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deaneus said:
Breakfast: 1 x ProteinFX Lo-Carb blueberry almond bar

Lunch: 1 tin Greenseas tuna in springwater with 50g cheese

Afternoon Snack: 1 x ProteinFX Lo-Carb blueberry almond bar

Dinner: steak / fish with beans / broccoli

To drink: water. Only water. And beer.

rinse, repeat. there's almost no carbs in there, and my GF has said it's practically a starvation diet... however, for other reasons, IDGAF.

once every three weeks i'll get a large hamburger meal from McDonalds, if I can convince myself to do it. Usually i think about it and get angry and shame myself into eating nothing.
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That's hard to keep going for the rest of your life ......reality is the more you eat, the better, as long as it's the right stuff

I train 5 days a week minimum ......weights, no cardio ......80 % of those who do weights, do it incorrectly ....heavy weights, poor technique & # reps, results in a poor outcome

Best thing i have is an app, called "My Fitness Pal" .....i feed everything in, stick to my calorie budget, which for me is 1500 calories + what i burn in calories in 90 min training ...about 1,800 -1,900 calories all up

Work on 2g of protein per 1lb of weight .....rest is carbs, which isn't much, cause i don't like vegetables much ..........mainly Fish, Chicken, Steak & i struggle to eat to the budget

Running burns fat, muscle, and bone .....weights strengthen your skeletal support & also transport blood around the body, with the anti bodies for the immune system

Doing this does not mean you bulk, just define
 
I'm eating regularly and training regularly. But however, I'm always hungry throughout the day

Breakfast: Oats w/ LSA mix, berries and honey
Snack 1: Fruit / Eggs
Lunch: Some wholemeal sandwich or wrap?
Snack 2: Almonds
Dinner: Chicken/Beef w/veg

Drink: Green Tea and Water

Also is brown rice healthy? Some people believe it isn't? As I would love curry or butter chicken over brown rice
 
Daniel1812 said:
I'm eating regularly and training regularly. But however, I'm always hungry throughout the day

Breakfast: Oats w/ LSA mix, berries and honey
Snack 1: Fruit / Eggs
Lunch: Some wholemeal sandwich or wrap?
Snack 2: Almonds
Dinner: Chicken/Beef w/veg

Drink: Green Tea and Water

Also is brown rice healthy? Some people believe it isn't? As I would love curry or butter chicken over brown rice
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brown is the healthier option

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/brown-vs-white-rice#section2
 

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Daniel1812 said:
Cheers for that! It helps with the hunger with the amount of fiber :)
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Making what they call yellow rice is even better.

The tumeric helps rid your body of free radical and toxins

You can buy your own tumeric and grind it up to mix with the rice as you cook it. Or buy the stuff already ground

For every cup of rice you cook add 1 teaspoon of ground tumeric to the water

You only need eat your brown rice this way, once a week
 
Had my annual blood test done by the doc last week, get the results tomorrow. Blood pressure 110/60, which he said for me was fine. He had my weight from last time (about a year ago), which he said was a tick over 85kg.

I jumped on the scales, and tick tick tick... 75.8kg, fully clothed

Doctor was shocked, and i was happy.

I almost don't care what the results are. I'm not sure. I'm mentally beyond it I think, i'm passing into hithertofore "whatever" land.

Crazy thing is, after diagnosis, i stopped drinking, and ate well, and numbers didn't change. Now, i'm drinking *a lot*, and eating crazy healthy, and the pounds are falling off.

deaneus said:
once every three weeks i'll get a large hamburger meal from McDonalds, if I can convince myself to do it. Usually i think about it and get angry and shame myself into eating nothing.
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I got a large Big Mac meal from McDonalds last week after the blood test. I struggled and couldn't finish it.

Also, was at the pub after a meeting last night when a friend said to me, "Dean, how much weight have you lost? Your clothes don't fit!" and i told them, about nine kilos in three months. She was shocked and another friend asked, "what's your secret, my God i'd love to lose weight" and there was a delicious irony in it.

And yes my clothes don't fit. I'm swimming in the stuff i wear - i'm going out tonight for a pair of business slacks for work.
 
Just found this thread and it's most probably a good time to post in it because I have just started walking and eating better again.

Start weight 153.4
Height 188

Current weight 151.3

Best description would be a Tony Lockett style build

Goal weight 95 (but would be stoked to get to 100kgs)

I have been a yo-yo dieter all my life and my weight has massively fluctuated over the years, I can lose it really easily and quickly but in the end I always seem to get lazy and eventually put it back on and don't do enough to keep it off.

In my early 20s went from about 145 kilos down to 95 and then stayed semi active and sat on about 105 kilos for about 5 years until I met my wife and got comfortable and piled the weight back on.

I then lost weight again about 6 years ago and got down to around 115 but again lost momentum and one thing lead to another and then the weight is back on again.

