How am I still 16st?
DonDaddyD
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OK I've always been a bit on the heavy side. As is my brother who is infact incredibly healthy and plays sports several times a week. My father is also a weighty Man and he keeps himself fit.
I was about 15st from about 16yrs old until my mid 20s where I seemingly put on a stone. So my weight has always been cosistent.
Currently I'm just above 101kg to be exact. Despite eating smaller portions throughout the day and cutting, dramatically, the takeaways and alcohol I used to eat with stuff I can barely pronouce i'm still a solid 16st.
I've had blood tests to check cholesterol, this led me to riding a bike. Generally I feel healthier and stronger and some clothes aren't as tight - like today I'm wearing trousers that were too tight for me 3yrs ago - but I am still 16st and I cannot understand or explain it.
I was about 15st from about 16yrs old until my mid 20s where I seemingly put on a stone. So my weight has always been cosistent.
Currently I'm just above 101kg to be exact. Despite eating smaller portions throughout the day and cutting, dramatically, the takeaways and alcohol I used to eat with stuff I can barely pronouce i'm still a solid 16st.
I've had blood tests to check cholesterol, this led me to riding a bike. Generally I feel healthier and stronger and some clothes aren't as tight - like today I'm wearing trousers that were too tight for me 3yrs ago - but I am still 16st and I cannot understand or explain it.
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Same here really......
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I've only dropped 5kg in the last three years, but I've lost 7" on my waist size and my body fat scales no-longer think I'm a cheeseburger.
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Element of truth here. I'm going to get a note pad and write down exactly what I eat and when. I need to get my intake undercontrol.
Thing is the doctors say I should be about 12st given my height. I don't think I would look healthy. 14st sure 13st would be ideal.
How do you measure body fat?
Also in MMA I'm in Clever Pun's weight class... just saying. :twisted:
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There's your answer - or a large part of it anyway. I'm skinny, my brothers are tall and skinny, my dad is tall and skinny, his dad was on the thin side. It's yer jeans innit.
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There are three things in life that are certain - death, taxes and the fact that my weight is a constant......
This. I started jogging last summer and the pounds flew off. I stopped just before christmas and despite cycling a fair bit, put the weight back on.
Also pies. I love em.
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I've noticed that one's body doesn't seem to know that you don't need to eat as much if you sit in an office all day. I spend most of the day hungry and my weight stays pretty even.
Now I've started doing this I've reliased just how many calories I was consuming before I started tracking them. :oops:
Chris
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I always seem to go quicker when I've eaten an Avacado at lunchtime.
Chris
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I take it he consulted the famous BMI chart that assumes everyone conforms to one body shape?!
Having seen you in the flesh once, I would agree you'd be emaciated if you were 12st. Around 14st sounds healthy for your build and height. As everyone says - eat less, exercise more. However not as easy to do in practice, particularly when it comes to food intake. We get used to consuming a certain amount of food every day. When we cut back on that amount, our stomaches don't feel full and the hunger pangs kick in. It takes a few weeks for your body to adjust to consuming less calories each day, but persevere and you'll find yourself needing and wanting less to feel full. Just eat healthily and don't go down the route of a full blown diet. Diets just makes your body work against you and most people fail to stick to these programmes for long.
There are various methods for measuring body fat, some more accurate than others. Cheapest way is to stand naked in front of a mirror and jump up and down. The bits that wobble when they shouldn't are where you've got excess fat!
This is definitely not true. If you look at studies of basal meabolic rate, people with obesity are consistently shown to have higher BMR than those who are normal or slim.
Weight loss is actually a very simple matter: Less energy in than you expend and you will definitely lose weight, impossible for anything else to happen. This is simple thermodynamics, you cannot create energy out of nothing.
Consume more energy than you expend and you will gain weight.
you might be trimmer but weigh more
we've discussed this before...
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Well, having too many simple carbs and sugars will decrease insulin resistance making it harder to shift fat, particularly the love handles and the spare tyre. Complex low GI carbs also fill you for longer.
Similarly you need fat in your diet, but of the right kind (avocado being a good example).
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Friends think I eat LOADS, but I only put food to my face at 3 times during the day. Breakfast - lunch -dinner.
No cookies, no bars, no crisps, fruit (unless it's part of said mean)etc.
Sure I can have a cookie from time to time and I do, but time to time is not everyday.
It does mean i can stuff my face with food I really like at meal-times, rather than censored .
Additionally it's not your weight but your body composition that counts. If you're all muscles then you will weigh more than a person of identical volume but fat.
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On the other hand, I am almost always eating, generally having breakfast before I leave home and them again when I get to work. Lunch 1 is at around 11.30 and lunch 2 is at around 2.30. I'll then have something (like porridge) at around 4-430 to set me up for the trip home.
Eating a little and often can change your metabolism and reduce the amount of calories your body chooses to store between meals (since there isn't much time between meals).
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Chris
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It is if you're also strict with your diet, but my guess is the OP isn't. Not being horrible, just honest. I've studied sports nutrition my whole life and I see this all the time. If you really want to lose the weight you have to be honest about what you're eating and drinking. Fast food and alcohol contain loads of useless calories..e.g. you're probably looking at something like 160 calories in one large glass of red. 2 or 3 of those plus a bit of junk food here and there and the calories will shoot up.
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There are way too many carbs in most people's diets. And, I hate to say this, but probably more so in cyclists diets. We are constantly told that carbs are "fuel" but unless you're running a marathon every day the chances of you running out of glycogen stores are pretty minimal. Carbs can be used as an emergency top-up, but there's no real need to gorge on them before or after riding to "refuel". Make sure the nutrition you get from your carbs is top notch - they are generally a huge source of empty calories. Personally I now eat according to the 'Primal Blueprint' (Google it!) which espouses cutting out all grains, but I appreciate that's probably too extreme for most.
So if you're eating fewer carbs, what's going to stop you from feeling ravenous? The answer, deliciously, is fat. Fats have been demonised by the food industry, but the right ones are just what your body needs. Animal fats good, fish fats good, coconut oil good, butter (grass-fed) decent, olive oil decent, other vegetable oils bad, hydrogenated (trans-) fats terrible.
Exercise
Focus on fat burning stuff, like moderate and long exercise or high intensity sprint sessions, and weights.
Sod metabolism - it's ultimately just about calories in versus calories out. Fat people eat a lot, thin people don't. Metabolism is a secondary issue, and a small one at that.
1) Food diary.
2) Weighing scales, weigh yourself every week and put in a chart.
3) You must eat breakfast.
4) Snacks must be fruit.
If you're not loosing weight calories in = calories out. In order to change this you can do more exercise or take less in (or best of all both).
People tend to loose more weight jogging but they also get injured more. You can do a lot more volume cycling without damaging yourself. 1/2 hr jogging > 1/2 hr cycling in terms of calories.
Good luck!
You can't really alter your basal metabolic rate (at least not by much) some people as simply lucky like that.
That's not necessarily true. The thing is with cycling, it's very easy to take it easy and still get somewhere. You can freewheel at the slightest downhill and pedal gently on the flats. Obviously if you run, you pretty much have to go at a fairly intense pace or yuo're just walking! Personally I burn loads of calories through cycling but then I pretty much go at hell for leather pace on every ride. I NEVER take it easy.
I think many people buy bikes to cycle to work at an average speed of 10mph and assume they will be able to eat cakes all day and the weight will still fall of like a bride's nightie. Not saying that this is DDD but many people do fall into this category......
I'd be bloody petrified if I were you
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So basically, eat lots of meat? I'm liking this diet.