4 weeks I'm in your hands!!!
Discussion
So I go away in 4 weeks for 3 weeks of relaxing and sun, I have lost my figure due to coming off the tools and now in management and I want it back for my holls, I need to lose about a stone I would say.
now I have access to a full gym has pool and all the usual equipment. I have a road and and other off road peddle bikes.
I walk my dogs once in the morning and once in the evening.
So I need your help! For the next four weeks I will be signing in and keeping every one updated,
I need help on what to do? I.e gym, road bike how long how far times etc
What I should be eating / should not be eating.
I work from 8 in the morning until 5 of an evening and may not have a break.
I can cook so all natural food is fine, I'm not keen on fish but will eat it if needed
So what would you recommend?
I will weigh and take photos each day to help along with the diary.
Many thanks all and hope all will go to plan!
Verco
now I have access to a full gym has pool and all the usual equipment. I have a road and and other off road peddle bikes.
I walk my dogs once in the morning and once in the evening.
So I need your help! For the next four weeks I will be signing in and keeping every one updated,
I need help on what to do? I.e gym, road bike how long how far times etc
What I should be eating / should not be eating.
I work from 8 in the morning until 5 of an evening and may not have a break.
I can cook so all natural food is fine, I'm not keen on fish but will eat it if needed
So what would you recommend?
I will weigh and take photos each day to help along with the diary.
Many thanks all and hope all will go to plan!
Verco
bigandclever said:
Don't walk your dogs twice a day, run your dogs twice a day 
I have tried and it's so hard the one wants to go hell for leather or the cat he has seen and she keeps stoping to see if I am behind her! Gym tonight so will be row run and weights then swim so that will be my evening,
Would not eating help?
What would bed the best food for breakfast and lunch?
I never usually eat breakfast or have lunch,
What would be the best foods to eat?
I always cook and eat a lot of different things, what do I need to totally avoid apart from the list you have just said and what do I need to eat the most of?
I never usually eat breakfast or have lunch,
What would be the best foods to eat?
I always cook and eat a lot of different things, what do I need to totally avoid apart from the list you have just said and what do I need to eat the most of?
mattikake said:
4 weeks. lol You plebs watch too much TV. Lets convert this total lack of realism into walking (which is a good, easy, effective and most of all for your goals, maintainable, calorie burner)
1 stone = 56,700kcals in pure fat
1km walking at a good pace = 60kcals
Burning 56,700kcals in pure fat = 945km walk
945km in 4 weeks = 33.75km walk per day.
But if only it were that simple. This assumes you do not eat a single thing. Assuming you don't want to die of malnutrition, you will eat food. If you do eat a single thing, say about 1500kcals per day, then your 945km walk just became a 1645km walk.
And that's assuming the moment you started walking, you instantly started burning fat. But you'd have roughly 100kcals of glycogen in your working muscles and 500kcals of stored glycogen in your liver. At least half of your liver stores are probably going redistributed to your working muscles, if not all, so really, walking at a good pace it not going to burn any fat in the first 5-6km of each walk, so if you do go walking, you need to do at least an hour a time.... and not eat for quite some time afterwards. Really you'd need to do your walk all in one go.
And that's assuming you had a diet that was very low in carbs or was ketogenic. You'd also need to quit rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, grains, legumes, most fruit, most veg, most nuts...
And that's assuming a ketogenic diet kicked in immediately, which it won't. It can take 2-3 weeks to get into full effect. 7 days at the minimum, so the 1st-3rd week of your efforts would be minimally effective.
So all this effectively leaves you 1 week to cover 1,645km, preferably in a single go. Get started on the ketosis now... and quit your job, dump your missus, sell your bed (and your TV (and stop buying tabloid papers while you're at it)). You'll be fiiiine...
OTOH if you just want to lose 1 stone in any weight, I say go for burning some muscle and internal organs, easily achieved by jumping off a ferry in the middle of the Atlantic. If you manage to make it home, you'll have lost your stone and then some!
So how do you know all this information ( I am amazed!) I have/had no idea and this is what I was wishing for was somebody to tell me if / can it be done. So if that is the case is it better to focus on toning up rather than losing weight? 1 stone = 56,700kcals in pure fat
1km walking at a good pace = 60kcals
Burning 56,700kcals in pure fat = 945km walk
945km in 4 weeks = 33.75km walk per day.
But if only it were that simple. This assumes you do not eat a single thing. Assuming you don't want to die of malnutrition, you will eat food. If you do eat a single thing, say about 1500kcals per day, then your 945km walk just became a 1645km walk.
And that's assuming the moment you started walking, you instantly started burning fat. But you'd have roughly 100kcals of glycogen in your working muscles and 500kcals of stored glycogen in your liver. At least half of your liver stores are probably going redistributed to your working muscles, if not all, so really, walking at a good pace it not going to burn any fat in the first 5-6km of each walk, so if you do go walking, you need to do at least an hour a time.... and not eat for quite some time afterwards. Really you'd need to do your walk all in one go.
And that's assuming you had a diet that was very low in carbs or was ketogenic. You'd also need to quit rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, grains, legumes, most fruit, most veg, most nuts...
And that's assuming a ketogenic diet kicked in immediately, which it won't. It can take 2-3 weeks to get into full effect. 7 days at the minimum, so the 1st-3rd week of your efforts would be minimally effective.
So all this effectively leaves you 1 week to cover 1,645km, preferably in a single go. Get started on the ketosis now... and quit your job, dump your missus, sell your bed (and your TV (and stop buying tabloid papers while you're at it)). You'll be fiiiine...
OTOH if you just want to lose 1 stone in any weight, I say go for burning some muscle and internal organs, easily achieved by jumping off a ferry in the middle of the Atlantic. If you manage to make it home, you'll have lost your stone and then some!
Edited by mattikake on Thursday 18th July 00:10
BettySwollocks2 said:
OP At 6ft and 13 stone It doesnt really sound like your a chubber, it sounds like youve never lifted bro, get in the Gym for four weeks four times a week, lift f
k heavy to the point when you leave you feel like a train hit you. in four weeks with a good clean diet muscle should be beginning to show through a little bit,
however as most people have said, 4 weeks is way to late to start, im presuming you booked said holiday 3 months ago? why not start then.
oh and i say doesnt sound like your a chubber as I am 6 ft 3 and 13 stone 9 11% BF. meaning it just sounds like you have a high body fat and low muscle content.
Nope booked it on Sunday, so far it's going well eating a lot less and doing a lot or running and weights everyday! Will be hitting the gym tonight for a couple of hours swim! I think it may be toning up but some of the fat needs to go! k heavy to the point when you leave you feel like a train hit you. in four weeks with a good clean diet muscle should be beginning to show through a little bit,however as most people have said, 4 weeks is way to late to start, im presuming you booked said holiday 3 months ago? why not start then.
oh and i say doesnt sound like your a chubber as I am 6 ft 3 and 13 stone 9 11% BF. meaning it just sounds like you have a high body fat and low muscle content.
Centurion07 said:
A glass of water and a couple of delicious gulps of air according to that figure! 
Nope and it was filling !!!!!Here is the list
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