I have now lost about 20kg in about 2.5 years. Back into size 10's and feeling great. Over the last couple of months I have started doing some personal training (just once a week but using some of her equipment in my own workouts) to try and tone up / get a bit more definition to my body. Its been a long slow process but everything I'm doing is totally sustainable in terms of amount of training, the food I eat and alcohol!! Still doing karate but after last years 4th Dan grading I'm mostly just teaching this year and helping my son prepare for his junior blackbelt.
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*many weeks pass with chocolate ice cream*
This morning (equiv. week 20) - 83.0kg
Not bad considering I'm still eating rubbish.
Portion size is the killer. And bread. Eating a lot less bread, and eating half as much at meals. Getting very little exercise still, but that's about to change.
Let's get some updates people
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Well done on getting down.
I've gone nowhere, havent been able to get consistency of excercise. Trying a reboot this week.
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Okay, i'm going for a run. I've got a 5km route mapped out along the beach, i've got minipod charging, i've got the mistaken belief I'm going to enjoy it (which usually wears off after the first 100m)
Yikes, 36 minutes. That's 7 minutes per kilometre. I think i was overtaken by Scott Thompson!
Shut up, i haven't been running in at least a year. Knee injury and work impinging on my free time. Oh, and laziness.
Next time will be quicker (hell, i walked half of this one)
Yikes, 36 minutes. That's 7 minutes per kilometre. I think i was overtaken by Scott Thompson!
Shut up, i haven't been running in at least a year. Knee injury and work impinging on my free time. Oh, and laziness.
Next time will be quicker (hell, i walked half of this one)
When you are trying to lose weight. Running longer is better. So speed isnt your issue.
Ok guys bit of advice.
Ive struggled to get a rountine around jogging, largely due to my mornings starting at 6am and genrally finishes at between 8.30 and 9.30 pm.
Im considering a gym membership for a couple of reasons.
Getting uo at 5am i can still get 1/2 hr in regardless of weather and the same goes for evenings.
I believe ill be able to hit the weights late. The other thing is the gym I'm looking at has locations near where i work and my house with showers so i could also go at lunch time.
Most other people have told me im wasting my money but i think in the long run it will be better for me than just trying to jog and two times in a day.
Ive struggled to get a rountine around jogging, largely due to my mornings starting at 6am and genrally finishes at between 8.30 and 9.30 pm.
Im considering a gym membership for a couple of reasons.
Getting uo at 5am i can still get 1/2 hr in regardless of weather and the same goes for evenings.
I believe ill be able to hit the weights late. The other thing is the gym I'm looking at has locations near where i work and my house with showers so i could also go at lunch time.
Most other people have told me im wasting my money but i think in the long run it will be better for me than just trying to jog and two times in a day.
I had a gym membership for a while but between work and kids I never went. I couldn't do the early morning training cuase my husband leaves the house for work before 730 and I need to get the kids to school etc before going to work myself.
If you can find the time to get there it's great.
Between a pretty full on job and the kids I struggled to find time for exercise.
We had an exercise bike and I did a workout on it that my husband found on the internet a few years ago and lost 20kg in about 6 months
It's only 30 mins - 5 mins warm up, 20 mins of 8 second sprint 12 second recovery and then 5 mins cool down.
It's brutal (depending on how hard you work) - the sprint at short enough that they don't exhaust you but the recover is so short that you never recover and by the end you are absolutely wrecked.
It meant doing a relatively short workout at home - which worked for me withr egards to my family.
My husband did it 5-6 times a week and lost 20kg in 6 months
I don't have time to workout that frequently but did it 3 times a week and lost the 20 kg over 2.5 years.
But doing it slowly and not going crazy with the workouts (in terms of frequency etc) I have managed to maintain that regime and keep the weight off.
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I disagree, repeat 400m sprints or other power movements like kettlebell swings will shed fat like nothing else.
not necessarily, but they often can be IMO.
as far as I'm concerned the number one most important thing to get right if you want to start looking after yourself and exercising more is getting your motivation right - and the gym can be harmful there in two main ways as far as I can tell: 1) people use the fact they're paying for a membership as weak, guilt-driven motivation for exercising, and 2) being surrounded by Instagram fitness models and wannabe Schwarzenegger types isn't going to be encouraging for everyone and can distract you from your own reasons for being there.
now they can be very positive environments too, don't get me wrong, but I'm pretty sure the numbers show that a veeeery large proportion fall victim to #1 and eventually stop going entirely.
I'd encourage all beginners or intermediates having trouble staying the course to not gloss over why you're doing this and focus all your attention on developing good habits and self-discipline. There are people everywhere who can help along the way, but only you can do the work.
Undid all my good work from early 2016, can't believe it's been that long. Getting on the wagon again starting today (Tuesday), going to the gym and eating right.
So how are the NY resolutions going lads and Ladies.
