Reply to: New Year, New Diet!

[Churchill]

Can't swim! Suppose I could learn. Doesn't fat float?

Whatever happens, you should learn to swim. There's your incentive. Exercise and a new skill.

[expat]

Try swimming.

Can't swim! Suppose I could learn. Doesn't fat float?

[Churchill]

I'd need to change quite a bit of my life in order to use a gym. I suppose I could join one near work, and go after 8 pm a couple of nights a week. Before dinner, phone call home, and any piece of life for myself like reading a few pages of a book.

Food is problematical because I'm in hotels all week.

Try swimming.

[expat]

Go and have a health check at your doctor's. That was the biggest spur to me to lose weight and take more exercise. My cholesterol was 7 and s/b around five, and my fat index was twice what it should be. I was a heart attack waiting to happen.

Join a gym. The cost is quite expensive and I find that a spur to use it, in order to get my money's worth. Esporta are good because membership gets you free usage of all their other gyms throughout the country(45 approx), which is great if you are travelling around as a contractor. Take up a sport such as tennis, squash or football. I now play 5 a sides with a load of other over 50s every week. We had a game at the Madjeski academy last week, and played on a tour to Athens in November. Great fun!!!

My diet consists of mainly porridge with skimmed milk for breakfast..... no fry-ups !!
No eggs, plenty of fruit, nuts and vegetables, fish, chicken and turkey.
No take-aways at all, but I do have the occasional curry at home.
Beer only at weekends.

Good Luck !!

I'd need to change quite a bit of my life in order to use a gym. I suppose I could join one near work, and go after 8 pm a couple of nights a week. Before dinner, phone call home, and any piece of life for myself like reading a few pages of a book.

Food is problematical because I'm in hotels all week.

[Mich the Tester]

My diet consists of mainly porridge with skimmed milk for breakfast..... no fry-ups !!
No eggs, plenty of fruit, nuts and vegetables, fish, chicken and turkey.
No take-aways at all, but I do have the occasional curry at home.
Beer only at weekends.

Good Luck !!

Bloody hell I thought my lifestyle was fairly spartan until I read that.

[Cyberman]

Go and have a health check at your doctor's. That was the biggest spur to me to lose weight and take more exercise. My cholesterol was 7 and s/b around five, and my fat index was twice what it should be. I was a heart attack waiting to happen.

Join a gym. The cost is quite expensive and I find that a spur to use it, in order to get my money's worth. Esporta are good because membership gets you free usage of all their other gyms throughout the country(45 approx), which is great if you are travelling around as a contractor. Take up a sport such as tennis, squash or football. I now play 5 a sides with a load of other over 50s every week. We had a game at the Madjeski academy last week, and played on a tour to Athens in November. Great fun!!!

My diet consists of mainly porridge with skimmed milk for breakfast..... no fry-ups !!
No eggs, plenty of fruit, nuts and vegetables, fish, chicken and turkey.
No take-aways at all, but I do have the occasional curry at home.
Beer only at weekends.

Good Luck !!

[TheFaQQer]

Stuff the BMI

I spent a year flying with them every week last year, and they were tulipe.

Even worse than going with BA through T5.

[Bagpuss]

Stuff the BMI; it’s a load of bollocks if you’re fit.

It's a reasonable rule of thumb, Bioelectrical resistance is better though, I'm about 15% fat on that. So yeah BMI can be inaccurate, but you can't fudge your fat content

[ratewhore]

Stuff the BMI; it’s a load of bollocks if you’re fit.

I concur with the tester. BMI is a load of toss. Apparently I'm obese but I weight train 3 times a week with the resultant gain in weight but reduction in body fat. Probably the fittest I've been since I joined up 20 years ago :-)

[Mich the Tester]

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

Stuff the BMI; it’s a load of bollocks if you’re fit.

[Bumfluff]

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

Yeah it is skinny, at the start of December I was down to 10stone 7lbs and people were asking me if I was ill or something wrong yet I was eating loads, but I looked crappy. I've had to rest for couple of weeks to let a knee injury heal, so did weights and drank creatine and went upto 11stone 4lbs, physically its the best I have ever looked as the 11lbs I put on was pretty much all muscle, first time I've had a 6 pack, but as soon as I started running again I lost 6lbs in a week. Anyway by end of May I will be back in full fat mode

[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

[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

[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.

[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?"