So over the winter period I've put on a bit of weight, on top of the weight I was planning on losing yonks ago.

So I've filled out my jumpers and jeans quite nicely. But summers coming and there's no hiding in boardies and t's.

But holy sheet am I finding it hard to stick to a healthy lifestyle. I'll go alright for a couple of days, stuff up the once, and its all over after that. Rinse and repeat.

Any other ex fatties struggle with a weak mind?

Yes I know this fat boy needs to harden up.

my wife is on her 6th week of a 12 week challenge Fark she has lost some weight.

I have been roped into dry July - trying to cut down my coke cola addiction at the same time. Expecting big results - in full Indo training mode now

Dont set unrealistic goals. Take it day by day. Excersize is good for the mind. The more you exercise the less bad stuff you want to eat.

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oldgumtree said...

So over the winter period I've put on a bit of weight, on top of the weight I was planning on losing yonks ago.

So I've filled out my jumpers and jeans quite nicely. But summers coming and there's no hiding in boardies and t's.

But holy sheet am I finding it hard to stick to a healthy lifestyle. I'll go alright for a couple of days, stuff up the once, and its all over after that. Rinse and repeat.

Any other ex fatties struggle with a weak mind?

Yes I know this fat boy needs to harden up.

Train for an event. I jumped into Tough Mudder and managed to drop down by 19 kilos.

I lost 11kgs some time back and kept it off by a simple change in diet..salad every day for lunch...cut out the starch..wholemeal not white bread..check the salt and saturated fat content on the shizz you buy and choose the lesser one....exercise as much as your able...simple walking..as much uphill as you can.

Know the nasties..high sugar in soft drinks..salt in "tasty" foods..Trim the fat off meat...etc etc

It worked and has stayed off...AND..my red consumption didn't miss a beat

What JB said.....find a big goal 12-18 months away and then a bunch of smaller goals to get there...personally I always wanted to run a marathon but at 112kgs I didn't think it was ever going to happen...started running 1 minute walking 1 minute, then running 2 minute walking 1 minute till I could run a whole loop of a 4km course without walking...then I did a 4km fun run, 10 km fun run and was aiming for a 14 km fun run when I realsied I was going further than that in training so I signed up for a half marathon and by the time it cam round I had dropped over 20kgs......that was a year ago since then I have run another half marathon...an ultra marathon and a trail marathon....best thing was I did an indo trip between the half marathon's and was on a completly different fitness level to most blokes in the water I was stilling paddling as strong at hour 6,7,8 as was in the first hour....boom more waves for me

The missus & I been doing the Fast Diet, 2 days of fasting, thats 600cals for me for the day, then you can pretty much eat your normal diet on other days. Look up Fast Diet Dr Michael Mosely. I've dropped about 4kg but my waistline has shrunk a lot.Exercise as well.

After years of not surfing and putting on a nice layer of blubber….

I found if I tried to stick to a healthy diet alone to loose weight, I would fail before I began.

This was because I would constantly looking at the food I was eating and the calorie intake and get frustrated when I didn’t see results asap. It’s even worse when you go over your limit of calorie’s for the day just by having one extra coffee, argggggghhhhhh, WTF it was only one coffee, COME ON!!!! (so easy to look at is as a fail and give up).

What I found works better for body and mind (but is much harder initially), is physical exercise.

For me its’ been working on two areas, cardio and strength. This involved running on the treadmill, watching long boarding video clips on the phone (so keep them coming fellas) and training with weights (not “Look at me, I’m a cloud” weight training).

Like everything else it’s hard because it takes will power to initially push yourself along (you know, 1 day of training then 2 weeks of promising to do it again), but I found that like surfing it became addictive when I pushed myself and got that physical rush, pretty soon I found that I had set a routine training on days that I wasn’t surfing, except for the day after surfing (jelly legs, arms and all).

What I liked about this method was that I wasn’t constantly looking at my weight as the end goal and successful outcome and counting calories. Instead I was concentrating on my cardio endurance and strength building, with achievements being running further and faster, lifting more or, completing more reps being the goal to set each time.

With these goals I soon found that I forgot about the extra blubber I’ve been carrying and was having much more fun getting fit rather then looking at it as an every day challenge. An added bones is that your body starts to crave the healthy foods that it needs, not what you want.

So if you would like to but my book he, he, he (juts kidding).

This was until I got injured and had a 3-month out of the water without the ability to train or surf at all!

I’m in the clear now and can get back in the water (yeah).

But, well now I’ve got to start all over again, and I’m back at the point of “tomorrow, um, I’ll start tomorrow…………………………..”.

Meanwhile I’ve missed some epic swells over the last couple of weeks down our way.

It's hard, but find something you will love to do right, rather then take just take away the things you love to do wrong.

Edit: When I first got back into surfing, this method helped me as I found that I lost close to 10 kg over 2 months without focusing on the weight loss issue.

Injuries have really haunted me starting when i lost all the weight. I have been trying to hang on to the weight loss but with out the heavy exercise its hard and i have slowly put it back on. Well a good part of it.

I have been trying very hard with my surfing and have found I'm doing more damage physically and mentally so have decided to step back, re focus on my weight and fitness

For me i have found the slight extra weight just slows me down, especially on the pop and general cardio fitness hurts when paddling and taking waves on the head, so i find I'm getting more wave selective and wave count then drops. SO its time to get fit for me..

Jogging and swimming, Boxing and more swimming and running..