Getting fit/losing weight

[Pie-Roe]

Hello all, just looking for some advice on getting fit/losing a bit of weight.

Currently I weigh around 15 stone, 36 waist, 6'1

I want to get fit, and lose the spare tyre I seem to be growing.
Now, obviously the ideal situation is to eat less and exercise more, which is what I plan to do (and have started the last week or so) but I want to know people on here's thinking about the best ways to go about exercise. I currently do about 40 minutes on a rowing machine on medium resistance three times a week. Going to a gym is not really an option as it would be sporadic and irregular due to breakfast through to all evening shift pattern. (I've been told it's better to go around the same time each time?) I've no aversion to running or swimming. I fucking hate cycling though.

Oh, and I eat irregularly due to above shift patterns and working in kitchens.

I gather it's the done thing to post a before/after picture, so have attached.
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[Oldie]

First, weight is directly linked to how much you eat, so eat less.

Second, walk more and your posture and waistline will improve significantly.

Finally, if you drink beer, switch to white wine spritzers for 3 months and just suffer the taunts.

In 6 months you will have lost a stone. In 12 months, a stone and a half.

[shereen]

Burn more calories on a daily basis than you eat. Its not about eating less, its about eating the right foods.

I lost 3 stone in 1 year by eating good foods and exercising 3 or 4 hours a week And I still went out every weekend, drank at least 2 bottles of wine and chuffed a kebab after. That was friday and saturday too!!

Dont deny yourself bad things you want to eat or you will just want them more.

Good luck.
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[Asharin]

Start running, I lost 3 and a half stone this year because of an improved diet combined with going for a run every evening. Started off small but now I can run 4 - 5 miles easily, though I usually just do 2 miles a day unless feeling energetic
I was at 17 stone in February, now I am 13 and a half..want to get to 13

The improved diet consisted of...
Grapefruit, Apple and Banana chopped up into a bowl for breakfast.
Flora on toast for lunch (2 slices) sometimes marmite on toast
Then eat whatever I want for dinner.

The beauty of this is, you can deviate from the diet occasionally and it doesn't affect you that much...for instance today I actually had a sausage and egg mcmuffin meal for breakfast as I was bloody starving after a night shift and then sleep...as long as you don't eat crap all the time it's okay.

You may not be able to run far to start with, but just do what I did, run until you need to stop, then walk for a bit...then when less winded, run for a bit more until you need to walk. After a few weeks you'll find you're running more than walking. Also I do recommend that you get some proper running shoes , they really do help..and you can pick up some basic asics pretty cheap.

[angryjonny]

Consume fewer calories than you burn. It really is that simple.

[Pie-Roe]

I do drink, probably three or four pints of guinness or newcastle brown 4 times a week, will cut that down. I've been parking the car a good 20 minute walk away from work instead of right outside so I'm walking for 40 or 80 minutes a day now.

My girlfriend thinks I'm being stupid but it's more about just losing 4 inches off the waist and getting less out of breath from running a short distance, general fitness.

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[fatpies]

You work as a chef, this is bad as food is infront of your face constantly and a chip here and there it all adds up.

Chew gum or something or suck some sugar free mints to keep your gob occupied.

I've seen people suck garlic cloves.

Then just work out at the gym for a bit. On the cross trainer I burned around 300-500 calories a session, after a month my waist shrank from 34 to 29 walking back from an off landing doesn't make me out of breath.

The key is motivation as you pass the 200 cal mark on the gym machine. You think meh lets give up... you need something to push yourself a bit so you continue through the pain. One of my recent motivators was this:

I very nearly worked for airkix manchester as a tunnel rat. Not so good pay but 8 hour shifts of FREE indoor skydiving day in day out. Indoor skydiving to skydivers is like heroin and crack cocaine.

They had a brutal fitness test though. You needed to be able to run 3 miles, you needed to do 50 chin ups with attached weight. Lift 40 kilos above your head, do 50 pressups and 200 situps. I went nuts in the gym and achieved it. I went for the fitness test and was shortlisted. In the end the resident tunnel rat offered to do more hours. So nobody was hired.
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