AFF Weight Gain/Loss Program

[FTE217]

LOL I notice no 3FB members have contributed to this thread....Fast food is part of the constitution !

[Franky]

what is everyone doing to lose so much?

I still can't get under 103kg i've been that since my last post

[MaD_KiWi]

Im still hovering around 78-80kgs, but i have been laying off the weights for a while now since i hurt my back, so loosing muscle defintion,

Simon

[Envious]

damn, i wish i was 80kg....
Im down to 103kg from 113kg in 2 months.... : :hihi:
Its all thanks to eating right and PT 5 days a week.

"Diets are bad for your body" - My Dietician

[Ruger]

ive lost 20kgs in 6 months through no carb diet for the first 3 months (lost about 10kg easy as shit) and training hard eating right to get the other 10kgs down

just watch what u eat when u eat.
only salads after 9pm
dont eat if ur going to be asleep in under 2 hours
carb breakfast is enought carbs for the day
if u need 2 meals at once to fill u up starve urself for 2 weeks and let your stomach shrink then get into the routine of 3 meals a day and it will be easy to stick to.

ive been weight training 4 days a week (sometimes 5) for the last month and have stuck at my same weight but definately gotten a bit more solid. much more definition in my body.

40 mins of cardio a day is required if u want to lose body fat and "rip up"

i went from 105 and im sitting around 85 without using drugs or supplements. only now ive started on protein shakes and creatine to help build muscle.


that sums me up

[FRDGAL]

Originally Posted by Ruger

let your stomach shrink then get into the routine of 3 meals a day and it will be easy to stick to.

Oh yeah I forgot that too. Except I didn't exactly do it on purpose. Last year I copped severe food poisoning and I couldn't eat food for a good 2 weeks (it was that bad) My stomach just wouldn't allow it. It had shrunk that much, it got to the point where I could barely put any food into it and even now, it's still the same. As an example - I use to be able to easily scoff 2 sandwiches but after that happen to me, I could barely eat the crust of a sandwich because my stomach would completely bloat up. And even now that I'm following this healthy eating plan, I'll admit I don't eat everything on the day's menu because my stomach won't allow it.

Now I'm not suggesting that y'all go out and get food poisoning to shrink your stomachs lol but anyone that's been through it, will understand exactly what I'm saying.

Oh there may be a rumour about me eating a couple BBQ sausages on Dyno day in delicious buttered bread and cooked onions covered in sauce :sm_drool: aheemmmm it's all lies I tell ya _

[XP6]

Christ I cant wait to get back into it, this is driving me crazy... had a absyst removed from the base of my spine last november(baseball sized!). They cant close the wound up because the risk of infection is to great, and Im not allowed to sweat. So I have a nurse come out every day to change the dressing, its almost healed. As a result I cant go to work(lead refinery) because my employers have a open wound policy, lucky for unlimited full paid sick leave!
Before the operation I was gym'n up to 6 days a week(spilt program)and I walked 8km every day plus my job is very physical, at that point I had a nice 6pac developed and was quite muscled/strong. It depress's me a bit as I used to be overweight and very unfit, I use to smoke a pack a day and other stuff, drank like a fish and would eat anything without no exersize at all, I ended up at 104kg(179cm)I had man boobs, was a skinny 65kg rake in the teens!
So I decided to give up that life style, gave up smoking, stopped drinking, started exersizing. That was about 4yrs ago, so Ive been on a health kick for several years then it came to a sudden halt, talk about being fidgity insane. Didnt know what to do with myself, I've taken up woodwork otherwise Id be insane by now!
Hopefully I get the all clear from the doc on the 28th of this month, restart my life again, lost nearly all my defintion and Ive gained about 5kgs in body weight(proberly around 15-20kg in fat)and weigh in at 90kg ATM my ideal is about 70-5kg(without the muslced gym yuppie look), I cant help the weight gain as Im a big eater(I can eat 2 footlongs...easy)

[DRU842]

Have gone from 102kg to under 95kg on Herbalife since Christmas, with very little pain.

