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I am actively trying to lose weight before I get even heavier and before any diseases I am currently at risk for (diabetes and fatty liver) actually develop.

I don't have a steady healthy diet exactly but here is a run down of what I ate so far this week.

Breakfast- bowl of cereal 3 cups with 1/2 cup milk 1%

Lunch- I get up late so just an apple today.

Snack- 2 banan's and 2 apples.

Dinner a stuffed chicken breast with Swiss cheese and broccoli.**

1 cup broccoli

2 more apples before bed.

I have dropped all sugary pop from my day and drinking a mix of plain water, waster with some pure lemon juice and sometimes flavored sugar free water flavorings.

I am going to start tracking actual calories tomorrow so I have a better idea of how much I end up with in a day.

I am am not a meal eater with high preference to snack on small things all day. I eat a serving of oatmeal for example, 2 hours later my stomach is hurting and I feel hunger cramps and pings.


I am also looking into more exercise, I do walk once a day for 20-30 minutes right now with a round trip of 5km's at the moment.

Running is out on a hard surface (no soft surfaces around) due to knee issues, or I'd pick up running.

I am also going to buy some weights to use at home, not to get a muscle bound, but in hopes to build back up muscle tone and strengthen my muscles. I think some of the pain in my back and neck that doctors have no explanation for, might just be the muscles being weak and my skeleton system taking more stress on then we are designed for.

For my age and height 40 pounds should not be difficult to life and considering I used to lift 75 pound bags above my head, well I have gotten pretty damn weak.

I'd like to do some running on a treadmill and if can score a cheap used one, I am going to. It would be good to get some running in but in a controlled environment like a tredmill.

Gym's are too much $$$$ for us and our local recreation facility only offers a pool but I do not swim (well can't swim) so can't go there.

I can get my heart rate up to 100-105 by walking, but the doctor says should work it out to 120 for 20 minutes a day, but man that is a lot harder then it sounds.


I just don't want to get any heavier, hitting 230 today was my limit, I went from 175 last November to 230 this November, mostly attributed to 2 things:

1) Having access to a car again and driving everywhere, where prior I took transit everywhere or walked because Vancouver was much easier to get around on transit and walking. I got a lot of walking done there.

2) I was on general assistance so didn't eat much, used food banks and likely averaged 1,000 calories a day.

I am trying to find cheap foods, that are healthy and good for weight loss and how to make veggies good without ruining their veggie benefits.

My goal is to get back down to my 2012 weight which was still on the high end of things but I had none of the high blood sugar and fatty liver at that weight.

Current 230 pounds, almost all carried in the stomach.

Goal weight 190 pounds

Goal to lose 40 pounds.


The more I am seeing people in my age group dying and coming down with serious illnesses and diseases from just being over weight and not exercising, I need to do this now and become healthier before something bad happens.

I may not always seem that I like living, and I admit I sometimes don't, but I am finally getting things together and want to be here long enough to see them through, and hopefully live 30 or 40 more years so I can accomplish, build and enjoy my new life that is being built.



** I dont usually eat chicken stuffed with cheese, norm is 1/2 chicken breast covered with 1 tbs of bbq sauce and cooked in oven.**

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Get a dog for some nice long walks.

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Wahey...new avatar!

That looks to be around 1200 calories so you will definitely lose weight if you continue to eat a similar menu. Lots of veggies. Well done! I wish I had the same discipline. Sugary pop is the worst. I never understand why anyone drinks it.

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Sugar is my downfall no doubt. I have struggled on and off to ditch it forever and I doing better. I did dump pop, and I admit I replaced it with diet and weaned off, and now I am on just water sometimes plain, sometimes with lemon and sometimes with mio but all are calorie and refined sugar free.

I can already tell my body is reacting to my stomach issues are 35% less now (acid re-flux) so that tells me its appreciating the foods being sent down.



As for the other poster about a dog. I would love to have a dog, but we are in a pet free unit, and no pet friendly units have opened, only 5 pet units in the complex.


Moving to another complex to have a pet would double our rent which isn't doable right now. Rents are high in Squamish.

But I would absolutely love a pet, they are also very therapeutic for my mental health concerns, my last dog did more help for my mental health then anything or anyone else did.

