Anyone going to have a weight loss New Year's Resolution?
Discussion
Hoofy said:
As long as you eat within your calorie goals you will lose weight.
Indeed, here's what I'm hoping! I just hope I don't end up skinny fat. (I never was when I was slimmer). I'm contemplating getting some kitchen scales so that I can weigh things like rice,pasta & cereal.My height/weight has my BMR at 2066. I'm not sure what it would be based on 3x lifting per week. I'd imagine it's higher, but to be safe I'm on a deficit I'm not aiming for more then 2000-2100cals, aiming to eat as much protein as possible. Some TDEE calculators suggest that in order for me to lose fat/gain muscle I need 3200cals a day. which is crazy.
ambuletz said:
I just hope I can achieve something similar to what most people have done there. So far I've only found 1 person with a similar height/weight to me that I can serve as a visual guide for how I'll look at certain lower weights.
What does hope have to do with it? If you do the right stuff you will succeed, if you don't then you won't. It's not a lottery of a quirk of fate, just the accumulation of lots of small decisions over the next few months. GBDG said:
ambuletz said:
I just hope I can achieve something similar to what most people have done there. So far I've only found 1 person with a similar height/weight to me that I can serve as a visual guide for how I'll look at certain lower weights.
What does hope have to do with it? If you do the right stuff you will succeed, if you don't then you won't. It's not a lottery of a quirk of fate, just the accumulation of lots of small decisions over the next few months. 
You won't go "skinny fat" if you lift heavy.
That's the problem with a lot of people looking to lose weight (primarily women). They think "diet" and "exercise". And so the weight drops, the fatty areas shrink but they still have a body that, while better, is the wrong shape. Their lean body mass has shrunk with their fat stores!
Simply, if you don't want the body of a frail, old woman, lift heavy weights.
That's the problem with a lot of people looking to lose weight (primarily women). They think "diet" and "exercise". And so the weight drops, the fatty areas shrink but they still have a body that, while better, is the wrong shape. Their lean body mass has shrunk with their fat stores!
Simply, if you don't want the body of a frail, old woman, lift heavy weights.
Gwagon111 said:
Don't repeat my mistake. I went ape s
t with the training, and cut the calorie intake back simultaneously. It wasn't a great move. Be wary of 'net calories' in a day.
Overdid the loss?t with the training, and cut the calorie intake back simultaneously. It wasn't a great move. Be wary of 'net calories' in a day.Hoofy said:
DukeDickson said:
Beer, along with pie, is a stupendous way to get larger. I speak from experience 
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Of course it more than likely isn't going to be the right kind of expansion, unless tiny to start off with. Hence liquid cream cakes
The biggest problem most face is lack of understanding, misinformation and the like, hence why Weightwatchers works so often. I guess you could also chuck exercise difficulties into that (e.g. my skeleton simply won't play ball, so can't run for one). Plus, leave at 8 & get home at 8 never helps.
So, you go on a diet (fad or not) and you get your pasta salad (because that's healthy). Problem is that some of them would give a kebab a run for the money, but don't ever appear to be that nasty. Fault on that front would be a vaguely interesting question.
Then the metabolism luck stuff makes it all that little bit harder. I just got the wrong half
I can't quite make out what you're saying..Of course it more than likely isn't going to be the right kind of expansion, unless tiny to start off with. Hence liquid cream cakes
The biggest problem most face is lack of understanding, misinformation and the like, hence why Weightwatchers works so often. I guess you could also chuck exercise difficulties into that (e.g. my skeleton simply won't play ball, so can't run for one). Plus, leave at 8 & get home at 8 never helps.
So, you go on a diet (fad or not) and you get your pasta salad (because that's healthy). Problem is that some of them would give a kebab a run for the money, but don't ever appear to be that nasty. Fault on that front would be a vaguely interesting question.
Then the metabolism luck stuff makes it all that little bit harder. I just got the wrong half
One beer (200 calories tops) and one pie (700 calories?) a day will make you a lean person. It's the second, third and fourth beer (+600) with the large portion of chips (+800), the huge full English breakfast (+1000) you had that morning and the kingsized Mars Bar (+500) and share bag of crisps (+500) that you also devoured that stops you being lean.
, especially here 
Short of a lard butty on thick nasty white, beer & pie are up there in the top league of ways to get chunky - a couple of pies and 3/4 beers are ever so slightly easier to consume than, say, 8 - 10 turkey/chicken salads (rather more pleasurable as well).
In the normal course of things, people eat ordinarily and then consume a moderate amount of one or both, without realising how easy it is to be in strife - How unhealthy are Christmas buffet staples like pork pies
Then there's the whole age/genes/unknown stuff - far too hard to discuss at this time of the morning. You get lucky, you don't & it occasionally seems to get in the way of that obvious science stuff. It is also a moving target.
