Originally posted by nomadd
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Well, not in, as I did all this 5 years ago. The challenge is not to lose the weight - that's relatively easy - but to keep it off. I did a ton of research before I started, and it seems that 95% of people who lose weight stick it all back on within a year of reaching their target. Hence why the "slimming industry" makes so much money on a continuing basis.
To cut a long story short: 1) Look to make make permanent changes to your lifestyle. 2) You will never, ever be able to exercise you way out of a bad diet. 3) Healthy eating, three times a day, is the main key to weight loss; be honest with what you've eaten, don't cheat. 4) Integrate exercise into your life - gym fanatics don't stay that way for long. 5) Invest in a decent, semi-pro set of scales and use them once a week; do not kid yourself that you can get away without them - they are a very humbling, yet honest, experience.
Using the above advice, and lot's of research on food, I managed to wipe off 4 1/2 stone that I'd been "carrying around" for well over a decade. It took about six months. But the best part is I've never put that weight back on: I still use the same set of expensive scales I bought back then and stick to the same diet/exercise routine (lunch each day is always a salad with some cold meat and some fruit, and I go for a gentle run 8k-10k, twice a week.) And I have to say, physically - and mentally - I feel better than I did 20 years ago.
That's my advice from the trenches, FWIW.
To cut a long story short: 1) Look to make make permanent changes to your lifestyle. 2) You will never, ever be able to exercise you way out of a bad diet. 3) Healthy eating, three times a day, is the main key to weight loss; be honest with what you've eaten, don't cheat. 4) Integrate exercise into your life - gym fanatics don't stay that way for long. 5) Invest in a decent, semi-pro set of scales and use them once a week; do not kid yourself that you can get away without them - they are a very humbling, yet honest, experience.
Using the above advice, and lot's of research on food, I managed to wipe off 4 1/2 stone that I'd been "carrying around" for well over a decade. It took about six months. But the best part is I've never put that weight back on: I still use the same set of expensive scales I bought back then and stick to the same diet/exercise routine (lunch each day is always a salad with some cold meat and some fruit, and I go for a gentle run 8k-10k, twice a week.) And I have to say, physically - and mentally - I feel better than I did 20 years ago.
That's my advice from the trenches, FWIW.
, where I try to take the train 3 or 4 times a week, which means on those days I walk about 4 miles (although I frequently stop in at the pub on the way home). And I've definitely lost weight, and feel much fitter too. I don't know how much but I've had to throw out my 36" waist jeans and buy 34" again.
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