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dymatrixnz

dymatrixnz

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Hey guys;

My name is Mike and I'm going to be going through a weight transformation! :smash:

I'm from New Zealand and weigh in at 203lbs. I'm going to really start taking my weight loss seriously because I can see the direction my body is going and I don't want to end up in a worse position than I am now.

Wish me luck!:sifone:
 
Kia Ora from an Aussie expat (who's been to New Zealand many times and loves it).

Do you have any strategies to help you lose weight?

Have a look around the forum, you may get some ideas to help you, especially in the stickied posts, the before/ after section, and the diary section.
 
Hi Amy! Thanks for your message! Well I was down to 76.5kgs and steady for a long while and that was with the following routine.

Monday - Chest and Triceps
Tuesday - 30min-60min jog
Wednesday - Back and Biceps
Thursday - 30min-60min jog
Friday - Legs and Shoulders
Saturday - 30min-60min jog
Sunday - Rest

I work as a supervisor in a call center and to say that's gone out the window is a complete understatement. Now my week looks more like this

Monday - Work till exhaustion and lose all motivation
Repeat till Sunday.

I know its 12:59am and I'm still awake which is a huge problem. I start work at 12:30 tomorrow morning.

I figured I should be on a 2000cal Diet but I've had a hard time keeping track of my Cal intake. I try to have a variety of things but just about everything I eat is in "Kjs" A friend of mine once said I should be on about 6000Kjoules So ive figured that im eating in about that range.

I also Quit Smoking which was really holding me back from putting on any Muscle Mass but since I dropped the gym in favor of other things (Work, Uni and my Son) I've dropped the ball aye...

O for Awesome doesn't come close to how unmotivated Ive let myself get. But im going to turn all of that around I hope! Any suggestions?
 
I would recommend having a look at your calorie/ kilojoule intake (I'm about to feel your pain on the kilojoule front, I go back to Australia in a week and have only worked on calories)- that's 80 if not 90% of your diet. Get a calorie counter- I'm not sure which ones work in kilojoules (or have enough NZ specific food), but there are converters available online to overcome that problem (I think that's how I'm going to function while in Oz). Popular calorie counters include Fitday and MyFitnessPal- I use one called Cron-o-meter. Work out a calorie allowance that suits your body and activity levels (here: - aim to lose up to a kilo a week) then convert it to kilojoules: Have a look at what you are eating, and the kilojoule level of that, and think about what your should be eating as a budget. Keep a notebook, scribble it down, work it out online later. Even do something as simple as finding out the big culprits in your diet (for me it was bread) and cut them down or out, and replace them with lower kilojoule options.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
 
Yeah thanks it has! Ill keep updating my progress! Thanks for all of the advice and all the best with your Kjs! :D
 
According to the tool you gave me I figured out I should be taking 5794.5312Kjoules to lose 1Kg per week and that's converted to 1384.00 Calories.

Honestly someone just make it all go metric and abolish the imperial system!!!
 
Oh, I wish. I'm in the UK and they're so damned inconsistent here. My boyfriend gives his height in feet and inches and weight in kilograms, and some people give the temperature in celsius when it's cold and fahrenheit when it's hot! (not that it gets hot in this part of the world...)

I've found myself using calories because the kilojoule labelling here is inconsistent if they have it at all, and I need something I can work with. I also find myself talking about pints of milk, because that's how they sell it (and I'd rather say "4 pints" than "2.283 litres"!)
 
Hey I just used that tool you gave me to do a calorie conversion!

Its pretty sweet! I put in kilojoule [kJ]: 630+370 (Cereal + Milk) and it spat out calorie (nutritional) [cal (nutritional)]:238.845896627

Is that an ok breakfast and serving you think?
 
238 should be fine, I've been eating 382 calories at breakfast for months and months (2x weetbix + 125 mls light milk + 250g yoghurt)

What type of cereal are you eating, and what type of milk are you using?

If you get into the habit of recording everything you'll have a good idea of were you're at deficit wise, then it's just a matter of time.

Cron-O-Meter is a good tool, but the food database it uses doesn't feature much NZ food. It's easy to add items to the database though, so with a bit of work you'll have a tool you can use daily to track your calorie intake.
 
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I'd say it's about what works for you. It's lower than what I have (250-350, depending on what I have), as well, but look at the overall daily intake- experiment with it. Personally, I find if I skimp on one of my main meals I have to snack during the day because I'm starving, and I end up eating more in snacks (even deliberately chosen low calorie designed to be filling snacks) , so it's better for me to have a larger breakfast or lunch (I still snack, but if I, say, "spend" an extra 50-100 calories each at breakfast and lunch, I quite often "save" 300-400 calories during the rest of the day).
 
lol I was adding up my Cals today at work today

Cals
238.8459 Breakfast
238.8459 Lunch (Chicken Wrap)
118 Snack (Apple)
66.39916 Snack (Mandarin)
37 Snack (Chop Chop Chicken)
118 Snack (Apple)

817.091 Total

While I was adding it up it was like doing a balance sheet in accounting or something lol So I'm Loving the "Spend" and "Save" comparison you just gave Amy lol top class.

I think I might have undercut a bit? I was walking around a-lot because we had a Multiple system outage at work today and I supervise about 170 people.

That's from 9:00am - 9:00pm and I haven't had Dinner Yet... Is that a bit on the skimpy side?

Oh I also found a Android tool which is really good for adding calories and it fixes the metric issue that alot of people have aswell!

Heres the Link:

I dont know if anyone uses an android phone here but it links to a data base and updates regularly and it helps if you have a phone like a Samsung i9000 which is much like an iphone. A few taps on the screen and it'll tell you what you need to do! and track it online! :D

*Sigh* I'm a slave to the communications industry... haha...
 
It depends on what you have for dinner. I tend to eat under 1000 calories before dinner because I like a bigger dinner (just what I'm used to). Also depends on how you feel doing it- are you hungry or getting low blood sugar symptoms? Balance your calorie budget (yes, I really think about it like that- it works for me) with how you're feeling, and change things around if it's not working.

Don't have an android, but it's good to know MyFitnessPal uses kilojoules. I might sign up for that when I'm in Australia. Thanks for that :)
 
Hmmm ok This cant be right...

I just ate the following...

Chicken Thigh, Skinless/Boneless 165 g
Sweet Potato 105 g
Couscous(Weighed in after I cooked it) 135 g
Broccoli 65 g
Carrot 32.5g
Zuchini 50g

That somhow that all adds up to 1018.72Cal?!

So my first problem is my serving size by the looks of things?

It means that today I have had 1835Cals...

Am I missing something? Does that look right?
 
Chicken Thigh, Skinless/Boneless 165 g- 192
Sweet Potato 105 g 90.3
Couscous(Weighed in after I cooked it) 135 g - 220.9
Broccoli 65 g- 22.1
Carrot 32.5g- 13.3
Zuchini 50g- 8.5

Presuming you used my products (and not including any oil or anything like that you may have used to cook with), I get 547.1. Did you accidentally double something? Or did you leave something in kilojoules?
 
I must have messed something up! I'm feeling a whole lot better now though because I felt like I wasn't going to be able to keep up the diet if it was over 1000!

Thanks heaps for that!
 
No problem :)

And what time do you call this? It's 11:30pm on the east coast of Australia, which makes it, what, 1:30am in NZ? Get some sleep!
 
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This might not be relivant to weightloss but its pretty concerning... :\

Domans by proxy and hardly any contact information in their registrant details...
 
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