Exercise and weight loss advice thread

Yeah I know what I need to do.

It should be simple but I'm a weak willed cunt, and frankly I hate myself for it.

And that's what I've tried to do, and that's what I mean by trying to find something that works *for me*. I find it very hard to find alternatives to anything

I absolutely know it's literally a numbers game. But I find it very fucking hard.

I'm 5'7, BMI calculators put that at 27ish, and a healthy weight range is 53 - 72 kg.

So I'm not obese but I'm overweight.

I know BMI doesn't take into account muscle mass etc but I'm not exactly muscular, and most of my weight is around my gut, so it's a fair model to use.

If you can't fix that in part how about the out part?

Sold the Echo bike last November when I moved apartments, and bought the BikeErg last month. It’s a really nice piece of kit and honestly feels like riding a bike rather than an exercise bike, mostly to just how fluid it is in operation. Very impressed, really like it.

And then on Monday I tested positive for Covid and now just walking leaves me fucking knackered so it might be a while until I can use it properly again.

I've become so unfit that I just made horrific wheezing noises and needed to sit and rest for a few seconds to catch my breath after bending down to tie my shoelaces.

I'd post what helped my wife and me here, but I think the ridicule would be rampant.

Also, if one of ye paid for it, and it didn't work, I'd feel bad.

It's basically a five minute long recoding of a pleasant-sounding man talking about how amazing we are at eating healthy etc.

It's meant to work subconsciously, and it has.

Rampant ridicule.

I've succumbed to an internet craze and taken up rucking... I figured If I'm walking a couple of miles every day doing the school walk, I might as well try and make more of it. So I started with 5 bricks (approx 25lbs) in a rucksack a couple of months ago and have worked my way up to 7 bricks (approx 35lbs). Hard to start and hard with each additional brick but it's amazing how fast your body conditions to it, I guess it's building core muscle / strength. It'll be interesting to see how far I can take it... I think army guys and gals work their way up to 80lbs or something ridiculous, and that's hiking up a fuckin mountain!

Only thing I have't seen is weight loss, a bit annoying as I'm dieting as well (standard calorie deficit stuff, a bit of IF when I can). Apparently rucking uses between 50%-200% more calories than walking depending on who you believe. I'm hoping it's because I'm packing on pounds of core muscle doing it... right??

Any other ruckers here?

Going back in the office just surrounds me with temptation. A full English in the canteen is £3. Across the road is McDonald’s and KFC.

It doesn’t help that I’ve always hated packed lunches, and when I had them at school decades ago they weren’t healthy. Pork pies, scotch eggs, yoghurt etc.

I’m ’only’ 14st and 6ft and have managed to stop the slow increase over the last 6 months but I can only do it by skipping some meals, which I always used to do - didn’t have breakfast regularly until I was 40. I’ve rarely had lunch in the past, I started doing that too during lockdown, but my body is used to one big tasty meal a day.

Aye, the 'got some from a friend of a friend' was just... yeeesh.

I guess it's not so different from body builders sourcing steroids, but a lot of it is like the wild west out there with so many cowboys selling god knows what.

1 big tasty meal a day should be fine, unless you're snacking loads. 

Have you done the boring accounting work like tracking your calories?