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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / June 2004Hi , i'm over weight and a need to lose weight around 40lbs , i live a very busy life , my job pretty much as me stood behind a counter all day dealing with customers , i work in retail in the U.K, its quite a small store , but your on your feet all day an
Hi , i'm over weight and a need to lose weight around 40lbs , i live a very busy life , my job pretty much as me stood behind a counter all day dealing with customers , i work in retail in the U.K, its quite a small store , but your on your feet all day and feel very tired at the end of it.......... but what i need is some diet advice , i need easy accese foods , something you can buy daily from your local shops/market , foods that will help keep my enrgys levels up for my work but something that will be low in fat..... Any advice welcomed and please any good quality websites would be a real bonus. Fruit, veg, dry roast nuts (limited because they have lots of fat even though it's healthy fat), popcorn with no butter (the butter would get on your retail goods anyway), yogurt and fresh fruit, granola but watch the fat content. But make sure and figure this into your portion numbers for the day, it's not really true that food you eat standing up doesn't count (too bad!). > Hi , i'm over weight and a need to lose weight around 40lbs , i live a very > busy life , my job pretty much as me stood behind a counter all day dealing [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Any advice welcomed and please any good quality websites would be a real > bonus. > Hi , i'm over weight and a need to lose weight around 40lbs , i live a very > busy life , my job pretty much as me stood behind a counter all day dealing [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > you can buy daily from your local shops/market , foods that will help keep > my enrgys levels up for my work but something that will be low in fat..... Fat in moderation is good for you. Don't avoid fat thinking it will make you fat. I pop 1oz (~28 nuts) of almonds as a mid-day snack, and I don't care how much fat is in it because a) it fills me up for hours, b) the fat is all unsaturated "good" fat, and c) I've lost well-on 40lbs in 4 months eating this way. > Any advice welcomed and please any good quality websites would be a real > bonus. My advice is cut out all the crap sugary stuff you eat, if anything, first. Just stop eating it. Then look to how long you want to eat to lose weight, and shoot to run a slight daily caloric deficit to lose the weight at that rate. With just a 500 kcal/day deficit (ie basically nothing) you can be more than halfway to your goal by Christmas. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html was the website that opened my eyes to how piss-simple dieting could be, but YMMV. Heywood 232/195/182 > > Hi , i'm over weight and a need to lose weight around 40lbs , i live a very > > busy life , my job pretty much as me stood behind a counter all day dealing [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > 232/195/182 Thank you for your advice..i'm also a member of a gym , which i like to visit one time a week....but lately due to work pressures i've been unable to visit....i was thinking about trying to squeeze say a 15min work out into my morning routine before work. , mainly just some hand weights and what would be consider aerobic type exercises , is this more likely to tone me than slim me , or both at the same time? > Thank you for your advice..i'm also a member of a gym , which i like to > visit one time a week....but lately due to work pressures i've been unable > to visit....i was thinking about trying to squeeze say a 15min work out into > my morning routine before work. , mainly just some hand weights and what > would be consider aerobic type exercises , is this more likely to tone me > than slim me , or both at the same time? A 15 minute session isn't going to do much of anything, really. Aerobics as weight-loss requires burning through glycogen stores in the liver and muscles, which requires ~30minutes of moderate exercise, and 15 minutes is a good warm-up period length for weight training. >> Thank you for your advice..i'm also a member of a gym , which i like >> to visit one time a week....but lately due to work pressures i've [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the liver and muscles, which requires ~30minutes of moderate exercise, > and 15 minutes is a good warm-up period length for weight training. What? A 15-minute session will burn more calories than a zero minute session. Aerobics (or most activities) will burn calories, thereby increasing the caloric defecit, thereby increasing the weight loss. Nothing to do with "burning through glycogen stores." If you are talking about increasing the aerobic capacity, then that is something else. We are talking about weight loss here. Phil M.  Signature"Do, or do not. There is no try." -Yoda > >> Thank you for your advice..i'm also a member of a gym , which i like > >> to visit one time a week....but lately due to work pressures i've [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > increasing the aerobic capacity, then that is something else. We are > talking about weight loss here. True enough. Shoulda added that 15 minutes is better than nothing. Just don't think it's going to be doing much 'toning' or 'slimming', that's all. You're looking at burning 100 kcal over 15 minutes of low-impact 'aerobic-type' exercise. That's worth a pound of fat over a month, nothing to be sneezed at, but IME casual exercise can also just make one hungrier (to restock the depleted glycogen), and as far as aerobics go, I think it's safe to say one would be better served exercising for over an hour once a week rather than 15 minutes every workday morning. 15 minutes is plenty of time for a pushup, pullup, and situp regimen, and that wouldn't hurt at all. > > "Just Wondering" <arcadia_143_@nospambtinternet.com> wrote in message > news:<dtmCc.20288$3n.16084@fe09.usenetserver.com>... [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > would be consider aerobic type exercises , is this more likely to tone me > than slim me , or both at the same time? 15 minutes is a good start. Do you think you could squeeze in 5 or 10 more minutes of exercise at other times in the day? For example, during lunch, take a short walk. Renee |
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