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If you like apples and diet cola...

Lord Falconer says he has lost five stone on Diet Coke and apples | Life and style | The Guardian

(5 stone is 70 lbs)

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I'm not an expert. But I'll give you my experience and I'm checked by docs/dieticians regularly because I have a chronic illness, their opinion is I'm doing fine, I have no complications from my illness after 20+ years. I could go and get facts on what I propose here, but I lack the time, but I suggest one researches this for oneself, before trying, or discuss it with ones Health person.

Contrary to popular belief low-fat is not the key. Your body needs fat to function and will go into stealth mode and hang on to your stored fats. Diet-soda is not so good either. Research has just come out that diet pop may promote type 2 diabetes. Because it does some weird things in the gut.... Moderation and choice of food is key. You say you don't fee full on oatmeal, which is considered quite a fill you upper, do you use ground or whole flakes? The more whole, the more your body needs to work on it to digest it, the longer it takes to need more fuel. I hate hot oatmeal (a texture thing) use it only in cookies I bake, but my OH has whole oatmeal with full fat milk and dried fruits or maple daily and is full for 3 hrs. YMMV You might need more protein to fill you up. A boiled egg or beans to start the day with for instance.

I've been 62 kgs (165cm) for approx 15 years now.
I eat real things. That are closest to the original form they came in. I prepare my foods in butter and olive oil. I eat wholemeal, 5 different veg (I say away from fruit as fruit sugars are not my friend, I only tend to eat apple and cherry pie - home made, not sugar added, but with a nice buttery crust) a day and hardly any processed foods (yes I do eat crisps and cookies at times but always those with as less junk added. I eat a lot of legumes: ie beans: lentils, kidney beans ( take a jar/can of kidney beans, make a dressing with oil, vinegar, garlic (powder) salt and pepper - mix - leave for a night to soak. Prepare a salad, add beans, add feta cheese and quartered tomatoes. Enjoy!)

A typical day in meals:
Breakfast: two slices of wholemeal bread toasted with one boiled egg and butter, with tea and coffee and/or water
(home baked) cookie or cake (recipes with buckwheat or wholemeal, half the sugar, butter) for coffee break.
Lunch is lentils, with olive oil and lemon juice, with half a wholemeal flatbread and left over veg from the day before.
Afternoon snack is popcorn (freshly popped) or a piece of dark chocolate.
Dinner is mushroom risotto with a mixed salad or grilled or roasted veg mix.
If I'm peckish in the evening I eat either crisps or (crackers with) cheese or pickles.

But everything in moderation. Use a small plate. If you do eat ice cream (I do) take just one bowl of it, not half the tub. If you do eat crisps take a small bowl. And enjoy eating it, don't eat in front of the telly. Eat whilst looking outside and speaking to your oh. Don't put the pans on the table, fill up your (small) plate in the kitchen. And don't go back for seconds.

And try to walk 15 mins daily.
BTW 1200 KCals is quite low. And some might say a crash diet. You might loose fast at first, but keeping it off is another matter. You are starving your body, it goes into hold-on to fat mode...

Again, I'm just sharing my experience. This is not a diet. This is not medical advice. YMMV. But I've seen friends and family do this through the years and it breaks my heart. Your not enjoying your food if you crash diet (usually) and in the end they're right back where they started...

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Jsmith give the humane society a call and ask if you can be a volunteer dog walker. My friend in Trail does it and really enjoys it. I'd like to drop about the same amount of weight as you (or more) and know how difficult it is. I gained weight after each of 6 surgeries in the past 5 years. 2 years ago I went from 225 to 190 over about 5 months then got sick out in BC and put it back on. If I could get back to the 175 I weighed as a young man on the railway gang it would be best but I'd settle for the 200 lb I weighed when doing roofing, concrete and carpentry for 30 years. I'm on my feet all day and do physical work but keep the weight on as much from drinking as eating. My head tells me toast and an apple but my heart says sausage and eggs. :o

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Good luck with it. Losing weight as we get older seems more and more difficult. I'm on yet another plan to lose 30lbs by next July. It seems really tough this time!

