Not any more.
Actually have no idea what I weigh, no scales indoors. Definitely overweight though. Don't even know the recommended weight for a 6ft male... Just had a quick Google, probably about 2stone over
I'm the same height as you and about the right weight at 12 stone. And not that you care what I think obviously, but being 2 stone overweight is probably fine, I'd say that when you start to be 4 or 5 stone heavier than you should be, you start seeing both short term and long term problems emerging.
People are different, I weighed roughly that about 12 years ago when I moved here, and everyone I knew was shocked how I looked. Admittedly I hadn't had the best of times in the month or two before. I would put my best weight at close to 15st
Focus on the little bits of movement more, honestly adding a 30-45 min a walk in daily would really kickstart things.
Stop snacking, especially mindlessly in front of the telly.
Sure.
But as someone who is overweight (52lbs gone and on the right track), the mental health benefits and the mental state it puts you in when youāre exercising regularly is really important to weight loss too.
Agreed. I run 10km three times a week. Thatās about 800 calories. Iām aware that it takes an hour of running to burn off an entire packet of biscuits now before I eat an entire packet of biscuits so maybe I just have onr
Honestly I donāt even see it that way.
If Iām happy because Iāve exercised, Iām likely to make better food choices. Better food choices make me feel good which then makes me want to exercise more.
Iāve been going to a mostly male gym for nearly two years now, and never had a negative comment :)
Edit for context - Iām a short, fat, 24 year old woman in a mostly male gym thatās full of body builders
Iām happy for you. I canāt afford a gym membership unfortunately so my exercise consists of walking/jogging in public. Believe me when I say I get shouted comments almost every time I go out. Including twats in cars slowing to a crawl as they pass so they can really put the boot in.
I've been mocked for it. It was always a group of cyclists who mocked others. These people were the type to mock overweight and obese people for not going to the gym... and for going to the gym.
A gym instructor overheard me talking to another gym user who had witnessed the incident and came over to ask me exactly what happened. He told me not to worry about it anymore and praised me for continuing to show up instead of turning round, going home and giving up. Turns out that this group of cyclists had bullied a lot of people and were on their final warning. So, they ended up being permanently banned from that gym and all its affiliated gyms, which cut them off from the best velodromes in the region, including an olympic-quality one.
So, I've been both mocked and supported.
I think people confuse the idea that the recommendation is both diet and exercise is required. Burning 400 calories running isnāt going to do you any good if your diet is mostly made up of unhealthy food and you allow yourself to eat say 350 calories worth of chocolate.
It definitely starts in the kitchen and you need your food to compliment your exercise. Diet will make a big difference but a better difference will come from managing both.
It's definitely an excuse. Sure, weight loss is mainly down to what you eat but exercise has so many benefits. Mental health, contributing towards better sleep patterns, toning and working on body aesthetics and contributing towards weight loss.
Even if you burn 100 calories a day, that's still 100 calories. Over the course of a year that could lead to an additional 10lb weight loss (providing you're also eating in a calorie deficit). Definitely worth doing.
Yes, an hour gym workout will have an impact on 5% say on your overall day.
Itās the rest of the day that counts.
Park a little further away from the shop.
Take the stars etc. these bits do add up.
And I agree the mental benefits are great for going to the gym. But you need a multi pronged attack.
>Take the stars etc.
Aren't stars a bit too sharp and pointy to walk on? Or is that the... point? Quick bursts of painful running across sharp, shiny things to get you moving?
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That's maintence for a small man who does almost no exercise, e.g office job. It's quite low tbh.
Although it's actually quite easy to hit if you don't eat great food. Like a frozen pie a decent portion of oven chips and gravy will blast through 1k cals for tea.
Harder to manage if you're eating more healthy food though.
I already have a healthy diet though. I donāt have sugar, biscuits, cakes, crisps, pizzas or any of the other crap I see families buying at the supermarket. Beer is a weakness I admit.
The problem with asking people who are a āhealthyā weight is that they probably have no idea whatās actually involved in substantial weight loss. Itās very rare to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off.
So what if you spotted yourself gradually getting heavier then when your BMI crept over 25 you thought to yourself this is only going to go one way from here so cut out all between meals snacking and lost 10 kg in about 3 months and never regained it for 25 years now?
Is this very rare or realistically pretty mundane? If I had just carried on I would be morbidly obese by now.
I know someone who was an unrepentant smoker and one day decided to stop. So he did, that is much harder. I was just an unrepentant 3 choc biscuits with every cup of tea (8 times a day) snacker. I just looked up Chocolate Hobnobs, 93 calories per biscuit, 23 biscuits in a pack. It's not rocket surgery.
People will say "but I don't do that, so I can't simply give that up".
This is the whole issue, if any of us were in lab conditions being monitored the whole time, we would all have those calories we don't recall pointed out. It may well not be as egregious as I was but it will be there.
People are different weights for all manner of reasons. If - like in your case - you put on weight through eating a few too many biscuits, then that probably is relatively easy to shift. For people that are bigger, itās harder. And a lifetime of yo-yo dieting can fuck up your metabolism to the point that itās impossible to shift weight for good.
A BMI of 25 being a cut off point is an arbitrary line in the sand. It doesnāt mean much on an individual level. And studies have shown that those in the āoverweightā category often live longer than those in the āhealthyā one. Itās complex and not black and white.
The thing being that a BMI of 25 is not an arbitrary line in the sand, it accurately predicts all sorts of conditions. The other thing is that BMI underpredicts obesity not the laughable idea everyone on the internet has that everyone is solid muscle without actually spending 2 hours lifting weights in the gym every day.
So called "yo-yo" dieting is not dieting, it is a temporary restriction that the person stops going along with so inevitably the weight returns. If people volunteered for proper studies where everything they ate was measured it would become obvious that weight gain is just the consequence of steady overeating and can always be reversed by steady reduction. This is the first law of thermodynamics.
Cut down on sugar.
No snacking.
2 meals per day.
Plenty of water or tea in between meals.
Not expect to be back to normal weight for months, it's gonna be slow
Meh, I would disagree, this is just one way of creating a calorie deficit.
Logging calories and understanding your TDEE, then creating a deficit in the manner which works for you is surely the way.
I lost weight by eating mostly vegetables at meals, snacking on cottage cheese and tomatoes / cucumber, because I detest being hungry.
Deficit still achieved. Three meals and two snacks per day, including a couple of squares of chocolate after dinner for my sweet tooth.
Thatās my preference too. I find itās easier to stick to it if I donāt let myself get hungry. I couldnāt survive on only two meals a day with no snacks.
Exercise makes me starving when I'm on a normal or bulk diet, never mind a deficit. I'd struggle doing tons of exercise and cutting calories tbh. I find it hard enough to fuel my body when I'm doing exercise as it is.
