You're only supposed to be 12stone?! But you're tall! Surely that would make you a stick insect!

Anyway, I don't like the girly diets anyway, I like la dolce vita. But without past and white bread. And more fruit, less crisps. And no gym, just good old fashioned hard work and walking home!

Good luck

PREDOMINANT said:

It's more a job requirement than any super committment on my part....fat Soldiers usually don't get very far.... Diet wise, I'll eat a burger just as easily as I will take the extra minute or two to put together the healthy stuff....I agree that sitting there with a food scale and calorie calculator is bordering on retarded...I watch what I eat, but I'm not suicidal if I cheat....

I need to put on weight, but to be honest I'm far less concerned with that than just generally being healthy and cutting out crap food. So, now it's just water, juice or tea and no soda/fizzy pop, lots of fruit from the market, plenty of veggies, pasta, chicken, fish, and bread and virtually no fast food, save for the odd treat. I could probably eat all the fattening food and work out like hell to bulk up a bit, but it won't happen. For now I'd like to healthy and trim. I want to be able to dunk a ball again.

Moving to 'Health & Wellbeing' Forum



Oh, wait... There isn't one!

As for your weight-loss diet, you just need to lower your carbohydrates and minimize your fat intake to under ten grams a day.

Don't eat potatoes, pastry or pasta for a month. I lost a stone last year doing this and I've never regained the weight. I cut down on bread to around six wholemeal slices a week and used rice to accompany most meals. Stay away from all dairy produce too, except for cottage cheese. I still ate six eggs a week but they were always either poached or boiled.

My top tips are:

01. Raw carrots. Great for snacking on. Easy to peel, sweeter than apples and less acidic.

02. Frozen skinless chicken breasts. I lived off these. ASDA Smart Price sell huge bags in their freezer section for about £5.00. You can roast them from frozen too in about 40 minutes. Two of these roasted contain less fat than the average packet of potato crisps.

03. Instant Savoury Rice. Again, you're looking at just 37p a bag from ASDA. Just add boiling water, pop in the microwave for 15 minutes and you're done.

04. Tuna in brine. I went through about a dozen cans a week. Stir a drained can into the aforementioned savoury rice, add a couple of spoons of passata and you have a tuna rissoto with less than three grams of fat.

05. Fry nothing! Poach two eggs, grill two rashers of bacon (or turkey rashers), add a small can on baked beans and loads of peeled sliced microwaved mushrooms. Eat with one slice of wholemeal toast. It'll still fill you up.

Worried about being too thin is a nice worry, but thats where my man boobs are from. I used to be super skinny when I was at uni, started to bulk up went down the gym (not in a scary obsessive way) but now, 10 years or so later, that muscle is turning to fat and it is a struggle to keep it up.

Are all the British supermarkets doing those now?

reneGade20 said:

I see what you mean, but a comoument to your phisical well being is part of your commitment to your job - still commitment. I can still go to work if I doubled my weight - you might have a bit of trouble

PREDOMINANT said:

Pretty much.....I'm 5'7" tall....so if I doubled my weight, I would truly be

...."RESPECT MAH AUTHORI-TIE!!!"

Moving to 'Health & Wellbeing' Forum



Oh, wait... There isn't one!

As for your weight-loss diet, you just need to lower your carbohydrates and minimize your fat intake to under ten grams a day.

Don't eat potatoes, pastry or pasta for a month. I lost a stone last year doing this and I've never regained the weight. I cut down on bread to around six wholemeal slices a week and used rice to accompany most meals. Stay away from all dairy produce too, except for cottage cheese. I still ate six eggs a week but they were always either poached or boiled.

My top tips are:

01. Raw carrots. Great for snacking on. Easy to peel, sweeter than apples and less acidic.

02. Frozen skinless chicken breasts. I lived off these. ASDA Smart Price sell huge bags in their freezer section for about £5.00. You can roast them from frozen too in about 40 minutes. Two of these roasted contain less fat than the average packet of potato crisps.

03. Instant Savoury Rice. Again, you're looking at just 37p a bag from ASDA. Just add boiling water, pop in the microwave for 15 minutes and you're done.

04. Tuna in brine. I went through about a dozen cans a week. Stir a drained can into the aforementioned savoury rice, add a couple of spoons of passata and you have a tuna rissoto with less than three grams of fat.