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This thread popped up on on my alerts so I thought I'd revisit.
It's been about 18 months since this post and 2 years since I was 90.1kg.
I stuck to that shake diet for the full 30 days and ended up dropping to 79. I feel like it was a good kick-start to a lower calorie diet. I have slowly declined a bit more since then without anything more than being more conscious of portion size and snack frequency.
This morning I was 76.1 though that is a little heavy for me at the moment. Yesterday was my birthday so I had cake and some drinks. for the last few weeks I've been about 75.5.
I personally don't like gyms.
I have found that a power tower is a great piece of equipment that you can do a really good, fast upper body workout on at home, starting out with bands to help and gradually working up to full bodyweight.
For cardio I like interval training, usually running around a 100m distance, with long rest periods at first and gradually reducing them as fitness improves. When I was out of shape a few years ago i did a couch to 5k programme, which was really good, it started out really slowly and gradually built you up.
Also martial arts training is great, there is always a new challenge or kata to learn to keep you interested or practicing for a grading, just need to choose the style that suits you and the right club/instructor.
And the old saying "You can't out exercise a bad diet" is so true.
If it makes you feel better.
Im around the same weight i was 4 weeks before Christmas
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I hit my first goal of under 95kg last weekend.
I'm back over it again, due to the celebrating of the milestone, but will get myself back on the wagon.
Now for a sub 90 weigh-in
So this is me now....
I've had a number of sub-90kg weigh in over the past 12 months. I'm currently weighing in around 70-71kg.
It was a medical issue that has caused this weight loss though, so I don't have any hints or tips for you all - except to say, not eating for 3 months (and just surviving on Sustagen shakes) can do wonders. Whether it's a healthy way, well that's for the doctors to decide
I'm starting to look into getting a PT or the like for some strength training. I'm doing True Grit in April, and need some upper body strength.
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Yeah, i'm anti-gym now. **** those guys.
Spent Xmas eating and drinking. Will weight myself tonight after the cricket.
In positive news, I finished landscaping the hard bits of the front yard, which involved shovelling 1.5 tonne of washed white river pebbles.
...which means i didn't have to hear about "when am i going to do the front yard" anymore*
...which meant i had time to go into the shed
...and clean out the shed so that i could walk from one end to the other**
...and unearth my bench press and other fitness equipment for the first time in a year probably
So, i'm back on the wagon! Looking forward to this immensely. Except for the weighing bit. And the cutting out junk food bit. And no more soft drink, yikes that's going to be tough.
Yup, i've said it before - there's three ways to lose weight
1 - meth
2 - cancer
3 - a healthy diet and plenty of exercise
They're called push-ups and chin-ups.
*also, saves heaps of time from keeping the front yard neat and tidy - because now the ground which grew weeds, has a bunch of rocks instead with a weed mat ain't nothing growing through
** hell, there's even room for my next project - restoring an old wooden set of drawers / mirror thing
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be careful mate, most PT's are just $80+ an hour motivators with a huge financial incentive to keep you dependent on their lousy boxercise routines.
you only need enough space to lie down, a horizontal bar and a good programming resource and you can easily match anything a PT would do for you, provided you're self motivated. The other thing with True Grit is that its much more demanding from a running point of view really. It's more like a 10k with monkey bars than Ninja Warrior.
if you're interested I can point you in the direction of whatever information you need.
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I did Tough Mudder a few years ago with next to no training - jumping into cargo nets & monkey bars were my real weaknesses.
Running isn't much of an issue now - doing weekly Parkrun 5kms to get that going better, plus those mud things you can easily walk between obstacles anyway.
I'll get in touch via PM at some stage though - would appreciate some info. Motivation was an issue, but I'm getting way better at it.
I'm terrible at push ups. Been using an app to help with sit-ups. Gone from a struggle 20 to a struggle 90 now
I took on a contract that resulted in me doing a heap of manual labour for a couple of weeks while I found a worker. Went from 105kgs down to 92 in about 2 weeks. I then broke 90 a couple of months later but put on 2kgs over Xmas. I've joined the gym, just need to get into the routine and get there.
What I like about gyms is that it's only a matter of getting yourself there. Once there, there's no interruptions. At home, there's a hundred things that I should be doing.
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Diabetic Ketosis can strip 30kg off you too in 3 months.
Fairly rare for someone who is type 2 to get it I managed it though.
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Disagree
Interruptions forever at the gym
People finishing a set on a machine, then requiring a ten minute break while sitting on the machine to recover from their 8 reps of 5 kilos bench press
That stupid ****ing music that pipes through... It is not inspirational.
I don't stress that stuff. I just go and do something else, even if it's just 10 minutes on a treadmill. I only go if my day is done and I've got time on my hands. I've been a member for a couple of months but have only gone twice. The only value for money so far has been the 10% discount that I get on food and beverage in the casino/restaurants.
