It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

I dont use Ebay but you may find a better deal there than shops. If your near a Tesco or a Tesco extra youll probably find them there.

OK mate 👌

[Rjk]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Yes that's fine mate

I bought some Quorn the other day and had a stir fry , bit bland but it's better than a Chinese take away 🙃

was that one of the supermarket stirfry sauce thngs? they are horribly bland

So easy to make a good healthy stirfry as tasty as a takeaway one - probably helps that my wife is from China though.

She eats 4 or 5 cooked meals a day and just doesn't put on any weight - if you believe her this is down to not drinking any cold drinks, and avoiding carbs in the evening.
But then she also genuinely believes that there are ghosts in the house that are making the fridge make a funny noise sometimes, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt.

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Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

was that one of the supermarket stirfry sauce thngs? they are horribly bland

So easy to make a good healthy stirfry as tasty as a takeaway one - probably helps that my wife is from China though.

She eats 4 or 5 cooked meals a day and just doesn't put on any weight - if you believe her this is down to not drinking any cold drinks, and avoiding carbs in the evening.
But then she also genuinely believes that there are ghosts in the house that are making the fridge make a funny noise sometimes, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt.

Your wife is clearly a mentalist

Get rid of her

Yes it was a packet stir fry sauce , like piss although hopefully not actually piss

[Rjk]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Your wife is clearly a mentalist

Get rid of her

Yes it was a packet stir fry sauce , like piss although hopefully not actually piss

Yeah she's absolutely a mentallist

Those packet stir fry sauces are an abomination

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Not much more I can add to the above really.

I'm now 50 but this time last year I weighed around 17.5 stone (I'm 6'2). I've since lost six stone, partly through a change in diet but mainly walking. I'd started going for little walks during lockdown, just to get out of the kitchen and away from the laptop. I was aiming at 8k a day, but now do 20k a day (which is around 7-8 miles). I try to do it in three chunks - early morning pre-work, lunchtime and evening. Finding the right Podcasts has been essential, as once you get into the right one, you forget you're exercising. It's also been great finding new routes, paths, shortcuts etc in and around the area I've lived all my life, that I never knew existed. It can feel like a chore sometimes, either when the weather is bad or when (in my case) you realise at 11pm you've done 19.5k steps and you end up trudging aimlessly around the house for 10 minutes to get to 20k. It has become an obsession, but one that will hopefully be of benefit.

Definitely weigh yourself regularly as with the right diet - I cut out my lifelong favourites such as pasties, pies, sausage rolls and, in particular, crisps - and plenty of exercise, the weight will definitely come off. One note of caution, it may cost you a few quid as I've had to pretty much invest in a new wardrobe for anything that didn't involve my feet!

Good luck

From Google

In general, a 155-pound (70-kg) person who walks at 3.5 mph (5.6 kph) on a flat surface for 1 hour can burn approximately 267 calories. If they keep the same speed but walk uphill, they could burn up to 422 calories. As you are heavier the numbers would increase quite a bit. At first to lose pounds will be easy, it will obviosly get harder after a few months.

You get the idea, in the same time you could burn much more calories or travel a much shorter distance to reach your calorie burning goal

Buy an applewatch of fitbit or alternative too!

[UNDERHILL1927]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

2000 calories a day, track it on My Fitness Pal. Walk 10,000 steps a day, weight will drop off you

[NYCBlue]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

move more eat less

This.

Consuming fewer calories and burning more off is the only way. You have to be disciplined but you can still cheat every now and then. Count yourself lucky you don't drink.

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Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

From Google

In general, a 155-pound (70-kg) person who walks at 3.5 mph (5.6 kph) on a flat surface for 1 hour can burn approximately 267 calories. If they keep the same speed but walk uphill, they could burn up to 422 calories. As you are heavier the numbers would increase quite a bit. At first to lose pounds will be easy, it will obviosly get harder after a few months.

You get the idea, in the same time you could burn much more calories or travel a much shorter distance to reach your calorie burning goal

Buy an applewatch of fitbit or alternative too!

I would not want to lose more than 2 stone or so

I would look odd

Or odder

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

This.

Consuming fewer calories and burning more off is the only way. You have to be disciplined but you can still cheat every now and then. Count yourself lucky you don't drink.

My diet is the key

It's basically dreadful

Tonight I am having pan fried chicken in mushrooms with spinach

[lincoln blue]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

It's not going to be easy for me mate , it's going to kill me

You can do it and it's not the exercise/dietary changes that'll kill you, it'll be the stroke/coronary/pulmonary embolism or that there gangrene that starts as a wee black spot on one of your toes and creeps slowly up your foot/leg leading to amputation.
YES YOU CAN DO IT! Good luck.

