The transformation. Hopefully a motivational thread

[Mendip]

No it doesn't.

This looks like a job for Captain Underpants...














No I better not


Count all the calories you are eating. It sounds labour intensive but it isn't if you download an app called myfitnesspal that keeps log so you can easily enter your meals after a while. There's a similar one called Fat Secret.

Fuck most fruit and fruit juice, soft drinks, milk, bread and sugar off, substitute potatoes for pumpkin or sweet potato.

Live on lean meat like chicken breasts, tenderloin steaks and pork Loin with pumpkin and a few veg.

Buy some whey protein, it'll fill you up and take it so you are getting about 100g of protein in you including what you get off meat. Use that as your snacks between meals.

Drink half a litre of water when you wake with a teaspoon of fat burning apple cider vinegar with the mother.
Drink half a litre of water before all your meals, it also fills you up.

Up your workrate on that treadmill to 7k a day with 10kgs in a rucksack. Start with 5. You'll burn even more calories

Buy prunes and eat one for dessert and stevia for your black coffee to sate your sweet tooth.

You'll wanna be eating around 1500 calories to guarantee burning off a kg a week. That app I mentioned will show you how many after you enter weight and height.


As Ant mentioned be careful of fruit, especially ones like mangos that are full of calories.

So my main staples are

For Beeakfast I usually take-
500ml water with teaspoon ACV
Black coffee with stevia
100g strawberries,
100g of blueberries. Get frozen they are cheaper and still contain all nutrients even after freezing
50g of Greek yoghurt
30g of oats
Tablespoon of chia seeds(expand in your gut to fill you up)
More black coffee
Another black coffee and about 8 cigarettes
A shit

Lunch
One of meats mentioned
100g of Pumpkin
Asparagus
Brocolli
Mushrooms
Onions
Spinach
Kale

For Elevenses
Protein shake

For dinner
100g of smoked salmon, tuna is good too or mackerel. (You should be spoiled in the North Sea for fish)
2 boiled Eggs, lettuce.

Supper
Protein shake.

Do some weights in that gym and watch that whey buff you up in no time. Buy some Creatine once you get into it, you'll really feel your muscles popping through then..and relax at weekends.

You should easily lose 7kgs in the first Month sticking to that

It's all about the calories. Look at those old Jews in concentration camp photos.

Stick to it and like me you'll be waking up to a raging boner again, sometimes your own.

Ok, I'm on to it. Thanks for the effort.

Seems I just have to take it all a lot more seriously.

Couple of things, haven't really got a sweet tooth and can't remember the last time I had sugar in tea or coffee, but is a splash of milk really that bad?

Seems odd to avoid fruit, have always tried to eat plenty, but if that's what it takes.

HSE banned fishing on the boats years ago, but there's usually a good selection on Norwegian boats. I probably eat more fish meals than meat meals at the moment.

No idea what I'd do with a morning boner though, at least nothing I'd put in print.

[Dillinger]

is a splash of milk really that bad?

Commit to it for 3 weeks and you'll see a massive.change. The first week you will shift 3kg but it's mostly water.


Cujos diet has worked for him too and seeing the massive gains he made peeked my interest but with me I went into it after failing on a similar diet albeit with minimal exercise and this advice I'm giving you will get you into a lifestyle that is gonna keep it off and where you can still eat what you want and over indulge at weekends . Exercise is a huge factor and all of it combined will give you a new lease of life mate. I can't stress enough how much it'll make you wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

That's enough on the matter from me, pretty sure I've bored the forum enough now with my new found eureka moment of exercise and getting off my arse is some kind of revelation

Get that app and some scales and thank Cujo not me when you see the light and feel like a new man.

As my good Ole dad would say you get out what you put in, unless it's Luigis nob in some diseased African hoe on Suk 15

[Bettyboo]

Usually feel fantastic though, your brain function improves, sleep like a log, no more heartburn, loads and loads more energy. I found I don't need aircon so much now too.
And great fitting back into old clothes and the wife's knickers again

Stop showing off, nobody likes a show off...

Dilly says: "And great fitting back into old clothes and the wife's knickers again"

If it's not a personal question, do you often wear your wife's underwear? That might be considered girly in some parts...

Edit to add some visuals and stimulate the French/Belgian Cottager:

[Dillinger]

Only the crotchless ones, which isn't effeminite so Looper told me

[Saint Willy]

[Bettyboo]

Only the crotchless ones, which isn't effeminite so Looper told me

So if you're going on Looper's advice... you're wearing you wife's high heals while wearing her crotchless knickers.



No photo evidence required.

[Saint Willy]

But his calves probably look fantastic

[Bettyboo]

Whey better than his face anyways...

Only joking Dilly, you are a handsome man!

[Cujo]

I don't have a sore left knee anymore.

I enjoy exercise now which I thought was for weirdos.

Sex is great again after thinking I had erectile dysfunction for a while

And strutting around without that near 10kgs dragging me down is nice. Clothes fit good again now. Just chopped 6 inches off my old belt today which was always a bit long mind.

10 kg? That's awesome.
Great to be fitting back into the old clothes.
The next step is having to go out and buy new ones because now THESE are too big.

[Bettyboo]

10 kg? That's awesome.
Great to be fitting back into the old clothes.
The next step is having to go out and buy new ones because now THESE are too big.