Be gentle when introducing a lot of healthy but heavily fibrous foods. Your tummy can complain (loudly sometimes) and feel gripey, windy or crampy, until it gets used to it.

Sounds like you have some good plans - as others have said, moderation is key. Don't cut out a whole food group, like all carbs, or all fats - you do need them, and you're les likely to stick with it.

My goal this time around is realistically slower. Maybe a pound a week if I'm lucky. I've lost 6lbs in 7 weeks, so that is ok. Previously that would have been hugely disappointing but it took years of work to get to this weight so if it takes me a year to shift it, oh well! :p

Keep us posted on your successes.

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Oatmeal seems to have different impacts on different people. I've tried several times and find after an hour or two it will leave me hungrier than I normally would be (if I had eaten something else).

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I am eating like 4 servings worth, and sometimes I barely make it an hour before hunger pings start in. I've always been someone who has to eat small but frequent, and that can be hard sometimes.

When I worked overnights it was so easy, I had a smoothie before going, because of the nature of the job I ate small portions pretty much non-stop until I went home, and my weight was steady.

Now with the 3 meals per day, and some apples in between as snacks, I just keep getting bigger even though I am actually eating better.

Strange thing our bodies are.

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Try this website. Lose It!!

HID bought me a couple of these jobbys. One for home and one for work. I don't actually need to lose weight but my diet really only consisted of sausages and restaurant/fast food. Now at least I'm getting some vegetables.

Ninja

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Yep.
I managed to keep to around 1000 a day for 5 months in 1994. Naturally much of the weight loss went back on - although it was a holiday that broke the cycle. 1200 is likely much more stickable. Eat little and often did the trick for me with apples between meals involving a plate loaded with either broccoli, cauli or cabbage to go with meat or fish.
Diet/zero cal versions are so good these days I can't rink the normal stuff.
I don't find it's the drink itself so much as wanting something with it.

Cereals without sugar are quite easy (except shredded wheat). Or, at least, I found it easy.

Coffee without sugar I found absolutely impossible. I waited to get used to it. Waited some more and waited again. All that happened was I didn't enjoy a coffee.

I switched to sweeteners - Canderel in the UK/Equal here - and never looked back. No funny/after taste at all.

Of course, there are those sweetener scaremongerers who'll say cancer is just around the corner (isn't it always?) but you're likely just trading one thing for another.

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It's really hard so don't beat yourself up about it...society with its marketing ploys are designed to make you want to buy and eat.. It's a struggle to combat that, but of course you're right you need to do it for your health.

The dog walking for a charity is a good idea....you could even set up a little sideline business for yourself. Walking with a dog you'll probably get your heart rate up to the required amount. It sounds like the best form of exercise for you at present. The required amount of exercise per day though is about 30 mins where your heart rate is elevated.

Dietary wise all indications (medically it's hard to argue with the growing evidence) point to vegan plant based diets as the best form of eating plan (not diet, long term way you eat) now to my mind this isn't a nice way to eat for a lot of people, but you could do a modified version of it say two/three nights of lean protein and four nights veggie...there's lots of nice veggie recipes if you google it although exclude the ones with cheese if you want to lose weight. It's also a cheaper way to eat... We try to eat like this with the fails in between obviously!

So my day looks like..

Fruit salad and yoghurt (you can buy frozen fruit and add an apple to it so it's cheaper) or alternatively scrambled eggs and beans. We use low cal spray to cook anything.

Lunch...baked potato with something, salad (not a huge lover of salad especially when cold outside) or Pasta with tuna and sweetcorn - kids get this in their lunch boxes quite a bit.

Dinner- vegetable soup- Butternut squash makes a real hearty winter soup with bread and will make two dinners for two of you with leftovers for lunch. Veggie spag Bol/chilli/ that type of thing with lentils for protein and whole wheat pasta/rice- took me ages to get used to but I'm there now, it is way better for you in terms of not raising blood sugar too quickly.

Snack on fruit/veg in between, make sure you drink lots of water (2 litres a day). Use lean white meats, processed red meats are associated with health risks but not as someone rightly pointed out because of saturated fat anymore- something to do with the processing/smoking of it.