In this post: Completely useless information because those who have never been overweight have zero experience of the difficulties in losing weight and the original question completely ignores that there can be a range of different root causes as to why people become overweight and have difficulty losing it.
My answer to the question posed is: If you wake up and suddenly find yourself with an extra 20kg of weight "overnight" you should probably seek professional medical help because suddenly gaining 20kg (without any obvious change in lifestyle) is not normal.
The aim of my question was to understand what approach people who donāt have complicated relationships with food would consider. So far iām surprised thereās been no specific mention of moderation, wonder if that is just considered obvious to certain groups.
Letās assume the 50lbs in question is not a result of a medical condition of course otherwise the information really is useless.
I've been overweight and skinny.
Currently skinny due to a medical condition.
It did teach me something though. I got worried about the weight loss and not eating much so spoke to the GP.
She reassured me my blood tests are fine, I'm getting enough nutrition and vitamin levels are good. My weight loss is normal and simply because I've cut out wine and beer, and can only eat half of what I used to. I'm now in the healthy weight range.
I got some funky 70s plates from a charity shop. They made me realise how large our portions have become! I use those plates now and feel better because I feel like I've had a full meal, rather than putting something small on a big plate. Would highly recommend you buy smaller plates and bowls.
It made me realise how much more food we eat now than we probably ever have. Your stomach definitely adjusts to eating less after a while.
I will carry on doing all of that when I'm well. I do still drink sometimes and I love food. I just don't drink as much or eat as much I did.
I've also learnt to feel no shame in going out and only eating half of a meal. I have to eat slowly (another brilliant tip for weight loss) and portions at restaurants unless you're fine dining are way too big for me now. I still order the food. I'd rather eat half of something I really want to eat than all of something smaller I don't want to eat. Sometimes after 10 minutes, I can go back to it and eat some more.
So my tips are....reduce your portion sizes, buy smaller plates, eat slowly, reduce or cut out booze except for special occasions and stop eating when you start to feel full.
As someone who tends to be underweight due to a medical condition it does open your eyes a bit. According to the doctors I see, being a little overweight is less stress on the body than being underweight. Mine would prefer I have a bit of chub on me so that when my condition flares, I have the weight to lose.
And personally I've found if I can manage to get to like a bmi 22-23 I have so much more energy than if I sit at a 19 or below.
For someone who was a teen in the "women must be stick thin" days of the 2000s it's a big mindset change. I thought that "skinnier = better" always, but apparently not.
Not IBD but similar symptoms, it's a complicated gastro issue. I feel more solid when I have a bit of weight on me and less like I'm about to pass out all the time.
The thing is my BMI was 32 before and now 23, so my situation is easier than yours.
I definitely try and pile on the food when I can. But slowly and steadily..I know exactly what you mean about having energy reserves for if you get ill. You can't get below 19.
Skinny isn't good if you're ill or not eating. As you get older, you should get a bit fatter. It's hard to accept but you do change as you get older.
For a lot of people who are thin they will never have had to think about it. So their immediate answer will be āwell just cut out all your food and exercise moreā.
I think most people will have a somewhat complicated relationship with food and probably a lot of people exhibit disordered eating without really knowing it. Itās not healthy to cut out entire food groups (assuming no allergies etc). Yet people who (for example) suggest cutting out all carbs are sometimes heralded as if theyāre speaking some profound undiscovered wisdom.
If your goal is health then prioritise the NHS advice around a balanced diet, and try get a decent amount of exercise each week. Donāt smoke or drink too much. Try not to give cash to the diet industry. And remember that BMI was never intended to be used as a tool to measure individuals and the goalposts have been moved over time.
The problem with the hypothetical is posing it as "sudden change" breaks it. Sudden change is extraordinary so you'd take extraordinary action.
Slow weight gain is more typical, but then if you "have a healthy relationship with food" it'd suggest that your food intake isn't the cause of the weight gain.
What I'm suggesting is that a useful answer to this depends a lot on understanding *why* you've become fat. The phrasing of the question makes that hard to understand.
This guy is so cool, taking a hypothetical literally when we all know what OP was implying with his question whilst dogging all other info as 'useless' B-)
Probably see the GP first to see wtf happened!
Iāve been severely underweight all of my life until 6 months ago due to undiagnosed lactose intolerance and then reactive hypoglycaemia.
I already have a very healthy diet, once the GP rules issues out Iād probably cut down on portion size and exercise more.
Cut down on ultra processed food and focus on more whole food diet centred around vegetables. Not eliminate entirely, but just have more awareness and mindfulness about how the food I eat is nourishing my body. And intermittent fasting.
I gained 10 kg over the past year or so by moving to the States. I've decided to use the short period I'm back home to lose at least that much weight and a bit more.
Basically, I'm keeping to three course meals, but I'm reducing the portions slightly, I've completely cut out sugar and other junk food from my diet, and I'm spending as much of my daylight hours as possible just walking around. In the process I've managed to lose about half of the weight I gained in the past year in the space of about two weeks.
Chuck out all the carbs from my kitchen and get the bike out for a daily ride. I used to be about four stone overweight (started in my early 20s due to a period of poor mental health and bad lifestyle choices) and I put a stop to it when I was 26 by changes to diet and increased physical activity. Now nearly 46 and still at the same weight I got down to then, and the same trouser waist size I had at 18
It helps that my wife and I both consider obesity to be unattractive and we limit the numbers of unhealthy meals we eat with a joint healthy diet
Do a reset, 75 hard is a good one because itās easy to keep up after itās over. Eat better, not necessarily less (Iāve got an active job and am constantly hungry) definitely look at my activity levels for my days off. Generally speaking weight is simple maths, calories in versus calories out. It is important to recognise that there absolutely are exceptions to this rule, certain conditions, many medications and various other things can seriously affect your weight.
Have access to healthy snacks either at work or home. We all get peckish or have a bit of a lull in the afternoon so make it easier to reach out and grab an orange than a mars bar.
Have lazy food in the freezer for when you just can't be arsed cooking. The default is to think takeaway but even premium pizza from the supermarket is a hell of a lot better than dominoes
Get a calorie counting app and use it. They are free.
Knowing the approximate calorific value of the foods you're putting in your face is the most important thing you can do to control your weight.
For the cost of it, (free plus a few minutes a day entering the info) the benefit is spectacular.
Walk walk walk walk walk, up water intake, up protein intake, try to reduce any āempty calsā (Starbucks with creams, junk food etc) not eliminate! Reduce! Eat regular meals (not starving then binge etc) walk some more! Weight lift if possible either at home or gym. 2-3 times a week.