[Franky]

herbalife? what's that

[XP6]

Herbs are green and green is nice man...
Herbalife is a brand of heath products and hippy remdies!

[RPO83]

Well I've never been on a diet before but I thought it was finally time to at the start of this year, so far i've lost 4kg in 5 weeks, I'd like to lose a further 6 and tone up in the process. I've only really become more food concious in the last two weeks and have increased exercise (walking/running, light gym work) to approx 30 min a day but would like to increase it to an hour 4-5 times a week. Oddly I've lost energy and have become a bit more tired in the last two weeks...I thought you were meant to feel more energetic!!!
I'll see what the scales and tape measure say next Sunday :S

[XP6]

Be carefull some people cut that much carbs out of their diet that they have no energy to actually do the exersize, best thing(I found) is to have a reasonable amount of carbs in the morning combined with some exersize, then thru'out the day top up with small amounts of carbs(small heathly snacks)dont have lunch, then before your nightly(low carb/fat)meal do your main exersize/workout... watch the weight drop of.
To many people go way too far on "no fat" or "no carb" diets because of the mass amounts of BS in these tabloid mag's, they say ATM we have the fattest population ever... but theres more of these so call diets than ever... can you put 2 and 2 together!
Its all about balance, to loose weight you must burn more than you consume... but only by a little amount because if you cut your energy to much you dont feel like exersizing so you dont.
The best way is to think your body as a furnace, feed it all at once it overheats and doesnt burn effectively, dont put enough in it goes cold... feed it gradually with the correct amount, it burns long and hot and efficiently! Its a golden rule take note.
See a naturopath for the best diet advice, it might cost a bit but its better to get proper advice, for all you know you might have a medical reason for being overweight, or a element defficiency of some kind.

[Donut Queen]

Hopefully its not too late to join in here. I'd like to lose weight, a LOT of it. I'm 22 now and I've pretty much just put on a kilo here and a kilo there but never had the corresponding loss of a kilo here or there so that now I've got quite a hefty sum. I have a few problems to overcome to be able to consistantly lose weigh. First, I have a back problem that means whenever I do a lot of walking or similar exercise my back seizes up and sometimes my legs collapse under me. Not very pleasant and pretty embarrassing at times. Second, I get stressed a lot and I find that when I'm stressed I put on weight no mater what I eat. Likewise when I'm relaxed I lose weight even if I'm eating junk all week. Finally, I do the cooking in our house and initially my partner was underweight so I was pretty lax in letting junk and stuff into our diet. He's good now and I'd like to cook healthy foods for both of us but he's a junk food addict and I don't want to deprive him of stuff he loves. And if its in the cupboard its hard to resist! Anyway, I'm working on these problems and I'll let you know how I do. Good luck to everyone

[XP6]

That junk food addiction will catch up with him...
Sounds like you need to keep those stress levels down some how. Whats the problem with your back if you dont mind me asking, is it nerve related or something?

[Donut Queen]

Originally Posted by ST170ish

Sounds like you need to keep those stress levels down some how. Whats the problem with your back if you dont mind me asking, is it nerve related or something?

Yeah I'm getting better with controlling stress. I don't really know what's wrong with my back. I've had it for years now. I think it would be something to do with nerves but as 80% of back pain can't be diagnosed then I'll probably never know.

[Stav]

Ive hit a plateau!!! I will wait another 2 weeks to see if it naturally comes down.If not I am going to take this 1 step further.

[XP6]

The last few kg's will always take a long time, before when I lost all my weight it took nearly 12mths to loose the last 5kg.
Dont be to worried about it, if you've plateau'd it means your near your ideal weight/body mass some people a naturaly big bodied... the upper end of the BMI scale.

[bindi]

Originally Posted by Donut Queen

Yeah I'm getting better with controlling stress. I don't really know what's wrong with my back. I've had it for years now. I think it would be something to do with nerves but as 80% of back pain can't be diagnosed then I'll probably never know.

