I have decided I need to get my butt into gear and tomorrow I am going to the gym to join up for a month and do aerobics! I am sick of making excuses and need to lose some weight and tone up. I have lost 20 kilos since last year and I know how hard it is without support. So let's all get together and see if we can do it together! What do you say?
Even if it is going for walks 3 days a week and eating healthy that's gotta be alot healthier than doing nothing. Let's all try this together and see how much healthier we feel and how much weight we can lose in month.
Who wants to do this?
Foxy
fruit, nuts and vegies and plenty of exercise, thats the key
yeah it's a start
I would love to go but I am a hyperactive,bulimic,turec syndome case with a compulsive disorder. So I walk really fast while swearing at people then throw up and clean up the mess. Not good.
Wish you all the best in your endevours.:thumb
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hahaha wow......issues....BIG issues is all I have to say :P
Stuff it!
I did a medical in January. At the end of it the doctor sits me down & says, your 105 kilo & smoke a pack a day. what are "WE" going to do about it?
I said , you've just done all these tests on me, am I healthy?
He rather sheepishly said yes.
So my reply was I'm going to do f#ckall.
I think I'm the last of the proud heavy weights....😎
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
You go!! woo hoo! As long as you are happy and feel healthy that's all that matters. Myself, I like a bit of meat on a man 😉 But its how you feel that matters........
haha i lost all my weight going vegetarian last year... i put it all back on during the hsc... damn.
good luck. ive taken to riding my bike everywhere so im on the right trail! yippe go us!
im with kikko... except ive been vegetarian for 11 years.
bikes rule!:bounce
ive been riding mine all weekend, up and around the huge hills of paddington, granny-mode all the way!
im also thinking about taking 1 hour out of my 4 hour uni break of a wednesday to do some yoga in the botanic gardens. yes, i know i will look strange, but at least i'll be super-healthy and relaxed for chemistry lectures 😀
you dont need to spend money on a gym foxy, just get a bike or go swimming!
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this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
I'm vegetarian but that doesn't stop you putting on weight unfortunately.
Martial arts does the trick for me - full body and mind workout with purpose.
Good luck Foxy...and well done with what you lost already...it's not easy to start loosing...I stacked on a lot of weight when the kids were little...seems an occupational hazard for mums ....felt so much better when I got it off....I didn't diet or join a gym...just general life changes...and some travel on my own ... I just walked every where and ate when I felt hungry but not lots....
Star buggy I did yoga for years....it doesn't look funny...and is a fantastic form of excercise and very relaxing.....and it makes you so flexible...Thai Chi also good...that's so cool to do in a park
I'm so not a gym person...I go crazy in those places...
If you want to be super fit do traditional Thai kick boxing...I found a school near here where they had a non combat class.....do all the same things just don't spar....it's great for getting rid of tension and pent up frustration....kick and punch it away...also good form of self defence training...
Aikido another good martial art which lots of women do
I find the Eastern forms of excercise great for the mind as well as body...can highly recommend them
I'm up for it. I lost alot of weight when I was pergnant with both the babies but I have put it all back on. It is hard to look after myself when all my time is taken up looking after the kids. I need to make a conscience effort to not to eat crap and I am also trying to stop smoking, so I am battling two evils at once. I need to get off my arse more often and walk..... or if I had the money I would join a gym but as walking is for free I'll start with that.
I'll let you know how I go.
in the last 8 months or so i have lost 15kg,
i haven't gone on a crash diet or anything.
I just changed what i ate a the amounts that i ate, also did two hours of cardio activity a day.
so i have gone from 106 to 91kg and i am aiming for low 80's.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Sounds like a good challenge!!
i lost 14kgs about 2 years ago but have put about 10 back on cause i got struck down with a virus and now have fatigue problems.. but im willing to try and do some walking!! im on special chinese mushroom tablets at the moment so im trying to eat pretty healthy while on those, its just the exercise part that is the hardest... i think i might go to yoga tonight!!
woo hoo lets get healthy !!
kara
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2 hours of cardio a day is hardcore! if i did that i recon i could live on pizza and still be fit
Is mattress dancing good cardio work? LOL
whats mattress dancing excuse my ignorance
CoopGirl wrote:Is mattress dancing good cardio work? LOL
depends on how energetic you get.
i read somewhere that hormones released during sex have something to do with toning muscles, so i guess that even if you're the lazy half you will still get a little toned:P
[Edited on 4-4-2005 by akean1]
few i was a bit worried about that
First thing
Never NEVER ever weigh yourself.
