I seem to spend most of my life on one kind of diet or another and never seem to lose any weight.
‘Eat less, exercise more’ is what the general consensus seems to be. I’ve been trying this for the last few weeks and am yet to lose weight. I go to the gym for an hour and a half every other day and work really hard and also go jogging for at least half an hour every other day. I’m down to a calorie count of about 700/day. I would have thought it a physical impossibility, but I’ve only lost about 1 pound!! I’ve tried just about every diet and am yet to find one that really works.
The next one I’m going to try is the lemonade diet. This is a temporary ‘fast’ over about 10 days. I’m still waiting for the book (another bloody book!) to arrive in the post but it basically looks like you just live off mineral water and fresh lemon juice, cayenne peppers(???) and some kind of laxative tea. Sounds repulsive and no doubt I’ll starve but this is apparently the diet that Beyonce went on for 2 weeks and lost 22lbs!! I’ll try it for 10 days, the only problem is fitting the fast into my life so I don’t miss out on my valuable weekend time off from the kids when I have to go out and get drunk.
I’ve got half a weekend off this weekend and a whole weekend off next weekend so the fast will have to wait until after then. I’ll post before and after weights but there is no way I’m posting before and after photos, not having my flab shown on t’internet.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:31 pm
My own diet regime of ‘eat pizza, don’t exercise’ might be worth considering if the ‘Lemonade Diet’ doesn’t do the trick? Just be careful of that laxative tea!
May 4th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I’ve not had any experience on the diet front I’m afraid, but perhaps this may help:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/fashion/03Fitness.html?ex=1335844800&en=48386e6eb3181b11&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
May 9th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Hey Sam,
Don’t forget muscle weighs alot more than fat. I remember training properly a few years back and lost no weight but considerably reduced my body fat count/index thingy.
Keep it up. I’m also embarking on a regime created by a buddy of mine who lost two stone in one month.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
@phil, 2 stone in 1 month, that’s well impressive. Is that diet and exercise, you’ll have to keep us updated of how you get on and give me details if it works.
@Dave, I’ve tried the ‘eat pizza, don’t exercise’ a few times, particularly all the way through Uni and put on about a stone! I only have to think of pizza and i put on a weight!
@Matt, thanks for the link, I’ve heard of interval training before, its great for increasing performance, speed and stamina, my fitness isn’t really an issue for me though. I’m not mega fit but I do ok jogging etc. It’s really an issue of shifting those last few pounds which just never seem to budge, not that you’d know that problem Matt