New Healthy Start

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Some food and their replacements for me:

Pita breads / Tortillas --> Lettuce for wraps (saving up to 200 calories per pita/tortilla)
Fizzy drinks --> Water or diet drinks (saving again around 200 calories per can)
Chocolate/crisps --> Grapes, nuts, yoghurt (saving hundreds of calories again)
Big hearty meals for lunch --> Salad, pretzel (sorry, it's where I live) and tub of cottage cheese (Depends on what it is, but my lunch is now around 500 calories including drink)
Spaghetti --> Courgette turned into spaghetti with a spiral slicer (Saving on tonnes of carbs)

That last one is my absolute favourite. Have that (spiral courgette, with mixed veggies (like red pepper, red onion, garlic, tomatoes) and tuna perhaps once a week. A brilliantly tasty, healthy and filling meal, and virtually carb-free.

Other meals I can recommend:

- Find yourself a good marinade, like the one I make with hoi sin, soy, sesame oil, lemon juice and chili flakes, and let a salmon filet rest in it for an hour. Put it in a foil pouch with some marinade over it and on a bed of lemon slices and put in oven for 20 minutes. Serve with loads of veg. Sprinkle some sesame seeds over the salmon when on the plate.

- Chicken wraps substituting bread for lettuce leaves, same marinade as above or another of your choosing.

 

[Ashtonian]

Some food and their replacements for me:

Pita breads / Tortillas --> Lettuce for wraps
Fizzy drinks --> Water or diet drinks
Chocolate/crisps --> Grapes, nuts, yoghurt
Big hearty meals for lunch --> Salad, pretzel (sorry, it's where I live) and tub of cottage cheese
Spaghetti --> Courgette turned into spaghetti with a spiral slicer

That last one is my absolute favourite. Have that (spiral courgette, with mixed veggies (like red pepper, red onion, garlic, tomatoes) and tuna perhaps once a week. A brilliantly tasty, healthy and filling meal, and virtually carb-free.

Lettuce? So instead of a wrap you just put the food in the lettuce? lol

Are pistachios nut nuts or unhealthy nuts? bit curious, last week got a bag of them to snack on as i don't like any other nut. but can imagine high salt content at the same time.

is cottage cheese actually good for you? Don't think i dislike it, but thougbt it would be bad for you with it being loads of dairy packed into one scoop.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Lettuce? So instead of a wrap you just put the food in the lettuce? lol

Are pistachios nut nuts or unhealthy nuts? bit curious, last week got a bag of them to snack on as i don't like any other nut. but can imagine high salt content at the same time.

is cottage cheese actually good for you? Don't think i dislike it, but thougbt it would be bad for you with it being loads of dairy packed into one scoop.

Yes mate, brilliant substitute. Get yourself some iceberg or some romaine lettuce and use a full leaf as your wrap. If you use a pita for it instead, that's 200 calories or so per pita you'd usually have. For my chicken dish, I have about 10 leaves for the entire filling.

Pistachios, in moderation, are healthy. Go for the unsalted kind, you can find them everywhere.

Cottage cheese is good for you, very high in protein, low in fat and carbs. I eat about three tubs a week.

 

[bring the ghost on]

If you want to give yourself a massive boost and shed some serious weight in a week, then do the cabbage soup diet.

Man, that sounds like torture?

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Man, that sounds like torture?

It's honestly not that bad and the results make it worthwhile as it's only 7 days.

 

[Ashtonian]

Little update.

Jut been weighed . Lost half a pound despite eating very poorly and exercising very little over the last week minus the weekend.

So 4 pounds loss is very much achievable in a week!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Little update.

Jut been weighed . Lost half a pound despite eating very poorly and exercising very little over the last week minus the weekend.

So 4 pounds loss is very much achievable in a week!

How much have you shed since you started mate?

 

[Ashtonian]

How much have you shed since you started mate?

2 stone in 6 weeks so far.

With at least 3 stone more to drop, 4 to get right down.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

2 stone in 6 weeks so far.

With at least 3 stone more to drop, 4 to get right down.

