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I need to lose considerable amounts of weight, but it's not easy when the other occupant of the house is diabetic. Mandatory afternoon and bedtime snacks, and it would be sheer rudeness not to join in.

The main problem is that not that I eat much, but that I get no exercise at all. How to remedy this is quite a problem. I joined an aerobics class over last spring and summer, but it was cancelled. This area isn't one you'd want to go walking in (and anyway, the weather is turning nasty). There's no room indoors to do any kind of exercise routine.

You can loose a bit of wait by just becoming a little more active in your normal day to day life. I was beginning to get a bit of extra meat around my stomach area so now I try to use stairs whenever possible, and walk short journeys that I'd usually drive. Unless you can radically change you eating or exercising habits, you won't loose loads of wait, but you'll be burning off a few extra calories that you wouldn't normally.

It doesn't take all that much to start to loose weight. It's a simple equation of calories in need to be less than calories out.

There are lots of things that you can do, an hour's walk will burn off around about 300 calories. Perhaps you could cycle to work, go for an evening swiim. It all depends on what you can fit in, I'm out running most evenings after I get home from work and quite often go swimmimg before work and at the weekends, but that's what I love doing. Also little changes in diet can make a huge difference. I don't know what you diet is like Robbie, but just something simple like swapping fried or oven chips for baked potato wedges or fried eggs for boiled or poached eggs will help massively. Pasta dishes (without the cheese), stir fries or salads can be lovely dinners, will give you all the nutriants that you need but at the same time be low in calories.

I don't get much exercise either, but that's because I am supremely lazy. It seems like all the guys at work go to the gym. I haven't set foot in a gym since I was at school. Mr. Irving is right; making little changes in your life do make a difference. I never use a lift and always take the stairs, unless I happen to be going up ten floors or something. All I have to do now is walk to the local shops instead of jumping in the car. The shops are four minutes walk away and I always drive.

Next time I walk there, I'm going to get me one of those cream cakes (see my last post) as a reward for myself. Er, perhaps not.

Replicant wrote:Next time I walk there, I'm going to get me one of those cream cakes (see my last post) as a reward for myself. Er, perhaps not.

You and those damn cakes! Because of you and the lady at the desk next to mine with her disturbingly nice smelling Mcdonalds, I'm going out of my head with hunger. I'm tempted to jump which ever drone co-worker walks near my desk and devour them whole.

I don't just eat cakes. Burgers, too...

I laugh at your puny burger!

When I worked in an office, I used to walk about a mile each morning from home to the railway station, and most afternoons walked back again as well. And often had a stroll around during my lunch break. Now I work from home, so there's one or two miles a day cut out for a start.

The only "exercise" I can count on these days is strolling a few hundred yards to the newsagent and back every morning. Once or twice a week this is tripled because I need to walk to the post office (a few hundred yards the other way) and then to the newsagent. Supermarket trips a couple of times a month, and bigger shopping trips (to the town centre or further afield) every month or two. You can add in a certain amount of house and garden work, but that's about it, really. The rest of my time is spent sitting down looking at paper or a screen.

I can't drive or ride a bike. Wherever I go in the local area I walk, but there's not much call for going anywhere in the local area. Apart from the newsagent, post office, and other shops in our own street, there's only the launderette and the doctor's surgery within walking distance.

If the area was safer and more interesting, I would be doing a lot more walking just for the sake of it, at least when the weather permitted. But it's not very safe and not at all interesting.

Don't think I'm moaning. If my belt is anything to go by, I've managed to lose something over the past few months just by taking a little extra care over food intake. If I can manage to find something calorie-burning to do, the trend should continue.

Over the spring and early summer I really enjoyed an aerobics class, but it was cancelled. There are still hopes it will restart in a different venue, but that's looking less likely. It was really good for me because it was so close by that I couldn't ever have an excuse for missing a session. (Some years ago I joined a gym in the town centre, but getting there by bus was such a drag it was easy to find reasons not to go.)

I've got a council booklet listing all the various physical fitness things going on in Bolton, so I'll have to dig that out and have another look at it. I'm also trying to persuade Col to try chair-based exercise classes.

I'm also taking CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), which is supposed to interfere with fat metabolism in a helpful way. It discourages the body from laying down fat, and encourages the pathways that burn fat. Also taking plant sterol capsules, which seem to be working -- I've lowered my cholesterol level by about a point over the last year, without any particular attention to diet and even while taking the sterols very irregularly. We'll see what happens now that I'm being more assiduous with both.

I bet he had a Diet Coke with that burger.

Replicant wrote:I bet he had a Diet Coke with that burger.

One of the funniest moments of my life was when I was having lunch in a Garfunkel's years ago. A, shall we say, quite large woman came in and ordered a Double Fudge Super Banana Split and a Diet Coke.

these are really cupcakes made to look like cheeseburgers



recipe here http://www.flickr.com/photos/katedw/3489933430/

I'm hoping to shed a pound or two before my wedding next year, but bugg3r me is it difficult. I don't care what anyone says, healthy food does not taste as good. I'm not saying I can't enjoy some lightly steamed vegetables, but preferably sitting next to a huge slab of red meat coated in some kind of butter/cream based sauce.

Butter, sugar and cream - the holy trinity of French cooking. Add cheese into that equation and losing weight seems... well... unlikely.

Thankfully my wife-to-be is a very healthy eater, so providing we approximately share cooking duties when we start living together I do have a fighting chance at not just blobbing out when I approach middle age.