Blonde will make thin ....Here we go again !

[nirvana]

The water thing is a good tip.

Until this year I think I prob drank an actual glass of plain water about once every 2 months, normally if I had a headache. Prob over 20 cups of tea/coffee a day with milk & sugar.

Now, I barely drink anything other than chilled water - perhaps 3l per day and have got kind of addicted. Have the odd coffee and the odd glass of wine/beer. Do feel much better for it and 18L of Highland Spring is a fiver from Sainsburys. Think I'm probs saving a fortune as well.

[gatso]

not used it for about a year but I don't remember any ads when I did

[Marky147]

not used it for about a year but I don't remember any ads when I did

I got them and d/l that torrent to get a registered one free

I stopped using it not long after and just do my macros in my head from a sheet with the foods I eat now.

[leethefish]

Can I be included in the op please.

118.8 kg

1kg per week.

Will do the £20 per kg I miss by!

I have a photo of scales but don't know how to post it from my iPhone

Thanks for posting in kg ...........will update op !!

[leethefish]

Can I be included in the op please.

118.8 kg

1kg per week.

Will do the £20 per kg I miss by!

I have a photo of scales but don't know how to post it from my iPhone

Thanks for posting in kg ...........will update op !!

have posted in st and lb same as the rest of .. is that ok??

[leethefish]

just updated op .......and WOW there are now 14 fatties prepared to try and improve their health

from what started out as  Woodsey, Girgy and myself little prop bet has snowballed into a fantastic attempt of mass weight loss .....lol

i hope we all get out of this with what we want.

gl blondes

[sovietsong]

Can I be included in the op please.

118.8 kg

1kg per week.

Will do the £20 per kg I miss by!

I have a photo of scales but don't know how to post it from my iPhone

Thanks for posting in kg ...........will update op !!

have posted in st and lb same as the rest of .. is that ok??

No worries, it's just my scales are in kg's and I don't know how to change them!

[DaveShoelace]

So far my days have looked like this:

Brekky - Porridge, Banana, some blueberries
Mid morning snack - banana or nothing
Lunch - beans on toast or scrambled eggs on toast or scambled eggs w/out toast
Midday snack - banana or a muller rice
Dinner - will always vary, so far its been in Jan: chicken & brown rice, spag bol (wholemeal pasta), fish mash n veg, chicken potatoes n veg, chicken fajitas tonight (Other typical evening meals for us include jacket potatoes, pizza, thai green curry with brown rice, sausage & mash, and usually a meal out once a week)
Desert - muller rice, or small choclaty treat (like a mini moose pot thing)
Late snack - porridge with blueberries (small amount, 130 cals-ish) or crackers with humous.

I start the day, first thing literally, by necking a half litre of water. This is something I started doing after discovering a great time management/productivity course about 8 weeks ago. This is a great start to the day and it usually results in me drinking tons of water the rest of the day.

The only major difference is that the lunch is my ONLY serving of bread (previously toast would be my midday snack and evening snack) and it is smaller sized bread than before. Everything else is pretty much as I would normally have it (and once or twice a week  I would cave in and pig out on biscuits - usually sparked by a bread binge).

So basically my entire thing is reducing bread, my trigger food, and favouring better snacks. FYI - there is not a thing in the list above that I didn't love and eat already. I'm not even calorie counting, because I don't see that as sustainable (plus I actually have a reasonable unconscious idea in my head that the above is ok - alongside exercise 4+ times a week and lots of dog walks).

As for the gym. Funnily enough, despite the weight issues, I have always been quite fit. But because of my diet, it has always been a damage reduction thing. The last year I have learned boxing with a personal trainer, and now he has got me on a (brutal) programme which includes a load of circuits that work all the muscles - I wont  share them here because I have no idea what they are called - most involve medicine balls, kettle bells, and these vipr tube thingies - but you can ask FUN4FRASER who has been doing them with me that they are quite intense.

Speaking of which, first PT session of the year this morning and nearly threw up - I presume thats a good thing, feel great now.

Last thing to say - Porridge seems a great food for this. It is very filling, is lovely with a some blueberries in, and I presume the carbs are slow release?

[RED-DOG]

Interesting stuff Bazza.

I really have to limit my carb intake if I want to lose weight.

Right. Off to research 'trigger foods' I've never heard of them before but I am prone to binging.

[action man]

can someone list me some healthy foods, im dieting at the moment, and just seem to be eating pasta salads, usually prawn pasta.

[DaveShoelace]

Interesting stuff Bazza.

I really have to limit my carb intake if I want to lose weight.

Right. Off to research 'trigger foods' I've never heard of them before but I am prone to binging.

Basically those of us who struggle with our appetites often have a food that kinda turns us into a ferrel eating machine. I think it can be both psychological and physiological.

For me its cards, mainly fast release stachy carbs. I presume I am getting the science wrong here, but I believe it gives you a spike of insulin, which if not used for exercise, will instead make you feel hungry.

[Girgy85]

Barry more than one banana a day is meant to be bad for you so i was told.

[gatso]

Barry more than one banana a day is meant to be bad for you so i was told.

lol

[AndrewT]

Barry more than one banana a day is meant to be bad for you so i was told.

lol

I was just about to shine the Gatso bullshit mod signal in the sky.

[gatso]

Barry more than one banana a day is meant to be bad for you so i was told.

lol

I was just about to shine the Gatso bullshit mod signal in the sky.

not sure I was really needed tbh. it's such a ridic suggestion that even the daily mail who think anything and everything is highly carcinogenic published an article rubbishing the suggestion

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-115708/Are-bananas-bad-health.html