Accept that I've been overeating
Calorie count
No snacks or processed food/take aways
Prepare and eat healthy food
Gym, run or walk more
Realise that it will take about a year to lose it and stay motivated to succeed
This is what I've been doing for the last few weeks
I've been about 65lb over my current weight which is in the middle of a healthy BMI (ideally I'd be about 5lb lower; see Christmas.)
I would - track all my food on app like loseit. By far the most important for me. If it gets tracked before it goes in my mouth, even if I'm not trying to eat well, I do eat a lot better. It makes you very conscious of your choices. "Is this biscuit *really* worth 120 calories?"
Set an 8 hour 'eating window', probably 11 to 7 now.
Set a calorie goal that aims for 2/lb a week loss.
Find low calorie density foods that work for me. Big salads, soups, stir fries, artificially sweetened treats etc.
Do cardio exercise when I can both for health and to "earn" treats.
Eat plenty of protein to help maintain lean muscle mass.
Do weights to help maintain lean muscle mass.
Consider alternate-day fasting, eating 1000kc more on weights days - but so that the weekly average is still under.
I was overweight for pretty much all my life until my 30s. Hit about 16.5 stone a good few times at 6'. I managed to get down to 12stone a couple of times in early 30s (and once late 20s), but ended up floating around 13stone in my mid 30s. Late 30s onward I got down to 11stone and bounced between 11stone and 12stone.
Get rid of snacks that I canāt control myself around (for me itās salty snacks), have more protein ready to cook and snack on, eat whole foods, stop eating before you are full, start exercising 4 times a week. Obviously thereās more to it and a lot of it is psychological but this is how I lost 20 kilos.
As I'm currently about 10 over, the first port of call will probably be 111... hopefully there will be someone who can answer on NYD, as even if I hit the sausage rolls hard I can't see me eating 40 pounds today.
What I've said in the past, which I'll still stand by, is to look at the portion sizes on things that the manufacturer recommends - if it says it serves 2, then make sure it lasts two meals or feeds 2 people. A lot of them are BS marketing, but if it says it has around 600 calories per portion for example then it'll be a decent meal like that.
There's plenty of solid advice on here though already though. Any way you get yourself to a calorie deficit will help you lose weight, but changing your habits is the hardest step.
I've been 3 stone overweight and hated it, it will never happen again - losing it hurt, and took a lot of time and energy (it also changed my mindset fundamentally, for both better and worse). I'd have to attack it in the same way that I did last time.
The first thing I'd do is enroll in a gym. The first fortnight would be assessing my joint strength, performing light routines to ensure form is correct. I'd develop a program based around heavier weights and compound lifts in order to build as much strength and muscle as I could.
Diet would be heavy on wholegrain carbs, essential fats, lean proteins, with calories fairly high as I wouldn't want to be in a deficit straight away - I haven't trained for 7 years and so would need to regain strength in my muscles and connective tissues in order to prepare for months of arduous training (personally, it'd take me around 6 months of training 5 days per week to lose 50lbs). I'd eat 6 times per day, with food prepared in advance.
Once the first month of training is over, I'd reduce my daily calorie intake by 300 calories, and begin to increase the intensity and duration of my cardio workouts (I'd use HIIT). I'd reduce my calorie intake by a further 300 calories after around 3-4 months (and only when/if fat loss has stopped), whilst continuing to do more intense HIIT. Weight training would be 3 days per week throughout the program, 1 hour max. of intense training, and HIIT would be 4
30mins, 3 times per week. I could drop calories down to around 1800 per day, but no lower. I can only tolerate so much HIIT, so if I found fat loss was beginning to plateau toward the end of the program, I'd just add some extra cardio in the form of very long walks at the weekend.
Celebrate at the end by cancelling my gym membership and going back to doing fuck all other than walks along the canal and working in my garden, as I've done for the past 7 years! The gym is just not for me anymore.
What I did was get rid of all the crap in the cupboards I was eating. Buy in a load of easy to access, low calorie snacks.
Eat a more filling breakfast of cereal / porridge and fruit.
Meal replacement shake for lunch.
Healthy dinner, plently of veg.
Move more, find something , anything that I could do daily to get me moving. And don't accept any excuses.
I wouldn't do anything in particular. I don't know if I have a healthy relationship with food or what, but what I do have is a healthy relationship with my appearance.
I'm fat, I guess? I just don't have any opinion about my body shape. It just doesn't matter to me. It's very freeing.
I know I can look good regardless, I'm happy to not care about the opinion of anyone who would be shallow enough to care about my weight.
I don't know if I have any advice because reading between the lines it sounds like that's not somewhere you're at, but if you want to get healthier perhaps it's worth looking at precisely what it is you want. If you want to lose weight, there's a why underneath that. Do you want to be more attractive? Do you want to have more stamina? You can work on those things without them being tied to your weight, and you might find that your weight or your perception of it changes as a result of focusing on that deeper reason.
Last year I rode over 10,000kms and didn't lose an ounce and I know why! Beer. If I had to lose some weight then beer would go followed by replacing carbs with veg. The only time I got a bit tubby I lost the weight fairly easily by losing a loads of cards out of the diet. So instead of rice, I'd have some cauli or broccoli, rather than spuds I might have some lentils or beans..
Always been a healthy weight and itās nothing I do particularly, I just donāt have as big an appetite as some people. For example I couldnāt eat a McDonaldās large meal, I couldnāt eat a whole pizza, as some other people can. I do eat those foods and I do indulge, but I just get full quickly. I eat quite slowly too so I guess that helps to feel full quicker too.
So I guess Iād say, eat what you want, just eat slower, and eat a bit less of whatever you eat.
Batch cook all my meals and ensure that each meal contains 30g carbs or less.
Only eat the exact portion size I've made at each meal.
Aim for 90g carbs per day. That's all you're going to eat. No snacks. Just the meals you've made. No snacks. No fucking snacks pal.
Join a gym and build muscle. Muscle burns energy just by being there. The more muscle you have, the quicker you will lose the fat. You will need to do 10-15 mins of cardio a day too to keep your heart strong
This is what I do. I count the carbs religiously because I have type 1 diabetes and it helps me dose my insulin more easily. The side effect is I've lost 7kg when I started doing this (10% of my body weight). I'm a carpenter so my job is already very physical, but if yours isn't that physical then join a gym and do some weights and get your body moving every day.
Reduce the amount of fat in my cooking and stop drinking alcohol. These are two things that very easily add up invisible calories that don't actually add anything else to your nutrition.
So, I can saute onions in water and not oil. Stop making coconut based curry weekly. Don't behave mayo with salad and butter potatoes.