Fad diets/pasta salads etc - As before, kinda. Cereal bars are healthy, pasta salads must be healthy, I lost a stone in ??? 6 weeks on the Saville diet ???
You know they aren't, as do I, but the moral majority don't. "I'm on a diet after Christmas, so no chips & 1 glass of wine a week, salads every day". Only in real life, that's Basco A&B pasta salad (which happens to be the same as a pie/Big Mac) and then normal evening meal. A&B pasta just happening to be 700 cals for something smaller than a McD's burger & usually not much healthier.
Dumb - maybe, but you have to apply a decent degree of common sense to that - occasionally lacking on this forum (and not just this sub-forum).
Then again, while fad diets ain't great, the advice often proffered here isn't always 100% shining either. You'd think that the only people who want to shift their body shape are 20 & 30 something blokes with the time, inclination and physiology to hit the gym, lift heavy and eat lots of protein & drink protein shakes.
Just a slightly different POV at the end of the day
, based on personal experience but probably not ideally explained (if that's possible 
) due to the ungodly hour & the odd beer - probably the only time I actually logon 
DukeDickson said:
Nobody eats a pie, drinks a pint and then consumes nothing but water, all day, every day - even here , especially here
Short of a lard butty on thick nasty white, beer & pie are up there in the top league of ways to get chunky - a couple of pies and 3/4 beers are ever so slightly easier to consume than, say, 8 - 10 turkey/chicken salads (rather more pleasurable as well).
In the normal course of things, people eat ordinarily and then consume a moderate amount of one or both, without realising how easy it is to be in strife - How unhealthy are Christmas buffet staples like pork pies
Then there's the whole age/genes/unknown stuff - far too hard to discuss at this time of the morning. You get lucky, you don't & it occasionally seems to get in the way of that obvious science stuff. It is also a moving target.
Fad diets/pasta salads etc - As before, kinda. Cereal bars are healthy, pasta salads must be healthy, I lost a stone in ??? 6 weeks on the Saville diet ???
You know they aren't, as do I, but the moral majority don't. "I'm on a diet after Christmas, so no chips & 1 glass of wine a week, salads every day". Only in real life, that's Basco A&B pasta salad (which happens to be the same as a pie/Big Mac) and then normal evening meal. A&B pasta just happening to be 700 cals for something smaller than a McD's burger & usually not much healthier.
Dumb - maybe, but you have to apply a decent degree of common sense to that - occasionally lacking on this forum (and not just this sub-forum).
Then again, while fad diets ain't great, the advice often proffered here isn't always 100% shining either. You'd think that the only people who want to shift their body shape are 20 & 30 something blokes with the time, inclination and physiology to hit the gym, lift heavy and eat lots of protein & drink protein shakes.
Just a slightly different POV at the end of the day, based on personal experience but probably not ideally explained (if that's possible ) due to the ungodly hour & the odd beer - probably the only time I actually logon
You take rambling to a whole new level. I'm really not sure what your point is!, especially here Short of a lard butty on thick nasty white, beer & pie are up there in the top league of ways to get chunky - a couple of pies and 3/4 beers are ever so slightly easier to consume than, say, 8 - 10 turkey/chicken salads (rather more pleasurable as well).
In the normal course of things, people eat ordinarily and then consume a moderate amount of one or both, without realising how easy it is to be in strife - How unhealthy are Christmas buffet staples like pork pies
Then there's the whole age/genes/unknown stuff - far too hard to discuss at this time of the morning. You get lucky, you don't & it occasionally seems to get in the way of that obvious science stuff. It is also a moving target.
Fad diets/pasta salads etc - As before, kinda. Cereal bars are healthy, pasta salads must be healthy, I lost a stone in ??? 6 weeks on the Saville diet ???
You know they aren't, as do I, but the moral majority don't. "I'm on a diet after Christmas, so no chips & 1 glass of wine a week, salads every day". Only in real life, that's Basco A&B pasta salad (which happens to be the same as a pie/Big Mac) and then normal evening meal. A&B pasta just happening to be 700 cals for something smaller than a McD's burger & usually not much healthier.
Dumb - maybe, but you have to apply a decent degree of common sense to that - occasionally lacking on this forum (and not just this sub-forum).
Then again, while fad diets ain't great, the advice often proffered here isn't always 100% shining either. You'd think that the only people who want to shift their body shape are 20 & 30 something blokes with the time, inclination and physiology to hit the gym, lift heavy and eat lots of protein & drink protein shakes.
Just a slightly different POV at the end of the day
, based on personal experience but probably not ideally explained (if that's possible ) due to the ungodly hour & the odd beer - probably the only time I actually logon 
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