I have to say I find chicken too expensive so rarely eat it.... Perhaps you can spend your chicken money on eggs instead? My problem is picking in between meals not helped by being home alone and tired a lot of the time. I went swimming the other day- dear god it was hard...I can't believe my son does that for three hrs a week!!! Ask for a fitbit for Christmas? - great way to keep an eye of what you're actually doing not what you think you're doing...

HTH

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Nuts a quite good nibbles to keep hunger at bay, especially plain almonds. The only problem is that the tastier the nut, the more moreish they are!

Why did you not have three meals previously?

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Perhaps you're not eating enough though....make sure you fill up on wholewheat carbs pasta/rice not bread though- devils work!

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Nuts not good for dieting- mostly very high in calories..

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Now I am older I have the same issue, I have a routine of coffee at 5:30 am or there about and while I am sat in my car all day I take milk and have a bowl of cerial every day. PM is usually a couple of 3 yogurts and a banana or ritz biscuits and tuna.

If my subject is active on TTC I'm good, I can get exercise just running after some one, if they use a car !!! Not so much, so after a day that I stay in my car I come home and do 20 mins on my stationary cycle before I go shower and finish my notes. To be honest I do this more for blood pressure reasons not weight loss reasons.

Exercise is key to weight loss, or a steady weight IMO I am 6 foot 1 inch and 200llbs - 210 lobs, not bad for some one who sits in a car all day :@) But not perfect, I can live with being a few pounds over and try not to become too obese as I age.

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Can't you get into some fist fights with baddies, that should boost exercise levels?

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Don't i know it! The point is to eat a small handful, although even that will be 50 kcal +, because is stabilises hunger. It's one of the tools in that book "You on a Diet".

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I made thread the other day about chickens here often being cheaper (by weight) than the lowest, multi-purchase option in Tesco.
I find plenty of offers where the price compares favourably and I buy three or four for the freezer.

That aside, frozen chicken breasts can often be had (Co-op, Giant Tiger, Walmart even Loblaws/Sobeys sometimes) for a reasonable cost. Co-op here sells them regularly (boneless, skinless) in 3 kg boxes for $15-$18. Not the most attractive and even sizes like in the fresh packs with the outrageous prices but they cook the same way.;)

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You might want to try this. You just downloaded it to your phone. The bloke is such an annoying twat that it makes you want finish the runs so he'll shut the naff up.

couch to 5k


Sorry, I just re read your op and see you have knee problems. Is there a local community swimming pool, or is that too spendy also?

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Ha ha Yeh that may be great for weight loss, not so great for blood pressure ;)

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Are you one if those people who can eat whatever they want but not gain weight?

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And drink beer. ;) That said, I work out fairly regularly and I have an HID that makes me eat turnips and lentil soup if I've spent a bit too much time at the curry house or the kebab shop. :o

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He lives near the Pacific Ocean, surely fish is cheap enough? Just buy it from the aboriginal people.

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Yes, if you can't have a dog of your own due to no-pets living situation, this is an excellent solution! Most animal shelters are happy to see volunteer dogwalkers, as their dogs need more exercise than the staff can give them.

I've started walking friends' and relatives' pets, some for money and some for free (within reason). Bigger dogs are fantastic for getting your heart rate up on a walk, and even the smaller dogs like to run sometimes. Try trotting a couple of blocks with a terrier three times a day--that's a real workout!

Yes, it really depends on which type of oatmeal you eat. I can't stand the processed instant flake-type oatmeal. I like to cook up either the whole oats (like McCann's in the metal tin) or oat bran, which one used to be only able to get in health food shops but now can find in many larger grocery stores. Both these are low GI, which is key if possible diabetes and blood sugar are a concern.... The lower GI everything you put into your mouth is, the better.

My husband has real blood sugar problems like you--he can't eat plain processed cereal of any kind (though he loves them). It's a pain to cook up the old-fashioned oatmeal (takes 30 minutes to get it the way I like it, unless you soak it overnight, then a little less). The oat bran cooks up quicker in the microwave, maybe 4 minutes. But both will satisfy him for at least 4 hours without causing that sudden, violent blood sugar drop. So I've forbidden him to eat regular cereal, even if it's from the health food store--most is just too processed....

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Hey Jsmth... I feel like I can actually help out here. Here's my weight loss journey.