[stan butler]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Just dumbells stan or a barbell ?

Can you get barbells you don't have to add weights to ?

I use dumbells but any kind of workout that gets your heart rate higher is good.. I have a stand up punch bag due to room issues and that gets my heart rate up and burns calories , fat etc..
Fast walking is another.
As i said i use a garmin to track my workouts and it tells me my heart rate has i train so i can up the effort

[welshyoot]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Not much more I can add to the above really.

I'm now 50 but this time last year I weighed around 17.5 stone (I'm 6'2). I've since lost six stone, partly through a change in diet but mainly walking. I'd started going for little walks during lockdown, just to get out of the kitchen and away from the laptop. I was aiming at 8k a day, but now do 20k a day (which is around 7-8 miles). I try to do it in three chunks - early morning pre-work, lunchtime and evening. Finding the right Podcasts has been essential, as once you get into the right one, you forget you're exercising. It's also been great finding new routes, paths, shortcuts etc in and around the area I've lived all my life, that I never knew existed. It can feel like a chore sometimes, either when the weather is bad or when (in my case) you realise at 11pm you've done 19.5k steps and you end up trudging aimlessly around the house for 10 minutes to get to 20k. It has become an obsession, but one that will hopefully be of benefit.

Definitely weigh yourself regularly as with the right diet - I cut out my lifelong favourites such as pasties, pies, sausage rolls and, in particular, crisps - and plenty of exercise, the weight will definitely come off. One note of caution, it may cost you a few quid as I've had to pretty much invest in a new wardrobe for anything that didn't involve my feet!

Good luck

This is great advice. I will try to incorporate more walks- I know I should anyway, but it's helpful to see it laid out. How long would you say each walk takes you (i.e. so you get to the 20k at the end of the day)? Do you use a step counter? Are there any decent ones anyone can recommend? Nothing fancy - just something that records the steps, perhaps connects with the phone but that's not really necessary either.

Here's a podcast which may help with your diet sludge, as you're doing your walking. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00...odes/downloads - listened to most of it recently and have tried to stop all ultra processed food as a result. Have found it quite difficult, but it forces you to cook and take note of what is in your shopping bag/cupboards. It's only been a few days but I was quite shocked at the revelations in the podcast and on looking at the various ingredient lists. Basically the recommendation is to only eat things with ingredients you'd expect to find in a normal kitchen.

was that one of the supermarket stirfry sauce thngs? they are horribly bland

So easy to make a good healthy stirfry as tasty as a takeaway one - probably helps that my wife is from China though.

She eats 4 or 5 cooked meals a day and just doesn't put on any weight - if you believe her this is down to not drinking any cold drinks, and avoiding carbs in the evening.
But then she also genuinely believes that there are ghosts in the house that are making the fridge make a funny noise sometimes, so I'd take that with a pinch of salt.

[stan butler]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Well done , give that man a cigar

Even a stone off would be great and good to know you have shifted a lot just through walking which I know I can stick to

Cheers

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[ninian opinian]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

Not much more I can add to the above really.

I'm now 50 but this time last year I weighed around 17.5 stone (I'm 6'2). I've since lost six stone, partly through a change in diet but mainly walking. I'd started going for little walks during lockdown, just to get out of the kitchen and away from the laptop. I was aiming at 8k a day, but now do 20k a day (which is around 7-8 miles). I try to do it in three chunks - early morning pre-work, lunchtime and evening. Finding the right Podcasts has been essential, as once you get into the right one, you forget you're exercising. It's also been great finding new routes, paths, shortcuts etc in and around the area I've lived all my life, that I never knew existed. It can feel like a chore sometimes, either when the weather is bad or when (in my case) you realise at 11pm you've done 19.5k steps and you end up trudging aimlessly around the house for 10 minutes to get to 20k. It has become an obsession, but one that will hopefully be of benefit.

Definitely weigh yourself regularly as with the right diet - I cut out my lifelong favourites such as pasties, pies, sausage rolls and, in particular, crisps - and plenty of exercise, the weight will definitely come off. One note of caution, it may cost you a few quid as I've had to pretty much invest in a new wardrobe for anything that didn't involve my feet!

Good luck

20k is 12.42 miles per day. No wonder you’ve lost 6 stone, that’s very good mileage

[Gnojek]

Re: It's time to get fitter and shape up ......advice for a salad dodger please

20k is 12.42 miles per day. No wonder you’ve lost 6 stone, that’s very good mileage

Good point. Just realised I forgot to reference the daily 8k and 20k as steps!