Exercise and weight loss advice thread

Since no-one else has resurrected this thread yet.

Feel free to add all exercise, how many bowls of sugar puffs a day should i eat for maximum gainz, or Theresa May gym spotting related stuff here.

Started Intermittent Fasting this week on 16/8 ratio. Third time attempting.
First heard of this going into lockdown last year and stuck with it for about 2-3 months and lost a stone fairly easily. Then I lapsed last summer and became a chungus again. Tried it once more just after Christmas and it dropped off quick due to not being in right frame of mind.

So I'm back on it again now reinvigorated and hoping to lose some covid chub. Anyone else tried IF?

I used IF in the new year as a springboard to:

- stop eating crap for breakfast
- stop eating crap at night

It was great, although I missed having a coffee in the morning and after a while I would be a bit lax on what I ate in the 6 hours I was allowed to. Lost about half a stone doing it.
Once I had the discipline to stop eating snacks etc (which IF is great for enforcing) then I moved to weighing food and logging calories using LoseIt. So I still skip breakfast but can have a coffee or snacks through the day, within reason. Once I got into the rhythm of it, it was great - lost a total of 2 stone at a rate of 1-2 lbs per week, which is acceptable IMO.

So yeah I would really recommend IF as a way of starting off!

Edit: just to add that when I did IF, I was doing 18/6 as my WFH regime allowed me to do it; but now I’m back in the office more frequently it would be more difficult.

Years ago when I split from the (now ex) wife, I was heaviest I've been and the separation was the kick up the arse I needed and I calorie counted limiting to 1500 a day. I ended up losing 3 stone to be a decent weight but having a couple of relationships since where I settle back and put weight on, followed by being single again then covid and WFH for last 18 months I've started being a tub of lard again.
Still not up to my biggest but bad enough to feel fat (for openness I'm 6' and currently 15st 11lb).
Bought a couple of kettlebell in different weights to do some basic exercises in my breaks from work. Pretty much done no exercise really in over a year.

I'm a 2 meal guy typically anyway but it's the snacking in-between that's my downfall. I love coffee but need sweetener and coffee mate in it. Can't stand black. So I set my time for scoffing between 10:00-18:00. I can last an hour or two from starting work to having that glorious coffee.

If anyone is after a cheap and reasonably cheerful fitness tracker, this one www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B091G3FLL7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is going for £24.99 on Amazon at the moment. Its got everything you'd want aside from GPS and has reviewed pretty well. Some question marks about its stepping and sleep monitoring accuracy, but then they seem to all have that.

I don't think there are many benefits to skipping breakfast over the usual ~8 hour sleep fast. Benefits tend to come from occasional 24 hour style fasts.

I see Peloton have reduced their bike price...It still seems really expensive considering you have to pay the subs on top.

Anyone have one here?

I went wattbike/zwift. That peloton sub is ridiculously priced.

Not a fan of spin classes either though tbh so didn't give them much thought.

Have you thought about buying an actual bike instead?

Yeah, when my sons old enough to ride a bike, still a few years

Considering the bike you buy is basically unusable without their service, it’s possibly a gamble buying into it in case the company continues to lose money and goes tits up

Just YouTube callisthenics videos

Great choice. Great bit of kit, I use mine every day. Got to say since turning the garage into a gym I’m way more committed to getting fit.

Having a look now. Ta!