05. Fry nothing! Poach two eggs, grill two rashers of bacon (or turkey rashers), add a small can on baked beans and loads of peeled sliced microwaved mushrooms. Eat with one slice of wholemeal toast. It'll still fill you up.

Whatever happened to the suggestion of health and welbeing forum

This is far to much like a woman diet - too many rules Man Diet is based on simplicity.

You are right about walking though, but I do that anyway.

Whatever happened to the suggestion of health and welbeing forum

Anybody that has some good, practical suggestions for what kind of food to eat to put on a bit of bulk please do help me out..

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Oh, wait... There isn't one!

susannah said:

BMI don't lie! I think I have best part of a stone spread around my waist and the rest split between two man boobs

The BMI is just a target, you are right even a stone over this weight doesn't make me overweight for my height. I just don't feel great about the way I look or my belt size - probably just vanity!

PREDOMINANT said:

Yes, I don't feel right either, about the fact I seem to keep growing out of work trousers! I can't afford any more!

By hook, or by bloody crook, you ARE going to get that forum installed.

onenitealone said:

My continuous lobbying is for the greater good of all mankind.

I've only been asking now for about... ooh... five years.

How are the neighbors doing ?

susannah said:

It's all about distribution.

I'm almost certainly underweight but that doesn't concern me. I just don't like this beer gut I have. That Mon said I reminded her of an alien walking across the screen in a home video in Brazil in that Mel Gibson film 'Signs' doesn't help though.

I have quite an outspoken opinion on all these faddy girly diets especially the bullshit of the Atkins and I believe that simple health eating (with all those banned substances) and regular exercise has no substitution.

I was always "lucky" that a couple of trips to the gym and my flab goes away, but now it ain't that simple and as I get older the old metabolism DOES appear to be slowing down so it is time to put my opinions to the test.

According to my BMI I should be 12 stone (168 lb) or about 76Kg I am just under 13 stone (180 lb) or 82 kg.

I want to get to my ideal BMI (Drop 6Kg, 1 Stone or 14lb) in just over 2 weeks (by the 1st of July) without killing myself at the Gym and changing my eating habits only slightly.

The motivation – summer holidays and I can’t get into my shorts!

The 3 simple rules,

1. Cut down on beer – wine and other alcohol is perfectly ok, otherwise why live?

2. Cut down on fat – eat less fatty foods this is the no-brainer that many people fail to see the logic in.

3. Eat more fruit and veg - just so you feel like you are doing the right thing. I already eat the recommended quantities but a little more can’t hurt and it stops excessive snacking on chocolate and crisps (fat).

I would appreciate your comments and cajolements by way of motivation. I then plan to keep my weight down by adopting these habits permanently and continuing to spread the good word.

If anybody else wants to join Man Diet then the subscription fee is £100,000 but I just gave away the secrets so I guess you can just do it with out subscribing. I would appreciate the company.

I have quite an outspoken opinion on all these faddy girly diets especially the bullshit of the Atkins and I believe that simple health eating (with all those banned substances) and regular exercise has no substitution.

I was always "lucky" that a couple of trips to the gym and my flab goes away, but now it ain't that simple and as I get older the old metabolism DOES appear to be slowing down so it is time to put my opinions to the test.

According to my BMI I should be 12 stone (168 lb) or about 76Kg I am just under 13 stone (180 lb) or 82 kg.

I want to get to my ideal BMI (Drop 6Kg, 1 Stone or 14lb) in just over 2 weeks (by the 1st of July) without killing myself at the Gym and changing my eating habits only slightly.

The motivation – summer holidays and I can’t get into my shorts!

The 3 simple rules,

1. Cut down on beer – wine and other alcohol is perfectly ok, otherwise why live?

2. Cut down on fat – eat less fatty foods this is the no-brainer that many people fail to see the logic in.

3. Eat more fruit and veg - just so you feel like you are doing the right thing. I already eat the recommended quantities but a little more can’t hurt and it stops excessive snacking on chocolate and crisps (fat).

I would appreciate your comments and cajolements by way of motivation. I then plan to keep my weight down by adopting these habits permanently and continuing to spread the good word.

If anybody else wants to join Man Diet then the subscription fee is £100,000 but I just gave away the secrets so I guess you can just do it with out subscribing. I would appreciate the company.

Justin ! My man, I´m with you....we WILL get this fucking Health and Wellbeing forum one day.....just be patient...

Fauxie said:

"i can think of a few"

Do your exercise in the form of alot more sex.....