New Year, New Diet!

[Bumfluff]

5ft 11.5inch in height current weight 10stone 12lb, usually around 12stone but in training for marathon and always tend to lose a stone while training, its great at the moment I'm probably eating around 4500 cals a day but don't put on anything but then I am running on average 15k a day 5 x a week

[Mich the Tester]

I like hill-walking and camping and indeed travelling and hiking etc but maybe I don't really like it any more, haven't done it for 15 years. No time, and anyway my partner is the opposite (she prefers to avoid walking too far from the car).

Sod the wife; get yourself out into the hills. Good way to lose weight and a fantastic remedy for stress. Just do it; someday she'll ask to come along out of curiosity. Anyway, when you start building up big muscular thighs she won't complain.

I'm warning you, there's something much more scary than heart disease, diabetes and all that which happens to men who don't keep themselves fit; a very important part of your body will lose some of it's enthousiasm. You know, that bit you keep at the top of your trousers.

[ThomasSoerensen]

5ft 11.5inch in height current weight 10stone 12lb, usually around 12stone but in training for marathon and always tend to lose a stone while training, its great at the moment I'm probably eating around 4500 cals a day but don't put on anything but then I am running on average 15k a day 5 x a week

my 83 kilo target comes from my marathon days.

Push your training to 120-130km per week and it will do wonders for your running.

[expat]

Sod the wife; get yourself out into the hills. Good way to lose weight and a fantastic remedy for stress. Just do it; someday she'll ask to come along out of curiosity.

That does sound right. Mind you, I will have to be prepared not to have the solitude that I once did: she regards regular texting as a good way for two people who love each other but are apart to stay together, and takes offence if I suggest that I don't want to text for a while. But I can live with that.

[expat]

Anyway, when you start building up big muscular thighs she won't complain.

My legs aren't bad anyway it's the gut that is. The ugly mug is of course unfixable, I'm just trying to develop "character" in it. I will leave other aspects out of it Not that I care how I look.

[TheFaQQer]

Sod the wife;

That will probably use up a few calories in itself.

[expat]

That will probably use up a few calories in itself.

That was my first thought when Mich said "Do you really not like any kind of exercise?"

[Mich the Tester]

That was my first thought when Mich said "Do you really not like any kind of exercise?"

It's even better when you're fit, and even better when the wife's fit. Encourage her to do some Pilates; good for the deep abdominal muscles.

[TheFaQQer]

It's even better when you're fit, and even better when the wife's fit. Encourage her to do some Pilates; good for the deep abdominal muscles.

Pelvic floor exercises

[Bagpuss]

5ft 11.5inch in height current weight 10stone 12lb, usually around 12stone but in training for marathon and always tend to lose a stone while training, its great at the moment I'm probably eating around 4500 cals a day but don't put on anything but then I am running on average 15k a day 5 x a week

That's pretty skinny, but for running you need to be don't you. Good Runners always have massive leg muscles but withered and pathetic looking arms.
At a similar height I've been sub 11 stone once in my life and people kept asking me if I were ill. Currently just within my BMI range at 80kg