In which I make a predictable post about losing weight

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I am fat. Now, nobody is to say 'you're not fat' or 'I'm fatter than you', because although it is true that I am not clinically obese and many people are fatter than me, I am carrying rather more than a few pounds over. I am, in fact, ten stone, which is a good half stone more than I should ever be, and it shows. I don't fit any of my jeans. I need to lose weight.

Apparently I shall lose all my excess pounds if I go for an hour's walk every day. I plan to try this, although I have no idea how it will work in term time (I'm presuming for then this means an hour more than the hour I do anyway going in and out of town, and term tends to be short on spare hours). I was vaguely planning to do an hour's swimming a week, as an 'on top of the walking I do anyway' thing, but the plans were quite vague as I'm not particularly conveniently situated for any swimming pools, driving to them seems to be missing the point a little, and I have to find the Motor Proctor on a full moon Tuesday with a following wind (half an hour from 2-2:30 one day a week, or 6-6:30 a couple of others which gives me that little missing-Hall problem) before I have permission to car around Cam anyhow. And I am confidently informed that I don't swim fast enough to lose any weight by it, even though this is because I Have No Muscles and hence am actually putting in a fair amount of effort to not move very far.

Does anyone have any Top Tips For Losing Weight? I haven't consciously decided I need to lose weight before; it's just sort of happened when it needed to. But I have been A Big Lazy Blob over the summer, having gone into it needing to shed a few pounds, and now it's getting kind of serious.

Comments

[requiem-17-23.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're going to talk weight - my BMI says that I'm clinically obese. Heh.

And I'd recommend /against/ the Atkins diet, cause it's unsustainable. Fooling your body into burning fat is all very well, but it then catches on and you are back where you started, but with bad breath and high colesterol.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Its now seen that the Atkins diet works thanks to protein being an appertite suppressent rather than any wonderful fat-burning effects from not eating much carbohydrates. When they've compared the calories eaten by people on the Atkins diet with those eaten by people on a traditional calorie controlled diet they've found that they are eating about the same number of calories. Its thanks to this that people on the Atkins diet loose weight. However as you say, its unsustainable and leads to a much higher load on bodily functions.