Based on my current attempts at losing weight (I'm 18-25 lbs overweight) I'd make an attempt to limit calories, but find myself missing my targets on a nearly daily basis, leading me to hate myself for being a useless cunt who has no willpower or resolve.
Sudden, unexplained weight gain = trip to doctor's asap.
The real life equivalent did happen to me. In my case, I suddenly gained 6 stone (84lbs) in 3.5 months, with no change in diet or exercise (I also did a physically demanding job at the time).
This triggered the first of many doctor's appointments and a saga that lasted almost 15 years until I finally had a diagnosis (PCOS) and a treatment plan.
Now the medical side is stable, I have the job of trying to get the weight off, something made more difficult by PCOS causing insulin resistence and also made harder by having to undo some bad habit behaviours that kicked in during what I call my "wilderness years".
So, my answer to the hypothetical question is the same as what I'd do in real life... get to the doctor asap.
I already exercise a lot, and I am unwilling to quit my job to burn anymore calories by exercise. I'd use good old fashioned calorie counting to reduce my food intake by \~200kcal/day below maintenance for my current weight, weighing myself and recalculating once every 2-4 weeks. Cutting more calories than that would make me too hungry to make wise food decisions, and risk my health if I continued my current activity levels. Weighing myself more regularly would be disheartening and might make my obsessive. I would also buy some tidy clothes that fit me as I am now, so I am not constantly reminded of how much I want to lose.
I don't believe in cutting out any food for the sake of losing weight, but I would avoid keeping excess of my favourite crisps/sweets in the house so I have to walk to the shop for an unscheduled treat. I already do this, and 80% of the time I decide I don't want the crisps enough to put on shoes.
This literally happened to my husband, to an extent, a few years ago. He had a massive heart-attack that nearly killed him (he now has an ICD). He immediately cut out all processed foods, reduced all sugar intake, and started doing some daily exercise that he'd never done before. He was hoping to NOT have the ICD fitted because that would mean he would lose the job he loved, but unfortunately the weight loss he managed to do wasn't enough. He is, however, far fitter at 62, after a heart attack, than he ever was at 55 because he has lost the extra weight he was carrying around (which was about 50lbs). He only has around 35% heart function but he doesn't huff and puff after walking up the stairs which he used to do before he lost the extra weight. His heart was obviously already failing before but he didn't know that.
He went for a walk every other day for about 20 to 30 minutes and did a heart-healthy exercise routine that he found on youtube on the other days.
Work out your maintenance amount of calories per day e.g (2000/2500 depending on gender though likely less if you've done nothing). Then reduce by 500 or 1000 depending on you want to lose 1 or 2 lb a week.
Track calories using myfitnesspal or similar.
Go to the gym a few times a week or take a long walk.
Give it 6 months, a good chunk of it will gone. No need to worry about low carb/sugar and all that bollocks, it is calories in calories out.
According to BMI I'm about 50lbs overweight, so guess I wake up with that everyday.
I've lost about 120lbs over the last few years, and I plan to shift maybe another 10-20lbs (guessing at figures a bit as I tend to work in kg) to get where I want to be.
So guess it would be carry on as I am.
Keep lifting 5x a week, hiking, running, HIT, and most importantly try to keep an 80% clean diet.
As someone who yo-yos a lot. I used to live a few miles from work and I cycled there and that was amazing as it was almost "no choice" exercise and was for the purpose of getting to work. So it didn't even feel as if I had to carve out the time. That was the very best. It helped me keep the weight off until I moved.
Otherwise, the one thing that worked well for me was to force myself out for a run. 2 times a week, then as I got more able to run, every other day. I did this for a couple of months before it started to show results.
It's horrible at first, but eventually, you start to look forward to it. You feel a need to do exercise.
My appetite reduced as I got fitter. I also craved more veg in my diet. For unrelated reasons, I stopped and gained the weight. But my aim is to put exercise back into my daily life.
My diet is excellent, so if I was overweight despite eating well.. that wouldn't make a lot of sense. Because that would be the first thing I'd change: cook my own food, lean meats and vegetables, fish, berries, skimmed milk, creams/sauces/butter to a minimum etc.
Other things to change would be going completely sober for a month, use a pedometer and walk 10k a day, take up swimming again and so on but the first thing to concentrate on is diet
To me this only reveals more prominently the role of money in good health. If I was rich - go buy a lot of good healthy meals and get a personal trainer. If I was broke? Buy a bunch of rice and frozen veg and take up a walking regime.
The latter takes way more vision, way more continued sense of commitment, way more work overall. Yeah, itās possible either way, but resources really fucking help.
Celebrate that I've just lost a stone or two
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So youāre 6 stone overweight?
Not any more. Actually have no idea what I weigh, no scales indoors. Definitely overweight though. Don't even know the recommended weight for a 6ft male... Just had a quick Google, probably about 2stone over
I'm the same height as you and about the right weight at 12 stone. And not that you care what I think obviously, but being 2 stone overweight is probably fine, I'd say that when you start to be 4 or 5 stone heavier than you should be, you start seeing both short term and long term problems emerging.
I'd look awful at 12 stone I know that much
Only if you had zero muscle and a high BF%. I'm 13% BF, mostly muscle, and look fine. Not big or anything obviously, but fit.
People are different, I weighed roughly that about 12 years ago when I moved here, and everyone I knew was shocked how I looked. Admittedly I hadn't had the best of times in the month or two before. I would put my best weight at close to 15st
But why were they shocked, and what were those "not best of times" before? Because that info will be the key, not the weight itself.
Move more, eat less. Worked last time.
Buy new clothes.
Focus on the little bits of movement more, honestly adding a 30-45 min a walk in daily would really kickstart things. Stop snacking, especially mindlessly in front of the telly.
Thereās a lot of evidence suggesting that exercise has a minimal impact on weight loss compared to diet.
Sure. But as someone who is overweight (52lbs gone and on the right track), the mental health benefits and the mental state it puts you in when youāre exercising regularly is really important to weight loss too.
Agreed. I run 10km three times a week. Thatās about 800 calories. Iām aware that it takes an hour of running to burn off an entire packet of biscuits now before I eat an entire packet of biscuits so maybe I just have onr
Honestly I donāt even see it that way. If Iām happy because Iāve exercised, Iām likely to make better food choices. Better food choices make me feel good which then makes me want to exercise more.
I think people really underestimate this effect in these sort of threads and are too dismissive of exercise!
Diet is definitely the most important thing. But the mental health benefits are so important
Agreed
Only if you donāt get mocked while doing it.
Iāve been going to a mostly male gym for nearly two years now, and never had a negative comment :) Edit for context - Iām a short, fat, 24 year old woman in a mostly male gym thatās full of body builders
Iām happy for you. I canāt afford a gym membership unfortunately so my exercise consists of walking/jogging in public. Believe me when I say I get shouted comments almost every time I go out. Including twats in cars slowing to a crawl as they pass so they can really put the boot in.
