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Losing the weight vs keeping it off.
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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Which part do you find the hardest? I find that losing the weight is quite easy, the real challenge for me is to maintain the 6pack as you diet down to low calorie intake. I like the challenge tho and I have high calorie days as well  |
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over a year ago
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A healthy balanced lifestyle means it's easy to eat well and have what you like and stay pretty much ok. Our weight is designed to fluctuate with times of hardship and excess, putting weight on through the summer/harvest to sustain us through winter and harder times so it's natural ... |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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"A healthy balanced lifestyle means it's easy to eat well and have what you like and stay pretty much ok. Our weight is designed to fluctuate with times of hardship and excess, putting weight on through the summer/harvest to sustain us through winter and harder times so it's natural ... "
You are right there as well, it is all about finding a healthy balance between the 2 there  |
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A healthy balance for me and flexibility. If I know I'm going away and won't have access to much, then I up my physical activity and bulk a couple of weeks before which then evens itself out whilst I'm away. I also eat in deficit during the week to allow indulgence at the weekend which stops those little extra pounds creeping in. Deficit doesn't mean starving though, just means I leave treats etc out until Friday or if I've had a particularly strenuous physical day. Keeps me averaging out quite well on the whole Elle x |
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I try to keep a healthy balance plus exercise enough to keep pretty stable.
I found the first lockdown helped me gay back on track as it kept me away from temptation at the corner shop - in the office I’d sometimes stress eat a packet of biscuits a day. |
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"A healthy balanced lifestyle means it's easy to eat well and have what you like and stay pretty much ok. Our weight is designed to fluctuate with times of hardship and excess, putting weight on through the summer/harvest to sustain us through winter and harder times so it's natural ... "
Exactly right. Without any noticeable variation in my diet and exercise, I routinely put on about half a stone in sept / Oct each year, then stay at that level, and quite easily drop it around feb/March.
And to answer OP’s question, keeping weight off is harder than losing it, as it requires permanent lifestyle changes rather than short term measures like a push on fitness or cutting out certain foods (or booze!) for a period of time to hit a certain weight. Keeping weight off requires a lot more discipline |
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"I find Christmas messes me up. I then spend 6 months being a blob. Get fit lose the weight from the summer onwards, Christmas messes me up again. "
If you enjoy Christmas, enjoy Christmas, but make it part of the plan. Eg shed a few lbs before Xmas or work hard in January,
I definitely do that with holidays. Some holidays are going to be active enough to break even, others aren’t, but I’m not going to shell out on a holiday and sit there nibbling lettuce and limiting myself to one beer in case I put on a few lbs. I plan for it, cut myself some slack, knock the arse out of the holiday and then do some remedial work. |
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"I try to keep a healthy balance plus exercise enough to keep pretty stable.
I found the first lockdown helped me gay back on track as it kept me away from temptation at the corner shop - in the office I’d sometimes stress eat a packet of biscuits a day."
I definitely ate better on first lockdown, but the bit I found hard was activity levels. On a normal day pre-lockdown, I walked to work and walked to the shops etc, and I clocked up 10k steps per day before adding in any form of other activities like gym, run, walk etc. But on a normal day working from home I only clocked up 2k steps during the day so had to make sure I got out for wales or runs each evening. Luckily the weather was brilliant in lockdown 1. |
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You'll never keep it off by counting calories.
You'll never keep it off with cheat days.
The Greeks mever knew how many calories were in food. They simply exercised and ate right every single day.
I'll concede if you are training to improve your body you're going to have to cycle through resting parts of your body. Arms today, legs tomoor, chest next day. But there should be no rest day, on that day you should do something That uses the same amount of energy. Go for a play in a field, kick a ball around, walk up a mountain.
The on season, off season thing just doesn't work for maintaining. Only for getting there, not maintaining. |
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"A healthy balanced lifestyle means it's easy to eat well and have what you like and stay pretty much ok. Our weight is designed to fluctuate with times of hardship and excess, putting weight on through the summer/harvest to sustain us through winter and harder times so it's natural ...
Exactly right. Without any noticeable variation in my diet and exercise, I routinely put on about half a stone in sept / Oct each year, then stay at that level, and quite easily drop it around feb/March.
And to answer OP’s question, keeping weight off is harder than losing it, as it requires permanent lifestyle changes rather than short term measures like a push on fitness or cutting out certain foods (or booze!) for a period of time to hit a certain weight. Keeping weight off requires a lot more discipline "
.can't argue with any of that. Gonna break the cycle this year. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Which part do you find the hardest? I find that losing the weight is quite easy, the real challenge for me is to maintain the 6pack as you diet down to low calorie intake. I like the challenge tho and I have high calorie days as well "
I don’t do either, I think it’s an unhealthy mentality and I don’t get the obsession with fad dieting when there are so many other important and rewarding things you can do with your life. |
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I am OK when I have my normal routines, lockdown smashed those routines to bits and I put on 3 stone. So I've been slowly putting my routines back in place and I've lost a stone over the past 2 months with 2 to go, I find portion control and daily exercise keeps my weight on a even keel, but with no food restrictions or I would crave and then binge then feel cross with myself |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
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"I have remained the same weight for 20yrs which is just as well as I can't afford to replace my wardrobe. It is all about lifestyle changes rather than diets."
Yes, that is good and yes, it is all about lifestyle changes too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've never had to try and lose weight as it just tends to happen if I don't stick to my routine. I think there are ways to build muscle/gain weight while maintaining a lean physique but it's something I need to look into a bit more. |
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By *hagTonight OP Man
over a year ago
From the land of haribos. |
"A healthy balance for me and flexibility. If I know I'm going away and won't have access to much, then I up my physical activity and bulk a couple of weeks before which then evens itself out whilst I'm away. I also eat in deficit during the week to allow indulgence at the weekend which stops those little extra pounds creeping in. Deficit doesn't mean starving though, just means I leave treats etc out until Friday or if I've had a particularly strenuous physical day. Keeps me averaging out quite well on the whole Elle x"
That is also a good way of doing it x |
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I have never really had a problem with my weight (other than having to breate in for some fab pics) but recently definitely feeling unfit but lack the motivation to really do anything about it, have tried parkrun but it's only once a week. Don't want to be too unfit to play with the kids. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I find both parts equally as difficult to be honest. I have to keep my calories at around 1200 and work my butt off to lose weight. And then to maintain it I have to continue eating such little calories and make sure I don't let my exercise routine go to crap. I gain weight super easily, it's a nightmare. |
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