The official NPR Weight Loss Thread

[Tichtheid]

If you go by BMI numbers every rugby player would be clinically obese, morbidly so in many cases.

A far better rule of thumb is that your waist measurement should be half your height or less

While they're clearly healthier than many regular people, it's probably fair to say that they're carrying more weight than bodies are supposed to, even if it's 'good' weight.

The thing is that you carry fat, muscle carries you. Heavyweight bodybuilders are an extreme example of non-functional muscle, rugby players are big but their physiques are very much functional.

100m runners are heavily muscled, 10k runners much less so, you build what you need during your training, I guess.

[sockwithaticket]

If you go by BMI numbers every rugby player would be clinically obese, morbidly so in many cases.

A far better rule of thumb is that your waist measurement should be half your height or less

While they're clearly healthier than many regular people, it's probably fair to say that they're carrying more weight than bodies are supposed to, even if it's 'good' weight.

The thing is that you carry fat, muscle carries you. Heavyweight bodybuilders are an extreme example of non-functional muscle, rugby players are big but their physiques are very much functional.

100m runners are heavily muscled, 10k runners much less so, you build what you need during your training, I guess.

It's more the bits you can't build up that suffer from excessive weight of any kind afaik - tendons, joints and ligaments. Admittedly, I'm not massively well read on the subject, so maybe I'm chatting complete bollocks.

[Tichtheid]

While they're clearly healthier than many regular people, it's probably fair to say that they're carrying more weight than bodies are supposed to, even if it's 'good' weight.

The thing is that you carry fat, muscle carries you. Heavyweight bodybuilders are an extreme example of non-functional muscle, rugby players are big but their physiques are very much functional.

100m runners are heavily muscled, 10k runners much less so, you build what you need during your training, I guess.

It's more the bits you can't build up that suffer from excessive weight of any kind afaik - tendons, joints and ligaments. Admittedly, I'm not massively well read on the subject, so maybe I'm chatting complete bollocks.

It's not complete bollocks, but it's one of those things that people assume. Connective tissue and joints are more at risk of being damaged by carrying excess fat than the muscle "normal" people can build, by normal I mean people who are not full time professional sports people.

Also, training with weights increases bone density, which in turn increases overall mass, but in a very healthy way.

I know someone who was advised to do some light weight training when recuperating from leukaemia, they became obsessed and got into competitive power lifting, still here and still lifting.

[Sandstorm]

What Tightheid said. A strong person carrying 40lbs of fat is much less likely to damage their knees than a weak person doing so.

Lose weight and build muscle for the win.

[Hong Kong]

I’m 188cm, and was 96kg, which wasn’t bad but as I reached mid-50s, I wanted ti make sure I didn’t carry excessive weight so I started with IF, 18-6 and lost 2-3 kg within the first 10 days. I was also training about 4-5 times a week. Within 9 months I was down to under 85 which left Mrs. HK saying I looked like a POW. I’m now a healthy 85/6kg. A recent health check revealed all good news, though specifically, my liver was not checked all other vital organs and readings were either good or within acceptable levels.

[troglodiet]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

[SaintK]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

Looks like you win

[Sandstorm]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

Looks like you win

I’ll be surprised if his colon isn’t fucked eating no green veg and just white starch.

[dkm57]

As well as replacing the crap in my diet with healthier stuff, which has been easier than I thought, I've made a determined effort to up my exercise, arthritis in both knees means my options are limited so even jogging is out and walking on roads tends to be painful so I try to stick to cross-country and have set weekly targets

4000 steps daily minimum when a day goes to crap. Today will be a 4k day as the vaccine has left me feeling lousy.
7000+ steps OK
10000+ is the target at least 3 times a week

I find the hardest thing is finding the time do get the steps in. I've gone from 88.8kg when I first got a decent set of scales to 81.7 so I'm about half way to my target. the 34" waist jeans I bought last week fit comfortably with enough slack to make me hold off a little longer and replace my tatty old 38s with 32s, haven't been that size since my teens.

[Kawazaki]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

Think yourself slim. No idea why I never thought of doing this myself years ago.

[Muttonbird]

Have gone from 98kg to 88kg since November through hill running and biking, and home exercises. Haven't changed diet much.

BMI still says I'm overweight for height at 183cm but I'm pretty happy in that I can fit my clothes without feeling fat.

Would like to get to my 20s weight, about 84kg. BMI will still say I'm slightly overweight.