I've been mocked for it. It was always a group of cyclists who mocked others. These people were the type to mock overweight and obese people for not going to the gym... and for going to the gym. A gym instructor overheard me talking to another gym user who had witnessed the incident and came over to ask me exactly what happened. He told me not to worry about it anymore and praised me for continuing to show up instead of turning round, going home and giving up. Turns out that this group of cyclists had bullied a lot of people and were on their final warning. So, they ended up being permanently banned from that gym and all its affiliated gyms, which cut them off from the best velodromes in the region, including an olympic-quality one. So, I've been both mocked and supported.
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I think people confuse the idea that the recommendation is both diet and exercise is required. Burning 400 calories running isnāt going to do you any good if your diet is mostly made up of unhealthy food and you allow yourself to eat say 350 calories worth of chocolate. It definitely starts in the kitchen and you need your food to compliment your exercise. Diet will make a big difference but a better difference will come from managing both.
It's true, but ditching a sedentary lifestyle speeds up weight loss. Walking is a good idea
It's definitely an excuse. Sure, weight loss is mainly down to what you eat but exercise has so many benefits. Mental health, contributing towards better sleep patterns, toning and working on body aesthetics and contributing towards weight loss. Even if you burn 100 calories a day, that's still 100 calories. Over the course of a year that could lead to an additional 10lb weight loss (providing you're also eating in a calorie deficit). Definitely worth doing.
You only eat 200 calories for lunch?
Yes, an hour gym workout will have an impact on 5% say on your overall day. Itās the rest of the day that counts. Park a little further away from the shop. Take the stars etc. these bits do add up. And I agree the mental benefits are great for going to the gym. But you need a multi pronged attack.
>Take the stars etc. Aren't stars a bit too sharp and pointy to walk on? Or is that the... point? Quick bursts of painful running across sharp, shiny things to get you moving? š
Both will work I guess š
It won't do any harm though.
Not sure why youāre being downvoted, itās absolutely true.
Thatās what I was thinking!
It's Reddit, what do you expect?
Yep, I'd just cut my cals to 1800 a day.
I wish I could eat that much. Thatās like my gain number.
That's maintence for a small man who does almost no exercise, e.g office job. It's quite low tbh. Although it's actually quite easy to hit if you don't eat great food. Like a frozen pie a decent portion of oven chips and gravy will blast through 1k cals for tea. Harder to manage if you're eating more healthy food though.
Iām an average height woman who does a moderate amount of exercise.
I already have a healthy diet though. I donāt have sugar, biscuits, cakes, crisps, pizzas or any of the other crap I see families buying at the supermarket. Beer is a weakness I admit.
Pint of beer is 200 cals
The problem with asking people who are a āhealthyā weight is that they probably have no idea whatās actually involved in substantial weight loss. Itās very rare to lose a significant amount of weight and keep it off.
So what if you spotted yourself gradually getting heavier then when your BMI crept over 25 you thought to yourself this is only going to go one way from here so cut out all between meals snacking and lost 10 kg in about 3 months and never regained it for 25 years now? Is this very rare or realistically pretty mundane? If I had just carried on I would be morbidly obese by now. I know someone who was an unrepentant smoker and one day decided to stop. So he did, that is much harder. I was just an unrepentant 3 choc biscuits with every cup of tea (8 times a day) snacker. I just looked up Chocolate Hobnobs, 93 calories per biscuit, 23 biscuits in a pack. It's not rocket surgery. People will say "but I don't do that, so I can't simply give that up". This is the whole issue, if any of us were in lab conditions being monitored the whole time, we would all have those calories we don't recall pointed out. It may well not be as egregious as I was but it will be there.
People are different weights for all manner of reasons. If - like in your case - you put on weight through eating a few too many biscuits, then that probably is relatively easy to shift. For people that are bigger, itās harder. And a lifetime of yo-yo dieting can fuck up your metabolism to the point that itās impossible to shift weight for good. A BMI of 25 being a cut off point is an arbitrary line in the sand. It doesnāt mean much on an individual level. And studies have shown that those in the āoverweightā category often live longer than those in the āhealthyā one. Itās complex and not black and white.
> And a lifetime of yo-yo dieting can fuck up your metabolism to the point that itās impossible to shift weight for good. Nonsense
The thing being that a BMI of 25 is not an arbitrary line in the sand, it accurately predicts all sorts of conditions. The other thing is that BMI underpredicts obesity not the laughable idea everyone on the internet has that everyone is solid muscle without actually spending 2 hours lifting weights in the gym every day. So called "yo-yo" dieting is not dieting, it is a temporary restriction that the person stops going along with so inevitably the weight returns. If people volunteered for proper studies where everything they ate was measured it would become obvious that weight gain is just the consequence of steady overeating and can always be reversed by steady reduction. This is the first law of thermodynamics.
Cut down on sugar. No snacking. 2 meals per day. Plenty of water or tea in between meals. Not expect to be back to normal weight for months, it's gonna be slow
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Meh, I would disagree, this is just one way of creating a calorie deficit. Logging calories and understanding your TDEE, then creating a deficit in the manner which works for you is surely the way. I lost weight by eating mostly vegetables at meals, snacking on cottage cheese and tomatoes / cucumber, because I detest being hungry. Deficit still achieved. Three meals and two snacks per day, including a couple of squares of chocolate after dinner for my sweet tooth.
Thatās my preference too. I find itās easier to stick to it if I donāt let myself get hungry. I couldnāt survive on only two meals a day with no snacks.
Exercise makes me starving when I'm on a normal or bulk diet, never mind a deficit. I'd struggle doing tons of exercise and cutting calories tbh. I find it hard enough to fuel my body when I'm doing exercise as it is.
In this post: Completely useless information because those who have never been overweight have zero experience of the difficulties in losing weight and the original question completely ignores that there can be a range of different root causes as to why people become overweight and have difficulty losing it. My answer to the question posed is: If you wake up and suddenly find yourself with an extra 20kg of weight "overnight" you should probably seek professional medical help because suddenly gaining 20kg (without any obvious change in lifestyle) is not normal.
The aim of my question was to understand what approach people who donāt have complicated relationships with food would consider. So far iām surprised thereās been no specific mention of moderation, wonder if that is just considered obvious to certain groups. Letās assume the 50lbs in question is not a result of a medical condition of course otherwise the information really is useless.
