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Highway Taxi
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Brisbane
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[QUOTE=Gauntster]Mate you have to have carbs, main source of energy, the less refined the better ie: rolled oats, potatos(not fried and definately not hot chips!), sour dough bread or whole meal if you can't find the other, whole meal pasta, etc.
The idea is to have the majority of your carbs in the morning and at lunch eg: two thirds of your breakfast should be carbs the other third is protein. The opposite at dinner eg:one third carbs(mainly from vegetables), two thirds protein. The main idea is to keep your blood sugar level down, intake as little as possible in the way of sugar(as you have pointed out). A simple exercise and eating program would be something like this: Portion sizes may vary with the individual! I agree with most of the above but carbs after 12 noon is detrimental! You need high protein as the body increases its metabolism dramatically to absorb it. Stay away from white carbs, eg bread, rice, it comes down to their GI index ( blood sugar level)( sweet potatoes one of the best). It is true to exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach as your body is still burning energy whilst asleep. Equivalent to an engine idiling over. At this stage your body has burnt all the (muscle glyogen) stored carbohydrates & you will be burning pure fat!, just wait an hour after your exercise in the morning & you will burn even more. If you want to pig out do it in the morning, your body then has the whole day when you metabolisim is at a higest to burn it. Go for the high protein eating plan, it has been a known fact for years from body builders & fitness fantactics & only now has it come into vogue by all the high profile stars using it. Ensure you drink a lot of water which helps metabolise fat & take a multi vitamin plus vitamin c every day, Yes vitamin c the most common & underated vitamin. Creatine Monohydrate is good but works better with a lot of water & you must drink it with juice etc, something with a high Gi to absorb it quick, you will also have to avoid durietics (coffee, coke ) etc to get the maximum effect. Finally weights & cardio! do your weights first & then do cardio after. After a weights workout you have burnt all the muscle glyogen & then you do cardio, same as morning routine, pure fat burnt! Enough rambling good Luck!
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Okay, i've been riding to work the past two days... this rocks, enjoying it immensely. However for a long time i've been on a fairly calorie controlled diet my general day consists of the following:
* 1/2 a cup of skim milk on two weat bix hi-bran at home, then a coffee with skim milk at work. * Lunch would usually vary between noodle box (or similar), sushi, sandwich and a diet soft drink (usually diet coke vanilla or sprite zero) * Dinner would usually be a calorie controlled meal from "Lite n' Easy". I'd be drinking about 2 litres of water a day as well. So thats about 1000 - 1200 calories a day. Now i'm riding to work, it's only about 8km and takes about 20minutes, however I am absolutely ravenous. I'm drinking up to 5 litres of water in day now in an attempt to curb the hunger but by 11am it's all out war for me to take lunch. So i eat my regular sort of lunch. And then i'm hungry again at 3pm. Dinner at about 7pm, and then by 9pm i'm starving again. I know I am now well and truly burning more than 1800 calories a day (got a Polar heart rate monitor). So this obviously explains it, has anyone else experienced this? and how did you combat it? I'm thinking some nibbles like nuts or something similar but the cravings are for lots of food - like muffins or anything with some real mass. What suggestions do people have for these cravings?
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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A larger meal with a longer break in between will be stored as fat and not burnt off as well as if your body is eating regularly and smaller portions. Does that make sense? Also if you need to snack, raw Almonds and Brazil nuts are great, full of protein and essential oils. |
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Bring back the Phase
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, Vic
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I'm eating well I wouldn't call it crap it's just less crap than the real thing for example... instead of eating biscuits i'm eating these fat free corn chips which are suprisingly addictive but even if I eat half the packet it's only 5 grams of fat instead of 20 or so.
By doing this i'm losing about .6kg per day on average with a perfect day but alcohol is hurting my progress hehe. Mentally though 80kg for me is my next goal and i'm not stopping till I get there, only 6kg more to go |
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XR6 and XR8 Club of QLD
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gladstone, CQ
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I have breakfast at 7:00am, smoko at 10:00am, lunch at 1:00pm, an afternoon snack at 4:00pm, tea at 7:00pm and maybe a snack at 10:00pm. I feel that I am always eating, so it never once feels as though I am on a diet or anything. I never crave for anything (don't really go for 'health foods' just smaller meals) and I have lost weight constantly. This, combined with regular exercise (1 hour every 2-3 days) has been great for me. As with the majority of people in this thread, I don't want to look like Arnie, just lose some fat and tone up a bit. I don't do it so that other people will say 'gee you look good', I do it so that I think 'gee I feel good'. My only regret is that I didn't find out this sort of information when I was 18. Panda
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
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One diet you don't do (which I did...my own diet)
8 slices of toast a day with 2 glasses of milk and 3 laps around the block for 3 weeks....it' called hard diet and in my case it got the better of me. I was 100kg then i got down to 85kg and then I soured to 110kg where I stand now.... I really need to get back on diet (but a proper one) I getting heart pains and getting head spins because i eat too much junk food. One the hard diet when I got down to 85kg I felt extremely happy, and I was more open with myself... not now though. If I was a smoker I can gurantee I would be a skinny bastard, I mainly eat of bordem and if smoke was my source for enjoyment i'd be thin.... last month I was goin to see how smoking was but backed out.. I rather die an old man not a young man. |
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#248 | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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Well I just got out of hospital. I was in for 2 and a 1/2 weeks for pnumonia plus other complications and Im down to 68.4kg. Now I'm still recovering and I dont suggest this is at all the best way to lose weight, but effectively I have surpassed my weight goal. In total I have lost 22kg from when I have started. Now I must get back to bed!
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#251 | ||
Bring back the Phase
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, Vic
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ok i'm close to my target weight but after losing so much I still have a bit of toning to do to get rid of a bit of excess skin before I lose the last 5-10kg.
