First Diet.

The Northern Monkey

Anyone tried the Special K challenge thing?
I'm overweight from xmas (still) and i'm detoxing, starting with my diet.

Nutritionally, there isn't anything wrong with eating Special K twice a day but i'm not sure that i can stomach it!

Anyways, i'm gonna give it a go (started today), along with no fizzy drink, alcohol, chocolate or fatty foods.

Gonna try and up my exercise as much as poss, but until next saturday it'll be quite difficult as i don't have my bike with me

Anyone else give any advice/tips of how i can stay on a healthy diet?

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KnightofCydonia

I'm kinda on that diet. I'm eating ab owl for breakfast followed by one of the special k bliss bars which are surprisingly tasty, esp the mint choc & raspberry choc. Then a salad at lunch & a cooked meal, usually chicken & veg, beef stir fry etc at night.

The Northern Monkey

yea i was looking at the bars too
just need to eat healthier and increase m exercise to lose a bit of weight

BlackSpur

The way I see it, that diet just makes you lose weight because you eat less food. There is no way I could survive with 2 meals a day being just a bowl of cereal.

Vivid

A proper diet consists of 6 meals a day not 3 and should be all of similar quantity not two small meals and then a large meal.

The Northern Monkey

Vivid wrote:

A proper diet consists of 6 meals a day not 3 and should be all of similar quantity not two small meals and then a large meal.

no, a proper diet consists of eating an average amount of calories during a day, while providing the body with all the essential nutrients that it requires.

That could be done in 2 or 8 "meals" a day...it doesn't matter as long as your getting your recommended requirements, which can be provided for by eating 2 bowls of Special K and a balanced evening meal.

toasty

I did the cornflake diet for a while, just felt very deflated and craved junk food Getting into a good routine with exercise seems to work better with me, keeps me off the chocolate as I want to get faster as well.

Eating nothing but cornflakes almost felt like a justification for snacking on chocolate, bit backwards.

tlw1

I am currently doing the two bowls of cerial a day, the problem is they are both at breakfast..................

Over the last year I have cut down a lot of the crap I was eating, but can't seem to do the last push I am one of those people who is always hungry, so feel like I am on a diet when I am in fact eating too much!

The Northern Monkey

matthew h wrote:

I am currently doing the two bowls of cerial a day, the problem is they are both at breakfast..................

Over the last year I have cut down a lot of the crap I was eating, but can't seem to do the last push I am one of those people who is always hungry, so feel like I am on a diet when I am in fact eating too much!

well i managed ok yesterday, although I was taken or an Indian by the rents so i didnt start well
But anyways, today is today, i've had a bowl of SPK and i'm pretty full

The problem I have is that I have an incredibly fast digestive system. I'f i'm not doing sport or exercise I have to take tablets to slow it down. So i'm always hungry, but instead of having the self control to wait till dinner, i always eat crap and dinner

I'm on decaf tea now too cut the caffeine completly

Vivid

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Vivid wrote:

A proper diet consists of 6 meals a day not 3 and should be all of similar quantity not two small meals and then a large meal.

no, a proper diet consists of eating an average amount of calories during a day, while providing the body with all the essential nutrients that it requires.

That could be done in 2 or 8 "meals" a day...it doesn't matter as long as your getting your recommended requirements, which can be provided for by eating 2 bowls of Special K and a balanced evening meal.

Nope,

I mean diet as restricting your diet to lose weight.

6 meals a day will increase the metabolism and aid weight loss. Your body is clever, having 2 small meals and 1 large will mean that your body will store more fat as the meals come scarce and small.