Your Weight Loss Tips?

I think you need to still be enjoying the steak mind, for most that's a treat once every two weeks or a month etc, so you can have a bit of leeway. Obvs if you're eating steak every week, mid-week, then you're going to have to think about it a bit more.
 
How do you set a base amount of calories you need?
You need to use a BMR calculator, this one may be good on the link below, but don't forget to multiply for your general activity level.


BMR might drop when you're dieting though, depending on what you read, be cautious with it.
 
Just had a sausage and egg bun from Greggs - great way to start a Friday but will only do it once a month.
As Maccarone said - everything in moderation.
Eat and Drink Healthy
Exercise Healthy
Sleep Healthy
Enjoy life.
Look on the bright side of things (difficult on here!)
 
Don’t buy it in, if it isn’t there you won’t eat it

Stopped buying chocolate in this house and I’m not smashing it in anymore
I find you crave it more if not there so can go both ways really. I limit/weigh it. Its about self control so if a person has none then yea,don't buy it in. I don't drink alcohol so have a slight advantage for choc/sweets/crisps
 
I find you crave it more if not there so can go both ways really. I limit/weigh it. Its about self control so if a person has none then yea,don't buy it in. I don't drink alcohol so have a slight advantage for choc/sweets/crisps
I stopped drinking for a while and I replaced it with sweet stuff. Started drinking again but haven’t stopped with the sweet stuff

I work from home so if my wife has bought in choc bars then I find myself snacking from home. Didn’t happen when I was in office I was more disciplined.
 
Don’t buy it in, if it isn’t there you won’t eat it

Stopped buying chocolate in this house and I’m not smashing it in anymore
I keep telling this to my lass, who is as skinny as a rake, but she just doesn't understand. It's not even like she eats it either, she just hordes it!

She says "just don't eat it", but when you know it's there 👀

I find it so easy not to buy it, and then don't give it a second thought, but with it in the house, it's like a coke head being given baggy to mind at a party :LOL:
 
I keep telling this to my lass, who is as skinny as a rake, but she just doesn't understand. It's not even like she eats it either, she just hordes it!

She says "just don't eat it", but when you know it's there 👀

I find it so easy not to buy it, and then don't give it a second thought, but with it in the house, it's like a coke head being given baggy to mind at a party :LOL:
I can definitely relate to that 🤣🤣
 
Definitely seeing myself in some of these replies. 100%, not having easy access to snacks is the big thing for me. If they are there then at some point I will convince myself that one won't hurt. If I plan my meals for the week, do the shop and don't buy any snacks then it is a breeze. If I have all my meals planned and the ingredients bought then I don't have the "there's nothing in so lets get a takeaway" moments either. That makes it really easy because you only have to be strong willed then for a few hours a week while you shop. The rest of the time you can crave whatever but if it isn't available then you don't eat it. Luckily I'm also too lazy to go out to the shop specifically for crisps/biscuits or chocolate.

This is more of a struggle now we have kids than it was pre-kids. Not only do they stress you out and make you feel like rewarding yourself at times but we have snacks in for them.


As for the ribeye question. I agree that if I am eating something like a steak (ribeye or any cut) then it is a treat so I'm doing it properly. The fat on a steak (or any piece of meat) is the best bit so why would I eat that if I didn't want to enjoy it fully? If I'm eating steak, roast pork or KFC then I'm definitely eating the fat/crackling/skin. I'll just make sure I'm logging the calories and budgeting for them from somewhere else.
 
As for the ribeye question. I agree that if I am eating something like a steak (ribeye or any cut) then it is a treat so I'm doing it properly. The fat on a steak (or any piece of meat) is the best bit so why would I eat that if I didn't want to enjoy it fully? If I'm eating steak, roast pork or KFC then I'm definitely eating the fat/crackling/skin. I'll just make sure I'm logging the calories and budgeting for them from somewhere else.
Ah see I don't even like the thick fatty bit, it's the worst bit to me. The only reason I would be against throwing it out it is I don't like wasting food, but I can look past that as it's basically like a bar of chocolate which is almost twice as calorie dense, and nowhere near as nice (to me). It's just not worth it.

I was like that but eventually would just end up craving them and smashing a full packet in one sitting.

That's why I go for a multipack of the 99kcal minibags and just have one with my morning coffee and that's it. Somehow it works!
See, I'd just smash the multipack, no problem :LOL:
 
Does anyone have any other podcast recommendations? I know one was mentioned earlier in the thread.

I've been going hard on reading/listening to books and audiobooks a lot recently, finding it helps to keep me motivated on track, but not many podcasts.
 
Does anyone have any other podcast recommendations? I know one was mentioned earlier in the thread.

I've been going hard on reading/listening to books and audiobooks a lot recently, finding it helps to keep me motivated on track, but not many podcasts.
Fast after 50 by Tim Spector - Cycling related but goes into a loft of dietry stuff, from memory
the Midlife Cyclist by Phil Cavell - again, goes into a lot of Physiology and dietry stuff

Both on Audible - From memory, they were both extremely detailed
 
I had to do this with biscuits. I can eat biscuits all day long. So I just can’t have them in the house
If you do your own food shopping, a thing I discovered when working in Glasgow (home of the sweet toothed).
Sucking a boiled sweet when shopping suppresses the impulse to buy sugary things. Obviously don't overdo the boiled sweets.

Another one; substitute Greek or middle eastern sweets. Nice but honey not addictive. A box of mini-baclavas can last months.
 
OK so I decided about 3 months ago when I was looking at buying a new pair of shorts for the summer that the shop hadn't got the size wrong it was me going up a size again.

Had a read up and realised all those walks I had been doing were knocking a few calories off but was adding them back and more by having a sandwich at lunchtime so decided:

Knocked as many carbs out the diet as possible apart from a main meal at night, this means for me sweets, biscuits & bread and beer or cider.

This leaves a nice fizzy white wine or straight spirit rather than a can of good craft left to drink on an evening. Nibble on meats and omelettes or scrambled with a bit of mackerel in them during the day then have a nice dinner on an evening with anything I want but cut back on condiments like salad cream, mayo and ketchup.

The kicker was a photo I took on the scales the day I started then every Saturday morning I take another photo and then flick through them to kind of celebrate the dial stopping a bit further left every week. Ive lost 10kg which isn't a lot per week but feels good when I flick through the photos & instead of buying new shorts I managed to get into a pair that had been in a drawer for a couple of years.

On hols 2 weeks ago let the regime drop, fish and chips at the coast and had a few deserts and several beers & the photo that week showed the needle went the wrong way, but it was pretty simple to go back to and am being disciplined about waiting for the same time tomorrow morning to take a photo to see if I've managed to get it back on track.

The wife keeps muttering about me being on Atkins but its not that at all its just recognising that the crappy processed carbs weren't my friend.
 
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