This time though I am in my early 40s so I'm determined to keep it off this time and stay active.

Glad to see that I am not the only one who weighs themselves using Wii fit, only problem is that I am too heavy at the moment for the Wii fit board to read my weight (have to be under 150 kgs).

Goal 1
Get in the Wii Fit weight range.
 
deaneus said:
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Wow, you've got 10 centimetres on me, but twice my weight!

What's your diet like??
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Previously complete shit.

My biggest problem is that I have way too much sugar because I drink excessive amounts soft drink (which is the biggest problem I have). I could smash 3-4 litres of coke on a bad day (no I am not joking either).

Normally the key for me is cutting out the sugar and going out walking for 60-90 mins a night and I can usually lose weight quickly without too much problem.

I've cut down to 1 cup of cereal in the morning (either just right or fibre plus), either brown rice and tuna or one of those microwave lean cuisine meals at lunch and then a home cooked meal at dinner time. I have also substituted soft drink for green tea, so whenever I have a craving for soft drink I make myself a green tea instead.

I've already lost 2 kilos in the first week and I haven't even started walking yet. Once I start walking I can usually drop 1-2 kilos a week without too much problem.

It's just getting motivated that's the problem and in winter when it's wet and cold it becomes so tempting to come with an excuse not to exercise.
 

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My biggest problem is that I have way too much sugar because I drink excessive amounts soft drink (which is the biggest problem I have). I could smash 3-4 litres of coke on a bad day (no I am not joking either).
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Me too - the petrol station around the corner sells 3 x 2L Woody's lemonades and i could guzzle that all day, so i had to break the caffeine addiction (nearly three years now) and the soft drink addiction (three months now) before i could lose weight seriously.

It was all carbs via sugar, now all i drink is water (and beer). It was one of the last things i needed to do before i could lose weight. Cut out the bread after that and BAM the weight will fall off.
 
deaneus said:
Me too - the petrol station around the corner sells 3 x 2L Woody's lemonades and i could guzzle that all day, so i had to break the caffeine addiction (nearly three years now) and the soft drink addiction (three months now) before i could lose weight seriously.

It was all carbs via sugar, now all i drink is water (and beer). It was one of the last things i needed to do before i could lose weight. Cut out the bread after that and BAM the weight will fall off.
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Let me guess that's an OTR?

They usually sell 3 x 2L (Pepsi/Woodroofe/Schweppes) bottles for $6. They're not refrigerated, but a couple of hours in the freezer and they're good to go.

Trust me a fellow soft drink junkie knows all the spots for a cheap fix !!!!
 
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Let me guess that's an OTR?

They usually sell 3 x 2L (Pepsi/Woodroofe/Schweppes) bottles for $6. They're not refrigerated, but a couple of hours in the freezer and they're good to go.

Trust me a fellow soft drink junkie knows all the spots for a cheap fix !!!!
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Got my results this morning - i cropped unnecessary bits out

Dates across the top, Reference is the range the number should be.

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GGT is Gamma Glutamyl Transferase, obviously (https://labtestsonline.org/tests/gamma-glutamyl-transferase-ggt) and is supposedly a marker for liver disease.

So back in 2015, I was getting very high ALP (Bicks ;) ) & GGT scores, doctor thought i had liver dysfunction; told him about how every other male in my family was an alcoholic, he was very concerned and recommended i not drink anymore. He's on the Liver advisory board for SA or something similar, so of course i'd listen to him.

Oh, sadface.

I did that for a year, and got higher scores, FFS. GGT between 5 and 50?

Cool story bro, i got

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So i spent a couple of years *not* drinking excessively (barring usually the first day of the cricket Test, shut up Hank) like the doctor said, which is heaps less fun... for little to no result.

Finally in late March, i tried a different tack off the back of some other personal issues and radicaly overhauled my diet. I've lost over 10% of my body weight in just fat and went for my yearly disappointment

BAM

All my numbers bar a couple are good, and my GGT has come down to 56 (!!!)

I think i've got another 5 kilos in fat to take off, then i can rebuild in muscle. Once i get to target weight, i'll get tested again and see where i'm at.

So, it was nice. I had a quick cry in the car, GF gave me a hug, came to work. But, i can drink now without thinking i'm killing myself, which is nice. Takes some of the romance out of it though. I *was* leaving the option open for drinking myself to death possibly via self-medicating depression etc, but it looks that much harder now.
 
Glad to see that you got some good news with your test.

I'm too scared to have one like that done :eek:

Alcohol is not a problem for me though as I would only have about five glasses of beer per year, but worried about the toll that years of food and lack of exercise has taken on me.

The only thing that has been tested recently was my blood sugar levels, which surprising are perfectly normal. A guy I work with who is prediabetic thought I was lying, "there's no way that your blood sugar can be normal given the amount of soft drink you have and your weight etc" so he tests my blood sugar and I was 4.8 so that's something positive at least.
 