Measure your chest, waist and hips.
As you lose fat you will tone and possibly gain muscle mass. If you lose 5 kilos of fat you may/probably will gain 3 kilos of lean muscle. Fat weighs bugegr all. Muscle is heavy.
If you don't have time for structured exercise make sure you move. If you want to have 5 buscuits walk to the pantry get one. Sit down eat it and walk back for another. If you use a plate, walk to the sink and put it there - don't wait until you have to take a few things from the table keep going back and forth. Use stairs rather than elevators.
Don't pay attention to height weight age formula. It's bullshit pure and simple. The only way to know where you should be weight wise is to include body fat percentage and muscle mass into that formula.
No one would look at me and have any idea how much I weigh. I love laughing at doctors who figure me to be about 85 kilos. They die when they find out they are wrong by on average 30 kilos.
Could do loosing a few Kgs myself but finding the time is a bummer - missus reckons halve your beer intake and it will be a good start - damn that's 1 stubby a day - possibly if she'd listen adn give me smaller servings of food it may be a better start
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As an amatuer Triathlete My race weight is between 70 & 72 kgs wringing wet (when Im fighting fit) Currently 80kgs and feel like a sloth compared to when Im in shape. Not that I could be called overweight at all but its just not what I am used to feeling / looking like. I havent had a great deal of time to train / race lately due to my Twins being born but i am currently on the come back trail.
My advice to anyone is that its all about using up more energy than you put in to your body, so basically you need to be moving as much as you can, and make sure you enjoy what your doing(excersize wise) otherwise it is just another chore you have to do.
Remember if being fit was easy everybody would be fit.
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Good advice guys!! check back here every few days and tell us how you have been goin. Today I went to an aerobics class, which I think is better than sitting on a treadmill and doing weights. It's alot more fun.
I am going to go again tomorrow as well! How is everyone going with the walking/yoga? Tell me what Yoga is like coz I have always wanted to try it. We should get a few people on here together around bris and try Yoga together. I have heard there is a place in Brissie that do a different kind of Yoga in a hot/steam room. It's suppose to be really good and sweat all of the toxins and weight off.
Foxy
SAS got it right. Move more than you eat.
If you like a full stomach and enjoy eating then move considerably more or eat lots of stuff that takes more energy to digest than it provides. High water content foods like lettuce etc give you the oral satisfaction of eating without the caloric intake.
When I was fighting I weighed 140kg minimum. My intake was phenomenal. But my muscle mass meant I was "working" all the time. I would still swim, work out, spar and run but would never lose weight only build more muscle mass and tone it. Do not be afraid to weigh more, concentrate on losing fat and inches.
[Edited on 4-4-2005 by HotRodMatt]
Good advice matt,
the best thing that i do is judge how much you loose by how your clothes feel on you.
If the jeans that you haven't been able to get into for 2 years all of a sudden fit, that is when i feel good.
What sort fo fighting did you use to/still do Matt?
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
ive lost 15kg just this year and want to loose another 10 or so. but if i build more muscle ill most likely stay the weight i am now
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I joined weight watchers after christmas and am walking 2 outta 3 days and I've lost 10 kilos and lovin it.
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Boxing, Lee. But being a super heavyweight if you don't knock them out in the first or second you don't want to fight anymore.
After that, while I started losing my size (took 4 years to reduce down to 105-115kilos) I took up medieval fighting. Not the latex SCA shit - real high carbon steel swords, 20 kilo mail coats, spears and axes. Strength endurance speed and other boxing skills helped there too.
Another point to consider is to really reduce your portions. Learn what a kilojoule is, and read the label of the food you eat. Check the portion size too. The ice coffee I drink every morning at work has two 750 odd kj (at home now) potions in it- about 1500 total. Thats the same as a whole lean cuisine (large)
Eat every meal and have morning and arfternoon tea. Dont buy shit because if its not there you cant eat it.
Endocrine disorders are a bullshit excuse ( as said by a Professor of Endocrine medicine) If you eat more energy than you use, you store it in your fat cells. If you eat less energy than you use, you use up fat cells, stored energy in your liver and other chemical storage systems.
I feel so much better when fit and lean. I can be fat and fit. Currently a new parent, I am unfit and fat and in desparate need of a good loooong sleep. So, Foxy I am on the mission too!
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