[notfatcat]

I've been back eating healthily for one week and have dropped 4.4 lb to 17st 3.6

Knowing my body as I do, I will put the majority of that weight loss down to my digestive system emptying out over the last 7 days and operating at a much reduced capacity. I've been curling out some overly large poldarks every day despite eating only moderate portions of food. My guts feel a lot emptier than a week ago so I will only be expecting an average weight loss of 1 to 1.5 lb per week from now on as long as I stick to my current eating habits. Obviously my dumps will be getting smaller as well.

In a previous post I mentioned embracing the 'empty' feeling in the guts - I've got that back and it really is a good feeling. I need to get used to the slightly different issue of feeling hungry and not doing anything about it - late afternoon/early evening and late at night are the worst times for me.

One thing that I know without a Shadwell of a doubt is that post-lockdown things will get much, much tougher. What may well put the kybosh on this is being able to go to watch Quins again. What this means is that there's an excellent chance that a match day will involve drinking a ton of Guinness for around 7 to 8 hours, then eating a 14" pizza and 2 half litre tubs of Hagen Dazs. Worse than that will be the hangover comfort eating shit with about 5000+ calories the next day and then losing all discipline and motivation to be healthy for at least another 2 days following that. It will be a MAJOR achievement if I can keep the weight loss continuing when things get back to normal.

[ASMO]

I've been back eating healthily for one week and have dropped 4.4 lb to 17st 3.6

Knowing my body as I do, I will put the majority of that weight loss down to my digestive system emptying out over the last 7 days and operating at a much reduced capacity. I've been curling out some overly large poldarks every day despite eating only moderate portions of food. My guts feel a lot emptier than a week ago so I will only be expecting an average weight loss of 1 to 1.5 lb per week from now on as long as I stick to my current eating habits. Obviously my dumps will be getting smaller as well.

In a previous post I mentioned embracing the 'empty' feeling in the guts - I've got that back and it really is a good feeling. I need to get used to the slightly different issue of feeling hungry and not doing anything about it - late afternoon/early evening and late at night are the worst times for me.

One thing that I know without a Shadwell of a doubt is that post-lockdown things will get much, much tougher. What may well put the kybosh on this is being able to go to watch Quins again. What this means is that there's an excellent chance that a match day will involve drinking a ton of Guinness for around 7 to 8 hours, then eating a 14" pizza and 2 half litre tubs of Hagen Dazs. Worse than that will be the hangover comfort eating shit with about 5000+ calories the next day and then losing all discipline and motivation to be healthy for at least another 2 days following that. It will be a MAJOR achievement if I can keep the weight loss continuing when things get back to normal.

I can give you a Mexican bean soup recipe i have thats delicious, great for hangovers, easy to make and low calorie

[notfatcat]

I've been back eating healthily for one week and have dropped 4.4 lb to 17st 3.6

Knowing my body as I do, I will put the majority of that weight loss down to my digestive system emptying out over the last 7 days and operating at a much reduced capacity. I've been curling out some overly large poldarks every day despite eating only moderate portions of food. My guts feel a lot emptier than a week ago so I will only be expecting an average weight loss of 1 to 1.5 lb per week from now on as long as I stick to my current eating habits. Obviously my dumps will be getting smaller as well.

In a previous post I mentioned embracing the 'empty' feeling in the guts - I've got that back and it really is a good feeling. I need to get used to the slightly different issue of feeling hungry and not doing anything about it - late afternoon/early evening and late at night are the worst times for me.

One thing that I know without a Shadwell of a doubt is that post-lockdown things will get much, much tougher. What may well put the kybosh on this is being able to go to watch Quins again. What this means is that there's an excellent chance that a match day will involve drinking a ton of Guinness for around 7 to 8 hours, then eating a 14" pizza and 2 half litre tubs of Hagen Dazs. Worse than that will be the hangover comfort eating shit with about 5000+ calories the next day and then losing all discipline and motivation to be healthy for at least another 2 days following that. It will be a MAJOR achievement if I can keep the weight loss continuing when things get back to normal.

I can give you a Mexican bean soup recipe i have thats delicious, great for hangovers, easy to make and low calorie

If you could lob it on here that would be great. I will reply with one I discovered/altered recently for Mediterranean vegetables.

[FujiKiwi]

Resistance training is the key.

From being 95 kg at my worst, then hovering around 85 kgs for around a decade, I got my act together a couple of years back and through IF, training with weights and walking every day, I am 70 kgs and sculpted like a Greek god.