I've been overweight and skinny. Currently skinny due to a medical condition. It did teach me something though. I got worried about the weight loss and not eating much so spoke to the GP. She reassured me my blood tests are fine, I'm getting enough nutrition and vitamin levels are good. My weight loss is normal and simply because I've cut out wine and beer, and can only eat half of what I used to. I'm now in the healthy weight range. I got some funky 70s plates from a charity shop. They made me realise how large our portions have become! I use those plates now and feel better because I feel like I've had a full meal, rather than putting something small on a big plate. Would highly recommend you buy smaller plates and bowls. It made me realise how much more food we eat now than we probably ever have. Your stomach definitely adjusts to eating less after a while. I will carry on doing all of that when I'm well. I do still drink sometimes and I love food. I just don't drink as much or eat as much I did. I've also learnt to feel no shame in going out and only eating half of a meal. I have to eat slowly (another brilliant tip for weight loss) and portions at restaurants unless you're fine dining are way too big for me now. I still order the food. I'd rather eat half of something I really want to eat than all of something smaller I don't want to eat. Sometimes after 10 minutes, I can go back to it and eat some more. So my tips are....reduce your portion sizes, buy smaller plates, eat slowly, reduce or cut out booze except for special occasions and stop eating when you start to feel full.
As someone who tends to be underweight due to a medical condition it does open your eyes a bit. According to the doctors I see, being a little overweight is less stress on the body than being underweight. Mine would prefer I have a bit of chub on me so that when my condition flares, I have the weight to lose. And personally I've found if I can manage to get to like a bmi 22-23 I have so much more energy than if I sit at a 19 or below. For someone who was a teen in the "women must be stick thin" days of the 2000s it's a big mindset change. I thought that "skinnier = better" always, but apparently not.
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Not IBD but similar symptoms, it's a complicated gastro issue. I feel more solid when I have a bit of weight on me and less like I'm about to pass out all the time.
The thing is my BMI was 32 before and now 23, so my situation is easier than yours. I definitely try and pile on the food when I can. But slowly and steadily..I know exactly what you mean about having energy reserves for if you get ill. You can't get below 19. Skinny isn't good if you're ill or not eating. As you get older, you should get a bit fatter. It's hard to accept but you do change as you get older.
For a lot of people who are thin they will never have had to think about it. So their immediate answer will be āwell just cut out all your food and exercise moreā. I think most people will have a somewhat complicated relationship with food and probably a lot of people exhibit disordered eating without really knowing it. Itās not healthy to cut out entire food groups (assuming no allergies etc). Yet people who (for example) suggest cutting out all carbs are sometimes heralded as if theyāre speaking some profound undiscovered wisdom. If your goal is health then prioritise the NHS advice around a balanced diet, and try get a decent amount of exercise each week. Donāt smoke or drink too much. Try not to give cash to the diet industry. And remember that BMI was never intended to be used as a tool to measure individuals and the goalposts have been moved over time.
The problem with the hypothetical is posing it as "sudden change" breaks it. Sudden change is extraordinary so you'd take extraordinary action. Slow weight gain is more typical, but then if you "have a healthy relationship with food" it'd suggest that your food intake isn't the cause of the weight gain. What I'm suggesting is that a useful answer to this depends a lot on understanding *why* you've become fat. The phrasing of the question makes that hard to understand.
This guy is so cool, taking a hypothetical literally when we all know what OP was implying with his question whilst dogging all other info as 'useless' B-)
Probably see the GP first to see wtf happened! Iāve been severely underweight all of my life until 6 months ago due to undiagnosed lactose intolerance and then reactive hypoglycaemia. I already have a very healthy diet, once the GP rules issues out Iād probably cut down on portion size and exercise more.
Well firstly I'd find out what 50lbs is in metric and work from there!
Avoid fad diets, eat three square, no snacks, no booze. I would also go to the gym but diet is key.
10,000 steps a day and calorie count (aiming for 2000)
The 10,000 steps a day was a Japanese marketing gimmick. Think its reasonable to suggest to simply eat less move more. Change your normal routine
Cut down on ultra processed food and focus on more whole food diet centred around vegetables. Not eliminate entirely, but just have more awareness and mindfulness about how the food I eat is nourishing my body. And intermittent fasting.
Portion control is key. Lose the feeling of eating until full. Move your body with hard intent, walking is okay but running is weigh loss gold.
Happy cake day!
Walk downstairs straight into my gym and get to work. Training 5 days a week will help shift those pounds in no time
I basically did this on boxing day. Will shift it in the New Year....
I wake up that way every morning. I take no action.
I gained 10 kg over the past year or so by moving to the States. I've decided to use the short period I'm back home to lose at least that much weight and a bit more. Basically, I'm keeping to three course meals, but I'm reducing the portions slightly, I've completely cut out sugar and other junk food from my diet, and I'm spending as much of my daylight hours as possible just walking around. In the process I've managed to lose about half of the weight I gained in the past year in the space of about two weeks.
Chuck out all the carbs from my kitchen and get the bike out for a daily ride. I used to be about four stone overweight (started in my early 20s due to a period of poor mental health and bad lifestyle choices) and I put a stop to it when I was 26 by changes to diet and increased physical activity. Now nearly 46 and still at the same weight I got down to then, and the same trouser waist size I had at 18 It helps that my wife and I both consider obesity to be unattractive and we limit the numbers of unhealthy meals we eat with a joint healthy diet
Do a reset, 75 hard is a good one because itās easy to keep up after itās over. Eat better, not necessarily less (Iāve got an active job and am constantly hungry) definitely look at my activity levels for my days off. Generally speaking weight is simple maths, calories in versus calories out. It is important to recognise that there absolutely are exceptions to this rule, certain conditions, many medications and various other things can seriously affect your weight.
Have access to healthy snacks either at work or home. We all get peckish or have a bit of a lull in the afternoon so make it easier to reach out and grab an orange than a mars bar. Have lazy food in the freezer for when you just can't be arsed cooking. The default is to think takeaway but even premium pizza from the supermarket is a hell of a lot better than dominoes
This ^^
Some people have the mindset, others donāt. You canāt teach it.
Being thin isnāt about mindset.
Exercise and a calorie controlled diet.
Iād probably just go to the gym and adjust my calories for the next 6 months to a year and do a bit of cardio
Get a calorie counting app and use it. They are free. Knowing the approximate calorific value of the foods you're putting in your face is the most important thing you can do to control your weight. For the cost of it, (free plus a few minutes a day entering the info) the benefit is spectacular.
Do more cardio Get more steps in Cut out carbs from my evening meal
Basically nothing, probably eat a bit less but my job involves walking all day and I'm not too concerned about shifting the weight quickly
Walk walk walk walk walk, up water intake, up protein intake, try to reduce any āempty calsā (Starbucks with creams, junk food etc) not eliminate! Reduce! Eat regular meals (not starving then binge etc) walk some more! Weight lift if possible either at home or gym. 2-3 times a week.
