SteveM

they are certainly better than McDonalds but you can do better... take away type food will always be a comprimise

chicken and salad is dead easy and cheap as chips.... if you are lazy then buy a ready made salad but dont add the dressing and but ready packed chicken but not the ones covered in flavours. i tend to but various salad items in bulk and a number of chicken breasts and a couple of cheap steaks from tesco then cook all the chicken in one go either in the oven on the BBQ or poached.. then stick em in the fridge dinner takes 3 mins tops to make... get salad out and chop items into bowl.. get chicken breast out and cut into chunks then smother the lot in fresh ground pepper and away you go... or rare cook one of the steaks and cut into strips then grind the pepper... dinner is cheap and easy and really quick.. i can have mine made fresh and eaten before you even start on your pizza

thats what i did but it may not work for you.... try just easing off to start.. cut the sugary drinks and reduce the pasta / potato intake and up the protien (eggs, chicken and steak)

start small redbull 120 - cut it out its doing you no favours.... water and plenty of it and maybe the odd coffee (not startbucks!) Chocolate bar - if you are able to do it reduce this from a whole bar to just 1 or 2 squares but if not cut it out Ham and Cheese roll - processed ham is not great so try and get proper cut cooked ham or even better use chicken breast. also chage the white roll to a brown or granery one Light pop corn - ok i guess - could change this to a handfull of almonds or cashew nuts 500 ml of squash/water - great! just up that to about 2 1/2 or 3 litres spread over the day evening meal like a chicken and bacon pasta bake - yep no probs.. just keep pasta or potatoe intake down so small portions of the pasta bake or even better drop the pasta bake and have a steak and salad or a chicken breast with a salad (stay away from creamy salad dressing) can of diet coke - drop the coke ​magnum white choc ice cream - if you have to have something sweet for desert have a low or 0% fat yogurt slice of toast before bed - stop this. if you can stomache it some cottage cheese is good

makes 100% sense and no i dont expect you to go hit the gym straight away..... lol you need to be honest with yourself and decide how much you can commit to a change in lifestyle and it might mean a gradual change rather than a big change like i did

seriously Stevo how much do you really want to lose the weight? be honest

like i said take it with a pinch of salt mate... i just did mine and it says i have a BMI of 29.5

how tall are you? age? use BMI as a general guide but dont trust it and dont worry if you never get into the 'normal' scale

lets start with the foods you dont like and wont / cant eat..... no point us suggesting loads of stuff for you to just say you dont like it 1. bananas 2.

my BMI tells me i should be 16st and that only just ionto normal weight.. the only way i would be 16st is if i lost a leg! BMI doesnt account for body type

pasta bake is OK to have mate but keep the cheese intake low and the portion size down... the Carbs in the pasta will need burning up so you will prob need to up the excersise

how much over weight do you think you are stevo? and dont quote BMI and its a load of rubbish... lol

ok not the pasta bake bit but a slice of toast (i am guessing white bread) before bed.... white bread is full of sugar

lol he has got a point

Errr? Where did you get that from. Also nothing wrong with asking for advice, that's the first step to the right path surely. Why berate someone for trying to seek help. I got it from my book called "Obvious Things" Do you think eating a pasta bake late at night then toast before bed helps or hinders weight loss? eating just before bed can help weight loss... just not a pasta bake!!!!!

holy shite! 5% body fat?!?!? good work that man

350z-uk version of the biggest loser

would peer pressure / public honesty help? start a thread with what weight you are and weekly update it with your highs and lows and weight level. you will get support and encouragement from loads of us on here and it could help you keep that goal in sight

Cheers Graham

everyone is different, for me i just ut the lot out straight away! i felt rubbish for 2 weeks then my body adjusted and i have felt better and better since. for me i have to cut it out completely as i cant say ok i will just have 1 chocolate bar this week or 1 sweet drink that day as it snowballs into what harm can t do to have another... for me it was best to just draw a line and say 'no more' by the way i totally agree with the do what works for you line Col... no point forcing something that wont work long term as you just wont stick to it

im 6ft 4 tall so am never going to be a featherweight but for me its not about the weight its about how i look and feel. i know as i train i will and have put on muscle so the true loss of fat weight is hard to judge. its not a diet.... its a lifestyle change

this pic is a bit out of date as i have lost a bit more weight and bulked up a little bit but you will get the idea on the left if from the woodman meet earlier this year (beginning of feb) and on the right is about a month ago

must eat breakfast! get the body started

also take a couple of suppliments - green tea tablets, l carnitine, branched chain amino acids

i have been hitting the weights big time... muscle burns fat! then doing 40 mins heavy cardio but i have worked up to that....