I've hit a snag though. As a 47 year-old, the weight training leads to occasional injury, especially in the shoulders. A couple of weeks ago shoulder pain led to pretty intense neck pain as well. I haven't been able to do any of the resistance training, which, as I say, should be at the center of everything.

Along with good nutrition, obviously.

[troglodiet]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

Think yourself slim. No idea why I never thought of doing this myself years ago.

Reading it now, I realize why it sounds very hocus pocus like.

Didn't mean it like that sorry. In my defense I was a bit high at the time.

What I was trying to say was, traditional dieting didn't work for me. And I hated it in any case.

So I focused more on how I eat, instead of what I eat. No more second servings; old me would've done thirds or more. Preferred 500g steaks when dining out, now going for 200g. Smaller portions - one's body quickly becomes used to that.

I don't like veggies in general, but still eat it. Wife makes it, I have no choice than to eat it. But i didn't stop eating any of my favorite foods. Also, not as many take outs, maybe once per fortnight, a opposed to every third day.

Still eat chocolate when in the mood. But not daily, also a a treat once per week.

Although I hate exercising, I'm making up for it by doing more physical labour.

WIth "mind over matter", I meant, I'm concentrating more on thinking about losing weight and adapting eating patterns as needed (thinking when you can or cannot have that chocolate bar for instance), instead of focusing on keeping to specific diets or formal eating plans or exercise regimes.

[dpedin]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

[Slick]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

Have you lost much?

[notfatcat]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

Jeez, how are you going to get back home?

[Biffer]

Peaked at 19st 10 at 5 foot 9. 19st 0 this morning. Cutting out the crap (crisps, cakes, biscuits) and the booze (it’s not the booze itself that does me for calories, it’s the crap I eat both alongside it and the next day, completely negates anything good I do for the rest of the week). I’m 50, so walking is more the thing for me, get loads in now on the flat and the small hills in Edinburgh so I can lump it up some Munros over the summer. Also doing some stretching for my back most days and starting to do some squats/press ups/light weights in the morning. Look to get on the exercise bike once I’m under the max weight for the fucking thing. Overall aIm is to get to something that starts with 16 and see where we go from there. Hopefully get there somewhere in the summer; that’d be about 30 lbs in six months or so which is a reasonable rate.

18st 8 this morning. Decent progress.

[Slick]

Peaked at 19st 10 at 5 foot 9. 19st 0 this morning. Cutting out the crap (crisps, cakes, biscuits) and the booze (it’s not the booze itself that does me for calories, it’s the crap I eat both alongside it and the next day, completely negates anything good I do for the rest of the week). I’m 50, so walking is more the thing for me, get loads in now on the flat and the small hills in Edinburgh so I can lump it up some Munros over the summer. Also doing some stretching for my back most days and starting to do some squats/press ups/light weights in the morning. Look to get on the exercise bike once I’m under the max weight for the fucking thing. Overall aIm is to get to something that starts with 16 and see where we go from there. Hopefully get there somewhere in the summer; that’d be about 30 lbs in six months or so which is a reasonable rate.

18st 8 this morning. Decent progress.

Well done.

I seem to be going at about a pound a week at the moment

[Biffer]

Throughout my teens to mid 20s, weighed a constant 80kg.

Drinking, partying, then quitting drinking and smoking, and woke up one day and realised a personal "best" - 148kg. I'm 6'3" btw.

I hate dieting, but tried every single diet out there. Best I could do was to lose 10kg.

Also no time/ too lazy to exercise.

Realised I'm wasting my time. Decided I'm going to use mind over matter and think myself slimmer.

Broke the 100kg barrier this morning All this in 5 years.

I only eat white bread, I'm a chocoholic. I hate exercise. I hate just about all vegetables and mainly stick to rice, potato, meat and pizza and pasta.

I do work a lot harder, despite being desk bound, I always help out in despatch when there are physical intermediate work to be done. This just helped me lose the last 10kg though.

But I eat what I want. My whole life I've always just ate 1 meal a day - supper. But everything in moderation now, no more seconds (or thirds). 200g steaks instead of 500g.

Think yourself slim. No idea why I never thought of doing this myself years ago.

Reading it now, I realize why it sounds very hocus pocus like.

Didn't mean it like that sorry. In my defense I was a bit high at the time.

What I was trying to say was, traditional dieting didn't work for me. And I hated it in any case.

