah blah".. That's rubbish and a stupid notion created by ugly overweight people. We live in a society obsessed with personal preception... I wouldn't date somebody i didn't feel BOTH attracted to and liking there personality.
 
eh given your "diet" im sure alot of that weight loss was muscle mass. I dissagree with you on "just eat dinner" if your "going to have something fatty"

I mean as long as your happy, thats what matters, but you probably lost alot of muscle mass due to under-eating.
 
As i said enforcer in my original post (if you bothered to read)..

"If you have something fattening at lunch or you know you're gonna have something fattening in the evening. Just have that, nothing else for the day. Not a great way to diet, but removes the guilt factor."

I'm afraid diets now a days are fine, backed by science etc.. Unfortunately out of the millions upon millions that buy these books a very small percentage stick to it. Why? Because they can't hack it. I feel the best diet is the best diet for you, the one that you feel most comfortable with. Creating your own thing will give you a much better chance at it, although it may not be perfectly good for your health at least you're dropping weight and frankly can't be doing as much harm as keeping getting bigger..
 
i agree that even if it may not follow standard rules on whats good a diet can still be better if it suits you personally


. . .love that last pic
 
I must agree that sometimes we have to do what will work for us (within reason) even if it isn't the optimal way. Obviously, crash dieting, etc doesn't fall into this category, but we all must find ways of making it work for ourselves.

Some of the weight loss very well could've been muscle mass, but you have a good chance at fixing that with some strength training.
 
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