Ideally I would suggest a combination of cardiovascular (cycling, running, rowing, swimming etc), coupled with some low weight training. The body burns calories whislt at rest with weight training. Cardio burns fat and builds stamina. Diet wise make simple changes to your lifestyle, dont "ban" foods or you will just crave them more, try skimmed milk instead of semi, try spirits with a slimline mixer instead of lager and eat slowly and deliberately you will feel fuller sooner.
Yes go Skimmed.... seriously I feel phyically sick if I have semi skimmed milk in tea or or cereals now, full fat milk I cant even stand the smell of it... Try it for a week you will be surprised....and its less than 1% fat....!!!
RE: Yes go Skimmed.... I can't have anything but full cream milk. Semi skimmed tasted putridlast time I had it.
Cv's a waste of time and has minimal effect on standing metabolic rate. Nothing burns calories like heavy resistance training and the effect on metabolic rate can last up top two days. Also resistance training accelerates your BMR by as much as 15%. Adding half a kilo of muscle to your body will burn the equivalent of two and a half kilos of body fat annually.
Doesn't always work like that Started going to the gym a year ago, gone from 16st to 14st, eating healthy rather than any particular fad diet....howeve some times the weight loss stagnates and yet I can then have a bit of a binge and it starts coming off - it's probably because I'm not actually eating enough at times even though I'm full.
Try Mens Health website and search their forums on "Starting Out". Some great tips on there for training.
RE: According to this chart, Surely thats not right? 6 ft 8 ins and just over 10st, he must be skinnier that the skinniest thing in England !!!