So I focused more on how I eat, instead of what I eat. No more second servings; old me would've done thirds or more. Preferred 500g steaks when dining out, now going for 200g. Smaller portions - one's body quickly becomes used to that.

I don't like veggies in general, but still eat it. Wife makes it, I have no choice than to eat it. But i didn't stop eating any of my favorite foods. Also, not as many take outs, maybe once per fortnight, a opposed to every third day.

Still eat chocolate when in the mood. But not daily, also a a treat once per week.

Although I hate exercising, I'm making up for it by doing more physical labour.

WIth "mind over matter", I meant, I'm concentrating more on thinking about losing weight and adapting eating patterns as needed (thinking when you can or cannot have that chocolate bar for instance), instead of focusing on keeping to specific diets or formal eating plans or exercise regimes.

It’s in line with what a lot of doctors will tell you, but the language is different. Diets are viewed as temporary things, so what you need to do is change your habits. I started eating less meat at the tail end of last year, as much for sustainability reasons as health, and I’ve started using oat milk for tea and sometimes porridge for similar reasons. Before lockdown I hardly ever drank at home, that changed to start with but I’ve knocked that on the head as well. And doing the shopping online for click and collect means I don’t pick up crisps, biscuits etc at Tesco. Also, as per the previous post, getting into the habit of walking a reasonable amount nearly every day, and now the weather’s better getting out onto my allotment a few mornings before breakfast. I’m counting calories with an app, which I’ll continue while I’m trying to keep losing weight, and then so long as those habits are in place the weight should keep off.

[Raggs]

Finding myself binging a bit too much after my fasting days at the moment. Purely weakness on my part, and certainly going way beyond what I eat in a normal day. No reason for it either, I don't feel I need the food. I suspect it's mostly stress eating though, which will hopefully partially resolve in the next week, and fully resolve in the next couple of months (though now I think on it, depends on the true source, so we'll see).

Just completed another 5km run. Our clubs sponsor promised £10 for the club for each person that ran 10km and took their picture near the sponsors logo. Split it into 2 myself, never been a runner, and I'm still not. Don't plan on doing it again! But would like to continue running a few km every couple of days with my boy.

[Fangle]

NFC, don’t I remember, a number of years ago, that you and Openside, were trying to get down to 15 stone? I joined with that and made my goal and in fact am now under 14 stone. I’m 6’4” by the way, but not muscular.

Now whenever I approach 14 stone I go back to my tedious method. I write down everything that passes my lips, except water. Every bloody thing. This is so annoying that I then don’t have any snacks, or extras at any time. I document the size of the meal, the vegetables and meat on the plate. But I never read the notes. Just writing it down is enough to make me conscious of what I’m consuming that I eat less and lose weight.

[Blake]

NFC, don’t I remember, a number of years ago, that you and Openside, were trying to get down to 15 stone? I joined with that and made my goal and in fact am now under 14 stone. I’m 6’4” by the way, but not muscular.

Now whenever I approach 14 stone I go back to my tedious method. I write down everything that passes my lips, except water. Every bloody thing. This is so annoying that I then don’t have any snacks, or extras at any time. I document the size of the meal, the vegetables and meat on the plate. But I never read the notes. Just writing it down is enough to make me conscious of what I’m consuming that I eat less and lose weight.

I did something similar with great success. Used the MyFitnessPal app to just record what I was consuming to stay within my calorie target for the day.

Some days were better than others and then when I’d built up a positive buffer I could indulge over a weekend without feeling guilty or compromising my progress.

Ended up losing around 20kg in 10 months.

Stopped during Covid and picked up 5kg again.
Need to start doing that again.

[salanya]

Some of you seem quite obsessive about food and weightloss. I admire the willpower/determination, which I definitely lack.

I have lost 5 pounds since New Year by keeping up and increasing my walking (already walked my dog 1.5 hours a day, but trying to go for 2 hours most days, and 3 hours at weekends, unless the weather's really crappy). Walking more in the evenings is getting easier as well, with the longer daylight.

But whilst we're still in lockdown and I'm working from home full-time, I'm not giving up the pleasures that food bring, especially in what can be quite monotonous days.

(I may regret this when I look at myself in the mirror this summer trying to fit into nice dresses. But I'll just add it to my list of regrets )

[ASMO]

I've been back eating healthily for one week and have dropped 4.4 lb to 17st 3.6

Knowing my body as I do, I will put the majority of that weight loss down to my digestive system emptying out over the last 7 days and operating at a much reduced capacity. I've been curling out some overly large poldarks every day despite eating only moderate portions of food. My guts feel a lot emptier than a week ago so I will only be expecting an average weight loss of 1 to 1.5 lb per week from now on as long as I stick to my current eating habits. Obviously my dumps will be getting smaller as well.

