Ayatollah Hermione

Other way round for me, my gym sessions started precisely because of the overeating. I'm sure that's true of a lot of people who weren't particularly active as kids - there comes a point where your metabolism doesn't do what it used to (and it's not as if I was ever stick-thin in the first place). Fortunately, exercising a bit and eating a bit more healthily aren't the hardest things in the world once you start to see the results and get the motivation that brings - it doesn't mean having to become a soulless GymBot. My point really (and I appreciate what you're saying). If we take the Gemmil example, (and dont take this personally Gemmil). Nearly every night he's cooking some delicious Jamie Oliver offering. While not the worst food in the world, those meals if combined with a normal breakfast lunch and a few treats , will produce a serious amount of calories. Because he is blasting the gym daily, the extra calories are being burned off and he should be keeping the weight off. By his own admission he has usually dwindled from the gym by March and it is at this point the calories will suddenly start to turn to fat. By bashing the gym it is allowing him to "cheat" the system. Add into this the fact that when your younger, you are naturally more energetic and your metabolism works better. When you are older, you are basically fucked. I appreciate they're are exceptions to the rule. sorry like mate but that is just a load of old bollocks. you're using age as an excuse not to excercise. i'm not saying it doesn't get more difficult as you get older but age alone isn't an excuse to not stay active. injury or illness is one thing, but i know plenty of guys in their 50s in my gym that are as fit as a fiddle. a healthy diet plus regular excercise will change the way you look and feel for the better. a healthy diet alone can also do this but to a lesser extent. but tbh, from what i've read on this thread, i'm not convinced you are doing either. i excercise because it makes me feel good and it helps improve body composition. also because i like to eat and our bodies need to be fueled well. i eat a lot of calories but it's all stuff with a good nutritional value, unlike the crap you put into your body. when you are active, you need good range of healthy fats, non-refined carbs and lean protein to give you energy and to help the body recover and muscle mass to build. it sounds like you've got into a path of starving yourself during the week then binge eating junk and boozing at the weekend. while this may result in a calorie deficit and dropping some weight, you're basically going to end up with a 'skinny fat' body composition - in other words, you're muscle mass will drop and you're body will cling on to its fat. so while you will drop pounds and feel good when you attend your weight watchers meetings, you'll still feel embarrassed about taking your shirt off at the beach. i've offered this advice before because but i feel it will fall on deaf ears again. only trying to help you stop wasting your time. Lets remember, your path was admittedly littered with lots of failed attempts. It may be I have to go down the same trodden path. I appreciate there are blokes in their 50's who are super fit and bash the gym but everything has a scale to it. If we take a fitness and healthy eating scale of 1 - 10, with 1 being an utter slob who eats takeaways most nights and does zero exercise, I think most who read your remarks over the months would place you at a 10. I would place myself at about 2.5. I dont want to get to 10, but would be quite happy to get to 5 This being the case, your regime wouldnt suit me, however I do concede that I need to do more to hit my goal and I am looking at ways of putting some sort of weekly plan in place that I can achieve and stick to. nah, not really, at least not anymore. when i was cutting before my wedding i got obsessively into it and i'd say i was a 10 for a period of about 6 months and got into the shape of my life. now i'm probably an 8 or 9 during the week (i still allow myself the odd glass of wine and piece of chocholate after dinner durign the week) then a 5 or 6 at the weekend, when i'll go out to eat and have a few drinks. but i've found a balance of healthy eating and excercise during the week and letting myself go a bit at the weekend. but even then. i'm still making sure the calories i'm getting are nuritious and i'm not starving myself. it works for me; i've got more body fat now than i did a year or two back but i feel good about myself because i've found a sustainable way of living and have lost the love handles for good. I'm sensing a beautiful coming together. The hardened, bitter DG can teach CT about balanced diets and nutrition while the bountiful, optimistic CT changes the entire outlook of DG, showing that, he too, can love again.

Carroll for £1 million If that's true, some of the sales intended were mental and the losses on a lot of those are the worst.

1 priest 1 nun sorry What goes on there?

Tbf, I'll probably eat something shite today like

If Paul was so psychic, he'd have seen this coming.

Here's a good weekly plan: Monday to Sunday: Exercise an hour or so a day, don't drink lager, don't eat shite. Weightwatchers telll you a load of shite so they can flog their food onto you, most of which is full of shit anyway.

No, going to the gym isn't cheating the system, that's keeping yourself healthy and fit which allows him to be a bit more lenient with what he eats because he's got a consistent exercise schedule.

You've got to eat plenty throughout the day, just not deep fried prawns and brown bread on the theory that it's slightly better than takeaways and burger buns. I'm not heavily into all this but I know better than to starve myself and then have a big fry-up. I might even get something to eat now since I'm peckish, just not carbs or it'll all go to my hips.

I actually agree with a lot of what Leazes says in principle but you can basically write his posts for him at this point. These threads are like Only Fools and Horses repeats.

Things have started well.

Would you say you lost yourself in it? At least I didn't lose my dignity after posting a joke as horrible as that. If we're talking lost dignity.

After having homemade soups for a few weeks, Heinz has lost some of it's quality Whoops, wrong thread. Nevertheless, I'm supposed to be cutting back

Would you say you lost yourself in it?

He has one night out with Chez and look what happens.

They're playing Darlington in the Semi as well. Would be a laugh seeing Gateshead at Wembley.

Until we see if they're going to come along at all, they're just bodies, not options.

Said this elsewhere, there is no way Graham Carr has suddenly developed genius talent spotting ability like Peter Taylor [of Brian Clough's partner not the hopeless cockney who has managed about 30 lower league teams by now]. He got lucky, a great spot but lucky all the same. You sign these bargain basement players for nowt or small fees, about 1 out of 5 or 6 will be hits and the rest will be a Perch, Lovenkrands, Routledge etc. Agreeing with this. Most teams in the Premier League would have taken Ben Arfa; Tiote's a genuinely good spot but we'll see if he can consistently bring in those kinds of players season after season. Did anything come of that French winger we were supposed to be signing?

He's got a perfectly valid reason to be cynical about the regime considering they were wholly unprofessional in dealing with him and has had to put up with the same transfer budget shite that the rest have. There's a difference between sniping at the club and sniping at the way it's being run; Keegan's obviously got affection for one but not the other.

I'm going to an Amsterdam for a 21st so that's going to be full of high culture

I used to like Guthrie in the Championship but like everyone has said, it's easier to do well in that division when you've got extra seconds on the ball. If it's things in his personal life effecting his performances then it's probably best for him to get away for a while but I suspect he's just not good enough.

Could see this sort of limp-dicked reaction coming a mile off. "Appropriate action" for a Man United player is this sort of thing. The sooner they get rid of the arseholes at the top, the better. As my mate pointed out, Tiote got a three match ban for a tackle.

I had a bowl of Special K this morning. How they get away with charging £3 for that when they taste like wooden corn flakes is beyond me.

Again, Stevie does a google search and finds some random on facebook who alleges this happened in a private message between the 2 of them, then it's gospel all of a sudden It's not the Crown Court, like. It doesn't have to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. Much like a few photos of his bedroom isn't proof conclusive of anything, either. Except some truly desperate decorative choices.

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