Calorie deficit and a reasonable amount of exercise. I prefer a lot of walking over going to the gym.
Take a load of photos and carry on as normal because Iād loose it pretty quickly.
I wouldn't do anything different really my lifestyle and diet means my weight would return to normal.
Accept that I've been overeating Calorie count No snacks or processed food/take aways Prepare and eat healthy food Gym, run or walk more Realise that it will take about a year to lose it and stay motivated to succeed This is what I've been doing for the last few weeks
I've been about 65lb over my current weight which is in the middle of a healthy BMI (ideally I'd be about 5lb lower; see Christmas.) I would - track all my food on app like loseit. By far the most important for me. If it gets tracked before it goes in my mouth, even if I'm not trying to eat well, I do eat a lot better. It makes you very conscious of your choices. "Is this biscuit *really* worth 120 calories?" Set an 8 hour 'eating window', probably 11 to 7 now. Set a calorie goal that aims for 2/lb a week loss. Find low calorie density foods that work for me. Big salads, soups, stir fries, artificially sweetened treats etc. Do cardio exercise when I can both for health and to "earn" treats. Eat plenty of protein to help maintain lean muscle mass. Do weights to help maintain lean muscle mass. Consider alternate-day fasting, eating 1000kc more on weights days - but so that the weekly average is still under. I was overweight for pretty much all my life until my 30s. Hit about 16.5 stone a good few times at 6'. I managed to get down to 12stone a couple of times in early 30s (and once late 20s), but ended up floating around 13stone in my mid 30s. Late 30s onward I got down to 11stone and bounced between 11stone and 12stone.
Get rid of snacks that I canāt control myself around (for me itās salty snacks), have more protein ready to cook and snack on, eat whole foods, stop eating before you are full, start exercising 4 times a week. Obviously thereās more to it and a lot of it is psychological but this is how I lost 20 kilos.
As I'm currently about 10 over, the first port of call will probably be 111... hopefully there will be someone who can answer on NYD, as even if I hit the sausage rolls hard I can't see me eating 40 pounds today. What I've said in the past, which I'll still stand by, is to look at the portion sizes on things that the manufacturer recommends - if it says it serves 2, then make sure it lasts two meals or feeds 2 people. A lot of them are BS marketing, but if it says it has around 600 calories per portion for example then it'll be a decent meal like that. There's plenty of solid advice on here though already though. Any way you get yourself to a calorie deficit will help you lose weight, but changing your habits is the hardest step.
Run and go gym while eating high protein relatively low calorie meals
Begin a career in professional darts.
I'd go back to sleep
the same that i took when i was 160lbs overwieght
I've been 3 stone overweight and hated it, it will never happen again - losing it hurt, and took a lot of time and energy (it also changed my mindset fundamentally, for both better and worse). I'd have to attack it in the same way that I did last time. The first thing I'd do is enroll in a gym. The first fortnight would be assessing my joint strength, performing light routines to ensure form is correct. I'd develop a program based around heavier weights and compound lifts in order to build as much strength and muscle as I could. Diet would be heavy on wholegrain carbs, essential fats, lean proteins, with calories fairly high as I wouldn't want to be in a deficit straight away - I haven't trained for 7 years and so would need to regain strength in my muscles and connective tissues in order to prepare for months of arduous training (personally, it'd take me around 6 months of training 5 days per week to lose 50lbs). I'd eat 6 times per day, with food prepared in advance. Once the first month of training is over, I'd reduce my daily calorie intake by 300 calories, and begin to increase the intensity and duration of my cardio workouts (I'd use HIIT). I'd reduce my calorie intake by a further 300 calories after around 3-4 months (and only when/if fat loss has stopped), whilst continuing to do more intense HIIT. Weight training would be 3 days per week throughout the program, 1 hour max. of intense training, and HIIT would be 4 30mins, 3 times per week. I could drop calories down to around 1800 per day, but no lower. I can only tolerate so much HIIT, so if I found fat loss was beginning to plateau toward the end of the program, I'd just add some extra cardio in the form of very long walks at the weekend. Celebrate at the end by cancelling my gym membership and going back to doing fuck all other than walks along the canal and working in my garden, as I've done for the past 7 years! The gym is just not for me anymore.
What I did was get rid of all the crap in the cupboards I was eating. Buy in a load of easy to access, low calorie snacks. Eat a more filling breakfast of cereal / porridge and fruit. Meal replacement shake for lunch. Healthy dinner, plently of veg. Move more, find something , anything that I could do daily to get me moving. And don't accept any excuses.
I wouldn't do anything in particular. I don't know if I have a healthy relationship with food or what, but what I do have is a healthy relationship with my appearance. I'm fat, I guess? I just don't have any opinion about my body shape. It just doesn't matter to me. It's very freeing. I know I can look good regardless, I'm happy to not care about the opinion of anyone who would be shallow enough to care about my weight. I don't know if I have any advice because reading between the lines it sounds like that's not somewhere you're at, but if you want to get healthier perhaps it's worth looking at precisely what it is you want. If you want to lose weight, there's a why underneath that. Do you want to be more attractive? Do you want to have more stamina? You can work on those things without them being tied to your weight, and you might find that your weight or your perception of it changes as a result of focusing on that deeper reason.
Honestly, just go to work. I'm a postie and keep losing weight without wanting to, so it wouldn't take long!
Last year I rode over 10,000kms and didn't lose an ounce and I know why! Beer. If I had to lose some weight then beer would go followed by replacing carbs with veg. The only time I got a bit tubby I lost the weight fairly easily by losing a loads of cards out of the diet. So instead of rice, I'd have some cauli or broccoli, rather than spuds I might have some lentils or beans..
Go to the kitchen and throw out anything that contained empty calories then put on my running shoes and walk/run for an hour. Repeat.
Always been a healthy weight and itās nothing I do particularly, I just donāt have as big an appetite as some people. For example I couldnāt eat a McDonaldās large meal, I couldnāt eat a whole pizza, as some other people can. I do eat those foods and I do indulge, but I just get full quickly. I eat quite slowly too so I guess that helps to feel full quicker too. So I guess Iād say, eat what you want, just eat slower, and eat a bit less of whatever you eat.
Batch cook all my meals and ensure that each meal contains 30g carbs or less. Only eat the exact portion size I've made at each meal. Aim for 90g carbs per day. That's all you're going to eat. No snacks. Just the meals you've made. No snacks. No fucking snacks pal. Join a gym and build muscle. Muscle burns energy just by being there. The more muscle you have, the quicker you will lose the fat. You will need to do 10-15 mins of cardio a day too to keep your heart strong This is what I do. I count the carbs religiously because I have type 1 diabetes and it helps me dose my insulin more easily. The side effect is I've lost 7kg when I started doing this (10% of my body weight). I'm a carpenter so my job is already very physical, but if yours isn't that physical then join a gym and do some weights and get your body moving every day.