Fairdos, 2 stone in 6 weeks is very impressive, especially if, like you said, you haven't been at it for the last week. What was your start weight and what is your target weight, if you don't mind me asking mate? You'll crack it for sure.

All I want(ed) to do was drop a stone and a half, so if you can shed 2 in just over a month should be a piece of piss for me - we'll see!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

2 stone in 6 weeks so far.

With at least 3 stone more to drop, 4 to get right down.

Well done mate, that's really good going in only 6 weeks.

 

[Ashtonian]

Fairdos, 2 stone in 6 weeks is very impressive, especially if, like you said, you haven't been at it for the last week. What was your start weight and what is your target weight, if you don't mind me asking mate? You'll crack it for sure.

All I want(ed) to do was drop a stone and a half, so if you can shed 2 in just over a month should be a piece of piss for me - we'll see! lol

I don't know for sure but I'm guessing at around 18 stones. I was 16 for a long time and then gained weight so realistically I would put myself around that point. My end goal is 13 as thst was me fat 8 years ago. Just means my pants size drop down quite a bit to now and obviously smaller clothes as well. If I can go lower then fantastic, but by thst point it takes some serious exercise as I struggled back when I was younger albeit probably down to building muscle at the same time.

I think this week as well proved to me what I want at the end of this is very achievable . To eat whatever the hell I want! Lol if I can eat the way I did last week dinner wise and not gain weight because of probably a couple of very active days then cutting that back to say one bad meal a week guilt free or chocolate or pop or whatever and know I can manage my weight then fantastic. I am happy to cut myself off from unhealthy things now as long as in the end I don't. Plus if I'm slimmer say 4 5 months down the line I can be more conscious of my weight.

Well done mate, that's really good going in only 6 weeks.

Cheers mate. I have plenty to quickly burn off which is why my 4 pounds a week isn't unrealistic I don't think. As long as I exercise regularly and keep up with the meals. It was 13 or around that where i know it slows down so that would be a great jump off point for me for the future.

 

[Ashtonian]

Little update, odd day yesterday.

got a baguette from eat4less so chips with that as well. then my tea was a ham and coleslaw butty, a few crisps (first crisps in 6 weeks) and a slice of chocolate cake. Then i done a workout last night.

so yeah, bit if an odd one because calories wise i can't have run that high and burnt a fair few of them off last night. Perhaps running at just over a 1000 for the day and burned 500 of them back off? Makes no odds either way.

 

[The Cowboy]

From watching that celebrity fit club programme a few years ago, they said the first couple of stone are relatively easy to shift, much of it being water retention. Gets a lot harder after that, apparently.

Are the workouts you're doing specifically aimed at fat burning? Some can be focused on building muscle mass, and not necessarily about fat burning.

 

[Ashtonian]

From watching that celebrity fit club programme a few years ago, they said the first couple of stone are relatively easy to shift, much of it being water retention. Gets a lot harder after that, apparently.

Are the workouts you're doing specifically aimed at fat burning? Some can be focused on building muscle mass, and not necessarily about fat burning.

they are cardio ones. Probably more focused on arms and legs more than specifically fat burning, but then i have no real tailor made training to go from.

I thought process is that doing high cardio work outs 3 times a week now (to maintain it rather than be unrealistic) as long as eating better/less will have the desired effect.

I fully expect the weight loss to cross over with muscle build sooner rather than later, so from that point on, it will be just about how my clothes fit 3-4 weeks down the line. I will keep weighing myself in work and keep pushing to make that number falls every week. but i know it will slow based on muscle building.

 

[neil999]

Yes mate, brilliant substitute. Get yourself some iceberg or some romaine lettuce and use a full leaf as your wrap. If you use a pita for it instead, that's 200 calories or so per pita you'd usually have. For my chicken dish, I have about 10 leaves for the entire filling.

Pistachios, in moderation, are healthy. Go for the unsalted kind, you can find them everywhere.

Cottage cheese is good for you, very high in protein, low in fat and carbs. I eat about three tubs a week.

y'know he is thinking of cutting a whole lettuce in half and sticking a chicken in it?