Weight loss exercises?

[OilSheikh]

I have 2 X 11kg weights + 2 x ankle weights. Will this combination help me ?

[billythewiz]

With a combination of this calorie counting site (and its iPhone app) .

Eating lots of salad.

Cutting down on all the white carbs (bread, rice, pasta, potatos).

Eliminating high fat foods (biscuits, crisps, nuts, pastry, pies, chips, cheese, pizza)

Eating protein for breakfast (eggs or ham mostly).

And slow running on a treadmill, using a heart rate monitor to control the mill and keep my HR to 140 and running for 30 - 60 minutes at a time.

I dropped my weight from 78Kg (in May), to 66Kg by September. It bottomed out at 64.5Kg in November and is ~66.5Kg now.

I'm now the lightest I've been in 15-20 years !

My personal view :-
Calorie counting is more effective than exercise.
It doesn't matter what you eat or what exercise you do, just so long as you do more than you eat.
The only proviso is that if you work out really hard, get really hungry and then eat a load of food, you might end up fitter or stronger, but not lighter (this is why slow running is so good for weight loss).
Get used to feeling hungry.
If it grew on a plant, it has virtually no calories (compared to all the stuff you like). Salad, fruit and root vegetables fill you up and make you lose weight. Lean meat and fish is also really good.
Beware of sauces.

[OilSheikh]

Congrats billythewiz. I am 68kg at the moment, when I use EA ACTIVE at least thrice for 2-3 weeks, I drop down to 65kg. I just need to continue rather than stopping or missing weeks after 2-3 weeks.

[garethjohnowen]

You are eating too many carbs! Each meal description has it in it! Eat more protein and vegetables... If going to gym walk uphill at 6kph; don't hold on as soon as you can; and increase the gradient till you can go at 6-7%. Slendertone can also help... Even simultaneously!

[GeorgeStorm]

Haven't read the whole thread, but from your first post my initial thought was you've cut down on eating various things such as lamb and beef, which really wouldn't have much of an effect, but you haven't cut down on things like pasta etc, which is far more likely to put on the pounds.
If I were you, I'd reduce my carb intake, focus meals around meat and veg.
You could always try to paleo diet, something I'm looking into at the moment, simple, nothing overly drastic about it, and it's focus is on healthy eating rather than just eating less/trying to lose weight etc.

[Jace007]

Billy well done, seems like you know your stuff
i've been using the treadmill and cross trainer for about 2 months now, i tend to get
so bored after 20min and start to loose motivation. since last week
I mixed in some weights sessions and this has made alot of differance.
i used the Slendertone belt which is ok, ppl think the belly fat will vanish, it only gets TONED
and the rest of your 6month workout should do the reset.

[merdat]

Had the old 'steamer' on the go yesterday. Steamed a load of veg - carrots ,mushrooms,turnip,cabbage and had this with a large baked 'tattie'. Great tasting meal indeed.

[jyfs]

Sorry to say but there are no exercises out there to make you "Lose weight" because losing weight is simply down to your calorie intake. A good thing to do is just note down the target calories to burn in the gym and as long as it's below your maintenance calories of 500kcal then you will lose 1lb of weight per week for sure. If you're not then you haven't pin pointed your maintenance calories yet.