Health question

Easiest way to lose 50 pounds is to bet on Barnsley to be promoted as champions.

Fitness wise best four bits of advice I've ever had are

1. Move. Any movement is better than none.
2. Focus on duration not intensity. Try and increase the amount you do and keep lowering the intensity until you can manage.
3. Don't be a slave to a regime. If you need a rest have one otherwise you'll burn out and give up.
4. Change other things in your life to create space for more exercise (walking) rather than trying to fit something else in.

All easier said than done as I'm finding out!

 

Try keto for 3 month.

 

Have you also had chance to assess your diet and meal portions. Exercise is important to weight loss but a healthy eating lifestyle is just as important.

 

Before you get carried away with exercise ( it's easy to get more enthusiastic than your body can stand)...book into the GP and get them to do an MOT, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and furred arteries can be a killer, but a few easy tests can find the warning signs. Also look at your family history, there can be some clues in there. To anyone 50 and doing regular, increasing intensity exercise I would recommend buying your own blood pressure machine...don't buy a cheap one, they're unreliable, buy an Omron which is the type NHS heart rehab staff use.

 

probably echoing a few other comments on this, I’m not a health guru but I do take it fairly seriously and have read up / practised ….My key takeaways (pardon the pun) over the years are:-

1. consistency is absolutely key. Try to form a habit. Even if it is 1km run a day, or 10 minutes weights, then do it. Make sure you do it daily. Then build over time.
2. Diet is much more important than exercise
3. You need to do both consistently but it is very true to say you can’t out- train a bad diet.
4. It is easy too fall into a trap of consuming a lot more calories than you think you consume. Keep a food diary for a week and you will see what I mean. Depends on your existing weight and sex but you can probably consume around 1800 calories per day as a base rate without putting weight on. You can exercise a bit to increase your allowance but a 10km run will only allow for say another 600 or 700 calories. There are 522 calories in a packet of McDonald’s large fries so you get my point.
5. Fasting and time restricted eating works and has a number of health benefits beyond just reducing calorific intake. If you are able to fast each day of the week (save for weekends) then you will see a marked change within a month, pretty much guaranteed. It is hard, but effective.
6. Weight training is very helpful for weight loss and is essential as we age.
7. Do at least 10,000 steps per day.
8. Drink lots of water.
9. Alcohol is a problem for weight gain. Reduce if you can.
10. Avoid sugar and processed foods.
11. Exercise doing something you enjoy so it isn’t a chore.
12. myfitnesspal is good , as are fitbits etc

Hope this helps!

 

I try and fast every day. Don't eat if I'm drinking either. If I'm having a sesh have something at dinnertime. Well before my walk.

 

As an aside. Only find I get a hangover when I eat before bed when drunk. Hate that heavy fat feeling the next morning.

In the past the shifts I've "knocked" through being hungover have been because I felt "fat" and bloated the next morning.

You could say "but you are fat" and that's correct. However, there's a massive difference between being "fat" and feeling "fat".

To me that relationship stems from food. Went from a 40 waist to a 32 when I was 18. Then went from a 32 waist to a 48 waist when I was 24.

Since being single again. Gradually shrinking back to my default size. Hopefully be back to a comfortable 36 waist.

32 waist was too difficult to maintain. Looking on mirror every time I ate something. Not for me.

 

With blindness thrown in?

 

Pure filth.

 

I'm not sure this is a model the NHS would recommend SD.

 

I know. Probably wrong person to comment really. It isn't advice. Just personal anecdotes. Apologies.

 

I was in the same boat as yourself ex taxi driver now a bus driver lol.
I looked at various gyms but then I thought do I really want to walk into the gym wen all the Mr universes are lifting massive weights etc.
So I tried Barnsley Barbell boot camp 6 weeks challenge. During the 6 weeks I lost half a stone and a few inches here and their, I have stayed on with the BBB and have lost a total of stone and a bit 4 inch of my waist. I feel so much more energetic.
It's not like a go your own way gym all the classes are run by coaches your encouraged to try your best but no one pushes you beyond your limits.
Give it a go I don't think u will regret it.

 

It depends on how vigorous the exercise video was. For example at the age of 50 your maximum heart rate would be 208 - 50x0.7=173 bpm. You can then put your exercise into heart rate zones which would look something like this:

Heart rate 173 max

Zone 2 - 60-69% - 103-118

Zone 3 - 70-79% - 120- 135

Zone 4 - 80-89% - 137- 153

Zone 5 - 90-100% - 154- 173

Generally walking your dog, unless you’re going up and down dale is going to keep you in zone 2. And then if you do something which is suddenly putting you in zone 4, you’re going to feel it for sure straight away. You should aim to get your heart rate into those higher zones at least 3 times a week for 10-20 minutes if you can.

I am not a medical expert though, so it depends on your overall health and you might want to seek medical advice before changing your exercise regime.

 

There is a zone where your body gets used to exercise and doesn't burn as many calories. Don't know the science behind it.

 

It's called getting old use it or lose it. At 50 you are just starting to get into the snippers range so be careful he sometimes has
a direct hit. Diet, exercise,things in moderation ie alcohol, less red meat, joint a group to motivate yourself, it's hard on your own. Buy a blood pressure monitor £23 tops. After all that enjoy life it's getting shorter by the day.

 

Not planning on having snip. Might meet the right one.

 

https://barnsleyfccommunity.co.uk/event/fit-reds-vets-34/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/384776264159357/

 

Kind of. I've cut down on stuff. Sacked off crisps which I was bad for. No chocolate or cakes. Smaller meals but it's only been a week.

 

Off to Morrisons during my walk tonight. Getting some beer shandy, chilling it and having a couple of glasses of it with an Iceland Vindaloo and garlic naan.

 

Loosing weight is a tough metric to measure when running as muscle weighs more than fat.
I lost a little bit when I took up running and was doing 3 times a week but lost most when I started training for a marathon which involved upto 6 times a week and circa 50-60 miles.
Belly fat especially is tough to lose by running.
Similar age too.