New Healthy Start

[USABlue]

15-20 minute interval training. High intensity heart attack inducing madness.

Look up The Body Coach on YouTube and try one of his beginner ones and see how you get on.

searched it, one video had " naughty" in the title..not up for the BANTZ

 

[USABlue]

Don't get in til gone 6 most nights so would be hard for me to not eat after that point lol

Also the walking is just me trying to be active. I can't stress ernough how little i moved a week or 2 ago on a work day, even on my dinner i went from standing outside to sitting at my desk, whereas now walking round town.

So yeah, walking to raise my heart rate and even those little efforts combined with the better intake will start the slow changes. Because i am aware it will take a while, if i wanted them to be quick i'd do more about it lol

If indeed i have lost a little bit of weight simply by eating fruit for breakfast, then additional walking combined with healtheir teas and stuff means it should have a good impact on me

the whole don't eat after X time thing is a bit of a myth. It's mainly don't eat for a few hours before you go to bed.

 

[Brennan]

Haha I have noticed since I have said I'm going out my way to walk more everyone is now telling me to jog. Don't think jogging in shoes and a tie is a good idea though haha

But yeah, walking out of my way rather than part of my day is my aim. Even 20 minutes extra before and after work and raise my heart rate doing it. Means I'm getting 40 minutes extra exercise than I was a week ago. Running up stairs as well should really have an effect as well but that is a occasional thing if I want my legs to work afterwards haha

You don't need to jog if you're walking. Recent studies have shown that running regularly every week can actually have less benefit than walking regularly.

 

[Brennan]

the whole don't eat after X time thing is a bit of a myth. It's mainly don't eat for a few hours before you go to bed.

Yep...

 

[evertony]

Stopped drinking pints of Bitter....started drinking pints of Guinness.......don't think it's working tbh.......

Instead of a pint drink two halves......head space lad.

 

[The Cowboy]

You don't need to jog if you're walking. Recent studies have shown that running regularly every week can actually have less benefit than walking regularly.

I'd like to see those studies. Cos it certainly isn't the case with me. Running has been the best thing I've ever done, fitness-wise, and I already walk around 3 miles a day as it is.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

A what ?

You keep a track of what you eat, what you burn off and so on. I use an old fashioned spreadsheet, but you can get apps to do it all these days (MyFitnessPal is the most common I think). Takes the guess work out of your calorie consumption.

Suffice to say, you probably don't need to keep it up indefinitely as after a while you get a pretty good idea of what's in most foods.

 

[1966efc]

Following on from my fruit for breakfast thread which was a huge hit, bit of a advice thread for me this one, any tips people know and advice for the average lazy person to get healthier without having to do much so to speak.

I'm eating slightly better now, and plan to start slimming world meals next monday. So will be eating meals designed to help you lose weight, healthier options etc. I'm not cutting out all bad things and just eating lettuce, i have 2 kids, it isn't realistic so just going out my way to eat fruit for breakfast (which i'm on my third week of btw) and eating better elsewhere just to cut out as many bad things rather than all bad things.

Exercise i used to get none whatsoever. Now i am walking a fair bit more. Walked round kenny and edge hill last week, walked from old swan home last night and walked for about 20 minutes or so this morning before i got on the bus. Raised my heart rate / broke a sweat doing it. So yeah, i'm trying to be a bit more active. I'm not going the gym, and i won't start going for a run but this is me going out my way to do something extra. Combining it with pokemon go as well, so walking is hatching the eggs over the distance, so a kind of distance measurer so to speak. I have been walking round town on my dinner as well rather than doing nothing so distance covered is much bigger than i was a week or so ago

So yeah, any tips i should follow? I'm not trying to be super healthy so if i want pasta or a packet of crisps then i'm not going to shirk in horror at them. Just avoid eating them when i can. going out my way for a bit more exercise as well. A few people have noticed i have lost weight just doing the fruit thing alone, although i wonder if they are hollow compliments to encourage me. Who knows? Either way, got my mind set on it at the minute so any little tips will be great.

oh and plan to start having @Bryan smoothie for breakfast as well.

Avoid the smoothie. Quite a lot being said tht breaking down fruit gives too much of a sugar rush and gives the kind of spike in insulin which can lead to diabetes II. Eat whole fruit like you've been doing.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Avoid the smoothie. Quite a lot being said tht breaking down fruit gives too much of a sugar rush and gives the kind of spike in insulin which can lead to diabetes II. Eat whole fruit like you've been doing.

I believe blending fruit loses most of its nutrient value as well.

 

[Brennan]

I believe blending fruit loses most of its nutrient value as well.

Blending no, juicing yes.

 

[ijjysmith]

searched it, one video had " naughty" in the title..not up for the BANTZ

He is a bit like that! But he's harmless.

I like him because despite him being a chiselled specimen even he gets knackered and is in pain during the workouts.

 

[Ashtonian]

Avoid the smoothie. Quite a lot being said tht breaking down fruit gives too much of a sugar rush and gives the kind of spike in insulin which can lead to diabetes II. Eat whole fruit like you've been doing.

I believe blending fruit loses most of its nutrient value as well.

Fair enough then. I'll hang fire on doing that for now.

The fruit seems to work like a charm though. I don't always eat breakfast at the best of times and when i have a spare 2 quid and 20 minutes free was getting a bacon butty and coffee from greggs.

The fruit i am finding because i am eating it at around 9am onwards means it doesn't fill me up and hunger kicks in more or less at lunch. But then i am then going walking round town and not eating until at least 1 then when i get back which means i am technically telling my stomach when it will eat. Then combined with lack of crisps etc with dinner then although it is weird not having them after my dinner, means i am only eating one thing, which is a baguette currently. So my daily intake from morning to getting home is usually a baguette, 3 pieces of fruit and drink wise one coffee and plenty of water/green tea.

combine that with walking 20 minutes in the morning out my way, walking round town for about half an hour on lunch and a walk home (even from the bus it is 15 minutes minimum) means my calorie intake must be much lower than if i was having a hearty breakfast and dinner.

 

[USABlue]

He is a bit like that! But he's harmless.

I like him because despite him being a chiselled specimen even he gets knackered and is in pain during the workouts.

Fair enough. Might get some cheeky lunges in later

 

[jackyboy]

If you're losing weight that's good and the slower the better. You didn't put it on in a couple of weeks and if you take it off quickly it will be due to an unsustainable diet...and then it comes back on.
I'd just keep on keeping on with the exercise, cutting out the bad stuff, factor in the odd treat as a reward.

Another thing, biff the scales, don't get hung up on the numbers and the whole ritual. Go by how tight your clothes are or aren't. and pretty soon you'll be walking round with your kecks half way down your backside.
It's about reconciling your head space, about how you think you look Vs how you actually look.

For instance. 'They' got an adjustable full length mirror, one that made you look thinner or fatter as you turned the handle or pushed the button or what ever. Then asked 200 women to 'set' the mirror to neither fat nor thin e.g. true size and 95% set it to fatter. They thought they were fatter than they actually were = Headspace wrong.

Can't agree more. I've lost count of the people who have asked me in work how much I have lost and what I have been doing.

The genuine answer is I have no idea, I'm 6'3 and well built anyway, but been slimming since about Xmas and have no idea how much I've lost. Don't get hung up on numbers, focus on clobber fitting you.

 

[Walken]

You don't need to jog if you're walking. Recent studies have shown that running regularly every week can actually have less benefit than walking regularly.

less injuries too, if the rest of your life is healthy, and you aren't looking to run in competitions, it's not the worst idea to walk for exercise