Right, time to lose weight.

snorkie

Congrats Matt on making a change! I hope you find the willpower to reach all of your goals. The struggle is real!

Hogan

Maximilien

Munchies_Matt wrote:

Look, body builders trim down before events, and work out while doing so to get their fat down to really low levels, so they must know some tricks. :)

Yeah, they do drugs.

I'd rather be phishing!

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Munchies_Matt wrote:

There isn't any point pretending, I am gross. So, time to do something about it

There's nothing gross about it, and 120 kg is enough to work as a bouncer. I'm underweight, so trying to do your opposite.

Munchies_Matt wrote:

Also taking apple cider vinegar, 2 teaspoons before a meal, and at night. Unpasteurised. Apparently it has good bacteria in it.

Yes, because it is fermented. Stuff like sauerkraut (on bread with a wurst, or "hotdog"), kefir (fermented milk, yoghurt like), kombucha (fermented tea), and any pickles contain similar bacteria. If you pasteurize any of those (or heat it in general), then some of the good bacteria in it will die. The sauerkraut has the added benefit of providing lots of fibers.

Munchies_Matt wrote:

Diet, basically zero carbs/low GI

So no more take-out Chinese or pizza? I do hope you have at least one cheat-day per month?

Munchies_Matt wrote:

And I am allowing myself red wine, say three glasses or so a night.

Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories Alcohol: 1 gram = 7 calories (Source[^]) Best wishes, hope you achieve your goal :)

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Maximilien

First and foremost: Ask a bunch of nerds on a programming forum!!! That'll go well. ;P seriously, Go see a dietitian or a nutritionist. spend a few bucks getting a good nutrition plan based on your lifestyle and need and goal.

I'd rather be phishing!

Jorgen Andersson

You forgot the beer. :)

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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A single yeast-culture is a bit different from the probiotics-culture in sauerkraut :)

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Maximilien wrote:

Go see a dietitian or a nutritionist.

..and pay a lot for the latest official guidelines and nonsense. You can keep your two liters of water per day :)

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F ES Sitecore

You're going to fail in the long term because you've bought into the fitness-industry-myths. No industry works to put itself out of business, if what the fitness industry told you about weight loss worked then they'd be doing just that, so everything they tell you is a lie. Lies you (and from the replies, every other person on this thread) believe, so you are, I'm afraid, doomed to fail. Think about it...if losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight was such a complex balance of what you eat and chemical interactions then why aren't the intelligent nations healthy and the stupid nations fat? Why do you only get an obesity crisis in countries where manual labour is rare and food is in abundance?

Jorgen Andersson

:doh: Because we like good food, and can afford it. :rolleyes:

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Ron Anders

I got up to 189 lbs and saw my dad ( who at one time must have hit 250+) coming in the mirror, so I went low carb. Yippy down to 160. It just melted off. When you starve you body of carbs I has no choice but to convert that fat into energy. I found out that is was carbs I really liked all along. :-D

Munchies_Matt

I like spelling 'learned' as 'learnt', the way it is pronounced. it is a valid spelling still though not common. English is basically a mess though, I think we should just spell stuff how we like, it always was that way. :)

Munchies_Matt

Thanks! :)

Munchies_Matt

Apparently it slows the passage of food out of the stomach, so it doesnt hit the small intestine so fast, and give the sugar spike, so even if you eat carbs, ACV means a lower spike.

Munchies_Matt

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

120 kg is enough to work as a bouncer

I am 6 ft 4 (195 cm) and pretty hefty, I have a 120cm chest measurement for example, but also fat. A gut. And it disgusts me. :( Yeah, kimchi too, any fermented stuff (except beer and wine) has good bacteria. And yeah, no takeaway. I dont like takeaway anyway, I can cook way better at home, better than most restaurants, easilly. Thats part of the reason I got so big, I love food, I love cooking, and I love wine.

Munchies_Matt

Aint asking, just telling. :)

Munchies_Matt

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

You're going to fail in the long term because you've bought into the fitness-industry-myths

But I am not doing any 'fitness' so I cant have.

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

doomed to fail.

I am dropping half a kilo a day. It works. It works for others, and it will work for me (In fact I have got down to 109 before doing the same diet) so you are wrong.

Munchies_Matt

Yep. It works. Plain as that.

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Munchies_Matt wrote:

it disgusts me. :(

Any motivation will do :) And after a bit time you'll get new rewards to keep you motivated - like having to buy lots new pants :D --edit

Munchies_Matt wrote:

I dont like takeaway anyway, I can cook way better at home, better than most restaurants, easilly.

Never trust a skinny cook! But indeed, not very helpfull if you can cook great.

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Munchies_Matt wrote:

But I am not doing any 'fitness' so I cant have.

"Fitness industry" meaning the "health and fitness industry" so not just exercise but diet too.

Munchies_Matt wrote:

I am dropping half a kilo a day. It works.

Probably not for the reasons you think though, and I said you'd fail in the long-term. When your weight loss stops, and even returns, you'll turn to the same sources to get a different set of lies and you'll then think "ah, so *this* is the right way to do it", and when that ultimately fails you'll repeat the process. Why do you think so many "new" diets come out and why the advice changes on a weekly basis? To fool you into thinking something new or different has been discovered, to fool you into thinking the fault was the fault of the last process you followed but *this one* will be better. You will continue on that treadmill endlessly, always repeating your mistakes. 1) Eat less 2) Move more 3) Win "Hey look, I've stopped going to Dominos and Burger King and I've lost some weight...the only possible explanation for that is because I'm eating fewer carbs".

Munchies_Matt

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

Eat less

That is what I am doing. Why so negative?