The Running/Keeping Fit Thread

[Alex]

Just search for Semi Skimmed or whatever. Milk is milk. Its not the greatest. The healthiest is Skimmed Milk. But that tastes like ****.

I can see why your getting bigger...

Nesquick will be loaded with unhealthy ****.

[Pablo]

Is this a massive woosh from Shaggy? Surely he can't be this thick? "Is milk bad?" FFS

[Shaggy]

Just search for Semi Skimmed or whatever. Milk is milk. Its not the greatest. The healthiest is Skimmed Milk. But that tastes like ****.

I can see why your getting bigger...

Nesquick will be loaded with unhealthy ****.

Is this a massive woosh from Shaggy? Surely he can't be this thick? "Is milk bad?" FFS

Man I haven't got a ****ing clue, never needed to pay any attention to such boring ****. I know cheese and cream is fattening. Milk, meh I'm not sure. So it's fattening is it?

[Shaggy]

**** it, one glass can't do me any harm.

Do you have to log drinks with this 'My Fitness' shizzle?

[Alex]

Well, it depends how much you drink. After all, its fat suspended in water essentially.

Its not the milk id worry about though. Its the nesquick as I say.

[Alex]

**** it, one glass can't do me any harm.

Do you have to log drinks with this 'My Fitness' shizzle?

Yep, I dont log tea and coffee as I drink it black, so its minor. But tea with milk and sugar is like 80 calories.

You log your water intake too if you want.

[kris90210]

Haha.

I want to nip it in the bud before it spirals out of control and I'm suddenly 20 stone. I've always been so skinny (you could see my ribs until a few years ago FFS) I never thought this would be an issue for me.

Cut cereals out for starters mate. There's loads of sugar in cereal, so the first thing you should do is come off your special k diet!

I don't want to patronise you here, but you know on the list of ingredients that comes on the back of food? Well they are listed according to volume. So for Special K, the ingredients are listed as:

Rice, Wheat (Wholewheat, Wheat Flour), Sugar, Wheat Gluten, Skimmed Milk Powder, Defatted Wheatgerm, Salt, Barley Malt Flavouring, Vitamin C, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.

So the main ingredient is rice, followed by wheat, then you have sugar. That's the third biggest ingredient, and they market this as a weightloss cereal!

For breakfast, go for eggs mate. Or a smoothy as suggested. The good thing about smoothies is you can pack in loads of stuff that's good for you. I used to make smoothies in the morning. I'd use skimmed milk, whey protein powder, couple of bananas, some low fat yogurt and ground flaxseed. It's superb mate.

If you're at home a lot, there's loads of bodyweight excercises you can do - pressups, planks, squats, lunges etc. All amazing for you. Start off slow and do it 2-3 times a week. Monitor your progress so you actually start to notice an improvement even if you don't see a massive change in yourself to begin with. So long as you see that you are actually getting better that can be all the motivation you need to keep pushing until you do start to see some noticable results. Best tip I can give you is to not expect results over night. Give yourself a couple of months.

As I mentioned, I have a mate who's a personal trainer. He's well on his way to becoming a millionaire through his sessions and he's going uk wide with this online scheme thing. Anyway, I have a couple of booklets that he's done, that act as like 30 day detox plans. Give me a pm with your email if you like and I'll send them accross. They give an excellent overview of all things healthy!

By the way, I should say that I am in no way fit myself. I'm pretty shocking actually. I've spoken to a lot of very fit people about it, gone through phases of 'getting fit' and read a fair few books on excercise and nutriton.

[Gingawaria]

Right guys, you've inspired me now!

Just downloaded it as I seriously need to lose weight. It's recommended a calorie intake of 1,660 and I'm going to do my best to get in at least 30 mins exercise a day as this is pretty much all I can spare these days!

[Shaggy]

Yep, I dont log tea and coffee as I drink it black, so its minor. But tea with milk and sugar is like 80 calories.

You log your water intake too if you want.

Are you trying to make a fool out of me? Water?

80 calories per cuppa FFS.

[Alex]

No seriously you can Log your water. It has no calories though. Its just to keep track if your drinking enough. The more water you drink, the healthier you will be.

[dom9]

I've just checked and it's 2 months. So I've been doing that wrong then! Doh!

What can I say man, they reckon chlorine and limescale are bad for you and both are present in tap water (removed with a filter). I've read that you 'should' ideally drink filtered or bottled water. It's not really a controversial statement mate. You can pick up a pack of 4 filters for £12 now. That's £1.50 a month.

If unfiltered tap water was unsafe, I think we'd know about it. Anyhoo, it doesn't really matter other than in the context of this conversation.

Well, it depends how much you drink. After all, its fat suspended in water essentially.

Its not the milk id worry about though. Its the nesquick as I say.

And the beer / wine.

[RichC]

What was this app called? Since the Mrs got pregnant at the start of last year and started eating more or less what she wanted to I've lumped on the weight, she's now decided to get back into shape it's probably time I did so as well.

[Shaggy]

No seriously you can Log your water. It has no calories though. Its just to keep track if your drinking enough. The more water you drink, the healthier you will be.

Awesome ....even though I hate water I'm going to be drinking much more of it now.

What about "burning off calories"? Say, when I go and pick my boy up from nursery in an hour - if I leg it all the way there, will that burn off calories and mean I can intake more than 200 for the remainder of the day?

[Shaggy]

What was this app called? Since the Mrs got pregnant at the start of last year and started eating more or less what she wanted to I've lumped on the weight, she's now decided to get back into shape it's probably time I did so as well.

My Fitness App, I think.

[Alex]

My Fitness Pal

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

You can access it online too which is handy.