Overweight IT Contractors' weight loss diary: day 1

[Ardesco]

*Sigh* Ok

When comparing and equal mass of fat and muscle the muscle weighs more

Happy now ???

[DaveB]

Couple of myths:

Hormones are not the reason for being fat: stop eating so many fucking cakes.

Crash dieting/Atkins diets/some fecking Jesus diets (you know the ones that fat people like: eating 500 loaves, Ben & Jerry's manna from heaven ice cream and 40 fishes per meal) simply reduce your metabolism, so when the old natural human emotion of "Oh, I've been good the last two weeks, I'll treat myself to a curry" followed by "WTF! I'm 3 kg heavier" trick - the one that created the WeightWatcher's empire...

To lose weight: either

(a) Leave a tin of tuna out for 3 weeks then consume

or less painful and slightly longer processs

(b) Exercise every day (and not walking FFS, that burns up about 3 calories/hour) and eat less quantity of food, stay off ALL processed foods and eat more fruit and vegetables.

It's so fecking simple.

Paradoxically eating more often helps you lose weight faster than just eating less. Yes you need to consume fewer calories but you also need to eat more often. Between meals your metabolism slows down and you consume less energy. By eating more often your metabolism has less chance to slow down since it is constantly having to process food into a usable form, which takes energy which burns off calories.

Eating smaller meals and snacking on healthy stuff like fruit, raw veggies or low calorie snacks in between meals is much better than just eating less overall.

[Weltchy]

<< Holds up hand and volunteers to aid in exercise regime >>

anyone fancy a game of squash?

You either get fit or die in the attempt!!!!!!!!!

Either way, you lose weight!!!!!

[MrsGoof]

anyone fancy a game of squash?

hmm I never got on with running a walls, they hurt too much

[Jesus]

*Sigh* Ok

When comparing and equal mass of fat and muscle the muscle weighs more

Happy now ???

acceptable

[Weltchy]

I played one of the hardware permie guys at my last contract just before xmas. Over the course of the game, he ran into the front wall, then he decided to clash his forehead into my squash racket. For the rest of the game, he appeared a bit dazed.

The next day, he had been signed off from work for two weeks by his doctor as he had concussion!!!!

[IR35 Avoider]

(b) Exercise every day (and not walking FFS, that burns up about 3 calories/hour) and eat less quantity of food, stay off ALL processed foods and eat more fruit and vegetables.

It's so fecking simple.

95% of those attempting to lose weight fail. That implies it's not simple. I'm in the other 5% myself, but based on my experience, anyone who says it's simple hasn't done it.

Also, exercise is worth doing for various reasons, but unless you're doing 80 lengths of an Olympic pool a day it's probably not going to make much difference, people should concentrate on the food side of the equation.

[Jefferson]

The next day, he had been signed off from work for two weeks by his doctor as he had concussion!!!!

Typical permie.

[Jesus]

95% of those attempting to lose weight fail. That implies it's not simple. I'm in the other 5% myself, but based on my experience, anyone who says it's simple hasn't done it.

Also, exercise is worth doing for various reasons, but unless you're doing 80 lengths of an Olympic pool a day it's probably not going to make much difference, people should concentrate on the food side of the equation.

What a load of bollocks, Exercise isn't going to make any difference?

If you've been doing nothing it will make one hell of a difference. When you diet, your metobolism drops, you need excercise to take it up again. You also need excercise to maintain the loss.

I eat whatever I want and don't put on weight, why, becuase I exercise 4 times a week.

[Ardesco]

I eat whatever I want and don't put on weight, why, becuase I exercise 4 times a week.

Nothing to do with you being god and just deciding that you are going to be thin then hey!!!

Bloody deities, always making out its so easy for the common man....