The only way to lose weight, apart from chopping off body parts, is to consume less calories than your body needs. Think of your fat reserves as the bank. Too many calories and your body stores them in the bank. Too few calories and your body starts to make withdrawals to keep up with current expenditure rates. It doesn't matter which diet you choose. They all work on calorie control, even the ones that don't realise they are doing it such as Atkins. Everyones calorie requirement is different. Your age, size, metabolic rate and lifestyle all determine how many calories you need. Try cutting down your calories by a couple of hundred for a few days, if that doesn't work try reducing it again. Eventually you will find a point at which you start to lose weight. Stay below that point and weight will continue to come off. Go above and you will gain weight, and hit that point repeatedly and you will maintain constant weight. The key is to closely monitor your calories. Weigh everything and evenutally you will get to a point where you can look at something and know roughly whether you should eat it or not. Think how long it took to get the weight on in the first place. Don't try to lose it too fast or it will not become your new lifestyle, which is what it needs to be. It's all about what you are happy with. I'm about 1 stone overweight but I can live with that because I get to eat the things I want, but if my weight starts to creep up I know what I need to do to bring it back down.
Ian Harris has a degree in nutrition or something doesn't he?
And a competitive cyclist, he looks pretty lean to me - send him a PM
The thing it has been for me, is running really ... just lots of exercise. Running, swimming, cycling. ... since having my second knee op, it's less running unfortunately
For health reasons I took yeast and dairy out of my diet for three months. That's no bread, no wine (can still drink Champagne!), no gravy or sauces. you'd be surprised what they put yeast in! Just good proper food without the fuss. I'm a stick insect anyway, but within the first two days I lost 1/4 stone and had to find non dairy/yeast weight producing foods to put it back on again. It works a treat. A bit like a detox. And makes you feel great. The lb's just fall off and you eat as much as you like. Btw - it did the job. Scabby face healed and my hair grew back. If you're a baldy Andy, I doubt it'll have the same effect .....
12-Oct-2006, 11:46 
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