In a previous post I mentioned embracing the 'empty' feeling in the guts - I've got that back and it really is a good feeling. I need to get used to the slightly different issue of feeling hungry and not doing anything about it - late afternoon/early evening and late at night are the worst times for me.

One thing that I know without a Shadwell of a doubt is that post-lockdown things will get much, much tougher. What may well put the kybosh on this is being able to go to watch Quins again. What this means is that there's an excellent chance that a match day will involve drinking a ton of Guinness for around 7 to 8 hours, then eating a 14" pizza and 2 half litre tubs of Hagen Dazs. Worse than that will be the hangover comfort eating shit with about 5000+ calories the next day and then losing all discipline and motivation to be healthy for at least another 2 days following that. It will be a MAJOR achievement if I can keep the weight loss continuing when things get back to normal.

I can give you a Mexican bean soup recipe i have thats delicious, great for hangovers, easy to make and low calorie

If you could lob it on here that would be great. I will reply with one I discovered/altered recently for Mediterranean vegetables.

1 large onion finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic finely chopped
3 hot chillis finely chopped (add more if you like)
Finely chopped chorizo
2 tins chopped tomatoes
4 tins beans (2 black beans, 2 kidney beans)
Tablespoon powdered cumin
Tablespoon powdered coriander
Bunch fresh coriander
Fresh lime

Fry the onion, garlic, chilli, chorizo in a little oil until soft, add spices and cook for another 2 mins.

Add tomatoes and beans and bring to boil, simmer for 15-20 mins. Thin down with a bit of veggie stock if its too thick

Serve hot, chopped fresh coriander on top and squeeze of lime.

If you want some protein, toss some shredded chicken in.

Better if left for a few hours so flavours marinate in.

[notfatcat]

Thanks ASMO, that sounds right up my alley.

Here's mine -

1 butternut squash
2 aubergines
1 or 2 courgettes

I cut them into decent sized pieces, not diced

Salt, pepper, garlic

The vegetables are supposed to be roasted but my oven doesn't work so I fry/cook them on the hob in lots of olive oil. I have to use a frying pan and a large saucepan and split them up as it's a large old amount of stuff.

1 cup/small mug of Quinoa with twice that measurement of water. Bring to the boil in a covered pan then simmer for 15 mins and leave for 5 mins, all with lid on.

Fresh chopped basil
Fresh chopped mint
Around 20 baby plum tomatoes, halved
Bunch of walnuts, crumbled
150 to 300g of feta, crumbled
Sultanas

Then everything mixed together. This will make 4 good sized portions and, depending on how much you're eating in general, could be a large snack or enough for a lunchtime meal.

I was originally looking for a recipe for Mediterranean vegetables to eat as a cold snack but eating this hot is incredibly flavoursome so there's no way I'd eat it cold now.

[notfatcat]

My Mexican fart soup is on the go.

[notfatcat]

NFC, don’t I remember, a number of years ago, that you and Openside, were trying to get down to 15 stone? I joined with that and made my goal and in fact am now under 14 stone. I’m 6’4” by the way, but not muscular.

Now whenever I approach 14 stone I go back to my tedious method. I write down everything that passes my lips, except water. Every bloody thing. This is so annoying that I then don’t have any snacks, or extras at any time. I document the size of the meal, the vegetables and meat on the plate. But I never read the notes. Just writing it down is enough to make me conscious of what I’m consuming that I eat less and lose weight.

Christ, I was scrolling up the page trying to find out who NFC was!!

That's excellent progress Fangle.
I vaguely remember me and OS trying to lose weight but the last time I got a weigh-in starting with 15st was 15 years ago when I briefly weighed 15st 13 for probably less than a week. I reckon the last time I was 15st or below was over 20 years ago.

[ASMO]

My Mexican fart soup is on the go.

Awesome stuff a bit of crusty bread to go with it never hurts

[Saint]

Some of you seem quite obsessive about food and weightloss. I admire the willpower/determination, which I definitely lack.

I have lost 5 pounds since New Year by keeping up and increasing my walking (already walked my dog 1.5 hours a day, but trying to go for 2 hours most days, and 3 hours at weekends, unless the weather's really crappy). Walking more in the evenings is getting easier as well, with the longer daylight.