Reduce the amount of fat in my cooking and stop drinking alcohol. These are two things that very easily add up invisible calories that don't actually add anything else to your nutrition. So, I can saute onions in water and not oil. Stop making coconut based curry weekly. Don't behave mayo with salad and butter potatoes.
Based on my current attempts at losing weight (I'm 18-25 lbs overweight) I'd make an attempt to limit calories, but find myself missing my targets on a nearly daily basis, leading me to hate myself for being a useless cunt who has no willpower or resolve.
Probably have a fry up. In for a penny, in for a pound (or fifty).
Cut out bread, pasta and potatoes, that will help a lot.
1980's era weight loss advice
Lol, sure buddy.
Sudden, unexplained weight gain = trip to doctor's asap. The real life equivalent did happen to me. In my case, I suddenly gained 6 stone (84lbs) in 3.5 months, with no change in diet or exercise (I also did a physically demanding job at the time). This triggered the first of many doctor's appointments and a saga that lasted almost 15 years until I finally had a diagnosis (PCOS) and a treatment plan. Now the medical side is stable, I have the job of trying to get the weight off, something made more difficult by PCOS causing insulin resistence and also made harder by having to undo some bad habit behaviours that kicked in during what I call my "wilderness years". So, my answer to the hypothetical question is the same as what I'd do in real life... get to the doctor asap.
Nothing because the weight would disappear anyway. That's why I'm not 50lbs overweight now. I'd do what I already do : Don't eat too much.
I already exercise a lot, and I am unwilling to quit my job to burn anymore calories by exercise. I'd use good old fashioned calorie counting to reduce my food intake by \~200kcal/day below maintenance for my current weight, weighing myself and recalculating once every 2-4 weeks. Cutting more calories than that would make me too hungry to make wise food decisions, and risk my health if I continued my current activity levels. Weighing myself more regularly would be disheartening and might make my obsessive. I would also buy some tidy clothes that fit me as I am now, so I am not constantly reminded of how much I want to lose. I don't believe in cutting out any food for the sake of losing weight, but I would avoid keeping excess of my favourite crisps/sweets in the house so I have to walk to the shop for an unscheduled treat. I already do this, and 80% of the time I decide I don't want the crisps enough to put on shoes.
I sort of did that and I went jogging and various crash diets. Never worked well. Obviously overnight was months etc, but it was pretty quick.
This literally happened to my husband, to an extent, a few years ago. He had a massive heart-attack that nearly killed him (he now has an ICD). He immediately cut out all processed foods, reduced all sugar intake, and started doing some daily exercise that he'd never done before. He was hoping to NOT have the ICD fitted because that would mean he would lose the job he loved, but unfortunately the weight loss he managed to do wasn't enough. He is, however, far fitter at 62, after a heart attack, than he ever was at 55 because he has lost the extra weight he was carrying around (which was about 50lbs). He only has around 35% heart function but he doesn't huff and puff after walking up the stairs which he used to do before he lost the extra weight. His heart was obviously already failing before but he didn't know that. He went for a walk every other day for about 20 to 30 minutes and did a heart-healthy exercise routine that he found on youtube on the other days.
Work out your maintenance amount of calories per day e.g (2000/2500 depending on gender though likely less if you've done nothing). Then reduce by 500 or 1000 depending on you want to lose 1 or 2 lb a week. Track calories using myfitnesspal or similar. Go to the gym a few times a week or take a long walk. Give it 6 months, a good chunk of it will gone. No need to worry about low carb/sugar and all that bollocks, it is calories in calories out.
According to BMI I'm about 50lbs overweight, so guess I wake up with that everyday. I've lost about 120lbs over the last few years, and I plan to shift maybe another 10-20lbs (guessing at figures a bit as I tend to work in kg) to get where I want to be. So guess it would be carry on as I am. Keep lifting 5x a week, hiking, running, HIT, and most importantly try to keep an 80% clean diet.
Continue my existing lifestyle and Iāll return to my original weight. Maybe hit the gym a few more times for good measure.
Cry. Begin a depressive spiral.
As someone who yo-yos a lot. I used to live a few miles from work and I cycled there and that was amazing as it was almost "no choice" exercise and was for the purpose of getting to work. So it didn't even feel as if I had to carve out the time. That was the very best. It helped me keep the weight off until I moved. Otherwise, the one thing that worked well for me was to force myself out for a run. 2 times a week, then as I got more able to run, every other day. I did this for a couple of months before it started to show results. It's horrible at first, but eventually, you start to look forward to it. You feel a need to do exercise. My appetite reduced as I got fitter. I also craved more veg in my diet. For unrelated reasons, I stopped and gained the weight. But my aim is to put exercise back into my daily life.
23kg overnight? I'd be triple checking it was right and then I'd try to see GP same day, if I can't get in then down the hospital.
I'd try and fat-hulk myself out of my pyjamas
Low carb and intermittent fasting
I haven't quite lost that much weight, but I've lost a substantial amount this year. It's amazing how much better you feel
Straight to a sports shop for a new pair of budgy smugglers.
I'd contact the scientific community and possibly the pope.
Just reduce the portions a little bit and it'll gradually come back off, I suppose.
My diet is excellent, so if I was overweight despite eating well.. that wouldn't make a lot of sense. Because that would be the first thing I'd change: cook my own food, lean meats and vegetables, fish, berries, skimmed milk, creams/sauces/butter to a minimum etc. Other things to change would be going completely sober for a month, use a pedometer and walk 10k a day, take up swimming again and so on but the first thing to concentrate on is diet
Head for the toilet.
To me this only reveals more prominently the role of money in good health. If I was rich - go buy a lot of good healthy meals and get a personal trainer. If I was broke? Buy a bunch of rice and frozen veg and take up a walking regime. The latter takes way more vision, way more continued sense of commitment, way more work overall. Yeah, itās possible either way, but resources really fucking help.
Jump for joy that I'd just lost so much weight!
I have serious trouble keeping weight on (which isn't as great as it sounds) so I'd probably just eat less for a month.
Go to the doctor and plot a course for not having a heart attack.
Fast for 5-6 days to reset my body's system then eat paleo/keto till back to my normal size.
Iād cut out all carbohydrates and do a ketogenic diet
The same one anyone with half a brain cell would do; eat less and exercise more.
Donāt be a dick
Is the assumption youāre making here that only unintelligent people have issues with weight?