13-01-13, 11:52 PM
(13-01-13, 07:59 PM)dickturpin link Wrote: Still feeling the excess of Christmas, I wonder what we all do to stay slim!!!
Just over a year ago, having got back from my annual biking and surfing holiday, I weighed myself and found I was 12 stone which is *way* over where I should be.
After a lot of searching around on the web (most searches tend to end up with someone trying to sell you a diet or dodgy "weight loss" tablets) I came up with three simple bits of information:
1) Find your Basal Metabolic Rate here: http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ and then multiply that number by your activity level to find how many calories your body actually needs per day.
2) Keep a food diary, ie every time you eat or drink something you write down the calorie content.
3) Remember that a pound (just under half a kilogramme) of fat is 3,500 calories, so if you eat 250 calories a day fewer than your body needs, in a fortnight you'll lose a pound and if you also do 250 calories of exercise a day as well, you'll lose a pound a week.
Simple and no surgery or faddy diets required.
Personally I do half an hour most days on the Cross Trainer I have at home (with a video sender so I can watch stuff I've got recorded on Sky+ whilst working out) which burns about 250 - 300 calories and twice a week I go to the gym and do Body Combat class which burns around 700 calories.
In a year I went from 12 stone to under 10 stone and from a 37" waist to a 31" waist.
My main problem now is actually that I've got so used to this that I've got to get into the habit of eating a bit more so I don't lose any more weight!