But whilst we're still in lockdown and I'm working from home full-time, I'm not giving up the pleasures that food bring, especially in what can be quite monotonous days.

(I may regret this when I look at myself in the mirror this summer trying to fit into nice dresses. But I'll just add it to my list of regrets )

Do you admire the lack of will power that got us all into this mess? I completely agree with not giving up the pleasures of food/drink - especially during lockdown - just that a touch of awareness of consumption vs exercise can bring a lot of result without needing to go hardcore like some on here seem to be doing.

[notfatcat]

I considered that but the only bread stuff I allow myself to eat are tortillas. I'm wondering if there will be any soup left though - every time I go in the kitchen to stir it I have to taste it as well.

[notfatcat]

Since dieting I would say my food pleasure ratio has gone up if I can discount chocolate/sweet stuff. Before I was buying stuff that I didn't need to make - packets of sandwiches washed down with a 250g bag of peanuts, two tubs of processed microwave meals, 2000 cals of chocolate. Although I tend to have the same stuff repeatedly I now cook everything - ASMO's fart soup, Mediterranean vegetables, cajun chicken wraps, huevos rancheros, sumac chicken & couscous salad, paleo bacon & egg hash.

[Saint]

Since dieting I would say my food pleasure ratio has gone up if I can discount chocolate/sweet stuff. Before I was buying stuff that I didn't need to make - packets of sandwiches washed down with a 250g bag of peanuts, two tubs of processed microwave meals, 2000 cals of chocolate. Although I tend to have the same stuff repeatedly I now cook everything - ASMO's fart soup, Mediterranean vegetables, cajun chicken wraps, huevos rancheros, sumac chicken & couscous salad, paleo bacon & egg hash.

That's been a key part for me. I've done a LOT of batch cooking to give mid-week convenience, cut down the takeaways, ready meals etc. Throw in a bit more exercise and it works

[Fangle]

NFC, don’t I remember, a number of years ago, that you and Openside, were trying to get down to 15 stone? I joined with that and made my goal and in fact am now under 14 stone. I’m 6’4” by the way, but not muscular.

Now whenever I approach 14 stone I go back to my tedious method. I write down everything that passes my lips, except water. Every bloody thing. This is so annoying that I then don’t have any snacks, or extras at any time. I document the size of the meal, the vegetables and meat on the plate. But I never read the notes. Just writing it down is enough to make me conscious of what I’m consuming that I eat less and lose weight.

Christ, I was scrolling up the page trying to find out who NFC was!!

That's excellent progress Fangle.
I vaguely remember me and OS trying to lose weight but the last time I got a weigh-in starting with 15st was 15 years ago when I briefly weighed 15st 13 for probably less than a week. I reckon the last time I was 15st or below was over 20 years ago.

It was such a struggle to get down to 210lbs that I refuse to do it again. Which is why I remember it so well, and it keeps me vigilant by weighing myself every morning after my shower.

[notfatcat]

Well I hope I don't weigh myself daily but I'd like to think I will continue my weekly weigh-in no matter how successful or not I am. One of my problems may have been, I stress may, that for several years I didn't have weighing scales at home.

[dpedin]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

Jeez, how are you going to get back home?

Ha ha ha!

[dpedin]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

Have you lost much?

Yeh - about 20lbs although I have cut back on bad foodstuffs etc. However lost a lot of inches around the waist etc and my dodgy arthritic knees are so much better, leg care so much stronger. Also found about another 20-30 yards off the tee on the golf course! Think I will keep it going, enjoying the walking now and the fresh air and positive impact on mental health during lock down has been brilliant. Having said that I am desperate for gym to open again.

[Slick]

Set myself a target of walking minimum of 10,000 steps a day from 1st January as a way of keeping weight off during lockdown. I know the 10,000 steps has no scientific basis but it was a target. So far averaging around 13,000 and 10k every day and should hit 1,000,000 steps this year by next Saturday. Might have a day off!

Have you lost much?

Yeh - about 20lbs although I have cut back on bad foodstuffs etc. However lost a lot of inches around the waist etc and my dodgy arthritic knees are so much better, leg care so much stronger. Also found about another 20-30 yards off the tee on the golf course! Think I will keep it going, enjoying the walking now and the fresh air and positive impact on mental health during lock down has been brilliant. Having said that I am desperate for gym to open again.

That’s brilliant and quite inspiring, well done