Weight loss

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  1. Trackit

    Trackit Active Member

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    About a year ago after a routine medical I was told I have high blood pressure and high cholestrol due to being over weight (105kg), I decided to change my lifestyle just like you did. After year of altering my food intake I lost 10kg but wanted to loose another 10kg to gain my target weight so when and had a chat to the local gym owner.

    I too was worried I wouldn't fit into the gym culture as I had never set foot in one before and imagined it to be full of serious healthy built people, the gym instructor gave me a personal trainer for 1 hr a day for 3 days who set up a workout routine for me and showed me how a few things worked. I've been going for 2 months now, 5 days a week for 1 hour workout and the results have been amazing.

    My best advice is to go down to the Gym and have a chat, they will set you a cardio workout plan and within a week you will wonder what all the fuss was about.
     
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  2. Nigel H

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    I struggled to get a number for an ideal weight to set as a target to diet towards as everything just quoted BMI which is a huge range.
    Then I found a web site that had you measure your wrist round the bones to get a number based on your skeletal size.
    It seemed low but I'm nearly there now and I've deliberately done it slowly so everything else adjusts.
    I notice that the outside layers go first leaving you boney but then the inside stuff begins to bleed away and that's when you feel better.
    It all looked unattainable at first but it works and now things like chocolate are a treat to be savoured not just something to munch on.
    I have quite a bit of joint damage from racing 250s so I don't do much exercise other than walking now so I just restrict the calories input
    but I'm careful to eat nice stuff not this diet food which tastes like cardboard.

    Good luck with it all
     
  3. Gravel trap

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    As far as gyms go ill just say they are not for me. 3 times I've joined different ones each time the people were pricks the music and tv's anoying . Oh and I'm a fool. I was once on a running machine been on it about 10 mins and this kid gets on beside me . The ducker smerked at my sweaty dad bod and set off running . I could see him looking at my machine controls and matching the speed and incline . So I upped mine. He matched so i upped mine . Well he was a 20 something fit lad and I was the guy who ran his fat self to brink off heart attack lost footing and got fired off the back of the pissing treadmill and landed on a poor woman who was using the rowing machines behind. Ohh the shame as the whole gym turned to see the mess of me tangled upside down in rowingmaching and sweating whilst blood poured from my cut arm. I now have an excersise bike (pink Diana McCall one from wifes friend) a rowing machine and punch bag in my workshop I want a treadmill too and weights in time. Excersise alone is way forward for me .
     
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  4. LRJimmy

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    So funny and i can picture it totally.
    Beware buying a treadmill though, my Nordic Track top of the range thing is a glorified clothes horse and I would probably get rid if it wasn’t so heavy and needs dismantled before it could get out of the bedroom it occupies along with another clothes horse called an Elliptical trainer :rolleyes:o_O
     
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  5. Barstewardsquad

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    If you don't fancy a gym then buy a bike and go cycling. A 15 mile loop I do can burn 1,000 calories in under an hour, and as an added benefit it can help clear your brain.

    Just watch out for twats on the road, but it's a bike forum so you already know that!
     
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  6. Gravel trap

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    I did buy a bike but hated it . As you say the road users are terrible . Without my bike kit on I felt in danger . Cycling kit is shit or felt like it. All the stuff I've bought has been second hand apart from the push iron so far treadmill will be the same. I'm thinking march April time next year once the Christmas fattys give up .
     
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  7. Lozzy

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    Me & Di are excellent personal trainers...we'll soon get some weight off you and them muscles working...give us a call being as you're local to us.....forum member discount too :D
     
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  8. Gravel trap

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    Mrs graveltrap cried with laughter when I got home and told her so much so our daughter bandaged my arm . She even called her mates making me retell the story on bloody FaceTime thing in our front room whilst the cackling witches laughed their heads off.
     
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  9. Gravel trap

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    Erm.is this offer open to all @Lozzy . 2 so owning birch wielding instructors. Oh my I'd excersise all day ....
     
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  10. Lozzy

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    Lol....no that's the other 'business' we run that you're thinking of daft lad :D
     
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  11. LRJimmy

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    I'n not looking for weight loss....but anything with a discount is always attractive. I'm Scottish and we are supposedly rather tight ;);) Mmmm the elusive Di & Lozzy giving training...there could be worse ways to pop your clogs with a smile ;):D:D
     
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  12. Lozzy

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    Serious imput here....for a change :rolleyes:
    I used to be a professional swimmer and for many years had to stay super fit for my job as well.
    But...have still on odd occasions plonked weight on...not rocket science..too much booze too much wrong food end of!
    So...eat healthy...keep your bodies metabolism moving. I think Nigel mentioned it, but if it clicks into starvation mode it won't do its job properly.
    There's reams of diet plans all weird and wonderful...they're there because they make money! It's easy to find the healthy foods and easy to count the calories for free without going down the strange diet road.
    Couple this with an activity/s you enjoy if you can, as I think the endorphins it releases actually enjoying something helps a lot :)
    Swimming if you can do it is a great activity and takes pressure/weight off your limbs that other sports may exacerbate.
    I use my mountain bike every day for hard cardio and love it because I'm out in the open air. Several brisk walks with the dog and healthy eating. I lost 34lbs recently in a v short time going back to this routine from drinking and stuffing me face too much! Back to my normal weight and it's staying off. Can't say anything positive about weight guidelines I'm afraid...they had the England Rugby team obese and I looked anorexic the only time I got down to the lowest they recommended!
     
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  13. Barstewardsquad

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    As @Lozzy says swimming is great. The difficult part is finding a time of day when the old biddy's, and no I don't mean Lozzy and Di :p, aren't there doing their aqua walking. Not a problem sharing the pool it's just when you are on a breath stroke and inhale the copious amounts of perfume affected air as they seem to douse themselves in it before getting in the pool:eek:
     
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  14. Lozzy

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    Lol....perfume is a luxury...
    I used to train many years ago in various baths in the city and there was one particular one in a rough part.
    We used the pool after it had been closed to the public. And without fail there used to be at least one 'turd' alert every session :eek:
    You'd have to wave to the lifeguards and point at it while they ran off to get their shit scoop net :confused:
    The only plus point was the culprits having eaten good old Yaaarkshire food meant the Richards were heavy and just sat on the bottom thank god...as coming across an occasional 'bobber' was horrific :rolleyes:
     
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  15. Selmer50mark

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    When I get out of breath cockin me leg over the bike (or Shirl ) that's when I do something about my weight :D;)
     
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  16. LRJimmy

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    Good Lord woman, turd in the poo. Beverly Hills Cop jumps to mind but Jesus Wept, that isn't just a rough place thats downright horrid :eek::eek:
    Just as well there were no foreigners there...they'd all have masks on like you see in the airports now :p:p:D:D
     
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  17. nigelrb

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    I shamefully admit that it might have been me.

    In my adventurous youth, I used to take pride in 'squeezing one out' solely to admire the distraught looks on other swimmers' faces.:)
     
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  18. LRJimmy

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    Oh Nigel. You've shattered my illusion that you were the sensible one on here ;););):rolleyes::eek::D
     
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  19. nigelrb

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    I am. Can't you read?:rolleyes: I said that was in my youth!!:D;)
     
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  20. blink

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    Another reason to avoid a gym!

    I did think about swimming, but similar reasons put me off, its just the thing getting over the initial step.

    im not doing any fad diets, the shapes are just because they work for me, a good way to keep tabs on calories
     

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