Just wondering if anybody had the same problem and how did you go bout it. |
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#252 | ||
Just Super Happy now :)
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane
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I started a diet/exercise regime on Tuesday, since then I've lost 1.5kgs, 6cm around my waist, 4 cm off my bust (nooooooooooooooooo) and 3cm off my thigh... My current aim is to loose 5kgs before I go to Victoria at the end of the month! Long term aim is to loose 15 kgs by my birthday in March!
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#253 | ||
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I need to lose some weight ... Bec wants to as well ... I think i am going on a diet ... seeing as she does the cooking ... I am forced on a diet ... LOL
Anyway our wedding is in 9 months time ... so we are starting now.
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#254 | ||
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Airlie Beach
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I think it is great that every one is concerned about their health enough to watch what they are eating,however,watching your weight go up or down is like doing a dyno run,an indicator only.dont get to caught up with the scales.IMO only, the true test is pant/skirt size.with doing weights, as already mentioned,you will gain muscle mass(weight) and could take that as a bad sign because the scales tell you so.measure body size and do pinch test of body fat for the true test of body size and let the scales be an indicator only.
this is only my thoughts and by saying this I congratulate all who are trying to get in shape. eating bad food is like smoking...a hard habit to to break! well done to all.
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I gots me a UTE
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Eyre Peninsula, SA
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Is it too late to join in, i want to loose weight, but am un-motivated at the moment
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Just Super Happy now :)
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane
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tis never too late to join in!
Update for me: after 1 week Ive lost 2kgs, 5cm bust, 7cm waist, 6.5 thigh & finally some movement in my hips .5cm...heheheh
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Well since starting cycling to work just before christmas I weighed myself. 87kg.
I'm now just under 85kg. I haven't changed my eating primarily because my habits are fairly good. My prime aim is to lose a little bulk around the legs and thats happening... also to trim the fat on the upper half of my body. So i've bought one of those inflatable balls, doing for doing situps on (getting onto the carpet hurts and the dogs jump on me to play). And i'm doing some free arm weights as well. I'm happy with 85kg, 82kg would be excellent, but I want to focus on losing the fat so i'm making sure with my cycling that i'm doing a high rpm rather than cranking along in a high gear. Just keep spinning!
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Adelaide
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Just an update, I have maintained my weight at 70kg's without having to do any excercise. But that could be due to the fact that I am still unwell. I have a bit of excess skin hanging around, and when Im up to doing physical excercise I'll start up some toning routines to firm up. I still want to get ripped eventually but I guess I got to look at first things first.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: in good 'ol WA
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im 5"9 and weigh 75kg. im into doing weights but havnt for a few weeks because im visiting my mum in sweaty stinky hot qld and dont have my dumbells :( ,the BMI says im at a healthy weight but my ideal is 67 kg. although i would prefer to be bigger (stocky) like not fat big but big and be healthy which i am. so ive got a good template body and just need to tone up now, which i have been since ive hit my teens (16) as i used to be podgy.
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Just Super Happy now :)
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane
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Well after 13 days I've lost a total 3.3kgs, 10cm off waist, 7cm off hips (finally some real loss there) 5cm off bust & 6.5 off thigh....not bad going...my goal is 5kgs by Australia day so my goal is well in reach!
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: VIC
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I've lost 8kg's all up. slowly but surely. My aim was 10 by heathcote.. not going to happen i dont think. 8 weeks into a personal training program.
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It is hard...
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Hell, I'm joining. I think I'll post a bit more when I'm more organised.
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I gots me a UTE
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Eyre Peninsula, SA
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Well, I started the old weight watchers idea again. My boyfriend is joining me too. I am currently ashamed to tell my weight but i will build up the guts to let you all know...
I am planning on losing 16kg... it will be a long hard jouney, but i want to look hot at my wedding in a few years time...
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Giddy up.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Kramerica Industries.
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Well my trainning schedule is going to plan, I've been doing a bit off weight trainning for 3 month's now and I've put on 12kg's, so I'm happy with that, I'd like to put on another 6-7kg, but it's getting harder, the main key is to eat the right food's, high protein, carb's.
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Howdy,
if you want to lose weight this is all you have to do. With discipline stop eating or drinking anything with sugar and or white flour products or white rice. So, no coke etc., cordial, alcohol, sugar in tea, you should really stop coffee also. Only wholemeal or similar flour and grains. Basically anything processed to a certain degree is no good. Instead of white bread eat wholemeal, rye etc, don't eat white rice eat brown or better, don't eat cakes unless wholemeal and don't eat white spaghettis or noodles eat any of the other varieties, preferably organic, which many are. Cut down on meat and substitute with veggies and or fish. Bottom line just don't put white flour products or sugar products in your mouth. You will lose weight. Add exercise once comfortable with new eating habits and you will go from a clapped out Camry to a balanced XR8. |
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hunting 300kw's
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bendigo
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i've been trying to gain weight for the last 12 months and it hasn't worked in fact i lost 3 kgs i think i'm under th BMT thingy 5'11 62kg |
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I gots me a UTE
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Ok masters24,
good luck with it whatever you do. And don't forget you can lead by example with the two blokes you live with.You might be surprised at their responses when you start to achieve visible results ![]() Remember, white flour and sugar are your enemy. Otherwise, have fun! |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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I've now lost 3kg since Christmas just by riding to work every day. I've started on a longer route to and from work, started out doing 9.4km each way, now i'm doing 15km each way. Also riding 50km Sundays.
Though i'm a little concerned that cycling is going to get boring, so Saturday mornings i'm going to ride 3km to the local YMCA fitness center with a pool, and do some swimming for about 30 minutes or so. Only about $5 for a swim and a locker so not too bad. Quote:
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Giddy up.
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