Short version: 2 years 2 months at it. Down 2st. Healthy BMI now. It's a lifestyle change, not a diet. Mantra is "eat a little bit less, move a little bit more".

Longer version:
About two years ago I got on the scale and was NOT happy with the result. Hit a new personal high, and was really not happy about it. I felt terrible, I wasn't sleeping well, I had no energy, my clothes didn't fit... I was pretty mad at myself for letting my weight get so bad.

At a training course with work, I ran into a colleague I hadn't seen in ages. She used to be huge. Properly obese. And she was looking fantastic - she'd lost 2.5 stone (about 35lbs) in a few months. How? Counting calories and exercising. Not anything huge. Eat a little bit less, move a little bit more.

I re-evaluated myself... I didn't have 2.5st to lose, I figured losing 1 or 1.5st would be fine, and if she can lose 2.5 with a goal of another 2.5 then surely I can get my ass in gear to lose 1.5st.

So I started doing what she was doing. Ate a little bit less, moved a little bit more. Like you, I hated - and still hate - running. I knew I wouldn't stick with that. So instead I went to the local pool and got a membership there, and resolved to do 30-60 minutes of lengths 2-3 times a week. Not a huge commitment. I scheduled it in my calendar and made sure I stuck to what I scheduled.

I bought a food scale and started paying attention to what I ate, and I logged everything in MyFitnessPal, which makes logging really easy. I set MFP to lose 1lb/week. I figured that was doable and sustainable. It started me on 1390 calories per day. Totally doable.

I was very, very careful not to miss anything I was eating. I went as far as weighing the milk that went into my tea. 50mL of 1% milk isn't a ton, but I still accounted for it. If I went past my lips, it got counted.

I started making healthier choices. I'd still sometimes indulge in some things I liked, but I'd have healthier versions... there was a burrito shop close to my work that I adored... instead of getting a normal burrito I'd get it as a salad instead, and I'd skip the cheese and sour cream and ask for extra salsa. It was still really tasty. I bulked up dinners with more veggies, and switched to lower-calorie starch alternatives, like sweet potato and squash instead of regular potato. I'd make two other veg sides instead of just one (broccoli, beans, carrots, cauliflower, whatever). I cut out pop and started drinking more water. Buying a sodastream helped with this as I love fizzy water.

I used BBC Good Food a lot for recipe ideas. They have a great filter where you can filter by calories. I'd look for dinners with 600 calories or less per serving, and I could usually pare it down a bit further by making a few substitutions to the recipes. I made a lot of brothy soups and stirfrys.

It didn't take long to start seeing improvements. As happens early in a diet, the weight came off relatively quickly. My stamina started getting better. I wasn't hungry as often as I used to be. I stopped craving sugar and was happy with other snacks - apples, pears, berries, and so on.

In January 2013 my brother got me a FitBit for Christmas, and that also really helped. It made me aware of how much I was walking during the day, and I loved that it gave me calorie credits in MFP if I walked a ton. So on days where I couldn't go swimming, I'd try to get in a long walk at lunch or after work, particularly when I had something on in the evening.

I stuck with it for two years. The weight loss was slow and steady. Around August 2013 when we were moving from the UK to Canada I stopped logging as diligently - life got really chaotic. But by then, eating like a smart person was second nature - certainly a 'lifestyle change'. Between August 2013 and January 2014 I managed to maintain my weight within a 5lb window. In January 2014 once we were settled in Canada I got myself back on track. I got my parents on board as well. Since January 2014, Mom has lost 30lbs and Dad has lost 40lbs. I lost about 12lbs, and my husband lost 10lbs. My dad dipped under 200lbs for the first time in about twenty years at least. He was so proud. Mom is down to a weight she hasn't been since my brother was born - 25 years ago. I'm back down to where I was when I graduated high school. My husband is down to his weight when he was doing lightweight rowing in university.

I also learned not to feel bad about cheat days. They happen. I was just careful to limit them, usually one a month I didn't get worked up about. You still need to be able to live, and need to be able to have a cheat day without falling off the wagon completely. Holidays, birthdays, weddings, etc - no way I'm going to count calories at those places. However, I still logged in MFP - I'd just say "Dinner: 4000 calories" and just left it at that. One bad day isn't going to result in putting 5lbs back on, but 5 days in a row will, so logging even the bad days helped me stay focused.