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According the local legal drug dealer (gp) I am obiece.

After working hard over summer I put in weight. Mostly upper body as in my teenage years I lived on a farm and did alot of manual labor. But according to my height I was above the bmi level

I laughed at him as i take a 32 jeans and medium jumper.

I was eating alot of Asian food living and working in the cbd. The asain food courts had very cheap meals that provided all the nutrition you need

The extra ten kilos I put on came from fuic. Work meant my sleeping was rare and short. So I needed the caffine from the fuic strongs

Also partied hard with workmates and clients living in the cbd. Lots of pizza late at night from an amazing joint in Chinatown. Lots of Cooper's red

Lost it all now. Got the upper body weight ripped with swimming and mountain bike riding.

Adrenaline charged exercise gets the weight of quicker. If your heart can handle it. Catching the train to belair with the pushy then riding trails to mitcham a thrill for an adrenaline country boy junky.

My breakfasts are two cups of coffee with organic milk and honey followed by protien shake bananas and strawberries

According to Chinese medicine this is exactly what my body needs in the morning

As I get older my digestive system slows so breakfast is critical. I take a good hour having this breaky. Giving my body time to cope.

The honey feeds my brain and relaxes the stomach. The coffee powers my body as it digests. The protien kick starts the metabolism. the bananas supply complex carbs the strawberries fast carbs

Organic milk the best form of carbs but expensive and as I get older harder to digest

Body looking good
 
Updates people?

I still can't get to 100 pushups.

Last night it was 50, 2 minute rest, then 30 cheat pushups, 1 minute rest, then 20 cheat pushups, and Flying Spaghetti Monster it hurt by the end.

Diet the same. I'm sitting in jeans right now that don't fit, with a belt on the last hole that needs another two i think. Will try and weight myself tonight and see what it says.

Made a friend a few months ago, she gave me running tips - she's 5'5" or so, would blow over in a stiff breeze, and she gave me running tips - from back when she use to train muay-thai in Thailand of course (?!?! one of those, you'd never expect it, people can be crazy interesting - she demonstrated her spinning elbow on me after a few drinks and nailed it, so i believe her)

So anyway, went running using her tips last Saturday - 5km in 29m10s, first time under 30m in... at least five years, easy.
 
deaneus said:
Updates people?

I still can't get to 100 pushups.

Last night it was 50, 2 minute rest, then 30 cheat pushups, 1 minute rest, then 20 cheat pushups, and Flying Spaghetti Monster it hurt by the end.

Diet the same. I'm sitting in jeans right now that don't fit, with a belt on the last hole that needs another two i think. Will try and weight myself tonight and see what it says.

Made a friend a few months ago, she gave me running tips - she's 5'5" or so, would blow over in a stiff breeze, and she gave me running tips - from back when she use to train muay-thai in Thailand of course (?!?! one of those, you'd never expect it, people can be crazy interesting - she demonstrated her spinning elbow on me after a few drinks and nailed it, so i believe her)

So anyway, went running using her tips last Saturday - 5km in 29m10s, first time under 30m in... at least five years, easy.
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Might need this tip :)
 
deaneus said:
Updates people?

I still can't get to 100 pushups.

Last night it was 50, 2 minute rest, then 30 cheat pushups, 1 minute rest, then 20 cheat pushups, and Flying Spaghetti Monster it hurt by the end.

Diet the same. I'm sitting in jeans right now that don't fit, with a belt on the last hole that needs another two i think. Will try and weight myself tonight and see what it says.

Made a friend a few months ago, she gave me running tips - she's 5'5" or so, would blow over in a stiff breeze, and she gave me running tips - from back when she use to train muay-thai in Thailand of course (?!?! one of those, you'd never expect it, people can be crazy interesting - she demonstrated her spinning elbow on me after a few drinks and nailed it, so i believe her)

So anyway, went running using her tips last Saturday - 5km in 29m10s, first time under 30m in... at least five years, easy.
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The secret is to exercise and eat what you enjoy .... but in a structured way

I’m now have a 3 pack ..... aiming for 6 pack early next year

Hasn’t always been this way .... was obese in that I had 30% fat content
My theory in exercise was to exercise, so I could eat what I wanted ..... I was a failure

I’m now professionally trained ... used to run, but now aware of the joint stress & I don’t want a knee or hip replacement
Plus weight training is far better & the calories burn a lot longer

You can’t diet, as it simply doesn’t last .... I eat heaps, but mostly protein
Best thing I got was “ my fitness pal” app .... but most can’t have the discipline to use it

I have a junk day a week... once you start soft drink, it’s really hard to stop ... caffeine addiction, but I find a cup of tea can take away the cravings

But weight training has so many benefits
 
The belt test is a good indicator . I have slipped a hole this week. Its a good incentive.

I no longer run , or choose to run, there is another bus and train somewhere , but walking helps. Now the better weather is here I shall be walking more.
 

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