I went out and got two pairs of new work clothes (trousers) today, Cujo. I don't think I'll be making it into the 85 cms in the next 10 days when I'm back at work, so I got two pairs of 91 cms to be comfortable... That's my 85kg weight trousers. I'd quite like to fit back into my 80kg trousers, I hope to kick-start my exercise, sorry I mean lifestyle, efforts again from tomorrow - I might have to join the gym again (it did the trick last time to get me those difficult last few kgs). I needed to lose 12kgs and gave meself 4 months, but 3&1/2 months in I've gone from 8.5kgs lost back up to 7 kgs lost. That bloody Brazilian meal was so tasty it had me on a week long food and no exercise binge...

[Looper]

No cokes, 7ups etc, just the occasional fruit juice

Fruit juice is just as bad as coke. Packed with sugar. Stick to Pepsi Max

In the morning after a pee while completely bollock-o, works.

Best time to weigh in. You might weigh even less after sweating in the garden or the gym for a few hours but 1st thing in the morning is a better true picture of stable minimum weight.

Only the crotchless ones, which isn't effeminite so Looper told me

I had the tables turned on me lastnight when one of the aboriginal sisters put my boxer shorts on when she could not find her knickers.

She put one of her toe rings on me by the campfire. I am not sure if that means we are now engaged according to traditional custom.



Her toes are nearly as long as mine.

I have decided to count the red centre as a separate country on my map-o-teh-world tally...

[Bettyboo]

^ terrible, mate...

[Cujo]

I weigh myself in the morning post piss then go for a 11/2 hours bike ride (35 km) before breakfast. When I get back, have a shower and weigh myself again I find I've lost .8/1kg.

[Looper]

And at the end of the day fructose is still sugar that gets converted to glucose in the body same as sucrose just slower.

You have to learn to see through fruits just like fruit juice. They are prostitutes for the plants' reproduction purposes. They are just as bad as sweeties for loading you up with suger.

Stick to veggies for your high fibre carbs.

I am doing Betty's salmon this week big style.



All bran for my fibre.

I have got a citrus orchard in the garden and I have bought a citrus juicer just to get through all the oranges but they are just as bad as chocolate for loading you up with sugar.

[Cujo]

Yeah, leave those oranges alone, seriously.
Give them to the neighbors.

[Mendip]

I'm not doubting anything you guys are saying, but it seems so strange to have fruit as a bad guy. I knew fruit was rich in sugar, but had no idea how much.

I've spent the last 8 years training my daughter to eat fruit! Feel a bit guilty now.

[AntRobertson]

but it seems so strange to have fruit as a bad guy

I don't agree with it at all really. I think fructose has been caught up in the whole sugar = bad therefore all sugars = bad thing the same way that fats got a bad rap back in the 80's.

To eat enough fruit to sustain harm from fructose would almost be physiologically impossible.

[Farangrakthai]

I've spent the last 8 years training my daughter to eat fruit! Feel a bit guilty now.

Of course, fruit is good for you, and better than fruit juice.


Though, if you are at a normal weight and healthy then have that glass of OJ with breakfast.

[Cujo]

but if you're trying to lose weight, which is what this thread is about, give it a miss.
It does seem counterintuitive but the fact is fruit is very high carb due to the fructose.
admittedly net carbs are not so high due to the fibre, and fruit carries a lot of nutrients, but if you're trying to lose weight keep the fuit to a minimum and give that glass of orange juice, with the equivalent of 3 or 4 oranges worth of sugar and maybe some added for good measure,, a big fat miss.
No one's saying fruit is BAD for you, just that it will hinder your weight loss efforts.

[Farangrakthai]

Cujo, just wondering: How do you figure that Someone eating 1500 calories per day Without fruit will lose more weight than someone eating 1500 cal per day with fruit?

The body needs those 1500 cal per day to function and it doesn’t matter whether they come from a steak or an orange, right?

[Farangrakthai]

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science...on-the-scales/

How long before extra calories show on the scales?

[Cujo]

That's one theory, but it's not that simple and i can't be bothered right now.
If you're REALLY interested google is your friend.

[Farangrakthai]

That's one theory, but it's not that simple and i can't be bothered right now.
If you're REALLY interested google is your friend.

Yep, there are different theories.


Though, like has been mentioned, it really comes down to eating less and exercising more to lose weight and it’s really that simple.

[Cujo]

Yep, there are different theories.


Though, like has been mentioned, it really comes down to eating less and exercising more to lose weight and it’s really that simple.

Yawn.

[Farangrakthai]

it may be the boring truth, but still true, cujo.

though, IMO there's nothing wrong with doing trendy diets like low carb.

everyone finds different ways to lose weight and it's fun to try different things like dillinger's doing.

you can lose weight eating carbs and fruit as part of your restricted calorie intake.

i've done it.

though, some of those trendy diets really aren't good for your overall health, IMO.

this from harvard:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutriti...es-and-fruits/

Cardiovascular disease

There is compelling evidence that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can lower the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Cancer

Numerous early studies revealed what appeared to be a strong link between eating fruits and vegetables and protection against cancer.


Blood pressure

• The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) study[6] examined the effect on blood pressure of a diet that was rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products and that restricted the amount of saturated and total fat. The researchers found that people with high blood pressure who followed this diet reduced their systolic blood pressure (the upper number of a blood pressure reading) by about 11 mm Hg and their diastolic blood pressure (the lower number) by almost 6 mm Hg—as much as medications can achieve.

I've spent the last 8 years training my daughter to eat fruit! Feel a bit guilty now.