It's been 2 years and 2 months now. I'm down 2st (28lbs). Twice my original goal.

At the two year mark, I dug out a picture of me from two years ago and compared it to me now. I couldn't believe the difference. I also couldn't believe I let myself get as big as I was.

About a month ago I switched to maintenance mode. I am still about 7lbs away from my goal weight, but we are preparing to move into a new house so I decided to switch to maintenance mode to make sure I "know how to do it", so to speak. For me, that's about 1600-1700 calories a day. (I work a desk job and don't walk nearly enough. My FitBit stats are embarrassing.)

Because I am a massive nerd, I keep a graph of my progress. (I know MFP does graphs, but you can only get one year max.) The blue line is my actual weight measurement. The green line is an average of the 5 weights on either side - so it smooths out erratic measurements and gives an average moving weight. I haven't put the actual values (sorry!), but each horizontal black line on the graph is 5lbs.

Happy to elaborate further on anything, or to friend you on MFP and/or FitBit. It's totally doable if you put your mind to it, and it doesn't have to mean denying yourself all the time.

Good luck, you can do it. For sure. :)

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[QUOTE=Oink;11462159]You might want to try this. You just downloaded it to your phone. The bloke is such an annoying twat that it makes you want finish the runs so he'll shut the naff up.

couch to 5k


Sorry, I just re read your op and see you have knee problems. Is there a local community swimming pool, or is that too spendy also?[/QUOTE]

Ha ha:rofl: go reread op post again!! Your post did make me laugh!

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[QUOTE=Tirytory;11462188]Ah. :o Although fat people do tend to float well, so I doubt it would be hard to learn.

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I'm no expert but I do suffer from knee issues as well if I run on hard services for more than 20 minutes or so. That is down to foot alignment and can be fixed with the right soles.

But if that is not an option I would suggest running on a field. It burns more calories than road running and the ground is softer.

I've never seen an effective treadmill in any one's home. They just never match the quality of the ones at the gym.

A better option may be a cheap bike???

Anyway just food for thought.

I'm actually trying to do something similar. I was buying jeans on the weekend and could not find a pair of 34 inch waist to fit. That was a wake up call.

My goal is 15 pounds. I've cut to 1500 calories a day as I'll burn 300 every other day at the gym.

The big challenge is going to be cutting the booze back.......

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Having met Schnooko in person I can confirm that she looks marvellous.

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Try swapping to Gin and Tonic.

A single gin (25mL) with slimline tonic is about 70cals, or with regular tonic is about 100cals.

Other mixed drinks with non-regular pops are good options as well - rum and diet coke, rye and diet ginger, vodka soda, and so on.

:)

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Can I have them? I'm trying, and failing, to put weight on.

You probably didn't want to hear that.

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Been there done that, bought the T-shirt....smaller of course. :lol:

@jsmth Don't under estimate using steps or stairs for step ups. And not taking the elevator.

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There's massive calorific variation in drinks. Obviously the more % alcohol the more calories, but it's quite easy to fool yourself that you are consuming less calories than you are, especially if session drinking.

This is a good site to calculate calorie values for drinks (albeit UK drinks). It's worthwhile identifying a target drink or two (as with Schnooks' G&T suggestion) and sticking with that.

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/underst...nit-calculator

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Definitely this!

I worked on the 2nd floor so started taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and used the stairs when going within 4 floors of my floor instead of the elevator. I did once take the stairs from the 2nd to the 10th... was very out of breath at the top!

I also always walked up escalators in the tube station... I remember the first time jogging up the escalator going home and not being out of the breath at the top was an awesome feeling. :D

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Drink beer. Eat bar food. Fastest method I can think of!

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Add in calorie-dense foods that are still low in sugar. Nuts and peanut butter, beans, hummus, lentils, quinoa, avocado, and so on. Drink more milk. :)

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Beer does not work (and I am not a member of The Temperance League, I can assure you!).

I very, very rarely go to bars. I would if there were decent ones within staggering distance of me. There are none.

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Do you eat infrequently or small portions?