Make sure you don't under nourish or you will fall off the wagon or the reverse may happen, where your body goes into starvation mode and holds onto the weight. Go online and see what a male and female daily calorie intake should be roughly, you can work out what you need to do from here. I dropped down to 1350 calories per day to shift weight quick, although I shifted loads of weight I ended up looking Ill and haggered! Sensible options and sensible goals. Ps well done for making the start, if you keep to it you'll look back after a couple of months and feel great.
Of course I stopped, I was glad of the breather No fear of under nourishing, it's pizza night tonight
This is the start of the new you. Go easy, take it slow, enjoy it, keep it going. I am well retired now and past my best, but I keep moving and eat well and walk around 12 miles a week as well as doing other stuff. Do try to give up sugar or reduce it. Its bad carbohydrate. And dare I say it, drink less alcohol. I have to eat carefully and exercise a lot as I am an insulin dependent diabetic, been so for 20 years. With better eating and more exercise, you will start to feel so much better and much healthier.
Made it home pedal powered too, that felt harder work than this morning, but I've spent all afternoon hammering a chisel and I think there's more uphill on the way back. I think that was about 40 mins. Time for a nice hot bath and some good grub. Day 1, successful. Back on the motorbike tomorrow as it's gym class after work and I can't face cycling aswell
I used to quite like it years ago when I rode to work everyday, doesn't seem so much like exercise if I can build it into a day to day function. I'm going to see if I can build up to doing it more often over the next few weeks, but the weather will play a part in it too. It's no fun at all getting soaked on the way to work, when work is a, often colder than outside workshop.
Thank you Believe it or not I don't drink much booze in every day life, I do like a few if I'm away camping or at friends for a weekend, but rarely drink at home. I've cut back on fizzy pop and increased my water intake recently too. I will get there, the point of telling you lot about it is motivational, it'd be easy to give up if noone knew, but now I've started talking about it, you'll all know if I wimp out and make an idiot of myself.
Strike while the irons hot so they say. You sound motivated so stick with it. After a few months you will have changed both physically and mentally, just don't give up.
Exactly, once you're doing that most of the time, that's just normal activity. I worked with someone who along with his son biked 30 miles each way to work every day. Mormons or something. lol. Son rebelled - he saved up and bought a Moped.
I probably worded that badly, I thrive on making myself look silly, I don't know anyone else daft enough to dress up like a giant woodland creature and have their friends push them down a big hill in a homemade cart.
zed is rightly chivying you a bit. cut out those fizzy drinks and no sugar in your tea or coffee. I don't cycle anymore as my knees didn't like it, so now I walk a lot and swim as well. walked 2 miles today and my old neighbour did 4 miles with his friends. we are trying to keep fit in our old age. Also I took the van out for a 16 mile round trip, very nice.
I've met beaver a few times over the years, I think I'll get away with it. She's quite sensible in her own special way.
I know what he's upto I don't want to be over confident, but I'm happy with my plan for the moment. I've been logging all my food & drink ingoings for the last week, something I've never done before, logging the calories. I'd never looked at calories before and it's making me much more aware of the choices I'm making, good and bad.