Have you been to a chiropractor? Massage therapist (that's what I do)?

[bindi]

I've lost weight again, not sure how much cos i didn't go to WW to be officially weighed last week Too busy chatting on MSN lol

But my pants are getting looser, and an old shirt I pulled out of the cupboard that used to be tight is so loose it looks revolting now (woohoo!).

Now I am off for a walk... wanna lose at least another 3kg before I meet everyone at the NSWFF meet (can't wait!).

Congrats to all who are still losing (or gaining).

PS the magazine Men's Health (which my lesser half termed "Get your hands off my mag Belinda, it's Secret Men's Business") is the best mag ever, for women too. Chockers full of information on weight loss, muscle gain and general health (and if the men took notice of those sex tips, women everywhere would be walking around with distant dreamy looks on their faces).

[Donut Queen]

Originally Posted by bindi

Have you been to a chiropractor? Massage therapist (that's what I do)?

I should go to one but I never seem to think of it except when I don't have the money. I will have to do it though.

[Franky]

Are you following a diet plan bindi?

[bindi]

Well just Weight Watchers... and it's kinda handy for me (I am not the type who follows a strict diet). I don't know if you know how it works, but basically you have so many points per day, and you can eat them how you want to. All foods have a points value.

It's just like counting calories or kilojoules but much easier cos instead of huge numbers it's broken down into small numbers. I'm allowed 22 points per day and you earn bonus points for exercising. 6 squares of dairy milk plain chocolate is worth 3.5 points which is more than 100g of chicken breast fillet so you end up choosing healthier options cos your points are valuable and you don't want to waste them on something that won't fill you up.

Works well, very well.

[masters24]

Is it too late to join this group???

I am wanting to loose weight and my other half is gonna do it with me...

Our biggest insentive is my brothers wedding coming up in Sept...

We have just quit smoking so are planning on getting ourselves straight and healthy again...

[okin]

In for weight gain. Any one made up a program?

[DivHunter]

Originally Posted by aniko

In for weight gain. Any one made up a program?

Move to the US? They all seem to gain weight...

[Yum-Yum]

Originally Posted by aniko

In for weight gain. Any one made up a program?

Yip...Fish & Chips and Videos, that's what got me all this added luggage lol j/k

Great to see everyones doing well, I've lost another 5Kg's since my last post and whilst walking down town one day I felt me pants drop down and just managed to catch them before giving everyone a shot of my moon
might have to start looking at a new wardrobe soon:voldar02:
ANIKO, I only know of two ways for weight gain, and the first one isn't very healthy and that's the one that got me into this whole mess in the first place, the other one is basically weight gain forumlas, which can be expensive.
Sorry I can't be of any other help.
Hopefully someone will post about gaining weight for you soon.

[Franky]

Originally Posted by aniko

In for weight gain. Any one made up a program?

I was actually thinking about this earlier, does anything think it's a good idea to make our own diet plan? The most sucessful weight gainers and losses could share their diet and secrets :sm_headba

[bindi]

Originally Posted by Devil Racer

I was actually thinking about this earlier, does anything think it's a good idea to make our own diet plan? The most sucessful weight gainers and losses could share their diet and secrets :sm_headba

Well there's so much conflicting advice that it's hard to decide what works. I think it's basically come down to what works for each person. Some people will be great on low carb/high protein; others on vegetarian diets; others still on eating 6 small meals a day rather than 3 large ones; others on huge breakky, large lunch and small dinner... all very confusing.

The very latest weight watching news comes down to basic principles - burn more kilojoules than you eat. The wheel has turned completely and gone back to the original weight loss regimen

[masters24]

Okay, how many people here are trying to gain weight, and how many are trying to loose it???

[Envious]

Lose weight here. Ive lost 8kg in the last 2 months (113kg - 105kg and still dropping).
I put it all down to exercise and eating right, "diets" arent very good for you, ask any profesional they will tell you the best thing you can do is to eat right...